This Game Needs a Hardcore Option
There are definitely two sets of people that play this game. One group wants to have fun (and you see them requesting things like rank down tickets, etc) and one group that just wants to compete (with threads about piloting/cheating/spending).
So why not have an option to either make have a hardcore profile where Kabam can focus on enforcing its rules and a recreational profile where people that just want to have fun with the game can get things like rank down tickets, etc.
Seems like it would solve a lot of problems