Please allow PVE players to go factionless. Also create an option where players can leave our faction to be factionless.
Factionless players could get their own PVE bonuses not tied to the faction system and this would make it so they do not have to participate in PVP victimization. PVE players could still buy houses in the faction controlled cities and use the Trade Post as normal. They just would not have access to the faction based venders and faction quests.
This way, a PVE player cannot be a victim to all the PVP leaning changes that impact them.