Maybe find a way to put like 5 destructable items attached to the cap ships, each giving you a "strategic item destruction" point?

then it doesn't matter too much if people bail.. yous still get recognition.

We were planning on doing something along these lines at some point, I dunno the status on this atm though.

TY is correct that the soldiers would not be able to walk on top of cap ships due to their current lack of soldier cols.

Also, if escape pods were to be implemented, they would most likely operate similar to the way the pods do in vanilla bf2142 where you have to switch to an appropriate seat to launch your escape pod.  There would only be one or two escape pods on appropriate cap ships, and they would have their own seat.  This would make it difficult for more than one or two crew members to evacuate the ship in a timely fashion.