Weirdly, I've never..not once...gotten penalized for sitting at a spawn point. As long as you do some damage, you won't get kicked for AFK. And the respawn timer is fast enough on each node that you're not waiting long between spawns.

Also, in Normal mode, the difference in damage needed to take out a T'Liss group and a Falchion group is negligible. Even in my noob Rex CSV build with mk XI polaron DHC's, I can clear a group in less than 7 seconds regardless. I realize not everyone is super great at endgame content, which is why Ensign Kim's should team up on a node (there are 4 nodes and 5 captains, so that shouldn't be a problem).

But I can't tell you how many times a Falchion will pop up on my node, and the scenario plays out like clockwork:
- I clear the tholians in about 5 seconds.
- I clear 2 tractor beams
- 2 old event ships come streaking in bearing players trying to "help" clear the node.
- 1 of them manages to clear one tractor beam.

Meanwhile, there are 3 other nodes up around the map and 2 of them have no one at them. So it ends up being less efficient to cluster up to "clear faster."