You would have to join one of the current active R/D orgs for that.
In regards to mechanics having gutted the R/D game: Half true. The World Activity Feat makes it easy to track stealth raids, generally, there is a hard cap of one ejection per second (completely negating regional officers, but also makes it nearly impossible to fight off liberation attempts when you're outnumbered by far and defenders move in a window of 5-6 seconds), so the only realistic options left are:
1. Piling to death (boring and uncompetitive)
2. Tagging (good practice, but gets old to do, to me at least)
That's my opinion on the raider side of things, at least. While those things don't gut the game per se, it relies far more on numbers to pull off occupations and tags gets boring fast (to me, at least).
That could be just me, though.