All of this is WAY too much work for CCP. Whenever you want to bring a proposal to them you have to think of it in terms of work and how much you can squeeze out if it.
It seems like a lot of work, CCP monitoring an arms market and injecting ISK into an already overflowing bathtub.
Keep CCP focused on developing and have the buyers battle each other.
Literally.
Vendor Officer gear for CP and let the raiding nightmare begin.
Create an incentive in the DK market that will inspire the PC community to grow and operate more frequently.
The benefits:
Weapons and Gear directly removed from the game via NPC trade in exchange for CP.
Isk redistribution / corp participation - Corp buys arms from community to boost CP. Corp members can vendor their stuff for CP Contributions. People will do this with stuff they don't want.
More action possible in Molden Heath with boosted CP gains power struggles more intense, more frequent. Not sure how to change PC in a way this could happen and be fun for ppl but they are not busy enough apparently if they are in pubs all the time.
Increased frequency of PC events destroys more ISK / Officer gear in battles. Keeps people in PC and hopefully too busy to be risking nice stuff in pubs.
Can be justified lorewise as a weapons procurement for retaliation vs Drifters or whatever and if they do that then they can shut the CP faucet on or off at any time.
Drawbacks:
Not sure if this would increase P2W scenario but i doubt ppl will spam AUR purchased keys for Officer weapons just for CP.
PC situation is awful with lag and ppl don't love to do it because it is a stressful environment sometimes so idea might not take off.
So idk, but it was said that we needed more angles to approach the problem. The one that has the best chance for success will require the least amount of work.

How about trading officer weapons for rank increase ? Or trading Officer weapons for LP (for the applicable faction of course)

Good idea man.

Much simpler.

Destiny has a similar thing going on with faction rep.

Yep and Destiny used it in a way that we also need to - getting items that were no longer appropriate/needed out of circulation!
I'm a big fan of Faction items, too. Less +power and more +specialization.

Rattati might have a problem with it though.

He has said that players will not be able to trade LP faction skins because such things should be earned and I agree.

If LP could be acquired from selling officer weapons then someone could potentially get those skins without ever having fought for the faction.

I don't think they'll go for it

Fair call. You know who doesn't care about loyalty and would totally like getting some OP weapons? PIRATES!

All of this is WAY too much work for CCP. Whenever you want to bring a proposal to them you have to think of it in terms of work and how much you can squeeze out if it.

It seems like a lot of work, CCP monitoring an arms market and injecting ISK into an already overflowing bathtub.

Keep CCP focused on developing and have the buyers battle each other.

Literally.

Vendor Officer gear for CP and let the raiding nightmare begin.

Create an incentive in the DK market that will inspire the PC community to grow and operate more frequently.

So idk, but it was said that we needed more angles to approach the problem. The one that has the best chance for success will require the least amount of work.

Fair call. You know who doesn't care about loyalty and would totally like getting some OP weapons? PIRATES!