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I don't see that being materially different than when players would ring in PC matches.

" To get specific weapons you may need standings with the corporation. "

This is theoretically a great idea. Would force loyalism to a certain corporation in the game.
Would make FW necessary.

On the other hand, without balanced weapons, everyone runs the same stuff and we beg to wonder what was ever loyalism if everyone runs the same thing ?

I would wager the idea of having each player's standings with one NPC be adjusted based on their relations with other NPCs.

Let's say I have been a good mercenary to the Ishukone Corporation, and thus they reward me with better access to that sweet Ishukone Nova Knives. But then I head over to fight for the Kalaakiota Corporation and thus a suffer a small hit to my standings because both of these corporations (despite being in the Caldari Empire) are technically competing against each other.

But then the following day I start fighting for Roden Shipyards. THEN my standings with Ishukone and Kalaakiota start suffering a major drop because obviously Roden Shipyards is with the Gallente Empire and we all know how much the Caldari and Gallente hate each other.

One one hand, this sounds cool cuz FW is fun and unlockables tied to factions seem cool.
But on the other hand, it can cripple the diversity (only if you can't work for all factions). Depending entirely on how much difference there would be between custom versions of the guns.

Mostly I use every asset available in the game depending on the situation, so being tied to only 1 'master' is kind of a bummer from my perspective.

This should not be much of a bummer. If loyalty and corp gear is done in Nova similar to how it is done in EVE, you can get gear directly from the corporations for loyalty points plus a small amount of ISK but you can also pay for the same gear for retail ISK price off the market. The only thing said that counters this is Rattati said high standing may be need for certain weapons. Still, that may be for specific weapons as a perk for being loyal but I imagine there would be other variants available for those that want to switch it up. If Nova truly wants to be like EVE, I would doubt CCP would be limiting what players can use. Furthermore, limiting players to one faction or set of corporations can cut down players' available time to spend in game as they have less on the tree to skill up and less loyalty to be gained which I severely doubt CCP wants to do. Leaving the skill tree fully open along with leaving players open to work for any corp they choose leaves players to explore what they haven't tried or filled up yet.