Used to be a way... but would like to see it possible to be respected by both Serco and Itani. For at least UIT pilots.

-1 Relationships with factions should impact relationships with other factions for good and bad. What is needed is to create more relationships between main nation standings and sub faction standings and between sub faction standings.

Also fix the universal KOS problem and remove the Corvus magic.

We just (in terms of VO time) fixed this. HELL NO.

That said, it would be nice to see reasons to choose one of the three paths open to UIT w/r/t the Serco/Itani conflict. Serco-favored UIT could buy/sell X, but not Y; Itani-favored UIT, Y but not X; neutral UIT both x and y but neither the mo' bettah X and Y variants.

But I wouldn't hold my breath for that kind of nuance around here. You can have any game you want in VO, as long as it's spacequake.

What would be interesting is certain clandestine missons that would allow you to raise one faction without penalizing the other. However, there should be some mechanic that could catch a player with too high a faction with both, thus adding a degree of difficulty to maintain such a position.

Um yes, a nationalist sees them with too high both faction standing and blows them up then they lose the fake one.

No. Just no.

For a long time we had the ability of all POS. It was a completely messed up faction system.

It took Inc 10 years to introduce a mutually exclusive standing faction redux that still sucks in many ways, but even like this - it's an improvement.
Learn to live with it.