I used to have proper faction ranks for Core however I found limiting the kind of ships I could field would impact on battle performance. We have our HC ranks and then a couple of command ranks, but they don't really carry restrictions as HC can just approve people for flying a ship that they may want to fly.
tl;dr I made a faction in a cap environment and forced everyone to fly snubs. It didn't work.
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