Gateway Shipping General Information

[Black Widow]

I pointed this out in another thread (and all the more reason we need a Skype.channel to handle all of this), but do you really want to make it so easy for others to see what division a ship is in?

For example...if I'm a Hessian or a Corsairs (or Bowex for that matter) and I see a pair of GSV or GSX tagged ships with no GSE ships with it, I'm gonna assume it's an un-escorted trading convoy and easy pickings. However, if I just see 3 vessels tagged Gateway| or GWS- then I have no way of knowing what I'm up against unless I actually fly within scanner range, which is more of a gamble.

We can keep a corporate directory of ships that shows what division they are without broadcasting it to everyone online.

Just my opinion.

Your wrong meta gaming is not done with ship names but instead with ship levels so if I see 3 ships with levels 78, 67, 53 then I will know without even looking at the names. That there are 2 transports and one escort in the group also if two of the ships have names Gateway|-Cornwall, Gateway|-Oxford, and Gateway|-John.Beards.

I am gonna know instantly that John beards is the  escort why because disco naming conventions work that way I will also know the other two are traders from the names. So the effort to confuse meta gamers is lost therefore removing the division tags GSE, GSX and GSV is pointless as does not confuse them anymore.

Our tag system has RP benefit and RP structure as its unique in distinguishing a ship as belonging to a different branch of the group and we want to be different to Bowex including the naming system.

Bowex for e.g. Use the naming convention I said above ie Bowex|-Shipname for traders and Bowex|-Firstname.Lastname for escorts, Gateway will not be following the same naming conventions thus we have our tag system:

Logistics:

Gateway|-GSV-Shipname

Escort/Security:

Gateway|-GSE-Firstname.Lastname / call sign

Executive ( RP only):

Gateway|-GSX-Shipname

These are the three official branches of gateway and our tag is Gateway|

And NO We don't want Bowex to know we are gonna raid them, thus raiders will not carry the Gateway|- tag but will have other other names so that official Gateway|- cannot be blamed for any of the raids our ships make, our raiders will be a secret unofficial section of gateway who will only carry the gateway ID / iff not the tag. Bowex will know Gateway|- is raiding them but won't be able to prove it!

This is request of Lee so no raider tagging, the raiders will act like a sort of gateway privateer, but when raiders hit they will hit Bowex HARD and in the places where it hurts most outside bretonia.

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