(01-04-2015, 05:07 PM)Twaddle Wrote: The earlier posts imply wildcarding. Is that only for the start of a name, eg: [Star]Frigga, or will it also recognize a string at the end of the list, eg: Pickled|Idiot with |Idiot being the string?
Only for the start of a name or a complete name.
If you blacklist [Star], it will make hostile any ship starting with [Star] but will not make hostile a ship named Iam[Star]Magic.
If you blacklist |Idiot, Pickled|Idiot will not be hostile because it would work if you blacklisted Pickled|Idiot.
The reason for this is to prevent accidental matches, for instance there used to be that problem between the Council and USI factions where the council tag was [C] and the USI had a Clerk rank. It did things like [C]-Magic.Versailles and [USI]-Bob.MuchMoney[C]. If you blacklisted [C] instead of [C]-, the USI dude would have ended up as hostile to the base and wouldn't know why at all.
It isn't an oversight, it's intended to reduce the amount of potential problems.
