Poll: Ingame list: show rank or faction affiliation?

[jammi]

I can imagine this being fun as hell, and 150% more useful than rank, but also potentially problematic. Although mind you, if you're a capital ship or trader people would meta you by name or rank anyway. Changing that to affiliation wouldn't make a huge deal of difference. I think years back we used to have an external online player list that did list affiliation and ship type as well as the current info. That got used for bounty hunting a lot.

The only net difference you might see is for example, indies being hunted to the same extent as official factions. Using Omega 7 as an example, Daumann indies would be just as conspicuous on the player list as people flashing DHC- in their name. I don't know if that's to be taken as a good or bad thing.

Would potentially also lead to an uptick in corporate piracy. Most corps can only target specific other groups which they would likely only bump into haphazardly. This would enable more targeted encounters with specific factions, whether the player were indy or official. Again, that's debatable as to whether it's a pro or con.

On the plus side, equality and increased encounters between specific factions that have reasons to brawl. On the downside, all of the prior is being enabled by metagaming. Tough one. Trial run for one month?

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