As usual people are acting like the sky is falling. Laura put it nicely, not much is going to change. I've been playing Disco for 7 years without using setmessages no problem. And now that there's a keyboard shortcut to call targets, there's even less excuses. Nobody is expecting perfect English, but it's not that hard to type out a quick engagement notice. Give it some practice and you'll be able to type it faster than /l1 or /l2, because in the time it takes to reach across and find those keys I can have my engagement already out.
Stop the hyperboles of "Hello good sir, I see that you are an enemy shooting my friends, I would kindly ask that you stop that and give it a second thought. You refuse? Then I shall activate my weapons and assist my ally in dispatching you"
Nomads are a different story, but maybe let's just delete them from the mod entirely