New Player: First Impression of Discovery and it's learning curve.

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Regarding tags i think the other issue is you have tags that arnt specific to an official faction, for example you have OCV for Order capitol vessel or the LNS tag that isnt part of the official LNS faction, ZCV for zoner carrier/Capitol Vessel so on and so forth. even a few [Zoner] Ships have appeared on the player list of late. So from a newbie stand point i can see why it might be confusing, because even if you come to the forums you can find the tags of actual factions but if you look on the tags used by indies, you wont find much. Maybe its a case of either curbing the use of tags on indie ships or making a standard tag.

In all honesty this is the only mod ive played where people outside of Factions have tags. If your a freelancer/indpendent you just had a name, wether it was your character name or ship name, i was a zoner trader but all you would see on the chat pane was Cloudrunner, i didnt have [Zoner] or Trader- or anything else.

So maybe it might be an idea that we have a standardised Indi Tag scheme?
So indi capitols would use the usual ship designations LNS, HMS, OCV etc
Freelancers or indie traders probably dont even need a tag, we have IFFs and IDs for identifying each other along with the ship used so i dont need someone with a =Trader= Tag in front of them if they have a freelancer ID flying an albatross.