In game ship names

[aerelm]

First of all, Adam, "Metagaming" is altering your play, according to the information that you as a Player have, while your Character shouldn't know them. This might not be against server rules, but it's severely frowned upon (As you can see in past 4 pages). Looking at the Player List and sorting it by System to see if you're safe in the next few systems is one of the simplest forms of Metagaming, because your trader shouldn't really know who is where in the galaxy. Well... Many of us do it and there's really no way to prevent it as far as I know, But just let's not encourage it, shall we?

And about the Tags and NPC or Official affiliation: When you do enough missions or get enough bribes to get a faction's ID and IFF, you'll be a part of NPC Faction, which is simply referred to as "Indie" (Independent) Player around here. But there are Official Factions for each ID as well, and Only the members of the Official Faction are the ones using the Official Tags to show their membership in the faction. If anyone wants to use the Official Tag, they should apply for that faction in their Recruitment Thread and if accepted, they can put the tag (Like RepEx-, IMG|, [LN], BPA) and etc.) in their name. There are also Unofficial factions (or Player Groups), who don't have the Rights of Official Factions but fly together as a Group and use a Tag to reflect that. (Like FBG~, 30th|, [13th], etc.)

One of the biggest problems of Official Factions (Specially Trading/Mining ones, or an official faction who have a Bounty on them) is being metagamed by Hostile Groups through the Chat window, to a point where Phantoms, Nomads, Wilde and similar groups Don't even use a Tag on their ships. I'm pretty sure many other factions would voluntarily get rid of their tag if there was any other way to reflect their official status. Why? Because people use the Chat screen just too often, which is not a good thing.

Now from what I understand from the first post, you're suggesting Everyone, including indies, add a Tag to reflect their ID in the Player list. Why? So your trader can know where the Pirates are and where the friendlies? So you can avoid Unwanted Player interaction by using something which would not exist InRP (i.e. Player List)? Well... I have a really really simple answer to this:

No.