In game ship names

[Bobthemanofsteel]

I've known indy Republicans to use "RSS-" for their names, don't ask me what it is, it's just what the NPC republicans use.

Republican Shipping Ship?
It's horrible, but it fits.


On the OP; You want to encourage an out of roleplay mechanic to increase level of roleplay?

Perhaps you don't understand roleplay fully.
If you can plan everything out before it happens, why don't you just go play by yourself? Then things will happen EXACTLY as you want it.

But that's not roleplay, at least not in a multiplayer sense. (obviously)

You're supposed to PLAY the ROLE of a trader/Cop/Pirate, you're pretending you ARE that person.
Does that person have access to a galaxy spanning list of ships?
Will that person be able to go 'Oh right, there's a pirate hiding along the lane, I guess I'll prepare for it!' If he had this information, he would do everything in his power to avoid the situation.

So I guess dodging pirates is actually good roleplay. But that's only provided you've gained the information on their location WITHIN ROLEPLAY. The chat window is Out of Roleplay, and that will never change.

Note: as for using it to find friends, at least within roleplay you'd have means of doing so anyway.