- Values
- Yes No Allies
- Default Value
- Yes
- PHost only!
- Optional!
This option specifies whether players are permitted to see each others' ship names. At a setting of Yes (default), everyone can see the names, as usual. When set to No, visual contacts, battles, messages -- everything that cites alien ship names -- will only contain a dummy name ("Ship NNN"). When a ship changes ownership, in combat for example, its name will be padded out as well. The setting Allies will allow allied players to see each others' ship names.
This option is intended for anonymous games, to avoid that people communicate via ship names, or recognize each other by their naming style. If you as a player want to prevent other people from seeing your names, there are a few utilities that do the trick client-side.
► Note: Note that this option has bad (read: no) interaction with remote control. If there is a ship whose name you shall normally not see, you will see the name when you control the ship. The rationale is that setting up a ship-level alliance plus remote control requires enough communication so ship names are your least problem.
