Ship Designations not Player Name!

[evil713]

i am putting this out now, i have not bothered to search this to see if it has come up.

the one possibily minor detale in EVE Online is that you were identified in space as the controller of your ship, not your ships name.

in star trek we always refer to the ship not the captian when contacting somthing. we exchange plesentries and names after we contact them.

i think the same system should apply. a communication query should be done in order to know the player captians name.

the main reason i was annoyed with this in eve is that the idea of switching ships or re registering your ship should be a stragity for avoiding people that intend you harm.

[Desterion]

They said they are allowing multiple vessels to have the same name. What you suggest is impossible with that system.

[Neligahn]

the main reason i was annoyed with this in eve is that the idea of switching ships or re registering your ship should be a stragity for avoiding people that intend you harm.

Or a means for gold farmers to more easily dodge the system. Or an inconvenience for all of your friends to have to re-add you to their friend's list every time you make a new ship.

The main character you create is your Captain, the ship is his "armor", to put it into an oversimplification.

Also keep in mind, in Star Trek the introduction tended to be: "This is Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Federation Starship Enterprise." Name before ship.

[evil713]

Or a means for gold farmers to more easily dodge the system. Or an inconvenience for all of your friends to have to re-add you to their friend's list every time you make a new ship.

The main character you create is your Captain, the ship is his "armor", to put it into an oversimplification.

Also keep in mind, in Star Trek the introduction tended to be: "This is Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Federation Starship Enterprise." Name before ship.

that was only when they were talking to sombody. you see hull regestry and name before you talk to the captian.

and i was refering to the doging with name change ability in eve would be good. you could try it here but you cant change the captians name, unless you can forge papers to be sombody else that happend a little bit in startrek.

and you sould still have trap of people because captian identies would not change. gold farmes could still be tracked anyways thats an account thing.

[Loekii]

They said they are allowing multiple vessels to have the same name. What you suggest is impossible with that system.

They are allowing for multiple players to have the same name as well.


the main reason i was annoyed with this in eve is that the idea of switching ships or re registering your ship should be a stragity for avoiding people that intend you harm.

All the ships and toons of a player will have their Forum name tied to them.

For example, my toons and ships will look like:

Gnash @Loekii
IKS Claw @Loekii
Fred @Loekii
USS Loveboat @Loekii


So someone cannot 'hide'.

And /ignore works on at the @ ForumName level, so you /ignore one of their toons, you ignore all of their toons.

[Desterion]

They are allowing for multiple players to have the same name as well.

God i hope not. I don't want to join a group and have all of the other players named Jean Luc Picard