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misleading names - oke518 - 02-06-2013
Just a general question about names.
I have rune into several players who have navy-, freelancer-, zoner-, in their names so I toke them at face value as it is a RP server and as it turned out they were running pirate IDs. I was just wondering if I was the only one with a problem with this?
RE: misleading names - AshHill07 - 02-06-2013
I think Freelancers fine. Zoner I'm honestly not sure about. Navy I'm pretty sure isen't allowed.
RE: misleading names - Cris - 02-06-2013
(02-06-2013, 02:29 AM)AshHill07 Wrote: Navy I'm pretty sure isen't allowed.
Rule quote? I have never heard of using navy-name is not allowed. Sounds like a good tactic to me, misleading your enemies or victims and stuff.
RE: misleading names - oke518 - 02-06-2013
while it is a good strategy it doesn't fit with the fact it is a role playing server and that it is technically against the law so why shouldn't it be at least frowned upon and at most punished by the law in game. It is wrong and completely against what is trying to be done in this server. I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned before considering how seriously the players take it.
RE: misleading names - Remnant - 02-06-2013
I am pretty sure you mean the IFF that they have.
The IFF denotes from far away what faction they are, and it SHOULD match their ID. If they had Pirate ID's, prehaps they should have a IFF that shows that they are a pirate.
RE: misleading names - RmJ - 02-06-2013
No, I 've seen people named "Small.Miner" and turned out to being a pirate gunboat. Yeah I dunno about rules forbidding such things, but in the light of form it's rather shallow. But nothing really to poke the rules enough to make a change.
RE: misleading names - monmarfori - 02-06-2013
I dont see using a navy tag is prohibited. And names like "Not.A.LR, Not-a-Rogue... something more" are opposites, they try to fool players and fell to piracy or either death.
But most are real, and have tags like Zoner- or such.
RE: misleading names - Rudo - 02-06-2013
Take names with a grain of salt regardless. People read too much into them; I got told off for naming my trader like a warship, apparently I scared people off the tradelanes. The GWS prefix is more often than not misread as Gallic War Ship or something so everyone mining in Dublin runs for a safe harbor.
Unless the character has a faction tag or is known to you, maybe you should give them a wide berth. And as always, you can't not pay attention when trading if you want to avoid trouble; traders that play windowed and browse while in tradelanes are cattle.
RE: misleading names - Crackpunch - 02-06-2013
You're definitely not allowed to call your rheinland turtle LNS-Lolwut, because it is using your opponent's tag. I don't know about these not so specific names (especially since navy is also a colour).
RE: misleading names - oke518 - 02-06-2013
I have seen 4 freelancer- tagged ships that were pirate and 2 zoner- as well i feel i should at least be punished if caught.