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Maybe I didn't explain the concept well enough.
The use of some sort of code is not to enable you to ignore those who don't use it.
The use would be to show you who you could focus in on for your own roleplaying.
Traders who actually want to interact with pirates can use it to essentially signal to the pirate "Come find me instead of the rest of these traders" without actually having to say that. Sometimes a pirate has two traders on scanners and has to make a choice. Use of this could make that choice more interesting for everyone involved.
I would not suggest ignoring someone out of hand just because they don't use it, but it could provide you with the tipping point when making a decision about who to interact with.
I, myself, am not completely convinced that this is even a good idea, but I thought I'd just throw out there something that had occurred to me. In fact, unless it was refined far more than what I originally wrote, it is useless from any practical standpoint.
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