In other MMORPG's, the characters avatar (or toon, as they are occasionally called) usually has its name printed over its head, for all the other players to see. It makes them more easily identifiable, and I assume this is implimented due to how much a single character's avatar can change in a short period of time. It is also no doubt implimented for the practical purpose of distinguishing between friend and foe.

I'd like to see players ships in vendetta with the players name over it, in the color of their nation. It would certainly help a lot with things like targeting, team cooperation, and quardination(sp?). It would also make it a lot easier to find players...(Not that I'm saying it should be visible all the time, it should be invisible if a player hides behind a rock or something.) So, yea or nae?

That would mess with the immersion something wicked. Personally, I'd like to make it harder to find out peoples' names. I don't think they should even show up on +TopList unless they're within radar range, and there should probably be stealth packages available. Eventually.

/me agrees with Mr Lazer.

Hrm. What if there's a setting for that kind of stuff? You can choose to broadcast your ID or not?

Would make game play a little easier, but would detract from immersion like rogue said. Personally I hate having to use the sector list, which this idea would completely get rid of, which would be nice. The names could simply fade out as they get farther away, if you would normally be greyed out in the sector list no name appears, if you target them you get the normal info you get now which is the name/ship but at long range you may not be able to read the info due to fading. Other games also make this an optional thing, where you can toggle from fun name, short name, and no name, so maybe it could be done similarly and keep sector list intact ( "u" key).

Something like that would probably be possible in the future with user-configurable UI anyways, so people could choose upper right hand corner, or over their target.

but not just for your target, for all possible targets in your field of view Doukutsu. Custom UI would not do that.