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Never noticed this before, but whilst firing on a hostile vessel that has not been identified as to the type etc, it is given away in the log file as to what you are firing at, or am I missing something.

Throughout the game's development we've been repeatedly faced with the choice of whether to provide something (an option, an ability, a look under the hood, anything) to the player and trust him to not use it as a cheat, or hold it back because most players can't help themselves.

Being the optimists that we are, we trust the player.

Is it not a risk to take some fun away while a player who is unwilling to cheat tries to erase all his tactical thoughts from his mind that the message log has already inserted in his brain?

I shoot an unidentified but hostile contact, of course I also check the message log, part of my duties as commander, and I see "Oh! A SKR-something-frigate!". A millisecond later I am trying to forget that information because I know its only there because of a design decision and I try hard NOT to think about what that info about type of vessel means for my operation. Impossible!
Why not stick with the temporary nominator, in OPs example "FF#13". I might not see all implications of my idea, anyway...

Go to the message log preferences and have the weapon endgame message type not appear on the message log. Problem solved.

Go to the message log preferences and have the weapon endgame message type not appear on the message log. Problem solved.

I think MartinB makes a very good point and it would be nice (maybe in the distant, distant future of CMANO) if a player could observe the outcome of an endgame calculation without getting TMI.

Any design philosophy predicated on "trusting" the player will go out the window if/when multiplayer is ever implemented [:D].

TMI = ?

TMI= Too much information.

That said I cast my vote to trusting the player... and if you cannot trust those you play against, perhaps you should not play against them.

Today I turned off the Weapon endgame messages in the log preferences, I was suprised to see that they were still being displayed. Even double checked to confirm I'd turned them off.

I know in the past it has worked, unless its a bug in the new upgrade as that is the only alteration that I have made. I'll check later.