This does lead to an interesting question.
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3. All flagships must be given an appropriate name, which must fall within Eve Оnlinе’s standard naming policies. It may not be renamed during the tournament. You may NOT name any ship in your tournament teams with the same name as your submitted flagship.
4. Flagship designs must be created in advance and their ship hull and exact fittings submitted to CCP Alliance Tournament via Evemail no later than 14/05/2010.
5. All flagship names and fittings will be published in the Flagships section of the Eve Online Alliance Tournament site.
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This is obviously intended to create a situation where you can hit your scanner and know before warping in if you are facing the flagship or not. The question is‚ could we name a normal mach ѕomеthing that looks similar. I instead of l for instance.
Problems with this would be that Claw has tended to take the position that breaking the spirit of the rules is the same as breaking the letter of the rules‚ and a ѕmart opponеnt would be able to tell the difference between similar ship names anyways. Unless I'm mistaken there are no two characters in the eve font that are EXACTLY the same‚ and even if they are, clever opponentѕ will namе one of their ships similarly to our flagship and then sort their scanner results by name.
I think that in the end we'll get more potential usefulness out of the Flaghorn than the bombermach but it's worth testing against a team with ew frigs on sisi if we have time today. My guess is that if the EW frig team knows it's facing the bombermach it'll be able to remove most of the effectiveness by spreading out.