It only really becomes a concern if you're fighting the Russians.

Primary.... XX1123VASILYXX123
Secondary... XX1123VAS1LYXX123

Fuggen Russians.

PS - When I've called targets in the past I've used both depending of the situation. Like 20 drakes its pointless calling drake of ... whoever, often better to use the first few letters.

But easily pronouncible names or varying shiptypes is easier, quicker and more effective to call by shiptype / name. If people don't understand an Englishman pronouncing stuff in English then they are probably spazzes and we're all going to die anyway.

So both and neither. Hope this helps Deen.

In Faction Warfare, where you are fighting the same enemies a lot, it isn't that difficult to simply pronounce the names as most people in your fleet are going to be familiar with the enemy. Outside of this kind of environment, probably spelling the first few letters or simply resorting to broadcast target are the most efficient.

Well then people from Yorkshire are either not english, or don't speak english, cause no one can ******* understand them.

On topic, I think it's best to do both, in the order you put down, as the name requires. Sometimes it's obvious what it is, sometimes it requires you to spell it out in addition. Also broadcasting helps but can get lost in the sea of other broadcasts unless you separate them out on the broadcast history filter, and even then you have to find the space for them.

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Laugh at all the idiots that can't pronounce words like zealot and anathema.

This particular subtlety of FCing has fascinated me so I direct this question to the grunts in a fleet;

Do you prefer for the FC to call targets by;

A) pronouncing the name followed by ship type
B) spelling out the first three letters of the name follow by ship type

I ask because based on my experience, I find both versions can impact fleet performance both positively and negatively. Specifically, because of how a person's brain interprets and processes information, both styles affect how quickly a grunt can locate the target within their overview and perform the necessary combat activity on that target.

I postulate that 'B' is preferred over 'A' because it is easier for a grunt to understand the letters as they are enunciated rather than hear an entire name which can be spelled in multiple ways.

Think of "Jaime". Some may interpret the name with a hard 'J' and others interpret it as a silent 'J'. If the FC pronounces that as a silent J, then grunts may get tripped up as they are not familiar with that version of Jaime. They spend more time than necessary trying to locate "Highmy" which isn't on the overview.

Anyone who has called targets understands how lolzy it gets when pronouncing really weird names of various toons that contains a combination of letters and numbers. This trips up the FC and affects the fleet's performance. And don't get me started with international FCs who have thick accents and how this scenario plays out in a fleet fight.

And as I sit here and explain the logic for 'B', I have talked to a few pilots and they say their preference is 'A'. It turns out that many of them actually prefer to hear the entire name rather than just the first three letters. Why is that? Perhaps that is what they are familiar with and their brain doesn't wish to start processing information differently now?

Thoughts? What do you prefer?

PS- Yes, I am aware of the broadcasting feature. But FCs don't always broadcast due to a variety of reasons which is beyond the scope of this discussion. And I don't consider it fail if someone doesn't always broadcast.

I'm waiting for someone to create a pvp toon named 'Primary Primary' or similar to that extent.

I'm waiting for someone to create a pvp toon named 'Primary Primary' or similar to that extent.

I prefer them to broadcast.

Secondly, I wish for them taking their time to name the target. Better 5 seconds and everybody understands than three times three seconds and still no one has a clue.

Also getting overexcited and repeat yourself over and over (in a voice that is suddenly one octave higher) makes one look bad as a FC.

Well then people from Yorkshire are either not english, or don't speak english, cause no one can ******* understand them.

I remember an E-Uni FC who called new targets by their first 3 letters (Nato alphabet) while existing targets were called by the name.

Example: "primary Gamma Echo Oscar"

You may laugh but it worked very well. Rather than having to learn the myriad of different ways to pronounce all the various names we only had to learn the 37 pronunciations for the characters. It is also much easier to recall than complete names.