As someone who, because of criticism of another crowd funded game (Shroud of the Avatar), has had 2 years of and death threats, my email account hacked, attempts to shut down game accounts, and when he can't get directly into them to try and destroy anything built in them... including I suspect for the past few weeks an attempt to overthrow a Player Faction a friend of mine set up and I still support in Elite Dangerous, the idea of forcing me to go into Open and risk having to fight that kind of attention in game too would destroy any interest I have in continuing to play the game.
I'm not against PvP, where it's consensual and no long term damage exists. But in Elite your ships have an in game value which can be taken from you. It would just increase the level of sociopathy of in game interactions if everyone who plays for the background sim, or their own personal progression was forced into Open and you could work out where and when they were fighting; if you want that, fine... but EvE Online is over there.
As for being able to see clearly who exactly is performing missions, I'm torn on that one. From the point of view of identification, it's a double edged sword; whilst it would be handy to know if the hints dropped about Elite Dangerous by my stalker were real or not, and could then be used in legal responses, it also opens up the ability to use that knowledge to further harass people, as mentioned. I tend to lean towards the ability to identity specifically how many generic CMDRs, in which ships, have run which missions for which factions without naming who it is, so people can be sure if they've a fight on their hands, without personalising it.
