As a way of knowing whether a player who has destroyed your ship is a pirate, a psychotic killer, a bounty hunter, a faction enemy, a roll playing enemy, etc.…
Why not simply ask us before the insurance screen appears.
If the answer is answered more than X amount of times by more than one Commander, mark that player for X amount of time, allowing others to decide to either fight or flee when they encounter a Commander they are not equipped to fight, if they are deemed too dangerous to fight against.
Maybe if a player has been marked many times as a pirate (or whatever their crime), display their name as a bounty in the area where the Commander is most seen or if a player has claimed the most amount of bounties in a week or month. Display their name in Galnet News or local news, depending on how many bounties have been collected throughout the galaxy or in a local system.
Why not simply ask us before the insurance screen appears.
If the answer is answered more than X amount of times by more than one Commander, mark that player for X amount of time, allowing others to decide to either fight or flee when they encounter a Commander they are not equipped to fight, if they are deemed too dangerous to fight against.
Maybe if a player has been marked many times as a pirate (or whatever their crime), display their name as a bounty in the area where the Commander is most seen or if a player has claimed the most amount of bounties in a week or month. Display their name in Galnet News or local news, depending on how many bounties have been collected throughout the galaxy or in a local system.