FFID via OCR and an overlay.

[m3rc1fulcameron]

As I often play with groups of people (currently EIC </shamelessPlug>) that may or may not be involved in clonflicts with other groups, I find it difficult to recognise whether that guy in supercruise is an enemy or not. Currently, whenever I or my comrades are in a system where we are warring with another group, we'll have to look at their name and compare it with several (somewhat lengthy) blacklists/whitelists. I was wondering if FD would take offense if I created an app that recognizes if the player targeted by a ship is on a parseable blacklist/whitelist. I don't plan on hooking into the game via DLL injection or anything like that, just on using optical character recognition on the targeting menu and displaying information in an overlay. Of course I'd make this app open-source and free for anyone, because it'd be unfair otherwise. All this app would do is streamline our group PVP and make things more interesting. Before I get started though, I just wanted to see if it was OK with the creators of the game we all love so much!

 

[Tiamat]

TCE uses Elite OCR on the commodities screen and both have been around more than long enough for FD to shut them down if they objected to it. I would think it was ok.