[Alneyan]

You don't know the true meaning of Paranoia, Fyron: they could still cheat you. Trust no one, and attack them first.

Specifically, you could deceive someone by using two designs with a very long name, as in, say, Littletradevesselformylovelyallyknownasfriendlyblo ke. It will be cut off by the game, allowing you to create another design with the same beginning characters, but something different at the end: "oneborneveryminute" instead of friendlybloke, for example. For everyone involved, both designs will appear with the same name, as the game cannot display the whole string of characters.

Disclaimer: what is described above should only be taken as a joke. Please do not sue me.

Bearclaw: that sort of thing might be bypassed by giving the traded ships a mandatory fleet strategy (not turning on "All ships break fleet orders"). Retrofitting might also help, though I seem to recall having odd behaviours with ships coming from a retroseries with different ship strategies.