O, or is it 0? Bug or not?

[Randallw]

I noticed that I somehow had 2 ship designs with the same name. I've been puzzling how it could happen but I just figured out that 0 and O look almost the same in SE5, so much that you can't really tell the difference. It seems to me this could be used as some way of tricking enemy into attacking what they know is an unarmed ship design when in fact it's a warship.

[BlueTemplar]

Also you could make all your ship designs encrypted, like 00101011101 and 00100111001...

[Suicide Junkie]

And of course, the ever popular "Rename ship and add 50 to the sequence number"

Sure, its the first ship off the assembly line, by why can't we name it "Devastator 0082" just to mess with our enemies?

[Raapys]

Personally I think the enemy shouldn't really be able to know the name of the ship/design in the first place.

[Suicide Junkie]

That's the problem with having spotlights and painting the name in giant letters on the hull.

[Raapys]

True, but it seems to be a human trait. Notice in B5 and other sci-fi's how other races' ships don't have those features.