Scout for Enemies Command returning blank messages

[JFJohnny5]

Whenever one of my scouts sees an enemy while running the "Scout for Enemies" command, it sends me a blank message from Unknown and all I can do is click OK. I verified this by buying a brand new Disco then telling it to Dock at a station and tell me when it completed its command. I received a normal message telling me it had finished what it was doing after it docked. I then set it to patrol in Elena's fortune. After a couple minutes of SETA it spotted an enemy and I received a blank message. Now here's the really weird part - I then told it to dock once again (still set to tell me when an order is completed) and now even THAT message is coming back blank. Every single scout I give this command to develops this issue. They report blank messages upon sighting enemies and any further order completed messages form them are also blank. Is this a known bug?

I only have a few scripts running (or even installed for that matter):
Community Plugin Config, Command Queue, and Improved Boarding by Cycrow
Factory Complex Constructor by Dusty
Military HUD by Ulfius
Universal Best Buy/Sell by alex2069

Nothing that touches the scout command that I can think of...

[JFJohnny5]

After some more testing I have narrowed down the bug. So long as I do not change the name of the M5 it works fine. But if I change the ship's name to anything other than "Your Ship Name" it returns a blank message from "Unknown" whenever an enemy is seen.

[XELA NAMYT]

I've had a similar issue with my traders which I always rename when I get them. I will try and experiment and see if this is the same issue, but from different commands.

[JFJohnny5]

And I have narrowed it down even further. If I rename the ship to anything with brackets in the name [NameHere] it will start delivering blank messages. But if I rename it without the brackets, it's fine. So it doesn't appear to be the command but more accurately something with brackets in the name. Any quasi-official comments on this bug? Can others verify the issue?

[pjknibbs]

If that's indeed the only issue then it isn't a bug--you're simply not allowed to use square brackets in ship names (CBJ said this in response to another thread some time ago). It may well be a bug that the game actually lets you do so, though!

[Cycrow]

the message log doesn't allow certain characters, like coloured names or squar brakcets [].

so if you try to put these in your ships name and that name is then used in a log message for something, then you will jsut get an empty message as it cant format the message correctly

[JFJohnny5]

the message log doesn't allow certain characters, like coloured names or squar brakcets [].

so if you try to put these in your ships name and that name is then used in a log message for something, then you will jsut get an empty message as it cant format the message correctly

Alright. I understand now. So does that mean we'll never be able to use colored name scripts again? The property list can get so cumbersome without some visual organization...

[XELA NAMYT]

Thats the same conclusion I came to. Bit annoying though, can't see why there should be an issue with it.