I was just checking out the new nightly today which fixed the no extra target info bug (Am I right it's 'Asarium' we have to thank? Huge thanks for that
) and it made me think. When a ship is an enemy that information (such as it's current order or whether it is docking) is hidden from the player; How possible would it be to add a SEXP option for restoring the extra information? Thought it might suit a mission where the author wants to simulate enemy communications being hacked, or a force with good AWACS coverage, without having to fill the mission with messages.
I do see one issue with this idea is you'll get unusual extra information at times (for example, a lot of the ship manoeuvring in BP would likely show the ships as 'time to waypoints'). A nice additional feature if it's feasible would be an 'alt. order information' SEXP so you can tell it to put up a given different description when the ship is performing that action? So in the BP example you can say if a specific ship is following a specific waypoint path will instead put 'Attack Churchill' or 'advance on Meridian' etc.