We have the emoticons operating in the chat area of the game

I was thinking that we could use them as signals, such as

= forward
= port
= starboard
= engage
= open the range
= your ship
= my ship
If we could have 3 or 4 seperate lists of signals, when you click on what ships you want, a preview page comes up and tells you which signal group your side is using

either that, or autosend an e-mail with the information

So a message might read

Roayal Oak to America