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Another player brought to my attention the fact that opponents can see your pings. I found this rather odd. I thought the whole point of a ping was to secretly tell your teammates what you're looking at without wasting time typing.
Does anyone know if the ally pings can be seen as well? (Ie attack/defend here)
Huh? Only allies can see "pings" on the map, it might've been a misunderstanding and he was talking about your ping/latency, i.e. the time it takes for your computer to receive/send data from the game via internet.
No, he was specifically talking about me pinging a planet. Twice I've done it and he's said that the enemies can see it. He said that he read it in the readme document that came with the game. I was extremely skeptical of this myself until during that same game, I saw pings on planets suddenly appear without getting the notification that an anlly had done so.
I have not yet tested it in game as I've been more focused on simply playing.
Does anyone know with absolute certainty how the pinging system works?
Yeah, sometimes you can see the other team's pings. They are "silent" pings and only show up on the screen, you don't hear them. I could have sworn they were supposed to be fixed in one of the patch logs a while back, but I still see them now and then. I think it was worse several patches ago, I don't think it happens all the time anymore. Maybe if someone is really ambitious, they could form a game and try and figure out what conditions cause them so it is reproducible for the devs. 
Seriously? Wow, that's interesting. Do you happen to know in which manner they appear? Is it like every 1000th game where all pings are shown, or is it more like every 1000th ping is shown? What I mean is: does it happen randomly, or does it always happen if some conditions are fulfilled and the rest of the game is "screwed"?
I have no clue....I just see them sometimes. I never ask the other team "How much are y'all pinging 'cause I just saw one!" I don't think it happens as much as it did several patches ago.
Are we talking about locked or unlocked teams here? I might understand if the enginge gets confused when alliances are formed/broken all the time, but seeing pings with locked teams sounds rather serious to me. Anyway, without explanation most pings aren't informative at all, so I guess the issue ain't that important. Still, good to know. Won't ping on crucial spots anymore 
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