There are some ships, like nation-specific ships or Tunguska specials, that require certain standing with a certain faction. Access to Raptor is granted after completing a series of mission. Since every player can see all ships that a station sells and licences that are required to get them, I think it would be good if other criteria necessary for purchasing a ship were displayed too, to avoid confusion.

I partially agree, but not entirely. I think that what you needed (past-tense) should be displayed once you have access to the ship/equipment (or anything else); however, I also think that until you have surpassed the prerequisites, it should simply be marked/noted: "[Faction] does not trust you enough yet to sell you these" (need higher FS) or "You need further commendation to have access to there" (need a badge) etc.

i think it's more important to see what you need for things you can't buy than what you needed for things you can buy.

however i don't think that every requiernment should be "in the clear". some requiernments should be kept as secretive as possable so that finding out how to get the ship/weapon/cargo is part of the challenge as well as meeting the actual requiernments.

Maybe it will help if in the future there are not only player owned stations, but actual players involved in running the various governments. This isn't possible until the player base is big enough to include enough who are interested and can spend time on such tasks, but at that point players could decide how much to make known to the public, and what the eligibility requirements are for things. For now, I agree with LostCommander. Depending on the item, either be specific, or simply say you're not eligible.

"some requiernments should be kept as secretive as possable so that finding out how to get the ship/weapon/cargo is part of the challenge" - Exactly, Lord Q! I also want to be able to fill out the wiki without bending over backwards to do it though, so I would like them all visible some-where/how.

That would make the wiki kind of a cheat site. Whatever, though.

I opted to *not* display the requirements for faction and accomplishment-specific content, so that users would have to find that out for themselves. At least now they know the "reward" exists, and they can learn more to find out how to get it. If that means just reading the wiki (inevitable anyway) that's fine, at least it's a little more interesting.