Is there any fix in 3.12 for the party nameplates not working?
TL;DRNo fix is in 3.12 for party nameplates because the team was busy elsewhere, but they've been converted to a new UI system that will more than likely fix the bug in a future patch.
Right now, no. Basically, unfortunately, the guys have had bigger things to work on for 3.12 bugs, as well as doing the StarMap rework. So that's been their focus. And unfortunately, this is the...
The one thing that I can add though is that coming in the future, I should get a catchphrase, we actually have just converted those party nameplates into using Building Blocks and we're going to be integrating them into the radar and scanning functionality, so that you haven't got this weird party name and then the name underneath the ship, and it's all this UI combining together to create this hodgepodge of multiple systems that are doing different things. So we've unified all of that so that it will be coming in a future patch, and that will more than likely fix that bug.
Well, I mean, either we'll get to it before then or this will. It really just depends on the bugs that the team has on their plates. Just because this is a very specific one, it needs to go through two or three people. It's very, very specialized and it's been a pain to track down.