your missing my point.. I have 4 accounts. 3 of which are gold/gold/diamond supporters. I do not want to waste any more money on supporterships. Clicking my friends names to pm them would be asking me to support more, which would irritate me. This sounds like it could help get more new players to support, but would only be annoying for those already supporting. Your attitude sounds kind of rude. Just because I don't like this suggestion, does not mean it is a bad suggestion. Also does not mean I don't think it would help EMC. It just means I do not personally like it. Please do not be rude towards me because of my opinion, when I am not being rude to you.
I think I see where the confusion is. The purpose of the idea is to show players what the different colors are. If that means they want to support then that is always a plus, but the reason for having this is to keep people informed. The hover thing won't encourage you to support and only gives you the information you need to understand who those players are. I once had a player think I was a moderator. They began sending me pm's in game about help with something. I figured they just thought I looked helpful. Once they figured it out (I said I couldn't teleport anywhere) the players was definitely a little frustrated and confused. This would prevent these kind of situations because they would see that someone is a supporter as apposed to a moderator.
imo it would be better for them to just add this into the tutorial. The whole point of the tutorial is to teach new players about EMC and the important stuffs
Putting it in the chat also makes sense. This will put relevant information to a player when that information is needed. As Salesman said above me, additional information could be included too.