Quote Originally Posted by ChickenHawk07 View Post
Yeah, I'm fairly certain names are not shown on the list until the player first logs in to the server.
This has been my observation as well. The game will also generate each player's starting sector when they first log in as well. I had someone's home sector pop up near to mine (causing me some surprise) several days into the run for the Belitlli server. The maximum players that registered prior to start will display on the server list, though in theory not every one of those people will actually join and be assigned to the in-game list.