black/white is usually when folks are afk, i believe.
Yeah the greyed out look is away from keyboard. Otherwise you cannot change your displayed name when someone's just looking at you.
In the CHAT box, you can choose the option to have "player personal colors" and that will make your chat box names appear in different shades. However, not the ones over their heads.
Enemies appear in orange, team mates in green, otherwise everyone is the same color.
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However, you can make it go grey and display an afk message immediately with a custom message.
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Thanks for the info !
A question for you folks:
In game I have seen some players that have a black/white name color (above their characters head) while others have the default blue color. How do you change the color that your characters name is displayed as?