I think there should be an area for list of battles occured in game. And this should be open to anyone. It would probably suit best to Highscores. When you click "Battles" you can just see who battled against who and list will start from most total damage to lowest. This is already used on 3.0.0 individually, independent from battles. So why not do the same for battles itself? You can even see details of battles but should not be detailed as much as normal detailed report. It can be just like in boards , original fleets and result. If anything is seen as "needs to be censored", by GF, you can do that as well, shouldn't be hard for you guys. But i think any battles should be listed and viewed by anyone. This way people who likes to hide their battles will be out in the open. I think battles should not be hidden from others and if one can battle then there shouldn't be anything to hide. And even if there is, this will heat things up. I wouldn't encourage that if it did affect miners, but since fleeters' point is to battle, what is the harm here? So, more activity! Just as targeted in "New Noob Protection" system! This will definitely make the game more active, being able to reach battles in-game is much more effective than on board. This will kill boards' battle area but i think battles' place should be in-game, not boards, not a place where you can reach after many clicks and lots of power of will. I myself use boards as much as an OGame player can but i think battles are not for boards. You can also add comments area to battles, so it won't really be any different than boards, only better.

I don't think anyone whose not informed enough about the game really gets pulled to the boards because of battles. As you said, most of those people doesn't even take a look at the other boards, so how can you be more knowledgeable just by looking at the battles? You can't. Plus, battles being in-game brings other possibilities. It won't be in boards, but some players who doesn't even know there's a board can now see every battle made after two clicks and strategise on it. Remember, there will be a comment section too, so noobs can learn much more in an easier way.

Also, if you let players choose, they'll choose to expose "nothing". Not numbers of ships, not total value of ships, not their economy points, not their given and taken damages, not their research points or not their honor points. I'm pretty sure i can find lots of players who wouldn't want to expose anything. I think this is an information should be open to anyone. You can always hide your fleets by not using them all in one of your battles if not needed. So there's also this new aspect. Players may think that all of your fleet was the one used in your latest big battle. Sure, they can check your military points, but this won't give any definitive opinions. Of course, you'll have to use all of them in one battle if the opponent is strong enough, but i think this can be interesting from time to time since those kinds of battles doesn't really occur often.