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Originally Posted by Aedolaws
I disagree Wakey.
Image 3,000 chinese (or 30,000) with their own top 10 alliances... a lot of people speak 2 and 3 languages. And translating shouldn't cost too much, is a matter of creating skins right? (I have no clue) If you refer that some players won't be able to communicate because of the language barrier in-game then I'say (a) so what?, (b) add a few pre-made messages to the msg board. IRC is the same story, (a) lotsa of people speak more than 1 lang. and (b) it should work just like the real world... interpreters.
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If people can speak more than 1 language then like the many none native English speakers in this game there is no reason for them not to be signing up already. The main reason for translating the game is to attract those with no real knowledge of the main language.
TBH your line of "Image 3,000 chinese (or 30,000) with their own top 10 alliances" actual shows your lack of comprehension of the complexity of your idea. Chinese is not an actual language, but what is classified as a macrolanguage. This means that what is infact considered Chinese is 13 different languages which means even the whole of china cant communicate with each other. The four main ones are Mandarin (Spoken by 850 million), followed by Wu (Spoken by 90 million), Min (Spoken by 70 million) and Cantonese (Spoken by 70 million). So even to get the main core of china able to play you need to translate everything in the game and manual to 4 complex languages, then you need to find round the clock support in those 4 languages, the forums would probably need a forum for each of these languages and enough mods on each to give good coverage. And even after that you still have the issue of a large number of new players who cant communicate with their galaxy mates and who are also restricted on what alliances they can join due to language. A few default messages isnt going to cut it and having interpretors isn't viable.
All you end up doing at this time is segregating the community further and as a browser based game that's not good as it has to be the community that you are really selling as you cant compete on a gaming level with mmo's like Eve and WoW