Kek and Bur

ArchivedUser

I'm not sure if this has come up yet, but I was wondering how would people feel if different races had different languages, and wouldn't be able to understand each other (in text chat) until you skilled up your "language skill".

As you skill up your language skill, the "gibberish" you see in chat would become more and more understandable, and ofc. at max skill you would read other races chat perfectly.

Or do you feel it would be just an unnecessary skill grind, and we are better off without it?

ArchivedUser

Better off without it.

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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra!

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Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel!

ArchivedUser

I agree the game is better off without a firm lock on understanding each other until we learn their language. But i do think we should have a language system that we can learn other languages.

and Darmok and Jalad at Tanagrra

ArchivedUser

the 4 player races are coming from the same place returning to this world. so they most likely share a common language
But i'm all for a common language as well as racial dialects. But for the Underground Race (only 174k away) they could have another language

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Shaka when the walls fell!

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In MMORPG I like social flexibility and anything that ease out the communication, interaction between players. A language barrer, while fun in theory is not practical if you want to allow your players to play with their friends and choose the races they want to choose.
Though additional languages, just for fun, flavour and roleplay could be added, but I do believe all players should play "common" by default

ArchivedUser

Its been 1000s of years since we were last here.
Perhaps the language and script is completely different.
Compared to the relics everywhere at least.
So I could see puzzles created from archaic ruins.

ArchivedUser

EQ had a Common language and then learnable racial languages, it was awesome and would be cool if if could be in game :)

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If they had a common and a racial language, the first thing my Elf would do is switch to the racial language and if people couldn't understand me, they don't deserve to! :)

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It's just not worth the effort.
Back during EQ, in-game type-chat was the only way to communicate - plus there was built-in racial tensions among races and religions.

These days, we communicate via twitch, youtube and discord... and we would just quickly tutor raids while voice chatting.
Too easy to bypass to be worth the effort of coding. I'd much rather have them spend the time on other features.

ArchivedUser

I agree with Dygz. Might be neat and all that but technology now makes it less than wasted effort that could be put to better use. Lost languages that you need to learn for hieroglyphs and ancient scrolls, etc... is about the only play left in such stuff.

ArchivedUser

I have to agree with what most others are saying, a common language that everyone can use would be best. Then if they really want the races to have their own, there could be a system where other players can learn the races languages and speak with them. I just feel having players start out not understanding or being able to interact with other races starts to segregate the playerbase right from the start, or sort of curtail new players into whatever race is most dominate on each server so that they can interact.

ArchivedUser

I like the idea only in the instance where we are actually able to understand the language over time. No more of this two factions that somehow never ever understand the "other side's" dialect. Everquest had a good system of leveling based upon how much of it you heard. It could be something like that or maybe a trained skill etc.

ArchivedUser

I agree that common language should be there as default.

Racial languages could be there as an option if devs decide it's worth to invest the time and effort.

Racial languages could then be learned by other races through a separate skill progression, and could evolve in literature creating skills, racial newspaper, racial puzzle (RP?) quests that anyone that speaks language could do, there can be many option with this.

Just depends on if dev crew would feel this is worth the time investment or no. And what content could be attached to this.

Cash shop example 1: special elvish font you can use (others will see in chat) when you speak elvish.
Cash shop example 2: Special book cover skins for books you create and publish in some language (this can work for common too). Books could stand in libraries, maybe could be purchased by people for their housing.

I don't know, I feel like this could potentially evolve in more content.

But ofc. as long as it's an option and everyone speaks common by default as people wrote.

ArchivedUser

I agree that common language should be there as default.

Racial languages could be there as an option if devs decide it's worth to invest the time and effort.

Racial languages could then be learned by other races through a separate skill progression, and could evolve in literature creating skills, racial newspaper, racial puzzle quests that anyone that speaks language could do, there can be many option with this.

Just depends on if dev crew would feel this is worth the time investment or no. And what content could be attached to this.

Cash shop example 1: special elvish font you can use (others will see in chat) when you speak elvish.
Cash shop example 2: Special book cover skins for books you create and publish in some language (this can work for common too). Books could stand in libraries, maybe could be purchased by people for their housing.

I don't know, I feel like this could potentially evolve in more content.

But ofc. as long as it's an option and everyone speaks common by default as people wrote.

ArchivedUser

<blockquote>Bringslite wrote:
Lost languages that you need to learn for hieroglyphs and ancient scrolls, etc… is about the only play left in such stuff.</blockquote>
I would love to have various forms of Decipher Script as utility skills for some classes!!!