Girdio Posted January 14, 2023 Posted January 14, 2023 Pretty straight forward, and I didn't see it mentioned elsewhere on the forums. I saw mention that other servers have this, but I'm unsure of the extent. Basically, give players the ability to speak different languages in the same sentence so it looks more fluid. A good chunk, if not all, of the characters know a language other than Basic, but the only time it's really used is to have private conversations with someone else. Obviously, that's entirely valid and not a point of diss, but I feel that having a change gives more roleplay and character depth ability. Currently, if you want to make it look like your character is interject a random phrase, word, or so-forth in a different language you would have to do something like "John says, "So like I was saying, those stupid- John says, ",1 pieces of filth- John says, "Were just asking for it." It looks a little wonky, and not as natural. In turn, I feel like having something that would let you type something like, ",0 So like I was saying those stupid ,1 pieces of filth ,0 were asking for it." or something similar would look more natural and flow better for a general conversation. You have the argument that "most people don't just throw in random words from different languages during their conversation", but I feel like there is still a substantial amount of people for this to be a realistic addition. On top of this, by giving this ability for players to "mix and match" what languages they're talking in the middle of a conversation, it allows for curses in different languages to be intermixed in Basic, a replacement for a word a character might not know in Basic (",0 how do you say ,1 [example] ,0 in Basic again?"), or to intentionally highlight words in Basic when you're speaking a different language, should it be someone's name or a planet or what have you. I'm not going to pretend to assume the difficulty on adding this to Aurora, but I feel like it could be used to more depth to general conversations around the station pretty well, and make the languages be used more often by players who might not want to go into full-fledged discussions with them.
greenjoe Posted January 14, 2023 Posted January 14, 2023 Big +1 here, this would be great for RP. Polaris has this system (that works in exactly the way suggested here) if anyone wants to look into seeing if it is able to be ported at all.
KingOfThePing Posted January 14, 2023 Posted January 14, 2023 The feature will not work as it is suggested, it would need a prefix that is not as common as the currently used language prefixes (,number) since numbers and commata are too easily typed in sentences, so, you could accidentally type in a different language. Besides that a good suggestion
Agatasa Posted January 17, 2023 Posted January 17, 2023 I can't say in my playtime here I've ever accidentally typed a comma followed by a single alphanumeric character with no space separating. So I'm not convinced that's an error frequent enough to prevent implementing the feature. And Polaris manages fine with it.
greenjoe Posted January 17, 2023 Posted January 17, 2023 Agreed, while there are errors made sometimes, it's not often enough to really be a concern
Roostercat Posted January 17, 2023 Posted January 17, 2023 I would very much like this in the game. The only problem is I have NOOOOOOO idea whether its even possible in the code currently. If it Is possible however, I'd definitely see it as a plus, +1
Carver Posted January 18, 2023 Posted January 18, 2023 I'm completely fine with typing out my thousands/millions/etc. in exchange for this.
KingOfThePing Posted January 18, 2023 Posted January 18, 2023 I was merely saying that it might need a different prefix, not that this is a bad suggestion 1
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