Emoting in different languages

[*Wiro]

Personally I am getting quite sick of people who are perfectly capable of English or who might as well use the Wiki page about emotes, just do not use them. They continue to speak in their own language, without caring one bit about the other language groups present. I've seen this with Dutch, Polish and Spanish characters so far. Cantr isn't a one-language game, it's a game of many languages. That's what it's being advertised as at least, but the players of the game don't want to do something so simple.

I'd really like a rule that pretty much forces anyone who doesn't do this to do it anyway. I know, PD is already way too busy and everything, but this is really necessary to keep the game playable. What annoys me most is that the reply when I asked kindly on the Spanish forum if people there (since I've experienced this mostly with Spanish characters) could try to use the emote page or use English in emotes, was that if I wanted to play with the Spanish people, I should do so with Spanish emotes.

Unless this rule is added I think I'll just stop bothering all together to encourage people to interact with my characters of different languages than their own, as Cantr just doesn't seem to be made for it.

[lulkoek]

I know and encountered this issue too and it's really laborious to go to Babel Fish or Google Translate for each and every pose just to figure out what's happening, but I don't see how a rule like this could be enforced.

[Arenti]

Yes I agree it's very annoying but I doubt adding a rule will help.

[Caesar]

I think it still has to be added as a rule.

It is simply egoistic to force others to try and translate your emotes to English just for the sake of RPing with you.

[Arenti]

Yes but will adding that rule change anything?

[*Wiro]

Online translators suck. It doesn't translate anything other than basic emotes which are on the wiki anyway.

[Piscator]

Well, it is a little pretentious to demand that suddenly all players in a town make the (not inconsiderable) effort to translate their emotes to English just because a foreigner came into town. Especially if the emotes are likey of no interest for you. You can as well make the effort yourself and use a translator (and guess).

Emoting in English is a curtesy, but I'm not at all sure if we can demand it.

[*Wiro]

This isn't about walking in a town of twenty foreign people. But more like, half the town's this language, half the town's that language. OOC requests are usually ignored.

And I agree, it's hard to enforce and demanding it might not work out, but something has to be done about it. Cantr is a game with multiple languages and there are many people perfectly capable of putting a little bit more effort (or equal amount) into their emotes to make it readable for everyone.

[Ryaga]

If the international emote page even told you how to use them....

[catpurr]

This might be a newbie question, but couldn't we implement the most common emotes in the game to select from a list. In that way every char could see it in his mother tongue.

[Rebma]

It's been suggested. And there was supposed to be a list started to add to the emotes in the wiki currently. forget where though.

[Arenti]

http://wiki.cantr.net/index.php/Int_emotes

[*Wiro]

This might be a newbie question, but couldn't we implement the most common emotes in the game to select from a list. In that way every char could see it in his mother tongue.

That still doesn't solve the problem of people refusing to emote in another language - even when they know English.

[Ryaga]

How do you use these?

[*Wiro]

What do you mean?