Archived Post
05-29-2011, 12:47 PM
OK, I agreed I would NOT get angry about it... Now I am...
My last mission took a lot of time to create. It would not take a lot of time to write a translation of the dialogues in English, but I am VERY (put in another nasty word of your choice here) TIRED to spend hours and hours to make a near-cinematic mission that does get down-rated because some ... beings only comprehend ONE language and get kind of ... superior feelings out of that (rather uneducacted) fact!
This is NOT an US Server, sorry... This is a GLOBAL server. Just like in EVE, just like in many other Games!
The client is multi-language! The Foundry offers you a language selection in the "project" mask.
I do NOT have a problem at all translating my missions into English (half of heritage=English). I DO have a problem with missions being down-graded because Cryptic - apparently - cannot afford German, Spanish, French speaking moderators anymore and thus does not help with tickets, if a mission gets down-graded for non- English language reasons. (Tickets written in English, btw) I do not even want localized servers. It would get terribly lonely for all of us!
I wondered though, would I get banned if I switched my client to the semi-professional German version and then down-graded ALL of the English missions: "Couldn't complete - no German" or rather: "Konnte die Mission nicht beenden, war nicht auf Deutsch..."
Now, what makes me angry is not the stupid remarks by people not knowing their own language anyway or not knowing the facts about the Game they are playing.
("Enlish pls", "This is a US server, all the rest of the game is in Englsh.. so this is stupid" etc)
What really makes me angry is, that...
A) Everything gets down-voted with or without review comments by TROLLS, if it is not in English. Until it is somewhere in the middle range. (Without any option to go dual-language at all... Do I waste two slots just to make the English speaking crowd happy? Unlikely! I want to create MORE!)
B) That certain boring missions are chosen as "out-standing" by the GMs/Cryptic team. Hello? I test most of the missions myself. You cannot tell me there wasn't something better out there than killing 11 Frigate groups and tons of small Fed soldiers to be rewarded by a mediocre dialogue in the end. OK, I will not argue about taste, please see below for alternatives...)
So two things I would ... greatly love you to think about:
1. In the Editor please add an option with little country flag icons, that allow to create dialogs multi-language. The only reason I do not write mine in English is: I have friends in the fleet that do not understand English that well. They use the German client. And if any of you would get out there into the world, you might realize, they are NOT a minority. The same goes for Spanish and all the other languages you can choose from the selection pull down menu in the Foundry.
English is the current global trade language (By any logic, it will be replaced by latinzed Chinese in a decade or two anyway), not THE Global language.
2. Make the "featured Foundry mission" a call by the players. There are TONS of better missions than the ones selected. Sorry to say that. It is just a fact. I understand you cannot review all of them. Peregrine Falcon does a great job doing that, btw...
OR: Just nominate your own GM chosen mission and one or several missions chosen by the players.
Also:
3. Please remind your player base that this client is multi-language. MULTI! As in SEVERAL languages! Not US! SEVERAL! (... and I say not US because I saw someone being downgraded for his "faulty" British English...)
So, please think about the above mentioned points, dear Cryptic studio.
I understand you go through hard times and you do have a lot on your hands... But more and more people get annoyed about above stated problems when many of them could be easily corrected.
My last mission took a lot of time to create. It would not take a lot of time to write a translation of the dialogues in English, but I am VERY (put in another nasty word of your choice here) TIRED to spend hours and hours to make a near-cinematic mission that does get down-rated because some ... beings only comprehend ONE language and get kind of ... superior feelings out of that (rather uneducacted) fact!
This is NOT an US Server, sorry... This is a GLOBAL server. Just like in EVE, just like in many other Games!
The client is multi-language! The Foundry offers you a language selection in the "project" mask.
I do NOT have a problem at all translating my missions into English (half of heritage=English). I DO have a problem with missions being down-graded because Cryptic - apparently - cannot afford German, Spanish, French speaking moderators anymore and thus does not help with tickets, if a mission gets down-graded for non- English language reasons. (Tickets written in English, btw) I do not even want localized servers. It would get terribly lonely for all of us!
I wondered though, would I get banned if I switched my client to the semi-professional German version and then down-graded ALL of the English missions: "Couldn't complete - no German" or rather: "Konnte die Mission nicht beenden, war nicht auf Deutsch..."
Now, what makes me angry is not the stupid remarks by people not knowing their own language anyway or not knowing the facts about the Game they are playing.
("Enlish pls", "This is a US server, all the rest of the game is in Englsh.. so this is stupid" etc)
What really makes me angry is, that...
A) Everything gets down-voted with or without review comments by TROLLS, if it is not in English. Until it is somewhere in the middle range. (Without any option to go dual-language at all... Do I waste two slots just to make the English speaking crowd happy? Unlikely! I want to create MORE!)
B) That certain boring missions are chosen as "out-standing" by the GMs/Cryptic team. Hello? I test most of the missions myself. You cannot tell me there wasn't something better out there than killing 11 Frigate groups and tons of small Fed soldiers to be rewarded by a mediocre dialogue in the end. OK, I will not argue about taste, please see below for alternatives...)
So two things I would ... greatly love you to think about:
1. In the Editor please add an option with little country flag icons, that allow to create dialogs multi-language. The only reason I do not write mine in English is: I have friends in the fleet that do not understand English that well. They use the German client. And if any of you would get out there into the world, you might realize, they are NOT a minority. The same goes for Spanish and all the other languages you can choose from the selection pull down menu in the Foundry.
English is the current global trade language (By any logic, it will be replaced by latinzed Chinese in a decade or two anyway), not THE Global language.
2. Make the "featured Foundry mission" a call by the players. There are TONS of better missions than the ones selected. Sorry to say that. It is just a fact. I understand you cannot review all of them. Peregrine Falcon does a great job doing that, btw...
OR: Just nominate your own GM chosen mission and one or several missions chosen by the players.
Also:
3. Please remind your player base that this client is multi-language. MULTI! As in SEVERAL languages! Not US! SEVERAL! (... and I say not US because I saw someone being downgraded for his "faulty" British English...)
So, please think about the above mentioned points, dear Cryptic studio.
I understand you go through hard times and you do have a lot on your hands... But more and more people get annoyed about above stated problems when many of them could be easily corrected.