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A harmless, 24h joke annoying you that badly? Pay 1000g (if that) and toss a necklace to the person you're trying to talk to. Easy.
I can't read anything I wrote in my journal. T_T There was so much good stuff in there.
It's also something of a bummer if RP occurs, too, seeing as my character does intend to go out into the world and experience new things and people.
The obvious thing is that some parts would have to be fixed - like, most denizens speak in common, they'd have to be shifted to speak their own racial language. Also, not being able to read letters/journals and such. But I consider those just bugs that would have to be smoothed over for any long-term effect.
But when I initially logged in and tried to talk to someone, we both were confused as hell as to why we suddenly couldn't understand each other, and then realized the announce and said person had just finished a shared racial language, so we spoke like that. It was fun and interesting, and I feel like it would continue to be so.
Lets do this!
That love soon might end You are unbreaking
And be known in its aching Though quaking
Shown in this shaking Though crazy
Lately of my wasteland, baby That's just wasteland, baby
That love soon might end You are unbreaking
And be known in its aching Though quaking
Shown in this shaking Though crazy
Lately of my wasteland, baby That's just wasteland, baby
Necklace of Comprehension already makes it fine if you don't like it, city languages make it totally fine for newbies, and this sort of thing makes the world so much more immersive.
I'd also love to see how players cope with it long-term. My guess is that one of the racial languages would end up becoming a "common" language that everyone learned - which would work fine since the first few languages are so cheap. It'd be neat to see the language learning system actually matter to more than like five people. And that sort of in-character, social problem-solving is what I love most about Achaea. A "common" arrived at by players rather than artificially included is exactly the kind of player-driven cultural innovation that makes Achaea such a special game - that's the biggest thing Achaea has that other MMOs really don't.
All it'd really take to make it more reasonable is a TRANSLATE command, like do TRANSLATE TABOR INTO HUMAN and you'd automatically repeat what he said in the Human language - so people who don't speak Human would see:
Tabor, the Sugardown announcer says something unintelligible.
Translating for Tabor, Tael says, "Whatever Tabor said."
Maybe also squelch it for people who do understand, so they see:
Tabor, the Sugardown announcer says, "Whatever Tabor said."
Tael translates Tabor's speech into Human.
With that, translated conversations require an interpreter, but wouldn't actually take any longer to have since translation is instantaneous. And journals can already be translated!
I'm sure it'll never happen, but one can dream!
Bards have a class ability to understand different languages, there's an inbuilt language system (if becomes more required, prices may need to drop!) and necklaces of comprehension are relatively cheap.
Selling my services as a Xorani / Rajamalan / Dwarvish / Atavian translator
the position of "ambassador" in the various cities could be used for international communication. racial communities can exist, and ashtan can force all the xorani into the ghetto.
this would be difficult for organizations like the Asterian Restoration unless there was a historical written language that could also be learned. or maybe we could also serve as an international publishing house and translate books into every language. perhaps the postal offices include a clerk who translates your letter. that way, you can REQUEST TRANSLATION OF LETTER TO ATAVIAN and receive a copy translated at an accuracy similar to, say, 20/26 language lessons invested.
anyway, it opens rp possibilities at the cost of convenience, but those opportunities would probably increase immersion through the illusion of more distinct cultures in a shared space.
happy april fools
Maybe y'all should invest in some knowledge.
Workarounds are so easy and so trivial that all it really does is make the game harder for newbies. Everybody else can use use a comprehension necklace and speak their racial language and suffers basically no problems. Failing that, the first language is so cheap to learn(26 lessons @ 1k per lesson) that the world will almost certainly just settle on some racial language as the world's lingua franca and people will basically be required to learn that to participate in global society. My guess is Tsol'aa, though I also suppose Tsol'dasi is another candidate for the world's language of diplomacy, because it's free to learn no matter how many other languages you know.
Or, all of that aside, people will just use messages or invite people to clans/parties to bypass the language system entirely to say things that are needed. Or they'll emote their says to do the same thing.
So I doubt it would really add much to the game once you're established as a player. Too easy to work around to add significantly to the game. I mean, my playing experience basically wouldn't change at all. I have more than enough language lessons and gold saved up to learn whatever racial language ended up being used as common.
On the other hand, as a lowbie, all it does is make it harder to get into the game by restricting the people you can talk to by adding another layer of tedious BS to player interactions at a stage when new players are already overwhelmed by the sheer amount of stuff in this game. The last thing you want to do in a game like this is make it harder for people to communicate.
Maybe have rogues be given a necklace of comprehension as they finish their trial, or have R&J have a stack that they can hand out to anyone who seems to be having trouble early on. These problems seem solvable.
Also remember that in terms of new blood, Achaea gets a good number of people who've mudded before. Neat features that make the world feel bigger and more immersive, and less like an MMO but in text, would probably be at least as much of a draw as an obstacle.
Most people are dragon or aspring to be these days. Free language
Your citizens would all have a common lanuage of their city. Newbies wont suffer unless deciding to hop to another (even then a simple workaround could be made)
Really wouldnt be as much a big deal as people make it
Heck could make Human a universal language if you like. They're suppose to be the dominating race as is. Learn for cheaps.
remember that's it's the first of April
and women. Due to some unknown reproductive property inherent to them, their children are either
satyrs or the race of the mother.
^ The only part of Satyr lore that really matters.
Aristeas, a gryphon tells you, "Start rarely necessary easy flat oracle tournament."
That is Achaean for "Bann has entered my location." apparently.