Re: Other Languages and Planetarion
Multiple languages were something that were looked at a while ago as I remember. There were 2 concerns:
1) making sure that EVERYONE understood that the absolute version of the rules were the English ones, and that the translations may not represent the actual rules and the spirit of the rules effectively. (the concern would be that someone would say that the Spanish [example] version made it sound like multi-ing was illegal only if people were trying to access the account simultaneously rather than more than one person accessing an account at any time)
2) Fragmenting the community. Although the game would be available in multiple languages (assuming all the translation bugs could be ironed out) the main announcements and support procedures would still be mainly provided in English. As it is now everyone in the game has to speak English to some extent (which may or may not give a bias to everyone who is a native English speaker - whatever language the game was based one there would be native and non-native speakers) As such everyone playing the game can in theory communicate with everyone else. A linguistically fragmented community could be a disaster or could be a blessing.
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