Posted by Rufus (Post 588533)

As mentioned, this wouldn't really work in a live text environment where there is a greater amount of spelling and grammatical errors. Machine translations are also bad beyond single words, so I'm not sure that you would be able to have an actual conversation through this.

However, Classic needs to do something that enables non-English speakers to easily find, communicate and play with each other. If I logged into a game where I had to locate an obscure area under a bridge, to simply talk with people of my own language, I don't think I would play for very long. We aren't getting multiple servers (which would be ideal for this) so other avenues need to be explored. I've tried but cannot think of a solution.

Posted by kenovo (Post 588723)

The problem is Graal isn't nearly big enough to the point that multiple servers would be needed. The foreign language servers (languages other than english) would be dead. Also with Graal's infrastructure, wouldn't they need a whole new set of GPs to moderate the server? They'd have to speak that server's destined language too. I think if there was only one Graal App this would be needed, that or Graal becoming a lot bigger than it is now.

But as you already stated it's not going to happen anyways, so yes, some other solutions need to be explored.

Posted by Rufus (Post 588752)

You could split Classic into 3 servers and they'd all still have more players than Ol West and Zone. If there's enough players to warrant those games existing, there's enough to warrant splitting Classic up.

Posted by Ash Ketchum (Post 588755)