Issues, Workarounds & Localization

Dear CCP.



This is an open letter made on Eve-ru.com player’s meeting discussing the issues players have with current Odyssey localization, and some ideas of how we can help CCP to improve the localization process.

The main concern had been risen was the one that current feedback is not delivered the way CCP can hear the majority of community. There is a lot of ways EVE terminology could be translated to Russian, and players want that decisions of these translations are based on a real player’s needs and according to the opinion of the community.

The following ideas were given to address the issue:

1. Making a separate forum channel for Russian localization in the Russian part of a forum to give the possibility to raise any specific issue about a single EVE term or other localization issues players are worried about.
2. Making a clear forum policy helping players to solve some conflict situations regarding the translation of a single term with the ability to vote for the best choice. These conflicts can happen when player vs player or player vs CCP have an opposite view of a translation. If players could give their votes and feedback the way CCP could use it the outcome can be desirable for both sides.
3. Any other tools that could help to achieve the goal and use the player’s feedback are very welcome.

Other issues and suggestions follows:

- The ability to keep an English terminology with a Russian client should be extended to all existing terminology, including character attributes ets. The options in a language menu should be explained and more clear to the new players.
- The interface itself should be as compact as possible.
- Ingame links made on any other language should appear on a client’s language, not on a poster’s language.
- The web site of EVE should have the Russian language switch in any section, EVE wiki have a Russian section, but there is no way a player can see it.


We hope that these suggestions will bring a Russian localization to the new level of quality and will make it acceptable to the most of current and new Russian players.

I'm voting AGAINST this petition.
New localization is real breaktrough, now its real russian sci-fi style.
All this noise its about "oldies", I think for new players who don't understand english at all, new localization for first time not looks like ALIEN russian.
Sorry for my English =)
Good job CCP.

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Вообще не советую играть на русском клиенте!!!
Ставьте английский и наслаждайтесь оригиналом. А то будете качать лазеры для Виндикатора!

Зачем этот позор включается по умолчанию? Кому совсем невмоготу - переключат сами.

PS Hello to laser Vindikator!

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- The ability to keep an English terminology with a Russian client should be extended to all existing terminology, including character attributes ets. The options in a language menu should be explained and more clear to the new players.

Опция оставить важные названия на английском, не работает в полной мере.
Многие окна, вкладки и названия, переведены безвозвратно.

К примеру окно флота. Важная часть интерфейса с которой игрок встречается довольно часто.
Русский перевод там понятен и уместен. Для тех кто начал играть на рус клиенте с самого начала это очень удобно.

Но когда пилот находиться вступает в интернациональный флот или же он учиться полетам у тех кто играет на английском клиенте, у него возникают неизбежные проблемы. Всеми нами любимая опция была бы решением проблемы, но ее нужно доработать.

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