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Well, I would describe it as both, a business decision and a service to the playerbase/potential players. In some countries there are more English speakers than in others, but even for those people that do speak English, the topics that EVE deals with can be quite complex. Consider their technical or (pseudo)scientific nature, but also the areas where you dive deeper into the backstory.

For many players it might actually be possible to play with the English client even with limited language skills and indeed I would imagine that many in the regions where we don't have localized clients do exactly that. However, it may be less enjoyable because things may be misunderstood and details missed. Localizing the client makes it easier for people to get into the game and enjoy it.

The fact that localization potentially makes international communication harder is very much on our radar and we are trying to find solutions, but I also think that there are plenty of players who stick to corporations of their own language and only have limited interaction with people from other countries.

We also know that a certain group of players will use the localized client and another group may not for various reasons, and that is fine. We don't want to force it on anyone, but if people want to use it then it is there

Someone already mentioned this, but I was wondering what CCP's views on this are.

As far as I know when an non-english client launches probes or the likes, he will launch probes with a name in their own language. This actually gives additional intel.

If I see probes in my WH that are in english, they could be my corp mates. But if I see for instance german probes, I know we have a bogey.

Now obviously this works two ways, an all german corp who for whatever reason prefer the german client will easily discern that english probes are not theirs.

Now this is far from being an issue, wouldn't even call it a issue. But I find it weird that reality differences create in-game differences on that level.

Also, I noticed in some other thread were you where looking for dutch native speakers among others. For the love of god, stop wasting your time on that right now. That 1 dutch person that doesn't know english will just have to harden the **** up. There are dead languages that have more native speakers and I've yet to meet a monolingual dutch person. Heck, a common complaint among expats is that it's impossible to learn dutch because everyone will just switch to english as soon as they notice the speaker isn't a native speaker.

On a side note, thank you for already stating that you will make it an optional choice to use the localization.

I've been involved in localisation of several software projects, using C, Python and Scheme.

Why is CCP re-inventing the wheel with this? gettext has supported translating messages with differing number conventions forever and a day.

I look forward to being able to communicate with the Korean Neighbors in English
I hope the Serbus does become an option for real time talking in Local and in Alliance speak.

Oh can there be an option for swearing converter like when a guy says "**** you" - it will respond with " I wish to have an Adult interaction with you" Some foreign language translation should be a laugh Riot. As Different Cultures curse in different ways.

I was following the WOD - Serbus was mentioned as a feature for WOD that was being given to EVE, as apart of the Carbon exchange between Projects. Am I wrong on this?

Hey developers while you are at making the client look up terms and terminology.

Have you considered an auto translate feature for players to be able to use?

Final Fantasy 11 had such system which allowed for construction of some horribly but understoodable sentences.

The process had a player starts typing out a term/word or browing for one in a catagorized libary of words and then he presses tab in which a number of words would be selectable for the player.

Once he made his decision the word would be brackected (though bolding would work here) which indicated that no matter what language of the client is on the other end its going to be convereted to the client's own language.

So if an english player a autotranslates {Surrender} in his client it will still read as such when he transmits to a channel he can read on but when it arrives on a german client it will read as {Kapitulation} or on a russian client as {капитуляция}.

(Please dont shoot me all translations provided by google.)

Oh god, that is horrible! O_o

Correct. Team Cerberus is a team of WoD developers that developed Cerberus as shared Carbon technology.

I know a little Brazilian Ju Jitsu and I went to Portugal with my graduation class. I feel like we're connected :D

That's great!
I'm glad that EVE will be available to more people in more places!

can you keep the translation locally?
For example if some one is linking a "Jita solar system" on a English client, the other client will get the translation on whatever language they set it on, like german "Jita Sonnensystem" , russian "Jita вездная система", dutch "Jita zonnestelsel" ect.... same thing for objects in space