EVE General Discussion

CCP, you receive a bunch of tickets and you decide to close historic language channels that hundreds of people use to avoid the problem.

Let the games begin...

I beg you foreign players of EVE Online to join these Faction and Technology channels after the release of Oceanus to continue your activities in your faction or technic language:
Amarr – Ukranian
Ammatar - Swedish
Angel Cartel - Romanian
Blood Raiders – Portugese
Caldari - Polish
CONCORD - Spanish
Gallente - Norwegian
Guristas - Lithuanian
Interbus - Latvian
Jove - Korean
Khanid Kingdom - Italian
Mordu’s Legion – Hungarian
ORE - Finnish
Sansha’s Nation - Dutch
Serpentis - Danish
Sisters of EVE – Czech/Slovak
The Society - Croatian
The Syndicate - Chinese
Thukker – Bulgarian
Linux - Brazilian
Steam - Belarussian
MS Windows - Afrikaans

Less populated channels not listed: Greek, Filipino, Faroese, Estonian, Arabic, Albanian, Afrikaans, Hebrew, Vietnamese, Turkish, Slovenian, Serbian and Icelandic.

Close all your public channels or close none! That's it!

Sugar Kyle talks about this in her CSM9 - Day 147 roundup. I suppose I'm gratified that she and I agree that one way forward would be to overhaul the chat finder. Nevertheless, I'd have liked to see the CSM engaging in the discussion in this thread as well.

i am so mad right now.
Danish people are going to join serp channel and own it

Creating a chat search function would work as well as having a corp search function. Better than nothing, but not exactly what a new player wishes to see when he's in need of help.

Didn't want to bring a offtopic here, but I've started a thread on the effectiveness and abbilty of the EULA to shelter players who don't use a supported language: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=5061124#post5061124

If channels are shut down because of difficulties to enforce the EULA, what does that mean if a player is being harrassed in a non supported language?

I'm curious what you people expect CCP to do, in light of the reasons they've stated. Should the entire CCP staff take a year off development and maintenance of EVE to learn every language in the world so they can adequately moderate every official language channel, as their own EULA stipulates they must do? If they change nothing, they risk legal repercussions for inaction. They're damned if they do, and damned if they don't.

Here's an idea: how about all of you learn to speak English, instead of forcing CCP to learn 500 different languages and dialects.

No, they could just realize that while there might be a few/some national channels that requires moderation, some of us actually have extremely nice and well-driven channels, where the focus is on having a good time, and helping out the new players that quickly finds the national channels and asks for advice in terms of skillpoints, corporations and generally how to go about playing the game. Some of these are even insecure in their usage of the english language, and have found an easier time getting help in their mother tongue. An option that CCP now wants to deny them.

For instance the danish channel has been an excellent place for discussions, and has even had a danish developer participating in talks. Just because some countries have issues with trolls (there is a magical button called 'block' for spammers and ****), doesn't mean the rest of us should be punished.

Anyway, the danes are starting to set up in the Serpentis channel, in order to have our existing in-game community active after this unimpressive change.

1) Yes, but CCP can and will punish you for doing so in a way that doesn't align with their ideal if someone decides to ***** up the chain about it.

2) All of them, of course.

CCP needs to take a step back and look at exactly how moronic, contradictory and hypocritical this stance is.

They can't be bothered to police language-support channels where there is apparently an abundance of seriously harmful trolling and abusive behavior.

And yet, they're more than happy to throw out warnings to people in otherwise calm player-owned channels for dropping an f-bomb in casual conversation because someone feels like abusing the petition system just to be a ****. What is the point in having player-run channels in the first place if people can just go whine to CCP instead of putting on their big-kid pants and either using the block function or leaving the channel?

Either tell the GMs to stay the hell out of player-owned channels in all but the most egregious circumstances (death threats, RL-related crime, etc), CCP, or have them be the thought police for ALL of them.

No picking and choosing. All channels, or none. Be consistent.


As said above, the GM team (and by extension CCP) is more than happy to encourage vindictive, abusive reporting of other players through the petition system over asinine little things (aka, rules lawyering), rather than deal with actual genuine issues.

Make us please an official Napanii channel.

This is bad decision CCP please dont do it.