More European members

[Shuffler]

When you go to the bathroom european anyway.

[Irwink!]

I believe that Aces high should make a more active effort to encourage more European members. I have noticed that those pilots from the old world are a good influence to the new world colonials. 

What do you think?

Yeah, but it would be nice if all those brits learned how to speak proper English first. 

[dhyran]

Dhyrans kids are the exception.
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well, maybe a bit lusche, but i got that feeling it belongs where you living. i am living i a small village, a lot of the kids are very sporty here, because we adults observe the missusage of television and computers. if all got an eye on it the kids must play outside. We see a turnaround here actual!

[Anaxogoras]

Ya know, that never occurred to me until you mentioned it...what DO European kids do? (I know here in US, kids USED to do this thing called "go outside", where they would play things like "sports"...at the "playground"....now they sit in front of Xbox/PC, and eat cheetos )

They are probably studying their butts off to pass the baccalaureate exam.  A high school education in most of Europe is almost equivalent to a college degree in the United States.  Or, if they funneled you into a trade school  at the age of ~12, you are learning something practical in order to make a living.

The problem is to make advertising for a very small corner in the big gaming market. The Dogfighting MMO market is a niche, so its hard to make Advertising in the right way.

I've seen a lot of Europeans playing Il-2.  You can set the game up with different languages, so it's user friendly if you don't speak English.  I've seen Czech servers, French servers, Italian servers, etc.  Most of these virtual pilots have never heard  of AH, and if they have they were often turned off by the graphics.

[straffo]

I think channel 200 would be more tolerable if it wasnt in English 

Won't happen ,I wrote one or two time in French and I was muted ...

[dhyran]

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I've seen a lot of Europeans playing Il-2.  You can set the game up with different languages, so it's user friendly if you don't speak English.  I've seen Czech servers, French servers, Italian servers, etc.  Most of these virtual pilots have never heard  of AH, and if they have they were often turned off by the graphics.

thats correct, buts IL2 is not a MMO game, most server are limeted due their bandwith connection. Some idea are great, but these Server are private driven, i tried some 2 years ago, shot the server owner twice in one hour, was banned 1 minute later. Thats not realy Fun. So, back to topic, more good designed HP and more advertising online is the way to bring more EU players into AH imho

[Anaxogoras]

thats correct, buts IL2 is not a MMO game, most server are limeted due their bandwith connection. Some idea are great, but these Server are private driven, i tried some 2 years ago, shot the server owner twice in one hour, was banned 1 minute later. Thats not realy Fun. So, back to topic, more good designed HP and more advertising online is the way to bring more EU players into AH imho

There are some very, very lame servers out there.

But yes, back on topic: AH needs to branch out linguistically if it wants to attract more European customers.  Spanish, French, German, and Italian documentation would be a start.  Straffo mentions that he was muted for typing in French on 200...well, that would have to end, too.

[Lusche]

  Straffo mentions that he was muted for typing in French on 200...well, that would have to end, too.

I really don't think mutliple languages on country or 200 are a good idea for the community. Better broken communication in a common language than babylonian confusion.
Imagine the text buffer scrolling down and you are not able to understand half of the things that's being talked there. All this German, French, Spanish and Finnish...
And of course HTC would have to monitor each language for insults & such.

I do talk in German on help channel, I don't have problem with any language there. I sometimes write one or two sentences in German on other channels,

But every conversation in German on other public  channels I quickly try to take to a private channel, out of courtesy to all the other players.

[Shuffler]

I really don't think mutliple languages on country or 200 are a good idea for the community. Better broken communication in a common language than babylonian confusion.
Imagine the text buffer scrolling down and you are not able to understand half of the things that's being talked there. All this German, French, Spanish and Finnish...
And of course HTC would have to monitor each language for insults & such.

+1

[Anaxogoras]

When HT and Pyro ran Warbirds there was communication in Finnish on the common channel, Portuguese too.  It didn't cause any issues.

Remember, this thread is about what would have to happen to attract a more international player base, not what's best for those who understand English.

[Vudak]

Well, if you are fluent in another language, by all means translate the help files/net aces/etc.  Do a good enough job and who knows?  Maybe you'll be rewarded for your efforts (at least with a few new guys into the game).

I don't think anyone would have a problem with these files being translated, though I think it would be polite and a good idea to ask permission before posting them...

[Anaxogoras]

Sadly, I am not that fluent.  I speak French just well enough so that native speakers want to correct me on every mistake I make.

[Lusche]

When HT and Pyro ran Warbirds there was communication in Finnish on the common channel, Portuguese too.  It didn't cause any issues.

Remember, this thread is about what would have to happen to attract a more international player base, not what's best for those who understand English.

You have to be careful to retain the balance. Not everthing that may attract a few more players will be good for the game on the long run.
Community is very important, and I think I can say, it's very important to Hitech too. Remember, one of his arguments for doing the arena split is to get better interactions between players again instead of being anonymous in a huge arena with all those messages scrolling too fast to read 'em all.
I think, there's not much difference in missing half the messages because they are too many... or because half of them are in foreign languages.

[Lusche]

Well, if you are fluent in another language, by all means translate the help files/net aces/etc. 

Actually, I was thinking about doing a German translation of the Trainer Corps Pages for some time.

[Ardy123]

I really don't think mutliple languages on country or 200 are a good idea for the community. Better broken communication in a common language than babylonian confusion.
Imagine the text buffer scrolling down and you are not able to understand half of the things that's being talked there. All this German, French, Spanish and Finnish...
And of course HTC would have to monitor each language for insults & such.

I do talk in German on help channel, I don't have problem with any language there. I sometimes write one or two sentences in German on other channels,

But every conversation in German on other public  channels I quickly try to take to a private channel, out of courtesy to all the other players.

All you would have to do would be to learn a few words to understand 90% of the chatter. Words like dweeb, tard, gangbang in 5 different languages, and your good!