Languate Translations in Chat

EVE Technology and Research Center Player Features & Ideas
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Can we include language translations in the chat windows so we can collaborate with other language speaking people in real time?

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And cause all sorts of misunderstandings, poor language comprehension, misleading translations and a myriad of other issues? No, thank you.

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You can paste your message in any third party translation service before you send it in the game, isn’t that what you want to do?

I’m sure big third party translators like google translate or others like DeepL will do a much better job at it than anything CCP can add to their chat service.

If CCP changes anything about the chat service I’d like it to be simpler and more reliable instead of focusing on extras like this. Every additional piece they add to it makes it less reliable and the chat service already isn’t as reliable as I wish it were.

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Yeah likely it would just result in not just one breaking point but two instead:

  • connection to the chat server has been lost
  • connection to the translation server has been lost

:eyes: :thinking: :psyccp:

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The translations could be handled by a locally running AI instance. Such as what Microsoft and OSX are doing these days. Or it could do it some other way. But as an english speaker in a non engish timezone it would be usefull for me as I can start to play with people in my timezone.

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I thought being able to communicate in English at least on a surface level is kind of a basic thing these days at least generally and the exception is those who only speak one (non-English) language (and probably Russians are the only group who I’ve seen as having it as a majority that they can’t speak English).

But this is just anecdotal so not saying that’s how it is it is just my personal experience in-game and out of it in general.

:thinking:

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The simple answer is: Why don’t all you non-english speekers go learn english? Most of the world do learn English as a 2nd or 3nd language in school, so why don’t you?

Try to imagine how it would be if EVE’s only language was Islandic? How much of the player base do you think know or can speak that language? - I would guess it’s in single digits percentage.

There is no profit in it for CCP to create such a feature.

There are between 6-7000 languages in the world and CCP would have to translate between each and every single one of them with a certain degree of accuracy (95 percentile ?) for it to even be worth it to the average player.

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AI could do a really decent job of it now days.