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> > > > It would be great to get some of those people involved. > > I'm not Czech, but close (Poland) and I could probably help. I'm the author > of Starmapper (http://starmapper.sf.net) and I've been lurking here for a > while trying to overcome my summer-induced laziness ;) So maybe this could > be a good start. There used to be a quite strong Stars! community in Poland, > but I lost contact with them, unfortunately, and I don't know if they are > still interested in this kind of games... I think I am ;) Would you be interested in trying to translate one of the clients (probably tpclient-pywx) to Polish? Do you have any experience doing so? It shouldn't take me to much effort to produce a gettext file which includes all the strings which need translation. > > Another issue is how will players using different languages communicate? In > > particular for diplomacy, etc. I note that the same issue also applies to > > AI > > clients. > > We used to use English for that in Stars! - that's quite natural. I suppose > there could be a conflict between human communication and translations of > diplomatic options (haven't looked at that yet). And could AI be made > polyglotic? :) > -KS We don't really have any diplomacy at the moment, and it's not really planned for TP04 either. Players however can send each other messages using the message system. Servers can also fairly easily implement a "change ownership to" order without any problems. I think diplomacy with the AI is probably going to need some more framework support, natural language passing is really hard to do :) Tim Ansell _______________________________________________ tp-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.thousandparsec.net/tp/mailman.php/listinfo/tp-devel
