IDEAS FOR RYZOM

i love this game, having said that, it is kind of obvious to me, a native english speaker, and also a german speaker, (as well as a dabbler in the romance languages) that this game was developed in french, or another language, as opposed to english, so, i can see some minor mistakes in the translations/grammar for the english GUI...this is not a gripe, but just help from an english speaker to point this out...i want to help make ryzom the best MMORPG it can be...

for instance in the chat...instead of "you tell" or "so and so tells" it should be "you say" or "character says"

now this is minor, but i just thought it would be nice to update that part a bit...

also some of the buttons are backwards, and this is a simple texture switch...

for the sit/stand buttons, those are backwards, and this is easily fixed by simply switching the names of the two files around, and i may do that myself if i can find them

just so the devs dont get the wrong idea, i really like the game, so its not a gripe, just pointing out some minor things that need adjustment...if i find any more along the way, im sure it will be easy to fix...all im doing is pointing out a few things that could add to the polish and shine of the game...nothing major, just minor tweaks...

if there are any dialogue files that need to be checked for grammar, like quest dialogue, or even mission descriptions, i would be happy to help look them over and proof them...

another thing is: that sometimes people have very garbled tags above their heads...sometimes it will have "NotExist" in the tag with a hash tag after that...so it may be someone was updated or something, but that may be a task for the server mods to go through and fix...

another thing is: in certain areas i noticed the language changes so that part or all of the players tag is either gone or changed to another language than their native one...

now granted i know mods change things on servers all the time, and test things out that can effect this, so its again, not a gripe, just an observation...

For the player's titles (you named them tags): They exist in two versions. Both can be accessed from the Indentity (P) window, Info tab.
On top of the tab there is a combobox. If you select your title there it will be translated for every player that sees you. You select Refugee and a player using german client will see Flüchtling.
Below the combobox is some kind of web page where you can also choose a title. But this (new) title system doesn't support translation. Event and fame titles are available from the new system only.

edit: i took a while to reply because i had to make sure this was okay to write, with my boss and stuff! i hope the topic-poster at least sees it

I think this is my first post on the forum! Nervous!!

Grimoire you're very active and your desire to help the community is really apparent , keep it up and gain some respect, play for some time, and i would say you could definitely send in an application to be part of the team that can change some of these things.

It is really a man-power (and woman power!?) issue, I think I do have access to some of the in-game texts and I can change or at least ask someone to change something (I have not really been working on that but I will take a look tonight)

Just to be clear I am fairly new on the anim team and.... as such I am not saying you should definitely do anything or that you will definitely get in or that you definitely have to play for 1 year before anyone will take you seriously... I figure applications are case-by-case basis and if you keep a good helpful reputation your chances will be better, this is not an endorsement from the anim team only my personal experience and opinion.

yes I am a native English speak
yes the anim team does have those
and yes we probably could use some more hehe

I should probably not be lazy and go find the forum post where it says "we are accepting applications" and post it here but hey if you are interested, go find it yourself I always say!

I love this game very much and it is the reason why I applied, there is tremendous potential for success untapped within Ryzom and we all have to work together to achieve this.

I think the EN community is a little shy about applying for the reason that it is a game lead by the FR/EU community and not the EN/US community but this should not stop you, anything worth doing is usually pretty tough. There are so many wonderful people there, I am really grateful I got to meet them all, and I'm even starting to learn other languages now. You have a little advantage on me there, though :)

well said arduros.

there's no "I" in team.

That may be true Talk... there is no 'i' in team but there is always an 'm' and an 'e' :D

good one toak! how ya been mate?