29 Nov 2015, 09:23 PM
We are, and probably will decline any national chat suggestions. Here's why.
a) We need native speakers to monitor those chats. It would be really nice to have national chats, but currently Polish chat is the only national chat because we're based there, and most of the original staff (including all three admins) are from Poland, so there are native speakers to monitor it. What's more, even if we find somebody who speaks Spanish natively, we can't monitor their work or check reports written in Spanish.
b) We need native speakers to translate the whole server to Spanish. Adding multi-language features to our plugins is another thing; it would take enormous amounts of time to do so. Just translating /help would be a big deal, not mentioning language detection and locale for plugins. For now, it would take as long as 6-8 months to write full multi-language support for our custom plugins.
Even if we decide not to translate them (status quo: Polish chat has only Polish rules and help, nothing more) it will take much more time than anticipated to translate just the help and rules.
Please remember that even if we find Spanish translators, we can't do any quality checks on their work.
c) We need to have much more players who are native Spanish speakers than we have now to begin the work. As I said the amount of work we have to do is enormous, so to make our efforts viable, there has to be a demand for that.
Summarising, making a national chat channel isn't something we can do overnight. It's something that takes so much work that we've decided to not to do that.
a) We need native speakers to monitor those chats. It would be really nice to have national chats, but currently Polish chat is the only national chat because we're based there, and most of the original staff (including all three admins) are from Poland, so there are native speakers to monitor it. What's more, even if we find somebody who speaks Spanish natively, we can't monitor their work or check reports written in Spanish.
b) We need native speakers to translate the whole server to Spanish. Adding multi-language features to our plugins is another thing; it would take enormous amounts of time to do so. Just translating /help would be a big deal, not mentioning language detection and locale for plugins. For now, it would take as long as 6-8 months to write full multi-language support for our custom plugins.
Even if we decide not to translate them (status quo: Polish chat has only Polish rules and help, nothing more) it will take much more time than anticipated to translate just the help and rules.
Please remember that even if we find Spanish translators, we can't do any quality checks on their work.
c) We need to have much more players who are native Spanish speakers than we have now to begin the work. As I said the amount of work we have to do is enormous, so to make our efforts viable, there has to be a demand for that.
Summarising, making a national chat channel isn't something we can do overnight. It's something that takes so much work that we've decided to not to do that.