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Make !from public

Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2014 10:46 pm
by Win3
re: battleships pros not teaching noobs, its impossible to teach with a language barrier. if we can at least see what country people are from, could always plug their crap into google translate or whatever.

also theres only so much you can teach in a guide, being able to tell someone to not go 1v5 probably gonna help more

Re: Make !from public

Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2014 11:49 pm
by BouncingHitman
1. There's been many suggestions about this command being enabled - all of those suggestions have been denied.
2. You don't have time to google translate each line while playing battleships
3. If you do, however, google translate their text, google tells you what language it is; thus telling you where they might be from.
4. Most people speak a little bit of English - ask them where they're from.

Suggestion rejected..?

Re: Make !from public

Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2014 11:59 pm
by Win3
BouncingHitman wrote:2. You don't have time to google translate each line while playing battleships
3. If you do, however, google translate their text, google tells you what language it is; thus telling you where they might be from.
4. Most people speak a little bit of English - ask them where they're from


Experience says 2, 4 are false

3 relies on them speaking tho

Re: Make !from public

Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2014 12:41 am
by eldryan
typing the accent marks is hard in translate if you have only normal letters on your keyboard. looking up alt codes is dumb. 3, they just see as

frsferfsr:
rwxfrsf:
frsferfsr:

Hard to tell language.

Re: Make !from public

Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2014 1:04 am
by Stealer
I haven't met somebody from another language that didn't know what I was saying when I substituted the closest english letter for their accented one (ex. c for Ç)

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That said, pretty sure the stats page says where they are from so looking up the lobby via games would let you know their countries.

Re: Make !from public

Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2014 1:19 am
by eldryan
Cambrioleuse wrote:I haven't met somebody from another language that didn't know what I was saying when I substituted the closest english letter for their accented one (ex. c for Ç)

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That said, pretty sure the stats page says where they are from so looking up the lobby via games would let you know their countries.

yes, they might know, but google translate won't - and will identify french with Portuguese even.

Re: Make !from public

Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2014 2:06 am
by nabo.
I remember this suggestion being rejected twice or so in the past.
uakf.b didnt see the point for this.

Re: Make !from public

Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2014 2:13 am
by supersexyy
I don't see the point. If someone doesn't talk back then they either don't want to talk to you or they can't understand you. !from doesn't really change anything.

Re: Make !from public

Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2014 4:04 am
by eldryan
supersexyy wrote:I don't see the point. If someone doesn't talk back then they either don't want to talk to you or they can't understand you. !from doesn't really change anything.

you can copy paste chat from google translate, without their slang language confusing the engine.

Re: Make !from public

Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2014 5:17 am
by Love
Generally if you copy from chat and paste it into google it will auto translate the language and tell you what language it is. From there you can translate the text and find out what language they are speaking.

Re: Make !from public

Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 1:11 pm
by nabo.
If u have time to copy paste txt to ur translator, u should have time to open their stats page too.

U can even search names in lobby if u rlly rlly wanna help.

Based on previous suggestions, I see no point in this.

Denied