atheism_rule wrote:
i play on the deutsch server all the time now... i pretty much know where everything is already, and its a good way to escape autoers and maybe learn a bit of german. It is still in open Beta, you can go on
'-.- its the same world as all the other 138 English text worlds out there... everybody knows where everything is already.
anyway... I've been on the server a few days now, and it isn't that hard to understand after taking two years of German study in high school, but here are the problems...
1: a vast majority of the people on the server don't even know how to say "who are you," much less speak any German whatsoever. they just show up to abuse the server for its low population, WHICH IS NOT THE POINT OF THE SERVER!!!! Its supposed to be a place were players who speak German more fluently or prefer to speak German can go to feel more at home. I haven't come up with any ideas of my own yet, but security for access to the German servers needs to be upgraded.
2: my second observation, is that many of the above mentioned non German speakers, and many other accounts that DO speak the language, are discovering that the worlds filter only applies to the German aspect o foul language... as a result, there are a number of words, phrases, and other small bits of text that would be considered vile, disrespectful, and by all means inappropriate in the English language, that are not blocked by the sensor in the German worlds. These people fail to realize that even though the server is German and so is the server, that th rules are still in English... and, please excuse the example, but calling someone a "(darn the rsbandb filter cuts it out. oh well, my point exactly)" in the German server has the same penalties as calling them that in an English server, and is still incredibly disrespectful to the person the comment is aimed at, as well as the background it implies. once again, for emphasis... THE WORD MAY NOT BE ***STARRED*** OUT, BUT IT STILL CARRIES THE SAME WEIGHT OF A LANGUAGE VIOLATION, OR MORE BECAUSE IT IS ALSO ABUSING THIS PRELIMINARY GLITCH IN THE GERMAN FILTER...
so in summary, more than half of the players speak no German and are just there to abuse the low populations and contribute nothing to the growth of the server, and an equally large population is sinking into a mud pit of immoral behavior and making the server a vile place to be for all of us good players.
note: "who are you" or "who is that" is "wer bist du" or "wer ist das" respectively. also, "wie heisst du" is the same as "what are you called" aka "whats your name"
note2: in case it was not clear in the above post, i do not endorse any of these practices. abusing the world for its population is a selfish, slimy, dirt practice, and abusing holes in the filter is even more malicious. I guarantee, I've earned +10 or 20 points in the right direction of becoming a mod since visiting the German worlds with all the rule breakers thinking they can get away with everything there.