maybe add support for some other languages?

why lol

this is actually a major project that we've begun to think about and plan around....

we need to get people fluent in the langauges + qz and I need to find the time to update the code

this is a consideration for after the facebook launch, for sure :)

Well i speak french if this helps in anything, but i still dont see the point though.

yea... dibs hit it on the head....

we want to offer a great playing experience to all our users, and if we can improve that experience by offering it in other language, we definitely should.

Haven't tried, but how good is something like google translate within the game?

I'd say, not very. I think it will look more offending than useful.

would be good to have a global playerbase.

However its not as simple as translating it into different languages.

Not sure how much fb is used in places like china, japan or korea. I believe they all have their localised version of fb. Probably the same with german, french and other languages.

how do you say retal in french, mort? :P

no word for retal in french that i know of lol. Deep earth terminology would have to stay the same imo.

maybe include a page within the game where u give a description of those words in other language then still use it in the translated version.

If you would decide to add Dutch, I'm willing to translate everything. I read/write both English and Dutch fluently.

For the Facebook server, different languages sure will help, but if will implement it on the 'main' server, we might look into having separate servers if the group is big enough, ala sudden 5000 malaysians show up.

Because doing FR is hard enough already with some really off the wall folks, it would just be hilarious to see cross-language FR work.



But then again, you get this popular in China? Watch out.

EDIT : I speak fluent Cantonese and could possibly translate it, but Mandarin (Which, most of China speaks) is a different form of text, and probably someone that's fluent Mandarin would server better.

But their all farming WoW gold anyways, doubt they have time to play a text game.

there is a "localized" version of FB in Germany, but many people use both, or move from the local one to FB alone, like me :)

sorry i know tis is an old thread, but any progress in this area. i think multilanguage platforms is what EE is missing to say get some korean or chinese players to widen up the player pool. also, how's the facebook launch getting along? back in 2010 they had similar games on fb, it would have been really easy to get EE going on there. now you have to do so much more.

i've also seen other games based off websites like kongregate. ever thought of that?

Some progress! http://www.earthempires.com/forum We have multilingual forums now ;)

and russian is used by spambots.

Chinese forums hasn't got a single thread that is about the game yet.

nor has other 2.