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This is a feature request. Feature requests can be voted up by supporters.
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Yukiteru Amano
Finland is a part of skandinavia but excluded from #skandi because of language differences. So the geographical one shouldn't a problem :)
Demango
@Yukiteru Amano that's not really the point, we straight up can't understand each other, if you tried having a normal conversation the overall information gain would be near 3% and when you get to written speech it gets even worse, since the sounds are similar but some of the writings are completely mangled,
aaanyway, bottom line is, there's nothing to be gained from the merge, since it'll still be 2 masses of really separate people, with separate languages
the end product being either:

1. The channel being taken over by one of the languages, and getting little to no use by the other.

2. It being in rotational use between us (much less likely due to it being hard to sway a channel already used primarily by one language)
e.g. "Oh look, #baltics is in lithuanian mode today, better luck next time" and vice-versa.

3. Both people masses switching to english so we can all use it (the most likely imo), which sort of defeats the purpose of having such a channel in the first place.
Yukiteru Amano
Ow I see! :s I thought the languages were closer than that! Well if you can't understand each other separate channels is a must indeed! I am not Latvian/Lith so I can't say much xD
Demango
@Yukiteru Amano
Yeah, that's what "our languages aren't mutually-intelligible" means :D

note to self: include a tl;dr in long posts. ;_;
LoGo

TicClick wrote:

prove that the playerbase is big enough and there'll be actual talks, most small channels I happened to see and watch were rather desert and inactive
So what? People tend to sleep at least sometimes, no? Everything starts from nothing... And i don't even see where is the problem adding more? List is comfortable to scroll ( not to mention you can use search). It takes no time to create but gives a lot to people from specific country. Just 3 people already can make all day long conversation. But as it seems no one gives a f.. about small community.
Bara-
Because it takes up space (Or idk how it's called for the chat) giving huge loads of extra data to the server
If somthing like this would not be the case, every possible language would had it's own chat
Demango
@baraatje123
I'll ask straight up, are you pulling this information out of your ass?
You know you can potentially have thousands of such chat channels open and active at a time (#spectator), right?
So I doubt that adding one or even a one hundred more public channels would be that much of a strain on the servers.
(Not that I'm asking one for every language, I'm just saying it should be potentially very easy and not all that computationally-intensive at all)
Bara-
But... If that was the case, why aren't all these channels available, and when people request them, they'll likely get denied as there are to little people there
Demango
@baraatje123
So you were pulling it out of your ass? Called it.
The real reason there aren't channels for all languages is such:

1.They don't want to split the community up more than is reasonable.
2.They don't want to risk there being graveyard chat channels that would fill up the channel window up to the point of you only being to able to find channels if you know EXACTLY what you're looking for (the removal of which would cause a bigger backlash than not implementing them to begin with)

The combination of these makes it so that channels only get put in if they are requested enough
(this functions as there being a lesser chance of them dying out(point #2) and as peppy and co. mostly just getting too annoyed at people begging for one (point#1 - avoiding too many angry players)).
Karote
because quantity over quality
Bara-

Stefan wrote:

-MrPotato- wrote:

Doesnt seem like anybody cares about our dear request =\
Trust me, there are more as enough people which care for that. I can tell that from the community which works for the Re-Opening of #balkan. The most important point is to show how active you really are. Get as many as possible people from your community to lead their attention at this project here.
Try this
Also, try to get someone to be moderator, as I don't think any not-Lithuanian can properly understand it

Priti wrote:

There is still one issue that will be present once the channel is here:
Who the hell will be the moderator? none of the current Chat Moderators know hebrew (There is one Alumni who knows hebrew and that's Sync)
This was taken from the #Hebrew request, but I think it applies for #lithuanian as well

Still, I think it will get little attention, but look for those 2 problems, and then I can definitely agree with it
Topic Starter
Torment
I love how other countries support this a bit.

baraatje123 wrote:

Priti wrote:

There is still one issue that will be present once the channel is here:
Who the hell will be the moderator? none of the current Chat Moderators know hebrew (There is one Alumni who knows hebrew and that's Sync)
This was taken from the #Hebrew request, but I think it applies for #lithuanian as well

Still, I think it will get little attention, but look for those 2 problems, and then I can definitely agree with it
Elections xD
Bara-
Also, try to get as many Lithuanians to post here, to show you are active as a country
darkinas
I'll support this also I'm more of a lurker guy in chats.
Topic Starter
Torment

baraatje123 wrote:

Also, try to get as many Lithuanians to post here, to show you are active as a country
That's cheating to me?
Bara-
Why?
This would show that you are an active country, and looking at it right now, there are way to little people who replied, so atm it doesn't look like it will get added soon
If you don't do this, we'll think you are a very inactive country, and thus shouldn't get a chat-channel
Demango

baraatje123 wrote:

Why?
This would show that you are an active country, and looking at it right now, there are way to little people who replied, so atm it doesn't look like it will get added soon
If you don't do this, we'll think you are a very inactive country, and thus shouldn't get a chat-channel
I don't think spamming a feature request is the way to go at all, the proper way should be to show support in the form of stars, and meanwhile, keeping the language topic active.
Bara-
But the stars need to come from lithuanians, or it won't really count I think
Because only the Lithuanians see a need in this (cmiiw)
Also, stars only come from supporters, I think it would be vetter to post here, or do something else here, which shows how active you are, or you'll get no access to such channel
Demango

baraatje123 wrote:

But the stars need to come from lithuanians, or it won't really count I think
Because only the Lithuanians see a need in this (cmiiw)
Also, stars only come from supporters, I think it would be vetter to post here, or do something else here, which shows how active you are, or you'll get no access to such channel
You don't show activity by spamming the feature request, you show activity by having a community in the language forum. It should be of much more value, if everyone just goes and uses the language thread as a substitute for a chat channel, so if questions of the channel being active show up, they can just point to an active forum as a "hey look, we like to talk a lot", tho bumping this thread once in a while would be fine I think.
Bara-
Do you have your own forum?
Wow
Never seen that before (sorry)
Topic Starter
Torment
Or they could just run through active player statistics, right?
Demango

Auji wrote:

Or they could just run through active player statistics, right?
Lots of people online does not equal lots of chat communication, some groups of people are just more talkative, despite their numbers being lower.
Topic Starter
Torment

Demango wrote:

Auji wrote:

Or they could just run through active player statistics, right?
Lots of people online does not equal lots of chat communication, some groups of people are just more talkative, despite their numbers being lower.
Well, you can always be like
"hey baka fellow, #lithuanian, there you go no more a baka :^)"
Eismis
Personally, I would use that chat channel to just derp around or have fun in native language :3
Strategas
Personally, I don't think that many of us visit the forums especially feature request one. As far as I know a lot of us are in small groups of skype conversations, teamspeak etc. and if this request did go through, I think it'd be nice for us to be a larger group rather than many small ones.
vincaslt

Strategas wrote:

Personally, I don't think that many of us visit the forums especially feature request one. As far as I know a lot of us are in small groups of skype conversations, teamspeak etc. and if this request did go through, I think it'd be nice for us to be a larger group rather than many small ones.
That is correct.
Taysim

Strategas wrote:

Personally, I don't think that many of us visit the forums especially feature request one. As far as I know a lot of us are in small groups of skype conversations, teamspeak etc. and if this request did go through, I think it'd be nice for us to be a larger group rather than many small ones.
I agree with you, too.
Would be great to have our own Lithuanian chat channel!
Flanster
Thread was inactive for 2 months, not a very good sign :(
Demango

-NuT wrote:

Strategas wrote:

Personally, I don't think that many of us visit the forums especially feature request one. As far as I know a lot of us are in small groups of skype conversations, teamspeak etc. and if this request did go through, I think it'd be nice for us to be a larger group rather than many small ones.
I agree with you, too.
Would be great to have our own Lithuanian chat channel!
Greetings Mr. Necro
Topic Starter
Torment

Demango wrote:

Greetings Mr. Necro
Greetings bishop ^^
Saranghae_old_1
I support this idea merely because I understand most of the community do not have that luxury of knowing English and they do not see a reason to need to know the English language. So, why not chuck a star to this request? I love knowing that foreign speaking players can also have a place where they can sit down and relax without having to Google translate every word or getting silenced because they do not know how to properly speak English.
Strategas

LoliFlan wrote:

Thread was inactive for 2 months, not a very good sign :(
Better look at our language section, no wait, don't look... well I guess you don't know our language so go ahead.
Hexas
I'd like this
Free
ye i think that would be awesome :)
Faustas156
bump
Demango

Faustas156 wrote:

bump
Guys, seriously, stop it with the necro posts.
Faustas156

Demango wrote:

Faustas156 wrote:

bump
Guys, seriously, stop it with the necro posts.
Comon i can't bump this thread up a bit ?
Demango
@Faustas156

Refrain from necro posting unless you have some kind of new insight on the topic, even then, it probably shouldn't be done.
Faustas156

Demango wrote:

@Faustas156

Refrain from necro posting unless you have some kind of new insight on the topic, even then, it probably shouldn't be done.
How else i'm going to bump ?
Demango

Faustas156 wrote:

How else i'm going to bump ?
Don't.
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