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@SLJ, thank you for your answers. I think that weapons' room is still needed to load huge ammo like missils and torpedos, since I can't do it on my control room. Or maybe it is due to my ship not having hte habilit to launch them, but again, this is not very clear from the status screan...
Regarding language and rp, I've been thinking about it for weeks now. I'm totally with cosmic's team about forcing people to play as their characters in rp situations. But language is a real probleme that deserves to be considered. To talk only about what I know, let's focus on my situation for example. In French muds, I am known to be particularly demanding and insistant about rollplay, if I could make people play in character nearly everytime, I would do it. I think I definitly fell in love with cosmic when I waw we were able to choose the type of shampoo/soap we wanted. Onl that cold cause ten minuts rp discussion to me, and that's amazing. But ubillarosendo is right : language is a strong barrier when it comes to rollplay.
The question is : how to solve this?
Considering the dimensions of the game itself, it's completely uthopic to think about translating it, even if the team allowed us to do so.
The language channel could be turned into some kind of global option, which would change every IC and OOC channel to the selected language. That sounds better to me, and not so hard to create, but one probleme remains, characters will still meet eachother physically and there's no channel there, only real interraction.
A different branch of the server? The game could be exactly the same, in English too (which is also a really good exercise trust me), but people could communicate in their own language, the one they chose and the begining of the character creation process. That sounds a little more complicated and demanding for the staf. Those are only ideas of course, I am just a frustrated fan of rollplay who knows that he's unable to play the character he wants to play even if everything in this univers is made for this to happen.
If any of you, especially in cosmic's staf, has an idea, a different option, or a way to improve one of the ideas submitted here, fell free to comment!
To go back to your question ubillarosendo, I must admit that, even if it kills me not to be able to do it as I wish to, I definitly agree with cosmic's vision of rp. Even in a community that has many reasons to laugh about my English, even with a community I'm not totally part of for now, it's still frustrating to see people ask technical questions about gameplay in IC channels. To take the situation you exposed as an example :
let's say that your in your spacesuit, watching the oxigene level going lower and lower, thinking about the lonly death it is and hoping (in a ridiculous last cause for cocerne considering your situation) that you had not forgotten to put in the cooler the icecream you bought before leaving your home planet. You have two options then :
Option one : Hey guys, I'm... well probably going to die somewhere in sector 15 . If there's anyone around and if he sees a spacesuit that seems to move a little, then it's probably me, even if I'm not able to confirm it due to lack of consciousness . Do not hesitate to grab me by the way if you feel kind today.
That's definitly to be asked on chat, so IC channel. It's totally rp, and noone is going to shout after you about it.
Option two : How can I make my spacesuit recall to a save place if I have no access to my ship. Is there a command or anything else? If you want to help me, I am in sector 15.
This question, , causes two problemes. First, asked on chat, of course, you refer to in game commands , which is of course to be banned from IC interactions. If asked on the newbie channel, the probleme is that the sector you gave as an info for players who would want to help you can't be used, because it was given in an OOC channel.
A third option could be to ask only about commands in the newbie channel. When you discover that there is no way to recall or anything, you're free to ask on chat if someone can help you.
I would recommand to ask directly on chat and in a rp way because it is, from my experience, the best way to obtain advice/help.
Sometimes you get ignored, but I'm not sure about the reason. I'm affraid my English sometimes confuse people more than anything else, and therefor they don't know how to react. To be honnest, I wold prefer that they tell me in staid of just saying nothing. I'd probably learn more about cosmic's IC background and about English I people confronted me about it.
But again, you're right, this game and its staf really deserve that we keep trying and adapting to the univers. I hope someone will consider reading all this and give an opinion.
Best regard,
Simon