Classical Conditioning: How to train your pets

ObjectivistActivist · **Posted:** Mon Mar 15, 2010 2:42 am

laeZ1 wrote:

Yeah, I get that part, but (unless I'm misunderstanding, as I often do), I think OA told me that if I'm speaking in a tongue that I'm not mastered in, and I use one of my emotes, there's a chance that everyone else sees that stupid gesture line instead?

You are not misunderstanding. In addition, the one who is receiving your emote must also have mastered language skill XYZ.

This is supposed to be explained by the very thin justification that, culturally, gestures are not always identical. So someone speaking Empire would, of course and always, be using Imperial body language along with Imperial spoken language.

Really though, it's just something that a few cheating douchebags decided to ruin for everyone else.

yorwos · **Posted:** Mon Mar 15, 2010 3:13 am

This is bad because the emote command is used also for reasons that are not directly
affected by different cultures, and it might have great impact on warning a player of an incoming action.
ie. A turn of the head to look eastern, un/sheathing a weapon

Should it be then ,with the blessings of the Imms,a common courtecy to inform the emoter (OOCLY) of the failure to be correctly comprehended ?

Or a "trigger coded by the game" that would show the emoter something in the lines of:

Quote:

There seems to be a miscomprehension of your actions by "X"

mundufisen · **Posted:** Mon Mar 15, 2010 4:02 am

I think I'm confused by what is being said here...

Did you just say that you have to be mastered at a tongue to always understand an emote of another player using a different tongue?

Or just for pets?

Because I'm pretty sure I've never seen "incomprehensible gestures" from another player emoting while speaking a tongue I cannot speak.

Thats why its called "(kingdom) Tongue" not "(kingdom) language" because it only applies to spoken words.

Tetra · **Joined:** Sat Apr 19, 2008 7:18 am **Posts:** 149

If you're Taslamaran talking to a Zhensh and you don't speak Zhensh there's a good chance every emote they do will show up as incomprehensible. It is tongue based thanks to idiots of old.

mundufisen · **Posted:** Mon Mar 15, 2010 4:41 am

Tetra wrote:

If you're Taslamaran talking to a Zhensh and you don't speak Zhensh there's a good chance every emote they do will show up as incomprehensible. It is tongue based thanks to idiots of old.

I've really never seen this before. Since when?

Achernar · **Posted:** Mon Mar 15, 2010 4:45 am

Absence of the language skill means incomprehensible gestures. I'm not sure at what level, but I'm sure its quite a ways before mastered that emotes can be understood 100% of the time.

mundufisen · **Posted:** Mon Mar 15, 2010 4:47 am

Achernar wrote:

Absence of the language skill means incomprehensible gestures. I'm not sure at what level, but I'm sure its quite a ways before mastered that emotes can be understood 100% of the time.

Umm, since when still?

I've seriously never seen this that or I've just never noticed.

evena · **Posted:** Mon Mar 15, 2010 5:08 am

This has been the case for several years.

Tetra · **Joined:** Sat Apr 19, 2008 7:18 am **Posts:** 149

It's been stated a few times that this change went in years ago. Instead of learning languages people would emote a conversation and bypass the language barrier completely. Incomprehensible gestures based on language skill were the result.

Zekeage · **Posted:** Mon Mar 15, 2010 5:48 am

Quote:

Don't you think that the playerbase has matured to the point of not using emotes as the "say" command?

Wait.. playerbase.. matured?

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