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Actually, we've beaten the horse so badly that it's in the glue-factory already.


We've discussed this over and over throughout the boards from beta till now.






And where are we in this matter? Right where we started, frame one.

Outside of Wookies, what is the point of knowing any of the other languages any way? When you create a character, he/she comes out as an adult; not just an adult, but an adult space traveler. It is reasonable for me to believe that ANY experienced, adult, space traveler in the empire, who was physically able to speak basic, would have already learned to do so. So, if I am a Bothan, what difference would it make to me if I could speak Mon Cal or not?

Well, this WAS supposed to be one of the biggest reasons why protocol droids were to be crafted/sold/used in this game...as translation droids. But for some reason, be it bug, exploit or on purpose, languages were possibly THE first skills learned by EVERYONE that starts playing SWG. Hence...one of the reasons why protocol droids are now just overpriced novelty items.

I posted a thread over on the smuggler's board about skill points required to actually know languages. I was interested in getting feedback on your guy's end, mostly because this would be a PERFECT reason for someone to need a 3P0 droid around to trainslate..

The thread is at this address..

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=smuggler&message.id=34702

give some feedback on this thread or the one on the smuggler's board, but I think it'd be a good idea. A few skill points on languages could become steep fast... would mean Underworld I would be a useful skill to smugglers, and then people would also want to buy 3P0 droids to translate...

Anyway, feedback would be appreciated.. and I'm EXTREMELY sorry if you all have already had this discussion and beaten the horse to death on it.. but take a look if you haven't!