127204-why-cant-i-talk-with-the-opposing-faction

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We got transporters, talking taxis, Druesera, space age tech.
Why do I have to log in on my opposing faction toon to be able to talk to them?
Surely somebody would have invented a smarty pants phone or something that could do machine translation.
Sometimes just have to be able to invite that lvl 50 to a fair duel against one of my same lvl toons - especially after he just kill farmed my lvl 25.
 	
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http://www.curse.com/ws-addons/wildstar/221874-translator
 
Here you go m8, a translator add on. It only works in /say chat though but it's how we communicate with those filthy Exiles.	
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			Translator or Killroy are addons that'll let you talk cross faction. Most people have one of those	
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The reason given by Carbine long ago was basically this (paraphrased):
 
"The faction divide must mean something! Enemies don't sit to drink together, eh?"
 
Despite of that, you will see various instances of NPCs talking with each other in the open: There's a draken and a granok in the Lopp village of Whitevale. Then there's a granok and an aurin speaking with a mechari and a draken in another Lopp village in Malgrave. 
There's also all the times when your character, Exile or Dominion, listens to enemy communications just fine.
 
In other words, it's an artificial way to enforce the 'fact' that everyone in one faction hates the other. But in reality it just inconveniences players. It does make perfect sense in PvP worlds, though, since you don't want players badmouthing each other.	
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There's NoAlienChat, as well.
 
Which of these translator add-ons works best with ForgeUI?	
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			WoW did the same thing, in fact if you were a druid you received quests from Tauren but couldn't speak to a Tauren played by a person	
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You dont even need a addon, just right click the alien language and click report. It then shows you the message in normal english and asks if you to verify if you want to report. Just click no and you seen the message without reporting them.
 
I like the idea of it to be honest, even if we get around it. Otherwise it doesn't feel like there are really any factions just two groups in differnt cities, makes it feel more like where competing.
 
I pray we never get a faction change option, dont want no dominion scum walking around as exiles!!!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
ps. Jk luv ya	
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WoW did the same thing, in fact if you were a druid you received quests from Tauren but couldn't speak to a Tauren played by a person
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			Because segregating the population is hardcore cupcake.	
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You dont even need a addon, just right click the alien language and click report. It then shows you the message in normal english and asks if you to verify if you want to report. Just click no and you seen the message without reporting them.
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Because segregating the population is hardcore cupcake.
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Cassians speak Cassian. Exiles are Cassians who left the Empire.
 
Mysteriously, in only a few short decades, the two identical groups, who previously understood one another quite well, could no longer understand a single word the other had to say.	
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			I can communicate with exile by reporting there message for spam. Before sending the report, a massage ask you if you want to report the player for spam and show you what was told by the other side. Then, you can cancel the report.	
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Mysteriously, in only a few short decades, the two identical groups, who previously understood one another quite well, could no longer understand a single word the other had to say.
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Quite silly really...
We all somehow speak a common language that Lopp, Ekose, Darkspur, etc...all understand, yet we lost this ability when it comes to taling to the opposing faction
COGS group....
Exiles being former members of the Empire somehow have no recolection of being able to speak their mother tongue in a way, yet Dorian Walker and Artemis Zin seem to argue quite well with eachother...
Many examples throughout the game of Exiles and Dominion tlaking to eachother without  issues that are not major leader NPCs
The fact that players compete while using addons to work around this barrier shows how useless a barrier it is, I would dare say they even get more competitive and hostile toward eachother especially in battlegrounds.
Language barrier to me is bullcrap. Players looking for competition and "hostility" and faction pride will have it in them from the getgo and having an artificial mechanical enforcement of it does nothing but further divide and limit the lpayer base and community from having more opportunities. More and more people use killroy and other addons to subvert this thing and yet we still have people who want to rip into the other faction, have people who organize RP cross faction, and yet no ones gameplay is harmed. God forbid though that I ask a Chua if he needs help with techno-phage monster because hes getting stomped and yet the next night I roleplay with ambushing and interogating a Draken. WooOOoOoOooOo the horror! THE HORROR!!!	
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			Cross faction chat used to be a thing. Unlike a lot of the rest of the game however it was not changed for lore or #hardcore. It was changed because people were being absolutely horrible to each other. Guess it's like that blue eyed kids/brown eyed kids experiment. People will act like animals when confronted by "the other."	
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Cross faction chat used to be a thing. Unlike a lot of the rest of the game however it was not changed for lore or #hardcore. It was changed because people were being absolutely horrible to each other. Guess it's like that blue eyed kids/brown eyed kids experiment. People will act like animals when confronted by "the other."
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			I dont mind not talking to Exiles, but that addon I would highly recommend. I used it mainly when helping with world bosses, I let the Exiles that joined in (if their group is smaller than ours) know where we are going next. I may hate the Exiles with a burning passion, but I hate people being stuck on the world boss stage even more.	
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I don't remember that, even from CBT's, but yeah, i agree that people will take some arbitrary stand and not back down no matter how silly it is.
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and yet the same faction bashing in general and zone chat is perfectly legit. Believe me, I'd rather have a Dominion player talk trash to me about my choice of race ( yes, Aurin ) than my own frikkin side ya know? I've actually had more civil conversations with "the enemy" in neutral zones using add ons. In Whitevale, theres a squirq quest that you have to peg opposing players or NPCs. I had to play charades with a mechari to figure out she was telling me to use her as the target and keep going until the quest was done.
 
People trash talk, they taunt, they belittle... thats not a faction divide.. that's general nature and it's going to happen regardless. It's why we have /ignore and /report.
 
 
edit: To still fall back on "the war" as the reason is also silly, as the far greater "mutual threat" has been revealed.
 
double edit: also silly was the excuse of "so much time has passed, the dialects changed and native languages were lost" ... wait.. what?	
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It's not necessarily about being hardcore or following MMO trends, but it's a great way of creating hostility in faction-based games. People hate what they don't understand. It's kind of disappointing that Wildstar's "foreign" alphabet was so easily deciphered and turned into a translation addon. Remember the years of not being able to say anything but ZUG ZUG or M E L O V E Y O U to the Alliance? Not being able to speak with the opposing side creates tension. It's supposed to be a war, after all.
 
And honestly, I don't see a purpose for it. You should be able to coordinate with your own faction for open-world events. It would get unnecessarily confusing in an LFG chat. What exactly do you need to tell them, to queue for PvP? I doubt anyone is doing that at the insistence of someone's level 5 alt in the current global channel. I really don't need my chat filled with more ranting about how Aurin are stupid losers, I get enough of that from the Exiles already. ;D
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"Hi, random dominion player. Since there is nobody of my faction around willing to help me, maybe we could shoot this Prime together for the quest? I know you have it too because our levelling paths in this zone are the same thing."
 
Oh, but we have to have artifificial hostility creators that don't actually create any hostility. Which reminds me:
 
 
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It's not necessarily about being hardcore or following MMO trends, but it's a great way of creating hostility in faction-based games. 
 
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			Because you woke up in 2004. I've found the Cassians not being able to communicate with opposite factions Cassians laughable since Beta. It's stupid in WoW too. Rift got it right. I think that had a lot to do with why I PVP in Rift but not in other MMOs.	
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Cassians speak Cassian. Exiles are Cassians who left the Empire.
 
Mysteriously, in only a few short decades, the two identical groups, who previously understood one another quite well, could no longer understand a single word the other had to say.
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 It's why we have /ignore and /report.
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Cassians speak Cassian. Exiles are Cassians who left the Empire.
 
Mysteriously, in only a few short decades, the two identical groups, who previously understood one another quite well, could no longer understand a single word the other had to say.
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It's actually been hundreds of years.
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And the Spanish in Spain have been living apart from the Spanish in Mexico and Central America for hundreds of years ... and yet, aside from dialectic differences, they're both still speaking Spanish.
 
Same with the English in England and the English-speakers in the US. We might have a some unique phrasing and verbiage, but we still understand one another. (well, except when they call cookies "biscuits" and biscuits "scones" ... that's just weird.)
 
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Same with the English in England and the English-speakers in the US. We might have a some unique phrasing and verbiage, but we still understand one another. (well, except when they call cookies "biscuits" and biscuits "scones" ... that's just weird.)
 
 :lol:
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