The elven teacher

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The elven teacher

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Never mind. Sorted :D
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Whats your rp explanation that your char wants to learn the elven language from him?
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Sorry for bringing this up again, but NPC teachers teaching languages must be put to bounds in one way or another. It is just outrageous that the entire fucking world knows elvish.
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Disable learning languages / Charwipe ftw.
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Misjbar wrote:Sorry for bringing this up again, but NPC teachers teaching languages must be put to bounds in one way or another. It is just outrageous that the entire fucking world knows elvish.
Feel free to propose a better way.
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Well, how about getting rid of the elvish teacher for starters. I'm sure the only reason for his existance was so people could utilize the elvish merchant on Vanima? With the Human merchant there as well, that problem was solved long ago. There's no need for the teacher anymore. I think he's occasionally bugged anyway.

Why not make 'Language' a teaching 'Rune(Skill)' to be given IG, like you all do for Magic? I think only 'intelligent (15+)' elves should be the only ones with the ability to teach others elvish.

If that is established, then the other races could easily teach their languages too, as long as they are 'intelligent (15+)' enough. Problem solved.
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Post by Dom Bompatill Dent Ings »

I agree wit Dusty because people want to learn languages but it is unfair if there is only an elven teacher
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Post by Farfara »

Um, where IS the elvish teacher, anyway? I didn't even know there was one until this thread... :oops:
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Don't quote be on this, but I think it's a human up in the northern woods surrounded by animals.
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Post by Poots »

and bandits, and he's an elf (imagine that)

I don't like it too much either. my vote is simple: take him out or, make other teachers.
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Post by Nitram »

Taking him out would be not fair at the moment.

Many Characters learned the elven language allready and have this language. New characters can't learn this language now.

So IF we take this teacher npc out, we would have to remove the "elf language" skill from all non-elf characters.

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Post by Keikan Hiru »

I think its more fair to take this NPC out right now.
Its very unfair to every elf character that everybody and thier dogs are able to learn thier language but nobody is able to learn human, ork or dwarf language.

I suggest one of the following methods, ordered by difficultness:

1. Remove this NPC. (Already learned skills remain.)

2. Add NPCs for every language.

3. Teachers only appear from time to time at a set of possible places.
One day you meet the elf teacher in the woods and vanishes after some days, another day the teacher for human langauge appears at the docks.
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Keikan Hiru wrote:3. Teachers only appear from time to time at a set of possible places.
One day you meet the elf teacher in the woods and vanishes after some days, another day the teacher for human langauge appears at the docks.
Thats a little difficult. Imagin if you find such a teacher. The teacher tells you: Get this, this and that. You get everything, return to the place and the teacher is away.

Thats not really funny ;D

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Post by Keikan Hiru »

If its well know that teachers travel from time to time, vanishing for a period of time and/or reapearing at a different position, I think it would add a little more spice to the "item-grind" of this quest.

However this idea would not be my first pick to solve this problem, it just struck me when thinking about this issue.
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Elven Language teacher is disabled now.
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Post by Misjbar »

*dances in eternal happiness* No longer shall human/orcish/halflers/lizardic/dwarven tongue desecrate our language. *elves rejoice in the background*
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Post by Juniper Onyx »

Yeah!!!! Thanks Nitram. It really was the best way to be fair and preserve the Noble Elven language from abuse, until all the languages could be equally taught.

Now an alternative system can be created in such a way to be fair, make sense, and not easy to get.

We could try an NPC for each language?
or a book in the Library?
or given by players with 15+ Int. just as Magic Runes are?

However it is established, I'm sure it'll be better than whay we had. Thanks Nitram!
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If i find some time i may write new teacher npcs.

But currently i have other problem. Flying tomatos and stuff...

Nitram ;)
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We know, and if there's anything we can do to help, just ask.
Thanks!
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