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Language skill
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 11:24 pm
by Phib
I was glancing at the skill scroll IG and noticed I have two languages. One because my character is human and the other says common, its bright yellow, but has some skilling to it. Can someone explain common language.
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 11:28 pm
by Alexander Knight
I got that too, mines about 1/4 way
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 11:39 pm
by AlexRose
Common language is the default language your character speaks all the time. Human is a language you can switch to if you want to keep elves etc. from understanding you.
Type
!l human
To change to human
And
!l common
To change back.
Humans will see you say:
[hum] Hello there.
Elves will see:
[hum] ****o*******
Or something like that.
note that it's !L for Language, but it's a lower case L. And you only have to type it once to shift into the language, no need to type it again.
Also, you can only change languages in speech mode. If you have whisper mode turned on the client will read it as "#w !l human" and will see the #w command first so nothing will change.
There's a language for each race plus one for Ancient, that mages use when they cast etc.
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 11:44 pm
by Galim
Also, language can be lowered by death like any other skill. So when you die it may happen that you lose skill in your race language and you will see a learning level.
and yes...dieing enough my cause you to forget your mother language
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 11:54 pm
by Phib
AlexRose wrote:Common language is the default language your character speaks all the time. Human is a language you can switch to if you want to keep elves etc. from understanding you.
Type
!l human
To change to human
And
!l common
To change back.
Humans will see you say:
[hum] Hello there.
Elves will see:
[hum] ****o*******
Or something like that.
note that it's !L for Language, but it's a lower case L. And you only have to type it once to shift into the language, no need to type it again.
Also, you can only change languages in speech mode. If you have whisper mode turned on the client will read it as "#w !l human" and will see the #w command first so nothing will change.
There's a language for each race plus one for Ancient, that mages use when they cast etc.
Galim wrote:Also, language can be lowered by death like any other skill. So when you die it may happen that you lose skill in your race language and you will see a learning level.
and yes...dieing enough my cause you to forget your mother language
Thank you both for helping me understand.. No further assistance needed
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 11:58 pm
by AlexRose
In before "np".
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 12:08 am
by Alexander Knight
AlexRose wrote:Common language is the default language your character speaks all the time. Human is a language you can switch to if you want to keep elves etc. from understanding you.
Type
!l human
To change to human
And
!l common
To change back.
Humans will see you say:
[hum] Hello there.
Elves will see:
[hum] ****o*******
Or something like that.
note that it's !L for Language, but it's a lower case L. And you only have to type it once to shift into the language, no need to type it again.
Also, you can only change languages in speech mode. If you have whisper mode turned on the client will read it as "#w !l human" and will see the #w command first so nothing will change.
There's a language for each race plus one for Ancient, that mages use when they cast etc.
Didnt explain... What i asked, is why do i gain exp on common language? if i level up what does it do?
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 12:22 am
by AlexRose
You only gain xp on common if you died enough that you lost skill in it. You only need something like 70% or 80% skill in language to speak it flawlessly anyway so it makes no difference.
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 12:26 am
by Alexander Knight
and what happens if you lose it? how do you regain the skill
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 12:27 am
by Silo
Another way to switch language, if you aren't typing: Right click the little box next to the chat box (the one that you click to change whisper, normal, shout, ooc) and you can click the languages you character knows.
EDIT: Skill is regained by speaking it. You don't really have to worry about it, though, unless you lose a *ton* of the language skill.
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 12:34 am
by Sandro Arcanum
Other method to learn the language is playing an instrument (i think that still works) while having the specific language activated, some mages use that to learn the ancient language in that way
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 6:55 am
by Azuros
But I believe that is what they call bug abuse
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 8:20 am
by Sandro Arcanum
Azuros wrote:But I believe that is what they call bug abuse
Well i didnt mean to spam the instrument in a annoying way, can be just RP like singing while playing.
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 8:23 am
by Arvemor
Does this skilling in languages mean you can learn, say, the orc language if you hear it spoken enough, or only if you've lost skill in the languages you already know?
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 8:36 am
by Sandro Arcanum
Arvemor wrote:Does this skilling in languages mean you can learn, say, the orc language if you hear it spoken enough, or only if you've lost skill in the languages you already know?
I think you cant learn the orc language being a human, for example, that would be unfair. But just try, type "!l orc" and start talking.
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 9:03 am
by Rekarafi
Let me sum it up to prefent spamming:
If you die, you might loose a level of your speech skills.
To regain them, you'll just SPEAK in that language. Speaking, not spamming like "Hey. How. Whats. Up. How. Are. You. ?."
If you want to learn another language you'll need a special book. So mages learn ancient, with the ancient book.
I am not sure if there is an elven book for the elven languere, an orc book, a lizard book (do the 2 have books?) or whatever.
If yes, you can learn these languages aswell, but dont think you'll get these books for a little "please..?"
And NO, you cant skill languages you don't know by listening to it. You have to gain the first skills in another way (in ancient its the book, others dunno)
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 11:50 am
by Llama
There used to be books.
Then after a short period of time, due to people trading book for book, and due to the 'play instrument exploit', we had people who could speak in all languages.
So they axed the books, and made it so that only races can speak that language.
And before someoen asks: To learn you need at least 1 point in the language. So speaking elven if you're not an elf will do nothing.
Also, you can learn by LISTENING to the language being spoken as well.
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 7:03 pm
by Alexander Knight
So if some speaks ancient to me enough i can learn it?
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 7:06 pm
by Llama
Alexander Knight wrote:So if some speaks ancient to me enough i can learn it?
And before someoen asks: To learn you need at least 1 point in the language
-_-
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 7:07 pm
by Alexander Knight
Hadrian_Abela wrote:
Also, you can learn by LISTENING to the language being spoken as well.
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 7:18 pm
by Grokk
He meant train it.