I'm not entirely sure what you specifically mean by events.Tarlin wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2018 6:19 am This has been bothering me and I think I found a viable solution.... We make events and other such things for the community in English posts only. This game has multiple languages from various regions of the world that play.
I think, and it is very easy to implement, that if an event is planned, then it should be posted in the announcements section in English and should be unlocked for replies. Then it should be translated into each of the current forums, that are a language other than english, and have a link to the original forum topic. These additional forum posts should be closed though so that all feedback on the post is gathered in one place.
The events that are described in this post, the daily ones, have in game announcements.
And if you change your language in the game app, you'll get the translated message if it exists.
But from the GM point of view, of making GM made events...
They literally take hours to set up.
By the time you're done that - just making a forum post about it is a pain.
Sure, you could say "announce it in advance", but we do not like to do that - because if we do, and we can't make it, many get disappointed.
Real life happens.
Out of all the GMs, I'd say I have a fairly good chance of being the one who uses the online translator the most.
Translating large messages is not as easy as it could be.
If you're trying to translate an exact meaning, often times it takes several attempts to get it right.
Now, do that for every language.
I'm sorry if I sound rude here, but after spending 4 hours setting up an event, then another 10-15 minutes writing a post, I don't want to add another hour to that.
The only other possibility is that the official translators may translate it.
But, that depends on their schedules as well.
Your idea is sound for pre-announced events, but I do not do those anymore, and neither do most GMs when they hold events.