Ship station announcements etc. in other languages

[dogsolitude_uk]

Could we have ship station announcements in other languages, e.g. Chinese, Russian, German, French etc? Perhaps signage in adverts too.

I just feel it would make the universe seem 'bigger'. I remember playing STALKER, and one of the things I loved about that was not knowing what the blazes the NPCs were saying (I don't speak Russian), and that really added to the feeling of being an outsider in a much bigger world. Likewise the booming Japanese-language adverts on the blimps in Bladerunner.

I appreciate that English is a very popular language (heck, I speak it myself), but having everything in English makes things feel a bit... Small?

 

[DocLooshkin]

Hello, DogSolitude.

+1. It's a good idea, if FD's got the time and inclination. Wouldn't need a huge amount of effort, either: just the same general-purpose sentences, but translated into foreign devil and rerecorded.

Does anyone at Frontier speak Cymraeg, Erse or Gaelic, I wonder? It would sit well with the game's generally-British aesthetic.

Lojban, Esperanto or Anglish would be interesting - strange enough to sound very foreign to most of us, familiar-sounding enough to be very recognisable as a developed human language. It would sit well with the 34^th Century.

[Edited to add:] Oh, yes - and Sanskrit for the religious-controlled stations would be perfect.

Sounds like a winner.