This is such a bizarre concern to me that people care what language the chat is in. You understand the English chat and x people understand probably both more or less. If you're really concerned about what they are saying become a better person and learn a new language.
Why is it such a big issue ?
if they write Russian, then they dont write to you, but to another person (or you like to read messages, which are adressed to other persons ?)
Think about it like that: We are writing in codes, because we dont want you and people like you to know where we are ingame and what we are plannnig to do.
and yes, I'm a Russian and this thread offends me.
[QUOTE=saintmerc;43540917]
As a server owner I have a rule of English only on the server as I don't understand other languages,
and the players as well as some russians understand that rule and only speak English.
(This is not on a Rust server by the way.)[/QUOTE]
Your server, your rules. No one has a problem with that. Official servers usually don't have such rules, so the OP's request to ban non-English speaking people from those servers is kinda silly.
I'm very close to banning anyone Asian on the server I admin, and it's not because of the language thing.
It's because every time I "wait and see," they end up cheating.
[QUOTE=uNetti;43534274]Hi,
Would it be possible to have servers where we can ban non-English chat spam? I am getting fed up with the Russian invasion on the UK servers, If I wanted to play in Russia I would go to their servers, rest can fuck off. Completely ruins the game, with this foreigner scum.[/QUOTE]
Think of it as a more Immersive wasteland. Not everybody may speak the same language ;P
Tbh, sure it can be worrying, knowing that a bunch of people are communicating and coordinating themselves on the same server as you, and having no clue what they are talking about.
But, that happens every time you log in anyway.
It's not really all that different to those groups that use mumble/TS/Vent and chat outside the client. Actually it's better. Wether you can understand what they are saying or not, these players are announcing themselves to the server, where a group on voice comms might never be seen.
Regardless of the language in use, your chat panel is listing off the names of people that might be nearby, and reminding you to keep your guard up.
If I see a lot of cyrillic, or german, italian, etc etc and then another player complains they were just wiped out, I know that a rapid moving convo could be an indicator that they're hostile and they're probably about to take someone down... if not, they could just be discussing base building, or the relative merits of McDonalds vs. KFC, lindsay lohan, or whatever else they feel like talking about
On the server I play on, there's a large group of friendly players that will actively drop out to steam chat if there's unknown or untrusted players on in game chat, and I'm sure we aren't the only ones. We cut people out all the time, discuss situations we want kept safe, maybe give directions we dont want to make public, etc etc. The only difference is you don't know we're doing it.
In any case, don't be so self entitled. The world wide web, is just that, world wide, and the applications that run on it can generally be considered similarly global. Maybe they want to improve their english skills. Maybe they're getting a better ping on your server, or maybe they have some EU based friends who play there and invited them. Maybe they just liked the name... whatever..
There's no law, no precident or statute that requires that you must be privy to every conversation held by users on your server, and odds are you probably aren't anyway. If you're really concerned, use google translate, learn to recognise words like "Friendly" and "attack" in their language so that you can at least begin to judge whats going on, otherwise, as others have suggested, be more proactive, take control of the situation for yourself and start administering an English only server... I'm sure you'll enjoy taking the time to enforce your linguistic requirements.
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