Well, one of the things that i'm think is pretty lame (my opinion, i may not be entitled, it seems, to have one on the CLC servers but i'm entitled for that here on this forum) is the "English only" requirement.
I found some friends on the server and went to talk with them (i was explaining the lotto system and then guidin' them to ther other pit to collect their money).
We're from Brazil. We speak portuguese.
1min after that the server got spammed by
"WTF WTF SPEAK ENGLISH PLEASE"
"WTF WTF SPEAK ENGLISH PLEASE"
"WTF WTF SPEAK ENGLISH PLEASE"
Then followed by a warning from the owner of being kicked if i continued to speak in another language that wasn't english.
I asked why and got the answer that "since it doesn't make any sense it's flood, so stop flooding or you"ll get kicked". Alright.
He said that "we try to keep chattin' here to a minimum" too. Alright.
I left shortly after that. (not kicked)
Then i came back to the server some time after that and my friend was there still.
I proceed to talk to him and ask him what he was up to, and not two phrases after our conversation started we got again warned:
"ENGLISH ONLY!"
"ENGLISH ONLY!"
"ENGLISH ONLY!"
"I told you already! I"ll kick you!"
Some of the other players we're also curious about why the threat of kicking someone for just conversation and they said that someone might be "talking on the back" on another language of the mods or something so then that's why we need to stop it or get kicked. Alright.
Three reasons.
Let's get on to them:
1) Flood - Making sense
Well you see, that "making sense" bit is a lil tricky and honestly, not really "honest".
Why? Well, you can't "make sense" of most of the talk either, since you didn't start at the beggining of it or some other unknow (yet in "english") "terms" are used. "Smileys" and other "graphical" resources too.
But it's allowed, clearly (and i don't think it's a bad thing, at all), the chat.
So, what's up with that?
2) Trying to keep chattin' to a minimum
I don't see that, seriously.
Chattin' is clearly totally supported and make up for most of the fun there too. And i think it's a great thing. Or else you might be driving with bots too.
If you guys are trying to keep the "chat" (messages) to a minimum, well, that's too bad too.
From time to time you see a serious flood of "commands" (!cash, !prices, etc), a lot of them. That "flood" a lot the server. A lot more than two guys chattin up a little.
3) Talkin' on the back of the mods
Well, do you guys really care that much?
I mean, we're just chillin there and having a good time, talking when needed ("hey, wanna drive in the other way way?" etc).
If someone is talking bad of you in your server you sure are entitled to kick/ban him but you honestly think that's why people are speaking in "unknow" languages? Really?
They might as well thrash you on TS, MSN or something.
Sounds pretty silly to me, but hey, that's your server.
What i would like to know is that if you guys can't "relax" a little on that issue?
We're just having a good time, chilling, relaxing, and sometimes we need to communicate, right? LFS is a pretty "international" game and i take pride on that, do you guys want your server to be just an "english language only" server? Why?
Are we really ruining anyone's fun? Really?
I mean, the server isn't our so you guys can kick whoever you want but i thought that CLC was mainly for relaxing, having a good time driving, isn't it? That's why i got really confused.
And about the TS thingie (they said "go to TS if you don't want to speak in english"), not eveyone has a mic, not everyone can "make noise" at any time, not everyone really wants to "talk" while relaxing there (i'm one of them, i don't drive with music when racing but on CLC i turn on winamp and listen to some tunes, pretend its on my in game car's radio).
Are we really spoilin' anyone's fun?
Or being bad players because os that?
If we're being a nuisance, we won't log in anymore.
Not trying to ruin anyone's fun.