Re: [Arianne-general] the languages of bors.

[Dante <da...@ne...>]

> If my dwarf listens to ppl speaking Sindarin, I'll first hear messed up
> sentences (replaced letters, ...), then after a long time my Sindarin

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1ST part
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I have interesting idea about that. If character doesn't know particular=20
language at all, whole word is messed up with simple encryption like rot1=
3 or=20
sth. Imagine that I say "food" - after coding you'll hear (just an exampl=
e)=20
"burak". And you will ALWAYS hear "burak" whenever I say "food" . I can p=
oint=20
at food and pronounce it... With some basic intelligence you'll be able t=
o=20
determine what I mean. Moreover, it allows some basic communication witho=
ut=20
actually knowing speaker's language. I think this solution would be damn=20
funny.

I just hope I explained it clear enough.

Possible disadventage - once player discovers that particular language is=
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encrypted with say rot14683 he can modify client , add simple script and=20
bypass that

Possible remedy (heh :-))), or rather workaround:
Every word can be coded with different code (for example word "abc" =3D 1=
 + 2 +=20
3 =3D ROT6, "daba" =3D 4 + 1 + 2 + 1 =3D  8 =3D ROT8 and so on). It would=
 make=20
cheater's life somewhat harder.

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2ND PART
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To make language knowledge more realistic, if character knows language=20
partially, words coded with rot 5,6,7,8,9, and 10 are sent to him decrypt=
ed.
=2EIt would be just like in real life - you understand some words, and so=
me not.

NOTE: various real world languages have various (obviously!) words. Some=20
particular letters are more or less often. I mean.. Hmm, how to say..
For example english could (no idea if it's true) more words with sum of 6=
 than=20
french. So if player tries to communicate with french instead of english,=
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other side would understand more or less than in english. It's some kind =
of=20
cheat.

In general, if we ever decide to try this way, we should make statistical=
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research about at least several most common (amongst Arianne potential=20
players) languages. Any insights will prove extreamally usefull.
ANyway, we can skip 2ND part, and there will be no problem.