Forced Language Selection

Why is it mandatory to have a species’ language forced on them from the start? What about the Zabrak that grew up as an orphan on Coruscant, do you really think they’d know Zabraki first and not Basic? Its not like they’re born with this knowledge. This basically kills off a language choice for anything that doesn’t start with Basic as their main language. I’d like to see at creation, characters start with zero languages and if you want to learn your species language, so be it.

Agreed. Unless its a racial tongue that only they can speak. It removes far to much RP forcing everyone to know their racial language, as corey stated. We cannot really RP being from different places due to it.Well we can. It just does not make any sense.

No.

I’ll think about it.

Thanks for the insightful thoughts Ralen, you really helped move this discussion along to a good place. I appreciate the input.

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Having every character come out of chargen speaking zero languages is a bad idea.

Doesn’t take very much to get around that. Put the language trainer in the very first room and it doesn’t let you out until you’ve selected a language.  Or even have you select your starter language IN the character creation, you pick hair and skin color, why not languages? At one point a while back there was discussion of overhauling the language system. There has also been discussion about changing up the newbie academy some, just like the current nOOb acdemy, there will need to be a languages/channels room.

People already fail at playing their races, let’s make it even easier for people to justify RPing their race as a different-looking human.

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I really don’t understand why you guys are so much against this idea. There can be races that have been born on an entirely different planet where the common language is entirely something else. A Lorrdian may claim to be a Corellian if they were born and raised there but by race and origin they are still a Lorrdian. What could possibly harm us or others if people pretended to be something else? Besides it makes for good rp.

To find an even more simpler solution to this, think of the chargen. Add language to it as if picking a hair color or skin color, you have the ability to limit the choices based on race. If it is Wookiee, Geonosian, Jawa etc then they can only pick their own language to start with. If it is a different race that is able to speak any language, then they can pick whatever language they want.
(Obviously excluding languages such as Shyriiwook to ensure they do not pick a language they cannot use to speak with others unless they belong to the race that uses it)

Revisited: No.

I tend to agree with Ralen and Walldo on this, you’d have too many problems with new players not understanding any languages and just asking questions anyway. If your selected race has a low int then thats your problem, work with it. Most of the time you get a minimum of 3 languages, which in my books is too many languages regardless. If you want more languages then get the feats that let you learn more than your allotment. This’ a pointless waste of time recoding something that isn’t broken.

Guys, my wookie was raised on Correlia so he speaks Galactic Basic. Accept me please.