... and the consensus among the Immortals I've spoken with on the topic is that it creates a barrier to communication with no real gain in playability. A fair bit of coding (we have a ton of ways to communicate which would be affected) for something that might have more of a negative side than a positive one. Put another way, I'm not really that interested in empowering a bunch of "I only speak my native language, so I basically never communicate with 90% of anyone" characters.

A number of MUDs have this exact feature, and I think we're willing to let them keep it.


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