Hi everyone,

Today at 20:00 (8pm BST/official forum time) Mod Catia (Localised Player Support Unit Leader), Mod Heiko and Mod Talula will be answering your questions about RuneScape localisation in a live Q&A session.

If you want to pose a question to the Localisation Team please go to this thread, which will be unlocked shortly before the session starts.

In addition to the answers given on this thread, the Localisation Team have already answered some questions posed on our forums, you can find these questions and answers on this thread.

We hope you all enjoy reading the answers below, and that you find this session interesting and informative!

Frankos9 asked:

Thanks for this Live Q&A.

‘As part of the restructuring of the forums into communities we are going to be adding Dutch and Finnish flags onto the top bar. There will be separate sections of the communities for these languages, but the actual forum module will still be in English and have the English word filter. Dedicated language forums would be a possibility for the future.’

One question about this answer. You said you will be adding a Dutch and Finnish flag at the top bar. Do you mean there will be a complete new forum for those languages, like the German, Portuguese and French forums with recent update, future update, quest forums etc in Dutch + Finnish language, or will it be the same situation like it is on the English forums?

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The plans for this are not set in stone yet, but we can confirm that the languages that we will choose (the ones that get a flag on the forum) will have their dedicated forums.

Nygu asked:

~MY MAIN QUESTION~
Is this possible and could you please start working on this? Otherwise I dont even want my language on this game.

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We have thought about this already. We have not dismissed the idea yet, but it would certainly be
technically difficult.

1szmata asked:

Hi. Just a short question - any chance of Polish servers/language in future? I know you'll have many questions like this - But please I ask this in name of our whole Polish RuneScape society I heard something about a possibility of Membership by SMS in december and servers/lang in January so please tell us ( me and my Poland mates ) some words about it

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A very similar question has already been asked in the written Q&A. Please refer to the answer given here.

Clonewars3 asked:

When you create RuneScape in a different language do you do it by replacing all the English text with another language text? I was already interested in how it's done, or do you recreate the whole RuneScape game?

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A very similar question has already been asked in the written Q&A. Please refer to the answer given here.

Sir Sral asked:

The three scandinavian languages Swedish, Danish and Norwegian are all very similiar,
which makes the natives of those 3 countries able to understand each other without mayor problems.

Have you considered simply making a 'scandinavian forum' instead of three separate ones?

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A very similar question has already been asked in the written Q&A. Please refer to the answer given here.

Fireburn95 asks:

1. What other stuff do localisation have in their job description, apart from languages and support for countries etc?
2. Are censors ever an issue when translating, such as people can write a swear in that language that you haven't figured out yet?
3. Does localisation group translate all words, phrases etc. word by word, or is there some special robot that is programmed to find the best translation?
4. Finally, which mod is the most:
Funniest:
Laziest:
and
Scariest:

Answer:
1. The Loc team is responsible for the translation of our games and website into German, French and Brazilian Portugese and for all language community and player support.
2. No, the word filter or censor does not effect translation.
3. We have yet to invent TranslaTOR, a super translating robot capable of handling jokes, puns and general linguistic puzzles.
4. scariest: mod dagget = scary big fluffy bunny with big fangs
funniest: mod heiko = funny new haircut
laziest: noone

Nightwolf958 asked:

1.my first question is that will there ever be a translator for other people that do not speak the language for the chat filter and npc

what i mean by this: when logging in you can have a separate npc language conversation for npc's such as the spirit tree which will convert all npcs for you to your current language but only affecting you.


2.My 2nd question is as far as name changing goes will this affect any of the new ideas for different language servers in anyway such as name converting or such for certain languages?


3 my 3rd and final is what new servers for different languages are expected and how will they be fitted into the rs community such as forums worlds and servers.

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For questions 1 and 3 there was already an answer in the written Q&A which you can find here.

In regards to question 2: No, it will not affect that.

Go Colts29:
Only questions about Localisation will be answered tonight.

Ayush S92 asked:

Just wanted to know, are there any mods there in Jagex Castle who understand Hindi, because many times we report people who abuse in Hindi but later see that those people got no mute and they weren't dealt with in any way.

Many a times we have also mentioned that someone is abusing in Hindi before reporting, so that it comes in screenshot of the report, but it was not of much use.

So, it would be nice if we could know that if reporting offensive language in Hindi is worthwhile or not.

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There are J-Mods from every corner of the world in the Jagex Castle, but there is nobody working on Hindi offence reports right now, but we will consider this in the future.