Ban clients with no English support

[lycos]

Lately the bgs are full of players with chinese clients and all we see from them are blank text.
From what I read wow clients with Chinese language pack can't write english text. So those clients are against ToU.

So ban the players with those clients and don't permit them to connect with clients that don't support english typing (if its possible).

Also remove threads like https://forum.nostalrius.org/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=1185 because they telling players how to violate your ToU.

[Dreez]

nice trolling
(jk)

https://en.nostalrius.org/terms-of-use
press ctrl + F and type in "English" or whatever

[Tiqqer]

nice trolling
(jk)

https://en.nostalrius.org/terms-of-use
press ctrl + F and type in "English" or whatever

V. Permanent ban
The most serious sanction. Permanent bans are rare but definitive. This sanction is applied in case of multiple violations of the rules, or after multiple account interruptions, as well as any of the following:

Scamming.
COD Scamming;
Hacking;
Using any means of botting (e.g. a program);
Abuse of major in-game bugs;
Possession of any item(s) obtained with illegal methods;
Any client modification (libraries, executables, MPQ, etc.); <<<

[Dreez]

nice trolling
(jk)

https://en.nostalrius.org/terms-of-use
press ctrl + F and type in "English" or whatever

Any client modification (libraries, executables, MPQ, etc.); <<<

There's literally no definition of what client download has to be used. Chinese client is not excluded

Modifying MPQs is forbidden so the methods given in the linked thread are technically not allowed, still I'm sure this is a simple oversight in the ToU

[lycos]

From ToU:
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B. Interacting with players

Communicating in-game with other users and Nostalrius staff members, whether by text or any other method, is a fundamental element of the Game.
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If a client don't support the English typing don't allow to communicate with other users. And btw, I never said to permanent ban for this.

[notgunnahappen]

There's already a huge thread about this in the suggestion section that hasn't been closed by a GM, so they're probably looking into a solution.

[Dreez]

I don't really see a point in forcing chinese players into using roman letters.

Only causes difficulties to them and we still won't understand anything

[lycos]

I don't really see a point in forcing chinese players into using roman letters.

Only causes difficulties to them and we still won't understand anything

If someone cannot communicate with other players ingame (not only chinese) they must permanent ban. And we must force everyone to use clients with latin characters. We cannot play bgs and see blank texts or numbers and have to figure what base needs help. Due to ToU you can't change the text color of messages. Is it allowed to sent blank text?

[Dreez]

you have to be a troll lol

have you never played DotA/ CS:GO or any other popular game?

[lycos]

you have to be a troll lol

have you never played DotA/ CS:GO or any other popular game?

You are not playing those games at nostalrius. Plus you modify the client to have chinese language pack and this is perma ban. But I want perma ban if you cannot have the ability to communicate with others (after announcement of course).