Help involve the Asian community on CU! please.

[lrfox 2]

I posted this in the HK Asian BAT team forum, but i figured i'd post here as well in hopes that someone could look into this.

...As everyone who posts in this forum knows, the Asian community has been vital to the survival of SimCity4. Without their work and effort on keeping the game relevant, we may have all grown tired of it by now. 

At this point, it seems as though Sim City Societies will not be what we hope for in terms of the next gen SimCity Game.  That's why many of the members of our Simtropolis community have gone over to www.cuplanet.com to voice our desires for the next generation city builder game. Cuplanet.com is the home site for Cities Unlimited, a city builder currently being developed by Monte Cristo, the French studio who brought us City Life.

Monte Cristo has been hearing our requests and working with the community (Philippe DaSilva, a Monte Cristo employee, has been to Simtropolis to find information) to build a game that suits our desires. On thing that many of us on Cuplanet.com have noticed is that the Asian community is conspicuously absent over there. Philippe, who was vital in getting simtropolis involved in Cities Unlimited, has admitted that because of language barriers, they haven't reached out to the Asian (specifically  the Japanese) community.

I am posting all this here because i have no means of communicating with the Japanese or Chinese communities. I can't speak the language, and i don't know any way to translate reasonably. I was hoping that some of the people that post in this thread, specifically those who are here as liasons between the Japanese sites and this one, could help get the Asian community involved with the new game.

Philippe at Monte Cristo is working on a way to set up a Japanese language forum (hopefully within the next week) and we're trying hard to get people over there to put in their two cents. If you have any way to inform the Asian community of Cuplanet and the forums there, it would be much appreciated.

This is a terrific opportunity to get what we all want in the new generation of city builders, but  I feel that no city builder can be complete without representation from all over the world; and so far, we have Europe, North and South America, Africa, and Australia... we're still missing one more.  Anything you can do would be appreciated.

OH, and if you're a member of cuplanet.com already or plan to become one, please support adding the Asian community in this thread: http://www.cuplanet.com/index.php?/component/option,com_fireboard/Itemid,6/func,view/id,6259/catid,4/lang,en/

thanks so much for your help.

[dasilva 3]

Hi Irfox,

I'm sorry but I must clarify one point. I actually didn't stated that I would put a Japanese language forum on the website: I said I have to think about it because it may bring some load on the website that we may not be able to support directly as we do not speak japanese.

However, we are looking for as many different communities around as possible and it seems that the Jap BAT team has been doing a great job and we'd love to get their feedback on what we're doing so far.

[lrfox 2]

Oh.. I'm sorry for the misunderstanding

Well i apologize if this thread was out of line, i just figured that since you and the rest of the Cities Unlimited team had their hands full with a lot of other stuff, that I would to my best to try to work on getting some of the Asian community over to Cuplanet.com.

Thanks for the correction, that's important information. If we can get some sort of middle man who can communicate with the Japanese (or other Asian) community and also communicate with the English community on CUplanet.com that would be good too. As long as they're not left out.

I understand it's nearly impossible to set up a Japanese language forum especially when no one on the team speaks the language (haha) . thanks for the effort and help though, i really can't thank you enough for what you and the team have done already for us.

...just trying to do what i can.

[dasilva 3]

And do not misunderstand me neither on the fact that we don't want neither to exclude anyone on CUplanet.com. I've been in touch with many local communities' webmasters and if some japanese, chinese, or whatever other language based city builder community website wants to get in touch with Monte Cristo to be involved in what we are doing, I'll be pleased to support their effort.