Potential langue revamp
Ranks of Languages? Maybe based on Int?

I am not sure if that would encourage people to invest into INT. At worst you'd have even less people speaking foreign languages - and of what use is being a polyglot if you have nobody to speak those languages with?

Higher INT does already increase the amount of language-% you get for 1 UE, but the bonus is pretty pitiful. To make both INT and languages more popular, I'd suggest to drastically increase said bonus.

If the language system was up for a revamp, I'd suggest making it very easy to learn the basics of one foreign language, easy to learn the basics of a second one, but hard to get fully fluent. And hard to learn any more foreign languages. And on top of that expanding the list of codedly avialable languages.

Then most people would know two foreign languages to varying degrees and along with an expanded language list to choose from, you'd both have enough people who don't understand you and enough people who do to make it meaningful.

To clarify, the implication is that more people will have less languages, at the top end. But more people will have more languages at the low end.

And at the top end, most people won't have all of the languages known because they hit max UE and saved 3 UE to toss into a language each day for a few months. They'll have a realistic (GM/systematically determined) amount for their statistics.

That's a good idea actually, I was trying to work it into the current language system, with it's specific ranks of a language fluency and to limit the amount of code that would need to be written or changed. I also have an obsession with curves. But your way works as well and is likely better. I'd say you get a language worth of ranks at those break points. So as to prevent needing to code it up, as well as to allow you to be partially proficient.

Also Ryuzaki4Days, who messaged me on xooc about this. Saying something about how this system hasn't had problems since the start.

3 problems with language as it is implemented now.

1a. You cannot play someone who is only partially fluent in their native language without GM service requests. You can role play this, but systematically you will always have 100% understanding unless you service request. Meaning that by the rules of the system, a person with U int will have exactly the -systematic- fluency and -systematic- vocabulary of someone with A int. This runs counter to every other system. And revamping in this way would both allow for this. And allow the system to match up with every other capability of your character increasing effects that are IC.

1b. You physically move faster as the right substat increases. You take more damage systematically as you raise another. You somehow spend less UE when you raise this one. That's not an effect ICly on my character. That's an effect on UE expenditure, which is not in anyway supposed to be an IC thing. As it's only observable through @ commands, not through gameplay.

2. Language fluency is the only thing you can spend UE on that is outside of the normal UE cap system. And from what I am aware of this has not been updated except to exclude it from the UE limit, since before the UE limit was instated. It is incredibly easy to game at or just before max UE, which is the only time it is optimal to do so. The fact that language costs UE like it does and delays development, psychologically disincentives putting UE into languages while at low UE.

3. Language fluency is the only system that functions as it does in relation to cost scaling with it's attribute. This is not a good thing from a game design standpoint. As it is a stand alone system, that is not integrated into the other mechanics as relates to attributes.

If you or anyone else want the tl;dr. Language system is bad from a design psychology standpoint(Sometimes this is called called game feel.) And from a design systems standpoint. It incentivizes poor choices, and is an easily exploited system. And does not match up with the other systems that are akin to it. Systems that incentivize poor psychological choices, or are prone to systematic exploitation, in any game, should be closed. For full details read the above. But please don't argue with me based on this TL;dr.