Languages

I love this addition to the game, however I have these concerns...

• Very few mobs of their races actually speak in their native language at all. In fact, some races don't even speak at all. (Not because they can't, they just don't.) Leaving only PCs able to teach some languages.

• Illithids still use a "pretend" language before this was implemented. Let's change them to utilize their proper language.

• There is supposed to be some mob that wanders around, letting others practice languages? I've been back for awhile. Never once have I seen it and half the time I'm actively looking for the dang mob. Can we put some mobs in a damnable library that can teach?

there are mobs that teach, they just spawn randomly across the world from what i have seen.  another thing about the language for me is that if you have a char that was around before implementation then he doesnt even know common, I have a illithid with such problems.  I don't know if there is a way to fix this but I just  never tried

Each normal language (some can only be learned through special means, afaik) can be taught by a racial mob in the area most associated with that race. They stay put.

There is also the Laconic Linguist, who teleports between every area in the game randomly. He teaches all the languages that aren't super-secret.

When I type learn I see what look to be "practices." For languages.

How do I utilize them? Can it only be done with this Linguist? What if I already have a couple % of a language? They don't seem to get better with practice of using either.

Learning sessions are spent at language teachers. Learn is the syntax, I believe. 

The same racial language teachers also periodically speak in their language. You can also learn from characters that know that language.

You get proficiency in one of two ways:

1. learning at a teacher
2. hearing a successfully spoken phrase (takes a long time, and if they fail at the attempt, you get nothing)

There's a way to buy learning sessions too. I forgot the command.

you can buy training sessions in the bazaar for 5 RP points. Hint: Learn as many languages as you can when your low level.

I've bought learning sessions from the traveling teacher with gold. The command was strange though and I can't seem to remember it.

There is a little trick to getting the linguist to help you out, if you're lucky enough to find him.

As Naru mentioned most races have a single teacher somewhere, look around.

There are languages like demonic, divine, archaic and others that are very very rare, and have no 'teacher'. For those you will likely only get them from an imm.

If those languages you mentioned are very rare, what will the applicable use be for them?

As with all other languages - to communicate privately.

As with all other languages - to communicate privately.

So you and the potentially one other person can use say instead of tell.

EDIT: How does this affect that particularly cool clandestine ability of a particular organization?

EDIT: How does this affect that particularly cool clandestine ability of a particular organization?

That's part of the idea.

It seems the MUD does a check for whether or not you will be able to comprehend once, per sentence.

I recommend it be changed so that it checks per word, then lower the rate by which one learns (per check) by 1/5.

This way, one can understand bits and pieces of a sentence and longer, more wordy sentences will actually teach more than a single word.