Ark Nova Marine Worlds, German localization

[Leander Quest]

Hi!

When playing the German version of Ark Nova Marine Worlds, I have come across several mistakes, both spelling and grammar errors. As I am a private player only and don't work for BGA, I don't know if I have the right to point this out, but please make sure to avoid such mistakes.

Moreover, I don't understand why several cards were freely translated. Why don't we just transfer the actual card texts of the real/physical Ark Nova game to BGA? The meaning of some German cards had mistakes...primate icons had predator icons in the German version for example, and the marine biologist had an incorrect meaning with the description stating that only the player having the sponsor gains money for icons that are played in HIS/HER zoo although the English version reads that the player having the sponsor gains money for every icon that is played in ANY zoo.

I don't know if there is a PDF with all Marine Worlds cards, but it would be really helpful if translators just used actual German texts of the physical board game. I own the game so I just search the cards and use the original texts.

[oeconormal]

{trolling reduction active}

Hello Leander Quest.

I totally agree that text translations should be taken from the original game, if available (supposing that they're good). Your post might get more attention, if placed in the Sub-Forum for ark nova. And if you put several copies of your post in subforums you better link them all to one main post, to have all answers in one place, no redundancies and less waste of time for those who kindly try to help others here in the forum.

If you click on Community in the menu, you'll get to see, that one way to support BGA is translating the page and games in other languages. You can find Arche Nova in the list and improve translations, if you meet the requirements. Unfortunately there is an auto-validation that will render creepy translations hard to correct after 30 days. And the translation interface and practice has quite a few more issues.

Filing a bug or suggestion about language issues, might be futile, because the developers obviously cannot keep up just taking a look at them, which might be due to the often embarassing quality of the filed bugs or suggestions.

Still you might like to support my suggestions: Unfair rewarding for (fixing bad but auto-validated) translations. andAlternatives to auto-validation of translations.

Sincerely