Please clarify the "etiquette" speaking in english

[Sir Baron]

New players often want to ask something and can't because admins enforcing English-only policy.

That leads to new players decline of playing this mod.

While I agree that speaking languages other then English in game chat should be minimized, sometimes it's critical for successful defence to say something in new player native language so he can understand and does not wipe the whole team.

Separated language-board on the forums where new players would be able to ask their questions and not corrupt game chat would be nice addition. Mainly I speak about Russian and German ones as they're most spoken languages in game-chat outside English, may be Polish one too. Many games have "other languages" section on their forums, I'm surprised that NI doesn't.

NI does have other languages section have you read the forums...

EDIT: They removed it I forgot. It was never used so its clearly not useful

They removed it and more people started to speak non-English in game chat. Must be coincidence.

Not coincidence, just more foreign players on the mod as opposed to english speakers who have quit en masse.

There is still place to grow, this game has shockingly low amount of Russian players compared with other games like Dota, where most spoken language on EU West is probably Russian. I think it's before English-in-game-chat-only policy (which is OK) and lack of native forums (which is not OK and might be easily fixed).

There was a rather large Russian community in NI for awhile
From what I heard they quite because of changes in game they disliked
I never heard complaints on the forums as a part of why they left

Edit: I'm not saying we should not bring back the old bored
Just want to make that clear

I have no idea why it was removed at that