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I second to this. There is another reason why this might be useful, although it may or may not apply to streamers in the west: on Chinese streaming platforms, a site moderator might warn or shut down a stream if there is an inappropriate nickname on screen, even if the nickname is from another completely random player. I know a streamer whose OBS configuration includes blur zones for the chat area for TMP, and player list area for racing game he plays. Hiding player names will make this concern less problematic.

From what I can see, despite the launcher having multiple languages, neither the website nor the in-game interfaces do (regardless of launcher language and game language, the in-game UIs from the mod are always in English). I can't know what kind of decision making the TMP dev team has been making, maybe they assume all TMP players understand a bit English, or maybe they find adding language support difficult / not worth it? And if they do eventually add languages, I'd imagine European languages using Latin alphabet (French Spanish Italian German Polish Swedish etc) will get added before languages that use other writing systems, because supporting Chinese is harder than other Latin-script languages. 我这边看到的是，虽然启动器有好几种语言，但是网站和游戏内界面都没做多语言（无论启动器和游戏本体是什么语言，TMP的mod界面都是英语）。我不知道TMP团队是怎么做决策的，有可能觉得所有TMP玩家都多多少少会一点英语，或者说支持多种语言难做/不值得？ 然后，哪怕他们做多语言支持，我觉得用拉丁字母的欧洲语言（法、德、意、西、波兰、瑞典什么的）会比用其他文字的语言来的更早，因为支持中文比支持拉丁字母语言要更难

Arcade server is the preferred place to drive recklessly. Unless you really really need player collision for whatever you're doing to work?

Doing it by player count makes it automatically adapt to situations where player count increases out of the ordinary for whatever reason. Time-of-day based AFK timer configuration is less flexible. I wonder if there is anything you don't like about player-count based AFK timer.

Edit 2025-05-20: I just realized it's not as simple as a drop-in replacement of the fonts, as I can't get the patch to work with different fonts. -------------------------- Suggestion Name: Use a font that supports non-latin-alphabet languages Suggestion Description: Currently, the font used for TMP's UI within the game is a font that does *not* support Chinese characters. It also lacks a fallback mechanism for unsupported charaters, and as such, any unsupported characters will display as a question mark. As such, a player whose game language is set to Chinese or Japanese would see question marks on the drop-down menus that select cities or cargo/trailer types for the job creator UI. We know for a fact that the mod's code is capable of displaying Unicode fonts. The Chinese community has guides to replace the font files in the TMP folder to ones that support Chinese characters, allowing the drop-down to display actually readable characters (albeit with another issue unrelated to this post). However this is not a permanent solution for us, because TMP launcher has a tendency to revert the fonts to the original files, causing the fix to be undone. As far as my understanding goes, if we could do a drop-in replacement of the fonts, it would be possible for TMP to do this too, albeit with some UI/display concerns. I would love to see a font that supports more writing systems be used for the TMP user interface. Any example images: See section above. Why it should be added: This make life easier for players using a language that has a different writing system, like Chinese or Japanese. While you *can* argue that "just use English, you are using TMP which is already in English", I would say that even though we *can* speak and read English, it's still easier for us if the rest of the game, where other languages are available, are in our native languages, which are obviously easier to read. Additional considerations: - Possible alternatives, albeit harder to implement, are: 1. make an actual fallback system that use another font for unsupported characters, or 2. an option to force the dropdowns to use English text even when the game is in a different language. - Unrelated to this suggestion, but just for your consideration, one can't directly type Chinese into the dropdown's search box, however they can type the text elsewhere and copy-paste into the search box.