Book / sketches update.

[weltall]

This kind of made my head spin.   
Will you now be able to buy multiple books at once from Jayose?  Or still just one at a time?

you could do that since around 0.5.1 at least

[Geoni]

What will be the IC explanation for the deletion of some of these books and sketches?

[neko kyouran]

game updates aren't meant to be considered in an IC way.

[Geoni]

Why not?

[RlyDontKnow]

What will be the IC explanation for the deletion of some of these books and sketches?

there's no need for one, nobody knows about them as nobody holds a reference

[weltall]

actually those book are ooc already as you really want to find ic and ooc explanation for technical things.

[confused]

What will be the IC explanation for the deletion of some of these books and sketches?

Far as most here playing Planeshift know that Planeshift is still a beta game, very much still in development, and there will be many times that changes will result in game data changes that can affect anything in the game. Therefore no explanation what so ever is needed. Game being beta is all the explanation one needs for major visible changes.

[LigH]

What IC reasons for lost books could exist? - Quite as many as ways how they lost their owners technically:

- accidently or intentionally sold (to NPCs)
- given away to people who started traveling away from the Dome / buried with corpses (lost with their owner chars)
- lost in the wild, rotten away (dropped and forgotten)
- burned (in the furnace)

[Illysia]

Aww shucks guys, you know they don't bother to to explain stuff as IC anymore. Like Neko and some Devs have commented, RP is solely the responsibility of players. They aren't concerning themselves with it. However, some day when some parent is threatening a lawsuit because their kid was propositions by a hooker ICly about bondage stuff, I think it might merit taking a greater interest. But whatever... The last example of an IC explanation was the crystal eclipse right before the release of Steel Blue. I thought it was rather nice at the time, but I guess with a reduced Dev team, they don't really have time or resources for such things anymore. Shame many of the devs that used to care and went out of their way for such things are gone. Oh well...

[weltall]

the point is that you want an ic reason from us for books which were lost years ago already. I'd call it a bug that they are still in the database actually and probably even against the will of who destroyed them, even though the terms of use allow this case (keeping of old data even deleted). you should ask who destroyed the only instance of their book for the reason for doing it.

[Geoni]

Well at least LigH isn't lazy.

[weltall]

lazy? sure... maybe we have other things to do.

[khoridor]

Nothing happens ICly. No real visible change.

Only 2 things can happen here:
1) If a very unlikely accident happens, some current books may end up corrupted or lost. Hence the call for individual backups.
2) Obsolete books are not going to be asked for after years or months have passed. Maybe, just maybe, if someone sells a book by mistake to a NPC just before the conversion process, GMs won't be able to help him out.

That's what I understood.

[confused]

Nothing happens ICly. No real visible change.

Only 2 things can happen here:
1) If a very unlikely accident happens, some current books may end up corrupted or lost. Hence the call for individual backups.
2) Obsolete books are not going to be asked for after years or months have passed. Maybe, just maybe, if someone sells a book by mistake to a NPC just before the conversion process, GMs won't be able to help him out.

That's what I understood.

Well done on interpreting the first post correctly. 

[Catlemur]

Since I updated I can not play I crush some seconds after the world is loaded.