Book Copy?

[Iscariot]

Well, My request is that somewhere in the world of Yliakum a mage or a person should be given the ability to copy books. I've been writing very long books (The Mysteries of Achen and Yliakum - Volume 1, 2 and 3) which i'm selling for much gold, but to rewrite everything, everytime I sell it is just WAY too much work! By just giving a monk the option "Give 50 trias to copy book" it would extremly help me

[IC]
Oh, and for anyone interested, In the first book of "Mysteries of Achen and Yliakum" I talk about the differences and similarities between the known world of Yliakum and a world I think I discovered myself, which I called Achen(meaning: Twin) because of the great similarities in geological features and flora. However, when I searched further I found out that the inhabitants of the world were entirely different then this world.
Instead of mining or farming, they mainly focused of fighting. They discovered and refined the three ways of combat. They're cities were grand and even greater where their walls. They were so big I just had to stand there for a few moments just to absorb the enourmous craftmanship poured into those walls. It was a sight I will never forget, walls that make Hydlaa look like a tiny village. I also talk about the Priests, or Healers. The Guards, Thieves, Mages, Counts, Kings and Emperors and Enemies.

In the Second book I talk about locations of Yliakum and Achen. The Bronze Doors, Hydlaa, Ojaveda, The Forest, with explanations and points of interest. Also I will show some interesting points of Achen, if you will ever have the luck to be transported there.

In the Final and Third book I write about the Tools, Skills and Weapons of Yliakum and Weapons. For example that the Pickaxe is something unknown in Achen, while the "Bow" is something quite unknown here.

I hope you will find me and will have the luck of reading my books!

[stumagoo]

I have looked at this post 4 times and started to reply at least twice before now,  the idea that first jumps to mind is a printing press, whih I dont believe would have existed in this sort of time frame, the second thing the hits me is if you are making good tria from these books it is partially due to the fact that you have to pen each one individually, making each one unique and creating a limited supply. being able to mass produce these books means there value would ultimately decrease.

Finally and this is where I think the idea fails is what then is to stop me from taking your book and going to the mage and ripping a few copies to sell or maybe the craft books I could copy them and flick them off,  sorry I feel the idea would be too easy to abuse others work.

But this is my opinion and only that the game creators could quite easily feel very different to me.

[Rongar Elani]

The first book to be printed and not re-written anymore, was the Hammer of Witches. The time in whch it was written, is deemed to be the end of the middle ages, not least due to the invention of the letterpress, and the consequential wider distribution of knowledge. So a letter press would fit into the settings, ... somehow. But, Jayose the librarian has made quite a few copies of existing books (during quests), why not having the opportunity of paying him a circle to make a copy for you?

[Xordan]

Think about it this way, if you could easy copy a book then they'd be more common and less valuable. By having to spend the time to write them yourself, you can sell them for premium prices (assuming that there's demand). If you're a great writer, you could potentially make all your tria from books.

[miadon]

I thought books still didn't save properly anyway, ie after a server restart.

[Donari Tyndale]

Iscariot, I am sorry to inform you, but there is no twin world named Achen, that means your character can not have visited such a world. And there are bows in Yliakum, though they have not been implemented yet.
Xordan, shouldn't it be your job to create a spell that copies books ? After all Jayose merely needs to speak a few magic words in order to copy a book.

[Eletiy]

and why shouldn't there be a twin world? well it isn't mentioned in our current settings, but as far as I know there were not only laanx,talad and vor'duhl (or however the name is correct written) so there still is the chance that another god created "achen"..

anyway it is a bit paradox when you can easily coopy books (for onl 50t) for quests, but not for your own books... I understand the argument of books beeing more worth when you have to write them by hand but then there shouldn't be a quest with copying-books anymore.
Maybe it's a solution when copying-books is just much more expensive (e.g. 6k a book).

* Eletiy loks forward to buy her first book

[miadon]

and why shouldn't there be a twin world? well it isn't mentioned in our current settings, but as far as I know there were not only laanx,talad and vor'duhl (or however the name is correct written) so there still is the chance that another god created "achen"..

there is no mention of a flying caribou meatpie monster, that doesn't mean I can claim there is one because "I saw it."

[Eletiy]

yeah, you cannot claim that you saw one in yliakum, but he was talking about the world "achen".. anyway I think there is no need to talk about what is true and what not, because even if it's not true it might be a good story (or did you never read a fantasy book?).

[Donari Tyndale]

It might be a good story...indeed. But you can not RP your character in a way that he actually visited such a place.

[Zan]

and why shouldn't there be a twin world? well it isn't mentioned in our current settings, but as far as I know there were not only laanx,talad and vor'duhl (or however the name is correct written) so there still is the chance that another god created "achen"..

there is no mention of a flying caribou meatpie monster, that doesn't mean I can claim there is one because "I saw it."

I disagree .. you can claim and write whatever you want but you shouldn't be surprised when other people write you off as a lunatic or fantasy author. There is no place called Middle Earth either but the books about it still sold tremendously.

[Cyl]

I have looked at this post 4 times and started to reply at least twice before now,  the idea that first jumps to mind is a printing press, whih I dont believe would have existed in this sort of time frame, [...]

Looking at the winch, I doubt that a printing press in Yliakum would be implausible. Besides there is a way of copying books magically directly involved in one of PS's many quests, therefore you could say that there ARE "canon" ways of copying books, that just aren't implemented yet.

[stumagoo]

I stand corrected then,  I did not realise that there was already the ability to copy a book in quest (I havent done too much questing) and have never seen the winch.  So does the quest book copy allow one to copy any craft book?? (feel free not to answer that) I can just see a black market (is this nessecarily bad) of books that people are actually supposed to work for, to me the craft book is not so much a "book" but a symbol of your learning.