Writing books: Set title and copy functions.

[Andoryn Thaakor]

If it's possible, I wish for books, the ones you can buy at Jayoses and write in, to have a function to give them a decent title.

Right now, once a book is bought, it's "title" is compiled from the buyer's nickname and the statement that it's a blank book, with a number added if it wasn't the first one.

Once a book get's filled by it's owner, that title just won't do anymore. Specially if someone is particularly narrative or longwinded, he or she will end up with a lot of "blank books" with numbers and a tough time remembering which number is what.

Furthermore, it would be nice if there was a way to copy books. Maybe Jayose can fill that void, for a fee ofcourse, which could consist of the price of a blank book and a price per character/word/sentence. 1 tria per (non whitespace) character wouldn't even be excessive imho. It's tough copying calligraphy.

Lending books to others will get rather awkward if the author sees the person disappear for whatever reason. The only current alternative is having the book in an open trading screen while the other reads it.

[bilbous]

Perhaps another person who could make copies would be a mage of suitable rank in a suitable Way.

[Nikodemus]

You do realise people was rewriting books all by hand? Yeah, they did, no matter how unbelievable it sounds to you that you are thinking about magic.

[bilbous]

How long will it take you to copy a 1000 word book 100 times, compare that to how long it would take to cast a "Duplicate" spell 100 times and tell me which you would prefer to do. If the "Duplicate" spell were to work on multiple items at a time (higher level of Way) it would even be quicker. That said it would likely be a spell closely guarded by NPCs and not readily available to players.

[Nikodemus]

* Nikodemus casts a spell of summon gold and goes insanetly rich.

yeah, following your logic

[Andoryn Thaakor]

How long will it take you to copy a 1000 word book 100 times, compare that to how long it would take to cast a "Duplicate" spell 100 times and tell me which you would prefer to do. ...

If the 1000 word book is worth reading and thus copying, it's not that bad to pay, say, 5000 trias for a copy, now is it? That's the price you pay for having Jayose do the hard work. On the other hand, if the author is willing to part with the book for a while, you can always buy an empty book and do the work yourself or just copy the parts you like best.

Anyway, keep in mind the time and don't just make a ton of copies of a book. Before you know it, everyone has a copy and they get thrown away as if they were yesterday's newspaper. There are no cheap paperbacks in Yliakum.

[bilbous]

* bilbous looks on as 16 tons of gold drops on Nikodemus' head.

HEHEE! Nik is dead and I'm rich!!

Obviously some restriction would apply to any spell which is one reason I left it in the hands of NPCs for the most part.

[Nikodemus]

oh noes, but magic is allpowerfull.
Besides a spell making 100 gold ingots can't be harder than one that copy 100 books, with 1000 unique words.

Simply bilbous, you have completly no idea what boundaries of magic should be, nor you try to make any with sense. You use different magic with possibly diferent power where you see fit.
And when you see, noooo 10000 gold on market... that can't be, so no spell, oh, that makes so perfect sense.

I could almost say that you believe that all a guy needs to do is get glyph, get PPs, poke Levrus 10000 times, to be a magic master.

And all that because you had to spread your wonderfully magical idea.


Andoryn Thaakor, your idea is great!

[miadon]

there is a wrong way of making multi copies of books but the way to do it would be against the games rules so big no no.

[Nikodemus]

Even if you had to pay 5000 tria and wait few days befire it is finished?

[ThomPhoenix]

In .20 players will be able to give titles to books. Books are also protected against edits because currently it's possible to take an existing book (or newspaper) and rewrite it's content. Only the author will be able to write in a book. This only counts for blank books bought after the .20 release!

[Arka]

Psssst! Jayose!


Wanna buy a used photocopier?





Arka

[Cebot]

You people do realize that Jayose is already able to make copies via a magic spell with a special glyph?

I bet it is just a matter of time until he will be able to actually copy written books instead of handing you an item named "copy of ...". However, Jayose, as a character, already has the ability to do so

Cebot

[Miaua]

I would be glad to see the wok on the book appreciated a lot as well. No chap copies for 100 trias, that would imho pretty decrease the nice feeling from books.
Nicely, had written book, worthy of many trias.

Spell sounds strange to me... can't imagine it well.

Thought: Keep the effort of book creating worthy.  

But yep.. Levrus already doing copies... a bit of pitty I would say.

[saladasalad]

Printing presses have been around for over 1000 years, I don't see why we can't have them IG. Really talented blacksmiths should be able to create printing presses. The amount of time it takes to print a book would depend on the number of words in the book, intelligence, agility and maybe a special printing skill. Spells to print books seems pretty daft to me.

EDIT: OK, maybe not over 1000 years but at least since the middle ages and perhaps longer in China.