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Is there any way to make a copy of player written book? ( beyond typing it in again )

Or what about either an ingame bulletin board, or cryer for hire to annouce events somewhere other then just on these boards ( where not all may be reading all the time )

It would be VERY interesting if you could pay the librarian or scribe a fee per page or per book to have a player-written book hard copied in game. Is something like that technically possible? Is the text contained in the book stored in such a way that a copyobject kinda command would really copy it?

*coughs*

Anyone who'se been ranting about this for over a year, please raise your hand!

*raises hand*

But anyway, if you have UO related books or WoD related books you'd like to see added to the library (which is almost finished, look for a post this week), talk to me in-game. I also do editing and copying of books for people as well.

-M

I still would like to see coping ability of some sort

*bump*

Is there something with the scripts or POL that makes copying player created books a nogo?

I took a peek in the inscription source file, and there appears to be a function for copying books (and notes) but I think it's a seer/gm type command, it looks like it might make the new copy of the book for free.

Wether or not it is modifiable into something a player could use, I have no clue.

Great tip, Eldric! I never thought to look there.

That section could very easily be chaged to require/consume an inkwell or something thereby making it something players could and should do on a regular basis. I would guess the reason it's restricted to those with cmd.level higher than "player" is so that we players don't just go hog wild creating copy after copy of tons of books thereby increasing the item count.

There's no POL limitation as far as I can see that prevents it from creating perfect copies of our favorite books. In fact, with a little tweaking, it could be set up so that the better your inscription, the more pages you can copy...thereby creating the skill progression thing that makes RPG's oh so fun

Maybe there could be a quest of some kind whereby the ability for players to makes these copies could be introduced. BTW, can we buy inkwells from scribes along with blank books or is that all in my imagination?[/code]

Speaking of which... Why is it not possible to make necromancer scrolls?

This inhibits the spell casting time quite a bit... 0_o...

~Cindy~