Curse

Don Zardeone · Jul 04, 2006, 12:52 AM // 00:52

This will never be implemented...

First we need a book crafter.
He needs plant fibers, ink and parchment.

Put in some interface that allows us to write paragraphs, bold, underlined, italic and headers.

Now you can write stuff. The more pages you need, the more parchement is needed.

This will allow people to write guides and SELL KNOWLEDGE for $$.
Finally a way to reward skill, smartness and other stuff with $$. Plagiarism gets banned.

How to sell to other players?

Put in a seller. A bookseller, librarian, whatever.
Once you wrote a book or guide, you can give it to him. He'll take 10k and 5% off the amount of gold that the book sold for to seperate players.

How he sells them:
He lists all the books alphabetically by default.
You choose to order them by popularity to find out which of them are the bestsellers. Books will be treated like materials in the way that they rise in price the more people buy them.
So the expensive books will be the bestsellers while the crappy guides will be cheap.

The seller will obviously have to purge his list once in a while. He'll probably dump the cheap books noone buys in the garbage can then.

Why? What does this do?
Well. You know how there are a lot of dumbasses in GW? I call them puglets.
I used to give them advice on skills and items and stuff but none of them ever used the advice.
In fact, the people who frequent these forums seem to make up 0.00001% of the entire GW population.
The only people from the forums I ever see in-game are in my own damn guild >.<

This means that very very very few people know about damage absorb for warriors. Very few know anything about anything. They just screw around, screw up, screw others.

They lack knowledge of how stuff works.

So if they're not coming to the mountain, the mountain has to come to them.

Sell them guides on how to do stuff.

Yes i'm crazy.

lyra_song · Jul 04, 2006, 01:02 AM // 01:02

i think we're gonna get a LOT of pornographic stuff if something like this was implemented......

>.>

actionjack · Jul 04, 2006, 01:14 AM // 01:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by lyra_song

i think we're gonna get a LOT of pornographic stuff if something like this was implemented......

>.>

Yes, I will write a book about Lyra.

TadaceAce · Jul 04, 2006, 03:19 AM // 03:19

Yeah write an entire book of erotic stories and it would be a huge seller. Too many lonely nerds playing this game.

And noobs (who this would effect) wouldn't invest 10k in a book are you kidding. The wammo newbs already don't listen to you when you give them advice why would they buy a book and look for advice. They already think they are god.

fiery · Jul 04, 2006, 03:25 AM // 03:25

Poetry books! and GW comics!

unholy guardian · Jul 04, 2006, 03:52 AM // 03:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by lyra_song

i think we're gonna get a LOT of pornographic stuff if something like this was implemented......

>.>

now they can read about the ele's dancing too

The idea... is eh kinda good, but i am afraid it would get too freaky and people might not always play guild wars to read about stuff either.

Vermilion · Jul 04, 2006, 04:09 AM // 04:09

To avoid the perversion there would probably need to be a staff put in place just to check every book to make sure its clean..and then there would be a long wait period..etc.

Maybe what we need are more of those tablet things around the monastery area.

TadaceAce · Jul 04, 2006, 06:01 AM // 06:01

There should be a tablet in the monastery that says your secondary class is used to further improve your ability to fulfill your job on a team, not to pathetically heal yourself.

Lampshade · Jul 04, 2006, 06:37 AM // 06:37

Also, this would lead to many copyright infringments. I remember a game (an MMO of sorts) that was going to have a feature where you could make music using notes and chords etc., but they had to cut it out due to legal reasons because players were making their favorites songs from RL and playing them in-game.

Navaros · Jul 04, 2006, 07:05 AM // 07:05

Neat idea.

But, what's to stop any joe from copying the contents of a best-selling book and then re-selling it for cheaper, thus ripping off the original author?