Books

[evilrich]

would be nice to have another use for inkweed as well.. apart from mapping. as for the tomes, perhaps higher Q inkweed could result in more wyrd? making inkweed more... sought after.. just a thought, feel free to troll if it fails

[Nemerle]

An excellent idea. I would start a library in a village called Alexandria..until someone decides to troll me by burning it down.

[gbrish]

it doesn't sound like a minor issue.. isn't sandbox things like this the reason people even play this game?

I like your pictures... they go with the games UI.. but I would prefer something more stylized.. like a backdrop of a book that changed pages when you clicked the corner.. but that may be asking too much.

[brohammed]

Nice mockups. As a cartographer I have cupboards full of Local maps. If there was a "Copy Book" feature too (just make a book, load it with enough blank parchments, have enough ink in the inventory, then same procedure as copying maps) that would be good for the manufacture and trade of completed atlases.

[Jackard]

I like your pictures... they go with the games UI.. but I would prefer something more stylized.. like a backdrop of a book

They actually have that in the games files already, its one of the things that afaik has never been used:

[jorb]

Is that still in there? Cool.

[PRT-Drunkard]

Allow us to make new lines on Parchment? Please? So we don't have one really really really really long line of text?

[humanalien]

yea, also do the same with runestones
+1

[Cajoes]

I usually just try to keep things short. Reserving longer missives for forums.
... Mostly job orders. (This is a mandate for three loaves of bread)

But overall the UI for enscribing parchment and carving runestones needs to be greatly improved. Like a small box rather than just one line. Maybe a lettering limit. In WURM the letter limit is dictated by the sign's quality level.

I think this is a stupid approach, hard cap that to something reasonable.
Runestones are used for more permanent things, like graves, or sites of historical importance. (Or memorial slabs)
... The futhark isn't a standard font, right?

In addition, it'd be nice if we could carve lettering into sticks, or even blocks of wood, for short missives.

Blah blah blah, wooden signs, signposts, billboard*, Wanted posters, shop signs, etc.
*currently subsituted with a coffer of parchment.

[PRT-Drunkard]

Well, I mainly want this because I'm attempting to organize a few of the villages surrounding mine into a coalition. Or rather, a Confederacy. It'd be a lot easier, at this point in time (and a lot less likely to provide specific advertisements about us) to be able to write down more than 1-2 laws/constitution clauses per sheet of parchment (I've crashed someone's computer writing more than that, hah).