Print Idea

PRINT

Syntax: print

While present in one of the Aabahran Libraries one may request for

a Tome to be copied and printed for personal use. For a small sum

of gold, the work may be then enjoyed at ones leisure.

See also: HELP TOME

I have an idea. Why not add a secondary thing to it?

Let's make it possible for us to print our notes (say, with the syntax, print note #). This would open up phenomenal RP opportunities, with no real drawback at all. From thieves leaving little notes (Thanks for the suit of armor!), to bards swapping poems, to actual letters one can print out and show others, the RP opportunities are immense. Vulgarity and the like isn't an issue; anyone stupid enough to cuss at someone and then print it out as proof, well...

Furthermore, with the tome/print system, we already have, I think, much of the requisite coding required done, with only modifications necessary.

What do you guys think?

I like....always in the mood for more RP and better/more ways to do it...

I like it.

WC

Let's do it!

Please, do.

sounds good to me.

Note to self.

Remember to bring home;

Beer

Pizza

Doritos

New AXE!

SIgned,

Mino Zerker

Kewl idea!

Yeah, sweet idea!

Ah...I would have to roll a self conscious minotaur zerk...

Dear Self,

You Matter!

Signed,

Warmaster Mino Zerk

Great idea, but I think it would be cool if it was a bard skill maybe, so that people would RP going to them to get things written.

Bards already have note to all.

Who will be the first one to write a whole book, and really write it in game?

how did this not make it in game?

Yeah, really.

This would open up so many new awesome things, many of which have been mentioned.

My favorite possibility might be homemade ASCII maps. I would buy them by the truckload, as would many newbies. And of course, it would give healers something to do when they're not res'ing me.

I vow to power-bump this thread.

Dude - this was posted in January of '06. By an IMM. Every reponse said it was awesome.

Why, nearly two years later, has such a thing not taken place?!?

This idea rocks. It shouldn't be too difficult to do, and would make for SO many fun RP angles. Let's do this, people!

Maybe the immortals have had better things to code/do?

The problem with the print idea thing is that tomes once they're created they have an object number set to it so when you 'print' them you're just creating the object from a stored object file. Printing notes will be a MUCH harder thing to code as they aren't really given an object number but a note holder place/application holder spot and you can't really keep printing them off as they get wiped periodically to keep the buffer and bandwidth low enough so the game doesn't die on everyone. It's not that it's not doable, but it might be a bit tedious to code in as if it's not done just right you could be printing off something completely random like a note that another Imm sent to other Imms about a diciplinary action towards some player.

It'd easier to just give note to all to everyone once they hit lvl 50 or something or are in charge of clans and what not rather than trying to code it. Yeah the code to print is there, the problem is trying to pinpoint precise notes unless it were to be changed to include ALL notes as numbers and eventually being wiped after a time, but even then that'd be kind of hard to do from what I've tried thinking of ways of doing it. Viri might have been able to pull something off depending on what messed up math formula he would plan on using, otherwise though it's just something not very easily coded despite part of it already being there. I could be wrong though, but I'm almost certain I am right.

Or it could be that.

The problem with the print idea thing is that tomes once they're created they have an object number set to it so when you 'print' them you're just creating the object from a stored object file. Printing notes will be a MUCH harder thing to code as they aren't really given an object number but a note holder place/application holder spot and you can't really keep printing them off as they get wiped periodically to keep the buffer and bandwidth low enough so the game doesn't die on everyone. It's not that it's not doable, but it might be a bit tedious to code in as if it's not done just right you could be printing off something completely random like a note that another Imm sent to other Imms about a diciplinary action towards some player.

It'd easier to just give note to all to everyone once they hit lvl 50 or something or are in charge of clans and what not rather than trying to code it. Yeah the code to print is there, the problem is trying to pinpoint precise notes unless it were to be changed to include ALL notes as numbers and eventually being wiped after a time, but even then that'd be kind of hard to do from what I've tried thinking of ways of doing it. Viri might have been able to pull something off depending on what messed up math formula he would plan on using, otherwise though it's just something not very easily coded despite part of it already being there. I could be wrong though, but I'm almost certain I am right.

That is not the way code structures work. Each playerfile has a structure defined for it in memory. The way C works is that memory is not bounded like in more modern languages. So, theoretically if you went over your value in an array you would just pick out that next piece of memory next to the bits that store your array. However, only an extremely poor design would allow that to happen, and memory is not allocated based on its use. Each player has a list of notes connected to their playerfile, so everyone's notes are not just massed together in memory. Even if it was programmed improperly so as to allow one to access memory out of bounds, its very unlikely that would coincidentally happen to be memory storing other notes. C, being a somewhat primitive language, also does not automatically release anything from memory, so any memory allocated has to be manually freed in code.

In short, every player has their own note list.