Rare Book Reading Room


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Flygon

9:21am Feb 1 2024 (last edited on 9:22am Feb 1 2024)

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I have amassed a decent Library collection over the years, and it was only recently I found out you could directly read books from there. Fool on me.
I was then under the assumption that because the books are in the library they wouldn't have the chance to break, but after discussing in in the SB and experimenting with a mass reading of common books, I see that they can.

This is where my suggestion comes in. Some libraries have rare book reading rooms. My thought is to have some kind of tab in the 'library' where you can move a book in there and then read it to a pet without it breaking. 

To balance it out you could perhaps pay a fee to use the room, only have one book in there at a time, or only access it if you have a certain-sized library. Perhaps it could be it's own location entirely?

I know older books are expensive because they are often old exclusive event items that have the potential to disappear entirely, hence why I thought of having a charge associated with using the hypothetical room. It would hopefully stop them being so stagnant.

Just like real-world books, If the proper precautions are taken, surely we can extend the life of some of the literature?





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Symbiote

9:31am Feb 1 2024

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This is a fun solution! It keeps the value intact, but prevents us from going to all the retired books being on inactive accounts (which is so extremely frustrating to me) 

The random destruction of books has always been a peeve of mine, anyway. This sounds like a balanced solution. I think the best would be some kind of archival fee? Keeps a fun, real-world application to it. 

We'll ignore my belief that books shouldn't randomly be destroyed as often as they currently are.... (I have never once destroyed a book irl, accidentally or otherwise, so idk)



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11:38am Feb 1 2024

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Ooh this is a cool idea. Could maybe just add an item that can be purchased in the cash shop like “rare/old book reading kit” and it could be those white cotton gloves you see museums use to prolong the life of the books instead of a separate room or storage space 



Flygon

11:47am Feb 1 2024

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I did think about an item, like gloves, stand or parchment but the reason I opted to suggest a 'room' is because no art assets would be required. 





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FleshbagWasp

3:14pm Feb 1 2024 (last edited on 3:24pm Feb 1 2024)

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I think the rare book room sounds like a great idea, specifically the version where you have to pay a fee to upgrade it.

There's so many pros to the idea imo. It'd disincentivize book hoarding, allowing for more people to have copies of a book due to there being more in circulation. It'd also deal with the dwindling number of books that haven't been re-released in a while, since most people who actually have and use them would likely preserve them in the room. Finally, more people would actually read the books, allowing the work that writers have put into some of them to be seen without the fear of wasting a billion TU.

I think there'd either have to be a max level (like 30 or something) so people couldn't put their whole library in there, or the room would have to have a large upgrade fee (I'd say starting price would be 250m-500m if it's exponential, and ~1b if it's flat) so those who'd want to put their whole library in it would have to put a lot of work in.



Bowie

4:29pm Feb 1 2024 (last edited on 4:33pm Feb 1 2024)

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I would love this idea! 

A light suggestion of maybe having it so once you put a book in there, it's in there for either a set amount of time (probably not forever, that seems unfair) or you have to pay to get it out; I could see there being problems if users just have all their favorite pets read it and then they sell the book after they're done. Granted, it would still allow more people to actually use the book anyway, but I err on the side of caution with something like this and try to avoid any potential exploits. 

edit with further thoughts; or, maybe a fee for each pet you read it to



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Doorbellbirdy

9:13am Feb 2 2024

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I think this is such a good idea, it'd make reading rarer / expensive books easier for all users too - even if there was a fee implemented for using the books it would allow users to sell intellect readings for a lot cheaper, meaning the users running the service wont have to take Tu and RC rewards. either that or they should do an event where they rerun the books because it's so hard to actually read up intellect properly if you haven't been around for as long as older users / don't have much Tu or time to make Tu 😭



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