Arel2007-06-20 19:02:03
Can we get it so we can copy books that are sealed?
As far as I know, you have to seal a book so it can be published. Then it goes through the publication process. Then if it is really good it gets submitted for prestige. Good, great, wonderful. If you unseal a book and seal it again it counts as a new edition and goes through the publication process again. Good, we can't have people adding crappy stuff to their books after they get published just to get around the publication process.
The problem comes along when you want to use the mythical printing press skill to copy a book (for someone who wants it, for your own personal library, your Order library, etc.) but you need to unseal it. When I tried to unseal a prestige winning book, it said I couldn't unseal it since it was under review. I'm pretty sure it wasn't since it had already won prestige, so the conclusion I get from this is that you can't unseal prestige books at all. This makes the bookcopy skill nearly useless.
Can we get it changed so that the author or editor can copy a book even if it is sealed or come up with some other way to do it? I would really like to put my bookbinding skill to good use.
As far as I know, you have to seal a book so it can be published. Then it goes through the publication process. Then if it is really good it gets submitted for prestige. Good, great, wonderful. If you unseal a book and seal it again it counts as a new edition and goes through the publication process again. Good, we can't have people adding crappy stuff to their books after they get published just to get around the publication process.
The problem comes along when you want to use the mythical printing press skill to copy a book (for someone who wants it, for your own personal library, your Order library, etc.) but you need to unseal it. When I tried to unseal a prestige winning book, it said I couldn't unseal it since it was under review. I'm pretty sure it wasn't since it had already won prestige, so the conclusion I get from this is that you can't unseal prestige books at all. This makes the bookcopy skill nearly useless.
Can we get it changed so that the author or editor can copy a book even if it is sealed or come up with some other way to do it? I would really like to put my bookbinding skill to good use.
Vionne2007-06-20 19:10:36
In conjunction to this,
Copied books
will be exactly like the originals, and the magical nature of the ink allows all
copies to be updated as the author edits his original book
implies that a copied book will be marked as prestige if it wins, etc, that sort of thing.
But the copy of Symbols (which won Prestige) in my Order Library shows up like -- 2101 Public** Vionne Symbols: Black and White (which would indicate that it lost Prestige).
If it only had one asterisk to show that it had been published and not prestiged, I'd assume that the copying process that I italicized above just flat out doesn't work. Except... it has two asterisks.
Now I think it's broken.
For the guy that asked me to copy one of my prestige books, I'd just go ahead and copy it from the Order Library (since it's not a prestige publication there, even though I copied it with BOOKCOPY), except I'd like for it to show up in his guild library as a prestige book (mostly for my own ego, but I like to see things done right).
Copied books
will be exactly like the originals, and the magical nature of the ink allows all
copies to be updated as the author edits his original book
implies that a copied book will be marked as prestige if it wins, etc, that sort of thing.
But the copy of Symbols (which won Prestige) in my Order Library shows up like -- 2101 Public** Vionne Symbols: Black and White (which would indicate that it lost Prestige).
If it only had one asterisk to show that it had been published and not prestiged, I'd assume that the copying process that I italicized above just flat out doesn't work. Except... it has two asterisks.
Now I think it's broken.
For the guy that asked me to copy one of my prestige books, I'd just go ahead and copy it from the Order Library (since it's not a prestige publication there, even though I copied it with BOOKCOPY), except I'd like for it to show up in his guild library as a prestige book (mostly for my own ego, but I like to see things done right).
