Buy a really really huge book from a Bookbinder (*flex*) and use a different page for each letter you want to save. RP it as you've glued a letter to each page. Problem solved.

That would indeed be a good idea, and you can always help your friendly artisans, but a bookshelf and store it there, editting it as need be. Then Bookbinders and Artisans all feel happy!

Edit: and definitely doing this on one of my chars!

POUR # FROM INTO ?

You can do that already, can't you? Only it's POUR INTO ?

It looks like the suggestion is to pour a specific number of measured sips from the first vial into the second. I don't understand the need for it, though, really.

One very minor thing is you could pour a single sip of a poison into a decaying vial and hand it to someone before using a dominate skill on them, so you won't have to waste an entire vial. That'd officially drive the last nail in the coffin of cooks poisoning food for that purpose, but then, I don't think any of them do anyway (and the range of poisons they can do it with is far too limited as it is) for anything but pranks.

Another use is so that I can catch the "last drop" line. And another is to "reserve" empty vials for specific fluids, ie POUR 1 BROMIDES INTO EMPTY to let me keep, say, three of my empty vials for bromides if I can't find a keg of it on my refilling quest, and can then move on to refilling from health or mana for the remaining empty vials as normal.

I know there are other methods to get these, and client-side workarounds for reserving vials (calling them all by number when refilling rather than just REFILL EMPTY FROM ) but it'd still be a nice perk for people who either don't know how to code such an alias, don't want to code it, or are on clients where coding it are prohibitively counter-intuitive/frustrating.

I'm not sure how difficult coding it would be on the admin side, but the basic needed elements are all there in the form of the POUR command itself, tracking of the number of sips available (combining mostly-empty liquids into a single vial wouldn't be possible otherwise), and the ability to consume a given number of sips without taking the whole vial (as proven by both the Tailor Shears which reduce proofing costs, and artifact vials or alchemist/gnome vials which still only consume the 50 sips the proofing in question takes out of the 60 it has, if memory serves.)

So while perhaps not a vital suggestion, it's not completely without merit.

Allow powderfruit, white-skinned lemons and apples to count as fruit for commodity quests. Let carrots, chokeberries and ginger count for vegetables.

extend the bookmark option in books, where you can with your trained eye, look for keywords within books.

Or create a list of bookmarked pages that you can easily flip to.

...Have a table of contents on the first page or so?

when you are writing you can open up to a page and start from there. So what i'm asking is like putting leaflets in the book you are reading, where you can easily flip back to them when you need.

and before someone says create an alias for it, or a script, I'm asking for myself because I don't use my laptop all the time to access Lusternia, and would usually go to a network or a telnet, or another network if the first network cafe is full to access.

Falcon, you have a lot of 'simple' ideas that I am fairly sure are far from simple to execute.

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A way to toggle the dating when you make a new entry in a book/scroll/journal etc. ON/OFF. It gets rather annoying when, after I've written a hundred lines or so to have to hunt for the entry date at the bottom where I left off last and delete it between every time I save... or finding out after you thought you deleted it, save, and still find the date there.

(I've had a tendency to save more frequently after I had the experience of disconnecting in the editor, reconnecting, reading the book find out where I left off... and finding ALL of my work had been wiped. Yes, I write in word beforehand... but I prefer making the pretty designs and formatting in the editor.)

If you use notepad, size 10 Lucida Console (or any other unitype font), you can do all the formatting beforehand by setting the borders to 80 characters.

I agree it's kind of silly, though.

I have no experience at coding, so I cannot tell what is simple to code or not. I'm looking also at the thread as 'Simple ideas to make Lusternia better'. Not 'simple ideas to code'

So please excuse me if I list as many ideas as I can that I think would help make the world a better place. Some will get shot down, ignored, but some would get replies and maybe be implemented. Who knows?

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Anyways, simple ideas for 11/10/2010

can we have a boat that ferries people across the inner sea? Not org specific starting and ending points, but lets say from the beach next to stewartsville to the crossroads.

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Can villages have who have specific goods that they are focused on develop trader bob standard clothing or goods? Delport would have basic boots or shoes, estelbar would have different food stuffs for sale, ankrag would have dwarven meat platters or basic rings, etc

It's already been suggested a frillion times that we be able to take down unenchanted paintings. (Whyever can't we?) Let me also add this one: if you paint a painting, instead of being "a painting of a painting of Estarra" it becomes "a copy of a painting of Estarra" (and subsequent copies continue to say that).

Allow deeding to families.

Allow kidnapping of individuals from different orgs.

Allow person-napping for the sake of marriage.