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SushidlcSushidlc Posts: 6
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I was working on a project in game but came to a road block when I realized the character limit on a book is 500 ish? Not sure. Could we bump this to 400k-500k ish? To make it viable to write/transcribe actual books? Feel like this would be a good q for kyronix.
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  • MariahMariah Posts: 3,417Moderator
    Not something I've ever tried, but what kind of book are you working with? The crafted 100 and 200 page books would seem to have a higher character limit than that?

  • VioletViolet Posts: 437
    Sushidlc said:
    I was working on a project in game but came to a road block when I realized the character limit on a book is 500 ish? Not sure. Could we bump this to 400k-500k ish? To make it viable to write/transcribe actual books? Feel like this would be a good q for kyronix.
    You trying to put all your nightmares in a book, @Sushidlc?  :D

    But what Mariah said regarding the bigger books
  • SushidlcSushidlc Posts: 6
    Violet said:
    Sushidlc said:
    I was working on a project in game but came to a road block when I realized the character limit on a book is 500 ish? Not sure. Could we bump this to 400k-500k ish? To make it viable to write/transcribe actual books? Feel like this would be a good q for kyronix.
    You trying to put all your nightmares in a book, @ Sushidlc?  :D

    But what Mariah said regarding the bigger books
    I was wanting to add real books into the library so people can come and read for free. Maybe a section for player written books as well
  • SushidlcSushidlc Posts: 6
    Mariah said:
    Not something I've ever tried, but what kind of book are you working with? The crafted 100 and 200 page books would seem to have a higher character limit than that?

    The limit is extremely small sadly... even with crafted books
  • VioletViolet Posts: 437
    Sushidlc said:
    I was wanting to add real books into the library so people can come and read for free. Maybe a section for player written books as well
    @Jepeth and @A_Scribe are probably two of the better resources in game regarding books and copying books.  You could possibly span the book over multiple books, dividing it out by chapters.  Perhaps they have better ideas.
  • SushidlcSushidlc Posts: 6
    Violet said:
    Sushidlc said:
    I was wanting to add real books into the library so people can come and read for free. Maybe a section for player written books as well
    @ Jepeth and @ A_Scribe are probably two of the better resources in game regarding books and copying books.  You could possibly span the book over multiple books, dividing it out by chapters.  Perhaps they have better ideas.
    i thought about this but the limit is so small you couldn't create a decent library our of it with lockdown limits. only viable option is really to up limits on characters
  • SushidlcSushidlc Posts: 6
    would also be nice to make instruction manuals and such along with the library and runes. the possibilities with a higher character cap on books for role playing is endless...
  • SushidlcSushidlc Posts: 6
    Mariah said:
    Not something I've ever tried, but what kind of book are you working with? The crafted 100 and 200 page books would seem to have a higher character limit than that?

    they have 200 pages but still have character limits and i don't think i was able to fill all 200.
  • A_ScribeA_Scribe Posts: 40
    The Japanese shards transcribe many RL books into UO books. They copy the RL books to multiple 200 page books, then place them in a backpack engraved with the title of the book.

    It’s not perfect, but it works. In an ideal world, books wouldn’t take lockdowns, so player libraries could fit all their books into a single building.

    I have my library spread out over 3 buildings currently, as does Library Cafe on Asuka. Lockdowns are the ultimate enemy.
  • A_ScribeA_Scribe Posts: 40
    In terms of increasing pages and character counts, 200 pagers get buggy enough as it is, they would have to make sure increasing the length wouldn’t break something. Most numbers in UO are artificially limited by the 32 bit integer at 2,147,483,647.
  • JepethJepeth Posts: 549
    Yeah, to echo Scribe the issue really is the buggy nature of books. More characters would be wonderful, especially to ease up on my library lockdowns, but the inconsistent way all three clients interact with books is far more pressing. The WebCUO is entirely unusable when it comes to books. It displays text copied from outside of the game into books as unreadable black blocks and removes characters at random from the text if the book is unleafed. Further, there are discrepancies in how the CC and EC display characters for the same book. Hopefully one day we’ll see these issues resolved.
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