ProjectGorgon:Player Library
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A Player Library is an intractable bookshelf often found in a city. Through the use of Calligraphy, a
can be transformed into a unique book at a Writing Table. These books can be donated to player libraries across Alharth. Other players can read and rate donated books.
Library Locations
- Serbule
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- Rahu
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- ???
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- Statehelm
- Michael Irasce's Bookstore Library (Basement).
"This is a storage area for extremely niche non-fiction books about a specific skill or topic.
— Dusty Technical Books
- Michael Irasce's Bookstore Library (Main floor).
"This is a free lending service to help the good people of Statehelm discover amazing local authors.
From suggestive poetry to grim stories of murder, this contains all kinds of fiction. Reader discretion advised. (But don't push it, local authors)!
No technical manuals or calls to action, please - Mgmt
— Trending Local Fiction
Library Mechanics
"Players with Calligraphy skill can now rate the books in the user book libraries. The book list is ordered based on their ratings and their age.
- - If your Calligraphy skill is 25 or higher, you will be prompted to rate each book after you read it. You can choose not to, but you shouldn't, because these books need to be rated!
- - Only the 100 top-rated books in each library are displayed. The other books aren't lost, however, and when the new GUI system is done we will hopefully have a way to view all books since the dawn of time (maybe via an archivist skill? Hmm).
- - Right now the books are unrated, so they will be sorted by approximate age and then alphabetically by title. But that will change automatically as players rate them.
- - If your Calligraphy skill is the same as (or higher than) the author's Calligraphy skill at the time they wrote the book, you have two benefits. First, you can see the book's average rating. Second, your rating of the book will have much more weight than reviews by people with lower Calligraphy scores.
- - You can only have one rating per book per account; re-rating a book will replace your old one
- - You cannot rate your own book -- it will allow it but discard your rating.
- - While the book's rating isn't affected by time, its sorting on the bookshelf is. Every few weeks, the book will drop down the sorting list. However, if the book continues to receive positive reviews, that will override the effects of age and keep the book on the shelf.