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I have read through several threads that request magazine/book/newspaper capabilities. This is my stab at a system to bring the necessary materials to Calypso.
Level I BP, Materials Engineer (Texture Engineering is probably a good fit for skill, or manufacture mechanical equipment). Available via Technician.
Materials: 1 Animal Hide, 1 Melchi Water.
Success produces 3 sheets of paper. (More is fine for the "lucky" hits)
Residues would be oil residue and energy residue.
Paper Sheet (PC): Stackable item with a TT value of 0.01. (3 pec in, 3 pec out from materials). Weight is 0.001 Players can customize these items. Images and Text only.
TT Item: Omegaton A-01 Printer. 50 PED - Decay 1 PEC.
Item will fill a single page of paper with HTML formatted text 80 visible characters width, 50 lines of text length. Headline sizes take 5 lines for <H1>, down to 1 line for <H5>. Offer only basic <B>, <I>, <U>, <OL>, <UL>, <LI> HTML commands. Take a Title for the page printed as input.
Result from the printer is "printed page - <Title>" with a TT value of 0.01 (Decay from the Printer is expended as Ink/toner drawn on the page). Storage of the text is paid for from the decay.
TT Item: Omegaton A-02 Color Printer. 50 PED - Decay 1 PEC.
Item will take a single image upload and a sheet of paper. (upload fees apply exactly as they do for PC screens.) Take as input a title. Output will be a printed page with image. A unique identifier is attached to the image so that more copies can be created later.
Result from the printer is "Printed page - <Title>"
Each of the A-XX items above can create multiple copies, in a stack, of a single page, simply create X copies by feeding X pages into the machine.
TT Item: Omegaton B-1 Binder. 50 PED - Decay 1 PEC.
Item will take several pages of printed page, and bind them into a basic magazine. Place sheets in order specified by user, and bind into a magazine.
Result will be "Magazine - Title" with TT Value equal to the number of pages bound together. Decay is not added from the binder into the TT value.
TT Item: Omegaton B-2 Binder. 100 PED - Decay 5 PEC. Item takes a generic leather (Would be AWESOME if it would take other refined leathers as well) and several pages of paper, in user defined order and bind them into a basic book. Result will be "Book - Title" with a TT Value equal to the number of pages bound together, and the cover material. Decay is not added from the binder into the TT value.
Each of the above Binders can create multiple bound items at once, simply by feeding X copies of each of the pages into the binders.
Results: Players have a cheap, quick, portable method for creating content. A simple flyer, with a picture or Text, a magazine, or a book, for electronic delivery to other players.
The individual items are cheap enough to create that a "Free Flyer" type of press can exist, and more advanced publications can be created and sold/given away/traded.
MA can realize an income from the creation of news/information as decay is included in the printing and binding. Images and finalized HTML pages should be re-used and have a unique identifying code that allows more to be created quickly and efficiently by the players.
Litter is not a serious issue, because the sheets have a small TT value, and as such, if someone leaves a bunch lying around, someone else can simply TT the items (throw them in the recycle bin!) and be paid for their efforts of keeping Calypso Clean immediately!
The high benefit of easily tradeable PC will far outweigh the low cost of delivery, and an in game press can be realized fully! Please share your feedback with me, thanks for reading.
Level I BP, Materials Engineer (Texture Engineering is probably a good fit for skill, or manufacture mechanical equipment). Available via Technician.
Materials: 1 Animal Hide, 1 Melchi Water.
Success produces 3 sheets of paper. (More is fine for the "lucky" hits)
Residues would be oil residue and energy residue.
Paper Sheet (PC): Stackable item with a TT value of 0.01. (3 pec in, 3 pec out from materials). Weight is 0.001 Players can customize these items. Images and Text only.
TT Item: Omegaton A-01 Printer. 50 PED - Decay 1 PEC.
Item will fill a single page of paper with HTML formatted text 80 visible characters width, 50 lines of text length. Headline sizes take 5 lines for <H1>, down to 1 line for <H5>. Offer only basic <B>, <I>, <U>, <OL>, <UL>, <LI> HTML commands. Take a Title for the page printed as input.
Result from the printer is "printed page - <Title>" with a TT value of 0.01 (Decay from the Printer is expended as Ink/toner drawn on the page). Storage of the text is paid for from the decay.
TT Item: Omegaton A-02 Color Printer. 50 PED - Decay 1 PEC.
Item will take a single image upload and a sheet of paper. (upload fees apply exactly as they do for PC screens.) Take as input a title. Output will be a printed page with image. A unique identifier is attached to the image so that more copies can be created later.
Result from the printer is "Printed page - <Title>"
Each of the A-XX items above can create multiple copies, in a stack, of a single page, simply create X copies by feeding X pages into the machine.
TT Item: Omegaton B-1 Binder. 50 PED - Decay 1 PEC.
Item will take several pages of printed page, and bind them into a basic magazine. Place sheets in order specified by user, and bind into a magazine.
Result will be "Magazine - Title" with TT Value equal to the number of pages bound together. Decay is not added from the binder into the TT value.
TT Item: Omegaton B-2 Binder. 100 PED - Decay 5 PEC. Item takes a generic leather (Would be AWESOME if it would take other refined leathers as well) and several pages of paper, in user defined order and bind them into a basic book. Result will be "Book - Title" with a TT Value equal to the number of pages bound together, and the cover material. Decay is not added from the binder into the TT value.
Each of the above Binders can create multiple bound items at once, simply by feeding X copies of each of the pages into the binders.
Results: Players have a cheap, quick, portable method for creating content. A simple flyer, with a picture or Text, a magazine, or a book, for electronic delivery to other players.
The individual items are cheap enough to create that a "Free Flyer" type of press can exist, and more advanced publications can be created and sold/given away/traded.
MA can realize an income from the creation of news/information as decay is included in the printing and binding. Images and finalized HTML pages should be re-used and have a unique identifying code that allows more to be created quickly and efficiently by the players.
Litter is not a serious issue, because the sheets have a small TT value, and as such, if someone leaves a bunch lying around, someone else can simply TT the items (throw them in the recycle bin!) and be paid for their efforts of keeping Calypso Clean immediately!
The high benefit of easily tradeable PC will far outweigh the low cost of delivery, and an in game press can be realized fully! Please share your feedback with me, thanks for reading.
ppl often say there's not much in terms of a flow of evolution in pe and this is another example.. we can create video ads and stream content..... but we can't write on paper or distribute material? 
