Michcat
i'm the wench if you're the cake ;)
I find this a wonderful idea! However, to me, it seems something more along the lines of player-interaction would make such an endeavor easier. The Postmen would be the one giving the Book&Quill, and the 'deliveries' box would be in the back of the post office. Whenever a Postman is online, you check whoever else is online, and if they have a letter for them, then you deliver it by hand. I think it could lead to create a lot of RP, and cut down on resouces, as we would only need one Post Office- albeit a large one.What still needs to be determined is :
- Is there a safe way to deliver the message & items, other than giving it directly by hand ? What could be cool is each person having a personnal mail box (a chest), either directly in the post office (but could take a lot of space and then would need a huge building ! :-( ) or better in front of everyone's house. But then how to allow the post officer to access the chest but make it safe for other people not to steal what's in it ? (same question for the message & items in the office departing box).
- How to handle the sending fees ? Buying a Book&Quill at the office could be the way of doing that (with a cost a little higher than usual, it could cover both the book & the sending fees). But what about someone bringing its book with him and thus not paying the sending fees...? Obviously this method is flawed ^^
And the second point that was destroying that is : what about if you want to add some items ?... I suppose using the /money pay command does not leave any trace in a log or anything like that, so how to be sure that people have paid the exact amount ?...
The solution I'm thinking of is : maybe depositting an item that is known to have an exact value could be used as a workaround... (for the sake of an example, lets say that an Feather worth 1 Radiant. Sending a message having a cost of 5 Rads, the sender must leave 5 feathers along with the message. If they want to send a single item along with the message, they must leave 2 other feathers to cover the item's additional fee. Of course that's a silly example with random values chosen, but its meant to explain my thoughts !...)
I'd love to hear your thoughts about that, am I trying to over-think that and is it dedicated to perish because of nobody would us it, or do you think it might be a good idea (at least for RPers) and that should be started ?...
Thanks a lot guys !
To make this sucessful, I believe it needs both OOC and IC value. So- with the above method- IC value could be written off as the joy of recieving a letter, perchance a present, whilst your character relaxes in a Tavern, or the opportunity to further an RP of yours.
OOCly, you can send a missive to one who is offline and probably in a different Timezone, as the ideal Postoffice Organization would have constantly active members in many timezones, and probably a few nightowls to add.