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Letters should really not be rare and exotic items.
Half of them end up clogging up a shop that isn't commonly accessible (without serious risk to yourself) and mostly out of circulation, or new characters buy a few at a go not realizing they're relatively uncommon.
It'd be great if they just came out of a vending machine and we could have any number of them floating around at once.
By Ameliorative at Jun 3, 2026, 3:32 PM
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SPLATJOB
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YES PLEASE! WHY IS PAPER HARD TO FIND SOMETIMES!?
By Rillem at Jun 3, 2026, 3:32 PM
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BATA
280 posts
100% I find it very strange that they are so rare. It makes no sense!
By JanekSembilan at Jun 3, 2026, 3:34 PM
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NEWBIE
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I think the intent behind that is to push people to use other more cyber-punky methods like e-notes and the grid to communicate since it's the far flung future and things are so advanced that something as basic as a pen and paper has become uncommon. Similar to how today you would be hard pressed to find a scroll and quill and ink at your local store.
I could totally be wrong.
That being said, I don't think it would hurt to have more of these floating around. Would be nice to have the cheap ass way to transmit information and corpies could smirk down at anybody too poor to be using a more tech savvy means of communication still, bountiful or otherwise.
By JMo at Jun 3, 2026, 3:35 PM
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STREET SAM
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Part of the reasons letters are limited is because of how much bloat they cause, iirc.
By zxq at Jun 3, 2026, 3:49 PM
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BAKALAKA
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I wonder if a solution to that could be some sort of natural degradation of the item. Like if it sits outside of a container item like a briefcase for too long, it shows signs of degrading that are viewable to the looker and then over time just blows away.
That's what happens to most of the pieces of paper at my house!
By JMo at Jun 3, 2026, 3:51 PM
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STREET SAM
480 posts
Maybe add letter or a variation of as an option on e-prints?
By Mindhunter at Jun 3, 2026, 4:15 PM
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SOLO
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By Rillem at Jun 3, 2026, 4:16 PM
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BATA
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Love the idea of having letters printed from e-prints. Could even replace the 'Resume' option on the e-note with 'Letter'.
PLEASE do not make letters degrade, that would be so sad for my nostalgic sentimental ass. Also it's hard enough to pass on Withmore's history and culture -without- all the documents disappearing.
By svetlana at Jun 3, 2026, 10:17 PM
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ACE KOOL
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Physical resumes just seem outdated in Sindome as much as they are in real life, more so when trying to gain employment from a business that is NPC led. I don't think anyone in the game seriously advocates for handing a physical resume over with a firm handshake and multiple calls to see if the employer read it when gridmail exists.
By Mindhunter at Jun 4, 2026, 7:54 AM
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SOLO
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Is it possible that the database is counting the number of letters on grid, including already used ones, and therefore thinks we're at capacity? Could this be solved by classing a used letter as a different item from an unwritten one, so that blank sheets of paper are spawned when existing letters are used and not necessarily when they are destroyed?
By xXShadowSlayerXx at Jun 5, 2026, 4:37 PM
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NEWBIE
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I think they're being marked properly when used, just there's one Lucky Dragon in Blue that barely ever gets frequented because you get exploded (or threatened with being exploded) if you're one of the caste that needs letters for setting foot in the place.
So they all sort of aggregate there until someone's brave enough to visit during the quieter hours.
By Ameliorative at Jun 6, 2026, 12:45 AM
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SPLATJOB
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I dunno. Actual paper being rare in a cyberpunk world seems fairly legit.
By Slither at Jun 6, 2026, 5:43 AM
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JUSTICE
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Yeah, I don't see why you wouldn't just use an E-Note or Gridmail for like 99% of use cases.
By Baguette at Jun 6, 2026, 11:38 AM
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STREET SAM
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