library?

so i've been told there once was a library.. in the dawn of time when people roamed the badlands and taxis parked on street corners.. and the park had canibals…and what not... etc... the good old days before us.

i've read a few threads mentioning the library and education in the dome in general...

so my wondering goes something like this... why was it removed? how was it being abused? (since i'm thinking it had something to do with that?) are there plans to restuff a library of sorts into the fibers of the game? (yes i know there's a miles long list of projects and code....)

*shuffles through some pamphlets on how to become a goat ninja*

It was on Green actually.

And abused quite badly.

Dumb fucks, all of ya'.
It was on RED.
Where else would it be?

…
*cough*

Excellent graphic, Dom..  though I haven't the foggiest idea about where or what this library was, I think it'd be cool to have one.  I don't care if it can increase skills or not.  It'd just be cool to have a place to look up information.  Info on corporations, the way the government works in SD.  Heck, it'd be a good place to put a complete book of law, too.  Hm.. didn't someone code a version of Neuromancer?..  maybe they never finished.  But if they did/do, the library would be the perfect place to put it.  Hell, they could let you read books there, or sell them to you, or lend them to you..  maybe it'd cost to get a membership to it or something.  Could be managed like SIC.  Check out (or buy, or read there, depending on how you want it to work) so many books, pay this amount of money via a terminal somewhere.  I think it'd be neat as hell.

A place to get info would be handy indeed - but I find myself wondering why, in 2088, there would be a library with paper books. You have any idea what a pain in the ass it is to search through a large library for a particular book? Why would this inconvenience be perpetuated in a disposable future? Aren't paper book collections for the rich and richer?

Then, I'm suddenly reminded of the Esper terminals in BladeRunner, which Deckard uses to analyze photos, and which Bryant uses to look up incept dates.

Wouldn't that make more IC sense? A 'library' full of terminals? Maybe even very expensive (50k+?) ones you could install at home, like the VR phones?

Maybe even make the data web-based like quickterms, as to not increase MOO DB size and leaving the possibility of anyone with notepad to write up a few info pages for it (pending approval, of course).

Just a thought.

That's wrong Dom… once again.

That map is correct, but on Green not Gold. It could not have ever been there on Gold, because that's where the WHJ is. Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids.

*still not completely useless around here*

Why put them on disks at all?

Libraries, in the real world, exist for people who do not have space/money for a bazillion books.

If these books were all in electronic format, and you can afford a terminal at home to read disks on on the first place, then space/money is no longer an issue, and you could just access them directly from your terminal at home - possibly for a fee. Just like…say......let's see if I can find a real-world example for this.....hm......very difficult.......Aha! The internet.

For a bunch of cyberpunks y'all sure like having your data on physical objects a whole lot.

Not if these terminals are expensive enough that people who have to live in cubes can't afford them.
And even moreso that they'd have to be installed (as VR phones).

Look at it this way - 1000c = ~50 USD

Let's say this terminal would go for the equivalent of ~2000 USD, which would come to 40Kc. You gonna spend 40Kc on something you don't really need? Not unless you're loaded. People who are loaded have the prerogative to stay in their apartments doing nothing if they so choose.

FS is right… and Dom isn't wrong.

The library was initially built on gold, until someone pointed out it couldn't actually be where it was since it'd be hovering in mid-air over Red, and moved it to Green. It was probably only on gold for a couple of days at the most... it was moved to green... it was horribly abused... it was removed.

For the record, you could 'study' three times a day, gaining a 1 UE directly allocated to a skill at each study. On the plus side, it did get the UE whores, who log in three times a day to type '@who', '@quit', out of their coffins... to go to the library and type 'study' three times before returning home to '@quit'...

Those who remember Improvisar might be interested to know he was SD's single most UE loaded character ever in his time, thanks to the above technique. He's also the person who can be credited for the existence of the idle kicker thanks to his admin-rivalling 2-3 day idle times...

I'd hazard a guess that only two characters remain alive who's stats were touched by the library...