Study desk

[Procne]

With the growing number of different inspirationals and increasing proficiency levels (which in turn requires us to use more and more inspirationals) I think we could use a specialised container for inspirationals.

Study desk

• It would have 64 slots
• each type of inspirational would take one slot (after it's put in).
• if you put in an inspirational that's already in you will just sum their charges. Example: you have a singing log in with 8 charges, you insert another one with 10 charges so as a result you have 18 charges now. Up to 100 charges.
• you cannot take inspirationals out of the desk, only study them. Maybe also an option to free a slot by destroying an item.
• You cannot use inspirationals in the desk for crafting or socketing
• desk can be carried or destroyed (for crime purposes).
• you can equip the desk with some tools to get a small bonus when studying. For example each tool would give 1%-10% increase in amount of proficiency points gained when studying.
  
  • The strength of the bonus would either depend on purity of the tools, or on the material the tool is made from.
  • Examples of tools: magnifying glass, measuring ruler, scale weight, microscope (according to wikipedia some simple microscopes were commonly used in 1660s), jeweler's eyepiece, chemical reagents in testing tubes, tweezers, lamp
  • Tools would wear out when you study stuff (the speed would be different for each item).
• Studying items at the study desk would decrease insanity more than studying from inventory.
• Desk itself wouldn't be too costly to make - some oiled boards, iron bars, nails. Tools would range from cheap ones to very costly ones (gold bars, steel, glass etc.)

The desk would allow us to store inspirationals in a more orderly fashion, as well as add another way of progressing for towns in the form of crafting study tools to make our inspirationals more effective

Compendiums

Compendiums would be a way for more experienced characters to boost the learning speed of less experienced characters. Characters with very high proficiencies could monetize on their lore, or simply help their friends, while new characters could buy themselves a boost, or get it by joining a town.

• Study desk would have a special slot where an empty book can be inserted
• When inserting the book one proficiency has to be chosen
• As long as the book (compendium) is in then every time an inspirational, giving the selected proficiency, is studied, the book will increase its "lore" level (the pilgrim writes down his findings on the specific subject)
• "lore" level would increase by the amount of proficiency points (for the selected proficiency) gained from studying, with harsh diminishing returns for repeatedly studying the same inspiration. For example, when writing a compendium of Stocks&Cultivars, studying first willow aphid would add 4250 lore (since it adds 4250 S&C) to the compendium. Second one would add only 2125, third one only 1062, fourth 531 and so on...
• Having a compendium inserted would increase inspiration cost of studying (since the pilgrim is taking extra effort to write down stuff). Optionally would also use a bit of ink
• Each compendium would have its maximum skill (don't confuse it with lore) level / cap which would be determined by the highest proficiency level of characters writing in the compendium
• When compendium is removed from the desk it's considered finished and cannot be put in the desk again. Now it can be copied.
• Copies cannot copied further.
• Copies of a compendium can be equipped in a tool slot and will help when studying inspirationals for the compendium's proficiency
  
  • Compendium would either decrease inspiration cost for the specific proficiency (or maybe even nullify it), or would increase number of proficiency points gained. So with the compendium of S&C and studying willow aphid the pilgrim would would either had the cost of the 4250 S&C lowered (or even nullified) or would gain more than 4250. It's easier to better understand the nature and properties of inspirationals if you have a compendium guiding you, right?
  • The reduced inspiration cost, or the proficiency points bonus would drain compendium's "lore". When "lore" reaches 0 compendium copy is destroyed
  • Maybe it would also be possible to allow pilgrims to use copy of a specific compendium only once, that is, after it's destroyed, getting another copy would have no effect
  • Compendium's max skill cap / level would limit would determine the max proficiency level to which the compendium would work. So if your pilgrim has higher level of S&C than the compendium then it would have no effect, nor studying would drain any "lore".
• Original copy of a compendium could be a precious loot - it would allow anyone to make more copies of this compendium

[JohnCarver]

I like the idea. Not a huge probability we can get it in for the first expedition though.

[Nikixos]

I don't like the charges thingy because it makes it harder for criminals. But a storage for inspirationals is good, it should also give bonus when studying from there.

[Procne]

I don't like the charges thingy because it makes it harder for criminals. But a storage for inspirationals is good, it should also give bonus when studying from there.

Is it really that different from a locked cupboard / shed? Criminal can only destroy those and lose most of the contents, since the stuff will land in black void of a house or under other buildings. But with the desk the criminal can just carry it away and use it himself

[Dallane]

I love this.

[ShadowTani]

I really like the idea of this desk! However, not so much the additional tools - unless they are optional. Would also make more sense that it's several types of them if they only provided a bonus for one specific proficiency each (for example a paint brush would give bonus to Arts & Crafts etc.).

[McTc]

if it only could automaticly use the most optimal inspirationals that is inside it, to gain a desired level

[Pildream]

With the growing number of different inspirationals and increasing proficiency levels (which in turn requires us to use more and more inspirationals) I think we could use a specialised container for inspirationals.

• It would have 64 slots
• each type of inspirational would take one slot (after it's put in).
• if you put in an inspirational that's already in you will just sum their charges. Example: you have a singing log in with 8 charges, you insert another one with 10 charges so as a result you have 18 charges now. Up to 100 charges.
• you cannot take inspirationals out of the desk, only study them. Maybe also an option to free a slot by destroying an item.
• You cannot use inspirationals in the desk for crafting or socketing
• desk can be carried or destroyed (for crime purposes).
• you can equip the desk with some tools to get a small bonus when studying. For example each tool would give 1%-10% increase in amount of proficiency points gained when studying.
• The strength of the bonus would either depend on purity of the tools, or on the material the tool is made from.
• Examples of tools: magnifying glass, measuring ruler, scale weight, microscope (according to wikipedia some simple microscopes were commonly used in 1660s), jeweler's eyepiece, chemical reagents in testing tubes, tweezers, lamp
• Tools would wear out when you study stuff (the speed would be different for each item).
• Studying items at the study desk would decrease insanity more than studying from inventory.
• Desk itself wouldn't be too costly to make - some oiled boards, iron bars, nails. Tools would range from cheap ones to very costly ones (gold bars, steel, glass etc.)

The desk would allow us to store inspirationals in a more orderly fashion, as well as add another way of progressing for towns in the form of crafting study tools to make our inspirationals more effective

Dude! I was thinking the same thing the other day ! But you took it to another level +10!

AWSOME : you can equip the desk with some tools to get a small bonus when studying. For example each tool would give 1%-10% increase in amount of proficiency points gained when studying.
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What I disagree to though:

if you put in an inspirational that's already in you will just sum their charges.

people study the same inspirational twice or more sometimes, It is also preferable for some ratios, what you suggest would not help that.

you cannot take inspirationals out of the desk, only study them.

why ? needs change by a single lvl up to be allways optimal, I do not see why this restriction

Tools would wear out when you study stuff (the speed would be different for each item).

Do not like that, too complicated and costly, people would just use the traditional way i think ...

[Procne]

What I disagree to though:

if you put in an inspirational that's already in you will just sum their charges.

people study the same inspirational twice or more sometimes, It is also preferable for some ratios, what you suggest would not help that.

I'm not sure what you mean - there is no problem with studying the same item many times at the desk. The original reason for this idea was to sum those charges so that we don't have to keep stuff like t3 pumpkins, flowers and other common inspirationals across multiple sheds, and instead have a one, centralized location for convenient studying

you cannot take inspirationals out of the desk, only study them.

why ? needs change by a single lvl up to be allways optimal, I do not see why this restriction

So that people don't use it to merge inspirationals into a single item for easier transport / circumventing weight mechanic

Tools would wear out when you study stuff (the speed would be different for each item).

Do not like that, too complicated and costly, people would just use the traditional way i think ...

You can always take the tools out if you don't want to waste them, or just study the normal way.

[tytymu]

I like this idea