Tear (destroy) notes

[Anthony Roberts]

I bet, in the world, there are several thousand notes. Like, hundreds of several thousand notes. And, what is being done to limit their population? Not much that I see. So I contribute an idea (Based off of the burning notes/bodies idea)

How about when creating/editing a note, there were an option (Checkbox) if the paper were tearable. If you checked it were tearable, you could rip up the note later to remove it from the game and such. If it were unchecked, it would be like the notes now.

Or even, have a lamination machine of some sorts. Notes are all tearable, except when laminated, then become non-tearable for all those legal documents, laws, and such.

Just a quicky idea.

Thoughts?

Edited for thread title. -rklenseth

[Revanael]

I wish I could destroy half the notes one of my characters is carrying. Several dropped by Newton during the incident a few days ago. Complete rubbish... Envelopes should also be destroyable.

[Anthony Roberts]

Exactly my point. I have a huge envelope of notes just growing larger and larger. I'd love to get rid of them ALL!

Most of the time, I make my notes editable, so that I can recycle it by writing a new note on the same page, removing the old note. But with legal type documents, I make it uneditable so that others can't play with it. But when those uneditable notes get out of date, I need to store it away as garbage and post a NEW note.

Tearing or burning the old note would be good.

[The Hunter]

Jos has stated his view on being able to destroy notes... He's against it. He sees them as part of the history of Cantr and suggested tto put them in envelopes or storing them in libraries instead of destroying them. Also, you might have noticeds the envelopes lying on the ground in most places.. Ususally called: "Trash"

[Anthony Roberts]

Yes, I know. But I'm against his views

History. Pfft. In real life you can rip apart, shread, burn up, etc notes you don't want.

I'm sure if it were a poem, story, book, or old legal notice THEN it would be cool to keep it in a library or something.

But a note that says...

"Jos,
What's up? Is this your house? Bye!

--Anthony"

is a waste, and I doubt would want it's place in a library.

Also, what if it was a personal letter?

"Dear Jos,
You are so hot, I want you. Remember that time when... happened and... you know... and then you... and I... remember?

--Anthony's Female Side"

I'd want a personal note like that burned.

[Bran-Muffin]

Yes well cantr is NOT the real world. Deal with it.

[Anthony Roberts]

I know that. It's a society simulator.

Simulate this! *Rips a piece of paper*

[Meh]

The note population is one of the least game effecting types of growth espcially when envelops are used.

Note deletion is not going to happen for historical reasons. And I would imgaine even building/vechicle renaming and destruction will always preserve the orginal names somehow.

However the idea of providing a button to delete duplicate notes and save only one copy was well recieved.

But please note (pun intended) there are many other things that people want more.

[Anthony Roberts]

Yes, I know. Notes aren't a big thing. Not some huge bandwidth eating mechanism (I never said it was, either ).

But there's just a lot of them, and to get rid of them, especailly with neat freak characters, would be good.

I didn't say this was top priority one suggestion! There ARE better things to work on, I'd imagine and be well aware of. I just wanted to suggest it

[Sho]

Trash envelops work fine.

[Queen Ehlana]

I found it pretty annoying when this one guy suddenly dropped 4 blank notes titled "-Test-"

[Spectrus_Wolfus]

just build a library and give some poor lamer the job of being librarian. build em a desk and stuff to make em feel good and have em work o other stuff aswell. that way the notes are now someone else's problem


and yes i happen to have a librarian char not easy on the minutes making copies of all historical document's to stop theives stealing them

[jeslange]

Jos did make a suggestion that there could be an option "erase multiple copies of this note." So, if you had, say, 12 copies of an uneditable note like "The Informant Issue 3," you could take it down to only one. Or, for those of us with 1,000 blank notes in our "recycled paper" envelope, we could make it so that the envelope is no longer a pillow.

[Spectrus_Wolfus]

how about a copy envelope button ? so if you have an open envelope you can copy it's entire contents without having to empty it all out then copy each note then stuff them back in again ?

[Meh]

That would be great. Did you mention it before? It sounds familiar.