How to deal with Authors' books?
I've just started to focus more on writing books. Creating an in-game book publishing company helps, and I'm currently building both their community lot and a webpage. This far about 5 Authors signe...
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Thank you all for good advice! I'm giving this all some more thinking before implementing a tradition. I'd wish there was an easier way than up/downloading a room, because it will not happen just once, but every time a sim writes a book. But, if I create my own book covers, those would not been seen in the library anyway, so well... That goes for the retail as well, but there I could at least visualize through custom posters showing off the Author/book cover. It would get tedious doing posters for every single book, but there could be a selection.
Gifting a few copies might be a good idea, just need a routine for it.
I might end up simply imagining again... I often do that in this game, and move the visualizing to my web page and blog.
I made a library for a community lot years ago and did something similar to what SheriSim recommended in that I added tons of books (skills, etc... I think all of the books from the packs I had at the time, etc.) and left them lying around on the floor and tables on the lot. I did that with a High School that I made, also, in the library I added on that lot. I found in both cases I could place the lot from the gallery or from my library into my save (with the books lying all over the floor, so it looks rather chaotic) at first and that sims would autonomously shelve the books, or sometimes I had one of my sims(s) go in live mode onto the community lot (after it was placed in the game save) and shelve the books to get it done with. Then after that point all of those books were available on that lot and found in any of its bookshelves. Of course, once they are shelved if you save it the lot to the library or gallery the books will be gone. If you want to see how they work, "Rockridge Academy of Arts" is the high school I mentioned and "Conservatory Library" is the library.
I never thought about experimenting with saving them into a room (to place on the lot to dump the books there in a similar manner, which is a great idea), and I very much look forward to hearing the details of how this works in regards to your copies of the books your sims write! I have done a touch of experimenting with books they write and bookshelves, but I don't remember how far I got. If the book copy will successfully upload to your library I am assuming that will sever any ownership, which would hopefully solve that issue and maybe make it function like other books on a public lot? Of course, by any of the methods I mentioned I'm sure your sim would not get any of the profits, but as mentioned elsewhere, you should be able to publish the original to make 'actual' profits. Anyway, I look forward to details!
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