Speaking of paper mills, funny thing is I wrote a proposal at least a week ago but had other things to propose instead:
New building:
Name: Paper Mill
Construction cost: $250 and 2 logs
Destruction cost: No cost
Capacity: none
Paper Mills have an additional property: "Processing fee", initially $1 when the Paper Mill is constructed. The owner of a Paper Mill may at any time set the processing fee for that Paper Mill to any positive dollar amount.
A player who has a Paper Mill available to him that he does not own (same restriction as stores) may use the Paper Mill to process a Log. To do so, the player must pay the processing fee for that Paper Mill to the owner of the Paper Mill. The player then loses the Log, and receives a random amount of Papers between 1 and 6 inclusive (1d6).
New items:
Name: Paper
Cannot be used
Name: Spell Book
Cannot be used
A player who owns a Spell Book has the ability to cast any spell from any realm (assuming he has the cost/requirements). If a player casts a spell that he would not be able to cast if he did not have a spell book, he loses one spell book.
Name: Magic Book
Cannot be used
Each Magic Book a player owns reduces the M.E. cost for casting spells by 5%. If a player owns more than one Magic Book, the 5% cost reductions for each Magic Book are applied one at a time.
Example: A player has 3 Magic Books and casts a 100 M.E. spell. The M.E. cost would be reduced as follows: Reduce 100 by 5% = 95, reduce 95 by 5% = 90.25, reduce 90.25 by 5% = 85.7375. So, the spell would cost 85.7375 M.E.
The Robot now offers printing services, which may be used by any player who is on the same square as the Robot or an adjacent square. All printing services have a cost (which may consist of paper or other quantifiable objects), and something that the player will receive in return. However, the Robot is not perfect. Any time a player uses a printing service, there is a 5% chance that the Robot will malfunction and shred the paper. If this happens, the player does not receive anything, even though he has already paid the cost for the service.
The following printing services are available:
Cost: 1 Paper
Player receives: The player chooses a type of instruction card. There is a 50% chance he will receive the type of card he requested, and a 50% chance he will receive a randomly selected type of instruction card.
Cost: 3 Papers
Player receives: 1 Spell Book
Cost: 15 Papers
Player receives: 1 Magic Book
I suppose only one of us should make a paper mill proposal though.