o-mote
Dropping things with style

There was a command they implemented in another mud I played called omote (emote for objects) which allowed you to set the room description for a dropped object.

So you could 'drop pipe bomb'

Then omote pipe is tucked under a pile of trash, barely visible at all.

Anyone entering the room would then see, 'A pipe bomb lies here, tucked under a pile of trash, barely visible at all."

It was a temporary room description that would get wiped if the item was picked up and dropped again.

I kind of thought it was a silly addition when they added it, but it ended up being really fun and I think it could be even more fun here since lots of items are left for others to find in various ways already. Adds a bit of flavor.

Interesting idea.

Thank.

I like this because it adds more to items than just being in a vague "is here" when it's in a room, usually it leads me to automatically assume everything is all in a pile in the center

Just to throw my actual opinion in, while some staff have said they don't think players should be able to use @integrate, I'm not sure there is actually a lot of evidence to support it's abuse or spamminess would be a foregone conclusion because there are other descriptive areas of the game that are basically untethered and rarely present problems, or where they do sometimes present problems (like descriptions) the benefits of the freedoms outweigh the minority issues.

I think it's something that could reasonably be tried out for a trial period and rolled back if there was problems with it, but I do think directives to keep things reasonable and not excessive or abused carry weight with players generally and might be enough.

I don't see too many problems compared to things like look_places, If 15 people can be in a room with a sentence each then why not let people add a little flavor for objects

"you see a letter" vs "A letter is here, stuck between some books" it can add 10x the context.