by Scree » Wed Oct 28, 2015 12:48 am
Yeah, if someone plays detective and this is implemented, and scat is a thing that squicks them out, suddenly they can't do their job any more because the HoS is ordering them HEY YOU, GO POKE AROUND IN THAT PILE OF CRAP.
If things are done in text and someone walks in on someone RPing out curling off a loaf in the bathroom, they can easily LOOC "whoa okay pretend I was never here because I don't want to take part in that sort of thing". Or the people RPing can LOOC "oh, hey, you might wanna duck out of this" when the door opens and just hold off on hitting enter on their RP posts until they're out of sight.
Leaving an actual physical item in game is waaaaaaay more likely to result in people having this stuff thrust upon them that skeeves them out. It's the same objection I have to having people make cum as an actual reagent or whatever, because someone will leave it in glasses in the bar and suddenly a good chunk of the station's population can't go for a drink without being forced to break prefs.
Putting in something for toilets to or whatever to give a message is fine, because they're in a nice secluded private cubicle and nothing persistent is left in-game. Leaving a pile of physical remains, though? You have no idea who's going to stumble across the room next.