Label Drugs

Why do this?

* More visible branding. There is a mechanic for branding right now, but it's pretty opaque.

* RP surrounding branding and investigation; when, for instance, a corporate character has Mix cook-branded candy or vice versa.

* More utility for the ability of chefs to 'tailor' the candy the chems they produce. Without going too deep into IC information, chemists can produce candy with particularized effects, but the ability to market based on those effects is sharply limited by the inability to distinguish between 'tailor's friend' weed and 'that joint the combat manos like.'

I think this would help chemists compete on things other than just price, and generally increase competitive RP between them, as well as be a tool for investigation (and deception of investigation.)

If it changes the name, I think there may be some difficulty in making sure everything stacks properly even with the same names, as it'd have to make a new object each time.

If it doesn't change the name and just modifies the existing object, it would still be really cool but also difficult to validate large quantities of drugs are all of the same brand.

Alternatively, I wonder if a general 'label' item can be made that allows you to accomplish similar results but for anything. For example, with current devices you can create a box of business cards, I wonder if a box of labels could be made, like very bare-bones stickers.

If a system like labelling candy were to be introduced then it should be purely for flavour of who cooked it or who they cooked it for. Maybe make the option to assign the brand when the equipment is set up.

If you have lots of candy that needs to be sorted by quality then hire and pay a chemist to grade and organize it for you.

Drug description. A blank label.

Or

Drug description. A label reading, 'WORDS'.

But if you have skills and tools you can see more like usual. This means the labeler could lie or tell the truth and most wouldn't know. But someone with the right skills/stats/gear would/could know better.

It absolutely should not represent the data that is held by the chemists' ICly, their knowledge, their skills or equipment, who can tell you more technical info about the candy. If you're not asking a chemist what candy to use and you just want a label on it that says "Tailors: Use this!" does your character really care about the difference?

Drugs already have a label telling you the bare minimum basics so that you know it's at least not baking soda tablets when you look at it.

I could see this used to create interesting RP.

Brand your candy until it has a good rep then start slipping in sub-par packages now and then to increase profit. Until you're found out!

Or, if your brand has a good rep and someone starts sabotaging that rep, go find who did it and conflict!