So I briefly touched on this in my RP wishlist post without really going too deep into this, so here goes:
First off, I’d really expand the scope of this beyond just tents and include more or less every placeable object, there’s a breadth of possibilities to enhance immersion through these means and I think those should be expanded upon :>
I wanted to discuss duration and potential griefing a bit. Most placeable items currently only lasts for a few minutes, I think some of the longest-lasting ones are the guild banners at 15 minutes, and they can often be quite annoying to have to place down continuously. 15 minutes fly by really quickly during RP, and having to constantly break character to place them down can be very annoying.
I realise that one of the reasons this is the case, is that players can abuse this to add a lot of clutter to the world to ruin other people’s sense of immersion, or downright grief someone by continuously disrupt their experience of both RP and also other types of gameplay. Let’s all remember that some jokesters find it really fun to get up on a big mount and block a questgiver or something else that you need to click on. Having the ability to place down tents or any other items can also create similar situations.
I’m not entirely sure how to resolve this issue, for on the one hand, I really want tents, tables, banners et cetera that I can place down and keep there for a while, and I don’t want someone else to ruin my experience by doing the exact same thing, except that they’re doing it to grief you.
Cooldowns are an okay solution, I think, and also being limited to having one item placed down could also be a reasonable thing. Or perhaps you could have an option to hide placeable items of people on your ignore list, or have an option where you can toggle it on and off? Probably too complicated ideas to implement in a reasonable time frame.