I have the opposite problem of this previous discussion on preventing the room description upon exiting a container, in that I don’t want the room description to trigger when sitting down on a bench. Another thread suggested “surreptitiously move” but from my best reading of the Standard Rules, that’s already what happens when the player opts to SIT ON it.
What am I missing?
See the first response by @kamineko on that thread, which points to the cause.
I did not find the answer you mention, but I did figure out the solution the next morning. I had implemented bench-sitting as
Instead of entering bench:
now player is on bench;
say "Message with complicated conditional."
where clearly the explicit moving of the player is what prints the location description. I changed this to the more logical
After entering bench:
say "Message with complicated conditional."
which solves the problem. Oops, embarrassing!
Oh, my apologies! I didn’t read your post carefully enough and thought that you were referring to a very recent thread.
The information to which I pointed you wouldn’t have helped in your case, anyway, because you were manually relocating the player using an Instead rule. Glad you figured it out!