Why I don't fully loot the chest in ESO.

Redguards_Revenge · March 25

The truth is I never have the space to loot it. I take what I need and go. I won't waste my time juggling items in my inventory to destroy stuff that means nothing to me.

I haven't played in some months. So I don't know if ZoS has a solution. However, here's what I want ZoS to do. Simply give me a destroy all button for the rest of the items in the chest. is the "?" button taken for anything? It needs to be a button that I won't accidentally hit and consciously have to hit.

It could be the loot all button but I have to hold it for 2-3 seconds to destroy all. Tap to loot all hold down for 2-3 seconds to destroy all. Then everybody gets their respawning chests.

Rkindaleft · March 25

If you're constantly running around with 198/200 inventory space why don't you just take 30 seconds to sell some of the stuff you're literally never going to use?

Froil · March 25

For me it's because I refuse to pick up trash. Most of the things in chests are trash.

Hapexamendios · March 25

What are people carrying around that they have so little space? Even on my characters with multiple builds, tanks and healers, I don't have a problem even though I'm carrying enough armor for 4-5 different builds.

ESO_player123 · March 25

I clean the chests and do not leave any trash for other people to clean after me. But that is just my approach because I personally find it irritating to make a detour for a chest only to find it containing someone's leftovers.

Sakiri · March 25

Froil wrote: »

For me it's because I refuse to pick up trash. Most of the things in chests are trash.

Then don't open the chest.

Kite42 · March 25

Hapexamendios wrote: »

What are people carrying around that they have so little space? Even on my characters with multiple builds, tanks and healers, I don't have a problem even though I'm carrying enough armor for 4-5 different builds.

Recipes, companion items, furniture, museum pieces, potions, poisons, master writs, resource surveys, odd gear you're waiting to research, treasure maps, random food and bev that's not your level, lockpicks, soul gems, unfilled soul gems, crown store buts and bobs, xp scrolls, leniency scrolls, fragments, rune boxes, style pages.

My ferry is coming in, but that'll get you started on a list of stuff people find themselves carrying.

Hapexamendios · March 25

Kite42 wrote: »

Hapexamendios wrote: »

What are people carrying around that they have so little space? Even on my characters with multiple builds, tanks and healers, I don't have a problem even though I'm carrying enough armor for 4-5 different builds.

Recipes, companion items, furniture, museum pieces, potions, poisons, master writs, resource surveys, odd gear you're waiting to research, treasure maps, random food and bev that's not your level, lockpicks, soul gems, unfilled soul gems, crown store buts and bobs, xp scrolls, leniency scrolls, fragments, rune boxes, style pages.

My ferry is coming in, but that'll get you started on a list of stuff people find themselves carrying.

That's what bank space is for.

Froil · March 25

Sakiri wrote: »

Then don't open the chest.

And not get leads or whatever IS good in there? Pff. I will gladly leave you my scraps.

SandandStars · March 25

if u dont clear chests completely & just take the good loot you are selfish & lazy

Tenthirty2 · March 25

I autoloot everything I find lol.
Even if it's a piece of gear I don't want to use it still decons into crafting mats which I DO use.

JustLovely · March 25

Leaving trash in chests rather than fully looting the chest is a selfish and disrespectful action. It prevents chests from respawning and leaves the junk for the next player.

Please show respect to your fellow players and fully loot any chest you open.

Rishikesa108 · March 25

JustLovely wrote: »

Leaving trash in chests rather than fully looting the chest is a selfish and disrespectful action. It prevents chests from respawning and leaves the junk for the next player.

Please show respect to your fellow players and fully loot any chest you open.

Completely agree. In fact, ZOS should prevent people from looting only partially: it's all or nothing. There are those who even just take the plant and leave the resin for the next player. So it's not just for chests...everywhere people only partially loot. Also in Thief's Troves...

vsrs_au · March 25

Rishikesa108 wrote: »

JustLovely wrote: »

Leaving trash in chests rather than fully looting the chest is a selfish and disrespectful action. It prevents chests from respawning and leaves the junk for the next player.

Please show respect to your fellow players and fully loot any chest you open.

Completely agree. In fact, ZOS should prevent people from looting only partially: it's all or nothing. There are those who even just take the plant and leave the resin for the next player. So it's not just for chests...everywhere people only partially loot. Also in Thief's Troves...

An even better solution would be to update the looting mechanic so that you take the items you want, then when you exit the looting UI, the chest despawns.

Sakiri · March 25

People did this in other games too and it's a pet peeve of mine.

If there's never anything good, don't open them. That simple.

Or get an assistant and decon/vendor /bank as you go. Or visit your guild trader/museum more often seyou aren't hoarding crap.

Your problem shouldn't be my problem.

ElderSmitter · March 25

The way i feel about players leaving stuff in chests is this.

That is the same way they live their own personal Lives. Take it at Face Value.

Cheers!

HowlKimchi · March 25

IMO it's a failure in game design that chests do not respawn if left partially looted. ZoS is enabling toxicity be letting this be. I think it's also easy to fix. When you unlock chests it should be immediately transferred to your inventory, as a container like rewards of the worthy or daily crafting writ containers, and you open the loot bag from your inventory. The open world chest should then despawn, thus preventing it from being a stale trash container.

colossalvoids · March 25

The only thing I'm bothered with here is misinformation about chest despawn mechanic, but other that that you do you - zos made space a premium thing, no wonder people can't/don't want to play along.

Taking all 99% of times but can see why others don't.

Jaraal · March 25

Tenthirty2 wrote: »

I autoloot everything I find lol.
Even if it's a piece of gear I don't want to use it still decons into crafting mats which I DO use.

Yep I autoloot everything. Ain't nobody got time for standing around sorting chest trash! Force lock, smash and grab, get out of Dodge. On to the next chest, while Joe Slow is busy deciding what to keep and leave. My junk handler addon automatically round files the trash, and whatever's not flagged gets sold to the merchant when I have down time.

Jaraal · March 25

HowlKimchi wrote: »

IMO it's a failure in game design that chests do not respawn if left partially looted.

Where did you get that idea? Once a chest is opened, another spawns somewhere else in the zone. The half empty chest starts a decay timer that is equal to the amount of time the empty chest location would remain if nothing respawns there.

Test it for yourself. Find a tiny delve and mark every chest location. Loot them all... I guarantee you can't, because they will respawn as fast as you empty them. Then, loot every chest, but this time leave one item in each one.

Come back and post what you learned.

HowlKimchi · March 25

Jaraal wrote: »

HowlKimchi wrote: »

IMO it's a failure in game design that chests do not respawn if left partially looted.

Where did you get that idea? Once a chest is opened, another spawns somewhere else in the zone. The half empty chest starts a decay timer that is equal to the amount of time the empty chest location would remain if nothing respawns there.

Test it for yourself. Find a tiny delve and mark every chest location. Loot them all... I guarantee you can't, because they will respawn as fast as you empty them. Then, loot every chest, but this time leave one item in each one.

Come back and post what you learned.

I got the idea from guildies way back when. I admit that I don't really do chest runs to grind for gold or gear. I have been in discord calls with people who do though and everytime they see a partially looted chest they would get tilted and go on a rant about it.

If you're right, and you seem confident that you are, then that's great and i'm glad to be wrong.

Zodiarkslayer · March 25

@Redguards_Revenge
I don't get it ...
You see free stuff lying around and
...
walk away? 🤦‍♂️

Are you sure you are playing the right kind of game for you? 😉

davidtk · March 25

I have smart autoloot addon, from treasure chest it takes everything and destroy trash automatically.
Just because I hate that behavior to left there half-looted chest.
Same as for resource nodes!!

notyuu · March 25

Zos should implement one of two solutions for this
1: make chest spawns in overland instanced, ya know like how nodes for surveys are.

2: if you go more than 10 meters from an overland chest you've opened but not completely looted it explodes shooting the disrespectful and lazy player with a beam of oblivion damage that does 100,000 damage a second.

Obviously one of those solutions is a joke, but that is no excuse for being lazy and preventing/delaying chest spawns for other players just because you can't be bothered to take 30 seconds to make sure you have a feasible amount of bag space before you go treasure hunting

davidtk · March 25

notyuu wrote: »

Obviously one of those solutions is a joke...

Mmm i bet the joke is number 1. So I am for number 2 but add one zero to dmg

The_Boggart · March 25

The only thing that is hard to pickup is a duplicated treasure map.
Sometimes when I open my banker to store the original some scroat will come and Rob the chest.

Kite42 · March 25

Hapexamendios wrote: »

Kite42 wrote: »

Hapexamendios wrote: »

What are people carrying around that they have so little space? Even on my characters with multiple builds, tanks and healers, I don't have a problem even though I'm carrying enough armor for 4-5 different builds.

Recipes, companion items, furniture, museum pieces, potions, poisons, master writs, resource surveys, odd gear you're waiting to research, treasure maps, random food and bev that's not your level, lockpicks, soul gems, unfilled soul gems, crown store buts and bobs, xp scrolls, leniency scrolls, fragments, rune boxes, style pages.

My ferry is coming in, but that'll get you started on a list of stuff people find themselves carrying.

That's what bank space is for.

Mate, the bank holds under 500 at max capacity. There are more recipes in the game than that, to pick one item category from my list.

This game has deliberate item bloat, and has it for a reason. That reason starts with M and rhymes with 'funny'.

Rowjoh · March 25

I take the useless stuff and leave the gold and anything of value.

(my char name is Robin Hood btw).

Hapexamendios · March 25

Kite42 wrote: »

Hapexamendios wrote: »

Kite42 wrote: »

Hapexamendios wrote: »

What are people carrying around that they have so little space? Even on my characters with multiple builds, tanks and healers, I don't have a problem even though I'm carrying enough armor for 4-5 different builds.

Recipes, companion items, furniture, museum pieces, potions, poisons, master writs, resource surveys, odd gear you're waiting to research, treasure maps, random food and bev that's not your level, lockpicks, soul gems, unfilled soul gems, crown store buts and bobs, xp scrolls, leniency scrolls, fragments, rune boxes, style pages.

My ferry is coming in, but that'll get you started on a list of stuff people find themselves carrying.

That's what bank space is for.

Mate, the bank holds under 500 at max capacity. There are more recipes in the game than that, to pick one item category from my list.

This game has deliberate item bloat, and has it for a reason. That reason starts with M and rhymes with 'funny'.

If you have 500 of any item that doesn't stack, that's on you not a lack of space.

barney2525 · March 25

Sakiri wrote: »

Froil wrote: »

For me it's because I refuse to pick up trash. Most of the things in chests are trash.

Then don't open the chest.

it will reset FASTER if it is emptied.

its common courtesy. something that some people don't have, but what they hey. The OP makes it sound like this is some HUGE Difficult task when they can just store the items until they bump into a merchant and spend 30 seconds selling anything they don't want.

But that is SOoooooo hard to do.

Shara_Wynn · March 25

Jaraal wrote: »

HowlKimchi wrote: »

IMO it's a failure in game design that chests do not respawn if left partially looted.

Where did you get that idea? Once a chest is opened, another spawns somewhere else in the zone. The half empty chest starts a decay timer that is equal to the amount of time the empty chest location would remain if nothing respawns there.

Test it for yourself. Find a tiny delve and mark every chest location. Loot them all... I guarantee you can't, because they will respawn as fast as you empty them. Then, loot every chest, but this time leave one item in each one.

Come back and post what you learned.

Aren't there only so many set locations in any zone where a chest can spawn? If so then if there were an item left in every chest in the zone, so that none of them could de-spawn, then where do the new chests spawn, if every set location still has a chest with an item left in it?