Daily quest boxes stacking

r34lian

So why does these reward boxes/satchels dont stack
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They all are from same source and I dont get the reason for them not stacking

FierceSam

Because they are containers, which don’t stack as they may have different items in them. Is the practical answer.

Because it’s ZOS and they want to make your inventory kill your love of the game is the real one

Dojohoda

Each one is unique.

Thrasher91604

Aren’t their contents determined at the time of first opening?

r34lian

Thrasher91604 wrote: »

Aren’t their contents determined at the time of first opening?

Yeah that's why don't get it

Merlin13KAGL

They are, but they don't want you hoarding thousands of them for numerous reasons. They're intended to be consumed on the spot.

I suspect the contents are triggered by some unique identifier attached to the container, even before opening. It also effectively limits the chances of certain drops, because they can control (and monitor) how many of a certain spawn will occur based on the number of containers out there.

On a more interesting note, certain containers, such as Mystery Reward Boxes, can produce items from new content *(new, as in did not yet exist when the box dropped), provided you haven't peaked inside previously.

They're just on their not-to-do list. Siege, excessive mats, even potion stacks beyond 200 are not things they're going to give up freely anytime soon.

Zephard

And the fact that once you peak inside but don't take anything out, or even if you take one thing out, and then close it back up, they still have the same name. No name change, so they can't stack, as they all are individual "containers".

Nestor

Bottom line, you are not supposed to hoard reward containers.

Asardes

There may also be a way to prevent errors. For example when uncracked geodes containing transmute crystals could stack, opening one would open multiple or even the whole stack, causing some of the crystals to be lost. Most dragon dropped containers only have low value items in them, some outright trash, and if you open them at once you will save a lot of space, by selling those to NPC, and only keeping the valuable stuff like motif pages or blueprints.

redlink1979

Each one is unique. Same reason because gear doesn't stack...

Just open them.

Taleof2Cities

Nestor wrote: »

Bottom line, you are not supposed to hoard reward containers.

Nestor wrote: »

Bottom line, you are not supposed to hoard reward containers.

Nestor wrote: »

Bottom line, you are not supposed to hoard reward containers.

Be sure to read this reply three times, @r34lian, before making another post in this thread ...

Prrasha

r34lian wrote: »

Thrasher91604 wrote: »

Aren’t their contents determined at the time of first opening?

Yeah that's why don't get it

They don't stack because their contents are determined when you open them.

Imagine opening a 3-item box when you have only 1 open inventory slot remaining. You take out one item, then you have to close the box while you make room to loot the other items.

If that box returned to a "stack" of unopened boxes, you'd have an infinite-loot generator. Just sell/bank/decon one item, open the box again, get a new roll on determining the contents...

So each box has to be its own item, with either a list of previously-determined contents, or a "contents not generated yet" flag.

Thrasher91604

It could change to unstackable, once opened.

r34lian

Taleof2Cities wrote: »

Nestor wrote: »

Bottom line, you are not supposed to hoard reward containers.

Nestor wrote: »

Bottom line, you are not supposed to hoard reward containers.

Nestor wrote: »

Bottom line, you are not supposed to hoard reward containers.

Be sure to read this reply three times, @r34lian, before making another post in this thread ...

I aint playing much those are gathered just by logging in for event tickets besides also items from witch festival now I can't just go on to 5 min loading screen after every run and yeah inventory management without craftback is pain and also don't have time for dat.