Despawn partly looted containers please.

zaria

In all my time playing ESO I have only found two opened chests.
One was years ago while leveling an carcter. Second was last year, I saw one left an chest so I looked, was some blue items and stuff who I just picked up. Has banker and merchant so why not.
Have auto loot on nodes and don't farm much so don't notice.

robertthebard

Elsonso wrote: »

twev wrote: »

I'm pretty sure it's a lot faster than 10-15 minutes.
I've had chests despawn while I sorted through inv looking for trash pots and food and junk to sell to my vendor or delete.

No one knows how this works, and I don't think that ZOS has ever confirmed (or denied) any of the theories presented in here.

That said, it looks like there are only so many untouched chests that are spawned into a zone at a time. This is some number that is less than the total number of places where a chest can be located. Theory is that the game checks periodically to make sure that there are chests to be looted, and if the number of chests drops below a certain level, new ones are spawned into empty spots to bring the total untouched chests to the right number. I think that part of this includes some measures to despawn partially harvested chests, if they start to pile up. Again, ZOS has not said boo in support, or disagreement, with any of our crazy chest theories in here.

All of the node timing tests were done on PTS, as far as I know. This is the only place where partially harvested nodes will hang around long enough to despawn without a player running by. This is long, boring research, by the way. I did some of that research.

It's probably a good idea that they don't, or the bots will have a field day once they have exact timetables to work off of.

FlopsyPrince

This is something I disagree with making too fast.

I regularly find my bags are full just as I am looting something. Then it is a race to bring out my banker/merchant and clear up enough space. This is especially true for locked chests where someone took my loot (it has been a while) since I had to free up space and they figured they needed the loot more.

(Or just let me loot directly to my bank!)