So my husband and I have played Summerset, almost non-stopped since the PTS Tuesday and I have to say that, with the fact that jewelry nodes as well as giant clams being so few and far between, something should be done with the fact that people are only taking certain things from them and leaving behind junk.

As two people who has essentially played since launch, subscribed since launch, and had purchased two hard copy Collector's Edition Morrowind expansions last year, we are loyal ESO fans. But, the fact that players will only take items from chests, nodes, etc and leave behind junk has been an issue for as long as I can remember. Summerset is no different. As it is, a player can spend days upon day searching for enough jewelry seams to complete their writs and level up Jewelry crafting, not to mention wandering along the coast searching for the Giant Clams in hopes of getting the new alchemical ingredients, there simply is not enough of them around. We have had luck with the jewelry seams in other zones in Tamriel, but the few we have found in those places will be even harder to find once Summerset goes live.

So back to the reason for this post. We played until 4 a.m. EDT this morning, we've done that every day since Tuesday because on Monday we couldn't get into Summerset due to some sort of bug that kept several Morrowind testers from being able to access Summerset. Late last night we essentially ran along the whole coast of Summerset searching for Giant Clams and at one point there were two people in front of us doing the same. We followed along for about an hour, hoping to find clams they may have missed. On several occasions, these players would come upon clams, and even a couple Pewter and Platinum Seams and would bend down to harvest these nodes, take out what they wanted, and leave junk behind. My husband and I would follow them and see the clams or seams they loot, but when we would walk up to these and search, there would NOT be ANY Dust material left inside or any Powdered Mother of Pearl or Clam Gall.

I know that, with the Giant Clams it states that:
"These clams, when looted, may yield up to two of the following:
Two new alchemy reagents: Powdered Mother of Pearl and Clam Gall
Clam Gall is an offensively oriented reagent, while Powdered Mother of Pearl is more defensively oriented, granting new combinations of survival effects
Fish meat, for provisioning
Bait, including fish roe, guts, and worms
Grease solvents for alchemical poisons
Or, very rarely, clam-themed furnishings for your home"

But when you walk up to clams that players have just looted and there be only ONE Fish Roe inside and the next clam, they just looted, be only ONE Alkahest, you know that they have taken out just the Powdered Mother of Pearl or Clam Gall. Same for the Pewter and Platinum Seams along the boulders, just in from the coast. As we followed these players around, we came upon 2-3 seams they looted and when we opened these seams right after, there wasn't ANY Dust left inside, just junk. These same two people would even open chest along the coast and leave green and purple weapons or armor pieces inside and as some of you may know, there's a chance of getting the new motifs in these chest, in the past few days, my husband and I have looted three of the new motifs from unlocking chest.

Now before people go crazy on me and talk about limited bag space and all the other reasons that players may not take everything from inside nodes and chests, these are just excuses. I know that everyone may not have maxed out their bagspace and capacity riding lessons and I know that not everyone can afford to purchase the personal banker or merchant, but EVERYONE has the ability to "Destroy" items in their inventory. There is no excuse for not taking everything from a node or chest. It is my understanding that when you do not remove everything from a node or chest that it will not respawn another until they have been emptied. And as so many others in the PTS zone and on this forum have stated, and I agree, there are simply not enough of these nodes and clams around as it is, so those people who do not empty them when you come upon them, are not only hurting yourself but other players by not looting everything inside.

@ZOS_GinaBruno and @ZOS_JessicaFolsom, you really should force auto-loot on all players when harvesting nodes and unlocking chests. If someone is having an issue with bagspace, they can simply go into their inventory and select items to "Destroy" instead of leaving items behind and keeping other players from harvesting and/or collecting the things they want or need from chest and nodes. My husband and I have still not decided whether to purchased the hard copy Collectors Edition of Summerset, much less the digital upgrade, partly because, at this point the ability to create and/or improve jewelry and make potions with the two new alchemy ingredients seems to be to much of a grind to achieve and will take almost all of our playing time to farm for the mats we need and not enjoy the other new things that come with Summerset. We just do not know if spending that much real money is worth it to us.