Veinblood1965 wrote: »

Are we sure this isn't a bug? I've never experienced this not even one time on PS4 NA. Even during the Wrothgar event last year where all day long in chat people complained about it I never saw it once and was harvesting and opening chests like crazy.

Is it because you were the player leaving stuff?

The comment about DESTROYing items in ones inventory is only partially valid.

If I'm farming and suddenly can't pick up any more new items-- that is, something I don't already have a partial stack of-- the first thing I'll do is summon my merchant assistant (now that I broke down and bought one while it was on sale) and sell any items that I can, so I'll be able to pick up the remaining item (worms, crawlers, mundane stone, heartwood, etc.). I collect all that stuff, even bait-- some of which is used in certain Provisioning recipes, although that's not why I collect it.

If I don't have anything I want to sell, I'll use the merchant as a temporary extension of my inventory, selling items that I can easily find in the wild (such as Provisioning ingredients, which are readily found in most delves), then buying them back later.

Before I bought the merchant assistant, I would try to DESTROY whatever I didn't want or need. But after you've DESTROYed any trash items that you don't care about, what are you supposed to do then-- DESTROY something you want to keep? I would occasionally have to leave behind something I couldn't pick up.

However, whenever I ran out of inventory space like that, I'd stop farming and go back to town so I could work on managing my stuff. If someone continues to run around trying to collect stuff, and ends up leaving a string of partially-harvested nodes and chests behind them, then that is definitely rude, although if the person is a newb then they might not know any better yet.

As far as the statement that nodes (including chests) will respawn regardless of whether they were there, partially gone, or all gone, I don't have any idea whether that's correct or not, but I suspect that it probably is. If you find a partially-harvested node or chest, you most likely just came along before it had a chance to respawn.

My suspicion about low-level players who touch nodes without harvesting them, leaving behind low-level mats in what looks like high-level nodes, is that a lot of them might be bot accounts, and they're still running around on their programmed loops even though they're completely out of inventory space. I don't mind picking up occasional low-level mats, because as a crafter I like to have stacks of all possible levels of mats. But if every single node is like that, it's really aggravating, especially since I don't go farming unless I need mats for doing my writs, as I generally don't sell mats-- unless someone in zone chat or guild chat is looking for some and I want to help them out. I don't even need to farm on NA, because I have more stacks than I can handle. But on EU I still need to go farming on occasion so I can do my writs, especially for Clothier writs, because my crafter on EU hasn't invested SPs in leveling up the Clothier skill line all the way, so about 50% of what I find is too high-level for me to use, and the other 50% that's at the level I need seems to get used up all too quickly.

Sylvermynx wrote: »

AlnilamE wrote: »

Celterium wrote: »

AlnilamE wrote: »

As others have pointed out, whether someone took everything or not, the respawn timer starts when the chest is touched. And you will know immediately if someone was there before you since the prompt will say "Use" instead of "Unlock".

gp1680 wrote: »

Maybe the bigger issue is why there is “trash” in the chest to begin with. It would be nice if ZOS looked at the contents of both chests and that stolen loot thingy. Both those things are getting kinda’ stale. It would be cool to add maybe transmute crystals, undaunted keys, tempering items based on level of chest, etc. Just a thought..

One man's trash is another man's treasure. Just because all you want is a MS Inferno Staff doesn't mean that the items that are in the chests are useless to other players.

Then, please take all the contents of the chest like me (although I do not need this trash, but a think for other)

I do!

And I also don't complain if a chest was already opened. I just grab the contents and move on.

Yeah. I don't care if something's been cherry-picked and the rest left (okay, I roll my eyes....) And I clean up after those who do the cherry picking.

I had some person whisper me a year back maybe, laughing at me for cleaning up ta and oko from a runestone. S/he was like - ha, now I can come back and get the good stuff again real soon.

*shrug* I'd rather be nice than nasty. So....?

If someone said that to me, I would stand right on top of the node respawn location until it respawns and take it for me(just to keep them from getting it). I don't care if people leave 'trash' behind but to make a point of whispering and laughing about it is just rude.

The audacity of people who come up with self constructed ethic rules and detailed instructions on what other people have to think about and what they should do in order to ensure their convenience and pamper their **** never fails to amaze me. So everyone is supposed to:
Pick up crap you don't want.
Open your inventory, scroll scroll scroll.. right click, destroy (oops... wrong one).
Think ahead (!) and manage your inventory before you even move out so you're not running out of inventory space.
All this to save YOU from the possible dissapointment of opening a chest that has already been looted on the odd chance that you arrive 2-5 minutes after someone touched it. And if people refuse to follow those orders, they are of course ignorant and selfish, according to the laws of the white knights with the holier than thou attitude.

SidraWillowsky wrote: »

Asardes wrote: »

One of the things that annoys me is lowbie players touching resource nodes but not actually picking up anything from them, so I see them, pick them up because they still look like CP150 materials and ending up with low level materials instead.

I figure that lowbs don't know how resource/chests work and don't realize that they remain half empty if they leave them that way. It's the half-looted chests that contain CP 160 gear that make me angry.

No, I mean there isn't anything picked from them, the material is there as the other stuff like worms/crawlers and furnishing materials. It is just touch and go. And I've seen some people do this repeatedly, to multiple nodes, without any logic. I mean if their inventory is full they would stop after the first and unload some stuff, since there's a message on screen that says it. At least they could change the display icon so it shows that node has been set to a lower level.

Donny_Vito wrote: »

Not everyone has ESO+ and can horde. Sometimes, a player just doesn't have enough inventory to pick up all the materials so they only take what is most valuable and/or necessary.

#FirstWorldProblems

If they are so low on inventory they can't afford to collect the lockpicks before turning around to delete them they have much bigger problems and maybe shouldn't be collecting chests to start with.

Back to the OP's complaint. A lot of players have said they would like to see changes to the way chests work for a long time but ZOS hasn't bothered to do anything about it. I don't see why this time would be any different.

Take all the things. Found a partially looted portal the other day and the idiot left the aurbic amber. And I have lost count of the number of mundane runes and heartwood I have found left in node's.

CaffeinatedMayhem wrote: »

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Royaji wrote: »

CaffeinatedMayhem wrote: »

Celterium wrote: »

gp1680 wrote: »

Not really. A spriggan resto staff is still trash. Set piece or not. In order to make treasure maps and general chest hunting more appealing, there has to be better stuff inside.

But I never see set items, even useless, left in the chests! Only any trash like a glyphs and more

Nodes/chests respawn FASTER (2-5 mins for nodes, and as quickly as 5 mins for chests) if fully emptied

This is not true and a common misconception. The respawn timer starts when the node is opened. It's irrelevant if anything was taken from it.

This does not apply to NPCs for thieving since timers for respawn and restock are different.

Agreed. It has been tested countless times and shown to be false.

Really? Huh, because I see the opposite every damn day when I farm. Interesting. Also, the only people I ever hear say that it's not true are those who want justification for leaving trash in nodes.

I've tested it about a year or a bit more ago. If it's any consolation, once I dropped my ESO+, I just avoid all nodes and only leave trash in dungeons. I just buy pots or ask friends for them.