Lockbox as persistent container

[Irish. 4886]

I think that going back to the days of tents everywhere filled with loot, people not caring about death too much will have a great impact on this game.. perhaps negatively. I also fear that the persistent backpack idea will potentially mean that backpacks are everywhere hidden in bushes, leading to players playing recklessly. 

 

I feel like having Lockboxes ONLY would be a great remedy to the trappings of persistent containers. You find one looting, it takes up 15 slots to carry.. only a backpack with room can hold it. You cannot place more than 15 items within the lockbox, (this includes being able to add a weapon taking 10 slots but only while the box is on the ground, not while carried). You would have to make room in your pack, by filling the box first just like a plastic container, before you could place it inside. This way you would be forced to limit your inventory options and ability to get to some of it quickly. This would make players want to place the box as soon as they could after finding one.

 

The lockbox works like a tent, but is very hard to see unless up close or left out in an empty field/road. In game it would be roughly the size of a hiking backpack when placed flat on the ground, or even a bit smaller. You can combine it with a lock and key, but you cannot personally lock it like a safe (or perhaps a combo lock model that can be only set by the original owner would be best?). If you place it down without a key, anyone can open it. Otherwise they must have a lockbox key to open it. 

 

Make them very, very rare to find after initial testing phases so that players cannot simply hoard boxes and loot within them. Have their spawn chance be very low and only in high traffic loot spawns that are not as abundant, like ATC towers & shipwreck.

 

In the least, please consider the consequences of 30+ slot tents, and persistent backpacks(if we are not limited to 1 per player per life). I really think it would be horrible for the SA to have a person like me walking around (and many others like me), with tents all over the map filled with gear.. killing everything in sight because I have nothing else to do. <-- i.e. what happened in the mods

Edited March 27, 2014 by lrish