Treasure Chest - sysmessage proposal

To remind (or inform new t-hunters) about chopping chests, I propose a sysmessage upon digging that says something like "When you are finished, your chest may be destroyed with an axe"

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I like it, but I think the root issue is education not lack of reward

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How long does it currently take for the chest to despawn? (If left unchopped)

too long

Some people will only learn with incentive. Chopping for a chance at plat plus system message is the win.

leave a chest unchopped, get stalked by a nasgul

Yeah, probably, but just something that gets the point across to people who don't know, right?

I'd totally be down for the random chance at a plat idea. Makes grinding lvl 1s even better. ;-)

Oh, haha .... not directed to you. There was a question about chest decay time.

I honestly think it's more a lack of motivation than anything. People are lazy as shit. I'm in favor of it being a gold payout for chopping in lieu of platinum unless the chances were really really slim on lower levels for plat.

find out who they are
propse a solution of chopping their chests
when they refuse publicly oust them for the tardaloony asshats they are
form a torch weilding mob
track them down and disrupt their gameplay in a similar manner

Or just make the chest despawn sooner? 14 mins after its first looted, like corpses? Maybe sooner? Or give it a timer after its first dug up, something like 7 mins.

I think this way is better than platinum chance.

I'm still partial to the torch weilding mob idea.

X minutes after last activity would be fine

No on activity timers, unless it starts when the chest is completely empty.

No on last activity why? Start on digging presumes we can predict how long a chest should take. And not everyone empties the chests (which is part of why leaving them unchopped is a pain. If it were empty, you just clear it yourself)

Only because I've done plenty of chests where things go haywire and recovery takes some time. If for some reason the gods saw fit to have my newly found treasure disappear while I'm fighting to get alive and equipped again, I'd pretty much throw you down a flight of stairs for coming up with the idea.

It's still better than a timer on digging

But yeah, losing a chest while recovering would suck.

So, that leaves us with one option currently - my original idea of an educational sysmessage