Interaction between Heroes, Boxes, and Urns

[Munds]

I was thinking, sometimes it’s very annoying and time-consuming to collect items that drop from urns and boxes when we shoot them from a distance. Why not create a system where, after 10 seconds of shooting these urns and boxes from afar, the item automatically comes to our hero?

This timing would be interesting if an enemy were contesting the item (in this case, the hero who passes over the item on the ground first would get its status). I’d like to know what you think about this idea.

Note: At any time, even outside of a contest, if you need the item’s status quickly, you could still walk over it, as is the current system.

 

[sokolov2601]

I think this would make farming extremely overpowered and give a huge unfair benefit to heroes with large magazines.

 

[gibnewitems]

The whole point of boxes and golden statues (they're not urns) is to encourage roaming and rotating. They also reward taking more aggressive positions in lane (especially the gold statues in the side lane). I don't think any sort of long-ranged collection should ever exist for pretty obvious reasons. I do think that it would be a good change if they had a larger pickup radius, like credits in MvM.