Originally Posted by RK
Simple experiment. I have a lockbox on my character on live- I'll get a rogue to unlock it, I'll look in it, then mail it to a bank alt and put it away for at least a week until there's been a server reset on my server and see if the contents changes.
If it requires a loot table change to reset the contents (like your crates) then there's nothing really exploitable. If it just needs a server reset, that's leads to potentially storing up hundreds of lockboxes, checking them after every downtime and only clearing the ones that come up with a blue...
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I believe I once did this by accident, I had a rogue open a few lockboxes and then had to log before looting all of them (probably out of inventory space or something). Anyway, I was sure I remebered unlocking all of the boxes and looking in them, but at a later date they had all relocked themselves. More to the point though was the feeling the loot had rerolled somehow when I eventually got them unlocked a second time, but without actually knowing for sure what was in each one I just shrugged it off at the time. (/passed the whole thing off as myself going a little crazy.)
-edit, seeing post above about boxes relocking on posting, I guess this could have actually been the cause of all my confusion.
I suppose the experiment if anyone wants to try it is get a large sample of boxes, unlock them, loot a single item from some with 2 items (to check if interfereing with some of the contence "saves" the data for the rest), and then post them all to an alt, tagging those with 1 of 2 items looted, as well as those with 2 items left inside to make sure. Then if you see them relock thats a sure sign, otherwise after a server reset or a week take a peak at them again. This combination should cover most of the potential variables that we can try and play about with, but your 1 lockbox is actually plenty enough to cover most of the matter.