1.) Instead of picking the chest on location, they could simply relocate the chest to a secure area to pick the lock
2.) In some cases, raiders are more interested in destruction first and loot second.
3.) Raiding is hard enough already, please don't make it harder.
4.) Alt vaulting is already a secure alternative to keeping valuables safe during a raid, and is more likely to be used in order to keep the loot instead of losing it at all.
Now i'm sure there are more things to be said about this idea, and i'd like to hear opinions on it from more experienced angles than my own. As for what I have to say about the notes in relation to my suggestion, here are my replies to them.
1.) Instead of picking the chest on location, they could simply relocate the chest to a secure area to pick the lock
This seems like a reasonable way to securely open a loot chest that's locked up tight that could potentially have quite a bit of whatever you'd like to hide in it. Another thing i'd like to add is that in the case of betrayal, in order for someone to gain the MOST out of their backstabbing, they would be required to do it in this way now.
2.) In some cases, raiders are more interested in destruction first and loot second.
This is true, some people are more interested in destroying objects than obtaining them, whether to cripple a rival or simply out of spite. Why give these people the potential to make any profit off of such ventures? any highway bandit can be a brigand that destroys things, but not many bandits make good thieves. Make them work for it I say!
3.) Raiding is hard enough already, please don't make it harder.
I cannot comment on this because I've never been raiding before. Let me know how this would affect your raiding experience.
4.) Alt vaulting is already a secure alternative to keeping valuables safe during a raid, and is more likely to be used in order to keep the loot instead of losing it at all.
This is inevitable, at the end of the day if you want something locked away for no one to get at, you'll alt vault it. the rarest of the rare items will always be hidden away on an alt, but no reasonable human being would have enough alts to keep their entire vault locked away on characters alone. And even then, why would you want to do that? Apart from being overly-security conscious why would you go through all the effort to hide every single bit of good loot on another character? To me it seems like a lot of hassle, and I don't think a majority of people would be willing to do this if they have any sizable fortune to protect. There will be a hierarchy of what loot is more important, and you'll make your decisions based off of that when it comes to alt vaulting. You won't WANT to alt vault every single valuable you have.
Hope to see some talk on this, and to see if we could refine this idea into something workable for the game.