The only people that benefit from resource contention are bullies and those with far to much time on there hands (and they have to fight each other for camping sites). We have people that stand around node spawns on barri all day.
Alternatively
Start rewarding raw resources for repeatable quests such as factions quests and town quests. that way the Toxics can keep their favourite pass time of camping and resource stealing and those who wish to just level crafting have a viable way of doing so.