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US Timezone and Sites
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Xecoll
Trojonomy Industries
#1 - 2013-06-12 13:11:50 UTC
I have a question every morning (US timezone) i sign on there are cosmic sites that need to be scanned corp mates in the euro zone say there is always sites they find/do in the euro timezone. They don't do all of them but when i sign on at night like 0200 eve time all the sites are gone (other corps or alliances run them)? My question is do sites respawn in a 24 hour period somewhere in the region or if say a really good one spawns is it done for the day. I am not sure if its just bad luck or what but i seem to never to be able to do any sites.

Last question do they always spawn at server startup or is it random?
dexington
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#2 - 2013-06-12 13:26:57 UTC
Xecoll wrote:
My question is do sites respawn in a 24 hour period somewhere in the region or if say a really good one spawns is it done for the day.


Sites respawn within the same region.

Xecoll wrote:
Last question do they always spawn at server startup or is it random?


Server startup don't spawn new sites, they just get new id's.

I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.
Xecoll
Trojonomy Industries
#3 - 2013-06-12 13:29:51 UTC
Cool so in theory i should see some sites popup in like a 4 system radius at night even if everyone else ran wiped them out
Amanda Chelian
#4 - 2013-06-12 13:43:46 UTC
If you're logging in at 02:00, then it's likely that european players have farmed most of them recently (between 20:00 and 00:00) so they would still be pending spawn when you start looking for them.
Master Blaster2013
Future Tech Industries
#5 - 2013-06-12 19:15:32 UTC
So basically my timezone playing is out of luck then and i just have to get lucky? i mean kind of sucks or is it still kind of in the works that ccp might fix to make it so it hits more timezones?
Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
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#6 - 2013-06-12 19:24:12 UTC
The respawn mechanic isn't fully understood. We've never had confirmation from CCP, one way or another.

Some believe that the moment a site goes pop, it respawns (maybe on a tick) somewhere else within the region/constellation.

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Beef Hammer
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#7 - 2013-06-12 19:24:36 UTC
The way I've always been told is that sites respawn almost immediately, the where and how is not known. My normal playtime is between 10pm-6am est, and I dont have problems finding sites.
Callic Veratar
#8 - 2013-06-12 19:39:10 UTC
I found 3 data sites in the same system yesterday around 6pm EDT, the third spawned as I was completing the second one. The first two spawned while I was completing an escalation I found around 4pm.

The timers are sufficiently obfuscated that it should be hard to figure out. Ice is by far the simplest (4 hours across one system). The others could be random across a constellation or region with a fixed or random timer. The type might be random. If you want to figure it out, you'd need a character in every system in a constellation at minimum and to watch all site spawns and despawns over the course of at least 24 hours.