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Despawn Times for DED Combat and Profession sites?
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Maximillian Bonaparte
Interstellar Booty Hunters
Abyssal Booty Hunters
#1 - 2012-11-29 16:56:06 UTC
I've always assumed that combat sites (not anamolies) despawn after 2 days, and profession sites (radar, magneto etc) despawn after about 24 hours. But upon further research I cannot seem to find any consensus on this.

Can anyone clear this up? Do despawn timers only trigger when you warp to the site?

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Melina Lin
Universal Frog
#2 - 2012-11-29 17:14:28 UTC
It's almost impossible to collect reliable data, since there's just too many players roaming about.

But, I had un-profitable profession sites stay in a quiet system for longer than two weeks. Never warped to it or anything and I doubt anybody else did.

There's others factors, too. If you roam a quiet region, you sometimes find systems that have not been loaded after downtime. Do timers tick down in systems that have not been loaded? Stuff like that makes it hard to do research in a more controllable environment like the test server. :effort:

tl;dr I, too, am clueless.
Federally
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#3 - 2012-11-30 00:21:48 UTC
A few days ago I found a Grav site among several others in my home low sec system. Ran the few plexes, did my expedition I got and did the Ladar. Logged off before I had time to clean out the Grav, but I did warp in and look around. Logged back on the next day some 22 hours later and was surprised the Grav site was still around waiting for me. Then took my sweet time cleaning it out.

What's this mean exactly? Well who the F knows
Hazen Koraka
HK Enterprises
#4 - 2012-11-30 08:20:00 UTC
Federally wrote:
A few days ago I found a Grav site among several others in my home low sec system. Ran the few plexes, did my expedition I got and did the Ladar. Logged off before I had time to clean out the Grav, but I did warp in and look around. Logged back on the next day some 22 hours later and was surprised the Grav site was still around waiting for me. Then took my sweet time cleaning it out.

What's this mean exactly? Well who the F knows


Grav sites live for 3 days unless someone mines out all the roids in there.

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Hazen Koraka
HK Enterprises
#5 - 2012-11-30 08:21:15 UTC
Maximillian Bonaparte wrote:
I've always assumed that combat sites (not anamolies) despawn after 2 days, and profession sites (radar, magneto etc) despawn after about 24 hours. But upon further research I cannot seem to find any consensus on this.

Can anyone clear this up? Do despawn timers only trigger when you warp to the site?


I think this is kind of correct. I know that radar sites will live until someone begins a hack procedure on an info shard. Once that's started, if they leave and come back after 1 minute, it will be gone.

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Zhilia Mann
Tide Way Out Productions
#6 - 2012-11-30 16:58:46 UTC
I'm staring at a 10-day-old Grav site right now.

So... meh.
Hazen Koraka
HK Enterprises
#7 - 2012-11-30 21:00:55 UTC
Zhilia Mann wrote:
I'm staring at a 10-day-old Grav site right now.

So... meh.


Post the scan ID as a petition under "stuck" they will clear out the bugged database of the site.

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Mnemosyne Gloob
#8 - 2012-12-01 19:57:14 UTC
Zhilia Mann wrote:
I'm staring at a 10-day-old Grav site right now.

So... meh.


Untouched Gravitometrics ... yeah. We had one for about a week in our system. Then one day it was gone and i already was relieved - only to scan it down the next day again, at the same bookmark that i still had from before. I have no clue why it was gone for a day.
Hazen Koraka
HK Enterprises
#9 - 2012-12-03 08:23:04 UTC
Hazen Koraka wrote:
Zhilia Mann wrote:
I'm staring at a 10-day-old Grav site right now.

So... meh.


Post the scan ID as a petition under "stuck" they will clear out the bugged database of the site.

Exploration is Random. Random is Random... or is it?! http://docs.python.org/2/library/random.html