Science & Industry

Not really. Ice anoms are entirely different, in that they only spawn in certain systems, and were specifically designed to cap the maximum amount of ice available. You probably cannot assume anything about Ore anoms based on Ice anoms.

Also, I never paid much attention to Grav sigs, but unless they were different from other sigs, they most definitely spawned at times other than DT. There does generally seem to be a reseeding of sigs at downtime, but that was NOT the only time they spawned.

One of the best tactics for finding "good" sigs when using DSPs was to look at the IDs of the sigs in the system. All the ones that spawned at downtime would have approximately the same name, with increments of 1 (little-endian). If you dropped a DSP and saw, e.g ABC-123, BBC-389, CBC-928, you knew those sigs probably all spawned at downtime. If it's 16 hours after downtime, there's no way any of those are a DED site, and you move on.

If you see ABC-123, BBC-389, CBC-928, and QXJ-389, one of these things is not like the others, and definitely spawned more recently than DT.

LOL,

ORE anomalies are not new, the only thing that changed is they are now anomalies not signatures. they have always been there, you just needed probes and good scanning skills to find them. the spawns, composition, and respawns have not changed in years.

If you think this is hard for you who never new these sites existed, how do you think the players feel that trained up the scanning skills and bought the faction equipment so they could find these sites before, now having to share them with every Tom, ****, and Harry with a mining laser.

Besides, most of these anomalies are not restricted to spawning after down time. These are, or at least used to be random anomalies, when they despawn in one place they respawn somewhere else. rarely in the same system. Unless you are in a sov null sec system with industrial upgrades where the hidden belts respawn in the same system right away. But still you do not wait until down time for them to respawn. As far as I know these spawn mechanics have not changed, the change was that this are now visible to everyone, not just those who put the effort into finding them.

That's not how it works. Ice anoms spawn every 4 hours (or is it 4 hours after one gets mined out). Gravs are just like all the other anoms. Once one gets despawned, another one spawns somewhere else in the constellation. Been like that for years now. Not 100% sure on the timing, where a new one spawns somewhere else immediately or whether it's also done on a timer, but that's how it works.

That's actually not a safe assumption at all, beyond a general, "No, they probably don't only spawn at downtime (which, frankly, would be silly anyway, and is obviously not the case)."

No they didn't. Grav sites, like other exploration sites despawn when completed (mined out in the case of grav sites) and then respawn elsewhere. They're no more tied to downtime than radar, mag and combat sites are.

4 hours after they clear.

Look, you're half right here, and so are all the people talking about sites respawning during the day. There's more to it than either simple option.

I play in the few hours before downtime every day. In fact, Australian peak play time is defined as terminating at downtime, because after downtime there's not much point logging in because it's bedtime. But regardless, in those few hours before downtime I have been able to find plenty of grav sites to mine. Some of them spawn in systems that I have already explored. So they do spawn during the day.

What might be confusing some people is that grav sites apparently reset after DT, meaning all of them are present. Then they get mined out and head into their usual respawn cycle, so they get scarcer and scarcer during the day.

Hope this clears things up for folks. Yes, the people who are exploring and mining after DT will have an easier time of it, and the people who play immediately before DT are going to have a harder time of it. But the sites still spawn during the day.

You're not *in* a mission or trade hub. You really need to stop that wasteful mining outside the busy areas of space. EVERYONE knows that the BEST mining is in mission and trade hubs. Sheesh, get with it, man!!

And the remaing two people like left... 2 rocks of omber in a large Jaspet/Omber site... so yeah... good to know everything will be gone by the time evening American players get online.

Nope, absolutely false. I have run into mining sites that appeared at some point during the day. I have seen them pop up at all hours of the day. In both K-space and wormhole space.