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DED despawn if not scanned for a while ?
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Arkolino
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#1 - 2014-05-14 18:35:25 UTC
Hello.
I have a question about rated DED sites, and if someone knows the answer and is sure of it, please post it.

Let's say there is a low sec system that is rarely visited and that's exactly where a 5/10 just spawned.

What happens if no one scans it and completes it ?

Will that ded stay there forever until someone finds it or it will relocate in another sytem after a while
Batelle
Federal Navy Academy
#2 - 2014-05-14 19:52:37 UTC
all signatures will despawn about 3 days from the first time they appear, even if no one warps to them. I'm not sure if these kinds of despawns can happen throughout the day or if they only happen at downtime.

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Derath Ellecon
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2014-05-14 20:00:59 UTC  |  Edited by: Derath Ellecon
Arkolino wrote:
Hello.
I have a question about rated DED sites, and if someone knows the answer and is sure of it, please post it.

Let's say there is a low sec system that is rarely visited and that's exactly where a 5/10 just spawned.

What happens if no one scans it and completes it ?

Will that ded stay there forever until someone finds it or it will relocate in another sytem after a while



In general cosmic signatures will persist until activated. Activation occurs as soon as someone initiates warp to it. Once that happens the site actually "spawns" and the timer starts.

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there may be some sort of global timer. I'm not sure. And I don't know if they are different in different types of space. But for example we have a WH data site in our home system that has persisted so far for about 2 weeks.
Arkolino
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#4 - 2014-05-14 23:01:01 UTC
Damn, 2 posts, each saying a different thing, That is helpfull
Tauranon
Weeesearch
CAStabouts
#5 - 2014-05-15 02:32:10 UTC
Derath Ellecon wrote:
Arkolino wrote:
Hello.
I have a question about rated DED sites, and if someone knows the answer and is sure of it, please post it.

Let's say there is a low sec system that is rarely visited and that's exactly where a 5/10 just spawned.

What happens if no one scans it and completes it ?

Will that ded stay there forever until someone finds it or it will relocate in another sytem after a while



In general cosmic signatures will persist until activated. Activation occurs as soon as someone initiates warp to it. Once that happens the site actually "spawns" and the timer starts.

edit

there may be some sort of global timer. I'm not sure. And I don't know if they are different in different types of space. But for example we have a WH data site in our home system that has persisted so far for about 2 weeks.


In k-space, they last for 3 days, whether or not someone enters them unless someone performs the completion task, which is usually kill the overseer or start hacking a can (if its digital plexus or something like that). I used to try entering drone complexes to trigger timers and they didn't go away.

Ded signatures hold their state over downtime, but the grids despawn, and the game doesn't do the repopulate task until someone warps to the entry grid, so if you logoff inside the ded as the server goes down and get straight back on, you'll return from your ewarp to an empty grid. When you come back in, there won't be in any NPCs in cleared rooms, and the gates will be unlocked if they were the kind that is unlocked by killing the npcs

Ded escalations don't save state.

You can have wormhole signatures last a long time if you wait nearly 3 days before going to it (and nobody else goes to it), and you roll a wormhole that happens to last a long time before its 24 hour timer starts.