12-30-2005, 06:57 PM
nobbie,Dec 30 2005, 03:05 AM Wrote:I also noticed that those spots seem to be "connected" to your character, because the spawns often appear when you get close enough to the nodes. Your character seems to be set on a timer, i.e. "char has found last RTV 45 minutes ago", and when that time is over, a new RTV will spawn in one of the four locations if you get close enough. Otherwise, it wouldn't be possible to give players a fair number of resources in a world that is shared by hundreds of players.
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I _strongly_ suspect this is not the case. I would frankly be shocked if the spawning subroutine did anything like check the characters in range and how long it's been since they mined something. What if there are 10 characters near by, but 3 have mined recently and only 5 are miners?