Flask of Supreme Power

[nobbie]

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?
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If, say, 3 (miner) characters are in range, the one whose timer shows "green" and who is approaching the node, will cause the RTV to spawn *IF* there hasn't been a spawn in that area within, say, the last 15 minutes. If the other two miners notice "your" spawn and are quicker at the vein, i.e. with a faster epic mount, then bad luck for you who has "activated" the node :)
As I've said, this is pure speculation, but I think that there is indeed some "subroutine" that checks your character against the potential spawn points. I think it works like this: Some "main routine" prevents that a new spawn can appear in less than i.e. 15 minutes on any RTV point within a certain area, and a "subroutine" checks if you have been mining there within the last i.e. 30 minutes. If there hasn't been a spawn within the last 15 minutes AND if you haven't mined there within the last 30 minutes, then a RTV will spawn at one spawn point in that area.