Ruvanal,Dec 31 2005, 06:19 AM Wrote:From having looked at what I have run into in doing mining, not all the nodes are set to the same factor for respawning. There are some nodes in an area that seem to be the ones on the shorter factors; they come up often and at really busy times you can almost always find them on a collection curcuit (if you do not have too much competition in front of you). There are some other nodes that appear to be on very long respawn factors. These I have gone for many days (or weeks) without ever having a spawn at them, or only showing a spawn when the area is a major hotbed of activity.Thanks for the detailed answer, I was waiting for your technical comments in this regard ;)
The difference between respawn factors (shorter vs. longer) in the various areas would explain my observations with some particular nodes, and why I've drawn the probably false conclusion that there must be some "subroutine" that checks your char against the nodes.
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