We've been living in a C5 for about 3 weeks, and have yet to have a grav site spawn. Have any other C5 residents gone this long with them? I've spent most of my time in lower-class w-space and there always seemed to be at least one every week or so.

If you are doing Grav sites in a C5, you are doing it wrong.

I dont think FloppieTheBanjoClown is trolling at all....

If you are doing Grav sites in a C5, you are doing it wrong.

Some systems do get fewer sites than others though. My (unprovable) theory is that some sites are tied to the constellation. If you live in a constellation where all or most of the other systems are unoccupied, there will be no people who regularly scan down sites and start their timer, so the sites stay in place and don't move to your system.

From quite a lot of monitoring I get the impression that living in an unpopular type of system results in fewer sites. For example I once monitored two C5s simultaneously. One had a C3 static, the other C2. C5/C3 is popular, C5/C2 not so much. The latter got virtually no new signatures for several weeks, while the other got at least one every day.

More anecdotal evidence: I was once living for a long time in a hole, and we occasionally got a new grav site, but not very often. Then we had some weeks where we were literally showered with grav sites. May well have been pure coincidence, but checking dotlan I noticed that one of the other systems in our constellation was newly occupied. And the sleeper corpse count suggested they were running a lot of gravs (regular but few sleeper kills). So maybe a ton of grav sites had accumulated in their system and now they were making them move on.

Maybe someone living in a truly crappy system like C4/C1 or C5/C1 can share his experiences...

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I've spent a lot of time in WS, and I can tell you that this guys suspicious are correct. Every constellation has a set number of available sites, and when a site despawns in one system it will immediately respawn somewhere else in the same constellation. As such, the unoccupied/inactive systems gather sites like they're going out of style.

Take the time to look up what constellation you are in. If possible, find out who else lives there. By working to gether to empty your own systems, and by despawning sites in unused systems, you can make sites spawn much more regularly.

Tip: If you happen to find a way into a system in your constellation, leave a probing alt in that system. By allowwing anything to lock it in a combat site (or mining one cycle in a grav site), you will trigger the despawn timer. Regularly despawning unused (or not-so-unused) sytems will improve spawning in the rest of the constellation.

i thought that just by initiated warp to the site (getting the site lore popup thing) that activated the site and it will de spawn 4 downtimes from when you initiated warp.

You're right. I have been doing it this way for a long time: When I am scanning my system, I immediately initiate warp to any new site that I don't want (ladar, grav, sometimes also mag and rad), then cancel it. Most sites that spawn I never enter, but 4 days later after downtime they are reliably gone.

Maybe doing something in the site shortens the timer, but I don't think so.

Consider yourself lucky...

Wormholes essentially have a shelf-life, yours just could be all farmed out.

Wormholes essentially have a shelf-life, yours just could be all farmed out.

If you are doing Grav sites in a C5, you are doing it wrong.

3 weeks is a breeze son. My first wh (couple of years ago now) was a C4 (thats right) and once we cleared all the local sigs (every single one, it was our first wh, we didnt know what we were doing) we thought to ourselves "thats fine, tomorrow there will be more". But more there werent, nor the day after, nor the week after, not even the next month. We spent 7 weeks without a single signature spawning, petitioned it several times and were told its not a bug. Every day we probed, found the static, went out for a look around, but our home system remained barren. lol looking back now of course I realise how stupid we were, but wh's were a new thing back then and there werent the info sites we have now. After 7 weeks we pulled down the tower and left, god only knows how we managed to wait that long, mostly inactive.

Anyway, the moral of the story is: sites (of all flavors) are static, if no one else despawns them then they wont move. When I lived in a C5 static C5 I would come across empty systems with 40 - 50 sigs in them, we warped to every one and a couple of days later would recieve a large boost of sigs in our home system.