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Dretzle Omega
Caldari
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
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Posted - 2009.10.20 20:13:00 -
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I was just wondering this, because old mission bookmarks are kind of nice for safe spots, being usually off the plane of the solar system.
What is the likelihood of a mission being generated in the same location as an old bookmark of mine? If it were completely random in the system, the odds would be astronomically small. But there could be certain mission spawn code or rules that make it more likely. If I warp to my safe spot, will I ever land in the middle of a mission?
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Dracthera
Minmatar
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Posted - 2009.10.20 20:28:00 -
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I use my mission locations as safes all the time because they're off-plane like you said. I have yet to land in the middle of someone else's mission. If you think about it, the chances of a mission being spawned on-grid with one of your previous mission spots is incredibly low, I'm guessing quite close to zero.
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Dretzle Omega
Caldari
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
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Posted - 2009.10.20 20:35:00 -
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 Originally by: Dracthera
If you think about it, the chances of a mission being spawned on-grid with one of your previous mission spots is incredibly low, I'm guessing quite close to zero.
Yes, if it truly is a random spot in the solar system, even a random spot X AU from a planet.
But I was just wondering if there was any known code that limits the number of places missions can spawn.
But if you've been using them as safes, then I doubt I will run into problems, either.
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Vaerah Vahrokha
Minmatar
Dark-Rising
IT Alliance
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Posted - 2009.10.20 22:47:00 -
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Originally by: Dretzle Omega
Originally by: Dracthera
If you think about it, the chances of a mission being spawned on-grid with one of your previous mission spots is incredibly low, I'm guessing quite close to zero.
Yes, if it truly is a random spot in the solar system, even a random spot X AU from a planet.
But I was just wondering if there was any known code that limits the number of places missions can spawn.
But if you've been using them as safes, then I doubt I will run into problems, either.
AFAIK they spawn you in random places but ... where a prober will find you easy.
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Joe Starbreaker
Octavian Vanguard
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Posted - 2009.10.20 23:29:00 -
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They never (virtually never, anyway) put you in the same place as another mission. I believe that they are in predictable areas of the solar system, though. Last I heard was they always occur within 20 au of the star.
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Drakarian
HackCheck
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Posted - 2009.10.21 17:44:00 -
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Originally by: Joe Starbreaker
They never (virtually never, anyway) put you in the same place as another mission. I believe that they are in predictable areas of the solar system, though. Last I heard was they always occur within 20 au of the star.
Is this true? does anyone know for sure?
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Dretzle Omega
Caldari
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
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Posted - 2009.10.21 18:20:00 -
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Originally by: Vaerah Vahrokha
AFAIK they spawn you in random places but ... where a prober will find you easy.
Yes, but then, if I am trying to escape a prober and I just sit still and uncloaked in my safe spot, well, that would just be silly anyways.
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Passageway
Gallente
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Posted - 2009.10.21 19:45:00 -
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I've had successive missions off a crappy Republic Fleet agent recently that have certainly sent me to what seems like the same location (was the same mission). Although I admit I haven't verified that using bookmarks.
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Dorian Wylde
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Posted - 2009.10.22 03:14:00 -
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It used to be everything was in a certain range (4au i believe) of a planet, since that was the max range of probes, but now I believe they can spawn anywhere.
So, since there's a finite amount of space in the eve universe, I would have to say things have to spawn in the same place eventually. The chance of you finding one of those cases though, is very tiny.
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Willy Pete
Aliastra
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Posted - 2009.10.22 04:21:00 -
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Edited by: Willy Pete on 22/10/2009 04:21:59
I must say that after hunting down salvage in 4 systems for a year now, there are repeated hits that are so common that when I decide to change to a new system, I take my Incursus (named My Little Pony) to old repeat hit bookmarks before breaking out my scanning ship. I'm surprised at how often I find a gate just waiting for me.
Not as random as you might think.
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Steirmann
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Posted - 2009.10.22 12:21:00 -
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Billy Sastard
Amarr
Life. Universe. Everything.
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Posted - 2009.10.22 19:29:00 -
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Originally by: Willy Pete
Edited by: Willy Pete on 22/10/2009 04:21:59
I must say that after hunting down salvage in 4 systems for a year now, there are repeated hits that are so common that when I decide to change to a new system, I take my Incursus (named My Little Pony) to old repeat hit bookmarks before breaking out my scanning ship. I'm surprised at how often I find a gate just waiting for me.
Not as random as you might think.
Posting to confirm that I have run into this myself.
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Alans bedwarmer
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Posted - 2009.10.26 15:51:00 -
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Once,
A long long time ago.
Had just finished a lvl 2 mission and was looting the cans (yes it was that long ago) I suddenly had a bunch of rat bs's show up practically on top of me. A few seconds later in comes a raven.
Now the rats did not agro me, so as this was pre- pre- pre- agro mechanics I was happily looting the BS cans as well. Made a bomb from the loot.
The other nice one, though not really on topic, was the old blockade mission, when it always spawned at a standard jump gate.
If you were bored you just waited in a high used lvl 4 agent system and at least once an hour someone would get the mission.
Either you could pop the rats yourself or just loot the cans. Worked good for an npc corp player as the one time I tried it with a main I was war dec'ed a few hours later :).
p.s. Used Enter plenty so as not to create a wall :).
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Wu Zhuge
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Posted - 2009.10.26 16:09:00 -
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This thread was enlightening. This whole time I thought mission sites were private spaces that players with probes could warp into. Well, I guess if they can do that there's no reason to make it a private spawn.
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Dacryphile
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Posted - 2009.10.26 19:53:00 -
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Originally by: Wu Zhuge
This thread was enlightening. This whole time I thought mission sites were private spaces that players with probes could warp into. Well, I guess if they can do that there's no reason to make it a private spawn.
Go to any major mission hub and watch the ravens warp off to missions. They either go to a gate to a different system, or they all go in the same general direction (within 15 degrees or so).
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Serra Polaris
Amarr
Trichomes Unlimited
Massive Intergalactic Love Klub
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Posted - 2009.10.27 12:31:00 -
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Back in my pre-Apocrypha ninja salvaging days I'd use old mission bookmarks as scanning points. I warped to one and found a World's Collide mission had hijacked my spot. Given this and what others have experienced I'd say there's a relatively small set of locations where missions spawn at.
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