Mara Rinn
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Posted - 2009.11.25 04:23:00 -
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I regularly play in the hours immediately preceeding downtime. If the OP was correct, I would never ever see fresh exploration sites, as they would all have been long since exploited and despawned.
If I hang around a system long enough, new sites will appear.
Note, this is not a case of "scan now, then log out and come back four hours later, still nothing". What happens there is that the site is spawned, and within fifteen minutes it is probed down and emptied. I've witnessed this myself, with three covops frigates arriving at the one exploration site within five minutes of it first showing up on my cosmic anomalies listing.
The only sites that hang around for a long time are the ones that don't despawn quickly (ie: wormholes) or the ones that noone cares about ( ie: gravimetric sites full of omber and jaspet).
If you want to prove that sites do not spawn in a given system over a 12 hour period, you do not have a look now, then go away and come back 12 hours later to have another look. To prove that sites do not spawn in a given system, you have to keep scanning that system for 12 hours. Otherwise all you have proven is that there were no spawns of sites that were such low quality that noone wanted to run them.
As for your uninformed guessing about the upgrades for Sovereignty, there are at least two modules you can use to influence exploration sites. One will guarantee a certain number of "anomalies" (these are the ones you can detect with the ship's own scanner), the other will increase the chance of a DED n/10 plex spawning in your system.
The extra anomalies will not flood the market with Corpum A-Types, since they are being farmed in nullsec and are therefore subject to losses via PvP, and the anomalies that are spawned are not the kinds that spew this kind of loot like a piħata.
TL;DR: exploration sites do so respawn during the day (nyah nyah), and the Sovereignty system will not result in the market being flooded with high-meta items. More will be available, yes. Perhaps the price for those modules might even drop below the 500M ISK mark. I doubt we'll see Rifters sporting Corpum A-Type Armor Repairers except to prove a point (eg: "I'm richer than you").
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