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Bootius McGee
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Posted - 2010.03.19 11:54:00 -
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I have tried and tried for 2 years now to make sense of the faction warfare plex spawning system, and I give up.
I've seen many theories that have proven wrong, and every time I thought I had it worked out, I was proven wrong as well.
Surely, SOMEONE knows the spawning mechanics behind the faction warfare plex distributions?
Help?
Please?
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Sneaky Noob
Ice Fire Warriors
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Posted - 2010.03.19 16:57:00 -
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it's random |
Bootius McGee
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Posted - 2010.03.19 17:59:00 -
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I get that it is random, but how? I've gone through entire FW zones and not found a single plex.
Are there only so many generated in a given day? Do they never respawn after they are done until the next DT?
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Last Wolf
Rage For Order
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Posted - 2010.03.19 19:34:00 -
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 Originally by: Bootius McGee
I get that it is random, but how?
Thats the whole point of random. You're not supposed to be able to figure it out, or predict them. |
Eelis Kiy
Gallente
Shadows Of The Federation
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Posted - 2010.03.20 13:13:00 -
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Edited by: Eelis Kiy on 20/03/2010 13:16:08
You know you need to run a scan to find new ones right?
Either do it the long way round from planets, like you can do for exploration sites, or get some probes so you can do the whole system at once (they show up as 100% and dont need probing down)
Once you warp to a plex it shows up on the overview for all to see.
They don't just show up on their own. If you enter a system and there are plexes already up then its because they have already been warped to by someone.
Also, Faction War isn't 2 years old yet 
>>where the frack is my ship?<< |
Greg6
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Posted - 2010.03.20 16:44:00 -
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OK, here's how I understand it after spending months searching the net for stray comments from the developers, talking with folk who do much testing on sisi, and just from the past year or so of doing lots of plexing.
When you run a plex in a given system it will reappear in another system in the same region/constellation as it was ran in. However, these respawns only happen approximately every 2 hours after downtime. So person A runs a plex in a given area. At the next respawn time a corresponding plex will spawn somewhere in the same region.
However, not all of the systems in that region will be contestable. In the case where a plex respawns in a non-FW system that plex is kind of "passive." It won't show up on any scans and will just sit there. Until the next downtime when all those plexes that spawned in non-fw systems are put back into the hopper and randomly redistributed in that FW constellation all over again. That's what makes the downtime bump in plexes.
So if you can't find any plexes in a given system it means that either there weren't any placed there at the last spawn or that someone else has already ran them. To increase the odds of getting a plex in that system later run plexes in the surrounding systems. But it is an odds based thing, there's no certainty to plexing.
All of the above based on talk and sewing hints together. I'm not aware of any place where anyone form CCP has authoratively answered those questions but would love to see such, if anyone knows of cites where CCP spilled the beans please post 'em. :)
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chatgris
Quantum Cats Syndicate
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Posted - 2010.03.20 20:44:00 -
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Edited by: chatgris on 20/03/2010 20:46:38
Originally by: Greg6
In the case where a plex respawns in a non-FW system ...
Some bean spilling here from CCP greyscale:
http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=895197&page=1#14
It's not that a plex spawns in a non-FW system: It's that, lets say a caldari rat occupied plex respawns in a gallente controlled fw system: Then, the system (as in the code running) is limited in that it can't change to a gallente rat plex and instead that plex is stuck/lost until the next downtime.
When the caldari held all of the gallente systems, plexes could always be found: Every place they would respawn was a valid target.
After downtime, all the plexes would be shuffled to correct systems, and as they are run throughout the day, statistically they will get stuck depending on the contested systems.
That's why the "there are no plexes" thing becomes far more prevalent when there are heated plex wars going on (more plexes closed leads to more chances a plex will get stuck).
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Bootius McGee
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Posted - 2010.03.21 19:41:00 -
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So, then, as the defenders hold fewer and fewer systems, the likelyhood that a plex will spawn in their system, allowing the oppourtunity to save that system, dimishes?
Seems broke as hell to me.
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