Nope. The Veld roids will respawn as a random (weighted) assortment of each rock available in the belt.

Before Hidden belts, people would occasionally try to "breed" their belts in Nullsec to be closer to pure ABC by popping Low end roids, but only mining ABC roids until they were at a low level (avoiding popping them).

It's possible that CCP's stopped randomizing new rock spawns. Might have been part of why they've been able to amputate DT length (1hr-15min is amputation, not shortening).

Test it on SISI.

Any competent belt miner has their belts bookmarked for optimal extraction: it is not worth harvesting Massive Scordite in Bawilan with strip miners since you will get less than a full cycle of T2 crystal + orca boosted yield. So you bookmark an optimal position in range of the rocks which respawn the greatest volume each cycle.

Some belts are more than 50km diameter. I do the same as you for the smaller belts, though I try to get out of small blaster range of the belt warp in :)

I would suggest you lock up the asteroids and screen shot with the survey scanner results open. Then you can compare results from day to day by blinking between photos. You need to control for camera position and angle, and maybe post process to do fine adjustment. Have the camera zoomed out far to minimise the fish eye lens distortion of the scene (pincushion?).

Edit: 17 fiery kernite rocks in one belt?

It will get him the data, but NPC appears to be hoping that someone already has this data, collected since Retribution was released.

No link, just stating the obvious that collecting the data yourself will end up with you having the data you were looking for :)

If it helps I will post my scan results from the belts that I frequent.

No link, just stating the obvious that collecting the data yourself will end up with you having the data you were looking for :)

If it helps I will post my scan results from the belts that I frequent.

Go ahead. Go right ahead and discount 10 years of data and experience from other players WHOM YOU ASKED.

Sheesh.

Yes, it will get larger, by the same amount of ore that would have spawned in that satge of the respawn cycle.

In high sec if a astreroid is not popped it will respawn the next day larger, if it is popped it will respawn at a random base size, usually very small. By mining a belt carefully, so you do not pop any rocks each down time the rocks will get bigger.

It has long been the practice of some miners to farm belts in this way. After several weeks they end up with these farmed belts having far larger rocks that an unfarmed belt. This is also the case in back water systems where there are no miners, the rocks are relatively untouched so are much bigger.

It`s a universal mechanic, you have started on the observation and data collection over time, you have noted it has a repeatable pattern so you continue to observe until the mechanic is revealed.

Most intelligent/educated miners knew it after 1 week of the new mechanic being introduced and have used it to their commercial advantage. It pays to have lots of uninformed miners out there (who are acting just like bots when all is said and done) as they waste cycles and self harm their potential returns which keeps prices for competent miners higher.

When you get an understanding, keep it to your self, it is so easy to work out that those who don-¦t, don-¦t really deserve to know.