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Topic: What makes artifacts respawn?

How can I get new artifacts to spawn?

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Re: What makes artifacts respawn?

My understanding is that when you clear a site a new one spawns. Whether it is instant or delayed I don't know. The only other time they refresh is during a server restart.

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Re: What makes artifacts respawn?

Rodger Wilcoe wrote:

My understanding is that when you clear a site a new one spawns. Whether it is instant or delayed I don't know. The only other time they refresh is during a server restart.

wrong, they also refresh every 24h

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Re: What makes artifacts respawn?

is it a certain time each day they reset? does anyone know the time of reset?

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Annihilator wrote:
Rodger Wilcoe wrote:

My understanding is that when you clear a site a new one spawns. Whether it is instant or delayed I don't know. The only other time they refresh is during a server restart.

wrong, they also refresh every 24h

Did you have to be such a tard about it? I did say "my understanding is" roll

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Re: What makes artifacts respawn?

Annihilator wrote:
Rodger Wilcoe wrote:

My understanding is that when you clear a site a new one spawns. Whether it is instant or delayed I don't know. The only other time they refresh is during a server restart.

wrong, they also refresh every 24h

Actually that's an urban legend that we devs may have contributed to as well, but in reality there is no such mechanic in place. A new artifact instantly spawns at a random place when you find one. Other than that, they only reset when the server gets restarted.

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DEV Zoom wrote:
Annihilator wrote:
Rodger Wilcoe wrote:

My understanding is that when you clear a site a new one spawns. Whether it is instant or delayed I don't know. The only other time they refresh is during a server restart.

wrong, they also refresh every 24h

Actually that's an urban legend that we devs may have contributed to as well, but in reality there is no such mechanic in place. A new artifact instantly spawns at a random place when you find one. Other than that, they only reset when the server gets restarted.

Which did happen very often for a while but now doesn't because of awesome bug fixes.

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DEV Zoom wrote:

Actually that's an urban legend that we devs may have contributed to as well, but in reality there is no such mechanic in place. A new artifact instantly spawns at a random place when you find one. Other than that, they only reset when the server gets restarted.

Another question I have:

Is the new artifact always the same level as the old one?  I noticed that I'm almost always just picking up level I artifacts now, which I never usually bother chasing.  I assume that's because the good ones I pick up are gradually getting replaced with worse ones?

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Is the new artifact always the same level as the old one?

No, it's random, but higher level artifacts do have a lower spawn chance. So if you always avoid lower levels, statistically you will end up with lower levels only.

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DEV Zoom wrote:
Antibac wrote:

Is the new artifact always the same level as the old one?

No, it's random, but higher level artifacts do have a lower spawn chance. So if you always avoid lower levels, statistically you will end up with lower levels only.

Thanks for the clarification smile  I see a lot of lvl 1s getting mopped up in my future :-/