instant respawn will crash the market and make everything worthless. no point prospecting anymore. this would kill many ascpects of the economy as many prospectable commods are also base mined.

Just to add my 3 cents to prospecting. I think that one of the problems of prospecting is that it's monopolized by a few very specialized players and insta node respawn will not address that problem. Maybe to scale prospecting with player base and fix monopolization at the same time, the nodes should be generated for individual player and not globally for the universe. I put this idea together this minute, so it might be utter shit, but consider this proposition: 1) Each player has a daily cap which indicates his chances on successful prospecting 2) When player runs galaxy prospect scan, game will randomly generates nodes in the gal given his prospecting cap, galaxy danger factor etc. 3) Galaxy can be prospected only once a day by given character (separate prospecting lockouts) 4) Scanning reduces the cap so number of resources which can be acquired in a day is limited. Cap is refreshed every day, so proactive daily scanning is rewarded. 5) Generated nodes can be extracted by other players - in other words stolen. Introduces soft economic PvP.

Just to add my 3 cents to prospecting. I think that one of the problems of prospecting is that it's monopolized by a few very specialized players and insta node respawn will not address that problem. Maybe to scale prospecting with player base and fix monopolization at the same time, the nodes should be generated for individual player and not globally for the universe. I put this idea together this minute, so it might be utter shit, but consider this proposition: 1) Each player has a daily cap which indicates his chances on successful prospecting 2) When player runs galaxy prospect scan, game will randomly generates nodes in the gal given his prospecting cap, galaxy danger factor etc. 3) Galaxy can be prospected only once a day by given character (separate prospecting lockouts) 4) Scanning reduces the cap so number of resources which can be acquired in a day is limited. Cap is refreshed every day, so proactive daily scanning is rewarded. 5) Generated nodes can be extracted by other players - in other words stolen. Introduces soft economic PvP.

I would be fine with a decrease in the number of node so long as they instantly respawn. Too often there are simply no node anywhere too be found.

Either improve prospecting or make prospecting commods available elsewhere.

Improve it yes, but not sure the method. Spawn rate could probably be adjusted to scale based on the average amount of people logged in the prior hour... Also I would like some rare uber prospects, where a miniboss pops out of the planet you trying to prospect to add some variation, but with increased prospect find etc.