It seems like once I’ve placed a beacon and some plots, suddenly there are a lot of creatures. I thought it was just me, but I was visiting a few different hubs/towns yesterday and there were creatures in the hubs, going up to portals, etc. Way more than in the wild…on players’ plotted areas. I thought they didn’t spawn in plots. As soon as I plotted a gleam ball in the air on a Sovereign planet yesterday, creatures started spawning and falling from above (one here and there - not a ton at once, still noticeable).
I’ve noticed they seem to spawn in nearby more… also, and this has been making a huge difference, seems at some point in the last year they changed the movement pattern on cuttles and spitters. When someone tested it before that, in a thread where we were talking about this and gleam farming, their movement if not aggro’ed was random was the result. Now, they absolutely appear to slowly home in on your location - if any of them are in the area, I seem to have a minute or two at the most before they come in close enough to aggro if I’m farming or whatnot. (Hoppers have always homed in, seems they do so faster now) I could be wrong about that but I feel 99.99% certain they are generally closing in on my location now though some movements will be random.
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Our guild has noticed this too, thought we were nutz!
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does anyone think that meteors spawn closer too?
at least on sovereign it seems they really aiming to hit me…
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Might be because of the birthday event? Give people more opportunities to get the gift boxes?
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YES not complaining as it is a good thing, but on our Sovereign we get 5 to 10 meteors dropping in the zone we are working in and some are right beside us.
Love the meteoritessential! Don’t change this!
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no its way better for sure
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I noticed the same and then immediately died at the megahub lol
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I noticed it too… but I like it!! Been getting lots of hopper eyes and cores from it lol
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Maybe there is a soft critter limit to each planet and fewer people on them are allowing more to spawn around the players?
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I’ve noticed when the world loads around me, it more often loads with (more) creatures spawned. For instance when I’m swimming and the world disappears around me (because my computer sucks and PS4 is rough) - once it reloads, creatures are there!
Definitely feels like creatures are tied more to my presence than it did before. Previously, it felt more like the creatures were in the world and I was running into them. Now it feels like I’m in the world and creatures show up where I am once I’m there.
Lol got almost smushed by a meteor while i was just walking around also have to ask is it normal to get frequently spotted by low lvl mobs with full shadow step and what not (Control or what is it 
) on T4.
(Yes yes a lot of spawns but figured that was obvious As i reply to this post)
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Why are you all complaining about the birthday gift delivery service ;p
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