Does population affect RES as well?

[Daud]

I'm at a low-security, high-intensity Resource Extraction site- which would seem pretty optimal- but I don't seem to get any good spawns. The system does, however, have a fairly small population.

 

[Daud]

Shameless bump.

 

[thorn-]

Perhaps the NPCs are all saying "To heck with this RES, that guy Daud is always hanging out waiting to shoot NPCs."

 

[Daud]

Unless, of course, they're in a relatively cheap and demonstrably inferior ship as to purposefully lower their chances even further.

 

[Dbrn47]

As I said. There is anecdotal evidence that it may affect the amount of ships that spawn. After all, if no one is around to pirate, there are no Pirates.