What exactly determines a nodes respawn rate?

Servers been getting more populated generally a good thing but it had made gathering spots more crowded as well as increased the amount of fishing bots ive reported. In an attempt to keep my income from being affected Ive gone looking for other spot but ran into a problem after finding a couple otherwise good loops:
They respawn way slower. Particularly talking fibres and iron here. One old spot I run a quick 4 minute circle and about 2/3 of nodes are back up. Here I am all by myself in places like Reekwater and I run this whole route in about 5 minutes and nothing is back up. Another 4 minutes and now lone nodes are starting to respawn but not even a whole 1/3 of them. I would think it’s somehow related to nearby player count, but even with more people competing in the old spots the respawn rates havent changed. (plus even when its just me there, respawns are still the same)

THey all have diff respawn. Like most basic ones are about 10m but like say fibers have 3 diff sizes and the lil tiny ones come back faster then the big ones and higher tier ores like orich take longer maybe 20-30m but I don’t camp nodes and time it so if you want exact numbers you would have to clear a patch and time when ea respawns

yeah but these are the same sized nodes. That’s why Im confused what’s up. The rates are clearly faster in one area and I just dont know why and would love if one of the devs could chime in and clarify what im seeing here.

No iron and fibres have diff sizes at each spot. Iron is usually 1 big 1 med and sometimes 1 small. THey are not all respawning in 4m. It has nothing to do w amount of players they are a certain amount of time. You need to look at the clock and time it because I think like most of us what feels like 4m in game might be 8 or 9. But hey gl hope the devs chime in

If you are annoyed by spawn rate find a pond, drop a camp at shore and run around it gathering bulbrush. It spawns faster than you can gather it unless the pond is very small indeed. I do that when I run out of fishing bait. And then craft weak healing pots from bulbrush heads and pond water at camp to level Arcane a bit.

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