I see it happening after the patch. Now it is full of Lowsec gas clouds which are not despawning after depleting and the empty cloud remains here after DT!. As consequence there is almost no fresh gas out of there.
Are you having the same issue? Is CCP reading this? I can show 3 of these empty clouds.
I’m seeing the same issue for HS ice belts as well. In the system I usually mine there’s an empty ice belt that hasn’t despawned all day, despite being empty
Any gas sites resently spawned seems to have gas to me. Some of them are emrpty when I scan them down, but if something pops up while I’m playing, it will almost certainly have gas in the first 30 minutes. At one time I thoguht I found 3 nice gas sites which spawned, and all the gas was there. I had to do some ratting first and when I came back I complained in local all of them were empty. Someone then said he got all three of the sites to fill his barge… somehow. Either he was pulling my leg (as in it didn’t take 3 sites to fill a single ship) or the sites spawned bugged. But I know the gas was there because I wapred to them before bookmarking them. I think the problem is gas sites not despawning properly unless it’s downtime and sometimes not even. Not that it mattered. I went to buy a replacement huffer (I lost a few over the weeks) before coming back and found out that gas harvesters don’t even fit on frigates anymore, so I guess the gas Venture is truely dead.
Bumping this as the majority of gas cloud sites I now find are barren. I assume they are not despawning after being cleared. I am guessing this has been occurring for a week or more.
Gas cloud sites with gas can be found after down time, but if you’re looking later in the day, expect to find no clouds. In one or two cases, I was the one who harvested all the gas, and the site remained for the rest of the day. I did not see the barren site the next day after downtime.