You could easily test this. Well....easy in theory anyway.
Get 2 people or more with vastly different perception skills.
Go exploring till one of you finds a ground spawn, a natural ground spawn, not something that has been dropped by a player. Do NOT pick up the item.
Get your friend(s) to come to your loc. Then stand on top of the ground spawn as close as you can to get its loc. Now have everyone back up till it just disappears. Take your loc, and see if one of you was fruther.
You would also need to test this with 2 other people besides yourself. You find the ground spawn and find its loc. Then have them inch towards it till they just see it for the first time. (to make certain its loc isnt cached from the first case above)
If you believe ground spawns are pre-spawned for anyone to find, this should work. If you believe that they have a chance to spawn every time an avatar stops moving, or some other method of avatar spawn, it might not tell you anything.
If any tests provide a different visible range you would know that there is some kinda influence tho.
Get 2 people or more with vastly different perception skills.
Go exploring till one of you finds a ground spawn, a natural ground spawn, not something that has been dropped by a player. Do NOT pick up the item.
Get your friend(s) to come to your loc. Then stand on top of the ground spawn as close as you can to get its loc. Now have everyone back up till it just disappears. Take your loc, and see if one of you was fruther.
You would also need to test this with 2 other people besides yourself. You find the ground spawn and find its loc. Then have them inch towards it till they just see it for the first time. (to make certain its loc isnt cached from the first case above)
If you believe ground spawns are pre-spawned for anyone to find, this should work. If you believe that they have a chance to spawn every time an avatar stops moving, or some other method of avatar spawn, it might not tell you anything.
If any tests provide a different visible range you would know that there is some kinda influence tho.