So, I'm starting up mining again after a long break (finally got my moghancement: Desynthesis up and running with max efficiency for that moblin gear), and I was curious about the nerfed point timer thing that SE implemented a while back (the one where if you were in a certain zone mining for a certain period of time, that the stuff you would get would be less and less valuable, mainly to go against RMT just camping every point and botting them as they popped). Mainly, I was wondering if logging out of the game completely and coming back at a later time counted as zoning. I heard that zoning resets that timer.
Does anyone have any experience with this? I'm wondering if I just do 30 min to 1 hour mining sessions, /shutdown in the mine, and then come back later to continue mining if that mining timer would still be at the same level, or if it would reset like zoning is supposed to do. Any help/thoughts on this would be much appreciated.