How is the simulated patch respawn supposed to work? [Archive]

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Droog007

01-19-2014, 08:40 PM

I've heard that the respawn timers are not reset with one of these simulated patches, but rather they get delayed - presumably by however long the mob remains alive (suspended).

I was also under the impression that the repops would only include the raid mobs that are covered in the raid policy, but that does not appear to be true.

I was at frog king in LGuk when the repop happened, and the PH for the freshly killed king appeared within a couple minutes. No raid mobs in this zone... I was planning on being in Tranix's throne room for his next respawn, but it seems to have been reset. e.g. won't spawn again til 8 hours after the Nagafen crew came through.

I'm guessing perhaps it's a server wide respawn, with possibly some way to preserve the running timers on the raid mobs? Everything else just gets a new timer...

Any other observations? Working as intended?

Ambrotos

01-19-2014, 08:55 PM

Rogean: Simulated Patch Day Respawns will now respawn all non-raid mobs approximately 2 minutes after broadcast.

Thats what it says in the patch notes.

baalzy

01-19-2014, 08:56 PM

Patch notes state that all non-raid mobs will repop 2minutes after the earthquake/repop announcement.

fastboy21

01-19-2014, 09:22 PM

Does the server have to come down for this?

Heebee

01-19-2014, 09:42 PM

Ambrotos/Rogean: Will see we randomisation of the times that these simulated patch day respawns occur? (So they don't always favour the peak play times of certain continents for example).

Thus far the last two full server respawns have occurred within 45 minutes of eachother:

approx 8:17 AM (GMT+10) - 15 Jan 2014
approx 7:33 AM (GMT+10) - 20 Jan 2014

It'd be nice to see some simulated respawns happen in times that are favourable to euro/asia/australia... :)

Swish

01-19-2014, 09:43 PM

Does the server have to come down for this?

It didn't tonight (just the earthquake)... so I'm guessing as a rule it doesn't :p

Tecmos Deception

01-19-2014, 10:44 PM

Does a simulated repop affect the respawn timers of mobs like Verina tomb? What about dartain the lost, drusella sathir, etc?

Coridan

01-19-2014, 11:14 PM

I hope they happen a bit less frequently than every five days. Stinks seeing the merchants all reset to base items. Every once in a while I would find a neat item hiding on a list somewhere.

zanderklocke

01-19-2014, 11:53 PM

I hope they happen a bit less frequently than every five days. Stinks seeing the merchants all reset to base items. Every once in a while I would find a neat item hiding on a list somewhere.

Dear Coridan,

Please don't tell the GMs we want less repops on the server.

Sincerely,

Everyone Else on the Server

Gustoo

01-20-2014, 12:20 AM

Yeah there has to be a way to NOT reset all the merchants.

It's just no good. On live there used to be so much crap on merchants it was great. Here, seems like there is never anything.

Look into that. It even seems like merchants aren't able to show as many items as they were on live. I know that their available slots get filled up or whatever...but something doesn't seem quite right here.

Heebee

02-16-2014, 11:59 PM

Swish

02-17-2014, 12:08 AM

Problem is there'll be uproar if it starts happening off-peak. I agree though, a lot of Europa had gone to bed when the repop hit tonight...we managed to get Vessel Drozlin down instead, but no Trakanon pixels ;)

Ambrotos

02-17-2014, 12:16 AM

[6:26:57 PM] Ambrotos: poor europa. gonna miss their trakanon since they are all in comas atm

I thought of you all!

Took

02-17-2014, 01:02 AM

1300 people standing in line waiting for exp camps or raid targets sounds fun.

http://media.giphy.com/media/VT5yj3MS2y8gM/giphy.gif

heartbrand

02-17-2014, 01:20 AM

Key master isn't repopping for some reason from this

Ambrotos

02-17-2014, 02:10 AM

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbgkmzzwqq1rq97bpo1_500.gif

Clark

02-17-2014, 02:21 AM

Does the server have to come down for this?

Nope.

Clark

02-17-2014, 02:22 AM

bump.

Another full repop at roughly the same time of day - 9:25 AM (GMT+10) 17 Feb 2014

Any chance of this being randomised somewhat so as not to always favour the USA playerbase?

Thanks!

Pretty sure there was a 5-6am est repop this month man..

Heebee

02-17-2014, 02:28 AM

Oh ok, I wasn't aware of that one. Cool.

bartly

02-17-2014, 03:12 AM

Mezzmur

02-17-2014, 03:19 AM

I thought of you all!

Europa had 6 hours to kill trak, I'm sure the could've made it if they were given the opportunity.

Argh

02-17-2014, 03:22 AM

Europa had 6 hours to kill trak, I'm sure the could've made it if they were given the opportunity.

http://i.imgur.com/v7qwrw7.gif

Nirgon

02-17-2014, 12:18 PM

^ good forumquest here

Triangle

02-17-2014, 01:35 PM

Europa had 6 hours to kill trak, I'm sure the could've made it if they were given the opportunity.

(1) sorry to my Guild that I had to bounce unexpectedly last night. Congrats tho guys the accomplishment is amazing and had I been able to stay I would have not been able to increase the success

(2) I received a tell from Europa member yesterday informing me that they would not be able to do trak but seeing that we were next on the list they would like to trade rotation spots if a repop were to happen. I confirmed this with numerous other Europa officers before I accepted.

(3) the purpose and rationale behind the bag rule was not circumvented when we killed tak because we were merely exchanging times to kill trak with Europa to help them and prevent trak from going FFA

(4) therefore sirken made the correct call an I am disdained that rogaen did not look at it from this perspective.

(5). I will be thoroughly upset f we are screwed out of our rotation slot for trak because of this or similarly locked out from doing him per raid php. After all the entire goal was to help Europa and class R. We gained nothing from this (and would have gained nothing even if we were allowed to keep the loot) because we were up for the next trak anyway and would not have had to rush to kill Fay and inny first !!

(6). We did not want to do trak this repop. Indeed we were stressed enough being up to bat for bot inny and Fay. But again we did this exchange with Europa because they ASKED us for help

Powtle

02-17-2014, 02:29 PM

Simulated patches during euro hours are totally classic.
Patches at US times are not classic and taint the spirit of P99 server.

That being said, a repop at 23:00 CET / 17:00 EST would please everyone.

Man0warr

02-17-2014, 02:36 PM

It's supposedly random, and there hasn't been enough repops to confirm or deny that yet - sample size too small.

Boilon

02-17-2014, 02:58 PM

(5). I will be thoroughly upset f we are screwed out of our rotation slot for trak because of this or similarly locked out from doing him per raid php. After all the entire goal was to help Europa and class R. We gained nothing from this (and would have gained nothing even if we were allowed to keep the loot) because we were up for the next trak anyway and would not have had to rush to kill Fay and inny first !!

(6). We did not want to do trak this repop. Indeed we were stressed enough being up to bat for bot inny and Fay. But again we did this exchange with Europa because they ASKED us for help

I do not believe the intention of any of this was to ask for help. It was simply a spawn that happened in our blackout period therefore we could not kill because of our pre-arranged agreement. Therefore Trak would have been next up on the rotation for whichever guild which was A-Team, you guys could have passed it down to the next guilds? Which according to my list would have been Supremacy or Divinity. If you guys didn't want to do it than you should have probably contacted one of them.

Sorry to hear about what happened with Trak anyways for you guys though. I am just trying to set the story straight about what happened after the repop.