Ancient Cyclops in Sro

[Unfun]

Camping the AC in sro and the spawns don't appear to be working correctly from my previous experience with this camp.

1. Theres only two spawns occurring on the walking path. From my experience there should be three. I believe the 3rd one is the AC spawn (2)

2. Nothing is spawning for the AC PH. I know this because the two spawns here are spawning 6-10 mins and 20 mins. The ac spawn should be every 30.6666 mins. To verify again, I've killed both pathing mobs at 11am and something spawns at 1pm and then 4pm gametime but nothing at 9pm.

Not trying to debate the rarity of the AC or complain about waiting. The spawns just seem off to me and I just want to check to make sure its working correctly.

Thanks

[Darklake]

Camping the AC in sro and the spawns don't appear to be working correctly from my previous experience with this camp.

On this server, or Live?

http://www.project1999.org/forums/showthread.php?t=10492

[Malakriss]

Semi-related things to consider:
1) Learn exactly what is considered night hours
2) If you already know what isn't the AC placeholder, why mess with them unless you really want the sand giants?

[Unfun]

Sorry I should have been more specific. I meant my experience with the camp on this server. In fact, I am comparing it to how I've seen the camp function (and the AC spawn) a few days ago.

I've read that post you linked and thats the basis or why I think the spawns are messed up, unless I'm missing something...

[Unfun]

Semi-related things to consider:
1) Learn exactly what is considered night hours
2) If you already know what isn't the AC placeholder, why mess with them unless you really want the sand giants?



1) I am going off of this:

Depending on the actual day/night hours on this server, which is stated to be 7am to 9pm at least in Kithikor(stated by a dev), you would have 1 10% chance every hour at the AC. How should he spawn at least every 5 hours?

Thats why I killed the ph at 11 and thus it would respawn at night (9pm).

2) Good point. One of the spawns was a dervish cutthroat so I wans't entirely sure if it was the AC ph or not. Some people who were there before me told me they had similar problems with the spawn.

Thanks for the response though, just trying to figure out if something is up.

[Darklake]

Night is 8pm, at least in Kithicor. I've had my arse handed to me more than I liked getting Honeycombs from Bixies.

[Valroth66]

I was camping him for some time last night and it seemed his spawn time had lowered to ~21 minutes as well, but the other two were there normally spawning at 6 min.

[Zarcath]

I was camping AC in sro for a few hours the other day.

There's only 2 PH's on the walking path. One is on a 6 minute timer and the other is on a 20 minute.

The 20 minute timer one is spawning Madmen, Dervish and SGs.

Did someone maybe charm the AC PH and take it away and hide it somewhere?

[Evilmog]

If it was charmed wouldnt it still eventually go back to it's normal pathing?

[Unfun]

If it was charmed wouldnt it still eventually go back to it's normal pathing?

I thought this too but one time a while back I aggroed the AC PH on accident before it was time to kill him. I FD and instead of going back to the path he takes off running into the forest. I had to go track him down and kill him when the time came. So, not sure what a charmed mob would do?

[Ploppy]

I'm camping it right now and only 2 PH's are spawning

[Lyrik]

Time to murder every NPC in the zone. Yay.

[Taslion]

Yeah I just plopped down here seeing no one was camping... obviously for a reason. Don't think the PHs are working

[Slayn]

still bugged, there is no 30min ph. only the 20-min and the 6min.

[hablabba]

yep still bugged as now my posting time. sadface.

[Winobot]

Could this have something to do with the 11/17 patch?:

"Unkempt preserver in sro has been replaced with a dervish cutthroat"

Still not spawning as of 3:45 PM, EST.

[Akashaseven]

Pyzin / Varsoons messed up too

[Lyrik]

One more first hand account of it not working.

[Badmartigan]

One more first hand account of it not working.

Yep.. me and Lyrik camping it right now.. there is no 31 min pop anymore..

it's borked.. guys.

[Badmartigan]

BUMP.. anyone looking into this yet ?

GM-Decisions tells you "There is no issue with the spawn".

However i sat there for 3 RL hours and didnt see the 31 min ph once..

[Maurk]

Take a screen shot of you not seeing the AC.



Yeah, I've seen quite the number of people recently camping AC only to never get the ring.
Can someone at least confirm if they have spawned the AC within the last two weeks or so in SRO??

[Zarcath]

hard to spawn the AC when the PH isn't even there.

[Daldaen]

Haven't seen Bilge either in the past weeks.

[Badmartigan]

Take a screen shot of you not seeing the AC.



Yeah, I've seen quite the number of people recently camping AC only to never get the ring.
Can someone at least confirm if they have spawned the AC within the last two weeks or so in SRO??

What Zarcath said.. the 31 min PH is not popping which means theres 0& chance.

Best guess is when the "Unkempt Preserver" Was removed from the 31 spawn it somehow broke the spawn

[Trapp]

So it appears I should check inhere first before camping some mob next time. I did think the spawns looked kinda different, but I blaimed the Unkept Preserver fix...

[amishriot]

Unfortunately I can confirm the spawn is still broken. Camped it for a few hours and the 7 min and 20 min spawns go off right on time like clockwork but no 30 min spawn. I figured as much since the camp has been open both times that i have come by it lately. Nobody was at the camp when i got here this time or the night before. It would be nice if a Dev or GM could say somthing on this.

:(

[Badmartigan]

Unfortunately I can confirm the spawn is still broken. Camped it for a few hours and the 7 min and 20 min spawns go off right on time like clockwork but no 30 min spawn. I figured as much since the camp has been open both times that i have come by it lately. Nobody was at the camp when i got here this time or the night before. It would be nice if a Dev or GM could say somthing on this.

:(

hahaha.. yeah no shit.. i got my first ring for my boots like 2 days before this patch... so happy i got in before they nerfed the boots

[Trapp]

So I'm the only one who thinks one of the 2 AC camps avaiable being bugged is more important than friggin "Decaying skeletons shouldn't be KoS" ramblings?

At least a reply from a developer or something that they are looking into it would be nice when possible.

[guineapig]

I agree that this should take precedence over decaying skeletons but don't forget that it's possible to spawn the AC in the Karanas as well.

I think anyone who manages to crack that spawn cycle will have the monopoly on MQs for a long time coming as nobody even thinks to try there.

[Trapp]

Hah, you're right...the AC there is just so rare I didn't even think of the possibility (nor would I attempt it)

[Uthgaard]

Give it a rest guys. I was about to post here, but since you all want to critique the order I decided to post faster than I could make the response, have it your way.

[guineapig]

Hah, you're right...the AC there is just so rare I didn't even think of the possibility (nor would I attempt it)

Honestly though, they are only so rare because until now they have only been spawned on accident. However these spawns have been coded by the devs just like all the other odd spawns (AC, Quillmane).

So while one would basically be starting off with zero information to go by, a group of people that are well organized and determined should be able come up with a theory and test it. It could take days but it's not as if there are many people in WK killing mobs for example that would ruin the spawn cycles). Just a guess though at this point. :)

(Yeah, I probably wouldn't attempt it alone either at this point. ;))

[Ploppy]

So what's going on with it? I don't understand that post Uth made. Was it broken or did the spawn mechanics just get changed? And for the record it was not "you all" who critiqued the order, it was TWO people. It makes no sense to get mad at everyone about it

[Evilmog]

I understand Uth's post entirely. And from the looks of it, yall should just be happy he said something at all.

[Darklake]

I agree that this should take precedence over decaying skeletons but don't forget that it's possible to spawn the AC in the Karanas as well.

I think anyone who manages to crack that spawn cycle will have the monopoly on MQs for a long time coming as nobody even thinks to try there.

Has anyone seen the EK AC here on P1999? Looking at a discussion for live :-

EK AC was buggy mcbug buggered, and was removed about a month or two? after he was put in, would often see his "broken" ! doug spawn there.
yeah iirc the EK AC spawn table got figured out pretty quickly by players. I don't remembet much details but i think there was 1 other mob on the spawn table so it made the AC too common.
There was also more than one zone the AC could/can spawn in. Ocean of Tears for instance.. and I believe they added one to East Karana - at least, there was a bug there when a new spawn was added in.. er.. 99 sometime iirc, where a mob would spawn over and over in EK and drop the jboot ring each time, our guild on Sol Ro got pretty much everyone their boots before word got out.

Would seem to suggest it's not there.

[Trapp]

I withdraw my comment.

[Crone]

Fine, thanks for punishing people for putting in the effort of making aware of game bugs slash mistakes with previous *bug fixes*. My frustrations are born from spending 5 hours on a day off in Sro to no avail, and i think it would have been ok to just post a simple "we're looking into it" thing. - But I apologize again for thinking my opinion and effort matters whatsoever.

You really have no fucking clue, do you?

You can make the Devs aware of bugs all you want, but if you can't realize that Uth's response was in response to your stupid mouth trying to dictate and tell the Dev's the order in which they post in bug threads, then go re-read your post and his.

[Evilmog]

It wasn't you posted there was an issue that was the problem, it was when you all decided to say that the Dev's posting on the Decaying Skelly being KOS was more important than this was the issue.

BEHOLD: http://www.project1999.org/forums/showthread.php?t=3278

He decided to post there first. Deal with it.

[guineapig]

Has anyone seen the EK AC here on P1999? Looking at a discussion for live :-

.... stuff and quotes....

Would seem to suggest it's not there.


Well I can confirm that AC can spawn in South Karana:

http://www.project1999.org/forums/showthread.php?t=20199&highlight=karana

So it's not too much of a stretch to think that the devs would have placed him in EK as well. And I don't expect the spawn mechanism to be a simple one.

[Uthgaard]

Anyway, the answer is, AC works on test.

When I fixed the unkempt preserver, I renamed the old files to match the new npcids, what probably happened is during the patch, it only copied those files into the folder, resulting in duplicate scripts.

Should be a quick hotfix, no patch required. Rogean will know for sure when he gets off work.

[Badmartigan]

Anyway, the answer is, AC works on test.

When I fixed the unkempt preserver, I renamed the old files to match the new npcids, what probably happened is during the patch, it only copied those files into the folder, resulting in duplicate scripts.

Should be a quick hotfix, no patch required. Rogean will know for sure when he gets off work.

Thanks Uthgaard! You the man !!

[Ploppy]

Thanks for the reply