Sro cyclops spawn

[Veleria]

Can anyone point me to the info on when and why the Sro cyclops was changed from the classic spawnable to the once per day chance?

I have been at this for weeks and people keep spawning in at the last second and without having sow or j boots myself I keep losing the race to the spawn. people are selling these all day but 5k is not only out of my reach but it sickens me to buy it from one of the farmers that keeps sniping it from me before I can reach it. I have seen 4 spawns and one guy got at least 2 of them. I just need to be sure I understand how this spawn works. I spent several days killing place holders in the classic manner before someone informed me that it had been changed on this server. I need to know I am at least doing it right within the new custom spawn.

It's one thing the OOT spawn has people corpsing rings all over the zone but give us newbs a chance in S Ro.

[Vallaen]

Zone in at 8pm game time, go to the desert area, wait till 9pm and hope he is spawned near you. He has a 10% chance to spawn.

[Veleria]

Do you have a link to the notes where they removed the random spawn?

[Vallaen]

https://wiki.project1999.com/Ancient_Cyclops

[Veleria]

That is the link to the old spawn cycle. According to that killing placeholders still has a chance to spawn it. I am trying to verify if this is no longer the case as several people have told me.

[Dreenk317]

IT IS NOT THE CASE #VERIFIED

[Veleria]

could you be more specific which is not the case?

[ZiggyTheMuss]

There are no PH, it has a 10% chance of spawning at 9pm as stated above.

[Veleria]

Al Jolsen, interesting avatar.

[Kavious]

Per Patch Notes from Jan 18th, 2014: http://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=135889

Nilbog: Rewrote South Ro Ancient Cyclops script. He now only spawns at night with definitive spawn % chances. Previously only spawning in one location, the AC now will be random in the desert area.

[Veleria]

Thanks, that's the old spawn info when it still had PH.

[Transylvania]

it pops at 10 secs before the game clock ticks 9pm if its gonna pop. or a SG. or a desert madman. or a crypt mummy. or a sand mummy. or a mummy. or nothing. 1/10 chance for an AC.

[Transylvania]

with druids with spirit of cheetah loaded there waiting you'll have little chance unless it pops close.

[Jimjam]

The current system has been implemented based on a live dev spoiler post made after the live deserts / oasis of ro area were revamped.

Pretty hard to argue something more classic than a copy and paste of spoiled live mechanics.

In short, every 9PM there is a 10% chance for AC to spawn. To me, it seems he tends to spawn on the north and south edges of the sandy part of the zone.

If you can get yourself online in a very off-hour you tend to only have to race 0-3 other FTEers. In prime time you might be up against up to a dozen people :S.

[GinnasP99]

I'd suggest you invest in at least 1 http://wiki.project1999.com/10_Dose_Blood_of_the_Wolf, and get an instant click aggro item http://wiki.project1999.com/Wooly_Spider_Silk_Net , http://wiki.project1999.com/Summoned:_Staff_of_Runes etc. Good luck tagging a cyclops