Kithicor Undead mobs won't despawn

[Nen]

Title says it all. ;)

[Shannacore]

Why couldnt this have happened when I was trying to get my mace? BAH!

[LazyFuj]

imo it should always be like this, this zone is a ghost town anyway.

[FatMagic]

imo it should always be like this, this zone is a ghost town anyway.

Noo never I actually utilize this zone during the day time... it's a good spot to farm a few components.

[Omnimorph]

imo it should always be like this, this zone is a ghost town anyway.

I used to kill orcs in kith, not many people knew about them and the High Pass orcs were always overcamped.

[Mordachai]

also, the rangers at the houses are not up for ivy quests and others. just verified this along with undead being up at 2pm game time.

[guineapig]

Best place in the game to hunt for honeycombs during the day.

[Omnimorph]

Best place in the game to hunt for honeycombs during the day.

But my Faction with "bixie" will go down!!!

Kith was a funny zone back in the day, everything had it's own faction :p

[ardinel]

The same thing in Lake Rathetear, the undead do not despawn and the gnolls never take their place.

[Nen]

Bump.

[Mmohunter]

I wouldn't mind this bug much, IF the rangers stayed spawned. I have to hand in a few quests for my Ivy and the orc impaler but I cannot because they are not up. Please fix this soon.

[Nen]

Bump. Is this being looked at? ;)

[Malrubius]

Bump. Undead all over the place at all hours. Playing their damn loud music, and forming pyramids, and frightening the children...

[mixxit]

Ok looking into it - will let you know when it's working. Won't be on tonight's patch though.

[BuzWeaver]

Ok looking into it - will let you know when it's working. Won't be on tonight's patch though.

Appreciate it! :)

[Nen]

Ok looking into it - will let you know when it's working. Won't be on tonight's patch though.

<3 <3 <3

:)

[mixxit]

Ok good news! Aeolwind has found the problem! Looks like the test server time is 35 years out of sync with the live server so the events will never trigger. We need some time to think about how we can get this working everytime we copy over from test so bear with us. I'll post more when I know more :-)

[BuzWeaver]

Great, thanks! :)

[Azureblaze]

Just a quick FYI - Same issue in Lake Rathe with undead.

[Nen]

Hey... Just wondering if there is a possible ETA on this? Kinda bummed that I can't do my Ivy armor quests. Is this day // night spawn-thing hard to fix?

Any info appreciated - thank you. <3

[Nen]

Ok good news! Aeolwind has found the problem! Looks like the test server time is 35 years out of sync with the live server so the events will never trigger. We need some time to think about how we can get this working everytime we copy over from test so bear with us. I'll post more when I know more :-)

Disregard above post -- didn't see this reply! Thanks!!

One quick question - was bringing the server down the reason why its out of sync?

[Mmohunter]

Please fix this :) I have an Orc Impaler to hand in, and 3 pieces of Ivy I have had waiting to be crafted for 2 weeks :)

[Burrito]

"This zone is very dangerous to travel through, whether day or night. At night the powerful undead, which are mostly over 40th level, spawn all over the zone. In the daytime, these undead no longer spawn, but if more powerful characters did not destroy them they will still be walking around."

I thought the no despawn on the undead mobs were purposeful? Guess not.. Oh boy, Kithicor is always scary to go through on this server. Should be interesting to see the change.

[Omnimorph]

I have never died to an undead in kith. I was told when i was a lowbie starting out to hug right wall... and hug it i did, and hug it i shall. Never died :p

[Anata]

"This zone is very dangerous to travel through, whether day or night. At night the powerful undead, which are mostly over 40th level, spawn all over the zone. In the daytime, these undead no longer spawn, but if more powerful characters did not destroy them they will still be walking around."

I thought the no despawn on the undead mobs were purposeful? Guess not.. Oh boy, Kithicor is always scary to go through on this server. Should be interesting to see the change.
Yes, I've also always been wondering about that quote from eqatlas. But there is counterevidence too:

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/zones.html?zstrat=20&page=1&howmany=50#msg9688044727693 (Sep 2000):
"I thought it might be helpful for people to know that the undead BEGIN to pop at 8:00pm and FINISH depopping at 8:00am (tracking was useful in finding this out)."

But then there is also:
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/zones.html?zstrat=20&page=1&howmany=50#msg97764991111932
"although be warned, the druid was still picking up high level undead on her track at 10AM....guess they didn't despawn yet."

Several classic sites describe Kithicor as safe place during daytime, and IMO it is extremely unlikely that people were hunting these undead so intensively that they all had typically disappeared during daytime.
I bet that the auther of eqatlas was there once around 7-9am game time when some undead hadn't despawned yet.

[Nen]

Yes, I've also always been wondering about that quote from eqatlas. But there is counterevidence too:

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/zones.html?zstrat=20&page=1&howmany=50#msg9688044727693 (Sep 2000):
"I thought it might be helpful for people to know that the undead BEGIN to pop at 8:00pm and FINISH depopping at 8:00am (tracking was useful in finding this out)."

But then there is also:
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/zones.html?zstrat=20&page=1&howmany=50#msg97764991111932
"although be warned, the druid was still picking up high level undead on her track at 10AM....guess they didn't despawn yet."

Several classic sites describe Kithicor as safe place during daytime, and IMO it is extremely unlikely that people were hunting these undead so intensively that they all had typically disappeared during daytime.
I bet that the auther of eqatlas was there once around 7-9am game time when some undead hadn't despawned yet.

That was not the case and it's derailing the thread anyway. The issue here is that ever since the server was taken down due to the repeated DDoS attacks, this zone hasn't worked properly.

A lot of classes cannot do turn in quest items because this zone is borked. Any news on a fix for this? :(

[maximum]

I'm in Kith right now at 10am, and I can't see any meanie undeads. Appears fixed.

[Mordachai]

oh i so hope this is still the case when I get home in a couple of hours!!

[girth]

There are areas without undead even at night, such as the shralok orc area by the highpass zone. Sure you weren't there?

And if Kith is still bugged, what are the chances of adding orcs to night spawn list for the time list, they are such good faction for highpass since the nameds are supposed to be 4x the faction hit of non named ones.

[Nedala]

Kith is definately still bugged undeads are up 24/7.

[Hasbinbad]

..the daytime spawns wont spawn either..

*cry*

Clomen Walker, WRU?!?

[Mordachai]

I did both turn-ins for the Orc Impaler and SSoM in Kithicor today at 6pm EST, I zoned in at 2am game time, ran to Misty zone in, at 6am all of the undead despawned and the daytime mobs spawned. so it is not completely broken.

[Nen]

Looks like it's back to normal to me.

<3 <3 <3

[guineapig]

Tainted and ruined weapons will still drop at night though, correct?

[Nen]

Wanted to toss a shout to Mixxit for speeding this along. Thanks man. =)

[astarothel]

pretty sure I remember 8 to 8 as the times, not 6 to 6. Just a heads up. The spawns seem to be working though for it now, yay :)