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Originally Posted by Rygar
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Basicaly the Scout is on a static spawn timer that only depends on when she spawned last and not on when somebody last did the quest. The spawn timer is about 11.6 hours give or take about half an hour by my experience. So if she spawned at X hour on monday she will spawn at X - 0.9 hour on tuesday give or take about half an hour. (I have tested this info quite extensively and I am very confident of it)
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Trying to make sense of this above formula, I'm assuming 11.6 hours is 11 hours and 36 minutes. Variance is +/- 30 minutes. Assuming she spawns at 3pm on Monday, using the 3pm - 0.9 hours (54 minutes), then that means she spawns at 2:06am on Tuesday. That is actually 11 hours and 6 minutes later, but I interpret that as the 30 minute variance is factored in (which is exactly 11 hours and 36 minutes, or 11.6 hours).
Basically on P99 raiding terms he was giving you a formula to determine when window starts (spawn time - 54 minutes), the window would last an hour. |
This info seems pretty dodgy without any real corroboration - it's very anecdotal, which is usually an indication that someone has no idea what they're talking about. For example, following his 0.9-hour window theory, one would expect the half-life of the window would occur at 11.45 hours, instead of 11.6 hours. I'd say it would make sense to go with 11.5 hours +/- 30 minutes, but it seems like he just recorded a few spawn times and used that very limited set of data to determine the spawn timer, which for all we know might not even begin when he thinks it does. He assumes the timer begins when Scout spawns, with the only alternative being "when somebody last did the quest", meaning when someone did the final turn-in. On P99, the timer resets when someone turns in the tools, which is neither of those - on live EQ circa 2001, this could account for the weird variance that he recorded, since people in those days weren't spam-clicking Scout's exact to-the-pixel spawn coordinates. So there would've been some amount of "give" time as people notified their guildmates that Scout was up and rallied their forces, etc., before finally turning in their tools resetting the timer.
It's very unlikely that Scout is a completely unique NPC whose spawn timer runs in perpetuity based on the sole variable of her own spawn time. While it's possible to do this even assuming the original EQ devs had the foresight to have her spawn timer automatically reset in the case that she's still up when the next spawn time rolls around, I highly doubt that that's how it functioned. Further, his druid was only leveled to 14, which can be done in a day or two, so it's unclear for how long he'd been tracking spawn times before arriving at his conclusions.
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Originally Posted by Rygar
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The wayback page to Scout Charisa mentions someone saying she respawns every 10 hours, but the main quest page makes mentions of 10-12 without any details.
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I am all for implementing some kind of variance window for Scout Charisa, however, simply for sanity's sake. 11 hours +/- 1 hour seems perfect to me.