NPC Spawn Issue: Ancient Cyclops in South Ro

[nilbog]

While reviewing some old scripts.. I noticed this one was in rough shape.

It appears the ph/ac is in a very predictable location all the time. Shouldn't it be random in the desert?

[Bossman]

Yes!

[Sirken]

yes it should be random and was random on live. this was the reason i only camped it in OOT on live

[Itap]

Also should not be spawning during the day, if it still is.

[Bossman]

The S Ro spawn was very very rarely camped because of the randomness and also the strict spawn time.

[Ele]

Originally Posted by nilbog [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It appears the ph/ac is in a very predictable location all the time.

It is currently a 30-minute afk, kill PH, go afk camp.

[Kender]

it was random on live and due to this there were so many theories about how to pop it

Usually the safest bet was to just kill everything in the desert which is what people usually did if they were trying to kill him

[Buellen]

Heya

Wanted to chime in. I to have memories of it being random location spawn on live and also same thing on eqmac.

Another thing I remember (don't have info on this) the dark elf merchant would kill Sand Giants and AC if it spawned. I remember seeing this many times on live with sand giants they would whale on the merchant if they got near them and merchants would pulverize them.


My 2 cents

[Potus]

Yup should be:

ENCOUNTER_DESCRIPTION SROHusamAncientNightfall
MONSTER_1_NAME a_desert_madman
MONSTER_1_NIGHT_NAME an_ancient_cyclops
MONSTER_1_PERCENT 10
MONSTER_2_NAME a_sand_giant
MONSTER_2_NIGHT_NAME a_mummy
MONSTER_2_PERCENT 20
MONSTER_3_NAME a_sand_giant
MONSTER_3_PERCENT 10
MONSTER_4_NAME a_dervish_cutthroat
MONSTER_4_PERCENT 30
MONSTER_5_NAME a_desert_madman
MONSTER_5_PERCENT 30

Right now it's camp the male barbarian dervish cutthroat and anything that spawns on his cycle (mummy, madman).

[nilbog]

Fixed the following, pending update.

-correct %s,
-only spawns during night,
-created a new system for random loc script spawns/applied to ac/phs


What should the exact day/night hours be for sro?
What should the exact respawn be for ac/ph? (seconds)

That should finish it up.