NPC Spawn Issue: Pained Soul

[heartbrand]

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

I cleared the PH around 220+ times first time I camped it. Watched the entire breaking bad series.

I think I did all of downton abbey while doing mine, shit's classic

[Pheer]

logged in for the first time in months yesterday at seb zone in, checked spawn and he was up

maybe i should go buy a lottery ticket

[Raavak]

I'm pushing 40+ non consecutive.
On Live I camped it once, got it in ~4 hr.

[Acrux Bcrux]

Camped it for myself, got it in 2 days. First day was 13 hours nonstop and the second day was 12 hours nonstop. Few weeks later a friend dropped me in ej and went to pick some people up so i decided to kill the ph because he still needed it and it spawned second time around. It could be a bitch or it could be easy. Ive heard of a few people getting it in a few respawns. I guess you just have to cross your fingers and get some meth to shoot incase its going to be a while.

[failed2k]

I've comfortably put in 30 hours on this thing now, never even heard of him spawning in recent times, is this thing working?

[Lammy]

Working as intended. You can see my recent thread in server chat.

[Zapatos]

Check check, is this thing even on?

I've camped this piece for several toons on p99 now and each time it was truly painful for my soul (oh hoh) whereas I've camped the same key multiple times on Eqmac without nearly as much of a headache.

EDIT: This is now my recent completed marathon (yay!) 263 placeholder kills, not including stuff that didn't make it to logs from de-syncs
http://imageshack.us/a/img132/2123/5noc.png
http://imageshack.us/a/img819/301/tx78.png

Since I've plenty of time to think on it, I'm wondering if this issue might be a mathematical one similar to the problem with the druid epic forages way back:

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

In this case you were right, and that's what was happening. When it was re-enabled, the rarity wasn't set to 100%. Setting the value below 100% compounded the rarity and made it excessively rare. The rarity is inherently correct with everything at 100% (and all other forages are) based on the selection principles I explained in an earlier post.

[15:54] <Uthgaard> http://www.project1999.org/forums/showthread.php?t=59593&page=2
[15:54] <Uthgaard> when you enabled these on the forage table, whoever did this, you did set the chance to 100% right?
[17:09] * Amelinda is now known as Faillinda
[17:11] * Faillinda is now known as Amelinda
[18:40] <kanras> Nope
[19:22] <Uthgaard> That's what's wrong then. If you set it to 5% for example, that doesn't mean it will be foraged 5% of the time. all forages need to be 100%.

[nilbog]

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

Since I've plenty of time to think on it, I'm wondering if this issue might be a mathematical one similar to the problem with the druid epic forages way back:

What is quoted there isn't even true. The forage table most certainly accepts and uses values less than 100%. If that was the case at the time, I can't say, but kanras is a source developer and could have changed it.

Anyways, the pained soul is on a spawngroup, which sums to exactly 100%. There's a chance of it spawning every 400 seconds.

[Silent]

I spent probably 35-40 hours on and off getting in anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours per camp at a time at PS. Logged in after just turning in my medallions and tooth for vp key,ran over to PS killed 3 PH's while chatting up on Teamspeak and a pained soul spawn just like that. Its just RNG/luck, I too have seen people haveit spawn back to back literally and then another pained soul an hour later. I saw a pained soul pop again after 1 PH kill yesterday while waiting to zone into seb.

Frustrating camp no doubt, Even more so on a PVP server. But eventually, You will get it.

[Kevynne]

theres a reason why its called pained soul