All I know is that when I am camping something in Lower Guk, I have three
count down timers sitting on my desk timing seperate spawns. When one of
them beeps, I notifiy the party that spawn is about to happen and in every
single case that I can remember, I've been dead on accurate (within 30
seconds or so). When we started camping the Assassion/Supplier that
morning, we had a small debate whether it was 32 or 34 minutes and over the
next 8 hours or so EVERY single spawn was almost exactly 34 minutes after
the "death" of its placeholder/predecessor. When I camped the Lord, he and
his guards also had exactly a 34 minute spawn time from the death of the
last one. I camped the King's room in Sol A a couple of months ago for 9
hours (I was there for XP and we ended up decaying about 6 Rings of the
Goblin Lords :( ) and not once during that period did the expected spawn not
show up exactly 20 minutes after its predecessor was dispatched.
Because I like to do it, I'm almost always the time keeper whenever I'm in a
group camping something and so far I observed Guk/Sol B are almost always 34
minutes, Sol A is almost always exactly 20 minutes and I have a whole
listing of spawn times for other camps at home... The only time I've seen
these spawn times messed up is in Sol A camping the EXG... he sometimes
seems to skip a spawn cycle or 2 with no placeholder and... and in
situations where the server (not network) is very laggy. On bad server days
you can throw the clocked spawn times out the window.
Maybe it's Prexus and we just are super consistant, but for the most part
the timings are right on.
Taneran
----- Original Message -----
From: Ryan Honeyman <honeyman@...>
To: <eqbards@onelist.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 2:34 PM
Subject: RE: [eqbards] Ghoul Assassin Advice?
> From: Ryan Honeyman <honeyman@...>
>
> > and or nada loots from the named. Something is on the 34 min cycle but
it
> > wont always be the Assassin with a mask or dirk.
>
> Regarding the spawn time cycle. It's as close to a fixed time as
> possible, but you all stating that it's 34 mins misleads a lot of
> people. It's not 34 mins, it's whenever each object in the zone
> has it's reset() called. Verant uses an LPmud code variation for
> their object control, and as I have invested several years into
> development of the source of this mud, I can attest to the un-
> predictability of timing resets. It all depends on how much is
> going on in the zone, and what the load on the server supplying
> the zone is. I've seen 30 min spawns in Guk, I've also seen 55
> min spawns in Guk. It depends on how many players are there, how
> many objects are in the zone, and how many NPCs need resetting
> each cycle. I'm sure other factors are involved. This applies
> to every zone as well. It looks like Verant sets a time for each
> object to reset, but according to how much needs to be done - your
> camped NPC may be the last thing to get reset, hence giving you
> the impression of a variable (or longer) spawn time. IIRC, Guk
> is just like most other zones with a 25/30 min reset. Due to the
> activity of the zone, you could see noticable delay in spawn resets.
>
> Anyway, just adding my knowledge =)
>
> Harmonic.
>
>
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