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Thunderheart

Tue May 25, 2004 3:05 pm

It means that there are a lot of people on the planet. The more people there are, the less random spawns there are. These are adjustments the server makes automatically. If you are running shy of random spawns, you should go get a mission. The terminals will spawn additional lairs when this type of loading occurs...

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Isacoast

Tue May 25, 2004 3:14 pm

#80

What happened to planets being dangerous? It seems nowadays I get agroed on Naboo by Shaupauts more than I will ever get agroed on Dathomir by Rancors... Seriously, these spawns need to be fixed. Dathomir is the only real 'advanced' planet and it's really sad that I can run for 15-20 minutes at a time without seeing more than 2 Nightsisters (which don't use any forcepowers or any specials for that matter) and maybe a couple of Injured Kwi. Fix the spawns! Make these planets 'advanced' again... pleeeeeeease!

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TechBoss

Tue May 25, 2004 3:14 pm

#81

This is all fine and dandy except that, to the best of my knowledge, some mobs do not appear on mission terminals. Additionally, some spawns can only be obtained through random spawns.

Gurk lairs, king only spawns from random layers.

Creature handlers and BEs cannot find higher level creatures due to the lack of random spawns. They should not have to get groups to find their targets.

Somemobs do not spawn on the mission terminals (ancient grauls, frenzied grauls, kimo gilas of all types,etc.)

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Equalivious

Tue May 25, 2004 3:15 pm

#82

That doesn't explain why I goto Endor with only 5 people on the planet and I dont see more than 3 or 4 lairs.

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Djamonja

Tue May 25, 2004 3:16 pm

#83

Endor is the same way -- not much fun to run around on a barren planet...

SonGouki

Tue May 25, 2004 3:23 pm

#84

That is not anacceptable excuse!

If that's the real reason and the devs don't plan to fix this, then remove player cities and build rightsfrom Lok and Dantooine, take the Warren off of Dantooine, take the Geonosian Lab off of Yavin IV, take the Death Watch Bunker off of Endor, and take the Nightsister Stronghold off of Dathomir... in fact, while you're at it take all MOB's, POI's, Outposts, and anything else remotely interesting off of the "adventure" planets, because if they can't handle players being interested in them what's the point!

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saintchuck

Tue May 25, 2004 3:41 pm

#85

Or Sony could lease more servers...

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Dapper_Dan

Tue May 25, 2004 3:48 pm

#86

Makes it easy to check harvestors, when there is little mobs, that is about the only good thing to this. If the spawn vs lag issues gets fixed, wake me up. I will probably be playing City of Heroes with my friends who quit a long time ago.

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LLJK_Griz

Tue May 25, 2004 3:49 pm

#87

It probably tracks by area, so frequently visited places get more spawns and the middle of nowhere gets nothing. This would explain the clusters of spawns around cities and dungeonswith nothing at all a few km out.

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generelz

Tue May 25, 2004 3:56 pm

#88

So following the same logic, if a certain PA were to have a high-traffic player city near the Krayt Graveyard (hence taking server resources away from "dynamic spawns"), then effectively they control the spawn of Krayts on the server. It all makes sense to me now.

IMHO this was a poor server architecture decision. There should be _dedicated_ resources to ensuring that there are dynamic spawns, no matter what the case. I remember when I was in beta 3 and how much fun it was to be on the adventure planets because there were so many spawns. Now it's a cakewalk.

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Scuddbacca

Tue May 25, 2004 3:57 pm

#89

This is classic developer logic. We solved the lag problem, but we can't see the forest because of all these crazy trees. Let's use some common (or uncommon in this case) sense for a few minutes.

If there are MORE people on Dathomir, shouldn't the server generate MORE creatures and lairs to kill? People go to Dathomir to kill stuff! It is supposed to be an advanced planet chock full of dangerous creatures and humanoid NPC's. Other than solving the hardware problem in an incorrect manner, why reduce the number of creatures and lairs when the player population of a planet increases?

Once again quick fixes and hasty decisions override simple common sense.

WarFerret

Tue May 25, 2004 4:14 pm

#90

So the busier the Krayt graveyard gets, the fewer Krayts there are to kill.

Ok, who thought that one up ?

We'll have nothing to kill, but at least we can kill it with a high framerate

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Lotussutol

Tue May 25, 2004 4:15 pm

#91

We should NOT have to grab missions to hunt...right?

I fight on Dath...I used to be able to grab two missions and never make it to my missions and fight for 3 hours to try and get to my missions...

now all I come across are injured kiwi and reptile birds (which are low lvl).

Also, The last few nights I have been fighting Night Sisters...100% of them were hand to hand even though they would drop a pikeman weapon (seems even the NS know pikeman sucks...heheh j/k). None of the Night Sisters used any force powers either.

Something is out of whack with spawns...might want to look into it.

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