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Thread: Any news on new Once Per Day POI Spawning?
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StumanKadir
Sun Sep 05, 2004 9:53 pm
#1
As most folks will be aware, all POI's that have a spawn in them (with the exception of the Geo Caves and the DWB and I believe the Beetle Cave) have had their spawns reduced down to once per day.
What this essentially means is that if someone has already cleaned outa POI (ie, Weapons Facility, City of Durbin, Lost Aqualish, etc, then it will not respawn until the next server restart.
I know that over the past few days all I have ever seen are empty POIs, and even camping some (like the Woolamander Palace) has shown that the spawn rates are either much, much longer than what they were prior to Publish 10, or have changed to once per day.
Would it be possible is TH could confirm this. Should we all be /bugging it or is this the way its going to be from now on?
Lugal
Mon Sep 06, 2004 2:19 am
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I'm all for punishi g the campers who ruin the game for others. But to take away from the game doesn't make sense to me. I would make the spawns have some sort of gurd that spawns with them to mkae it a little tuffer and to mess with macro hunting.
SolzDevius
Mon Sep 06, 2004 2:34 am
#3
I can confirm the Woolamander is still a spawn per hour
Message Edited by SolzDevius on 09-06-2004 02:34 AM
Gawzeera
Mon Sep 06, 2004 3:14 am
#4
MyrahDarksun.
Go ahead and cancel with an attitude like that i'm sure you wont be missed.
I'm not sure about loot spawns but the spawn rates of other caves etc have not changed if anything I'd say they have increased.
Just try out the sennex cave on tat. well at least on my server the spawn rate of mobs there is really quick, every few minutes i think.
biffanizering
Mon Sep 06, 2004 3:17 am
#5
I can confirm the Woolamander is still a spawn per hour
sure as hell isn't on radiant
Message Edited by biffanizering on 09-06-2004 03:18 AM
KingKobra74
Mon Sep 06, 2004 5:19 am
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... and Farstar. Spent just over 2 hours in there on Saturday and nothing spawned at all.
MyrahDarksun
Mon Sep 06, 2004 7:19 am
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Gawzeera wrote:
MyrahDarksun.
Go ahead and cancel with an attitude like that i'm sure you wont be missed.
I'm not sure about loot spawns but the spawn rates of other caves etc have not changed if anything I'd say they have increased.
Just try out the sennex cave on tat. well at least on my server the spawn rate of mobs there is really quick, every few minutes i think.
You must be the wise old sage of your server. Ever tried to hunt for R.I.S. armor components? Before, with the 1:09 respawn timer, you had a CHANCE to get harrower bone fragments. Now I've got to pay jacked up prices or get up at 5AM PST to MAYBE get some bone fragments from TWO, and only two for the entire day, Woolamander Harrowers. Do the world a favor and TRY to participate in the "content" before you open your mouth.
EledrenRontas
Mon Sep 06, 2004 10:52 am
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Stupid.
The only word that can be used to describe it I'm afraid.
Have you ever heard of a more retarded idea in your life? A game that's already STARVING for content and here you've got the devs effectively KILLING what little content there is in the game? All this does is reward campers, I mean christ, if you want to cut down on loot drops, cut down on loot drops, change the code for that.
Please DON'T nerf spawn times. Not all of us have attention spans so short that we find the next janta mission "exciting".
If we get bored of the grind we should be able to turn up to these poi's and kill something different; to have some variation in our daily SWG lives.
Why, and please if TH or any SOE representative reads this I'd love to know, are you strangling what little content is in the game? You do realise that by cutting poi spawns down to one per day or even one every few hours you're benefitting loot campers? After all they're the only ones who will actually get up at stupid o'clock in the morning after the server reset to catch the only spawn.
You have fort tusken and the Geo caves on an almost continuous spawn, why in gods name isn't it the same for the other poi's?
The only word that can be used to describe it I'm afraid.
Have you ever heard of a more retarded idea in your life? A game that's already STARVING for content and here you've got the devs effectively KILLING what little content there is in the game? All this does is reward campers, I mean christ, if you want to cut down on loot drops, cut down on loot drops, change the code for that.
Please DON'T nerf spawn times. Not all of us have attention spans so short that we find the next janta mission "exciting".
If we get bored of the grind we should be able to turn up to these poi's and kill something different; to have some variation in our daily SWG lives.
Why, and please if TH or any SOE representative reads this I'd love to know, are you strangling what little content is in the game? You do realise that by cutting poi spawns down to one per day or even one every few hours you're benefitting loot campers? After all they're the only ones who will actually get up at stupid o'clock in the morning after the server reset to catch the only spawn.
You have fort tusken and the Geo caves on an almost continuous spawn, why in gods name isn't it the same for the other poi's?
biffanizering
Mon Sep 06, 2004 12:20 pm
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i sure hope not 
. i think i picked a really bad time to try to get RIS armor
. i think i picked a really bad time to try to get RIS armor Message Edited by biffanizering on 09-06-2004 12:21 AM
MyrahDarksun
Mon Sep 06, 2004 12:24 pm
#10
This is bullsh#t. I'm sick of you devs. I don't know about everyone else, but I'm about a hairsbreatdh from cancelling my account and never touching an SOE product again. Got anything else you'd like to ninja nerf and never tell us about?
galvatronicus
Mon Sep 06, 2004 1:44 pm
#11
bump
I to am upset over the removal of content. While we are at it, what happened to the tuskens that used to spawn at the bunker by the squill cave?
Why cant the Dev's add some NPC's around the camped POI's to discourage camping if it is such an issue? Take Lord Nyax for instance. If the camping of Nyax is an issue, increase the strength of his followers and place there spawn time and location closer to his.
I to am upset over the removal of content. While we are at it, what happened to the tuskens that used to spawn at the bunker by the squill cave?
Why cant the Dev's add some NPC's around the camped POI's to discourage camping if it is such an issue? Take Lord Nyax for instance. If the camping of Nyax is an issue, increase the strength of his followers and place there spawn time and location closer to his.
TGB_Bane
Tue Sep 07, 2004 12:04 am
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went to geo every spawn on dath to find them empty last night, and then went to geo cave. Everything in there spawns way to fast, but no friggin acklay for 4 hours
Viexa
Fri Oct 01, 2004 9:59 am
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What is pissing me off the most is that I can't find one post yet where any of the devs address this. Not one official statement. At least tell us what is going on, say "this is the way it's gonna be deal with it", or "it's broke well fix it soon"
If this is a nerf it sure is a retarded one, I can't figure how this makes sense "People are camping the POI and making it hard for some people to get to kill any of it's mobs, so to solve that we'll the base spawn once a day so that it becomes impossible."
But if it isn't a nerf how come it hasn't been fixed in the five mini publishes since then. I don't care if my armoire holds 50 items like my backpacks do. I really don't care if my droid stays colored for 200 pulls when the goddamn poi's don't even work.
Come on SOE, for a little while there i was starting to think you were getting it together, and while I do understand the jedi change was kind of a big thing, the poi spawn rate should have absolutely nothing to do with it
If this is a nerf it sure is a retarded one, I can't figure how this makes sense "People are camping the POI and making it hard for some people to get to kill any of it's mobs, so to solve that we'll the base spawn once a day so that it becomes impossible."
But if it isn't a nerf how come it hasn't been fixed in the five mini publishes since then. I don't care if my armoire holds 50 items like my backpacks do. I really don't care if my droid stays colored for 200 pulls when the goddamn poi's don't even work.
Come on SOE, for a little while there i was starting to think you were getting it together, and while I do understand the jedi change was kind of a big thing, the poi spawn rate should have absolutely nothing to do with it
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