Controller NPCs despawning on their own

[zerjz3]

I have been having issues with controller NPCs despawning for no reason. They are not set to despawn in the database, their scripts have no despawning functions, but after a few hours of the server being up they will just vanish from the zones they're in.

I have tested this with 3 different controllers in 3 different zones. They all have different scripts that do vastly different things, so it's not something with their scripts.

They all use the race 127, if that matters.

[provocating]

These are the new zone controllers? I was under the impression you did not spawn them, they spawned on their own.

- When a zone boots, it will spawn an invisible npc by the name of zone_controller

[zerjz3]

These are not the new zone controllers, but manually created controllers with the name "_"

[provocating]

On any grids?

[zerjz3]

Nope, not on any grids. They just stand there and do their thing for a few hours until poofing. Won't come back until I #repop force or reboot the zone

[provocating]

If you do not mind trying something, throw a despawn event out there with maybe a shout in it. That will tell is if the NPC is indeed despawning through he despawn event.

[joligario]

Wasn't there a rule or something added that allowed for rotational spawns? Something that mimicked old live that cycled spawns to increase the chance for named to spawn.

[N0ctrnl]

I know a lot of the spawns had despawn timers, or do in the PEQ database. It wasn't anything rule-based that I saw though.

[joligario]

Ok, wasn't sure if it was specific to those timers.