rare spawn cycles in PEQ db same as Live?

[blackjack1]

Originally Posted by Davood

the spawn mechanic is the same as quillemaine

the npc that can spawn him changes after each spawn, and you need to spawn him once, and let the zone full pop, then kill him, and watch the npc that pops again 96 seconds later, basically you could chain pop the AC if you were able to have the zone to yourself

So there is no fixed point it could be anywhere in the zone? just the mob that pops 96 secconds from his last death? By that theary you could spawn 37 Acient Cyclopses per hour? How did you come up with this conclusion?

We used to kill everything on the sand I mean everything, i would think that the 96 seccond spawn would have been killed and we would have seen him by this theary. Please explain this is very interesting.

[Davood]

ok ill explain in detail the quillemain spawn schemata right here :

imagine horizontal lines on the map from just 3 feet south of the gnoll spires and just under the bottom of the aviak village.

scattered randomly between those two lines are about 100-150 different spawn points for quillemain and quillemain phs.

Each time one dies, another spawn point is randomly selected (76?)96 seconds later, and will either spawn quillemaine, or a ph. The only way to prove this is to catch the ph, and be the only one in the zone, kill it, and kill the npc that repops elsewhere.

another way is to stand just south of the spires and kill npcs as they walk by, and set a timer for about 80 seconds and see what npcs spawn around that time window, kill those and see if any are a scattered repeating spawn, if so you found the ph cycle, if not try again.

To prove this on test you NEED macroquest, you use mapfilter custom, and just kill the npc that appears every 80ish seconds. Once I figured this out it was hilarious.

The same thing works for the AC, and i'm sure there are some other intersting spawn mechanics too somewhere else in game.

"Clearing the entire zone" over and over isnt' going to make it pop because each time you "Clear the entire zone" you are only killing the ph once

[Davood]

paraphrased :

gnoll spires
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***100-150 possible spawn points***


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southern part of aviak village


everytime ph dies it picks ONE of those spawn points, and spawns, and then heads east or west randomly, then it heads north or south randomly, and begins to circle the entire zone, with a stop over at the south part of the gnoll spires, almost in a heart shaped pathing

So clearing the entire zone over and over is too much work.