In a nutshell;
The base of the EqEmu database is made by players on live with "packet collectors", this data is then converted for use on EqEmu. If AC spawned in SRO and someone happened to be playing there and collecting packets, then it would turn up in the packets/database. But since farmers like you would race to be the first kill it so they could MQ the ring, the info on how it paths never got recorded
. I'm surprised it even got recorded at all because it is a very rare spawn. After the zone is "packet spawned" in EqEmu, What's needed next is for people like you (X-Farmers, Campers) to detail those rare spawns and their drops, and is why I was able to add so much to the zones i fixed. If you camped one NPC for any length of time, then you already know more about him (and everything that spawned around him), than what's in the database (unless someone already fixed him). I was just thinking about fixing the AC a few days ago, but since I never really camped or even saw him, I'll rely on research off the internet (this works too).
Lodizal in Iceclad is a much more common spawn, since he always spawns regardless how long it takes, so they probably got him right, but increased his spawn rate, because no one in EqEmu wants to wait 10 hours for a spawn/drop.
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Originally Posted by blackjack1
Back in the day I specialized in rares.
I kill the acient cyclops in SRO about 35 times and Lodizil about 20 ish times.
What I noticed in S.RO on the emulator is the AC only spawns in one place. Could have sworn we smaked him down just when he was spawing (using showeq) in many more places in the zone.
also the pathing seems far shorter.
Also Lodozil seems to spawn much more frequently on the emu that live. We usually had to wait about 10 hours.
Just wondering how true to live these spawns are. I am asking this because I allways wanted to know how EXACTLY these spawns worked. Hoping that studying the database would answer some questions things that allways wondered about..
Thanks
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