Super Zon-Spawn

JesterOI · Post by **JesterOI** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 12:24 pm

Sounds like a wonderful bug for uber-drops!

Aarkon Draco · Post by **Aarkon Draco** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 4:17 pm

on this topic i logged out in the enchanted forrest fully alive and halthy when i came back latter and relogged the same toon i was surrounded by 30 or so goblins. this seems to be the same bug/quirk as in zonz tho not as dangerous lol. i would like to stress that i did not die and relog i was fully alive when i logged out and back in

Post by **Amoenotep** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 2:12 am

mega bursts in the planes are random and deadly.

blood amniotes split when thier auras do a certain amount of damage..not just to 1 person, but just a certain amount. which pretty much means the more ppl you get around the same one the faster it will multiply.

not sure on the double spawns/mega spawns

Celorn · Post by **Celorn** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 12:27 pm

Amoenotep wrote:mega bursts in the planes are random and deadly.

True, but the 'random' thing.... I know about probability, so the chances that the SAME toon (and their undead summons) would be randomly hit by a mega burst -3- times within 20 minutes when the other member of the 2-person party was not touched all 3 times, just seems a bit 'off' to me... (I'm just thinking something was attracting the megabursts to the one toon+summon maybe undead summons are considered lightning rods in the plane of air?

).

Sure, with 'random' it's possible, but 3 times so close together, to the same toon is not very likely to happen! Oh well, keeps things interesting anyhow, and discourages people from soloing ;].

JesterOI · Post by **JesterOI** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 1:00 am

Just do it the easy way, make a statement somewhere that the super/mega spawns are a "feature"

Voila, prob. fixed.

ihuntudown · Post by **ihuntudown** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:27 pm

any news yet from the massive lagspikes on amazons yet?

a pain to see a so good leveling up area falling away in memories due lag

Celorn · Post by **Celorn** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 3:10 pm

odd.. i never get lag in zons, even during the lagfest i was leveling in there with the same lag as everwhere else.

Mythri Wolfwood · Post by **Mythri Wolfwood** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 9:24 pm

I've never had any lag or super Zon spawns either. And, like Celorn, I leveled there recently and received about as much lag as everyone else. What I have noticed, however, is if I exit a map that I have not fought in and re-enter, I have seen instances where the number of monsters spawned increased/decreased by a little or a lot. This is not restricted to the Zons though.

Dynmi · Post by **Dynmi** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 3:19 am

I've seen super Zon spawns a few times, also usally there is more lag there for me...Something about it mkes me crash also, I blame the bongos and war crys.

MLoki · Post by **MLoki** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 10:56 am

Celorn is correct about party size affecting the Blood Amniotes. We did a test with a DM where you could easily solo one Blood Amniote but throw in summons and a full party and they start multiplying quickly. As for the sudden burst of them I believe they do a little bit of damage when they first split so if enough people are around them when they pop then they split again immediatly. From what we were told this was intentional as is the random elemental damage that can take out a whole party in the elemental planes. In dragon from with over 1k HP I was able to survive a blast that took out the other 5 members of our party. We had just buffed while we were in the Positive Plane and then suddenly everybody was dead from a stack of Positive Damage effects. It happens often enough to be wary of it.

As for Zons, I have seen a few Ritualist helms still drop but they are rare. It seems they have fixed the Storm Kama to drop more often but the Ritualist gear is hard to come by. I have seen the double spawn problem happen before but only after relogging a character in an area and letting the area respawn by logging back in. I have seen double bosses in Epic Dwarves occur because of this as well. I am sure it has something to do with the fixing of broken areas and I feel it is a small price to pay for not having broken maps everywhere.

Game ON!!!

MLoki

MLoki

ihuntudown · Post by **ihuntudown** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 3:00 pm

been back to amazons, after a long time, the lanceresses still give me odd lagspikes, tried to fix it with my local video settings but non worked; anyone a idea whats wrong? I get it always from barbarians with 2handed weapons. Maybe installing a cep will fix it?

Nyeleni · Post by **Nyeleni** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 5:34 pm

And here it comes again: turn off the sound in the nwconfig and only there... This will make the barbs shut down and your comp run smoothly. Must be like the 7th time I tell this... Although it doesn't work for everybody, so, don't expect a miracle

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Celorn · Post by **Celorn** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 3:04 pm

sound... now that makes sense, but i wonder what specific setting causes it? I will have to experiment next time i'm there, my desktop was lagging like crazy last time yet my laptop at the very same time was lag-free.

in the sound options, there are around 8? different choices for sound engine, and then there's 'use hardware' and eax, etc... so possibly a tweak there can resolve the issue. Maybe I'll play with it when I have time and post my findings.