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Originally Posted by mwatt
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hmmm, ok. I think I see the reason for our disconnect. I am using the term "window" in a different way than is applied upon this server. Let me re-state. The sort of "window" I am talking about should be thought of as a time span that begins with either a zone repop or the death of the mob in question. These "windows" as it were, would run consecutively and not be scheduled to be bi-sected by a scheduled date. As soon as a mob dies, a new such "window" would begin. Essentially they are nothing more than elapsed time limits denoting a possibe range of time in which a mob could spawn. Since the time of spawning would be randomized within this time spawn and because they stack consecutively with no arbitrary scheduled day, the shorter they are made, the more frequent the spawn would be.
Now, this idea may be naive in that the spawning mechanism for NPCs can not be set two work like this. I dunno about that.
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You are all kinds of confused. This is what a window is:
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Originally Posted by mwatt
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Essentially [windows] are nothing more than elapsed time limits denoting a possibe range of time in which a mob could spawn.
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Now, in between windows you have this time where the mob CANNOT spawn. We do not have rolling windows on this server where a mob can spawn at any time. We have times when they cannot spawn, then a 96 hour window when it can (but once it spawns it cannot spawn again) and then we are back in the period where it cannot spawn (which starts immediately after the mob is slain).
Where you and I are getting confused is on WHEN the time the mob cannot spawn begins. You are wanting a system where the mob can always spawn on Saturday (arbitrary), give or take 2 days. The current system is the mob cannot spawn for 5 days after the last day it was killed (regardless of when that was).
I don't think either system is inherently better or worse than the other (although keeping the windows fixed around the weekend would help a larger portion of the population, but at the expense of the minority who works on weekends. I think the "kill-determined next window" is more fair to everyone (those who work on weekends and those who work M-F) than the "fixed day center window", I just think the length of the window should be smaller.