Swamp of No Hope - Captain Nedar/Mystic Dovan spawn broken

[Pyrocat]

Description: Captain Nedar is supposed to despawn at night and Mystic Dovan is supposed to spawn in his place, and they switch in the morning. Currently it's just Captain Nedar that is up.

Relevant NPCs: Captain Nedar, Mystic Dovan

Relevant LOCs: (2645, 3030, 44) is where Captain Nedar is, and where Mystic Dovan should spawn.

Steps to reproduce bug:

1. Head to Swamp of No Hope
2. Wait a full game day, far away from Captain Nedar just to make sure there's no radius detection.
3. Watch Captain Nedar never despawn

Expected behavior:
He should despawn at 7 or 8pm game time and Mystic Dovan should spawn at 8-10pm game time.

Evidence/Research:

Originally Posted by allakhazam comment

Mystic Dovan is only up at night. If you get there in the day time, there is a Captain Nedar in his spot. Captain will depop at 7 PM game time and Mystic will spawn at 8 PM.

Originally Posted by allakhazam comment

He stands on the balcony to the side closer to the city where Warlord Hikyg stands. However, he despawns at 8pm gametime and Mystic Dovan spawns in his place at 10pm gametime. (I imagine that they exchange places at 8am/10am.)

Originally Posted by alla quest description

Mystic Dovan spawns in the same place as Captain Nedar (one during the day and one at night)

Originally Posted by allakhazam comment

After getting all the skulls you turn the chest and your old mace into Mystic Dovan in the Swamp of No Hope. He spawns after 9:00pm in the buildings on the right while coming out from East Cabilis.

Originally Posted by allakhazam comment

As stated below Captain Nedar spawns to the left of Warlord Hikys. He is only there durning the day, Mystic Dovan is there at night, and there is a game of about an hour (Kunark time) between one leaving and the other spawning. The /loc is 2645,3030.

Originally Posted by allakhazam comment

hes only there during the day, and not just when day starts. Dovan is still there during the day, he takes a while to piss off-nedar spawns later during the day. dont stand near him, otherwise he wont spawn-kinda like camping stuff

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=684
http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/search.shtml?id=4079
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=213

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[Pyrocat]

bump

[Pyrocat]

bump =/

[nilbog]

These spawns are made the same way as the rest of the day/night mechanics. So.. it IS actually set up to work.

Either A:, it will work fine when the server launches and the time is correct.

or B:, it will be broken with the rest of the time of day npcs.

We'll have a solid time of day/night system set up at some point, which will resolve all of these time issues :P

[Pyrocat]

Ah ok, thank you for the response.

[Bigcountry23]

It should be noted, this has broken Shaman Skull Quest 4 (Mystic Dovan is the NPC you receive the C.O.R.N chest from and turn it back into when filled with Tiny Glowing Skulls). Are GM's willing to assist in spawning Dovan (who should be spawning daily, but per Nilbog's note, if he is not up when the server resets, he won't be up)?

[nilbog]

Fixed, pending update.

Captain/Mystic should spawn properly.