And that gets me thinking further... those spawns that were 7 days +/- 2 days... what if it worked just slightly differently... what if it was a base 5 days plus a random 4 days... seeing how they coded now... makes me wonder.
Mob's base spawn timer 462000
+ random 345900
equals what looks like 7 days +/- 2 days...
And seems when Derision was getting Tasks working, he came up with a system for our DB that's almost identical to SoE's!
The single most rewarding thing from that thread, though, is know that even current devs and people working there have no clue what's going on with some of the older and more broken content. Gives me faith that we're not idiots and just couldn't figure it out. Helps me realize that humans did code this game and they did screw up.
But truthfully, for proof of that, all I have to do is look to his post about "bugs" that are spinning pieces of the landscape.
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