Juvenile Wyvern Spawn Rate 06/22/2015 01:30 PM CDT
Is there any chance the spawn rate for juvenile wyverns can be looked at? When I backtrain in young wyverns, the spawn rate is fantastic, but juvenile wyverns are incredibly hit or miss.

When I use the hunt command in the area, often times I will see a couple other players with four wyverns (or more in the case of empaths and moon mages) and I routinely have to hunt down single wyverns. Even if I am alone in the area, this is sometimes the case, which makes it incredibly difficult to lock my weapons and downright impossible to lock my evasion.

I guess I don't really understand why there is such a disparity between young and juvenile wyvern spawn rates and I think it would be a massive improvement if juvenile wyverns spawned in a similar fashion.
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Re: Juvenile Wyvern Spawn Rate 06/22/2015 03:50 PM CDT
I think the area layout is a large part of the problem. It's really long chain of rooms, and so they can spawn pretty far away from anyone in the area. I see them in HUNT and PERCIEVE HEALTH routinely multiple rooms away from any players.

It's really noticeable when I'm the only one in the area at night.



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Re: Juvenile Wyvern Spawn Rate 06/22/2015 05:43 PM CDT
That's pretty likely, I would guess. I had a similar problem when I briefly hunted la'tami, since that's one long chain of rooms. (Also, don't hunt la'tami. Awful spawn, and climbs mean HUNT doesn't work well.)

Juveniles would, I imagine, be set to a similar spawn rule as young wyverns, but the effect is drastically different for the player, maybe cause of the area layout, yeah.
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Re: Juvenile Wyvern Spawn Rate 06/22/2015 09:01 PM CDT
I'm fairly sure it's because of the area layout also.
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Re: Juvenile Wyvern Spawn Rate 06/22/2015 10:43 PM CDT
> I think the area layout is a large part of the problem. It's really long chain of rooms, and so they can spawn pretty far away from anyone in the area.

So I guess the question is whether this area should be tweaked to be a little more intelligent about where creatures spawn or if there's really only one way to design an area that results in a decent spawn rate.

Whatever the cause, I just know that it makes for an incredibly frustrating experience, and if it's not just limited to this area, it could probably stand to be looked into.
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Re: Juvenile Wyvern Spawn Rate 06/23/2015 08:18 AM CDT
I'll take a look into it and chat with the area's designer for potential solutions.

Thanks for the feedback as always, folks.

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