2015-09-11, 02:07 AM
Metric Wrote:I would like to add if you log off before the elite boss summons, the elite boss will not even be there (unless someone is stalking me and has hyper teleport). I tried this 2x because I have only 1 computer. The "character" I used to summon with is too weak so I tried switching fast to my stronger one and it was gone.. I would like to mention I logged off immediately after I saw the "warning" message. I am thinking I logged off too quickly, but who knows.. You also need to make sure no one else in the same map as you if you would like to disprove me wrong on my theory.
The game mechanics require a player to remain or be present in a map before the monsters can be summoned. If you logged out before any summon animations then unfortunately the server will not have processed any character presence. All that would have been done is the map becomes wiped, and fhen the normal mobs summoned again i.e. you have reset the map. I believe this is the case because the server must process a map wipe, a local monster/boss resummon, then during the bonus stage a local map event (which is immediate on server packets but the timer initiation may or may not depend on player presence, likely no). Monster summons follow quite fixed rules in the servers, with predictable delays (either normal, or very fast spawn which everyone likes), based on my experience.
As an added note, this sort of rule applies for rune spawns and herb/vein spawns and the recent burning field map system. They spawn only when a player is in the map, but if the timers allow the rare herbs/veins will spawn successively. No players traversing a map even after a week since a recent server downtowns does NOT automatically make the map a 50% burning field, because the map monsters have not even been summoned or the map hasn't been "started".
tl;dr log out only after the monsters spawn.
Hadriel