Get rid of 8 hour windows for Notorious Monsters

[Arcon]

They don't have a set window time to spawn. Lottery spawns can appear in place of the placeholder anytime it would respawn after being killed. The only time a lotto NM can't appear is the next spawn after the NM was killed.

All three of those statements are wrong. Some NMs do have an actual window and won't spawn before then, and it doesn't even have to appear when the PH would repop, sometimes it can spawn any given time after the PH is killed. And weren't there also NMs that can spawn off themselves? I'm actually not sure about that, but SE added something that can make NMs spawn back-to-back, simply by adding NMs twice. This works for Leaping Lizzy and Black Triple Stars for example, they both have two DAT entries and the second NM can spawn literally within seconds after the first one has been killed.

You don't seem to do much actual NM hunting, I'm guessing you've killed that one NM and it went against what wiki said and now you're playing the rebel who knows it all better. The fact is, some people just don't get the time right. They kill an NM three times, and it never repopped faster than an hour and they set that as minimum repop time and others believe it and don't try it out for themselves. Much on wiki is wrong, there's no doubt about that, but plenty is also right. I always kill PHs all the time and I've killed pretty much every NM in the game, and I found that most lottery NMs have actually a reasonable spawn rate, which can be used to confirm the repop window theory. Keep killing a PH after the NM has died, see how many tries it takes you to get it to repop. Do that a few times then do it again, but start killing two hours after the NM has died. You'll see a vast difference in spawn rates, which is very easily explained by pop windows.

There is no minimum, nor is there a maximum (sadly) time for the NM to appear.

I'm pretty sure maximum time doesn't exist, although some people are absolutely convinced of it. I've had long arguments with them on the topic of Charby, but it was hard to test since it was heavily camped. Maybe it's better now and I can go and finally shut them up.

I spent time hunting Centurio XI for his BLM scrolls years ago, and someone said it took at least an hour to spawn and can take much more than that. The latter part is true, but I debunked the minimum spawn time when I was camping it- I went to the quicksand caves and the NM was up already (guess someone gave up just before it spawned). I killed it. Placeholder appears and I kill it, then Centurio XI pops again. There is NO minimum time. Virtually all lotto NMs follow the same rules.

As I said, just your opinion after you've seen it happen once or twice. I'm very sure most NMs have a minimum wait time before their window opens, which would make sense too.