Let's talk about Hunts - a detailed rundown of their assumed mechanics

[Vandesaan]

I've had a couple of Brontes like that. The most reecent one I've force popped, there was just one more spot for me to eat at when he finally popped.

It made me sad, really. We tried to use the +28 hours to confirm/deny the theory that you do not have to eat at the location and that you can have the food buff running, but it wasn't possible to do because we forgot about the Qiqirin pit. Not had a chance to let it go that far since, it's very sad.

[Vandesaan]

Did some further data review on Zona Seeker and Thousand-cast Theda. Data from Japanese servers suggest a maximum of 64 hours, but data from NA/EU servers very often go all the way to 68 hours. I'm modifying it to be 68 hours for now, seeing it before 64 hours it way too rare to be real.

[Leknaat]

Did some further data review on Zona Seeker and Thousand-cast Theda. Data from Japanese servers suggest a maximum of 64 hours, but data from NA/EU servers very often go all the way to 68 hours. I'm modifying it to be 68 hours for now, seeing it before 64 hours it way too rare to be real.

I was going to ask about Theda.
I caught 3 judgerays during the window she finally popped yesterday on Hyperion. It was at least 10 hours maybe more from the earliest respawn time. I almost want to say 12 but I was too frustated at that point to check how long it'd been open for XD

I know someone was complaining that they'd always popped Theda first cast and ariyala had it open for 6.5 hours and ffxivhunts had it open for 5:55. Quite a few hours passed after that when I went back eventually to try again I think it had been open for at least 8-10 hours at that point.

1 judgeray no pop
0 judgeray next window
3 judgerays and pop

If you can get data on the last 2 Hyperion pops that may help with the max window because that was a frustrating long time XD

The "advanced theory" which we can't quite confirm without immediately being able to counter it by saying the cooldown wasn't up already; a specific spawn location has a "landmine" waiting for someone to eat at it and when you finally find it he will spawn. The reason we think think this is because we've had a _really_ off day on Excalibur once where Brontes was at +28 hours overdue (from minimum respawn) and we couldn't get it to spawn at a single one of the locations for TWO HOURS until someone remembered there was a location inside the Qiqirin pit and it immediately spawned there when someone ate at the spot.

I assume Nandi is 'landmined' like that too.

[Vandesaan]

Because I have no idea what the cooldowns used on the various tracker sites are, I can't tell you whether the +5 or +6 you're seeing is actually not just +8 or +9 or even +2 or +3. Also yes, Nandi would also be one of those "landmines". Mindflayer and Croakadile have been observed to work in similar ways.

[Leknaat]

Because I have no idea what the cooldowns used on the various tracker sites are, I can't tell you whether the +5 or +6 you're seeing is actually not just +8 or +9 or even +2 or +3. Also yes, Nandi would also be one of those "landmines". Mindflayer and Croakadile have been observed to work in similar ways.

I made my own cooldown spreadsheet a day or two ago
FFXIV Hunt shows theda now at 21:50ish to go
Ariyala shows theda at 21:20
Using the times you posted theda is now at 21:49 by my count so pretty close.
I was there for the fishing window after that conversation about ariyala/ffxivhunts so 7 and a half hours open then I took a 1-3 window break then fished for 3 more windows. At the very least it was 12 hours after it opened. The highest it could have gone is 14 hours... at least by my haphazard counting.

I'm note sure I'm HOPING for another super late theda... but at least this time I'd know for sure how late it was this time. :<

[Kayko]

Is there any confirmation of how long the A ranks take for the window to open after a reset? We were sure that it was 1 hour after servers came up, but just now, it would appear that a server crash caused our server to reset and the A rank window appears to have opened 2 hours after.

[Vandesaan]

Is there any confirmation of how long the A ranks take for the window to open after a reset? We were sure that it was 1 hour after servers came up, but just now, it would appear that a server crash caused our server to reset and the A rank window appears to have opened 2 hours after.

Oh, right. After maintenance they start spawning at their usual respawn minus two hours. So if something begins respawning after 3 hours (Maahes, Marraco, etc) it would be one after the server came up. What's iffy is that it might be that the server was "up" but not available, meaning the timer can start after 30 minutes, or they could already be up because the server techs just made sure everything worked before they enabled logins. But the basic rule is regular spawn timer minus two hours.

[Leknaat]

Our most recent mindflayer popped at 5:45pm eorzea time. I know he popped right ontop someone in my hunt LS that was doing Spiritbonding in Urth's.

He died 6/13/2015 1:56:00 am pacific time. <- can you check if this calculates to night 2 or 3?

Maybe we just didn't manage to pop him the previous night or something.... and that was the third night? (Since you mentioned mindflayer and croak are landmined.) <- this would probably also be why my understanding of when the S's pop is messed up because no one's hitting the landmines in a timely manner to pop them XD

[Vandesaan]

Our most recent mindflayer popped at 5:45pm eorzea time. I know he popped right ontop someone in my hunt LS that was doing Spiritbonding in Urth's.

He died 6/13/2015 1:56:00 am pacific time. <- can you check if this calculates to night 2 or 3?

Maybe we just didn't manage to pop him the previous night or something.... and that was the third night? (Since you mentioned mindflayer and croak are landmined.) <- this would probably also be why my understanding of when the S's pop is messed up because no one's hitting the landmines in a timely manner to pop them XD

That would be on the second night, but it's supposed to start being able to appear around midnight on the second night. Your kill was at 7PM on the 2nd, which is strange. We know for 100% certain that he can not spawn during the day, so I can only assume nobody stepped on the landmine

edit: to clarify, I mean midnight as in 00:00 on the 2nd night, 19 eorzean hours before you killed it.

[Leknaat]

That would be on the second night, but it's supposed to start being able to appear around midnight on the second night. Your kill was at 7PM on the 2nd, which is strange. We know for 100% certain that he can not spawn during the day, so I can only assume nobody stepped on the landmine

edit: to clarify, I mean midnight as in 00:00 on the 2nd night, 19 eorzean hours before you killed it.

Well one of our previous Mindflayers was even weirder because I think it might have even been in daylight (I think) He probably popped around 5 minutes before the kill

It might have been this one -> 6/9/2015 22:30 pm pacific was when it died.

I don't know if maybe he was popped and no one noticed till several game hours later or what.