Quote Originally Posted by Vahlnir View Post
Looks like they truly did fix the spawns of the rares. I tested it with the gator spawn. Before if you went into before a specific time, it would mean your rare would not spawn when its window opened. Went in a little after 12am ET (which was when you were supposed to have exited your island before the spawn time/weather aligned) and left and zoned back in at 6am when the gator was set to spawn. Sure enough, there it was. Thank the Twelve. And SE, I guess. But yeah, just wanted to give a first-hand confirmation on that.
Yes, it's fixed. I intentionally stayed in zone prior to when the Alligator was due to spawn just to tempt fate but it spawned as it should have. I missed with my first attempt and was detected on second attempt with this character. It was straddling the rocks so if I'm right about position affecting chance to capture, I might have misjudged the hitbox or simply had the bad RNG that attempt. But I switched to one of my other characters right away and then caught it first attempt with that character - behind and out of hitbox. That time it was standing in the middle of the creek, no rocks under it.

As long as I'm continuing to get fairly consistently results, I don't mind taking that extra caution. I'd rather spend an extra minute or two on a capture than have to spend a half hour gathering more materials for nets/restraints/soporifics thanks to successive misses and failures.

Besides, it's more fun for me my way. It feels more like trying to capture a wild creature instead of like grabbing a runaway pet off the street.