Beast Tribe FATEs

[bardaboo]

I love how in the prelim notes they said they are reducing the timer of the fate itself, not the respawn timer.

[PirateCat]

You people are freakin lazy. The secret to getting fates to spawn "faster" is doing the other fates in the zone.

And then all the people who stuck to camping the spot clear the fate before you can get back to it when it does pop. I've seen it happen. Even if you ask them not to.

I love how in the prelim notes they said they are reducing the timer of the fate itself, not the respawn timer.

Just a hypothesis, but maybe the respawn timer is coded to be proportional to the time limit?

[Khalithar]

Can't see who posted, but I also have to agree with the forced spawn idea. Or at the very least, put an npc or a destination that you can click on to automatically start the beast tribe fate if you're on the quest. That npc or destination should also instantly respawn as soon as the fate ends.

[bardaboo]

Just a hypothesis, but maybe the respawn timer is coded to be proportional to the time limit?

Haven't done any beast tribe quests since patch did they change the respawn timers?

[PirateCat]

No idea. I'm just speculating that if the formula for the respawn time is somehow dependent on the time limit, then this could explain why they changed the time limit in response to all of the complaints about the respawn times. Since otherwise it feels kind of arbitrary.

For instance, the mechanics might look something like this. (Note again, pure speculation. This is probably nowhere close, but if it's anything like this then it might explain why they made the change that they did.)

PopCheck(FATEID):
If PopCheckCount(FATEID) * RNG > Threshold And Not BlockingFactors Then
- Pop FATE (FATEID)
- Set PopCheckCount(FATEID) = 0
Else
- Increment PopCheckCount(FATEID)
- Schedule PopCheck event for Now+TimeLimit(FATEID)

(Blocking factors could be things like too many other FATEs active, another FATE being active on the same part of the map, etc.)

[Culfinrandir]

Haven't done any beast tribe quests since patch did they change the respawn timers?

Not for What a Boar at any rate. It's still on a 30 minute timer but is now a 10 minute duration. What I've found interesting is that, although I do Sylph quests daily, I've not had Boar Wars (requiring the Kafre Tusk) since 3.2 dropped. It used to be every other day. I know there's a bank of 6 top-tier quests so theoretically it should appear at least once a week.

[black_wings]

40 min waiting for the boar. This is ridiculous

[zeopower6]

PLEASE change the spawn time for What A Boar. I've seen about 2-3 other FATEs pop twice or thrice in the time I've been waiting for it. Quite possibly the worst FATE to have in a beast tribe so far...

[MistyMew]

I have waited an hour before........nasty yup.

Mind you, materia or not, I simply refuse to do them for now

[Youkulm]

I just watched a ( previous rare ) book fate pop 3 times while waiting for Boar. ( I remember waiting 2-3 hours for said fate )

Really SE? You can make those more frequent but not these? It makes zero sense.