Tha MonkeyClan of the Angry Monkey (FFXI)
Interesting post
Submitted by mAdBoY on Fri, 05/13/2005 - 13:37.

Found this posting on warcry.com regarding NM spawns after maintenances. Not sure how accurate it is, but may be worth researching. Let me know what you think.....

When the servers come down for maintenance they're reset. A server reset spawns all the NMs and HNMs usually, upon coming back up. I did this once with Lizzy, but I usually don't bother, because no matter how hard you try, there's always going to be someone to get the download finished and log on before you, especially on the big NMs - VE, Lizzy, Mysticmaker, etc.

There was a big deal going on over at the Leviathan boards on Killing Ifrit and the general boards at Alla talking about how all HNMs will be in NA prime time now, since the servers are set to come back up around 7pm CST. If the 24-hour spawn HNMs are killed pretty quickly thereafter, they'll continue respawning in NA prime time until the next server maintenance.

Server NM Reset

This is actually true, I personally have seen it.

The only time I have ever seen Lizzy on widescan was immediately after a server maintenance cycle. I have also claimed VE on two different occassions this way (still only one drop, however).

The really nice thing about server maintenance is that it also clears the areas of gil sellers :-)

I also think this is more of a safe guard in the code that holds true for other things as well. Basically, when all other tests fail, reset whatever was failing. For example, for the mog quest involving the Noble's Bed (I forget the number) the prerequisites seem entirely too strange and exotic to ever actually occur. Thus, every single time I have seen someone actually get the quest was when they checked Sunday morning during the National Rank tally.

Programatically, this makes sense of course.... but you don't always think of these things when you are immersed in the virtual world :-)

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