IanHighlander Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 Slightly strange one that I've not seen happen before, so wanted to see if anyone else has noticed this issue. One of my players reported that there were no rexes on Ragnarok (and by no rexes, I mean zero confirmed with S+ transmitter scanner). He'd done a run round killing every rex he could find hoping to re-spawn some higher levels but none re-spawned. This was left for a considerable length of time and still none re-spawned at all. I eventually ran a dino wipe on the server and Rexes started to spawn in again almost immediately. Off he went again and the same thing happened, kill all the rexes, none spawn back in, you end up with a Rex free map. To be on the safe side, this player tested this out on Valguero on my cluster too with exactly the same results. Something's very off here. This only seems to be affecting Rexes, other creatures seem to be re-spawning fine. Has anyone else noticed this issue? Is this known about @complexminded @Dollie @Jatheish ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larkfields Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 Hi Ian. I've just done two quick tests on my unmodded server's Center map (it doesn't have anyone online atm, but Rag does). Rexes respawned after cheat DestroyWildDinoClasses Rex_Character_BP_C They also respawn after individually killing rexes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanHighlander Posted June 16, 2021 Author Share Posted June 16, 2021 5 hours ago, Larkfields said: Hi Ian. I've just done two quick tests on my unmodded server's Center map (it doesn't have anyone online atm, but Rag does). Rexes respawned after cheat DestroyWildDinoClasses Rex_Character_BP_C They also respawn after individually killing rexes. Interesting, we don't have the Center on our cluster to test it on but we tried this on both Val and Rag with the same results. The only mods we run on these particular servers are S+, Platforms+ and CKFR so none that would affect creature spawns. It's very strange. I'm going to try a manual wipe of the creature class and see if they respawn then as it's one thing I didn't try. It's a real weird one, there's nothing special about my servers, they're not hugely modded, we have some custom drops and stuff and we stop spawns of certain creatures but nothing else and nothing that would touch the rex class. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanHighlander Posted June 16, 2021 Author Share Posted June 16, 2021 Ok, so I ran the same command as you did on my Rag server to destroy the Rex class dinos. Half hour later... Which I think is worse, because it means ONE Rex HAS respawned (!!??) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larkfields Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 A bit more testing on Valguero... I killed 12 of 60 rexes about an hour ago, but they haven't been replaced yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanHighlander Posted June 16, 2021 Author Share Posted June 16, 2021 16 minutes ago, Larkfields said: A bit more testing on Valguero... I killed 12 of 60 rexes about an hour ago, but they haven't been replaced yet. Ahh, that's more like it, at least that goes along with what we're seeing here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanHighlander Posted June 16, 2021 Author Share Posted June 16, 2021 So I've done more testing, I've removed any spawn changes we had on the servers and restarted again. Exact same results. There's definitely something amiss with Rex spawns on Ragnarok and Valguero, I wonder if it's all mod maps. I need to test mod maps vs story maps if I get time later or tomorrow. Edit: I'm an idiot, you said you'd tested it on The Center (obviously a mod map) and it didn't do it @Larkfields so that theory's blown out of the water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larkfields Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 Valgeuro still isn't respawning rexes for me 😞 The Center is slowly respawning them. And I'd definitely not put you in the idiot class - you've helped way too many people ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larkfields Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 Update: Since my last post (approx 2 hours ago), Valguero has spawned 5 of the 12 rexes I killed earlier. The respawn rate is a little bit slow, but it is still happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volunteer Moderator Joebl0w13 Posted June 16, 2021 Volunteer Moderator Share Posted June 16, 2021 Unless I'm mistaken, most spawns are shared with multiple dinos. Just because you kill off a rex (or many) doesn't mean they will spawn right back. Another dino might spawn in its place. I would kill all wild dinos and then watch what happens. Granted, if you kill off everything and you don't get a few rexes back after a while, something is probably wrong. But I'm not seeing it on any maps I play on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanHighlander Posted June 17, 2021 Author Share Posted June 17, 2021 8 hours ago, Joebl0w13 said: Unless I'm mistaken, most spawns are shared with multiple dinos. Just because you kill off a rex (or many) doesn't mean they will spawn right back. Another dino might spawn in its place. I would kill all wild dinos and then watch what happens. Granted, if you kill off everything and you don't get a few rexes back after a while, something is probably wrong. But I'm not seeing it on any maps I play on. Whilst I understand what you're saying, gawd knows I've been running Ark servers long enough and playing WAY too much 😂 (at time of writing my Ark hours stands at 8381.2 yeesh that's scary in itself lol), but something definitely isn't right here. I'd be happy to accept it was something in my configs but there is nothing that would cause this that I can see anywhere. Our servers are not heavily modified, 3 mods (none of which are creature mods) and a few config changes for QOL that's it. I run a cluster of 8 servers and two standalone ones with a very small group of players (including our esteemed mod @GP lol) so the servers don't see huge amounts of action, but even then, to respawn ONE rex in an hour on a map the size of Ragnarok, something is very wrong. That's definitely not normal at all. We have quite a few Rex breeders in our group that have been hunting and breeding rexes for years literally, regularly going out and doing culls to respawn new ones and this has never happened before. This is only since the release of Genesis 2 so it definitely feels like something has categorically changed in the core somewhere. But (and very weirdly) this doesn't seem to be a widespread problem so I guess I need to completely eliminate my server configs being the problem. I'll fire up a completely new server from scratch with no mods later if/when I get time and see if that behaves in the same way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanHighlander Posted June 17, 2021 Author Share Posted June 17, 2021 Well, no difference with a completely clean built from scratch Ragnarok server running no mods or custom configs at all. Exactly the same results as we're seeing on some of our cluster servers, kill all the rexes off and they do not respawn. Eventually I killed off a few other animals too and one Rex respawned (this was more than an hour later). Something's definitely amiss, but there's nothing more I can do other than put a regular dino wipe in on my servers which is a pain and apparently others aren't experiencing this so gawd knows. I officially give up 😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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