They changed the chests to despawn after 40 minutes if not opened. Though it seems their fix broke them. Knowone I know has seen one since the maintenance.
I was in a spawn area and saw 2 chests spawn i tried 1 then as i was running up to the other 1 it disappeared. all in under 1 minute so ncsoft has something wrong with the chests. Put it back the way it was you have once again created an issue with something that was fine. Unless the despawn rate is now a minute lol.
I asked /GM and got the answer that they were not going to help me play the game. I simply asked if the Treasure Chests were bugged or removed from the game at this time.
GM Aqua acted like I was begging for locations. His answer to a valid question was pompous.
No there not fixed whatever they did screwed them up but im not surprised about the arrogant behavior you got from them. The first reaction is its always us thats wrong never them. I watched 1 spawn then despawn in less than a minute earlier. I ran my route which takes about 2 hrs 6 times since maintenence and have seen maybe 2 chests when i usually find atleast 40 on each run. and dont gimme the 4 hrs despawn **** cause thats not it.
Or you saw them already spawned when you got there, and there could be the chance it had already been there for a while and just then hit its despawn timer?
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We suspect that some part of the treasure chest issue might be a bug, we're not sure exactly what is working correctly and incorrectly about it quite yet. To my understanding, I don't think the spawning and despawning after only a few minutes should be happening. But QA is aware of it and it is under investigation. I'll post more when I know more.
EDIT: If you actually see a treasure chest spawn and despawn before your eyes, please send a ticket with the location of where it was (type /loc where it was). Of course, if you get to the chest and open it before it despawns, no need to send a ticket. ;)
thank you for the response sace. and to the person who asked if i saw it? yes i have a char logged out right on 2 chests and when i was logged in on him i saw them both spawn then i tried 1 and ran to the other 1 but by the time i got to the other 1 it disappeared and i saw it go.
Sace please fix these treasure chests whatever they did it messed up the spawn or despawn rate because i cant find any either and i run a long route and usually find 25-30 also and barely find 1 anymore i saw 1 despawn also so i would guess they spawn and despawn at a very fast rate like minutes not hrs.
As for the treasure chests, please see this thread (http://boards.lineage2.com/showthread.php?t=216177). I posted there that we are investigating the matter, and if you see a treasure chest spawn and then despawn after only a few minutes right before your eyes, please send a support ticket with the /location of it.
ty for link, i read this thread but didnt get answer for my questions.
back in time before maintenance, system of farming treasure chest was working like this:
open -> fixed spawn time -> it appears -> open -> fixed time -> appears -> open and so on
then when i checked maintance patchnotes i thought it works now like :
-> appears -> [noone open during 4h] -> despawn -> fixed time - > appears ->
from patchnotes I get it like despawn has same effect as opening
I logged ingame and went hunting chests like this, after 5h camping chest didnt appear.
I read thread and it says sometimes it randomly spawns/despawns with no reason and it is game bug.
My question is it game bug, if chests arent spawning with fixed_time after despawn or it should spawn random now?
ty for link, i read this thread but didnt get answer for my questions.
back in time before maintenance, system of farming treasure chest was working like this:
open -> fixed spawn time -> it appears -> open -> fixed time -> appears -> open and so on
then when i checked maintance patchnotes i thought it works now like :
-> appears -> [noone open during 4h] -> despawn -> fixed time - > appears ->
from patchnotes I get it like despawn has same effect as opening
I logged ingame and went hunting chests like this, after 5h camping chest didnt appear.
I read thread and it says sometimes it randomly spawns/despawns with no reason and it is game bug.
My question is it game bug, if chests arent spawning with fixed_time after despawn or it should spawn random now?
(moved this post from the server maintenance thread, please keep discussion about the treasure chests in here so that it's not in 2 separate places)
The answer to your question is: we do not know yet.
There are 2 things we're investigating right now:
1) The question of if the amount of Treasure Chests has been reduced since May 25.
2) The issue of some chests spawning and then despawning after only a few minutes instead of 4 hours. Multiple players have seen it, but it is very hard to reproduce in a testing environment, so we are asking players to report the locations of such 3-minute chests if they find them.
When we have completed our investigations, we will know more and will be able to answer player questions about this more thoroughly. For now, please report 3-minute chests if you see them, but if you are hunting around and simply do not see any chests for a long time, that cannot prove that there is a bug-- it could very well be that they are simply not appearing in places that you are.
Well here for example,every 2 hrs 2 chests would spawn in blazing swamp but since patch i have run blazing swamp on a 2-3 hrs basis and found 1 chest and watched another disappear off radar just as i came around the corner(noone was there). I was usually attempting chests in blazing swamp atleast 10-12 times a day, now ive tried 1 since patch because there just not spawning. I dont need to see the spawn to know that there not spawning lmao.
I could usually get 2-3 in field of whispers as I make my trip around in a big circle killing mobs on the way. Since the maintenance I have not seen any period. I have talked to many people in game doing thier field of whispers run and none of them have seen a chest since the maintenance. Have only seen 1 lucky pig since then too usually see more than 1 in this amount of time.
2) The issue of some chests spawning and then despawning after only a few minutes instead of 4 hours. Multiple players have seen it,
Multiple players have seen 3min chest, which very hard to notice and noone have seen chest spawning correctly, which must be much easier to notice if there are any exist.
Dont You have thoughts all chest are bugged and have 3min (or random) despawn time?
As You said that cannot be proven by players but it can be checked by GMs.
For now, please report 3-minute chests if you see them, but if you are hunting around and simply do not see any chests for a long time, that cannot prove that there is a bug-- it could very well be that they are simply not appearing in places that you are.
If i'm checking all possible spots of treasure chest spawn (in specific loc) every 10min during 3h (and noone hunting there), can You consider that loc is bugged?
If yes, there is mine list of 'bugged' locs
Ok in talking with some other chest hunters, all seem to be in agreement that instead of a 4 hour despawn, they did a 4 minute despawn lol
would be an easy fix :)
either that or they flat took 90% of the chests out of game :( or moved them all lol :confused:
Yup it's 4 mins....I timed one today in Toi, saw it spawn though some group mobs. By the time I killed all the mobs I got to it just in time to watch it despawn.
But QA is aware of it and it is under investigation. I'll post more when I know more.
Has the QA team finished their investigation yet (I have finished mine)? Is there a fix in the works yet? Waiting on NC Korea to fix it or is this something you can fix in house?
Has the QA team finished their investigation yet (I have finished mine)? Is there a fix in the works yet? Waiting on NC Korea to fix it or is this something you can fix in house?
Don't mind me im just beating a dead horse....
they are searching lines of code instead of the easy investigation ie. playing the game... so much could be fixed if they would just have people that actually played the game on a regular basis. GMs could play the game instead of sitting around not answering questions or helping in any way at all, they could atleast say " hey developer i was running around in L2 since my job doesnt require any actual work and i found that the treasure chest are broken.
i dont think playing a actual toon for a few hours a day is gunna keep the GMs from thier oooo so important copy/paste work.
they are searching lines of code instead of the easy investigation ie. playing the game... so much could be fixed if they would just have people that actually played the game on a regular basis. GMs could play the game instead of sitting around not answering questions or helping in any way at all, they could atleast say " hey developer i was running around in L2 since my job doesnt require any actual work and i found that the treasure chest are broken.
i dont think playing a actual toon for a few hours a day is gunna keep the GMs from thier oooo so important copy/paste work.
now, now, kissing rears isnt culling you favour with the bigwigs.
What I don’t understand, if L2 in Korea is months ahead of US, why didn’t they already identify this issue and know the non-Asians would freak out without their Treasure Chest spawning correctly?
P.S. I’m guessing the Treasure Chest timing issue will be corrected in the upcoming GoD release, no need to worry.
did you say(working as designed) cabbie? So despawning after 4 minutes is designed? Yes i said 4 minutes i have watched them spawn and despawn in front of my eyes and its 4 minutes so NO ITS NOT AS DESIGNED. and yet they still are charging me monthly fees for there mistakes and seem to be taking there sweet time fixing it when all they have to do is set it up for the way it was originally untill it gets fixed but instead we have to go weeks and weeks if not months to get this fixed. I get so tired of hearing excuses, just fix i, and it shouldnt take months to do it(dont even bother with the excuses).
did you say(working as designed) cabbie? So despawning after 4 minutes is designed? Yes i said 4 minutes i have watched them spawn and despawn in front of my eyes and its 4 minutes so NO ITS NOT AS DESIGNED. and yet they still are charging me monthly fees for there mistakes and seem to be taking there sweet time fixing it when all they have to do is set it up for the way it was originally untill it gets fixed but instead we have to go weeks and weeks if not months to get this fixed. I get so tired of hearing excuses, just fix i, and it shouldnt take months to do it(dont even bother with the excuses).
You do know it is out of NC West hands don't you. They can not touch the code...that is the job of NC Korea and only NCK (has been like this since Beta).
Calm down there are plenty of other things to do in game besides hunt for chests all evening.
No there not fixed whatever they did screwed them up but im not surprised about the arrogant behavior you got from them. The first reaction is its always us thats wrong never them. I watched 1 spawn then despawn in less than a minute earlier. I ran my route which takes about 2 hrs 6 times since maintenence and have seen maybe 2 chests when i usually find atleast 40 on each run. and dont gimme the 4 hrs despawn **** cause thats not it.