Hi I'm geno from Shiva server. I'm sure most of you recall that before the recent patches Steam Cleaner seemed to refuse to pop on many servers. Shiva was one of them. As I look back on the event I recall the last time I had ever seen Steam Cleaner on our server. It was when a PLD in our LS popped Steam Cleaner solo, but didnt voke it, just zoned it and then we zoned in about 1 minute later. When we came in, it had already despawned. But from then on, it never seemed to pop again.
So I thought back on if this really could be an isolated incident. Most ppl that pop Steam Cleaner kill him. But rarely, it may depop from occasions like ours, or if a party wipes to it. It seems entirely possible that on most servers, a situation like this could have happened. And the reason it was over such a wide server range, was because of the strangely long time inbetween server shut downs. The servers that it didnt happen to, might have been free of these somewhat rare occurances.
I also remember that 2 servers had an emergency maintenance sometime before the patch, and seemed to report SC as fixed afterwards. Reason being, is a server shutdown, probably not only changes NM pop time, but also despawns any already spawned NMs.
The reason all of this came to me, was earlier today, maybe noon or earlier, a party from a different LS wiped to Steam Cleaner. Since then, it hasnt popped, which is 8+hours since ToD. Since the patch we have always been able to pop him anywhere from 2-4 maybe even 2-6 hours after its ToD. None of the other LSs camping it have seen it pop yet either. So, i'm wondering, if SC indeed is broken once again on Shiva, if this could be the cause of all these problems.
And so, with that in mind, I was wondering if any other LSs can recall a similar despawning incident happening before SC was last broken on your servers. If you can, please post, and maybe if we find the problem, then SE can find a solution. lol