Carmine DobsonFly TOD... How does it work?

[alienmonkey]

I know it's a 21-24hr repop. I've gone to the spot and waited for the Flies so I can estimate the TOD. People have basically been zombiefying them the past couple days. I know some were killed while I was sleeping and when I woke up there were 2 out of 10 flies floating around unclaimed.

Does the Window open after the death of the 1st fly? After all the flies die? or Does each individual Fly have their own TOD and just normally pop all together due to 99% of people burning them down with Summoner?

[Amele]

since they all pop at the same time (I've watched them pop after a server reset) they all have the same tod.

I suspect it is based on the time the last fly dies, and not the first - but I have no personal experience to confirm this.

[Guyverarmor]

As far as I know, It's based off the last fly was killed. Took a couple of LS mates up and got ToD for a couple of days. Killed em all at like 3pm, next day they all popped around I think 2:30pm If I remember correctly.

[Septimus]

I know it's a 21-24hr repop. I've gone to the spot and waited for the Flies so I can estimate the TOD. People have basically been zombiefying them the past couple days. I know some were killed while I was sleeping and when I woke up there were 2 out of 10 flies floating around unclaimed.

Does the Window open after the death of the 1st fly? After all the flies die? or Does each individual Fly have their own TOD and just normally pop all together due to 99% of people burning them down with Summoner?

If you can manage to kill the last of those two flies, you will totally ruin someone's day. lol

[Spekkio]

purely a guess, but i'd think they'd behave like padfoot where they all share the ToD of the last incarnation of the lot of them. with SE though, patterns would be far too nice for them.

[alienmonkey]

Thanks for the responses, you've helped me out somewhat. We been astral flowing all 10 for a week now, but due to real life events over the weekend we were unable to continue to complete the last 2 sallets that are needed. So I'm really trying to pinpoint where the TOD will start at so that we can finish up with them. I would like to see some sort of firm confirmation from someone that has seen what I saw this morning when I woke up if at all possible. I know atleast 1 fly died it was in my chat window when i scrolled up along with the dude deleveling after 20 deaths before he killed the one fly, but there were 2 flies still up with just me around when I woke up for work.

Re: the Padfoot analogy, I've never camped it nor killed it, but I thought when the real Padfoot dies the clones just basically depop because they drop nothing and that the real Padfoot death is the TOD? Could the dobson's be similar to that and just one of the 2 flies that were up when i woke up was the real NM and 8 of it's 9 clones were killed?

If you can manage to kill the last of those two flies, you will totally ruin someone's day. lol

I doubt I'll ruin their day they left them up and I was only person around this morning. I assume you are implying that the TOD of the Flies would basically start @21hrs from last fly killed? I'm mostly under this assumption myself. If this is the case then they ruined their own day unless they got what they wanted and just bailed.

[Septimus]

If you can manage to kill the last of those two flies, you will totally ruin someone's day. lol

I doubt I'll ruin their day they left them up and I was only person around this morning. I assume you are implying that the TOD of the Flies would basically start @21hrs from last fly killed? I'm mostly under this assumption myself. If this is the case then they ruined their own day unless they got what they wanted and just bailed.

More likely that they don't know that the ToD is from when the last fly dies and thing that the rest will respawn later, or they killed of most of them, wiped, and had to home point.