Ms_wicard oven artifact chest.

[Abarcine]

Was the chest appearance rate nerfed at all or is this bugged atm? 9 runs with 2+ players and no artifact chest spawning.

 

[Thothie]

From the dates on the files, those chests haven't been modified since December 2010, so...

However, I'm looking at the, kinda odd way the verification works, and it maybe it's finding a matching name in the map entities, now that it can look for those. Need to check the map over to be sure. If the base chest is showing up, however, this isn't the problem.

Neither requires more than one player, though they do require 300 and 400hp. Chances range from 2% to 10% per player per item, and they have 3-4 unique items each, so the odds of getting nadda, even with two players, is pretty good.

Which server were you on, and about which time? If it was an RKS server the logs might tell me what the Artifact chest rolled, which would at least verify it showed up, and just didn't make roll any successes.

 

[Abarcine]

RKS Chicago server 2 at roughly 6:30 am EST

 

[Thothie]

Seems to be working, ms_wicardoven artifact chests dished out items to Gildear and Jens earlier this month on that server.

Though, oddly, not seeing any "all items failed spawn chance rolls" messages for "ARTIFACT_CHEST (ms_wicardoven)" this month on that server. Just foutpost and the_keep.

edit: Wait, wrong server. Chicago #2 appeared, but failed to get hits on August 3rd... But other than that, nadda. Something's up with the logs though, as according to them, it hasn't been anywhere but Edana since midnight on the 16th, and looking a the server status, it's clearly sitting in ms_wicardoven right now. Hrmmm...

edit2: Okay, maybe the panel is fuxing with me and giving me the wrong server log. Now seeing 4 instances of its appearing before Ethan and Jens and failing to get any hits on that server, and the logs work out to be where it should. So yeah, working, just, crap luck. Ethan doesn't qualify though in those runs though, just Jens.

From the log (somewhat censored via [nixed])

Mon Aug 17 06:30:36 2015> ARTIFACT_CHEST (ms_wicardoven): full_inventory: [nixed];[nixed];[nixed];[nixed]; req_players: 1;1;1;2; spawn_chances: 10;8;4;2;
Mon Aug 17 06:30:36 2015> ARTIFIACT_DEBUG: Ethan failed to qualify ( dmg: 2.00 vs. 9.25 ) ( hp: 495.00 vs. 400 )
Mon Aug 17 06:30:36 2015> ARTIFACT_CHEST (ms_wicardoven): final_qualaifying_players: Jens
Mon Aug 17 06:30:36 2015> ARTIFACT_CHEST (ms_wicardoven): Removed: all items failed spawn chance rolls.

Mon Aug 17 06:39:35 2015> ARTIFACT_CHEST (ms_wicardoven): full_inventory: [nixed];[nixed];[nixed];[nixed]; req_players: 1;1;1;2; spawn_chances: 10;8;4;2;
Mon Aug 17 06:39:35 2015> ARTIFIACT_DEBUG: Ethan failed to qualify ( dmg: 5.00 vs. 19.00 ) ( hp: 495.00 vs. 400 )
Mon Aug 17 06:39:35 2015> ARTIFACT_CHEST (ms_wicardoven): final_qualaifying_players: Jens
Mon Aug 17 06:39:35 2015> ARTIFACT_CHEST (ms_wicardoven): Removed: all items failed spawn chance rolls.

Mon Aug 17 06:47:18 2015> ARTIFACT_CHEST (ms_wicardoven): full_inventory: [nixed];[nixed];[nixed];[nixed];  req_players: 1;1;1;2; spawn_chances: 10;8;4;2;
Mon Aug 17 06:47:18 2015> ARTIFIACT_DEBUG: Ethan failed to qualify ( dmg: 7.00 vs. 28.75 ) ( hp: 495.00 vs. 400 )
Mon Aug 17 06:47:18 2015> ARTIFACT_CHEST (ms_wicardoven): final_qualaifying_players: Jens
Mon Aug 17 06:47:18 2015> ARTIFACT_CHEST (ms_wicardoven): Removed: all items failed spawn chance rolls.

Mon Aug 17 06:54:30 2015> ARTIFACT_CHEST (ms_wicardoven): full_inventory: [nixed];[nixed];[nixed];[nixed]; req_players: 1;1;1;2; spawn_chances: 10;8;4;2;
Mon Aug 17 06:54:30 2015> ARTIFIACT_DEBUG: Ethan failed to qualify ( dmg: 14.00 vs. 38.25 ) ( hp: 495.00 vs. 400 )
Mon Aug 17 06:54:30 2015> ARTIFACT_CHEST (ms_wicardoven): final_qualaifying_players: Jens
Mon Aug 17 06:54:30 2015> ARTIFACT_CHEST (ms_wicardoven): Removed: all items failed spawn chance rolls.

On the other server, however:

Tue Aug 04 12:41:27 2015> ARTIFACT_CHEST (ms_wicardoven): full_inventory: [nixed];[nixed];[nixed!];[nixed]; ; req_players: 1;1;1;2; spawn_chances: 10;8;4;2;
Tue Aug 04 12:41:27 2015> ARTIFIACT_DEBUG: Stoffalos failed to qualify ( dmg: 3.00 vs. 4.88 ) ( hp: 503.00 vs. 400 )
Tue Aug 04 12:41:27 2015> ARTIFACT_CHEST (ms_wicardoven): final_qualaifying_players: Gildear;rasse;Jens
Tue Aug 04 12:41:27 2015> ARTIFACT_CHEST (ms_wicardoven): final_inventory:  [nixed!] req_players: 1 spawn_chances: 8
Tue Aug 04 12:41:37 2015> ARTIFACT_CHEST (ms_wicardoven): Gildear chose a [nixed!]

Among others, so it works, just, meh, random is a cruel mistress, and Artifact Chests be picky.

 

[Meru]

We made some runs until we noticed that when you do it with 2 players, both have to do nearly the same dmg to qualify.
It works that i can tell we got a PA for Ethan with some 4 player runs and also quite fast after the 3rd try i think.
Its often the problem with qualification when trying to farm fast, because the higher level players are able to do alot more dmg and that means the lower players have no chance to do enough dmg.

So watch the dmg done and it should be able to spawn.

Greetings
Jens

 

[Thothie]

req_players: 1;1;1;2; spawn_chances: 10;8;4;2;

Only one of the items requires 2 qualifying players, so should be fine with one qualifier. But more qualifiers doubles the chance per additional qualifier, so...

Artifact Chests are pickier about damage point qualifiers than individualized chests (which is actually something I didn't recall until looking at those logs), but as long as one of you doesn't' have more than 3x the damage points of the other, you should all qualify.