Barrels respawn

  • HiradC
    Lord
    Insider

    I've noticed a higher frequency of spawning at outposts that have been recently looted already. That is fine I understand there is more pressure on servers with ps5 etc but perhaps there needs to be a tweak in barrel respawn timers to adjust for this. Buying storage crate to do hourglass then finding most of outpost empty is kinda frustrating. I've asked friends and they have also noticed an increase in this recently.

  • Login To Reply
    10
    Posts
    9.2k
    Views
  • BurnBacon
    Vanguard
    Insider

    I get more resources by visiting islands than buying or outposts.

  • HiradC
    Lord
    Insider

    @burnbacon cool, so completely no bearing on my idea. Thanks for input

  • Super87Ghost
    Commander

    I think that if someone new spawns into the game (so not from dives etc.), the outpost you spawn on should always 'reset' so the barrels will be filled as normal. Nothing more frustrating then spawning into the game on an empty outpost. I always imidiately leave a server when that happens.

  • D3ADST1CK
    Vanguard
    Insider
    Founder

    Since they all respawn at the same time, I imagine the server just dumps all barrel inventories and regenerates them. This is probably more efficient than iterating through or searching through the barrel list for specific ones to replenish.

    This'll depend on how the server manages barrels. Are they all just in a list of barrels, or are they grouped? If they're grouped, the groups would need to be separated at least for each individual outpost then they could force refreshing of specific groups but spawning at an outpost might be too common of an event (which would be why the barrels are frequently emptied).

  • LordQulex
    Captain

    @super87ghost said in Barrels respawn:

    I think that if someone new spawns into the game (so not from dives etc.), the outpost you spawn on should always 'reset' so the barrels will be filled as normal. Nothing more frustrating then spawning into the game on an empty outpost. I always imidiately leave a server when that happens.

    Thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis! No supplies is bad whether you're doing hourglass or anything else.

  • CannyTwoCrows
    Ship Mate
    Insider

    Think if they increased the frequency someone could just farm an outpost for supplies but lingering around. Typically for hg will loot a sea fort to get a decent consistent supply run.

  • Gunzooka
    Marauder

    you could get a NPC aka Larinna that would refill the barrel at a outpost if you pay coin that could be a way to help with hourglass player and still have a RNG factor to it but high level player would know it would be better to sail to different to get better/more loot

  • Super87Ghost
    Commander

    @cannytwocrows said in Barrels respawn:

    Think if they increased the frequency someone could just farm an outpost for supplies but lingering around. Typically for hg will loot a sea fort to get a decent consistent supply run.

    You don't need to increase the frequency, only to make it respawn when a newly-spawn is spawning in that specific outpost. So the regular spawnrate stays the same.

  • HiradC
    Lord
    Insider

    @cannytwocrows yeah i mean I'd leave it to devs to decide best way of doing it but just think worth highlighting that it's a noticeable difference at the moment and worth looking at

Login To Reply
10
Posts
9.2k
Views
9 out of 10