darkSpyro

My view is not to care about a Chompy Gift Shop. I've had about 200 sheeps during this quest. Leaving a few troll camps helps a little, but I'm still only at around 50/100. Since I really don't play on the weekends, I will fail this quest, which is fine by me.

Quote: Pico

For those that really want to complete the quest there is another option. Buy yourself a Delorian, grab Marty McFly and step on the gas until you hit 88 mph. Always go backwards. Never forwards or you may lose the reward.

I must say that when I did some back and forth a couple of weeks ago, I did seem to get a lot of troll spawns. I'm not sure if it was a fluke or not, but it might just work.

The spawns are random but time travel allows you to extend the quest timer. I've done it in the past but it becomes more of a hassle than it's really worth.

My biggest issue with the sheep/troll timed quest is the tie to a random event. Completing the quest has nothing to do with my willingness to check the game every hour for seven days. It's tied to a random event (object spawn) with a random event (correct camp).

Assuming that the camps have an equal chance to be any of the three types then the introduction of chompies significantly increased the difficulty of completing the quest by lowering the change from 50% to 33%. This gets further compounded by the introduction of Brock since the wizard camps have a 1 less troll per camp.

An interesting fix would be to introduce a new house/companion than when used prevents a certain enemy type from entering the game.

Another option is for Activision to introduce a few new buildings.... Sheep attractor, troll attractor, and compile attractor. The effect could be to attract the spawn of that specific type in the squares around the building.

I posted a similar idea on the companion thread

I agree with Pico. It's frustrating because I have no control :-(
I also appreciate the Back to the Future reference ;-)
I don't really need the Chompie gift shop as I have somehow have acquired two, but it's just upsetting to do everything I can on these but not be able to complete the goal.

17/100 and 2 days to go. I wont make it. I have 2 chompie gift shops already so i am trying to relax about it but i think its the lack of control i have over the spawning that iritates me. I got the scarecrow so perhaps its karma?

I have a theory thats its about space. I think my islands are too full. I am going to clear out some squares and see if that helps.

Also most skylanders seem to get a sheep or troll clear quest as they level. This causes more spawns so i will try to not do the quest and keep that open and see if that helps my spawning.

May try time travel backwards but that could stuff up another game so bit hesitant.

Here is just one observation and that is that the camps tend to appear where there is shelter from the prevailing wind.

Of course the top of the life island is right in the teeth of it so It is not always true.

For the rest of the islands though make sure there is shelter on the north west of your space.

I think people are not leaving enough enpty space on their skylands. Also it seems like things spawn in the exact same place over and over again, so building something on a particular spot blocks it, so you whatever would spawn there simply doesn't spawn, it doesn't move to another location.

I have 2.5 days left, and am at 75/100, so I'm good.

This quest is beyond frustrating and this is coming from someone who loves this game.

I am getting two spawns per day. Currently at 37/100.

Achieved!

Like someone said, trols seem more frequent when there are houses around. I created "holes" by removing houses and buildings in crowded islands. It worked great.

I'm one troll away, it didn't seem too bad honestly.

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OK you spawning experts.

Day one I have kept 3 camps on the ground.

The result was 3 wizard trolls camps. 5 ordinary ones.

How many should I leave over night?

I'm no expert, but there seems to be a 10 camp limit. So, I'd leave two or three myself. That's what I did.

Limit of 10 can't be true, I have 11 sheep mobs right now.

Wow I just finished with 1 hour to spare. I was at 99/100 for over 12 hours and nothing spawned overnight.

The timed troll/sheep quests are too stressful.

I have a few islands with hardly anything on them and they still don't spawn as much. The only way I was able to get this quest was to time travel. I kept time traveling back and forth a day ahead and back and it would spawn more camps. Mostly sheep, but eventually I got enough trolls.

I failed again... 72/100 trolls. I had a strong start but then they stopped coming and I sat at 55/100 for the longest. I also felt like I got a lot more wizard trolls. Oh well. I didn't lose anything, it just stinks to not win.

And now we have 8 Chopmy Nests in 7 days. Not hard, except they have to be Active and not Empty. I already had one, but didn't have a Sidekick free to take it, and it was Empty by the time I saw Gill Runt was added.

I'm going to keep one of the sidekicks out of missions for the next few days. That's the only way I can expect to finish it.