darkSpyro

I'm at a point where I have a lot of quests requesting different Skylanders to take care of troll camps....yet they are rarely appearing. Maybe one or two a day.

Anybody else having this happen?

Yes. Especially annoying with timed quests. In a few cases there weren't enough for me to finish.

The trick is not to continuously clear your troll camps and sheep mobs. Always leave a few of them and they seem to generate quicker. I almost always try to leave one of each on each island with space for them.

Also, I just unlocked my tech island and have nothing on it yet and have noticed that trolls, sheep, and totems are on them, sometimes 2 and 3 at a time, every time I log in now, whereas before I was rarely getting them, so it may be a matter of them needing free space on the islands. Might be time to get rid of some useless things.

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Also, I just unlocked my tech island and have nothing on it yet and have noticed that trolls, sheep, and totems are on them, sometimes 2 and 3 at a time, every time I log in now, whereas before I was rarely getting them, so it may be a matter of them needing free space on the islands. Might be time to get rid of some useless things.

Yeah, I've been doing good on that, but have picked up a few more houses and shrines, lately. I still have yet to open up my air island, so I might go ahead and do that. I've noticed my troll camp population has went down tremendously, lately. I really think I'm running out of space. I even put an outpost in storage because it was taking up way too much room.

Yea, my son was very upset because on the one quest to kill bats, he had 12/15 with three days left and didn't get a single one after, so he didn't get the shrine.

I just made the bat quest at the last minute. I went a few days with no bats at all and thought I didn't have a hope of completing it on time. And since they will disappear if you don't clear them yourself, the trick of leaving them to spawn more won't work.

Having space does seem to be key. And some spaces seem to get trolls and sheep far more frequently than others. For both me and my son, the bottom left corner of the tech island is a hot spot that spawns frequently. I recently reorganized my islands and filled my tech island completed with houses. It may be my imagination, but, even though I have lots of space elsewhere, it seems the overall rate of trolls and sheep has gone down.

Not sure what sort of coding algorithm would cause that behaviour though. A set order of grid locations, go a random way down the list, spawn if a free space is located within that random number of checks? If some already exist, start at that location in the list?

I think I'll clear what used to be my hot spot right now and see how long it takes...

Turned it back on 10 minutes later and had trolls. Probably just a coincidence, but I think I'll leave that area open.

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The trick is not to continuously clear your troll camps and sheep mobs. Always leave a few of them and they seem to generate quicker. I almost always try to leave one of each on each island with space for them.

Ah, I always wondered why some of the higher level people were leaving so many mobs and camps unchecked when I'd visit. Thanks for the heads up.

There's a LOT of debate about whether spawning works or not. Some swear by it. Others insist it's a joke. If nothing else, keeping a bunch of mobs and camps around gives you a good head start on any clearing quests.