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Final Fantasy XI Discussion Board	Discussion Boards -> General
Steam Cleaner

From: NynJa Guest Posted: 2005-01-24 17:15:29	Reply Quote
He's got his own small area in the monster location, but maybe he deserves his own thread :\ I havent seen him in the past month and a half, and apparnetly a LOT of others havent. Rumors: 1-its bugged 2-youre gimp 3-spawn location changed 4-spawn pre-requisites changed Anyone really know ??

From: Sy
Guest
Posted: 2005-01-25 12:05:03

A similar thing happened twice on Pandemonium (I personally only witnessed it once, but have been told of a previous incident), no matter how long or what we tried he refused to pop. It took a server reset due to maintenance to fix the pop, and from then on it's worked the same as it always did. There is clearly a bug with his pop though unknown what causes it. But I guarantee his spawn location hasn't changed nor has his spawning conditions (the only exception could possibly be time, though I still doubt that).

From: Dead Kitteh Guest Posted: 2005-01-25 14:22:08	Reply Quote
As late as yesterday, SC pop works fine on our server utilizing two different methods. Not sure which "method" SE supposedly disabled with patch, but the two ways we can do it work just fine.

From: mikey Guest Posted: 2005-01-27 01:00:46	Reply Quote
wha tis the two way u do to pop it? my LS been trying to pop SC for a long time. not sure if there is bug or not. but i dont think anyone in this sever have pop SC yet. if u can can u give us the 2 way u pop it please. thanku

From: Ichthyos@Titan Guest Posted: 2005-01-27 11:29:55	Reply Quote
I don't think there's anything wrong with it. If it pops because someone aggros a Detector, and no one kills it, then it will depop and its timer will reset.

From: Zanza
Guest
Posted: 2005-01-28 15:40:56

We are also having issues over on Siren currently. We have in the past also had issues with him not working for a while for any of the 3 NA ls hunting him, and 2 JP ls we were able to communicate with. After a maintainance it was fixed, but now its doing it again on our server. We have been hearing rumors, though nothing really substantial about his method being changed, and then someone posted on our ls forum this pic: http://xt3k.sourceforge.net/screenshots/gm.JPG . Altough I must say this must be taken with a grain of salt, I dont want to sound mean, but most of the GMs arent that knowledgeable or equiped to answer much beyond pre-scripted responses (most likely isnt their fault, its just their day job). Also I heard Stanislav was able to get steamcleaner to pop on Hades.

If anyone has ever poped steamcleaner from any other means than off a detector, or seen any definite changes in whats needed to pop him, please let the rest of us know ^^

From: Dead Kitteh
Guest
Posted: 2005-01-31 17:00:19

Method 1: Pull all 8 placeholder detectors and kill the detector after it summons first mob. There 2 at each entrance, with the entrances being North Suzaku island, North Seiryu island, south Genbu island, and South Byakko island. If SC's timer is up he will pop on one of the pulls. This is the more labor intensive method.

Method 2: Pull one placeholder detector to your pt near the entrance and sleep it. Keep it slept and kill each mob summoned until SC pops. My rule of thumb is that if SC doesn't pop by the fifth summon, his timer is not up so move on to another pop NM.

Regards

From: nameless user Guest Posted: 2005-02-03 17:10:37	Reply Quote
Ya, we've been trying to pop him for over a month to no aveil, Some other NA linkshells have killed EVERY detector in the zone, and it didn't pop. Other have slept and killed caretakers for 8 hours -.- something is wrong, we are not newbs, and we really need to kill kirin some more...

From: Ryunoire Guest Posted: 2005-02-04 12:38:44	Reply Quote
Ryunoire from EternalKnights on Shiva Server here. Seems that no one has been able to pop SC for awhile on Shiva either, and my LS spent 5 hours killing Caretakers yesterday.. still nothing. I really don't know what to think... If we have a succesful pop I'll be sure to note exact conditions.

From: Elroher Guest Posted: 2005-02-15 05:46:00	Reply Quote
I play on Siren and been unable to pop it also and we sent hours on it. We tried every location and even tried using 2 detectors at the same time! lol. Which resulted in this http://www.redbookofwestmarch.com/elrohir/chain50.JPG and yet SC still didnt show up

From: Sylvanis Guest Posted: 2005-02-16 15:46:03	Reply Quote
Last night, 2/15/2005, JP LS pop Steam Cleaner. They didn't do anything different, but they were not able to kill it, lack of memebers. My LS formed quickly and were about to kill SC but we decided to join up with the JP and let them have the drop. Unfortunatly, SC despawn and we were not able to pop it again. This is on Unicorn, image below. Steam Cleaner

From: Sylvanis Guest Posted: 2005-02-17 10:23:04	Reply Quote
My LS pop Steam Cleaner, seems to be working now ^^; Another LS pop him twice before we got SC. Oh BTW, you need to wait 3+ hrs before SC pops again.

From: Ichthyos@Titan
Guest
Posted: 2005-02-17 17:26:34

It seems that nothing has changed about Steam Cleaner.

Late last summer, it was unpoppable on a variety of servers as well, but the issue magically disappeared after the next time the servers were restarted.

Unicorn and Gilgamesh were restarted the morning of Feb 15, and Sylvanis reports that it's fine on Unicorn. Seems like a little more than a coincidence.

I suspect that the code that governs Steam's pop conditions is buggy and hasn't gone through much testing. I mean, how many NMs in the game are a lotto summon from another mob? To my knowledge, this is the only one.

Anyway, just sit tight until the next server reset and all will be well.

From: Vivisan
Guest
Posted: 2005-02-22 02:42:09

Hey, Vivisan from Snow on Pandemonium

We've managed to pop SC, its fairly difficult to guess when it will because it has taken over 30 mins. The one on Pandemonium works just fine. Get aggro, sleep it until it spawns SC and then kill it for the drop. Took 32 mins, it happened to spawn just as both detectors crossed paths on us. It lead to one big mess, 2 Detectors, and Steam Cleaner.

We're going to try it again and see if that's a possible way to spawn it, but it seemed more like chance, though we had been killing them before it spawned just as they crossed pathes on us...

The idea for Method 2 as listed below is the easiest, but if Method 1 works that's good...just crazy to work out.

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