TIM Scope is NOT dropping?

**Autocratt** · Sep 25th, 2002, 15:00:06

Patch Notes
Boss monsters in the BIOMARE dungeon will have a chance of spawning more often. The unique loot on the boss monster will have a less chance off dropping on each spawn, but the overall drop rate should be the same as before. The bodyguard and neutralizer will have a higher chance of dropping their special loot.

Well many many people have killed TIM and not once has the ranged init buff scope dropped. Strangely, I got two of the supposedly more rare Engineer scopes to drop.

Cz, can you check into this. The patch notes obviously say that it should be dropping as regularly as before.

**Turin** · Sep 25th, 2002, 15:37:26

Just an FYI, and this was before the 14.5 patch.

I had to kill TIM like, 5 times before he finally dropped the scope.

**Znore** · Sep 25th, 2002, 16:00:37

T.I.M is supposed to drop the same loot as before.
I will check up on this and see if any changes has been done to what items he drops.

He is not supposed to drop all items on each death so you might have to kill him a few times to get the item you are looking for.

-Z

**Systembug** · Sep 25th, 2002, 17:05:20

So he is not set to drop the T.I.M scope (RI increase) on every death?

**____________Strycker** · Sep 25th, 2002, 17:26:15

Just an FYI, and this was before the 14.5 patch.

I had to kill TIM like, 5 times before he finally dropped the scope.

Interesting, every time I've been in on a TIM kill prior to 14.5 (including several in 14.4) the TIM scope dropped. Maybe they have an intermittent problem of some kind not related to the mob inventory selection code but having more to do with the client-server interaction listing items to loot? Naah, that would be too stupid even to be a Funcom bug.... Maybe it's just bad luck, yeah that's it, bad luck....

**Autocratt** · Sep 25th, 2002, 17:30:11

Originally posted by Znore
T.I.M is supposed to drop the same loot as before.
I will check up on this and see if any changes has been done to what items he drops.

He is not supposed to drop all items on each death so you might have to kill him a few times to get the item you are looking for.

-Z

Znore, thank you for your prompt reply. It is always nice to hear from you guys.

From the patch notes I imputed that if TIM is supposed to spawn 12 times a day and drop say 6 scopes on average, then the fact that he spawns more often say 24 times in a day, still only 6 scopes will still drop per day. So I think we are in agreement on this issue. I thought the prepatch drop rate was 1/2.

Myself and others who I talked to have killed him 20+ times with no HUD scope drop. The fact that I got 2 STM scopes to drop out of 8-10 kills for me (which I thought dropped very rarely) seems to indicate that the HUD scope drop rate may be messed up.

Again thanks and I look forward to your response.

(Looking desperately to get out of TLR

)

**gwend** · Sep 25th, 2002, 17:31:43

it dropped first kill last night for a guildie

**Systembug** · Sep 25th, 2002, 18:17:54

Aaaah .. increased spawn .. Decreased droploot on scope i see

*missed that info*

Do you still crit on every hit?

**MartekO** · Sep 25th, 2002, 19:11:51

Originally posted by Strycker
Interesting, every time I've been in on a TIM kill prior to 14.5 (including several in 14.4) the TIM scope dropped.

Was good luck on your part. I've been in T.I.M.-killing teams four times pre-14.5, and only twice did scopes drop. Both happened to be the non-Engie one.

Cheers,
Martek

**Autocratt** · Sep 25th, 2002, 20:19:29

Pre 14.5 I killed TIM 3 times and was 3 for 3. Based on what others had said I had guessed the pre-patch drop rate was at least 50%.

Kill after kill now TIM has not once dropped it and often drops nothing at all which I think is odd.

**Arane** · Sep 25th, 2002, 20:41:05

from my experience after 14.5 patch... ive seen 5 tim deaths, no +180 RI scope, nada

**RVWinkle** · Sep 25th, 2002, 20:41:14

Originally posted by Seraphfirst
Strangely, I got two of the supposedly more rare Engineer scopes to drop.

/me pulls his hair out

I've killed this guy 30+ times and still no eng scope.

**Kzak** · Sep 26th, 2002, 10:14:18

The S.T.M. has a droprate about 10% (pre-14.5), I think.

I had to take T.I.M. down 13 times or so before finding it.. and I became one happy engineer after that.

**Autocratt** · Sep 26th, 2002, 14:56:18

5 more TIMs and still nada

**Znore** · Sep 26th, 2002, 22:03:25

Hi again,

I have now checked into this issue and I have located an error that causes the TIM, Tri and Labdirector mobs to drop their special loot less frequently than intended.

At this time I have no ETA on when the fix goes live.

-Znore

**Autocratt** · Sep 26th, 2002, 22:47:03

Thanks Znore for checking this out and replying so quickly. It is very nice to have you/FC respond as you have here.

Please let us know when you think it will be corrected.

Now it is time for /me terminates out of TLR

**_____________Abunari** · Sep 26th, 2002, 22:59:33

Perhaps a sticky thread of running/confirmed fixes - in test server forum?, and any expected ETA, even if No ETA is common on the list.

So that 1) people realize that something has been reported and confirmed, and 2) testers realize what might still need to be checked out.

Just trying to keep the communication good.

Abu

**Autocratt** · Oct 2nd, 2002, 18:42:25

Znore, let's get this fixed sooner rather than later

Bump for a fix!

**______________Wahoo.** · Oct 2nd, 2002, 18:44:00

killed tim 3 times nothing yet.. i'll go back today

**_______________Hypos** · Oct 2nd, 2002, 20:51:52

Thanks for the info, Znore. It's appreciated.

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