Praetorian Tutorial - Broken Clockwork Spawn

[Galinet]

First of all, thanks to all that brought back this game.

 

Started playing last night and had a problem in the Praetorian tutorial zone, with the second mission where we have to destroy a broken clockwork.  Someone before me had killed them all so I searched the whole zone for them, when they were right beside the mission giver.  Then saw 2 other players having the same problem, so told them to wait it out.

 

Sure, the zone isn't that big, but it made for a bad "new player" experience.  Could there be code to check whether any clockwork are currently spawned and if not, spawn some?  Or maybe reduce their spawn time.  They are non-aggressive and, unless I'm mistaken, do not give any exp; I don't think there would be a downside to spawning them more quickly than (what it feels like) the 7-10 minute spawner they are currently on.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Or maybe remake the toon and choose to skip the basic tutorial when talking to the first contact...

[Galinet]

Two new players had the same problem last night, raising the total to at least 5 players (since last wednesday).

 

Is the only way to exit the tutorial by completing it?  Can we skip it once we have started it?

[Redlynne]

I encountered the same issue with a new Praetorian last night.  Just logged out in hopes that they would (finally) respawn later.

[n00baka]

Having never experienced this myself, I support the idea 100%. If it’s not possible to skip the mission (and even if it is, new players in the tutorial shouldn’t have to do that), the fact that a single player can wipe out all of the Broken Clockwork and leave those just behind unable to complete the tutorial in a timely fashion is wonky at best.

[Redlynne]

Easiest thing to do (from a programming standpoint) would be to force respawns of any Clockwork that has been defeated there when anyone talks to the Contact to start the Mission to Defeat 1 Clockwork.  That way, there's ALWAYS enough Clockworks there for anyone to choose from.

 

Of course, if it was that easy to do, Paragon Studios would have done that years ago ...