Synapse Babbage - Bugged Behavior Found

[Griffyn]

Running a Synapse on 25-Dec at 16:20 ET, Babbage spawned. He then immediately started running *away* from the team. This may be the root of all of the Babbage no shows in Synapse. He had clear line of sight to me with no obstructions in his path. He turned away from me (with the team around the building corner behind me) and jumped down off a wall.  I first called my location [767.3 -83.9 -988.1] while moving toward him. After he jumped the wall, I called the new location [623.2 -126.0 -1020.0].

 

I hope this helps resolving the "no-shows".

[Apparition]

It may be one cause, but it is definitely not the root of all of the no shows.  Many, if not most, are because the team lead will teleport to the SG base or use LRT from inside the Clockwork Lord mission... probably to go to Steel Canyon for the next mission.  But that will result in Babbage spawning wherever the team lead goes... which is why you see quite a few Babbages roaming around Steel Canyon on the high traffic shards.

[srmalloy]

There is another reason why Babbage won't spawn, but it's not a regular enough occurrence to be coded around. If there is a zone-wide event like a zombie invasion or a Rikti assault, Babbage won't spawn.