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Originally Posted by McCormick
Once I was told, like in other "online games", these are mostly mobs that are no longer on the server. (?)
I had this on argonauts a lot, but sometimes (after some minutes) they came back to life... and some stood there all day long.
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In most games you do not need to have mobs in the same place all the time. When they are not needed (no player around for some time), they are removed to free up system resources. I think it might be similar for Entropia. So that spider would be just some graphical bug, something like "illusion". The mob itself was removed (means AI and all mob scripts are not triggered), but it's animation and model somehow stayed on the server. At least that's how I see it. And probably that's how I would manage mob spawn if I was hosting and developing online game again.