Talk:Excavation/@comment-68.96.168.85-20160222182809

"Standing on the spawn point of an Extractor before it actually appears will cause the Extractor in question to not spawn. It cannot be spawned after the bug has occurred; essentially rendering that spawn point useless for the rest of the round. [Needs more testing.] "

I have actually done some testng on this, and one common factor that always fixed the problem was theyre were too many enemies in that area. Whenever that bug would happen my team mates will stand in the ring and i will destroy most of the horde and the excavator will drop. the best way to test this is get a disarm loki and a repelling vauban, do not kill anything unless you need power cells then kill the cell guys for extra power. over time you will have hordes stading just outside the bastille ring since they cannot enter thanks to the agument. and soon enough when you try and trigger teh next excavation in teh area (not sure if itll still occur if you move away from said area) the excavator will not drop. Then start mass killing and bam itll drop.

I believe the bug occurs because when you run into the ring you try to spawn another entitiy that is the drill but if you have hordes upon hordes of enemies in that area/level. Theyre may be a cap as to how many entities can be in the area/level at one time. so it would make sense that once you eliminate enemies the drill spawns.

Hope this helps the wiki.