Problems getting Caleb to Spawn

Back in December I would at least get a zone message that he'd appear even though he never did. I filed three different reports about this when this was happening.

I have been told "If you want to find Caleb, leave some Spectral Daemons alive and follow them to Caleb. He’s hard to spot against the gray skies in Nerva, but if you follow the Spectral Daemons, he can be found."

Then when I told a GM that I did leave some Daemons alive but they didn't go anywhere, I was told that the regular spawns won't flock to him as he has his own followers. I was also told "If the demons do not flock to him, that means you have not killed enough yet. Once you have killed enough, then they will flock to him."

But then when I asked "So when the zone event message pops up and says that "Caleb has been spotted" does this mean he really HASN'T appeared and I have to continue killing daemons?"

To which the reply was "No, that means he has spawned, keep in mind he spawns in the air, not on the ground. You would have to A. Hunt for him, or B. Kill enough demons that they spawn to him. But he has spawned when you see that message."

And of course I knew that, but the system did tell me he had spawned, but he never did appear (or I guess I never looked hard enough). I have even used a Macro button to try and find him but I was never able to find him.

Now, it seems the zone message doesn't appear when 100+ Nerva Daemons were killed during the day on Thorn Isle. (Yes, I kept count as I checked the server time just before I started killing so I could keep track in the chat log of how many Daemons I killed.) I counted that I killed 176 Daemons, & 84 Daemon Lords, for a total of 260 during the daytime hours, from sunrise to sunset, on Thorn Isle, In Nerva. According to the Wiki it only takes 100. (http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Caleb) And having killed 260 myself, and my teammate killing at least 100 on his own during this same time period, I am fairly certain that something has gone amiss in the game code and this Giant Monster spawn is broken and needs to be looked into.

Is there a problem with the spawning? If someone spawned (and killed) Caleb sometime shortly before I logged into the game, would he spawn again if I killed enough of the Daemons, or is there something in the coding that says that he can only be spawned once per day?

Another GM did tell me: "I checked server logs and confirmed that Caleb spawned twice over the past three days on Exalted, but not on Feb. 25 or Feb. 28. As far as I can tell, he does spawn, but is intentionally hard to find."

Intentionally hard to find, is fine, I don't want everything to be easy to do, but me trying to get Caleb to spawn and appear has been quite frustrating, and I really want to kill Caleb repeatedly now, not just for the badge, but out of spite. -_-

Suggestions, help, ideas, any comments at all are more than welcome.

Thank you all kindly for any info you can give me.
~Khani

(And I have read the posting rules regarding posting private correspondence and specifically asked the GM I was talking with about this after I was pointed to the forums and was told "That rule is put in place to discourage ranting about suspensions and the like. As long as you can maintain a certain level of civility then there should be no issue." I have no issue with anyone who has helped me thus far, I just want to be able to find Caleb for myself and make others aware that if they can't find him, it's not just them.)

That makes lots of sense. I'll keep trying then and if he doesn't spawn I'll look around the entire zone using my macro button to see if I can find him anywhere.

I appreciate the replies and hope to catch the skeevy ghost sometime soon.

I recommend doing something funky. Demo record and look in the file for Caleb (CTRL+F for find in most text viewing programs). You only need to capture a couple seconds of demo to get everything within a few hundred yards.

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Caleb has got to be one of, if not the, worst designed zone events.

Good luck finding the guy.