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Dev here. :)

They spawn at a fixed rate, but at random floors, with 50% spawning at the bottom floor.

I agree it would be more interesting if there were patterns, distributions, more popular floors etc. Haven't gotten around to implementing it. There's a small unused bit of code here intended for this: https://github.com/magwo/elevatorsaga/blob/master/challenges...



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