Cross World Visitation is Hurting Hunts

The goal of world visit (and cross-world PF, data-center wide DF, CWLS, etc.) is to allow more and more people to play together, so arbitrary restrictions like a server name doesn't limit the amount of player to player interactions. I think that goal is good for the game and should be furthered. To that end I don't want to see unnecessary or excessive restrictions to cross world play, or why even have such a system? Early pullers always existed, and it is unfortunate that your server's hunt experience has deteriorated as a result. However, I don't think the problem is such that organized hunts are collapsing outright. Personally Zalera's hunt trains have noticeably gone faster with the influx of people, but no one's killing them out of turn and S-ranks aren't kill on sight either. I invite you to our server if you need a change of pace.

There will be changes to server culture, no doubt, and not all change is good. But overall I think being able to do 8x the hunts is a boon in general. I want the ability to do nearly all content anywhere regardless of wanderer status, and limiting hunts would undo a huge reason to wander in the first place.

Hunts weren't all that much fun on Siren even before World Visits. I suspect they've gotten a lot worse. I rarely do hunts now given they've usually been pulled and are dead before arrival if you're not part of the spawn team. They really need to scale up the HP based on the number present and level of those participating or introduce a level sync similar to those used in NM's in Eureka.

As someone who barely hunts anymore, I think more people need to realize hunts were not made to be given to the entire server+.
If you miss it because someone pulled as soon as they got there, tough luck you should have been there faster. That guy did! Thus is the nature of hunting. To hunt it.

Midgardsormr has had for sometime now hunt trains 3 times a day that were scouted in advance. We rarely had any issues prior to world visit... While most visitors have adopted our ways and becoming a part of our hunting community there are a few that simply either do not care and/or are not paying attention to the chat and the called out pull times. This is especially bad with S ranks where seems to be about a couple eorzean hours from time first calls go out til pull time but they are being pulled ahead of scheduled time.. Some may say there is no such thing as early pulls, but on midgard where the community has accepted the pull times and way of doing it then on our server yes they are very much early pulls.

So I'm just writing this to state that if you are traveling to other worlds to do hunts please take the opportunity to acquaint yourself to the community on the server you transferred to. It has become very clear to those of us on midgard that hunts are handled very differently elsewhere. For example on top of what I already mentioned we use party finder and are expected to use that to find a group or if one isn't available to make your own. I just think its good gaming to adjust to the community you are playing with.

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Originally Posted by Canadane

As someone who barely hunts anymore, I think more people need to realize hunts were not made to be given to the entire server+.
If you miss it because someone pulled as soon as they got there, tough luck you should have been there faster. That guy did! Thus is the nature of hunting. To hunt it.

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I don't think this is a good system then. I had a friend who spent an hour spawning Nuny (the S in Southern Thanalan) earlier, and it was pulled and killed before he reached it as it spawned (because of use of third party tools and an instapuller). You can say they shouldn't be using those tools, but even if they weren't and they just happened to be closer, what incentive is there to doing all of the work to spawn a hunt if someone else is just going to kill it before you can even get any credit?

We all had a cosy hunt community on each world, so I deeply sympathise with how this has disturbed everyone's peaceful hunt life, but sometimes change happens and you have to adapt.

SE indicated they intend to make them fates sometime during 5.x. They are quite understandably too busy with the expansion to do it right now.

I mean, nothing is stopping you from going to a different world for hunts yourself.

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Originally Posted by Jeeqbit

SE indicated they intend to make them fates sometime during 5.x. They are quite understandably too busy with the expansion to do it right now.

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I would be very interested to see this.

It was said during a Q&A at a recent live letter, when someone asked about hunts dying too fast.

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Originally Posted by Jeeqbit

It was said during a Q&A at a recent live letter, when someone asked about hunts dying too fast.

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Oh okay! I mostly meant I would be very happy about it being implemented in-game. Thanks for letting me know, however!