Hunt strategy for solo players?

I got reset plenty of times while soloing and it always left me with little to no contribution reward...

There's a reason people are getting upset over it, you know. And it's not because you suddenly have an extra 10 seconds now to hit it and gather even more points...

It's "Hey, good to see you working on those points, why dont you go ahead and start over from 0 while the monster now dies 40 times as quickly! Good luck!"

Today I learned that there really are people who refuse to play a Massively Multiplayer Online Game with other players, even in content which is designed for groups.

Meh, I'll just continue to ignore Hunts completely and simply wait for SE to implement the Sands of Time drop in Syrcus Tower, as they said that they were going to do at some point soonish.

Problem solved.

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Originally Posted by Edli

Looks like you have a problem with how the system works in which case you can ask SE to tweak how resetting works. SE cannot punish a player because he plays by the gameplay rules SE themselves have created.

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Again, the ToS disagrees with you (let me help you. Ctrl+F 3.2).

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Originally Posted by Illya

Today I learned that there really are people who refuse to play a Massively Multiplayer Online Game with other players, even in content which is designed for groups.

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People are doing Hunts as a group though. Some are just preferring to treat it as intended. B ranks for Light Parties, A ranks for Full Parties and S ranks is when the zerg makes sense (although three Full Parties is most likely enough).

As a solo player, really... Just accept that you're not going to be able to get every mark and that there will be times you won't get full credit. Be reasonable in what you expect to achieve and you'll be surprised how satisfying it can be...

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Originally Posted by Illya

Today I learned that there really are people who refuse to play a Massively Multiplayer Online Game with other players, even in content which is designed for groups.

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It's not only that. The zerg behaviour has been really bad for the game. I was in north than while people were trying to pop the S rank and a fresh lvl 48 guy finished the fate early.. this lead to the zerg swearing at him in chat and calling his name out when the dude was just trying to get some exp.

It boils down to bullying and it's just gross to see.

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Originally Posted by Kule

It's not only that. The zerg behaviour has been really bad for the game. I was in north than while people were trying to pop the S rank and a fresh lvl 48 guy finished the fate early.. this lead to the zerg swearing at him in chat and calling his name out when the dude was just trying to get some exp.

It boils down to bullying and it's just gross to see.

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Have to agree, this is absolutely stupid game design decision to implement a system where people need to intentionally *fail* something to get to a desireable result (in this case, S pop). As you pointed out, there is no way a new player would know about this and all this just leads to a very bad impression of the perceived toxicity of the in-game community. I wish the devs would think about some of the rather obvious potential impacts of these decisions a bit more before implementation.

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Originally Posted by Edli

Looks like you have a problem with how the system works in which case you can ask SE to tweak how resetting works. SE cannot punish a player because he plays by the gameplay rules SE themselves have created.

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They can actually.

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Originally Posted by Illya

Today I learned that there really are people who refuse to play a Massively Multiplayer Online Game with other players, even in content which is designed for groups.

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Not all of it was designed for groups.

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Originally Posted by ispano

They can actually.

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And they have... My friends account got a 72hr suspension and the only thing he could think of was he was resetting mobs for the horde and someone GMed him.

His email just stated a bunch of copy paste from ToS related to harassment.

Was it specific on which? The ToS kinda has a lot of things that state what can get your character suspended/banned (3.2 is one of them).

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Originally Posted by Nestama

Was it specific on which? The ToS kinda has a lot of things that state what can get your character suspended/banned (3.2 is one of them).

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Pulling mobs from other players and intentionally resetting them with the specific intent of stealing contribution from said player is against the TOS as griefing.

I managed to get full credit in just a 2 man party fighting an A mark yesterday. So maybe just bring along a chocobo? If you are intent on going solo.