Enough with 'Hunt trains'

Come to Balmung, ppl dont wait for anything here lol. Except when its an A rank in Stormblood areas, then they start asking for help xD.

i only get 3-4 seals a kill so i dont bother

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Originally Posted by savageink

Or you could just kill the thing and leave and let them complain to the zone. They can't kick anybody from a hunt. If you hit it you get rewards whether the train is doing most of the work or not.

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You'd only get the minimum reward if you couldn't get a party when the entire train is downing the hunt. But in the end, everyone should play the way they like. No one can force others to follow the train and no one can force the train to stop.

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Originally Posted by Alucard135

You'd only get the minimum reward if you couldn't get a party when the entire train is downing the hunt. But in the end, everyone should play the way they like. No one can force others to follow the train and no one can force the train to stop.

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if you are mount hunting, a kill is a kill.

My advice to you is to step up and take the initiative to join hunt linkshells. They may not be at your beck and call all the time. But with teamwork, perseverance, and willingness to communicate, you shall be rewarded for your hunts more often.

Hunt trains may or may not get to the targets on time. You might not always have the allies ready at the moment you find a hunt. But a hunt linkshell or two might alleviate your issues. Just be sure to communicate (and probably update the Ariyala and/or other hunt sites when you do beat an A/S).

I have done all of the above. I managed to get at least the "Mark of the [A rank/S rank]" achievement for all of the areas. In addition, I have earned extra hunt seals and end game tomes to help buy what I want going forward in the game.

Hunting is like social norms, there are no laws for them, so you either abide by the social norms or you dont.

You may not like how the community does things,they might encourage you to do things their way, but its your choice. Nothing is stopping you from killing any hunt mob by yourself or with your fc grp/friends.

My opinion on the mater is, the way the hunting community is doing things (linkshells/websites to track,waiting for ppl "a while") is pretty great. Trains, if i can and want to participate are awesome too, since they are very efficient.

Wait, so people are arranging hunting trains for not only single servers but now with world visit across entire data centers and setting times for when people are "allowed" to hit a certain server? Yeah, that's a bunch of crap. If a single server wants to work out a schedule, that's one thing. But people on a completely different server shouldn't get to dictate when people on another server do Hunts.

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Originally Posted by TaleraRistain

Wait, so people are arranging hunting trains for not only single servers but now with world visit across entire data centers and setting times for when people are "allowed" to hit a certain server? Yeah, that's a bunch of crap. If a single server wants to work out a schedule, that's one thing. But people on a completely different server shouldn't get to dictate when people on another server do Hunts.

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That's not what's happening. Even if it was, they can't enforce anything on other servers nor can they prevent people from doing hunts.

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Originally Posted by Doozer

I called out an A rank in Azim Steppe and got told to leave it alone so the Hunt Train could come get it, and that wanting to do it without them "wasn't nice". So I'm supposed to wait for a mob of people to roll up in an hour just to get more than one other person to do it? And most of them are just from other worlds anyway? How is this fair to regular players.

Yes I know I can just do it anyway, and I will, but the entitlement of this mob is really stupid.

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You're welcome to do it on your own if you want. Sum is the easiest to solo of the SB (assuming it was Sum you found and not Giri).

On the other hand, you could join with the hunt community train and kill all 12 in less time than it would take you to kill that single Rank A by yourself. A full train takes 18-23 minutes to complete. One of our trains ran into someone trying to solo Sum a couple of weeks ago - he told us he had already been at it 20 minutes and only had Sum down to about 40%.

It's up to you. Those who asked you to wait are acting no more entitled than you are. They at least are willing to share with others in the community. You just care about yourself.

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Originally Posted by Alucard135

That's not what's happening. Even if it was, they can't enforce anything on other servers nor can they prevent people from doing hunts.

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We've actually run into a few players trying to dictate what trains can be run when. Most of us laugh them off. If the mobs are up, the train needs to be running regardless of what's happening on other servers. I've scouted and conducted trains when other conductors were going to insist on waiting for a train on another world to be finished first (even though in one case said train hadn't even been started yet). The faster the trains get run, the more trains there are overall and the more players that get included. There's zero reason to wait on another world. They're always welcome to hop over and join us for what we have left once their train has finished.

If worlds try to chain trains too much, SE might kill them altogether because they're too lucrative a source of currencies. It's something for the hunt community to keep in mind.

If we aren't careful they may pull a Anemos--> Pagos and make spawning the hunts absurdly ridiculous going forward or/and maybe buff/change current ones..