Trade-Spam During Hunts, a New Low

Today I was spiritbonding in Urth's Gift with a full party and an A-rank appeared right beside us. I don't go out of my way to do hunts because the environment has become so toxic now that SE has unfortunately added endgame items to hunts (AGAIN). However, it was there and I figured why not?

So I switched to tank and my party switched jobs also. Then I pulled the hunt and we started fighting it. Well another party arrived and while their tank was trying to get hate from me another member began to trade spam me so I could not perform any actions. In the middle of this I blacklisted them so I could go back to fighting but I had lost a lot of valuable time. Thankfully our party got full credit but I felt like this was the most hostile action I've witnessed by another player during hunts. Is this the new norm?

I don't do hunting parties because players will wish "early pullers" (someone who pulls before they personally get there lol) cancer, herpes, death etc. (yes this is no exaggeration). Threats of reporting other players go out every time, name-calling, the kind of stuff that doesn't happen when hunts are limited to vanity, minions, mounts, crafting mats, and the like.

This thread is to ask SE 2 things:

1) Please limit future hunt rewards to non-locked out/endgame items.
2) But at the very least prevent opening trade windows with players who are in combat.

I think this is a pretty fair request.
Thanks

Regarding "early pullers", I only hate them if they cause a wipe. There are people like this in our server. They pull S ranks early just so their party can get full credits I suppose, but because they're not as great as they think they are, they die and people who are just coming in get picked off by the mob.

That said, trade-spam is low indeed. I agree that trade window should not be usable or TRADE should not be an option on an in-combat target.

Don't really feel bad for you at all. Knowing the high interest in hunts right now, you and your group probably could have continued spirit bonding and waited a few minutes for other groups to arrive. Seems pretty selfish that you decided to pull it by yourself.

Everyone has their own criteria for "early pull" and it's all nonsense (see post above mine), but that you could conduct trades while on an enmity list sounds like an oversight or bug.

I've also heard of people trade-spamming people so they can't teleport to the next hunt. Something needs to be done to be able to prevent that, too.

Some games have options to automatically reject trades and/or invites.

If stuff like this keeps up, I wouldn't be surprised to see it sneak into 2.55 or even 2.51

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Originally Posted by chrillix

Don't really feel bad for you at all. Knowing the high interest in hunts right now, you and your group probably could have continued spirit bonding and waited a few minutes for other groups to arrive. Seems pretty selfish that you decided to pull it by yourself.

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If you find the mob you aren't obligated to wait for dozens of other people to show up to kill it, especially since there's no guarantee you'll get full credit if you do so. And harassing someone because they pulled a hunt is not acceptable and reportable.

Quick fix?

Busy status makes you unavailable for trade.

...with so many restrictions on what actions can and cannot be executed while [whatever], I'm surprised trade is not one of those yet, tbh. o_O

Report them, this is an incredibly dickish move and falls under harassment, and they will do something about it. Don't let this attitude go unchecked people, make sure the GMs are aware of it.