PS3 & PS4 Hunters - Tactical Balance

Would it be possible to change the names of all the hunts to one-word names?

I've had great success throwing off many PC players that are cheating the system with unapproved add-ons by renaming my chocobo companion to the name of an areas mark and summoning it to divert the attention of large linkshells that are obviously not playing fair when dozens of them call for parties when I pop my chocobo and think someone has killed it when I put my chocobo away.

Unfortunately I can only rename my chocobo to single word names. This eliminates the possibility of throwing off unfair attention in certain areas.

Having all Hunting marks have single-word names would allow PS3 and PS4 players to divert cheating players to a certain area while opening a larger window of opportunity for people legitimately looking in other areas and at the same time throw off people tracking respawn times my making them think an areas mark has already been killed for a certain time period.

On a Hunting related side-note, I also have a question as to wheither it is considered a reportable offence if a large party shows up late to a hunt that has been anounced and uses healers or tanks to pull aggro off of the person fighting it and run away to reset the enemies HP and claim full credit for the kill.

If they want credit, I believe they should help whoever found it kill it. Resetting it and possibly taking full credit from the person that finds it seems very unsportsmanlike. Is it considered a reportable form of harassment?

How do you rename your chocobo?

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Originally Posted by Ulathskullsplitter

How do you rename your chocobo?

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At the Chocobo porter in the major cities where you initially claim your chocobo after purchasing the permit from your GC.

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Originally Posted by Ulathskullsplitter

How do you rename your chocobo?

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You go to uldah to the area directly infront of the adventurers guild and you will see the guy who first gave you the quest to aquire your choco. I forget his name.

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Originally Posted by Hybris-Maenad

At the Chocobo porter in the major cities where you initially claim your chocobo after purchasing the permit from your GC.

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Well that's good to know. I've hated my chocobos name since i made it. Thought i was stuck with it this whole time. Well at least i learned something today.

Carry on.

Oops yes the area where your GC is. Lol mine is in uldah so that's what I recalled.

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Originally Posted by PreetWilson

Oops yes the area where your GC is. Lol mine is in uldah so that's what I recalled.

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Actually none of these are tied to Grand Companies and you can use any of the three to rename your chocobo.

Since I derailed the thread I'll go back on topic. Thats actually pretty funny. It would be entertaining to name your chocobo Naul then summon it in Coerthas and watch the horde come running. Not that I would do that, but to see someone else would be funny.

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Originally Posted by Ulathskullsplitter

Since I derailed the thread I'll go back on topic. Thats actually pretty funny. It would be entertaining to name your chocobo Naul then summon it in Coerthas and watch the horde come running. Not that I would do that, but to see someone else would be funny.

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I have to try it !

Yea, that's pretty clever. Kudos to the OP. Next job would be to take a screenshot of everyone that shows up and report them xD

I think I'll be doing this. Then I can point out the cheaters and /laugh.

That idea makes no sense ... no offense.

Think of it this way : One guy who is using a radar add-on finds the name on their radar, call out the Coords and a lot of ppl go there. Those guys get close to you because someone said there was a hunt mark there. They aren't using this "radar" and now you'd be reporting them for cheating because someone told them to go there ? Yeah right..

Just saying, I've seen someone receiving the visit of a GM who asked to stop reporting for cheating as this could be concidered as harassment. ( Keep in mind they're a bunch of ppl reporting players for CHEATING just because they pulled "early" (early, which stand for "They pulled and we didnt have at least 400 players on that Rank B hunt)

Think twice before doing this.

My 2 cents.

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Originally Posted by whiskeybravo

Yea, that's pretty clever. Kudos to the OP. Next job would be to take a screenshot of everyone that shows up and report them xD

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It's not originally my idea, just something I picked up on forums while digging up info on how to mess with these people that are cheating. I highly recommend looking up a full list of Mark names.

I wouldn't consider everyone that pops in an area a certified cheater since it's obvious that people report when it appears to their hunting linkshell, only the ones that freak out when you put your chocobo away or mount it and start accusing people of killing it.

What most of these people are using only detects in a radius about as large as your mini-map, hence why you suddenly are seeing lv50 characters from large FCs standing stationary spread out over an areas map.

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Originally Posted by Erathar

My 2 cents.

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I didn't say this was for reporting. I use it to divert attention of linkshells, though it's up to each player to decide what they want to do with it.

Those that are taking advantage of a cheaters source of info are just as guilty in my opinion, but that's just my 2 cents.

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Originally Posted by Erathar

That idea makes no sense ... no offense.

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Think of it this way: Someone is holding a gun to your head, and your only chance to live is by using the shotgun by your side. Using the shotgun will injure innocent bystanders behind the aggressor. Do you save yourself, or let the aggressor kill you because you don't want to risk injury to others?

Definitely not a perfect example, but the concept is the same. SE can not find every violator on their own, they need the communities help to eliminate unfair play. As long as truly innocent people can prove their innocence, it makes no sense to stand idly by while hacks and cheats run rampant and destroy the game for 1000s of other players.

Most of the hunts and marks I've encountered spawn generally in the same area every time. Diversions wouldn't work for very long... Players already know where to check and they would recognize if a Mark is out of place.

Now everyone renaming their Chocobo is not the solution we're looking for.

We're looking for a solution that will punish players for cheating. They will work it out... many accounts will get banned. People will cry and say they weren't cheating and then most of the community will be scared out of exploiting... until the next time.

I don't see why the system isn't red flagging people for forcing a query through their client for a mob that the client shouldn't be querying due to ranged distance. This game really does seem to have no security if you can send a packet saying give the the coordinates of Naul and it not to do a distance check to see if this is even apropriate, reminds me of when players were sending packets to the server to tell it that it had items or levels and the server was like oh ok that's cool.