So I encountered my first case of real harrassment in the game

I won't go into too many details but it was a case of someone trolling fates and hunts, a known troll that kept resetting and trying to reset the mobs, overall they were pissing off quite a few people, then when I confronted them I was met with quite a bit of harassment and bullying, being called names I won't repeat here and when I tried to defend myself I was labeled a drama queen. So I thought to myself about the whole situation and decided to file a report on said player/players, not even 20 minutes after submitting said report I was contacted by a GM in game, who I explained the situation to and they immediately investigated the matter, and suffice to say I was rather happy with the outcome, so yes if you have some problems in game that you believe might be harrasment or bullying do not hesitate to make a report and submit it in game, I won't go into anymore on the subject but if we can eliminate trolls or bullying one person at a time then I'm all for it. :)

Hunts needs to be removed.
First of all, people don't understand what a hunt is.
It's a damn hunt. It's not everyone their cat and their great great grandma coming to join.
No where does it say, that you HAVE to wait for everyone to get the mark. It's really polite though
to wait on some, but it is impossible to wait for everyone. On my server, I tell people I found x and I'll be waiting
30 seconds for a response, and an additional 30 to pull. Sorry, anyone else after, you snooze you lose.
Hunts implemented again in 3.0 is one bad idea SE should of learned before.

Hunts are probably the leading source of toxicity in the game at present for real.

Well not sure why we went to hunts.. however good for you :D . Learning to stick up for yourself and go to authority's after proper abuse is a life skill that many people lack. And people said you learn nothing form video games.

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Originally Posted by Mhikail

Hunts needs to be removed.
First of all, people don't understand what a hunt is.
It's a damn hunt. It's not everyone their cat and their great great grandma coming to join.
No where does it say, that you HAVE to wait for everyone to get the mark. It's really polite though
to wait on some, but it is impossible to wait for everyone. On my server, I tell people I found x and I'll be waiting
30 seconds for a response, and an additional 30 to pull. Sorry, anyone else after, you snooze you lose.
Hunts implemented again in 3.0 is one bad idea SE should of learned before.

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Oh the common thing with hunts is people either pulling early to stop other people from getting there even if they themselves are not the ones that found the mob to begin with, or pulling it so far that it resets, also commonly seen people killing B ranks just so they reset the location, its just people with too much free time and nothing to do.

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Originally Posted by Mhikail

to wait on some, but it is impossible to wait for everyone. On my server, I tell people I found x and I'll be waiting
30 seconds for a response, and an additional 30 to pull. Sorry, anyone else after, you snooze you lose.

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That is RIDICULOUSLY polite. On Gilgamesh a single LS has taken over all Hunts, and since 3.0 came out they have been pulling within ~5 seconds of arriving at the mark, regardless of how many players were in the zone and on their way.

On top of that, the marks die within ~5 seconds. Literally. It's hard to get two hits in before they're down.

Hunting is toxic. It needs to be changed. Why hasn't it yet.

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Originally Posted by WarDaughter

That is RIDICULOUSLY polite. On Gilgamesh a single LS has taken over all Hunts, and since 3.0 came out they have been pulling within ~5 seconds of arriving at the mark, regardless of how many players were in the zone and on their way.

On top of that, the marks die within ~5 seconds. Literally. It's hard to get two hits in before they're down.

Hunting is toxic. It needs to be changed. Why hasn't it yet.

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You should come over to Midgar, we actually wait for people to get there before pulling, and we constantly shout in chat our locations of said monsters on the map, we constantly help eachother out save a few trolls and abusive players, and these are no LS but we do have a good selection of hunting parties, but again we give ample time for people to arrive cause theres no real reason not to, if your in a party 98% of the time you will get full credit/awards.

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Originally Posted by Mhikail

Hunts needs to be removed.
First of all, people don't understand what a hunt is.
It's a damn hunt. It's not everyone their cat and their great great grandma coming to join.
No where does it say, that you HAVE to wait for everyone to get the mark. It's really polite though
to wait on some, but it is impossible to wait for everyone. On my server, I tell people I found x and I'll be waiting
30 seconds for a response, and an additional 30 to pull. Sorry, anyone else after, you snooze you lose.
Hunts implemented again in 3.0 is one bad idea SE should of learned before.

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I don't know when I hunt irl my cat, my goat and my great great grandmother comes along with me :P Hunting is a family and friends activity and funner with more friends you got around :)

Hunts were really poorly designed. To create something that takes a party of 8 to kill, make it have a 4 hour spawn time. And then lo k the best gear in the game behind it is trolling. To not forsee this causing abuse and toxicity is just sticking your head in the sand. It the perfect tool for trolling, handed on a silver platter.

Then again, the loud mouth linkshell leeches are no better, letting others actively look for the hunt and then raging when they are late.

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Originally Posted by Blaste

You should come over to Midgar, we actually wait for people to get there before pulling, and we constantly shout in chat our locations of said monsters on the map, we constantly help eachother out save a few trolls and abusive players, and these are no LS but we do have a good selection of hunting parties, but again we give ample time for people to arrive cause theres no real reason not to, if your in a party 98% of the time you will get full credit/awards.

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Some hours of the day it's not that nice... Or at least wasn't that nice early in the expansion...
I know at least one person that was very well known for pulling as soon as he/she/it arrived, and at some hours it was close to impossible to get there in time.
I didn't bother much with the A and S rank hunts though as you get so much for just doing the daily ones.

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Getting an invite to AST is pretty easy. Its open to the entire server. Also AST has a rule. No one in AST pulls. You can get kicked if you dont follow that rule. This means its often someone outside AST that pulls. Theres been a concentrated effort to screw over AST from certain players. Its pretty sad tbh.

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Originally Posted by Whiteroom

Hunts were really poorly designed. To create something that takes a party of 8 to kill, make it have a 4 hour spawn time. And then lo k the best gear in the game behind it is trolling. To not forsee this causing abuse and toxicity is just sticking your head in the sand. It the perfect tool for trolling, handed on a silver platter.

Then again, the loud mouth linkshell leeches are no better, letting others actively look for the hunt and then raging when they are late.

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Pretty much this. Next thing you know, they're gonna let you buy esotaric gear with centarion seals as well.

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Originally Posted by Mhikail

Hunts needs to be removed.
First of all, people don't understand what a hunt is.
It's a damn hunt. It's not everyone their cat and their great great grandma coming to join.
No where does it say, that you HAVE to wait for everyone to get the mark. It's really polite though
to wait on some, but it is impossible to wait for everyone. On my server, I tell people I found x and I'll be waiting
30 seconds for a response, and an additional 30 to pull. Sorry, anyone else after, you snooze you lose.
Hunts implemented again in 3.0 is one bad idea SE should of learned before.

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I'm not under the delusion that everyone should keep on waiting until the entire server has wrapped up whatever they're doing and finally made their way over to the hunt's location.

However, if I'm standing at a hunt waiting for 1 minute or 100 minutes and some yahoo arrives on the scene and immediately pulls.. that guy is a jerk, hands down. Because in the end he did absolutely zero waiting. And what he's essentially saying is that the only thing that matters is his time, and he's not willing to spend a second of it on anyone else (even though the only reason he got included in the hunt is because people waited for him).

Sadly, this happens quite often.

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Originally Posted by Gyson

if I'm standing at a hunt waiting for 1 minute or 100 minutes and some yahoo arrives on the scene and immediately pulls.. that guy is a jerk, hands down. Because in the end he did absolutely zero waiting. And what he's essentially saying is that the only thing that matters is his time, and he's not willing to spend a second of it on anyone else (even though the only reason he got included in the hunt is because people waited for him).

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Apparently you can actually report them, if they are doing it to be purely distruptive and other players have had the same issue then likely a GM will look into it, from my experience they will monitor or follow around the player and observe his behavior before taking action, I know hunts are designed to be somewhat competitive, however acting like a jerk or trolling isn't what was intended.