Remove the hunt until the system works as intended.

[Yukiko]

So, we are doing FATES who are named now "Hunting"...
*sigh* Forced to do this once again after atma and alexandrite? Sand and Oil, yea! So much fun... really... STOP IT SE.

Edit: Cant we have some Treant kills, we had in 1.x?
It was a LvL 99 Monster and ment to be unbeatable!
The server all together (around 100+ players needed 30+ minutes) managed to beat it with doing nearly no damage and instant die when beeing hit...

[Kaskel2000]

The thing that annoys me is not so much the cheating, people will always find the easiest way to accomplish something but how the rewards have negated all other forms of play. Why would I run a dungeon when I can get 200 myth in 1 minute? Ffxiv has got such a good variety of end game dungeons, trials and raids but now no one is doing them. Everyone is just spending all there time going round in circles farming. I'm not sure if it should be removed but I personally think rewards should be drastically reworked to bring them into line time wise to other parts of the game.

[Dark-Saviour]

Why would I run a dungeon when I can get 200 myth in 1 minute?

Because you enjoy doing dungeons and thus don't mind taking a hit to efficiency if you can gear up doing what you want?

That said, I'm cool with them reworking rewards... Just make everything else pay off as well as hunts. :-)

Even if they do take the nerf bat to them though, I'll still keep doing them over dungeons (to the limited extent I do hunts anyway), as... yeah... **** dungeons.

[Escadora]

Yeah, nice system by design terribly implemented. I really wish FFXIV had a PTR kind of deal where the blatantly obvious issues would be hashed out and fixed before the patch comes live. It's a shame. Hunts were such a nice idea, too.

Kind of contrary to the OP's first point about not having a problem with handing out i110 gear, but definitely an issue I have. People I associate with have already claimed at least 3 sands of time. I understand the need to gate content towards the casuals but come on, you're practically handing them gear. It hasn't even been a week. Hunts need a serious re-vamp. That's only one of the issues. I won't go into the whole radar, severing server communities, and all that good stuff.


/signed.

[Dyvid]

The best thing SE can do with this is find a some way to make them work more similar to FATE. Keep spawn times the same, have HP based off how many people it before, and have it flag up on map once someone engages the target. B should be solo'ed by someone with an i80, A with a light to full party of i80, and S with an alliance of i80.

You may hate FATE but I think these past few days shows it better than the current system.

[Spy]

No.

I don't use the radar thing...didnt even know it existed until these threads. But I wanted nm's. And here they are. I've been able to claim hunts without cheating. I'm part of a linkshell that works together to help each other find hunts. And I love it. Brings me back to FFXI says. Not all nm's were raid-worthy, and hunts aren't meant to be either. I'd be po'd if they suddenly removed hunts because everyone wants them to be FATE's. They. Are. Not. FATE's.

[TheUltimate3]

No.

I don't use the radar thing...didnt even know it existed until these threads. But I wanted nm's. And here they are. I've been able to claim hunts without cheating. I'm part of a linkshell that works together to help each other find hunts. And I love it. Brings me back to FFXI says. Not all nm's were raid-worthy, and hunts aren't meant to be either. I'd be po'd if they suddenly removed hunts because everyone wants them to be FATE's. They. Are. Not. FATE's.

You'd be surprised how many people want them to be FATEs now because we have now reached an impasse; keep the system as is which is I can't see for much longer as is, turn them into end game FATEs which everyone will naturally piss and moan about but at least they will be open world, or turn them into leves or guildhests which all but take them out the open world but make them doable without mass zerging.

[RavinousKurohi]

I'm part of a linkshell that works together to help each other find hunts.

From what I've been hearing, most of those Hunt Linkshells have people in them who are using the cheat and then spreading their finds to the linkshell. Can you 100% guarantee your linkshell doesn't have people doing the same? If not, you're contributing to the problem of people cheating making it impossible for those who aren't.

[Mature]

Now people blame this appradar... I didn't even know this existed until threads created in here ADVERTISING it in full force.

And again another proof that the problem is not the system but the users.

[ruinedmirage]

Now people blame this appradar... I didn't even know this existed until threads created in here ADVERTISING it in full force.

And again another proof that the problem is not the system but the users.

Are you saying you would've been happier if you didn't know about them, continued to try and do Hunts, but were always suspiciously joined by a couple dozen others who couldn't have been in the same area at that time? Ignorance is bliss? "Advertising" (bringing the app to light) is a bad thing because SE might - however unlikely - take a stance against it, giving you a better chance at earning legit rewards?

This is the internet, not only is stuff like this going to be spread whether you like it or not, but third party programs will always be prevalent. They will always be evolving, too, just like RMT. The best way to be unaware of the problem is to find a nice PS2 single player RPG and actually enjoy gaming again XD Online issues such as this always make me question why I (or other people) put up and even PAY for this stuff...