Remove the hunt until the system works as intended.

[Ephier]

After experiencing the issues with the hunts, I also believe there should be an emergency maintenance to remove hunts from the game temporarily. That's not all though. REWARDS OBTAINED FROM THE HUNTS SHOULD BE ROLLED BACK. All players who logged in since the patch would then receive one free oil, one free sand, and a vanity item as compensation. They can then take the time to implement the system as it was meant to be, and the players who did hunts before will not have an advantage over the players who did not and have to play the new hunt system which will likely not give as many rewards.

No thank you. I have gotten 3 sands 2 oils and my weapons. I would be absolutely furious if they rolled back peoples gear because some people are not able to be connected with the right people that the people that are should be punished.

[silentwindfr]

Sadly this is the truth and it's just how I remember it in FFXI. Why I voted against it in 1.0.

i did vote against it too... seriously i don't see why they did give up and put it back... leves system is still under used and was a better idea for get the hunt done nicely without all this clash.

[Colt47]

i did vote against it too... seriously i don't see why they did give up and put it back... leves system is still under used and was a better idea for get the hunt done nicely without all this clash.

No kidding, I was envisioning the hunts as end game leves, not rare spawn NMs that basically function as a randomized fate right now.

[Damie]

There are players out there who haven't messed with hunts yet because of the issues. If the system they change hunts to takes those players months to gain the rewards you and other players gained in the past week, that wouldn't be very fair. I would only call for a rollback if that is what SE does. (And I think that "nerf" to rewards is highly likely.)

[Jonasan999]

I'm voted to against with cheaters on hunting marks. I was trying to do some daily and a weekly hunt marks but until I started to hear that some people who was accused of being cheated with third-party radar program to cheat the whole hunting mark features itself which it hurts other many legit people who wants to do the legit way. I'm kinda of disappointed with SE for being blind-fire other people to use cheating programs.

[Cynthis]

People who want to cheat will always find a way and it really doesn't bother me if they get their weapons or gear that way. It in no way diminishes the joy I get from mine. What makes it horrible in this case is that the cheaters can ruin it for others so they don't have the opportunity to get the same things. That needs to stop and SE really should have put some thought into that part instead of coming up with this lazy implementation that is hunts today.

[Empressia]

troll post

1. that so called radar is very bad considering the massive insanely overlapping of name plates which cover most of ur screen, heck u can't run manual keen eye searching with radar at once
2. u definitely are too freakin lazy to make up a spreadsheet and write down all spawn coordinates
3. -10000000/10 troll attempt

[TomTom1968]

How does this "radar" thing work? Is it a Parser or cheat tool? How can people see which mob spawns? Last weekend I was on my Miner in a place where really nobody was. Not for over half an hour. I was the only player in that part of the map. At some stage, a hunt mob spawned directly next to me so I was switching quickly to combat class and shouted in our FC chat to let people know.

Next thing I see on the horizon is a large group of players, probably two times an 8-player group. I see them appearing on the Horizon heading to my position. I thought how on Earth did they know there is a mob here? It did not look like a group riding through a zone hunting for monsters. It looked like they know where to head to because they were so directed. What can I say, before my cooldown was through, they killed it and I was left with nothing but questions.

I have no clue what to do with the Hunt. I have zero intention to spend my evenings hunting random mobs in Eorzea. Or to combat against cheaters and rudeless people and getting blacklisted for attacking an enemy (lol). But the only way to get your Oil or Sand through it is by heavily grinding it. So far I have made the daily hunts and together with some random mobs I have seen while just beeing in Eorzea, I have colleted 60 of the hunting marks. 60. And how much do I need for one Oil? 750 or how much? LMAO.

So at my speed I would see my first item from hunts in thre months from now or something like that. I think I will just concentrate on Coil and CT2 to get those drops. Hunts seem to be only for people with waaay too much time on their hands. And if you do it here and there like I do, you will never get something. It seems it is yet another Game element I won't really touch because it is grindy and unrewarding (if you do it at a normal rate without grinding for any mob).

[Mogi]

i for the most part agree but one thing i keep seeing you say that's wrong cheating casuals pros / hardcore can cheat just as much as the next casual players are not the only ones to blame here other then that yes hunts suck

[Nocte]

How does this "radar" thing work? Is it a Parser or cheat tool? How can people see which mob spawns? Last weekend I was on my Miner in a place where really nobody was. Not for over half an hour. I was the only player in that part of the map. At some stage, a hunt mob spawned directly next to me so I was switching quickly to combat class and shouted in our FC chat to let people know.

Next thing I see on the horizon is a large group of players, probably two times an 8-player group. I see them appearing on the Horizon heading to my position. I thought how on Earth did they know there is a mob here? It did not look like a group riding through a zone hunting for monsters. It looked like they know where to head to because they were so directed. What can I say, before my cooldown was through, they killed it and I was left with nothing but questions.

The radar displays the location of characters (player or non) within your area. The names of monsters are listed. (credit to /r/Arkrite)

There's a thread on Reddit that further discusses this.

Given the radar's dynamically updating the position of characters, it's immensely little surprise that people who utilize this feature rush towards wheresoever, and near-whenever a new hunt mark spawns.

The fact that people are using the radar in this manner is absolutely disgusting.