Please make hunts like leves/treasure maps!

[ethanrae]

This is a terrible idea. The last thing we need is more instanced forms of gameplay. I enjoy the competitive nature of hunts. Rank Bs spawn every half hour, A every 4 hours or so, and S somewhere around 1-3 days. There's plenty of room to join in the competition, especially if you pick the right time of day.

Please consider that different people like different content. You already have treasure maps and leves; let us have this content the way it is.

[Welsper59]

This is a terrible idea. The last thing we need is more instanced forms of gameplay. I enjoy the competitive nature of hunts. Rank Bs spawn every half hour, A every 4 hours or so, and S somewhere around 1-3 days. There's plenty of room to join in the competition, especially if you pick the right time of day.

Please consider that different people like different content. You already have treasure maps and leves; let us have this content the way it is.

While I enjoy the competitive nature of Hunts/NMs, it's not exactly the same to think that treasure maps and leves are the same value. If it were flipped, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't care in the slightest if maps and leves (which in this situation are not instanced) became instanced.

The Hunt/NM feature is absolutely beautiful, and was also the same degree of awesome that FFXI had with them. It gives the player an awesome sense of wanting to be in the game world. The problem is just how it isolates the player base and, because of how players are, becomes a toxic activity full of threats and immaturity. Maybe they won't change it because they're betting on it getting better when the next Coil raid is released, but if so, that's a horrible business approach with something that the consumers actually want. You can keep consumers restricted from content for a little while, but you don't want it to last for a predicted 3 months, which could lead to 4 months depending (a 33% increased wait time). I'm assuming Yoshi-P is not THAT out of his mind... /shrug

[Calevr]

What do you think if the Hunt Boards were to be expanded and performed similar to the Field Manuel from FFXI? Players could simply choose from a list of Marks to hunt. The conditions would not have to change but perhaps the length of respawn rates could be reduced so to be repeated multiple times. This I can see players forming parties, collecting the same Marks and hunting for them, no triggered items. At least I think this would seperate players from going after the same ones.

FFXICLOPEDIA:
http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Field_Manual

[silentwindfr]

one more time, i don't see the....competition into the hunt, since people do it in large bunch zerging a poor monster.
all i see is nostalgia and ego... people wanting to braggs they are the best to... be the first to kill a rare monster for...*shrugs* i don't even see the point behind this.

here we are saying this is not adapted to the game, it's hurting it. we are saying that we had already boss monster in open world content, called FATE boss. worst, the actual NM is FATE without the UI behind it and people argue, FATE are not open world content, hunt are open world content... when all they have done... is take out the UI.

all of this because of the bragging right to say, i have get the prey that the other didn't get!

however, with the population of the server, the size of the world, this sort of content is clearly not adapted. FATE work because everybody can enter it, and everybody know where it is. no monopolize from the big FC or some elitist LS.
more important like i did said before... you spend 90% of your time, while doing hunt, to not play the game! you are simply waiting for play to the game!

just like this, the dude that spend 2-3 hours per day to play, if he is not at the right period, he can never seen a rank S or A. brillant, no?

[indira]

they should make them hard and let one group / alliance claim. then the rest of the poeple are S.O.L.
let the monsters rage if its taking too long too kill.

all we have is a stupid 1 mob fate for hunts right now, i been able to solo all the ones i came in contact with with no problems.

[silentwindfr]

they should make them hard and let one group claim.

NO! clearly not! the situation will become worst that what we have now! cheating will get out of hand... people wanting absolutly the prey will use bot and radar as often is possible.

worst this content will only serve a fewer people. on the 5000-6000 player of one server, maybe less of 300 person will be able to actually enjoy this content!

all of this is born because selfish player want to braggs about how they have get the prey and not the other. competition like this must be banish from a mmorpg! it only serve to bring out the darkest side of the human nature.

[HumsterMKX]

NO! clearly not! the situation will become worst that what we have now! cheating will get out of hand... people wanting absolutly the prey will use bot and radar as often is possible.

worst this content will only serve a fewer people. on the 5000-6000 player of one server, maybe less of 300 person will be able to actually enjoy this content!

all of this is born because selfish player want to braggs about how they have get the prey and not the other. competition like this must be banish from a mmorpg! it only serve to bring out the darkest side of the human nature.

The current implementation already did bring out the worst..

Why not make it Darker

[MissE]

To be honest, I had more fun with the Alexandrite maps than the hunt, at least I can see what are the monsters' mechanic/spell/skills.

The Malboro that binds you and then uses a bad breath attack?
The bomb that goes large and will explode if you do enough damage when he's large?
The fight where lots of little bombs spawn and they just stares at you for a period of time before charging at you?

The hunt? I don't even know what did the monsters do and they're dead already.
The S ranks are okay, but the A and B ranks are just pathetic.