Elite Mark Fix?

[ToffeeCoffee]

Maybe it just takes more time to put in fixes for the real issues... inconceivable, right?

Ok I'll wear the hat you handed me... yes it is inconceivable. They should have pulled all seals and sands from all the zergers after the first week of horrid behaviour, and put a cap on seals, as well as substantially increased daily rewards for people who chose not to join 4 hunt linkshells and stay wired to coordinates and timers all day and night. They should also have abolished the precisely predictable spawn timers and made the spawns truly random, so players who stumble upon these mobs could kill them without the travelling circus on their tail shouting abuse and blacklisting.

[Double]

Ok I'll wear the hat you handed me... yes it is inconceivable. They should have pulled all seals and sands from all the zergers after the first week of horrid behaviour, and put a cap on seals, as well as substantially increased daily rewards for people who choose not to join 4 hunt linkshells and stay wired to coordinates and timers all day and night. They should also have abolished the precisely predictable spawn timers and made the spawns truly random, so players who stumble upon these mobs could kill them without the travelling circus on their tail shouting abuse and blacklisting.

I think that would make too much sense to work.

And you can only imagine the amount of rage and QQ the forums will have if SE did a rollback..

[Dwill]

Maybe it just takes more time to put in fixes for the real issues... inconceivable, right?

You're underestimating Square Enix. It wouldn't take them 3 weeks to put dynamic HP on Hunt mobs, put a weekly cap on seals and on sands. Of all the thing they decided to put the server down for, it's this. I really hope there are ninja changes when the server comes back up else this would be quite disappointing.

[ToffeeCoffee]

I think that would make too much sense to work.

And you can only imagine the amount of rage and QQ the forums will have if SE did a rollback..

Bingo, SE has to save face and stand by the system they implemented. A lot of players love taking advantage of milking The Hunt and SE isn't going to upset those players any time soon. The rest can just go spiritbond in ST, do frontlines for a horse, garden or blow a HQ 98%.

[Powercow]

You're underestimating Square Enix. It wouldn't take them 3 weeks to put dynamic HP on Hunt mobs, put a weekly cap on seals and on sands. Of all the thing they decided to put the server down for, it's this. I really hope there are ninja changes when the server comes back up else this would be quite disappointing.

The server most likely went down primarily for the anti-cheat aspect, and they figured "hey, we've got this part of the hunt fix ready, we may as well put it in now."

[Alexia89]

I'm sorry, but all these "how dare they take the servers down for this" posts are ridiculous.
It's 3 goddamn hours. Get over it. They could take down the servers to change one strand of hair on Minfilia's head if they like. You agreed to the TOS. Maintenance happens. Deal with it.

[Nekodar]

Ok I'll wear the hat you handed me... yes it is inconceivable. They should have pulled all seals and sands from all the zergers after the first week of horrid behaviour, and put a cap on seals, as well as substantially increased daily rewards for people who chose not to join 4 hunt linkshells and stay wired to coordinates and timers all day and night. They should also have abolished the precisely predictable spawn timers and made the spawns truly random, so players who stumble upon these mobs could kill them without the travelling circus on their tail shouting abuse and blacklisting.

Pulling seals and sands would require rollback on a LOT of characters, which simply isn't practical, and would have resulted in a huge backlash...
Daily Hunt they should boost rewards on already and it shouldn't require more than changing a value, and I've said that before this hotfix as well.

However, not everything can be "fixed" just by changing a value...

[Satia]

I hate to break to all of you but there is no 'nerf' coming.. they only adjusted it so that its not the same weekly hunt twice in a row.
The rewards are exactly as SE intended and will NOT be changed in any way.
If you don't enjoy the content don't do it... it really is that simple.
Time to move on and stop acting like little babies.

[Dwill]

The server most likely went down primarily for the anti-cheat aspect, and they figured "hey, we've got this part of the hunt fix ready, we may as well put it in now."

Let's be honest, this ain't a fix whatsoever. Heck, if in 3 weeks they couldn't patch something, anything to remotely alleviate some of the issues of the hunt, highly doubt they have anything in the work for it. I just hope they prove me wrong.

[Nekodar]

The server most likely went down primarily for the anti-cheat aspect, and they figured "hey, we've got this part of the hunt fix ready, we may as well put it in now."

There's also the possibility that they encountered a last minute issue with further changes and had to cancel part of the patch, rolling out only some parts since they had maintenance scheduled already.