Quote Originally Posted by Appleh4x View Post
And pulling early could cause 50 people to lose credit as well. It was the opinion of this GM that the act of early pulling is not disruption, but since the ToS are not clearly defined I see it as more disruptive to deny 50 people mark points than 5 people mark points. This is my interpretation and there is no reason for it to be any less valid than your interpretation. 50 GM reports for harassment > 5 reports
My (and I know it'll be extremely polarizing) opinion of the matter is there is no such thing as an "early pull". The fact that player(s) give locations, get all their peers together, set pull times etc are a common courtesy extended by the player(s) who found the mark to begin with. If that player(s) finds the mark on his / her / their own accord and decides they don't want to share the information and pulls the mob themselves, what right do WE have "as the faceless horde" to reset that persons mark?

Trampling the rights of 1-4 individuals for the rights of 50+ is not equality.

I know what your next argument will be. "We set a time, we're gathering, and someone pulls before the given time placed by a select individual". I reiterate my point, there is no such thing as an "early pull" as defined by the Devs or GMs. "Pull times" was a concept created by the players to help assist as many players as possible to get full credit (which I will add is a very admirable thing to do), but again, is ultimately a "common courtesy" extended by the server population. The effects of people choosing to not listen to that "set time"?

...well, let's just say I imagine it'll be possible to write a PhD dissertation on the effects a system like hunts have on the overall affects of MMO server dynamics and player interaction (as shown by this thread as a whole).

I am also amused at the fact that if S-E chooses not to extend the Hunt rewards for 2.4, the entire system will die out as people will move onto the next system to get their i120-i130 upgrades coming 2.4+ and that Hunts will then becomes just a vanity system / Alex farm generator (thus making this whole conversation moot! Woo!)