Let's talk about Hunts - a detailed rundown of their assumed mechanics

[Stumpedify]

My conclusion thanks to this event, and also something that's been on my mind for a while in regards to these two S ranks, is that both Nandi and Garlok are not controlled by players - they simply spawn based on a timer much like the A ranks do.

Correct. Garlok and Nandi are both timers uncontrolled by us. I've been telling people that way before the server maintenance proof -- even though nobody believed me until that happened -.-

[Steve_UK]

Correct. Garlok and Nandi are both timers uncontrolled by us. I've been telling people that way before the server maintenance proof -- even though nobody believed me until that happened -.-

incorrect - you still have to summon your minion near nandi for the s rank to spawn after maintanence - ive spawned nandi 4 times in a row... :\

Garlok doesnt matter with weather change, or rut fate, itsall about the fire arrow on garloks lair.... i walked to his lair earlier, fire arrow'd turned around and bam he was infront of me

[Vandesaan]

Correct. Garlok and Nandi are both timers uncontrolled by us. I've been telling people that way before the server maintenance proof -- even though nobody believed me until that happened -.-

There was no proper way to verify it since people will not stop doing the "trigger". Finally it was possible, and we got verification. For once maintenance came with a blessing.

incorrect - you still have to summon your minion near nandi for the s rank to spawn after maintanence - ive spawned nandi 4 times in a row... :\

Garlok doesnt matter with weather change, or rut fate, itsall about the fire arrow on garloks lair.... i walked to his lair earlier, fire arrow'd turned around and bam he was infront of me

Uh... huh. If you do a thing enough, you will end up with a coincidence that causes the spawn to happen at the same time as the thing you are doing.

[Ogun_Riastradh]

incorrect

Correlation does not equal causation, and just look at the evidence for the "soft" maint.
And as for Nuny, there does seem to be something associated with the change in activity and possibly the patches. I've been running around South Than while his window was open and saw very few people around. Very few FATEs and leves were being done, but I know we've tried tons and tons of FATEs. I have also seen Albin just sitting around untouched, but it could be a coincidence. I can't imagine it depends on a massive amount of people because as it has been said, we don't think hunts were designed with large hunt groups/ls in mind. A small group of people were intended to come upon it and then summon the others to kill it, IMO.