Idea regarding A & S Rank Hunts

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...snip... Once the location is discovered a timer will then begin counting down, say 5-8 minutes)...snip...

Sounds good. I think it should be 2-3 minutes? 5-8 minutes seems a little long is all.

...snip... The hunts HP should scale to the amount of players that showed up for the instance...snip...

Sounds appropriate.

...snip... but it would require alot more work to each hunt than what I am suggesting.

I agree. What you are suggesting would consume very little development time. I think they could've been designed a little better, but given what we have, your suggestion smooths off the rough edges of the design so to speak.

Why are people so afraid of competition?

I don't know. BUT, there's a big difference between competition and "no compete". With the cheater programs available, true hunters aren't able to claim their reward properly at times....or so I've read.