Why are bad hunt behavior rewarded?

[Aylis]

I've tried the waiting game, and no matter how long I waited, I was still a villain to those people who wanted to join in from other zones. As I said before, as the finders of the Hunt/the pullers, you can't win, you're a bad person no matter what you do according to those who can't even be bothered to join in the actual hunting session.

That goes in line with something I've seen a few times. If you announce a hunt, its like you're flagged as an official raid leader or something. Combine that with a large amount of people in an area. Eventually someones going to get bored and attack. It may not be you or even someone in your group. Once someone attacks it, its always going to start off a chain reaction of everyone else there attacking it until it melts. You might not be responsible. Heck, you might not even had the time to get a single spell or attack off before its dead and get nothing to show for it. But since you announced the hunt target, all hundred or so odd eyes are going to be looking at you to blame.

[Bloody]

If they weren't in the zone, they weren't hunting. <snip>

Actually, this isn't entirely accurate. Sometimes there are multiple S ranks possible of being spawned, and so teams will split up to try and pop each, putting them in different zones. Other times, like with A ranks, groups will be split among zones looking for hunts and calling them as they find them so their party can meet up for the kill. Now, the general idea about entitled armchair hunters and active scouts and spawners, this idea definitely holds weight. Armchairs will always supply actives with excessive salt inventories, regardless of when they pull, and they need to get over it.

[Settiesama]

Actually, this isn't entirely accurate. Sometimes there are multiple S ranks possible of being spawned, and so teams will split up to try and pop each, putting them in different zones. Other times, like with A ranks, groups will be split among zones looking for hunts and calling them as they find them so their party can meet up for the kill. Now, the general idea about entitled armchair hunters and active scouts and spawners, this idea definitely holds weight. Armchairs will always supply actives with excessive salt inventories, regardless of when they pull, and they need to get over it.

I guess my wording was abit off, but I did address for those hunters splitting out in other zones in previous posts. I was trying to specifically mean those who just weren't hunting anyway trying to flood in on a kill and then cry over it, which is more often the case.

Another thing I can't understand though, is why everyone wants such a massive group there. The bigger the group, the less you can hit it, and the rewards you get yourself will end up being minimal if you get anything at all.

[SenorPatty]

Which one do you consider discourteous though? Demanding that people are waiting 10 minutes for you to get your ass over there because you wanted to finish something else first and getting upset when they dont?
Or people pulling and killing a huntmob they've found or even put the effort in to spawn without waiting for everyone and their mother to get there?

Damned if you do and damned if you don't. Well said lol

[Nixxe]

fairly sure there are timer websites for it too.

Why do I get the feeling you're out there sniping stuff?

[Settiesama]

Why do I get the feeling you're out there sniping stuff?

Why do I get the feeling you're the type who assumes everyone who pulls when they have the ability to kill are grievers instead of just trying not to waste time?

[Nixxe]

Why do I get the feeling you're the type who assumes everyone who pulls when they have the ability to kill are grievers instead of just trying not to waste time?

I don't know. Why? My remark was clearly based on your lack of certainty about the existence of tracking sites, as well as the fact that you obviously participate in hunts. Yours seems to be little more than a pitiful attempt at a retaliatory jab.

[Settiesama]

I don't know. Why? My remark was clearly based on your lack of certainty about the existence of tracking sites, as well as the fact that you obviously participate in hunts. Yours seems to be little more than a pitiful attempt at a retaliatory jab.

Judging from that response, either I misread your own jab at me or it wasn't explained well. How does my lack of use of those kind of sites and the fact I do hunts make me a 'sniper'?

Edit: if by sniper you mean I don't shout it out and tell others. I do not anymore, as I have previously explained throughout the thread.

[Nixxe]

Judging from that response, either I misread your own jab at me or it wasn't explained well. How does my lack of use of those kind of sites and the fact I do hunts make me a 'sniper'?

Edit: if by sniper you mean I don't shout it out and tell others. I do not anymore, as I have previously explained throughout the thread.

Yeah, so you not only don't inform anyone, but then don't even have the decency to take a second to mark what you kill on Ariyala's so other hunters don't waste their time looking for stuff that's not up. Bad hunt etiquette from start to finish, including stuff that's going to inconvenience or otherwise do a service to other hunters, not just the "leeches" you're so upset about.

[Settiesama]

Yeah, so you not only don't inform anyone, but then don't even have the decency to take a second to mark what you kill on Ariyala's so other hunters don't waste their time looking for stuff that's not up. Bad hunt etiquette from start to finish, including stuff that's going to inconvenience or otherwise do a service to other hunters, not just the "leeches" you're so upset about.

When I stop getting ridiculed for trying to help people while doing it, will be the day I start helping again. Just because I'm not using the site myself, doesn't mean a member of my group hasn't been, which I will ask by the way. I'll look into the site myself, but I still will not announce in shout until enough people realise that there is no such thing as early pulling.