Hunts and Trains; please fix the Hunts!

[Gula]

No, they don't. HW/SB/ShB Rank As have a 4-6 hour respawn timer. If you're only playing two hours a day, you can miss out even with world visit depending on when the trains were run.

Oh wah then. Why do you have to rain doom and gloom so hard over something optional and insignificant? Go to a different world, you know you can do that right? If, unrealistically speaking, every single A rank on your world from ARR to SB and every instance of ShB is dead... go elsewhere.

[LaylaTsarra]

Hunts were not designed for hundreds of people.

Been running hunts for the longest time. They're fine. You don't adjust content because of a bump in the road. The frenzy will die down soon enough. Morning trains especially often suffer from too few people. The whine and moan is because right now everyone wants their upgrades like 500 gear is so much more important than 490 gear for casual content.

The same rush happened for poetics when relics first hit. That quickly subsided as well.

Serious people have been at 500 ilvl for ages anyway, and other players can just run the weekly nier to upgrade.

Maybe they should just remove the weekly cap on the coins for the Nier raids since there is none on hunts. Doesn't really make sense if you think about it. Keep the gear drops weekly. Personally I run A trains for the allegory to cap my characters. The other stuff is a bonus really.

[Liam_Harper]

Some of the comments need to relax and stop overthinking this.

They know we do Hunt trains. They don't need to remove all the rewards, nor do we need to chew through them in little anti-social 8 mans. Even if you miss half the hunts on a train due to lag you're getting tons of tomes and Nuts. The train organizers are doing good work for the community. You just have to roll with the chaos for a week or two, hop on the trains anyway and you'll do fine. There are definitely flaws with the Hunt and tweaks they could do to make it more enjoyable but lets not overreact.

[Jojoya]

Oh wah then. Why do you have to rain doom and gloom so hard over something optional and insignificant? Go to a different world, you know you can do that right? If, unrealistically speaking, every single A rank on your world from ARR to SB and every instance of ShB is dead... go elsewhere.

To you it's optional and insignificant. Not everyone feels that way. If you ever conducted and had to listen to the complaints, you'd know.

Most players don't care about the ARR/HW/SB Rank As because they can't get Allegory or Sacks of Nuts from them. It's the ShB Rank As they care about. I can't speak about what happens on other data centers but I know what's happening on Crystal. There are absolutely periods when every single ShB Rank A is on cooldown. Because the conductors from all the Crystal worlds are working together to try and avoid unnecessary overlaps, it happens less frequently than it did earlier in the expansion but it still happens.

Someone logging on at the wrong time can miss out regardless of world visit. I'm not trying to present it as a good or bad thing. I'm just stating that it does happen.

[Soupa]

Which is the problem for a lot of people - they don't want to spend 8-10 minutes for 10 Allegory, 20 Phantasmagoria, 30 Poetics and 40 Sacks of Nuts when they can spend 20 minutes and get 120 Allegory, 240 Phantasmagoria, 360 Poetics and 480 Sacks of Nuts.

Sounds like SE should implement some anti-hunt train measures tbh.

[Theodric]

Sounds like SE should implement some anti-hunt train measures tbh.

I'd rather they didn't. It's one of the few elements of the game that has consistently been a very social and chatty experience. It'd be a real shame to see that vanish.

[MoonPhaseAlpha]

Even if nothing is done now; My hope is the developers will put some limitation next major patch to reduce this kind of thing.

Seeing as though the congestion dies down after a week or two, I don't think this will happen.

[Infindox]

I'd rather they didn't. It's one of the few elements of the game that has consistently been a very social and chatty experience. It'd be a real shame to see that vanish.

While I agree about them being okay (once they die down here soon), I barely get much social interaction other then people complaining about "invite me", people getting mad at those people, and the occasional greifer that everyone starts yelling at lol

[tdb]

A couple days ago I was doing dwarf dailies when a friend of mine notified me of a train in progress. I thought I'd hop on, got to the zone the train was at and got myself in a party. When I arrived at the mark it was already dead. No big deal, I mean I just joined. Then I couldn't teleport to the next zone because of congestion. When I finally was able to, I had missed the first mark at that zone. I arrived at the second one just in time to see it die but didn't get credit. And just like that the train was over.

Gonna forget about hunts for a month or two. They're at their best with around 1-3 full parties. With 100+ players they're just messy, boring and stressful. I'll get enough upgrade tokens from just the weekly PB coins to upgrade two or three roles before the next patch anyway.

[Barraind]

How could you possibly want a fix to

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Its working super fine and amazingly smoothly.


Trains are great, we've been doing them since HW.

Cross worlding and server infrastructure though... yeeeeeah, thats the awful bit.

This is what's causing a lot of the congestion.

Nah, the zones just cant support 350 people trying to teleport into 1-2 teleport spots in the same ~30 seconds