On the subject of keepig the peace (The Grand Hunt)

[geekgirl101]

To be fair, Hunts were never made for people to organize large trains of people with specific rules. Obviously A and S ranks can't normally be done by a couple people at their intended level, but beyond that there's no rules against fighting them. If I find any that I can fight without calling in other people, I do. I tell no one except anyone I'm currently partied with. Because why should I? I saw it, I got to kill it. That's how Hunts work. Early bird gets the worm, you snooze you lose, etc. Even though it's annoying to have someone just run up and start fighting it, they're right; there's nothing in the ToS about fighting mobs. So I feel like any drama surrounding it is player-made and must be player-resolved. Govern yourselves, I guess.

And this is the kind of attitidue that brings unwanted drama and discord into the game. I do not spend 6+ hours or spend countless gil on items such as timeworn maps trying to spawn an S rank for a single selfish person to snipe it before I inform my friends and the rest of the community that covers hundreds if not thousands of players that it's been spawned to join in the fight and all receive the benefit. ToS or no ToS, leeching off someone else's hard work is disgusting and disgraceful and morally unacceptable, but thank you for announcing yourself so we know who else to avoid adding to our faithful community.

Did people fight about NM spawns back in FFXI? I didn't play with others much back then.

Yes they did, and that is why in the end SE changed NMs so they only dropped rare/ex gear to end the war between players and bots fighting over them for their highly prized rewards, not to mention rewards from NMs only went to 1 person and not everyone who was involved and that further increased the competition and drama over them. S ranks are not the same as NMs, everyone involved gets rewarded not just 1 person and many require joint effort of other players to spawn them, so to kill them solo especially if you weren't the one who spawned it is extremely selfish and disrespectful.