Quote Originally Posted by Jojoya View Post

Changing the rewards is something I've mentioned myself in the past as a way to reduce congestion at hunts so they're left for players actually interested in the hunt and not the fast rewards. Take away the tomestones so only the hunt currency was left and interest would drop dramatically.
This would do little to help congestion with ShB/EW hunts because eventually those nuts will be an easy way to buy tome gear upgrades. That's when the hunt trains and S ranks become EXTREMELY busy (to the point I've seen conductors make the trains "local only" in ShB during that time) because everyone wants the easy way instead of waiting for their weekly tomes to reset.
As for the non-nut S ranks, possibly, but there's still a large section of players who need some of the seal rewards. And no matter what you do there's always going to be something that happens, for instance spawners spawn one and it gets killed before they even get there.