Remove the hunt until the system works as intended.

[Felessan]

I've also found it funny when I was told the 'community' on my server had 'come together' over Mumble and loads of FCs and LSes we're sharing information making it 'fair for everyone'.

There are a particular trend that people tends to use any "insider" info they hear to pass through immediately to "trusted" sources like their friends and fc. And not to everybody. This is why we see trains everywhere while public ls are as good as dead.

I had nothing against the way this system worked, handing free i110 gear to the casual/mainstream part of the playerbase until i discovered how naive i was to think it was an innocent fun content.

But those crowds are NOT mainstream and casuals, there a lot of hardcore there and most efficient parties are made off FC statics that share their finds immediately on voice chats. It's hardcore crowd that wants get upgrade as soon as possible, and even clearing t9 gives you 1 sands/oil per month on average. Now you can get it an mere day or two, so popularity for hunts is given.
Hunting in prime time requires a lot of dedication and organization as competition just too high. This is why casual players now leaves content almost immediately when they see that "reacting in 2 minutes and take a slow walk" to mark gives them nothing.
System will stabilize itself (same with atma crowds back in the days) when the most dedicated and hardcore got their loot and activity will fall back to reasonable levels.