Possible Solution to stop Hunt Abusers

[Hybris-Maenad]

To me it seems the Hunt System was put in place to give casuals/non-hardcore raiders the opportunity to get gear upgrades.

Which is why it's so aggravating that the majority of people abusing this are the raiders. Most "casuals" don't have the third-party add ons, it's mostly the raiders that were already using them to parse.

Honestly though, I love the hunts. Even against those with an advantage I get a thrill out of finding a mark first. If you go about these as a party activity you can still have a bunch of fun since there are almost always B ranks up somewhere while the big dragnet groups are swarming the As. Those in 150+ member linkshells are almost always disappointed since they only get there as 4 dozen other people arrive, but if you just go about these as a party activity it is still really fun.

I really like the OPs idea more so than mine that he linked to. I really hope that SE do something like this to alleviate the advantage that 3rd party app users have. The hunts and the new dungeons are fantastic, but everything else about this update seems to be a blantant time-sink to keep people subbed up until 2.4(gardening demands&limits/desynthesis/new tools). I don't intent to reward SE by continuing to sub if they can't even out the playing field between PS3/4 and PC users in the one new thing that I really enjoy after they seemed to take any fun out of my crafting gathering(getting slapped with 11 new tools to grind just as I finished the last 11 is a slap in the face).