I... actually really like hunts

[Taika]

You are what's wrong with hunts. Now listen. There is absolutely nothing wrong with having members from your FC in your party to do the hunts with you, having fun and having a good time. But.. if even with those FC members you still don't have a full party, you should fill it up to be a full party, it doesn't matter if it's with randoms or perhaps some non FC friends you've got, if you even have any. There are likely several other parties out there all looking for the same Hunt monster and they all want to be able to fight it and kill it, and get the full credit for killing it.

I'm sorry but I simply disagree on how this content should and could be done and what makes it enjoyable. I'd prefer it being done in small groups of maybe FCs or LSs or friends or strangers competing and cooperating with each other. I'd like it to be actually hunting, as in people scouting the zones and competing to be the one whose group finds it and claims it first. I'm not saying people shouldn't be allowed to team up or play this content the way they want to play it (as long as it doesn't involve exploits). I don't need everyone agreeing with me but I also don't think others should dictate the way I or anyone else wants to play this content.

What ruins the NM hunts are parties that arrive at the NM and immediately engage, while other people are being told about where the NM is since they found it at the same time or before hand and were actually waiting on others to show up. And because of a handfull of greedy, impatient people, multitudes of others arrive only to find the NM died just before they reached it.

I don't claim nor does my party claim marks someone else but us have found. We stand there and wait for someone else to make the pull. The only time we pull is when we find the monster and there's no one else there. To ensure we get full reward from the monster we found.

Now, there might be this workaround for small non full parties, that if they get the claim they can still get full credit?

Yes, the person / group that gets the claim always gets credit. Also the full parties getting to spot in time will get full credit. The big groups doing their own pulls (when they haven't found the mark) and resetting the monster remove the full credit from claiming person / small party. Resetting is griefing and should always be reported as such.

However, if the people who find these things, no matter if they're solo or in a party, are allowed to make their pull, and then everyone else and their 200 closest friends in full 8 person parties are there to attack, everyone does get full credit. No one is doing others any harm in that situation.