this is getting Ridiculous

[Brine_Gildchaff]

I agree that nobody should be forced to wait to pull a mob. I simply consider it common courtesy, and those who are not willing to extend it to be rude and selfish. Pulling a mob when it's just you and maybe your group when there are several people shouting that they are on the way and desperately trying to assemble a party while running across the map is simply saying "no, it's MY mark and only MY party will get the credit for it because it's all MINE."

[Kiokin]

I agree that nobody should be forced to wait to pull a mob. I simply consider it common courtesy, and those who are not willing to extend it to be rude and selfish. Pulling a mob when it's just you and maybe your group when there are several people shouting that they are on the way and desperately trying to assemble a party while running across the map is simply saying "no, it's MY mark and only MY party will get the credit for it because it's all MINE."

I find it comical you believe it's rude that other people don't follow your moral compass. What's selfish is your expectation of others to conform to your perceived way of doing things.

[Brine_Gildchaff]

I find it comical you believe it's rude that other people don't follow your moral compass. What's selfish is your expectation of others to conform to your perceived way of doing things.

There are two possible outcomes of the situation I described.
a) The person waits, and multiple parties are able to obtain credit, leading to 10-20 (or even more on larger mobs) people getting seals instead of 4 and all of them feel pretty good about things.
b) The person doesn't wait, pulls, and laughs at anyone who complains. End result being 4 people get seals and several people with bruised feelings and/or egos.

So explain to me what is so "comical" about finding the first situation preferrable?

But that's the thing, that's how it was INTENDED to be done. You find it, you kill it. That's the entire friggen point of it.

If that is how it was intended to be done, why aren't monsters locked to the people who pull them? Nobody, least of all Yoshida, intended the Hunt system to be XI's notorious monsters all over again.

[ispano]

I agree that nobody should be forced to wait to pull a mob. I simply consider it common courtesy, and those who are not willing to extend it to be rude and selfish. Pulling a mob when it's just you and maybe your group when there are several people shouting that they are on the way and desperately trying to assemble a party while running across the map is simply saying "no, it's MY mark and only MY party will get the credit for it because it's all MINE."

But that's the thing, that's how it was INTENDED to be done. You find it, you kill it. That's the entire friggen point of it. Being able to near limitlessly get Sands/Oils and to a degree Myth, has caused people to become obsessed with the system. So much that they make up rules and reasoning that go against what the system was meant to be and then try to enforce those as law.

Like someone said earlier, do you know why we have locked content in the first place? For open world such as this, you're seeing one of the very reasons it gets locked. People can't control themselves or make sane decisions.

If that is how it was intended to be done, why aren't monsters locked to the people who pull them? Nobody, least of all Yoshida, intended the Hunt system to be XI's notorious monsters all over again.

Why does that even matter? You assume they intended for the zerg, while forgetting that not everyone thinks of everything right away. Doesn't mean they intended for it to happen. Having claimed mobs is even worse. The problem we have isn't the system itself, but the rewards. It will still be a boring zergfest until those are brought in line.

[Kyana]

As to resetting once some one does claim it...SE DOES have a stance on that. It's punishable. If it can be proven, you reset a mob with malicious intent, you'll get a GM on your case. Keep doing it, and you'll likely receive a suspension/ban from the game.

That is, if someone can find the 1 player out of the other 100+ in the clusterf*** that the hunt is.
But hey, this weekend I saw my first S rank. I saw it for maybe 2 seconds the whole fight and was even able to hit it once before it vanished again. I had fun.

[Nestama]

How fair is it for them to steal the monster?
How fair is it of you to say "screw them, this is mine alone"?

Because that was how the content was designed. If you miss it, well maybe you'll get it next time OR you'll get the next A rank in another zone. If all A ranks are down for the next few hours, then do a dungeon or two, maybe even a Syrcus Tower/Second Binding Coil or Frontline's. There is more than just Hunts, you know.

B ranks: I inform my party and we attack the second the eighth arrives. We do not shout. B ranks will be back in an hour.
A ranks: I inform my party and wait for the eighth to arrive before shouting (waiting one minute. Sure, that's pretty short, but hey. At least we let the zone know)
Never seen an S rank so haven't made any party rules for that yet (they usually appear when I'm asleep).

All's fair in love and war.

[ispano]

That is, if someone can find the 1 player out of the other 100+ in the clusterf*** that the hunt is.
But hey, this weekend I saw my first S rank. I saw it for maybe 2 seconds the whole fight and was even able to hit it once before it vanished again. I had fun.

Actually, if you have the mob targeted, it's quite easy to see who did it. I mean obviously if you can't target it, it becomes quite a bit more annoying. But they're right, you could still report it because SE likely has logs of who pulled anyways.

[Cynthis]

I simply consider it common courtesy, and those who are not willing to extend it to be rude and selfish. Pulling a mob when it's just you and maybe your group when there are several people shouting that they are on the way and desperately trying to assemble a party ...

Except this has not ever happened for me on the few times I have accidentally run across a mark. Since I am not in a party I quickly ask for one and before I can get a reply, which I probably wouldn't since everyone is in pre-made parties, the mark is attacked. NO ONE waits for players who aren't in parties to group up so the mob that runs in pre-made parties does not show the common courtesy that you are asking for.

I understand Yoshi wants us to play together and group up but even of this worked as intended, if you happen to be the ninth player to a mob you are shit out of luck which is stupid.

[Kiokin]

There are two possible outcomes of the situation I described.
a) The person waits, and multiple parties are able to obtain credit, leading to 10-20 (or even more on larger mobs) people getting seals instead of 4 and all of them feel pretty good about things.
b) The person doesn't wait, pulls, and laughs at anyone who complains. End result being 4 people get seals and several people with bruised feelings and/or egos.

It's hilarious that in your example you're imposing a malicious intent on the people who found it and are killing it themselves. You seem to have deluded yourself into believing all of the people that are doing it as intended are doing it while cackling maniacally at the people who are missing out.

It's blatantly obvious from the health they had when they were released that you were supposed to either happen upon them, or go hunting with a small group, not call your boy Jaykwon and his 80 cousins to bust a cap in it.

[Verranicus]

There are two possible outcomes of the situation I described.
a) The person waits, and multiple parties are able to obtain credit, leading to 10-20 (or even more on larger mobs) people getting seals instead of 4 and all of them feel pretty good about things.
b) The person doesn't wait, pulls, and laughs at anyone who complains. End result being 4 people get seals and several people with bruised feelings and/or egos.

So explain to me what is so "comical" about finding the first situation preferrable?

Why is there no c) The person doesn't wait, pulls, and goes back to what he was doing before without needing to involve the rest of the zone in any way.

People aren't all seperated into nice guys and jerks, some people just want to do content with their friends without having to worry about what 50 strangers think.