Please eliminate the need for manually keeping track of Hunt target "Pop window"

[TomTom1968]

I guess at least half of the people bashing the idea are using thehunting.tk frequently and fear even more people will be able to hunt more successfully if it would be an ingame feature. Hunt is no mystery anymore. There is the said website, there are spreadsheets, indivdual hunting LS or groups make them on their own. I would prefer to have a built in timer because I play on PS4 and my PC is behind me so it is not really convinient to use a website while gaming. It is doable with a PS4/PC or smartphone combo but it could be less hazzle if it would be an ingame feature. And more reliable since it would be independant from user submissions. But yeah the OP is asking for spoon feeding while the people using thehunting.tk are autonomous and have all built the knowledge on their own. U guys are funny.

[Roris]

It'd remove most of what makes the Hunts what they are and sounds like it's too complex to code which is a big no no when it comes to adding features in this game. One thing I'd rather have back is NMs showing on the minimap since it'd mostly eliminate Radar usage, in fact all mobs showed up on the mini map in 1.0, but I guess that feature is now too much for a superior engine and server code from a 2013 game to handle vs an engine from a 2010 game, aka PS3 limitations.

[Rufalus]

I tried to throw in some hunt suggestions of my own that were not well received on the forums. But the dev team sounds very clued in to the problems and player feedback and are gonna deploy some unspecified changes in the patch, so we can look at things again on Tuesday and decide if there's still a problem.

[Gardes]

I would have thought that a personal alarm clock app would have been running around by now. Like, you start it up, hunt until you see a mark die, click on the app to mark the specific target just died and the timer would start ticking on its own and beep/pop up and warn when spawn window opens and you just do it again to other marks until you have them all running. Sure, the spawn windows are large but from what I've seen, people have hunted for hours (only up 900 marks...3 week ago here).

[wicked-one]

The poster's idea would ruin an already abused system even further.

Singed!...

[Renik]

GW2?
That's basically what the world events there are and they're on a defined, hourly schedule..

That said, I'd prefer they completely randomize the respawn windows for hunts. Anything that encourages further use of Excel in an online game is a bad thing, and giving them an in-game schedule tracker kind of defeats the notion of a 'hunt' even further.

That's a player-made clock, or was.

[Tsuwu]

Singed!...

I wasn't trying to be mean! I promise!
I was just being honest about how I felt it would encourage abuse.

I did offer an alternative I think might be viable and provide the same type of functionality the OP wants without it being anything game breaking.

[Dark-Saviour]

That's a player-made clock, or was.

Was, maybe. Ever since the mega-server update though, the bosses have an official schedule. Now they've apparently even got an official PDF detailing spawn timers (before it was all displayed on the megaserver update page).

[Alukah]

Was, maybe. Ever since the mega-server update though, the bosses have an official schedule. Now they've apparently even got an official PDF detailing spawn timers (before it was all displayed on the megaserver update page).

But they did it because of the megaserver system, before that world bosses still worked based on a window and pre-reqs, there's no way that could work properly after megaserver. So they ended up ruining a decent world boss system in favor of megaserver.

[Renik]

Was, maybe. Ever since the mega-server update though, the bosses have an official schedule. Now they've apparently even got an official PDF detailing spawn timers (before it was all displayed on the megaserver update page).

well that's their decision, the megaserver technology, and the alt servers they use can support it, and the fact that those bosses are considered world bosses, made to support half server w/o dying in secs, the hunts are far from being world bosses, and even the real world bosses like behe and odin fates can cause a crash, and they only offer vanity.

Just imagine if everyone could know the exact ToD, the area would be full of players waiting for the mark to spawn, even B ranks could cause crashes, this just can't work in ffxiv without breaking the content and the sever itself, anyway, Yoshi said in the last interview they already have the fix, and it will be implemented soon.