Why does SE keep doing this?

[Stignodding]

It's great to hear you have found happiness Elliot Statics are very fun but as you said, nothing necessary. I would try to get one together for the second coil content though, just a pure recommendation, this goes with your biased that it locks solo players out. This will never be done with a pick up group. You gotta find guys and gals that are willing to work a few days a week to learn the fights. The feeling of completing each one is a very a unique reward in itself though, not just the loot. It is however in a darker, more stressful part of the game lol, but it doesn't come without those great rewards. I'm playing 2.35 right now, and it seems you could get away with doing hunts solo if you wanted, 50 seals for the weekly, another 50 for all the dailies. A bit slower but get's you away from the angry mob of people lol

[djbenny1]

isn't the REAL reason people are annoyed that fact that idiots pull early and kill it before a lot arrive?

why don't SE just add a 5 minute timer for A and 10 minute for S during which you can't engage.

something along the lines of:

"you take some time to gaze on the magnificent beast"

[Elliott]

isn't the REAL reason people are annoyed that fact that idiots pull early and kill it before a lot arrive?

Yeah, but that's not why I'm annoyed. However, the hunt situation is... slightly better, although there are still way too many players, and you can therefore not even see the hunts at times. That's because of how the system is built. It was broken when they released it already. They simply didn't expect this to happen, as usual I might add. Also, a lot of times, the monsters have already been up for that long before people find them, or even get their own group to it. It won't help.

As for everything else, it's still not that I can't access the content. Still, what people have still failed to see is the fact that the things that I've mentioned are things that you should be able to do without being in a group. Chocobo breeding, solo experience. Needs FC. Individual room, it's bound to your FC, even though it's your character who got it. I get the whole "you bought an additional room to the FC" deal, but I dislike the fact that it's basically wasted money if you decide to sometime switch FC. I simply find it highly discouraging to get one for that simple fact. To say that it's a personal room that you can ACCESS from your FC house, that is fine. It's supposed to be an additional room. However, I think it should be bound to character, not FC.

I'm honestly not that bothered by any of these things personally. I go mining once in a while, I play some WHM, PLD and BLM, just doing some trials, Coil sometimes, and when I feel like it, I go hunting for monsters, where I get what I need. That is the one thing that does affect me though. The times that I don't get a group, and barely get a reward from it, while some who have simply tagged it and is in a full group gets full rewards. I'm not saying it should be the same for solo as for parties though. Being in a party should have benefits, other than being in a party. However, I think it should give you a bonus to your personal effort, not add up everything from the party and act as if it's Christmas all over again.