I know hunts were a pain on this game for a lot of people, with starting too soon, etc, but now they're downright dead unless they're an S Rank... which I don't think is right either... I think there are two solutions that would make hunts better:

A.) Keep drops the same amount as they are, but make A ranks a bit easier to fight and spawn quicker (instead of 4 hours, say 2 or 3 hours). I think this would help, seeing as its very hard to kill A Ranks with only 4-5 people which seems to be the average group size I'm getting on my server most days unless its a very busy time for some reason, and even then, maybe 2 groups if you're lucky.

B.) Increase the amount of Soldiery and Poetics obtained from A ranks and S ranks. Something like 50 Soldiery and 5 Poetics from an A rank and 100 Soldiery and leave the 10 Poetics from an S rank would probably increase people participating again to a decent amount.