What's wrong with a little competition? Hunts need a claim system.

[Giantbane]

No, see I love Maps & I think they should be expanded upon (open-world, full party bosses; open-world, three-alliance raid bosses; hardcore, solo-only fights)...

But I see merit in keeping Hunts separate from Maps, just fixing them.

It's fun to have a server-collaboration (or would be, if they were implemented properly).

It can be fun happening upon an A in the open-world or assisting in spawning an S Rank.

Hunts just need their design improved.

Also, Hunts should be Seasonally implemented (new set of Marks every, or every other, major Patch), just throwing that out there.

Hunts were fine before 2.5. People did them for easy soldiery or seals for glamour/soldiery items/alexandrite/etc. They just weren't flooded with as many people because they weren't the BEST source of upgrade items in the game (only source outside of coil and it has no lockout). Hunts are just a bad place to be the best (and only outside of coil) source for these items. Hunts can't support the number of people that want to do them very well. This leads to the actual kill becoming extremely trivial (S ranks die faster than FATE bosses, wtf?!?!) and a lot of arguments.

[Riviere]

Claim system just promotes people to cheat to have the advantage. FFXI spawn camping was all about who had access to the better tools unfortunately, and I don't want the same to happen to XIV any more than it already does.

I agree, it'd turn into a lot of people using hacks like they did in XI and let the witch hunts begin.

[Hiruke]

@Yolanda - I know what you mean, and it sucked a bit sometimes in FFXI, but if a group CAN monopolize the system, then maybe they are just that good and others need to get on that level if they want to claim/win.

Get on what level?

On my server, once awful LSes learned they could stack bodies on Tiamat to kill her instead of actually playing skillfully, they left alts camping the Chasm 24/7 to know when it spawned, thus preventing anyone else from ever fighting her on my server (they had 100s of members, so any time of day or night they'd call each other and go kill it asap, littering the zone with their corpses in the process). Truly, I am inspired by their skill.

KA camping? What is "next level" about spamming Provoke or using a bot to quickly target and Provoke before it even has a chance to fully spawn? There's nothing "skillful" about this.

There's nothing amazing about claiming anything. You make it sound like claiming a mob is equivalent to beating Final Coil or something. It's... not.

[Reokudo]

Tarutaru voke bots falling from the sky to claim Fafnir brings back memories. So no.

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Hey man, know a good way to solve people pulling early? Giving them a massive incentive to be the first one to touch it!

[Sapphic]

Or tie it in with the leve system. Hunt board is a special Leve board. A ranks hunt leves can be claimed once per day with a max party size of 8. Rewards are seals, tomestones and a special token, collect 5 tokens and you can turn them in for an S rank hunt leve which is for 24 people.

You can only get credit once per day for As but able to help out friends, and only 1 S rank per week. Buff rewards so that you can buy one Twine or coat per week, or just make the rewards from the S rank choice of a twine or coat.

[Yukiko]

It's against a core design concept of FFXIV, that's what's wrong with a claim system for rare targets.

I wouldnt say that, FFXIV 1.xx had a claim system and we did not have that much harassment with HNM hunts!

Edit:
Even with patch 2.4 we did not have that much harassment, it always starts because SE giving hunts mats to upgrade into BiS gear (2.3 and now 2.5 again)... Raiders who do not need are equipping their other jobs and beaking the weekly loot rule... Those who can not finish coil are those who suffer the most from hunting harassment.

Edit2:

Claim system just promotes people to cheat to have the advantage.

Same as we have now with no claim system, difference between HDD and SSD or using RADARs, Trackers and other helpers...

[LalaRu]

I'd like make it extreme, and propose the hunt mobs being a 1-shot 1HP target. First who see, first who kills.

To prevent camping, spawn is really random position in the full map, not only in well known places. And why not, also random time respawn. Go for it!

[Ecks007]

This wasn't good in XI and it won't be good here. (there's a reason they eventually changed how that worked in XI)

The only thing it'll be good for is creating even more drama and managing to piss off even more players.

No thanks.

[Antanias]

No. Maybe if hunts weren't once again the only endgame, but unfortunately they are. Having only one party able to get anything per pop would leave many playees unable to progress.

Well spoken my friend, our current claim system was implemented in 1.19 to prevent linkshells and free companies from monopolizing things like hunts. I will naturally object to any suggestions that encourage such behavior.