I want to start off by saying, I think Hunts are broken, but despite that I love them. I love that we are sent in to the world exploring, and that there is a lot of downtime where we can chat with friends. The biggest issue is how 'easy' they are when zerged. As I understand it, they were designed not with the intention of being zerged in mind.

Well here is my idea to solve the problem of zergs on A Ranks specifically.


Step 1. Make the reward divide for each group present, so if you get 40 Poetics and 2 groups are there, each group gets 20 poetics (assuming both met the 100% credit criteria, otherwise group 1 may get more than group 2 etc)

Step 2. Increase the reward payout slightly. This should be done, because hunts will be much more difficult as they'll be tackled as single groups more often and we don't want to make them undesirable. However, we don't want to increase it so much that people will still zerg and just let the reward divide. I'd say a 1.5x reward increase.

Step 3. Re-balance them back to a point where they are do-able in one group.

Step 4. Increase either the number of available hunts, or the spawn rate on hunts - or both.


Thoughts? I think it would be great to get a hunting party together and actually try to tackle these in a group of 8 and have at least a little bit of challenge.


EDIT: I posted to General Discussion, because well, that's what everyone reads. However, I was also unable to find a Hunting forum? Just a Hunting Log. Is that forum really designed for this kind of material. Maybe it needs a rename.