Why do we even have hunting linkshells?

[Jas710]

Just to say, you can do nothing against that, just one person can give the go(early pullers trolling), and many ppl will follow fearing the lost of dmg to get max rewards and so the rest will follow too.

Until they get huge buff, most of hunts can be killed by two players being the first on it

Someone once mentioned the idea of the rank hunts scaling depending on how many players were beating on them, similar to how the FATEs work. Which sounded logical at first. But then they would ultimately be FATEs, so why bother calling them hunts. Back to the drawing board. lol

[Nicobo]

I've no idea how things are on other servers, but here in Jenova we have a serious problem with linkshells as oftentimes they serve no purpose. What I mean by that is, announcing a hunt on a shell is for naught as the damn thing will be dead less than a minute after the announcement.....

As you mentioned there are ppl like to call a hunt just right before pulling, don't respond to their calls at peak hours, filtered the chat then enjoy the peaceful. ^^;
Return to the chat when you are in a hunt PT (A train), share info when you are actually hunting, you should see situation like an A found next to the teleport and all ppl actually hunting will be there in 1 min. So even they wait 5min to kill, there will be still ppl call early pull.

Moments ago I received the report of an S rank in Central Thanalan. Not even a minute after that, everyone was teleporting to Black Brush and in the ride between there and the Clutch, the mark was dead. There were only two or three people there when we who had just teleported arrived.........

I have encountered above situation too, but, it was becasue I was too late, there were some ppl there but actually the group already gone after the kill! ^^;
You know 3ppl killing a lv50 S still need more than a min.


if you keep hunting (in hunt PT and actually finding marks), some days later eventually you should be able to find out a more useful hunt LS.
When member in your PT get call and you don't, you know there is a more helpful LS and you may ask to be added.