Etiquette in XIV

[Alex_LoneWolf]

I run a hunt linkshell and help with another here on Leviathan. Some of the Levi folks may know them as The Hunters (my Linkshell), and Hunt Nerds (the one I help out with). We work together with a lot of other hunt linkshells on the server. About 4-6 months ago, a number of us were having a lot of complaints about hunts being 'early pulled'. Sadly, I realized two things a good portion of the way into the conversation:

1) We call it early pulling, but there is no defined time that people can agree upon for when it is considered 'early pulling'. It can sometimes take time to relay coordinates throughout all the linkshells. The only time I've found a definition of 'early pulling' is pulling on sight, which goes over really well with those who get there just as it dies.

2) There's always going to be one person who's late to the pull and say "You early pulled!". There's nothing we can really do since it was just circumstantial that person couldn't get out there. We've all realized that there's gonna be that one person, and that's just the sad reality.

My guess is that it was just poor communication on some people's parts and until the community as a whole can come up with a defnition for the phrase 'early pulling', all there is going to be is more complaints and more angry people. Most people forget about something like this not that long after though, so as long as it isn't constantly happening, you're probably good.

[Serilda]

On my server the people who found the mob (or organised the hunt in some way like making a group) will shout a time that they're going to pull so everyone in zone knows and everyone in a party can communicate that information themselves. It also gives people in zone a heads up if they aren't in a LS or party finder, and gives them enough time to change jobs ready to fight properly. A five minute warning for an S is plenty for anyone to arrive unless they were dawdling. For an A they'll generally shout 'About to pull ____!' so anyone still running there can send them a tell if it's an emergency.