An example of why the ARR Hunts need an adjustment

[SuperZay]

The main issue I have with the S rank hunts is that they spawn AWAY from the ones who actually took the effort in spawning the said S ranks in the first place. How is that fair credit- and achievement-wise?

It's not that bad actually.
Nandi spawns on top of you.
Croakadile spawns on top of you.
Brontes spawns on top of you.
Mindflayer spawns on top of you.
Kaiser Behemoth spawns on top of you.
Gamma spawns on top of you.
Laideronnette and the Garlok are autospawned and 100% on schedule which you know days in advance.
Can't miss SB hunts because they have a lot of HP.
Can't miss hunts like Bonnacon or Zona Seeker because their small areas.
Nyu spawns in large area, but you are likely doing fates with a party and know time when it's supposed to spawn.

So if you are spawner, you'll never miss any S ranks you've spawned.

[BillyKaplan]

They are not obligated in any way to share this information with the entire server.

According to the current terms of service which either need to change or the playing field needs to be leveled, is the point of this thread. Because as much as SE likes to hide behind its excuse of hunts being an open world thing, this is a wonderful example of disruptive play. Without access to a hunt's last kill time, people can try and spawn that S rank for days on end without having a slim chance of that even happening because it was already killed and they don't know about it. Is it currently available in the game? Sure, but then again so was every exploit SE ever fixed. Doesn't mean it's ok, just that SE doesn't care about it enough yet, sadly.

So if you are spawner, you'll never miss any S ranks you've spawned.

You've had a wonderful hunting experience thus far and I hope that doesn't change for you but that's factually incorrect for too many people, especially for the examples which you didn't mention like Ganderawa who can spawn across the map from the gathering nodes, or the Azys Lla one with how annoying that map is to get around in. Bonnacon? Better hope your loading times are good and that he didn't spawn in Umbra, and Zona is basically made of paper so hope you don't have to cross that canyon from the fishing point because the scouts already pulled, and the list goes on.

[Cakekizyy]

Not telling people when a hunt is killed is not disrupting.

[NolLacnala]

Did XI get this much whining with NMs?

[SuperZay]

The only disrupting thing about hunts is resetting them which is bannable. I smile when I see 'report for early pulling!' shouts, do people even understand what the hunt is?

[Rita1989]

Not telling people when a hunt is killed is not disrupting.

That is easy to say when your a server that tracks hunts properly.

On Behemoth hunting anything besides SB s ranks is close to impossible for a casual player, seriously the best solution might be to just get off that server though as its not the norm.

http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/HuntTracker/Behemoth

Literally all their hunts are missing and I heard from some people this same group is purposely putting in false information just so they can get an advantage for them selves.

[Settiesama]

Did XI get this much whining with NMs?

No, mobs were claimed in XI, meaning the first person/party to hit it were the only ones who could attack it, so competition for such things was expected and normal. Anyone actively hunting would know the respawn time. The idea for hunts in this game was also to be something of competition, but that was lost when people started believing that shouting out to people who aren't even hunting to come join and wait for the entire server to show up was the only way you should do it.

[Rita1989]

No, mobs were claimed in XI, meaning the first person/party to hit it were the only ones who could attack it, so competition for such things was expected and normal. Anyone actively hunting would know the respawn time. The idea for hunts in this game was also to be something of competition, but that was lost when people started believing that shouting out to people who aren't even hunting to come join and wait for the entire server to show up was the only way you should do it.

XI was even worse then 14, you had people with claim bots and RMT camping stuff 24/7

[Theodric]

I'm just glad I now play on Cerberus. Hunt enthusiasts have really come together here to call out hunts when they spawn. Interested players are also taught how to spawn S rank monsters. In addition to that, people wait a reasonable amount of time between calling out and pulling a hunt.

In the unlikely event that a player pulls early, they are removed from the various hunt linkshells if they're a part of them.

[RitsukoSonoda]

Did XI get this much whining with NMs?

Pretty much though in my experience most of it was in game or on fan sites. The people on the outside are always going to whine about the people on the inside essentially because they want the rewards without doing any of the work. Not sharing death times for hunts isn't disruptive behavior. People are just trying to claim it as such because they want to sit around crafting or doing something else in game and wait for someone else to tell them when every hunt spawns so they can teleport to the zone and kill it at their convenience. You have options to solve the problem yourself. If you are too lazy to do it then there is no one to blame but yourself.