Quote Originally Posted by Rokke View Post
Do you actually hunt? Like, actually hunt-hunt? Unless you’re hoping to leech of a party in pf or are playing between 2-5am ptd, hunts drop faster than slow comps can reach the mark because linkshells are so quick.

The open world is dead because there’s nothing to do in it. Potd/hoh killed fate trains, which were the only reason to really stray out of the cities. Opening the server would not really change that. Level a character on one of the preferred worlds. Outside the city states the world is a ghost town regardless of server pop.
Yes, I am a hunt-hunter in several linkshells. I am an actual hunter/spawner, not a leecher and I make it easily to every single hunt unless two are pulled at the same time. Last night, I was duoing all ARR and HW hunts because no one bothered to follow up my calls for literally 10+ minutes and no it wasn't that late probs 7 - 8 pm. SB hunts will sit up for hours because you only gather 1 or 2 people who actually want to do it (you can solo, and there are people who do, but I would rather do something else). I have never seen a single SB hunt melt, and ARR and HW hunts aren't melting because of the amount of people, but because we are 10-20 levels above them... I can kill an ARR rank in about 30 seconds by myself. S Ranks are a whole 'nother ball game and I bet you on every single server S Ranks are nuked from orbit upon pull, not just Balmung.

I agree that there is nothing to do in the open world unless you are a hunter or need super fates, but what I said is not false because there is no open world content. I think you missed my point. SE could make FATE leveling better than PotD and HoH and you still would not see a lot of people out in the open world on Balmung. Everyone is already mostly leveled. There is no new people joining. As an example, Ixion takes almost the full timer to kill these days, not because there isn't enough people on (which there is), but because people already have their rewards and have no reason to do so. If there was a stream of new people who need to do Ixion, this would be less of a problem. Vets sit in their houses or Kugane and Balmung is reaching the point where most of the population is max level.

And yes, I do think it's a problem that will get worse over time. One that should be fixed.