I asked a GM to clarify the new rules regarding hunts and early pulling

[KageTokage]

If the mob is going to require specific player activity to spawn the mob, then SE should ensure those who specifically engage in that activity to spawn it get rewarded. It's a poor system that gives random players the reward instead of the player who put in the effort.

I feel like they could spare people a lot of misery by making it so instead of a S rank spawning immediately after its condition is fulfilled, it instead creates some kind of marker on the spot where it's due to spawn, then it'll actually appear a few minutes later.

This both prevents random passersby from getting ganked by sudden hunt spawns and gives people more time to locate the thing before it's potentially pulled.