Enough with 'Hunt trains'

[Aramina]

So rather than stop what they may have been doing to come kill one thing, they opted instead to wait for their scheduled time to kill *many* things? Seems smart to me.

[Barraind]

So because I don't play at that exact time, I have no chance of ever even seeing an A rank. And you think that's fair?

You're aware that on crystal, at least on Coeurl, Mateus, Goblin, Malboro, and Diabolos (which you claim is your home world), and sometimes Zalera, though not regularly linked cross-world, trains happen as soon as everything is spawned (unless we're waiting for another train on another world to finish, cause people sometimes like getting 15+ a day), which generally means that by the time you've found it, its already on the list of things to die in the next 30 minutes.

As someone who regularly scouts out Coeurl trains, unless you're playing suuuper early on a day where we had a post-midnight central time evening train, its already been relayed in multiple discords and 20+ linkshells. If people are telling you 'wait for the train', it means they're aware the train is getting ready to start, and you might as well just hold up a minute and get 12-48x the rewards (because as a datacenter, theres thousands of us that have this down to a science).

Coming from a server a year ago that didnt do hunt trains (or at least I could never get anyone on Cactuar to get me info on it), these are some of the best things in the game and its kind of silly to decide you'd rather do one than twelve.

Maybe you should join a world server that has more hunters that think like you?

He's on one of the 5 crystal servers that regularly share hunt train information across the datacenter which each host 3 or 4 cross-server hunt trains a day. He's stupidly well off in terms of having access to these, they're regularly announced.

[Aramina]

He's on one of the 5 crystal servers that regularly share hunt train information across the datacenter which each host 3 or 4 cross-server hunt trains a day. He's stupidly well off in terms of having access to these, they're regularly announced.

And it would probably be the same situation on a different data center too, unless Primal is the odd one out. I know Aether does at least 3 trains a day (9a 3p 9p est I believe.. may do one at 3a, but I am asleep then). My home server has done it this way for ages and it seemed to be a pretty easy process for all of aether to get involved after world visit.

[Canadane]

Primal has them too, just not as often. Maybe I am missing them but it seems once a day or so.

[savageink]

Dude, if I had been on Diabolos and was in the proper area when you shouted, I would have showed up.

Trains are server cancer.

[Alucard135]

Dude, if I had been on Diabolos and was in the proper area when you shouted, I would have showed up.

Trains are server cancer.

There you go, OP. There are those that will support you if you look hard enough. No need for you to try and force others to accommodate your play style.

[Reimmi]

Why would you be upset about having 6 extra servers of hunts to do very efficiently every day with the train system?
Sounds silly to me. I love trains.

[Hash_Browns]

This thread seems like a giant hissy fit, TBH.

You're free to try and kill the monsters, but no one else has to follow suit.

[Jeeqbit]

You answered your own question: you can "just do it anyway". You can solo it but the timeframe for that is usually about 40-60 minutes. They won't miss the one hunt's rewards too much if you do.

Most worlds do organised hunt trains for the latest expansion's hunts. The only Crystal world that doesn't organise its hunts very well is Balmung. We often just call a hunt randomly until people get sick of the calls and decide to kill it, then disband. If we feel like it, we might scout and kill one or three more, or all of them. It's pretty random and disorganised like that, but other worlds might be trying to organise Balmung's hunts for us. I'm not sure how successful that's been yet.

You could just join the club and inquire as to how you can participate in these trains. You could solo HW and ARR hunts more easily, but some of their rewards are different and may not be what you are after.

[ShariusTC]

Depend on where you call for that A rank, in my server adamantoise there is unspoken rule that you shouls not call out for A rank in novice network other S rank and special fate is fine, but not A rank since is annoy for other ppl to do this

Rather than that you are free to kill anything if you can