Highly Notorious Monsters

[Rydin]

HNMs? Fighting them was fun. Camping them and trying to beat bots to the claim was not. Would strongly prefer in-world instances or otherwise popped monsters to timed world spawns.

thats why someone mentioned having them spawn over a greater area or in a few possible spots, which makes claim botting more difficult

[Alhanelem]

thats why someone mentioned having them spawn over a greater area or in a few possible spots, which makes claim botting more difficult

I'd rather it not be possible at all, than be more difficult. I don't want a competition. I just want to fight and kill a monster.

strange then how ffxi was most popular in the prime of zilart HNM, right?

The popularity of the game at the time had absolutely zero to do with HNMs. The vast majority of players never even experience one.

[ThePatriarch]

I'd rather it not be possible at all, than be more difficult. I don't want a competition. I just want to fight and kill a monster.

So rather than work to create a system of HNM spawn that would nullify botting, you would prefer a system to where there is no competition? You would prefer it to where there are no chances of you not getting the NM? You want everything to be assured and have no risk of not getting claim?

The popularity of the game at the time had absolutely zero to do with HNMs. The vast majority of players never even experience one.

So you would like to tell everyone that HNM's had absolutely zero effect on the popularity of the game at that point in time?

And personally, I don't know many FFXI players who did not engage, at the bare minimum, a couple of HNM's during their career in game. These include HNM's like Simurgh, Roc, Serket, etc.

And even more, during Zilart, sky was the biggest and coolest thing to do. What was in Sky? Forced pop Notorious Monsters.