Hunts and Trains; please fix the Hunts!

[Wolwosh]

I miss the days where I would shout an A or S rank and the people would come. It was always very exciting when I found one Now its like why bother calling it? nobody will come. This community really know how to suck the fun out of things and make things "convenient"

[CookieHunter]

I miss the days where I would shout an A or S rank and the people would come. It was always very exciting when I found one Now its like why bother calling it? nobody will come. This community really know how to suck the fun out of things and make things "convenient"

please continue to shout. there are many of us who are willing to go. and many who enjoy the hunts the way it was meant to be hunted.

too bad we are not on the same world. In tonberry, the trains are really toxic and salty. which is why i never shout and just kill it with whoever is online..
Does not matter whether you find the mark first or spawn it, the A train will appear when the mob is 20-50% hp and harass, threaten and aggro reset.

[Infindox]

I'd rather they didn't. It's one of the few elements of the game that has consistently been a very social and chatty experience. It'd be a real shame to see that vanish.

While I agree about them being okay (once they die down here soon), I barely get much social interaction other then people complaining about "invite me", people getting mad at those people, and the occasional greifer that everyone starts yelling at lol

[tdb]

A couple days ago I was doing dwarf dailies when a friend of mine notified me of a train in progress. I thought I'd hop on, got to the zone the train was at and got myself in a party. When I arrived at the mark it was already dead. No big deal, I mean I just joined. Then I couldn't teleport to the next zone because of congestion. When I finally was able to, I had missed the first mark at that zone. I arrived at the second one just in time to see it die but didn't get credit. And just like that the train was over.

Gonna forget about hunts for a month or two. They're at their best with around 1-3 full parties. With 100+ players they're just messy, boring and stressful. I'll get enough upgrade tokens from just the weekly PB coins to upgrade two or three roles before the next patch anyway.

[Barraind]

How could you possibly want a fix to

[17:38]One or more party members were unable to teleport.
Unable to travel. This area is congested.
[17:38]One or more party members were unable to teleport.
Unable to travel. This area is congested.
[17:38]One or more party members were unable to teleport.
Unable to travel. This area is congested.
[17:38]One or more party members were unable to teleport.
Unable to travel. This area is congested.
[17:38]One or more party members were unable to teleport.
Unable to travel. This area is congested.
[17:39]One or more party members were unable to teleport.
Unable to travel. This area is congested.
[17:39]One or more party members were unable to teleport.
Unable to travel. This area is congested.
[17:39]One or more party members were unable to teleport.
Unable to travel. This area is congested.
[17:39]One or more party members were unable to teleport.
Unable to travel. This area is congested.
[17:39]One or more party members were unable to teleport.
Unable to travel. This area is congested.
[17:39]One or more party members were unable to teleport.
Unable to travel. This area is congested.


Its working super fine and amazingly smoothly.


Trains are great, we've been doing them since HW.

Cross worlding and server infrastructure though... yeeeeeah, thats the awful bit.

This is what's causing a lot of the congestion.

Nah, the zones just cant support 350 people trying to teleport into 1-2 teleport spots in the same ~30 seconds

[RTX3080]

I don't normally complain but I felt something needed to be said. A hunt train was just called in my world; there was so many players participating in the hunt that the A ranks would not render for me half the time and trying to teleport to the next aetheryte often got aborted with an error for "Congestion". Sadly a good number of folks running the trains were not only from other worlds, but also saying in chat that the Trains are going as fast as they can and will not wait for no one, even those having loading/server issues. "No time to wait on slow ppl" was one thing that was said.

I know its a back and forth thing if those in other worlds should be able to go to another world and participate in the hunt. There are pros and cons overall, but right now with the new content and obvious counter measures deployed by SE already like instanced Areas like Lakeland, there should be at least a temporary restriction on the hunts if there is nothing technical that can be done to fix these issues. It is not fair to the residence of a world that they cannot participate and get credit on their own hunts and the attitude of some players that won't show courtesy to others just makes it worse.

There could be other solutions to try and mitigate the massive surges that these trains cause; perhaps decreasing the spawn time of the A ranks at a minimum to reduce the need for the trains in the first place or provide alternative ways of getting hunts. I don't know what else can be done on the technical side of things, but giving the history such as restricting access to the firment, SE should look at least look at a temporary restriction.

Hunt trains aren't intended by the devs

[Xeros_cl]

Need to bump here not to complain about the trains but about the way the game is coded to render things.

Maybe if the game give priority to mobs and our own party there would be no problems. The PS5 do a great job and is welcomed improvement, but is moot if the marks can't be seen becuause there are 200+ people there

[wereotter]

Need to bump here not to complain about the trains but about the way the game is coded to render things.

Maybe if the game give priority to mobs and our own party there would be no problems. The PS5 do a great job and is welcomed improvement, but is moot if the marks can't be seen becuause there are 200+ people there

Even if you aren't participating, this is still a problem. Was farming animal skins to build the forge house walls this weekend, and both times I had to go to new areas, I could IMMEDIATELY tell when the train arrived as all that congestion in the zone made it impossible for me to attack the other mobs until they left, not to mention all the just idiotic shout chat, and always from people who aren't from my same world.

I won't hide that I was pretty gleeful the first few days after the patch when they couldn't descend on my world en masse as people weren't able to world transfer....

[Vahlnir]

Agreed but not only for this reason.

My stance hasn't changed. If anything I feel more strongly about it now. And yes, not just for one reason. There's a laundry list of them.

[Ardeth]

Cross World already borked them. I can only imagine how awful Cross Realm will be.

I know a lot of people love the whole one server idea, but this is a glaring example as to why it should've never happened or at the very least limited to capital cities. You can visit my world and que and hang out in Limsa, but you can't leave that city. It's like they don't think clearly when they implement systems that negatively effect even small aspects of the game like hunts.