It still takes time to find these marks once they've been spawned, adding a 5 min timer before they can be engaged won't change much especially for marks that are on the other side of the map such as Safat that can take several minutes to locate. Some people use third party programs that track hunt marks so this wouldn't deter them from engaging as soon as they can whilst players who don't have trackers are still looking around trying to find it. There's been several griefers on our datacenter that have been stalking websites that mark down and time S ranks and use hunt mark trackers to reach it first, so the moment they see an ARR S rank target marked as up they immediately bee-line to it and kill it as soon as they find it, often before the people who spawned it get there. As it is stated in the ToS it's a bannable offense to use third party programs and these guys who are consistently reaching it immediately in order to grief other players should be reported for cheating since it'll be fairly obvious that they're using third party programs.
I'm more in favour of alternative suggestions such as making A and S elite marks a hunt FATE, this way higher level people will be incapable of soloing them as they will have their level reduced to that of the FATE. Another suggestion which few have commented on and I'm not sure if the game engine is capable of it is to remove the level of the mark and increase its difficulty to reflect the person engaging it, again this would make it unsoloable by higher level people as they would be engaging it as if fighting a monster equal to their level whilst level 50's are still engaging with it as if fighting a level 50.
In the end something really needs to be done to elite hunt marks to make it fair game for everyone to attend because not everyone is considerate enough to wait for others and some do it deliberately out of pure spite and know SE won't do anything about it if they get reported because they're not breaking any game rules.

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