It's Time To Reconsider Removing Crossworld Hunting

[technole]

People need to stop taking old comments the devs make like they are gospel and set in-stone forever. There was a time they said they would never add flying to ARR zones, and here we are in 2021. The world is different when they made some of those comments, and they never planned on a stat squish either.

If they really want to address it they'd adjust the HP pools, and they have a golden opportunity during the stat squish to do so since all enemies are getting adjustments as well for 6.0.

[KageTokage]

Seeing how they added dynamic scaling to the FATE enemies in Bozja, I feel like they could do something similar and make the A/S rank hunts gain a defense buff (As opposed to a damage taken debuff as the FATEs already have HP scaling) that changes based on both how many players are present as well as their levels if some of the players are above the hunt's level.

[Stepjam]

I've been seeing issues pop up with it second hand through my fc mate who was big into the hunt community. But I'm not sure exactly how they'd curb it. Only real solution I can think of is crossworlders can't target hunt monsters or something.

[MrPresident]

I would be ok with this. Cross world and hunt trains in general have definitely killed the fun of hunts. It used to be exciting going out and finding an A rank yourself (you know, actually hunting) or trying to spawn an S rank. Now I regularly pass A ranks and can’t do a thing to them, even if you try no one will come because they don’t want to get on the bad side of the cliques running the show. And don’t even think about spawning an S rank without their permission or you’ll be booted from every linkshell going.

[Jojoya]

I would be ok with this. Cross world and hunt trains in general have definitely killed the fun of hunts. It used to be exciting going out and finding an A rank yourself (you know, actually hunting) or trying to spawn an S rank. Now I regularly pass A ranks and can’t do a thing to them, even if you try no one will come because they don’t want to get on the bad side of the cliques running the show. And don’t even think about spawning an S rank without their permission or you’ll be booted from every linkshell going.

They can't stop you from viewing the online tracking sites to see when spawn windows are open.

They can't stop you from making spawn attempts if you want to put in the effort.

They don't control every linkshell. You can always start your own linkshells and invite people who are likewise sick of hearing "you can't do that" to organize your own free hunts.

If anyone harasses you for participating in open world content as the rules of the game allow, report them. They're violating the ToS.

Just make sure you don't cross the line so you end up repeating the same things they're doing.

[Erendis]

I would be ok with this. Cross world and hunt trains in general have definitely killed the fun of hunts. It used to be exciting going out and finding an A rank yourself (you know, actually hunting) or trying to spawn an S rank. Now I regularly pass A ranks and can’t do a thing to them, even if you try no one will come because they don’t want to get on the bad side of the cliques running the show. And don’t even think about spawning an S rank without their permission or you’ll be booted from every linkshell going.

The annoying part is not that other people are trying to spawn S ranks. It's when they spawn something and kill it quietly without linking it anywhere or marking kill and the timer is lost.

Also on Chaos there do not seem to be many app users as people heavily rely on Faloop which is croudsourced.

[MrPresident]

If anyone harasses you for participating in open world content as the rules of the game allow, report them. They're violating the the TOS.

I have before and nothing is done. The guy regularly swears at people for anything he seems poor hunt etiquette (not tame ones either, Effs and see you next Tuesdays) hurls racist abuse, ableist slurs and more. I’ve reported him and know at least two others who have. Yet the guy has never missed a hunt. He’s on every day so no suspensions or bans and presumably as he still behaves this way not even a warning either.

It’s not worth the hassle of being abused and harassed and filling out pointless reports so it’s easier to just accept they run the hunts now and you can’t do anything about it. Which is why I’d rather SE would just change it up themselves.