It's Time To Reconsider Removing Crossworld Hunting

[Jojoya]

World visit is not the problem with hunts. It's solved some of the problems that existed before world visit was added. The problems that remain are problems that we had before world visit existed.

Remove world visit and none of the current problems are solved while all the old ones return.

The problem is the lack of a daily/weekly cap on hunt rewards. That encourages players to attend multiple trains/S-ranks each day because they're so lucrative for the relatively small time investment. Limit the rewards and there's no benefit to attending multiple trains/S-ranks.

I am unsure what could be done, but the few I have participated in was possibly the worst experience. I have not gone since. I asked that people remove their chocobos possibly pets if they may make things less congested, many said to sod off until one person said what I said and no one told them to sod off. The person I went with has a better computer than I do, could never see the hunt targets due to the numerous amounts of people. Many started to get stuck behind due to the 'congestion to location' message. People saying stupid things like 'maybe you shouldn't play on a toaster' 'don't complain' 'you should have caught the football'. I had an easier time with all of my setting turned to low, I figured you just have to aoe and prey you get the credit on the invisible target..

Most trains, especially on reset day and prime-time, are congested enough that dismissing minions and chocobos will not help. Again, this was something we experienced pre-world visit and found that dismissing them didn't make enough of a difference in the long run. There's a point where the number of players present alone is going to overwhelm your system.

We were getting the congestion messages pre-world visit. It's especially awkward when I get that message as the conductor because I waited the extra few seconds to make sure everyone had been raised and so I miss out myself. I learned to shrug it off. There's always another train or another S rank if I miss one.

Ignore the comments from the idiots. At the same time, there's no use shouting at people because that's not going to change anything. It's just going to provoke the idiot comments.

How to have a better train experience: avoid trains on reset days completely. You've got an entire week to cap, no need to do it all the first day. Avoid prime time trains as well if it's an option for your schedule. Go as a healer so AoE healing your party will get you on the mark's enmity table. If you don't have a healing job leveled, use a job that has an AoE that doesn't require a target (MNK Arm of the Destroyer as an example). Having aggro lines enabled in your character settings will let you know where the mark is even if you can't see it.

Avoid going to worlds that run their trains on a set schedule. Turn out at set schedule trains tends to be crazy because everyone knows to show up at that world at that time.

Find out which worlds on your data center have less organized hunt communities and attend their trains. Because relays for those trains reach fewer players, there's a smaller turnout.