Disable rewards from hunts while playing on another DC

[wayneker]

I believe it to be unfair that players from other timezones can come to our DC (Materia) and spawn all of our S ranks while the majority of our population is asleep and will miss out on them completely. This has been happening consistently for a couple weeks now.

Our hunt trains are also becoming disrupted because of the sheer quantity of voyagers joining in.

Please consider disabling rewards from hunts for all voyagers, at least for S ranks, so they are not incentivized to come to our servers and spawn all the ones they can while the majority of us (not me) are asleep or working during the day.

Thank you.

[EponaTBHSMH]

I can't speak for EU but on NA we have plenty of people spawning S ranks while people are sleeping whether its people that have messed up sleeping schedules or people that play on NA but live in different timezones

[wayneker]

This happens here too, but in my opinion, it's different when it's just people from your own region playing at odd hours spawning one or two, compared to a train from other regions entirely coming over to spawn every single current S rank that is open.

[KDSilver]

Your point is "people who are sleeping miss the train".
But it's suddenly not a problem anymore if those spawning S Rank are from your own region.

So, your problem is not late nigh S rank train, it's the foreigner.

So, you're point is sadly invalid.

I could have somehow agree that is sounds unfair.

[wayneker]

I can see how you would take it that way. How about this then; Is it fair that players from every other DC are able to come here during our dead times to pop our S ranks while the vast majority of the population (not me) are asleep or working, when we are restricted from having the same opportunity, while also being deprived of the S ranks we would have had access to due to a train of voyagers spawning all available ones during the night/early day?

[EponaTBHSMH]

I can see how you would take it that way. How about this then; Is it fair that players from every other DC are able to come here during our dead times to pop our S ranks while the vast majority of the population (not me) are asleep or working, when we are restricted from having the same opportunity, while also being deprived of the S ranks we would have had access to due to a train of voyagers spawning all available ones during the night/early day?

If it being unfair is the issue then its very situational because

1) S rank hungry hunters only flood Materia because it's currently the only other datacenter they can access when they don't have any S ranks available in their own DC anymore

2) The only time you can chain SHB/EW/DT S Rank is 50 hours after a maintenance like next Thursday-Friday since there's a maint this Tuesday, this is really the only time where you can miss 5-6 S Ranks in the span of 30mins because of the massive chains. Once that specific period is over though you don't miss that many S ranks by sleeping since the spawn windows become completely random, missing them at that point is just bad luck.

Also the July 18th-July 19th window has chances to be the last time a post maint hunt window happens with restrictions to DC travel only to Materia/Dynamis it should make things a little more normal after that

[HeartfilliaX]

30 S-ranks spawned from midnight to 9am today (remember Materia is a small DC with only a handful or worlds) - that's quite a significant and large number for time period, I would argue 90-95% of Materia is asleep or, when it comes to the morning hours, simply offline due to work/study.
I think the point is valid and something to consider.