square enix: we need to talk about hunts and why you refuse to address the HP issue

[Eyrilona]

4) Prevent zone-in's near the hunt. (eg Aetheryte's closest to hunts are disabled once the boss is pulled)

That wouldn't work, I'm afraid. It has no consideration for Gatherers and people doing quests or Treasure Maps or, you know, any other reason to use an aetheryte to get to a zone/area.

Your points 1-3 also come riddled with problems I'm afraid. For one thing, requiring a 2% contribution means that most people will never get the reward at all. Even a theoretical math optimization means only 50 people can do damage to the mark, and in reality because nobody can manage their output anywhere near that accurate, you are effectively limiting hunt groups to maybe twenty people (let's say 24 because one alliance worth of players is a nice size) ... but without any way to make sure no more than that many players arrive at the scene in the open world. So people will be angry with everyone else for making it impossible for anyone to get 2% for themselves, and toxicity would destroy the hunt scene entirely.

To accomplish what you want, you would need to not have the Hunt Mark on the open world map, but instead make it an instanced event that only lets, say, 24 people inside at a time. Congratulations, you have invented single-boss alliance raids.