Quote Originally Posted by KageTokage View Post
Cheaters are not a problem with A ranks.

S rank detecting add-ons have existed since ARR, but their functionality has gotten extremely advanced and now auto-relay to several different websites including Discord. If a S rank spawns and there is even one person using said add-on present in the zone when it happens, it means several hundred people also instantly know about it and they come flooding into the zone so quickly that they often end up at the hunt before me even if I was in zone and the one who spawned it. You're basically forced to rely on these add-on relays indirectly if you want to have a fair chance at getting to the hunts now.
While its true that their functionality improved over time, I do believe the scope of who can access the hunt is what really made a difference over the years, it went from world to cross world to cross datacenter and soon cross region when region travel wont be limited to Materia

I can guarantee you if cross world or cross DC didnt exist, addons would produce the same result as back when we had manually updated tracker websites and linkshells (I remember the days of having 3 linkshells for hunts) but the number of people coming for the hunts is what is really causing the problem and the missing out, in my opinion