There was a time when I genuinely worried if SE would continue the hunt system. Before many worlds had hunt trains as a concept, participation was not exactly great. It was extremely niche content, and the rewards were mostly not worth it.

Expert was the main way people capped tomestones, and hunts were mainly popular among a tiny minority of achievement/mount hunters or at augment release at odd patches. And a small amount of people who used them to get materia or tomestones to make lots of gil, particularly if they were good at making S ranks before they died, which as you know many people struggled with even before world visiting.

So when hunt trains spread more and more across worlds as a concept, it gave us a selling point to the masses. We could say "come do these hunt trains, it's better and faster than expert roulette". Before we knew it, hunts were super popular, and there was no longer any chance SE would discontinue them due to how popular they'd become.

So I certainly wouldn't want hunt trains to stop as a concept, or the rewards to be changed.

Also, really, we can have hunt trains almost around the clock already due to world visit and DC travel (and we do in the NA region at least on Aether/Crystal/Primal). So the issue isn't how many hunts we can fight; it's the congestion that occurs and the fact the game struggles to handle it on multiple fronts, including entering the area and the lack of sync.
Quote Originally Posted by Kranel_San View Post
They'll go to insane lengths to justify the absurb achievements we have. There's a reason why not a single other MMO does anywhere near this game.
Many achievements in this game are absurd. The hunt ones are not. Why? Because of World Visit, Data Center Travel and the amount of expansions we now have.

Back in Stormblood, I would have agreed with you that 5,000 S ranks and 10,000 A ranks was insane because you literally couldn't world visit for it, and just getting 2,000 S ranks took almost a year of having no life. That just isn't the case now, and a busy person can get lots of A and S ranks while missing hundreds or thousands of them each month due to world and DC travel. I got the Dawntrail S rank achievement in just 2 months, despite missing lots of them...