op not to be mean but...
just because you didn't get claim makes it less casual. Access to conteny = a chance at it. You wree able to hunt it and try to claim it. That is called access. They could easily make it where you couldn't eveb try to fight the nm at all. You just gotta deal with the competition which will happen regaurdless. Thats not making it hardcore. Hardcore is making it so you couldn't even dream of even seeing it.