Hunting pressure is a great way to make encourage players to try different hunting areas or provide a benefit for hunting more difficult critters around their level. However, when someone (or a group of people) come in and are constantly script hunting (afk or not), the pressure ramps up fast. If there were multiple places to hunt at each level around each town, it'd be easy to move on when this happens. More likely, you'd have to switch towns, which means you lose your community.

I'd love to see something implemented that would keep the treasure in an area higher for those who aren't hunting so aggressively. Maybe once a week, a timer could be reset and allow someone 12 of hunting without without hunting pressure. For those who are always hunting to rake in silvers, this wouldn't affect them much as they are moving around based on hunting pressure anyway. For the rest of us, you'd still have a chance to make some coin or find a nice item without moving to a new town just because of a few people moved in.

Perhaps there is a way to make hunting pressure non existent during Lumnis? Or lessened.

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I support this as well. Either make a real effort to stop afk scripting or make loot not affected by hunting pressure. It seems like there is zero chance for option a to happen, so option b works for me.

With the recent addition of major and minor loot boosts from login rewards, I'm assuming implementing this wouldn't be all that hard. The systems are already in the game, so it's just a matter of putting them together in a new way. It might end up being a pain to introduce, but it might also be simple.

Is there anything already related to this? Because I swear if I start hunting with a new character who hasn't killed anything that week, I find noticably more treasure, even if it is in the exact same area at adjacent times. Has anyone else noticed this sort of trend?

Sorry, I meant different. For instance, my warrior was in one place for a while and established a pretty good baselines for what treasure would be (not so good), and whenever I then bring in my bard or sorcerer, for instance, to that same area, hunting the same creatures, I noticed a distinct increase, particularly related to average box weight. Specifically this last week, my warrior had been stabbing some Fire Guardians nicely, but any of my tertiary characters that would kill some guardians noticed higher weights their few couple hunts.

I... I may have an issue with having too many characters, but that's an intervention for another topic.

One idea that I have about hunting pressure is to change it to be based on how long/often you hunt an area, instead of being based on overall hunting volume in an area. In other words make hunting pressure unique to each character instead of to an area. This would encourage exploration (as per one of the intentions of hunting pressure) by making camping an area for hours much less productive, it would increase the potential for lesser active hunters, and it would make chronic script hunting types less likely to stay in any area for longish periods of time.

I have to say hunting pressure implementation was/is one of the top three reasons why I only have a paid account around 3 months out of every year now...instead of the two simultaneous premium accounts I used to have full time. The others being RSN (slow/no development in areas I care about) and the changes that basically ruined the tree house as a hangout spot.

>Oh, really? Now that's insightful. I hadn't thought to test things that way. Probably not at risk of doing those tests anytime soon, either, since I spread characters out across the lands and at many different levels.

I will work on trying to crunch some numbers. I had never really tried before because my main characters are different levels in different places, but several of my less used characters are in the teens and in the Landing, so I happened to be in the same spot.

I always notice better loot when hunting with people than solo. Trouble is ... I am in Illistim, where not many people hunt anywhere else but OTF...

I thought it was something planned into GS to encourage going out with buddies, and consider it a BRILLIANT idea :)

i have noticed that my sorc makes way more loot per hunt than my rogue does. the boxes will pile up for my sorc with only a few for my rogue, and thats at cap.