Remove paintball marking same monster for players in the same area. Everyday I play with friends, we are more likely to mark same monster as we work at same area which waste additional paintball given in prime hunter pass.
Players in the same area will mark same monsters
This is unlikely to change as I don’t see how they can avoid duplicates feasibly (unique Palico map for each player, leading to extra processing and potentially even slower server response to everyone? How do they even know who you are going to share the marked monsters with in a future that has yet to happen and not locked in concrete?).
One way to mitigate this problem immediately is to allow the Palico to use up as much of its paintballs while each of you are on your way to work. My colleagues and I travel on the same MRT line everyday, and for the past year, there was only 1 instance of 2 of them marking the same monster.
If there are unexpended Palico Paintballs remaining by the time all of your party reach the office, have everyone turn off their Adventure Sync except for one person. Once that one person has finished using up their Palico Paintballs, have the next person switch on their Adventure Sync (first person doesn’t have to switch it off since no more Palico Paintballs left), until everyone used up their Palico Paintball. I suggest having the person with the most number of Palico Paintballs remaining be the first person to do this so that they have higher chance of expending all their Palico Paintballs while at work. However, since Palico Paintball may not always activate on the same monster between different players at the same location, you can consider having 2 players using Adventure Sync at the same time. My colleagues and I only had 2 instances of marking the same monster at the office in the past year too. Our Palicos often don’t trigger on the same monster in the same spawn period.
Hope this helps!
Don’t have to change but just fine tune a bit or reduce it should work, there is few monsters to mark in a biome, could just decrease the probability of marking same monster?
It depends on which monsters are within your access circles though.
Based on what I observed, the Palico would only mark the monsters that are within your circle as you pass through an area. The monsters on the Palico’s map also appears to be in the same location as the field monsters you can see yourself, though monster type and strength may vary.
If you and your colleagues are practically “in the same spot” when in the office, and if there was only 1 monster in a particular spawn period, if all of your Palicos get triggered to mark something in that spawn period, there can only be 1 target.
It can’t be anything else, since there’s only 1 monster within range when the marking got triggered.
