I think in this case the blame is not onto MA but on the player base.
Totally agree, its not the failure of MA here.
Its the comon mindset we see in EU comunity today.
To many pec counting, to many efficency optimization, and hell avoid hunting with anyone who got better efficency than you, as your loot will suck statements.
Another thing I often can see, why hunt bigger than puny, its just money waste, loot is good on puny and it drops nice MU items, so why go teamed on something bigger? LOL
Additionally there is the irons. If you like to get the killcounts you still need to do most damage. Thats why many people don´t like to hunt with others who have higher DPS, just to get their iron killcounts.
All this things didn´t exist in the old days.
We went for Hogglos to drop some ESI or a nice gun, or simply get a nice UBER loot. Hogglo loot was fairly good.
Same for many other mobs we hunted with our Millitarys not even maxed with it
It would be even better efficent today with all this L stuff available for all levels. Noone would need to go with a unmaxed weapon, but its so much harder to find a team these days.
Thats not an issue that MA caused, its an issue with the comunity itself and the comon mindset.
In the past we said, 10 people with Opallo are as efficent as a solo hunter with a MM, and this is still true.
So why I can´t find 10 people with a z12+A101 that are willing to do what MM users do, just as team and not solo.
When I look around at Icarus or Boreas and other places, there is really enough people.
Asking for a team on something bigger than puny or Kerbs, no replys.
Its just anoying that everyone wants to do his own thing.
That took out the most fun for me.
Maybe if I find a active Soc, where the mix of old and new players is balanced I may find some team activity, but the Socs I have joined for a while past years none of it offered such an activity. It was just a couple of solo players who joined the same Soc, rarly any Soc activity
Well this isn´t MAs fault aswell, still a problem in the comunity (Soc).
What to say?
Looking for active Soc that offers regularly low gear team hunts, just for the fun of it!