They need to toss HQ's into a 0~24 hour pool. all 3 would be random at any given time, so 1 LS couldnt bot every single one. Someone i talked to in FI said they were thinking about dropping a ridill just to show how much they dont need it. Ridill, something many of us strive for but can't even come close ot getting no matter how skilled or mannered we are in FFXI.
That wouldn't solve much, since FI can hunt at any time of day anyway.
Clearly, the issue is that you have hundreds of players fighting over 3 pops a week. Expand that number to 10 a day, expand it to 10 on the next level (wyrms), populate loot with stuff worth the difficulty, and you suddenly solved the problem of not enough content to go around. Expand the current abjuration system so that all abjuration lines come off of at least 2 if not 3 HNMs that are either 21-24hr pop or force popped. Finish the CoP endgame so that the people who are only hunting the current endgame mobs for their 2nd, 3rd, etc. job abjurations have something to move onto. The current pop rates just don't support the number of people at the level anymore, and it's killing the endgame because there's no way you can solve the claim problem, so you just have to make enough content to satisfy your base. Lack of new content is the #1 issue that's killing FFXI endgame right now. It's been 17 months since the last HNM endgame was finished, which is the exact reason why this is even an issue. Even if it was the same situation but with sea HNMs and wyrms, at least NAs could move onto sea HNMs and maybe get an occasional wyrm.