this is a game unlike any other games. you are playing the missions over and over again not only for loot, but to perfect your skills. you may be trying to position yourself correctly to slice rathalos' tail as he is hovering over cha-cha. you may be timing your rolls perfectly to escape joe's nasty breath. or you may be doing a 3rd level gs charge standing behind rathian, and have it land on her sensitive head the moment she starts turning around.

trying to perfect your hunting skills is what keeps you going back to the missions again, and again. of course, hoping to get rare loots will hook you as well.

as for having no one to play - look up gaeryn, he organizes MH adhoc sessions pretty often. so you can find hunting kakis easily

edit : hwar, kena summon

U are in kulim too? There are not many open gamers here. Most are lone rangers. I am considering starting a meet or something. I have a nice location available and 10% off for food consumption ere.

As for the time limit. Here are the nutshells.
Time limit for all mission are 50 minutes (correct me if i am wrong)
Harder mission, same time limit.
The meat of the game is bringing the right weapon and armor against the right monster.

My first time killing tigrex takes 45 minutes.
After gathering the right armor resistant, ear plug and also weapon. The quest was cut down to 20 minutes. I also tried dual tigrex before with even bettef armour and it took me only 30 minutes and less to solo em.

Eh btw. Any hidden pnang and kulim andytterworth 3DS gamer here???

I am new to MH world, and feel that this game is very hard.
I had spent 3 hours on the 1star mission<playing with fire>.... No luck at all.

did you clock 1000 hours? 

talk to the cat near the Ship in Moga Village and go to Port Tanzia. talk to the guild sweetheart there, you'll find the DLC there