HR problem

[wongahh]

I've spent an unreasonably frustrating amount of time getting MHP3rd onto my PC to play with my friend and finally got it to work. The frustrating hours were well rewarded, but I've hit another problem and I'm wondering if anyone here could help.

My friend hosts the adhoc server and the quests that we play, because when I tried hosting he would crash when entering the guild hall and when I host quests he loses connection and I would be forced to solo the quest by myself. This wouldn't be a problem, if I didn't have to pick the urgent quests to advance my HR. I think I could get away with not doing any of my own quests and just riding on his though. Is there any know fix for this or will I have to stay HR1 forever?