3rd party tool go brrrrr

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Originally Posted by Grebeny

No need to spy on me. I am telling you directly, I never cleared ultimate. Personally cleared most of the stuff I engaged with MIL, no echo, so your tool will claim I suck at dps, compared to the dps you did on the same content, how do you know I suck if you have no idea how you would perform with the same gear, you compare the gear, not the performence in that case.

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I mean, if you're clearing old content at minilvl you won't be told you suck at dps by fflogs, or if you're any good. I believe you won't be given a number ranking at all because they simply do not do that for anything that isn't on-content. Why would they? You can't make a meaningful comparison when job design and potencies changes between patches and expansions anyway.

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2.1 Cheating and Botting. You may not create or use any unauthorized cheats, bots, automation software, hacks, mods or any other unauthorized software or hardware designed to modify the Game and gameplay. In addition, you may not take advantage of game system bugs and exploits during gameplay.

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ACT doesnt modify the game and gameplay. Its not a cheat, not a bot, not a automation software, no hack and no mod. Please correct me, if I m wrong here.

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Originally Posted by Caitlyn

ACT doesnt modify the game and gameplay. Its not a cheat, not a bot, not a automation software, no hack and no mod. Please correct me, if I m wrong here.

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Well give it does give you an edge of sorts, it can be classified as a cheat. Given it can be set for triggers, give out call outs before the game even displays it. Yes i know someone will probably say "What about human call outs then ?" Well humans can screw up or respond late, while a program like that will rarely have that happen or not at all.

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Originally Posted by CosmicCoqui

Well give it does give you an edge of sorts, it can be classified as a cheat. Given it can be set for triggers, give out call outs before the game even displays it. Yes i know someone will probably say "What about human call outs then ?" Well humans can screw up or respond late, while a program like that will rarely have that happen or not at all.

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I m not talking about the plugins or triggers here. Just the damage parser only.
Yes, I would count auto-callouts and triggers as cheats, too.

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Originally Posted by CosmicCoqui

Well give it does give you an edge of sorts, it can be classified as a cheat. Given it can be set for triggers, give out call outs before the game even displays it. Yes i know someone will probably say "What about human call outs then ?" Well humans can screw up or respond late, while a program like that will rarely have that happen or not at all.

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What are your talking about, most I've ever seen it used for its to measure personal dps.

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Originally Posted by CosmicCoqui

Well give it does give you an edge of sorts, it can be classified as a cheat. Given it can be set for triggers, give out call outs before the game even displays it. Yes i know someone will probably say "What about human call outs then ?" Well humans can screw up or respond late, while a program like that will rarely have that happen or not at all.

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ACT is comparable to a calculator. It’s a tool. It displays you the number, (a) unit of measurement. It won’t specifically tell you ”Hey your number is low go improve lol.” right off the bat, because it simply has no power to do so. If you input wrong number… well, it’ll also display you a wrong answer. It’s entirely up to you to get it right.

One can however, ‘modify’ this calculator to be something more, and those are their ‘plug-ins’. This ranges from fluffs (make your calculator prettier by adding cute stickers) to borderline cheating. I.e. showing telegraphs that are otherwise should be invisible and/or showing what mechanic will be happening way, way sooner than what the in-game cues wants to tell you, whether before the audio/visual cue happens or specific dialogue happens.

CMIIW.

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Originally Posted by Rein_eon_Osborne

ACT is comparable to a calculator. It’s a tool. It displays you the number, (a) unit of measurement. It won’t specifically tell you ”Hey your number is low go improve lol.” right off the bat, because it simply has no power to do so. If you input wrong number… well, it’ll also display you a wrong answer. It’s entirely up to you to get it right.

One can however, ‘modify’ this calculator to be something more, and those are their ‘plug-ins’. This ranges from fluffs (make your calculator prettier by adding cute stickers) to borderline cheating. I.e. showing telegraphs that are otherwise should be invisible and/or showing what mechanic will be happening way, way sooner than what the in-game cues wants to tell you, whether before the audio/visual cue happens or specific dialogue happens.

CMIIW.

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So ACT is completely harmless until you modify it to do more than intended. It would be so GREAT if all the snowflakes could get their shit straight before they run their mouths. Do you have a phone? If so you can join the Dalamud discord server and ask questions.

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Originally Posted by CosmicCoqui

Well give it does give you an edge of sorts, it can be classified as a cheat. Given it can be set for triggers, give out call outs before the game even displays it. Yes i know someone will probably say "What about human call outs then ?" Well humans can screw up or respond late, while a program like that will rarely have that happen or not at all.

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I've seen people screw up using cactbot. The program is just a callout, it doesn't play the game for you.

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Originally Posted by Ransu

I've seen people screw up using cactbot. The program is just a callout, it doesn't play the game for you.

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Still does not ignore the fact that it does something better then a person either way.

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Originally Posted by EagleDynamics

changing the tos would be the better fix. if square enix took time away from working on other things in ff14 to work on making mods this community would be up in arms.

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I'm not sure if you saw the screenshot in the other thread, but SE does in fact intend to make their own UI and HUD enhancements. There's no timeline or set date for this, however.