About 3rd Party Softwares

[Sadana]

A tough thing about the radar is the reporting of it... if people who know about someone using it are taking advantage of that knowledge, I would imagine the last thing they'd do is report it. :/

Needless to say, I just kill marks as I find them in the open world; I'm not even bothering to hunt for the weekly target (not 'til the hp has been buffed anyways).

[Kiara]

Funny thing about the ppl using the radar program to find hunt marks. It seems to only search for the name and display the location. I've been running to remote areas of various zones after renaming my chocobo to share the name of a local A or S rank mark and get a swarm of ppl running to me within a minute. One of these a FC mate actually saw them teleport in at the aetherite and he followed them as they made a bee-line to my location. There was no shouts, emotes, nothing. Kept completely quiet about it and no other random players were nearby until the swarm arrived.

LOL, nice. Did you report the people showing up at your Chocobo? This would be a great way to screenshot / report cheaters.

[DragonFlyy]

SE really needs to just follow other MMOs designs and add a software warden to their system.

[Welsper59]

As this is nothing new or in surprise, most people in the forums maybe are just concerned that they always get just general reply´s, rather than an official statement on how SE is going to handle a certain issue which comes along a certain Add-on or Plug-in...

We all know the Radar-App is against ToS (and morality, which bothers more people than the ToS)... what people want here is to draw attention to this and maybe get some info´s about how this will be handled in future...

From the get-go, I've been saying that they can't give an inch to the player base. If we (generally speaking) are doing something bad, it has to be stopped and/or made an example out of.

Initially, it was RMT with position and gathering hacks... bans were made public. Okay, that's fine. Then there was the parsers, which is something originally seen as harmless but still against ToS, but SE decided to let that go as long as people are quiet about their using it. Mmmm... walking a thin line there, but all right. Then came the infamous win-trading, which resulted in ZERO penalties, and essentially a go-ahead by Yoshi-P himself. Okay, that basically opened the flood gates and the line has been crossed, it's open season from here on.

A resulting outlook is that SE will overlook everything unless you are botting or position hacking, which is still pretty damn easy to get away with. I have some experience with position hack programs/apps, as I've used/tested those before on various games, including SE ones, and have never had any bans or anything. It's unreasonable to think they will catch everyone that cheats, but they just can't let it be so blatantly acceptable to cheat the system. For the record, I haven't done anything against ToS on this game, so anyone of authority reading this would just be wasting their time checking.

[Elim]

From the get-go, I've been saying that they can't give an inch to the player base.

Cheaters gunna cheat.

SE should design EVERYTHING with cheaters in mind.

[Nyalia]

Can someone post a list of A and S rank hunt target names? I'll see if I can get my FC to rename all their chocos to random ones on the list.

[Icehunter]

Can someone post a list of A and S rank hunt target names? I'll see if I can get my FC to rename all their chocos to random ones on the list.

Chocobos are not just for riding.

[Ashkendor]

Can someone post a list of A and S rank hunt target names? I'll see if I can get my FC to rename all their chocos to random ones on the list.

Should be able to find all of them here. :3

[Oni_Akuma]

The type of software you are describing in this thread doesn't appear to directly control anything for the FFXIV client, and as such isn't breaking any of the rules. Similar to other programs, 3rd party software is used at your own risk, and we recommend you employ your best judgement when running software not mentioned in the user agreement.

Had to post it. For peoples clarification.

[Mcshiggs]

Had to post it. For peoples clarification.

It seems they banned 9 accounts yesterday for illicit activities, didn't say what they were, but I'm guessing 3rd party programs. 9 isn't that many, but at least they are catching a few of the pricks.