Quote Originally Posted by Masamune1004 View Post
Modifying the files in any way is against the ToS. Modifying certain files gives you things like speed and position hacks I think, and it would be a pain to go through each file and say if you can or can't change it, so they just say "No modifying kthnx."
Oh I know. They're backed by lawyers. My post got baleeted, but man did it take forever to find the right files. What's funny is they linked to their OLD XI rules, which technically cannot apply to this game because they're two separate products:

Relevant sections from the FINAL FANTASY XI Guidelines: Reproducing, duplicating, altering, supplementing, changing, or other secondary use of this Service’s software, either whole or in part.

I guess this fell under "changing", even though two files that already existed were swapped around.

Now here's the other question - elitists use parsers - parsers, although harmless (though harmful to the community because of the minmax munchkin contests) intercept data. I remember reading in the ToS that we are not allowed to do that. People have openly made posts showing their numbers using that utility - why do the mods turn a blind eye to that?