Concerns about useage of 3rd party applications

[Puremallace]

It is such a grey area. What is so strange in pve it is technically a no but in PVP at the end of every single Frontline they show damage done which is hyper contradictory to the entire ToS thing.

[Absurdity]

Actually, chances are they are using websites like https://ffxiv.ariyala.com/HuntTracker/ or https://ffxivhunt.com/

Like with ffxivhunt one, you can create or join a group. Once you know when something spawned and was defeated, it can tell you the window for when it will pop again. Obviously these sites don't dig into the server data and is a crowdsourced bit of info, relying on users to witness and report info, but yeah....

That is exactly why I'm pretty certain it was 3rd party software, because I was using those sites myself back in Stormblood. They rely on players actually reporting those kills on the site, with the correct time at which it was killed, and it needs to be reported by several players to be accepted as legitimate. On top of that these sites only tell you that an S-rank "could potentially" spawn, not that it definitely has been spawned a minute ago.


Relying on manual reports by players makes these sites anything but accurate. They were useful for checking if you should even bother to try and look for a hunt mob, or if it was reported as dead 2 hours ago and you'd just be wasting your time. It could never tell you an accurate respawn time because these aren't static for S-ranks and it can also not tell you the exact location of one, so it becomes very suspicious if the same few people teleport into your zone and immediately bolt exactly towards the hunt mob's location when said location hasn't been announced yet.

[Dragonblanco]

There's a very nifty forum feature called Edit, which you can use to edit your post. Just thought you should be aware!

I edit when I have to edit. See...there's such a thing called "character limit" where you can only type so much. Now, if you'd like to rephrase things like MilkieTea said,

you can circumvent the character limit by posting a few words and then editing that post with the full quote.

I mean, I assume that's what you meant? or what about editing?

[SannaR]

I edit when I have to edit. See...there's such a thing called "character limit" where you can only type so much. Now, if you'd like to rephrase things like MilkieTea said,



I mean, I assume that's what you meant? or what about editing?

When anyone on these forums talk about editing a post they almost always mean bypassing the character limit of a post. There is also a daily post limit. It's why people who are in a debate over things will edit their last post of they've hit their daily limit. It's rare for people to grumble about a person's grammar on here unless they write a non stop wall of text.