They need to find a way to detect XIV Alexander and ban people

[Ronduwil]

What the title says. I just found out that it literally tells you things in the game that you shouldn't know prior. For example. WHen you do the Gold Saucer Mini Cactpot, it will LIGHT UP the ones you want to click for the highest reward... That's absurd.

I think you're misunderstanding what it's doing. It doesn't know what the highest reward is. It just lights up the ones that have the highest probability of yielding the best result. Much like this third party web site does: https://super-aardvark.github.io/yuryu/

You could do the same thing if you took the time to brute force out all the possibilities, but computers are way better at that. SE will never do anything about Alexander for the same reasons they don't do anything about ACT. Source: An interview with YoshiP - https://youtu.be/e_i6mjiGerU?t=180

• They want to avoid futile reporting wars because games shouldn't be about that.
• They don't know what all you have installed on your PC, and they can't really find out without seriously invading your privacy.
• It's natural for players to crave efficiency. As long as they're not calling out other players for matching their efficiency, SE is willing to live and let live.

I know ACT is an entirely different beast, but it has far more impact on gameplay than this other addon that you're talking about, and they've publicly stated that they're not taking action on it.

It can also adjust their ping to be near zero, allowing them to hit skills/nodes much faster than others.

No, it can't. If you seriously believe this, you have no clue how the internet works. The ping is literally the time it takes the server to respond to your client's request. It is entirely dependent on the connection speeds between all the steps on your route to the server. No addon is going to magically speed up all the connections between your data center and your ISP. You often see third party services offering faster connection speeds to your favorite game. Use them at your own risk. In the best case, you're trading a slow connection to the data center for a faster connection to this third party service. At worst, you're simply trading a slow connection to the data center for a slow connection to the service. YMMV.