Quote Originally Posted by Reinhardt_Azureheim View Post
Imma throw a curveball here:

Have you considered that the Gaol congaline is an awful mechanic and is the reason why that plugin is standard?
This. While I don't condone 3rd party tools for clearing stuff like ultimates, the gaol congaline is one of the dumbest mechanics they've designed and it's the one mechanic I would look the other way for if I ever did ultima again. Fully RNG targetting (except current aggro target), coupled with everyone being grouped up due to the upheaval moments before making it extremely hard to see who's got the markers for the first second of the extremely tight 3-ish seconds to react (and god forbid, 2 people call the same spot and then try to adjust for each other), makes the mechanic so much harder for all the wrong reasons.

It's no wonder people require it, no one wants to spend time wiping on that badly designed mechanic due to how insanely easy player error causes wipes with it.

Quote Originally Posted by DixieBellOCE View Post
They cry for you to not use plugins but refuse to enforce the rules.
Exactly; it's an age old tactic called 'Crocodile tears', and it's why they won't ever seriously enforce it. Square knows full too well the PR backlash from the fanbase if they did, along with the fact they receive all the benefits of add-ons & 3rd party programs keeping people subbed longer with things such as graphic mods. it's easier for them to just say 'no, stop it you darn kids' every now and again (and maybe ban a streamer to make an empty threat) then to actually do anything about it. Not to mention, history of the video game industry has shown the vast majority of the time developers go to war against 3rd party developers, it almost always ends badly since the 3rd party peeps have infinitely more time and it costs $0 for them compared to the company having to dedicate time & money for the devs to work on anti-cheat solutions that will get bypassed in mere days, only to have to work on them again. I have no doubts Square knows this as well, and decides to play ignorant to save money and time than to wage a battle they'll 100% lose.

The only time they do anything to a player is if there's absolute proof, which is why people love to put 'Allagan melon' or 'bring math', since it makes things less than absolute with plausible deniability and thus, out of the GM's hands.