Quote Originally Posted by Midareyukki View Post
To clarify for people who don't know what these do:
  • XIV Alexander is a tool that allows several different add-ons and modifications. The most common use of it is to reduce input lag, often caused by high ping, allowing you to consistently weave OGCDs without clipping. This is especially good for stuff like MCH, GNB and DRG who are known for double-weaving skills. But it can also allow you to change fonts and even tack on a translation for the game in your language to help with people with language barriers (for example, ever noticed there isn't a Spanish translation despite Spanish being a widely-spoken language? There you have it.)
  • ACT is what enables parses. What parses do is see how much numbers you deal in a fight and add them up for you instantly and comprehensively. This information is all in the Battle Chat Log, but no sane person would use excel to calculate an entire chat log. ACT does it automatically and live, through reading information to and from the server directly. That's all it does: just shows you numbers.
  • Cactbot on the other hand is a plug-in that is then tacked onto ACT, allowing you to have live call-outs for the fight. Several people do consider this cheating, because it reads fight information and can resolve mechanics for you. Others don't, because the call-outs it gives are 90% obvious, and barring specific mechanics where it DOES bypass the mental challenge altogether, the call-outs still require you to know how to resolve the mechanic and really only remind you that a mechanic is coming. Some people also consider this to be no different than your raid leader doing call-outs on Discord calls, but it does have extra benefits that your raid leader would not be doing, as it's far more personal.

There are other plug-ins, of course. But hey, now you know what they do and won't be saying something daft like how "ACT enables zoomhacks".

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Regardless it is still cheating and strictly prohibited also the use of custom launcher for the game that is not approved by SE.

This is more a yell out or rama scream to that I am not that awesome at playing the game and all that I know will find out if I lose this crutch kind of mentality shown, as for the game only supporting JP, FR, ENG, DE, just mean you need to learn a second language... neither of these languages is my native language, but english is my second and German is my Third...I know a little tad of French as well and I speak one Scandinavian language perfect and understand 2 additional of them.

SE should do something about this and for good that is.