Yup, Another Thread: I Hate Addons and SE Needs To Ban Players Who Use Them!

[sindriiisgaming]

I promise you that the raid in question had mechanics that in no way could another player possibly know precisely where to move beforehand. If you are familiar with all FF14 raids and their mechanics, you can easily deliberate the possibilities. And I don't give further context and I use a alt toon on these forums for a reason. Believe me or not, it is your perogative.

How do yall embed images into ur forum comments?

[Ivtrix]

How do yall embed images into ur forum comments?

here. you need the url link in order to post it, so you need to upload it somewhere. discord works, imgur works, etc

[LittleImp]

Something I think is missing from this discussion is how the game data is handled and how those mods which show mechanics in advance actually work.

FF14 is a client-server game, while many fights are very scripted, there are some mechanics which cannot be predicted due to randomness.

The problem with this post is that it makes an impossible statement, it is straight up impossible for the game client (and any mods that someone is running) to have access to extra information that the game server has not yet sent.

This would be akin to someone rolling a dice, writing it on a letter and mailing it to you, and you predict the diceroll perfectly before it arrives. There is no actual way of knowing what the diceroll is on the letter without.... time travel?

In this analogy, the dice is being rolled by the server, and the letter is the data packets being sent to your game client.

Your game client, any mods or any system on your computer has zero way of knowing who the random mechanic will hit before it happens.

There are undeniably mods out there which people use and abuse which is unfortunate, but as far as I know, nobody has worked out time travel or breaking the laws of physics yet..

In some cases, the server sends data about certain abilities to the client long before it is actually revealed to the player. Cactbot can intercept this data, and shotcall the outcome of those abilities before any player would be able to realistically access it.

This is seen frequently in fights where ability telegraphs are done through animations. It was particularly notable in places like P3S, P8S, and A11S.

[BurningSoul]

I have to admit, I actually missed the part where they said they reported the player. My bad on that one. If you're going to report someone, you should be absolutely sure they did it. Another player simply moving their character normally, even if the timing seems suspiciously convenient, is not evidence enough to submit a cheating report. I would hope no punitive action will be taken against the accused player based purely on OP's assumptions, but you never know when a report might land in the lap of a trigger-happy GM.

Gotcha, it happens. Yes I agree, you never know, gms make mistakes too I imagine.

[Renalt]

How do yall embed images into ur forum comments?

I have found the forum import images doesn't work for me so I use imgbb.com.

Once uploaded it will give you a link but you can change the link style. The one I have found that works for me here is BBcode Full Linked. Copy the link and paste it into the message.

Hope that helps!