Radars in Frontlines and Hunts - Any word from SE?

[Hybris-Maenad]

It would be nice to hear that something will be done to counter the effect of the rampant cheating taking place in their latest update.

[Yukonjack]

Yes, this has to be fixed immediately.

[Adol]

There is nothing they can do besides banning people who have evidence against them, to suggest they have been using such tools, by the community.

[Jacost]

I don't see what they can do. I'm not privy to the inner workings of the system, but from what I've heard the radar only reads data from the game client. If it were accessing the server then SE would be able to detect it, but as is they can't tell who's doing it.

Of course, ignoring chatlogs of people bragging about using it isn't making us very confident that they're even trying. Nor is deleting every thread that mentions them. It's like they're going out of their way to ignore the issue.

[Hulan]

I'm not familiar with the 3rd party programs involved, but based on what I have read about them on here, one thing they could do is reduce the enemy position update range. This would actually help reduce overall traffic as well. Though strictly speaking, I'm not sure how far away these radars supposedly work, so it's possible they have already done that. If the server only updated the clients on the position of monsters within a 50 yalm range (about the range that monsters start loading on the screen anyway), that would drastically impact 3rd party apps' abilities to track monster movement at long range.

Again, I'm basing this entirely on conjecture, it's possible they already do something like this and the 3rd party programs function in a completely different way, but I doubt it.

[MorbidAngel]

I think they should just let them be shown on everyone's map if there's no way they can find out who the people who are using this app are. This is pretty much what they did in 1.0 so might as well do it here too.

[KamikazeMan]

I think it would be hilarious to place elites underground that move around and teleport around the region to completely throw people off that use radar, lol. They could do the same for frontlines as well...have random player names moving around the field underground.

[Nukocafe]

People use radars in frontlines now? Why? (´・ω・`)
2.3 ~Exploiters of Eorzea~

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

People use radars in frontlines now? Why? (´・ω・`)
2.3 ~Exploiters of Eorzea~

So you can see when drones pop and where the other team is.

[Nukocafe]

So you can see when drones pop and where the other team is.

Welp...glad I never bothered then ಠ_ಠ