SE's most difinitive statement yet on parsers

[ispano]

Well no the point is you are given the necessary tools to complete the task are you saying it's not possible to get it done without a parser?

There's many things in game and in real life that can be done without metrics and tools to help consolidate those metrics into something more easily usable. Like we have a combat log, but it leaves out dots, and the in game part has a line limit. The logs saved outside of the game are terribly difficult to read by hand. It's basically like giving a rally driver group several reams of raw data, but telling them they can't use a tool to make it easier to use.

[Umichi]

There's many things in game and in real life that can be done without metrics and tools to help consolidate those metrics into something more easily usable. Like we have a combat log, but it leaves out dots, and the in game part has a line limit. The logs saved outside of the game are terribly difficult to read by hand. It's basically like giving a rally driver group several reams of raw data, but telling them they can't use a tool to make it easier to use.

the problem is your not taking the raw data and inputting it into the machine and in the case of the rally drivers they are allowed tools to observe to help improve.... in our game you're taking the raw data in Real time as the game is playing. going against the ToS put forth by SE which implies NO THIRD PARTY TOOLS