SE's most difinitive statement yet on parsers

[Sebazy]

Actually they do show on screen. It's just all your dots lumped together where the problem lies, in addition to everyone's dots ticking at the same time, making it hard to see.

Aye, they only show as flying text, but the numbers never make it further than that, they don't appear in the log or combat window and thus aren't really parseable via traditional math alone. Disable flying text in the options and dots won't get seen by a parser for example.

Ps sorry for the double post, not sure how I managed that!

*edit* wait nm, space-time continuum getting torn asunder by historic quoting!

[ispano]

Aye, they only show as flying text, but the numbers never make it further than that, they don't appear in the log or combat window and thus aren't really parseable via traditional math alone. Disable flying text in the options and dots won't get seen by a parser for example.

Ps sorry for the double post, not sure how I managed that!

*edit* wait nm, space-time continuum getting torn asunder by historic quoting!

Well, since most current parsers just read that data from memory, unless the option turns that aspect off too, it likely still reads them. But yeah, to manually parse dots you have to watch the screen. Doable, but really not feasible. But we just have to wait for addons and we won't have to worry about these arguments anymore.

Um... you didn't fix anything I said.

I directly quoted that word for word from SE, which you can see by looking at the link. So if you did fix anything, you basically just changed the meaning of what SE is saying is their rules as a company. Not me.

I didn't change the wording at all, I highlighted the actual relevant part, which you chose not to.