Player created addons allowed?

[Kraxammer]

Just wondering if there are addons in this/for this game? I have been playing for about a month now and it never occurred to me to look for addons.

I don't necessarily believe you need any addons in this game to play, but some qol addons might be cool.

I was reading on the forum where somebody said they were monitoring their DPS numbers? This immediately made me think of the Recount addon from you know, that other MMO.

Just curious.

[Lollie]

Fight club rules.

[Niwashi]

There was talk a long time ago (near launch) that SE was planning to implement some add-on support in the game, but I haven't heard anything about it in the past year or so. It seems like the plan may have kind of got pushed to the back burner and left to die there, never exactly canceled but never acted on either.

Without actual add-on support in the game, no third party apps are allowed to interact with the game software. (Not allowed to doesn't mean that none can, but any that do are a ToS violation.) As for DPS parsers in particular, though, the game does allow an option (at least on PCs) to dump the chat log to text files, and third-party apps that do nothing but look at those text files without interacting with the game software itself are allowed. The log from a chat tab that records all the battle info can be parsed out to a half-way decent (though not perfect) DPS estimate.

(You're not supposed to talk in-game about what any parser gave as DPS numbers, though. As near as I can tell, this appears to be because SE doesn't want to be placed in the position of trying to figure out whether you got those numbers from one of the legal parsers or illegal ones.)

[ruskie]

Actually there was mention of the addons in the recent fanfests. Basic framework done... need to sort it out so as not to be able to abuse it.

[Niwashi]

Actually there was mention of the addons in the recent fanfests. Basic framework done... need to sort it out so as not to be able to abuse it.

Ah, I'd missed that. Good to hear it hasn't completely fallen off their radar after all.

[Garlyle]

Actually there was mention of the addons in the recent fanfests. Basic framework done... need to sort it out so as not to be able to abuse it.

Basically, yeah. It should come out either with Heavensward, or sometime during that expansion's lifetime.

But yes. Right now, programs that are altering the game (or even really reading its data externally) aren't allowed; although in the case of just reading game data (eg DPS parsers to get an idea how much damage you're doing how fast) exists on a "Just don't talk about it in-game keep it only in your skype calls/teamspeak/etc" basis