add an in game parser please!!!

[Yahallo]

Oh and parers use resources... a lot of resources.

I used a parser in WoW. I saw no real increase in resource usage at all.

If that isn't good enough for you, I asked a friend who uses a parser. He said it at most takes 80 mb of ram (the game's minimum requirements asks for 2 GB of ram btw) and rarely even registered on CPU usage and when it did it was at most a measly 1% (this was gathered via the task manager). Parsers are incredibly light weight. A lot of the data that would be collected by a parser is already collected by your battle log tab in the chatbox; a parser would just use that information and calculate some things and print out the numbers that it came up with and a computer that can run FFXIV can easily do basic computation.

Do you mean resources like machine resources (CPU, memory, internet etc) or developer? If you mean the former, I'm no authority, so perhaps someone more knowledgeable than I can say how much they tend to take; I was always under the impression it wasn't too hard on a machine. If you mean the latter, perhaps SE can go the same route as Blizzard and let the community develop addons/parsers similar to what ACT already is. I think that uses less developer resources as all they need to do is make sure things don't go too far (e.g when Blizzard broke AVR because it was too invasive and trivalized heroic Rotface's slime mechanics).



Edit: Whoops. I meant AVR.

I wouldn't even think it would take a lot of developer resources. I am pretty sure they already have their own parsers for testing purposes. All they would have to really do is give it a nice UI and look, something they already have a lot of resources for like font size and type for example. And even if they don't, addon support. Didn't they say they would eventually put in addon support?