SE: Please copyright takedown FFLogs.

[KaivaC]

I'm confused? Does OP want to get rid of parser, which is basically a must have for savage raiding to figure out why you aren't meeting the DPS check? Or does he just want to get rid of FFXIV logs, just the website? I don't see why so many people are getting triggered if he's not talking about getting rid of the parser.

You need to know if someone trying out for your static is good or not? Why not just do a trial run and see how they perform with parser instead of checking FFXIV logs, like I hope most groups still do.

At this point, I'm not even going to say anything. I'm just going to laugh. Another one bites the dust.

[Ftail]

At this point, I'm not even going to say anything. I'm just going to laugh. Another one bites the dust.

What are you laughing at and why?

[XiXiQ]

If I visit the site my anti-virus blocks it for coin-mining. No idea if it's a false alarm, by design or a hack.

[NocturniaUzuki]

At this point, I'm not even going to say anything. I'm just going to laugh. Another one bites the dust.

Regardless of whether or not the OP was a bait or not, the discussion it sparks is no less meaningful. So Ftail might get the last laugh here, as it were.

[KaivaC]

Regardless of whether or not the OP was a bait or not, the discussion it sparks is no less meaningful. So Ftail might get the last laugh here, as it were.

Oh no, I'm not disputing the follow-ups to the discussion haven't had meaning. It's just that a lot of people are getting sucked into this thread thinking that the OP was serious...I am laughing because folks are falling for the exact same bait that I did. Besides that, I wouldn't exactly call it so much as meaningful as it is just disputing those who grossly misunderstand FFLOGs and try to lambast it this this wholly toxic website, when really its not toxic. The sad fact is that the bait gave a lot of misinformed people a starting point to start rallying over, a good portion of whom have demonstrated that they lack understanding of how parsers and FFLOGs really even work in the first place.

[AppleJinx]

If this keeps going any longer, sooner of later pewdiepie is gonna make a response video to this thread.

[SleepyNeko]

Kinda off-topic question, does fflogs parse % count multiple parses on the same player? Like if one person parse orange like a million times on a single fight, do they "hog" all the positions for orange parses?

I'm just asking because I'm worried that if all the top parses are just from people that has low latency and statics, like they are just uploading heaps of logs with optimal group coordination and team comp and raising the overall damage numbers stored in fflogs. Then players that never parses, come in with over 50ms Ping (no double weaves) in PF groups that don't have all the support buffs will be disadvantaged because they'll be parsed by randoms and uploaded with a low percentile.

[Vnolan]

Kinda off-topic question, does fflogs parse % count multiple parses on the same player? Like if one person parse orange like a million times on a single fight, do they "hog" all the positions for orange parses?

Yes, but you also have to take into account runs with pugs where one person will upload and there will be members that were dead for long periods. Those will bump up lower percentiles. Skewed percentiles would be a problem if the skill of the average player was high, but it ain't, so it's not.

[SleepyNeko]

Yes, but you also have to take into account runs with pugs where one person will upload and there will be members that were dead for long periods. Those will bump up lower percentiles. Skewed percentiles would be a problem if the skill of the average player was high, but it ain't, so it's not.

Ahh that makes sense, but isn't the skill of the average player high IN fflogs? Is it okay to assume that people that have higher skill is more likely to upload to fflog?

Actually scratch that I meant to ask, isn't it more likely that fflogs contains on average players with higher skill than all the players that don't upload but still play the same savage/ex content?

[Nedkel]

Ahh that makes sense, but isn't the skill of the average player high IN fflogs? Is it okay to assume that people that have higher skill is more likely to upload to fflog?

Actually scratch that I meant to ask, isn't it more likely that fflogs contains on average players with higher skill than all the players that don't upload but still play the same savage/ex content?

When uploading fflogs, you dont only upload data for your character, but also for your entire team. All bad performing ones are also on these logs.