Yoshi's post about client server and cheating

[Fayth]

Here's how I see it; if you can play the game without tearing your hair out at how slow it is, it's fine. I wouldn't hate it if they could cut down on some of the checks, but the game is very playable right now. I think Yoshi-P and his team are doing a great job in improving every aspect of XIV, and as long as the improvements keep coming, I can keep playing happily.
One other thing, there's no need to get upset on a forum, especially one such as this. We're all playing the same game, and we all have our ideas and opinions about what could be done to improve it, but don't take the for granted the attention that the developers are paying to our pleas. They can only get so much done within the time they've set for deadlines, and they're working their butts off to address as many of our concerns as a community as they can.


(Also hey all in Trabia! Wave to me some time :3)

[tachikoma]

Not upset at all loving the game, I want other ppl who don't love the game to be welcomed back for 2.0 and go OMG this is the most amazing MMO ever love the story/lore/battle/balance/content AND UI SPEED. I do have faith they are fixing this I just like to make this topic every 4-6months to make sure it doesn't get forgotten because to me its my biggest lingering issue that has not been directly talked about by a dev comment/thread.

[TheRac25]

Trading limitations and the lack of mail system have nothing to do with certain pieces of code being client or server side. I'm not sure why they are mentioned here.

this, and it only stops people that don't know what they are doing

[illriginalized]

Wow... NOW I understand why the game feels sluggish.

It's amazing that the few posts I've made else where people blamed my system, yet my system is pretty much untouchable as of now with all of the titles I own for PC. But this game.. my goodness.

The one thing that just irks me is trading with my retainers... do you know how many times I, "thought" I grabbed all the supplies I needed for some craft grinding only to realize after I get to my little spot... that I have to go back and slowly but surely pick out my supplies and confirm they're in my inventory then run back. That drives me nuts!!!

[Dzian]

.3 seconds PLUS response time: .3 + response time = total time.

I just guessed reponse time to be .3 as well, which gives us .6 = 600ms which is CRAPPY.

LOL Dialup?

[Valmonte]

LOL Dialup?

dail up would be around 6000ms +EM+line static+ Base filtering+FBI Surveillance Center, you would time out before you ever got a return on anything.

[yialee]

i guess it not a problem til ppl account get hack i guess so smile

[Alhanelem]

NON-JAPAN CLIENT <-> JAPAN SERVER 300 MS PING: BAD, UNAVOIDABLE, WILL GET FIXED WITH NON-JAPAN SERVERS

I really don't know what you're yelling about, but I haven't seen anything anywhere that says that there will be servers located outside of Japan. The "EU friendly" server we're getting isn't located in the EU, it's just a designated server, much like how people designated Besaid as the unofficial RP server.

You don't need to scream at me "300 PING = BAD!"

[Alhanelem]

Seriously XI is one of the worst AAA MMO when it comes to cheating. You can :

- Speedhack freely
- See things that aren't normally visible (like use ??? before they spawn)
- Position hack at will on both legit and non-legit locations (legit = what can be reached by normal means)
- You can do gathering while being in a non-legit location (i.e. Mine while being underground)
- You can automate movement in a way that a character can chain a repeatable quest that requires to go from A to B. While A>B is a long way for the normal player, for a cheater it takes less than a minute to complete the quest. Reward is often crap, yet since you chain it 24/7 (with several accounts as well), you can make high profit.
- Fish botting...
- Tons of things I forget (lot of possible exploits etc.)

Players can be and do get banned for most of the things you listed. Also, automating movement can be done with almost any keyboard with a macro record function or with a program like AutoHotKey. There's not much SE can do about that.

(sorry for double post)

[Gramul]

Question.
What's the purpose of defending a decision that has proven to be inconvenient to the player and the main problem that has chased off so many early subscribers?

Or am I just not understanding what is behind the input, execution, and animation lags. Because I admit, I probably don't know much about this stuff as you do.