Question about FFLogs

[Makeda]

A tool that is merely reading the contents of a log file the game has saved to your harddrive and displaying that log graphically on your screen using its own executable wholly separate from other apps.

A website that lets you upload a text file on your hard drive is also... letting you upload a file on your hard drive to show to others or to just yourself.

The reason you don’t see action over these is... there is nothing that can be acted upon going on. This is very different from mods that do things like alter game graphics - those are actually changing game files... and so SE can choose to go after them aggressively.

Likewise, if you read something in your log that you have an opinion over it and then angrily bring that opinion to bare against someone IN GAME then SE can and will go after you...

But for some reason many fail to understand how this is wholly different from merely reading your own log files...

[aiqa]

A tool that is merely reading the contents of a log file the game has saved to your harddrive

Where does FF write a battle log to your harddrive?

[MariaArvana]

Where does FF write a battle log to your harddrive?

In your character data folder, you'll notice file(s) called 000000001.log or something similar to that. These files save EVERYTHING that would normally show up in any of your 3-4 chat tabs. They record basically everything by default, but they won't record anything that you manually disable.

That being said, the game is still parsing the info to these log files even if manually disabling things; just not writing it to them. ACT reads the parsed battle data, does math, and then spits out a readable number. So if someone had extreme time and patience, they could dive into these log files, grab every numerical value they do for the entire encounter, and then do the math themselves, as the game is saving an entire record of you & your party.