Concerns about useage of 3rd party applications

[Absurdity]

Now if this person is killing mobs consistently deliberately to refuse others the chance, then you could submit a report on that behavior and see if anything happens. Because they would be able to tell in game at least how the person was intentionally griefing.

Unlikely for anything to happen. We had the same ~4 people ninja pulling S-ranks for the entirety of Stormblood, even the ones that someone else spent who knows how many hours on to spawn. Pretty safe to assume that they were using some kind of 3rd party software since they would sit in Limsa, or other zones that weren't connected to the spawn location, for hours until an S-rank was spawned. Then as soon as one spawned they'd show up within a minute, without it even being announced anywhere, immediately pull and start killing it.


Nothing ever happened to them, despite actively gloating in chat.

[Dragonblanco]

Unlikely for anything to happen. We had the same ~4 people ninja pulling S-ranks for the entirety of Stormblood, even the ones that someone else spent who knows how many hours on to spawn. Pretty safe to assume that they were using some kind of 3rd party software since they would sit in Limsa, or other zones that weren't connected to the spawn location, for hours until an S-rank was spawned. Then as soon as one spawned they'd show up within a minute, without it even being announced anywhere, immediately pull and start killing it.


Nothing ever happened to them, despite actively gloating in chat.

Actually, chances are they are using websites like https://ffxiv.ariyala.com/HuntTracker/ or https://ffxivhunt.com/

Like with ffxivhunt one, you can create or join a group. Once you know when something spawned and was defeated, it can tell you the window for when it will pop again. Obviously these sites don't dig into the server data and is a crowdsourced bit of info, relying on users to witness and report info, but yeah....

[Absurdity]

Actually, chances are they are using websites like https://ffxiv.ariyala.com/HuntTracker/ or https://ffxivhunt.com/

Like with ffxivhunt one, you can create or join a group. Once you know when something spawned and was defeated, it can tell you the window for when it will pop again. Obviously these sites don't dig into the server data and is a crowdsourced bit of info, relying on users to witness and report info, but yeah....

That is exactly why I'm pretty certain it was 3rd party software, because I was using those sites myself back in Stormblood. They rely on players actually reporting those kills on the site, with the correct time at which it was killed, and it needs to be reported by several players to be accepted as legitimate. On top of that these sites only tell you that an S-rank "could potentially" spawn, not that it definitely has been spawned a minute ago.


Relying on manual reports by players makes these sites anything but accurate. They were useful for checking if you should even bother to try and look for a hunt mob, or if it was reported as dead 2 hours ago and you'd just be wasting your time. It could never tell you an accurate respawn time because these aren't static for S-ranks and it can also not tell you the exact location of one, so it becomes very suspicious if the same few people teleport into your zone and immediately bolt exactly towards the hunt mob's location when said location hasn't been announced yet.