Mods and cheat engine

[LittleImp]

I'd like to figure out what peoples' opinions on this is...

If it's cheating to use ACT's bot that gives players mechanic callouts, which are themselves limited and only really get into specifics when stuff is on the players' screen already (if at all), then would static members giving callouts to people also be considered cheating?

Cactbot can:
1. Solve mechanics that aren't visible on the client yet.
2. Solve mechanics with a less than 10ms reaction time.
3. Compile a series of mechanical queues taking place over a long time, and then provide a solution to a later mechanic, removing the need for anyone to remember anything
4. Make calculations based on Entity coordinates which tell you where to stand.
5. Can provide 8 separate callouts to 8 different people simultaneously.
6. Works out of the box with no practice or prog.

This is not at all comparable to a human shotcaller, who cannot do many of those things, and also has to spend prog time practicing to be able to do the ones they can. It fundamentally automates an aspect of fight execution that was not intended to be automated.

Both accomplish the same thing, and you still need to know how to resolve the mechanic on both.

Cactbot makes callouts like "NE/NW are safe" or "Look SW". Many of the callouts it makes completely removes any necessity of needing to actually understand how 90% of the mechanic works, and it provides personalized callouts based on your characters specific circumstances. Those kind of shotcalls are really only seen in places like RichCOB, where 7 people knew what they were doing and could afford to make individual callouts for one member.

Is it not more cumbersome to, say... and taking something easy that a lot of people have done... take Construct 7's math thing. There are people with dyscalculia, and I do know someone whose issue was so severe she had issues clearing TEA's Limit Cut because she couldn't count. She had to resort to shapes rather than counting dots. When farming the Lighthouse, I had to resolve my own math mechanic and also look at her number and health in advance to tell her which number she had to go. And on one run, I had to do it for her and someone else who wasn't getting the mechanic.

Sure, it's a third party tool and that's a no-no. But if it's just to call mechanics out for people and give them a heads up on what they have to do, is it really cheating?

It doesn't just call out mechanics. It solves mechanics, and tells you what to do. It is not comparable to a human shot-caller. I don't really mind if people with rare disabilities use certain things for accessibility purposes, and there's an important difference between a trigger that just says "Three" when you get 3 above your head, versus a cactbot module that reads 3 different divebomb coordinates and then actively tells you where you need to stand because you have 3.