They need to find a way to detect XIV Alexander and ban people

[Packetdancer]

How do you know they set their parameters to match yours?

You don't. That's why I have such mixed feelings on XIVAlexander; it legitimately helps a lot of people who have terrible connections play at a level that's equal to just the baseline normal state for folks who have better internet (or at least, internet closer to the data centers), but it can also be used to cheat.

And you have no way of knowing for certain which way someone who has it plans to use it.

How do you know they dont reduce it to negative to tripple weave (you can see plenty of parses where DRG tripple weave jumps)? It all creates unfair environment. All tools that improve game client and game functions do that, expecially for console players. All of that should be disabled on dev lvl or made baseline simple as that (hide game packets or something, its not our job to figure it out)

My mixed feelings on the thing aside, according to the readme file from the program itself posted by others, if you tweak your parameters too far out of the norm, the server will spot and flag you as a cheater. So you can't go completely bonkers with it, or you'll get yourself banned. You can't even go moderately bonkers and still be able to be a raider who wants to point to parses, since -- as others have noted -- FFLogs and such will spot abnormalities and invalidate the parse (at the very least), and if it happens repeatedly they'll just ban you outright.

So there are some limiting factors.

Now, that said, honestly it would make a lot of sense if the game itself kept a running average of your ping time and just subtracted the round-trip value from the animation lock itself, since -- as we've seen with XIVAlexander -- it would potentially dramatically improve performance for many people who have less-than-ideal ping. But that was likely a nightmare to consider doing on the PS3. (And honestly, possibly the PS4; I couldn't say since I haven't touched Sony's APIs recently enough to have familiarity with the PS4 from a dev side.)

And given the devs have a demonstrated policy of "if we can't implement it on the console, we're not going to officially implement it at all" with only a handful of exceptions (like the colorblind filter on Windows)... well, here we are.

[Shougun]

Suggestion not to say you use anything, even benign ones like that. If it's not the enb/reshade type tool then it's in the danger zone. As an aside, I love chat bubbles in WoW and I find they add a lot to being able to smoothly exist in the world. If SE added them I / would / use them.

Oh another one that exists which I realized I didn't put in the list that I think would be huge QoL for the game, let's you know in item tooltips if you have earned that collectable before (songs, mounts, minions, cards, etc).

Some I think are still like no way that would realistically be added, but in general I'd highly encourage SE to see this as a friendly competition (if add-ons are to never be added officially). There are visibly certain desires player really want that they self made, SE can see them now in physical form.

[Shurrikhan]

Suggestion not to say you use anything, even benign ones like that. If it's not the enb/reshade type tool then it's in the danger zone. As an aside, I love chat bubbles in WoW and I find they add a lot to being able to smoothly exist in the world. If SE added them I / would / use them.

I miss WoW's chat bubble functionality so much. That and texts separately timing out from the chat log so that the chat window fades to the extent it has gone without anything new.

Still hoping to get an addon, or a default QoL change, at some point that'd partially grey out Need/Greed options for gear I already have, or even auto-pass...

[Gothicshark]

What the title says. I just found out that it literally tells you things in the game that you shouldn't know prior. For example. WHen you do the Gold Saucer Mini Cactpot, it will LIGHT UP the ones you want to click for the highest reward... That's absurd.

Further. If any contest comes back like the Firmament, it will literally tell these people what to use each step to get the best quality. It can also adjust their ping to be near zero, allowing them to hit skills/nodes much faster than others. This doesn't need to be allowed and there has got to be a way to detect it. Clearly it's reading something in the game files to allow it to tell you what buttons on the mini cact you wanna click. Which is against ToS.

While for the most part I agree with you, there is one thing Alexander does which causes me hard to consider using it. Chat Bubbles. Honestly, this is one thing the game has needed from the beginning, and makes RP a million times easier. But the issue I have with Alexander is how much data they have access to when you use it. I can't help but fear malware could be installed if I use it. (Or worse) which is the one and only reason that stops me everytime.

This is some kind of mod?

It's a client launcher, and Addon installer. It basically does what the Steam client does, but it also installs addon support into the game client, and comes prepackaged with several useful addons, I believe you can add more to it as well. The issue with it, is you use your login info into their client. Which means if they ad any update with a key logger they can highjack your account.

[KageTokage]

I would be okay with the hunt-related plug-ins if not for the fact that they're datamining the client to know the precise location of S rank hunts the instant they spawn (Something that's only possible due to the fact that they have infinite draw distance/rendering priority). It leads to hundreds of people from across the datacenter trying to crowd into a zone so quickly that it's often too late to even get word out to the locals via manual relays.

The advantage they provide for other types of hunts is limited as you still need to actually be near them to get information.

[Eriane_Elis]

Show me someone who colored their Chocobo without the use of a online calculator and I'll show you a liar.

[IdowhatIwant]

Show me someone who colored their Chocobo without the use of a online calculator and I'll show you a liar.

I did it but I made mine white... so I just had to keep feeding it to dampen the color til it was white.

[Atamis]

Show me someone who colored their Chocobo without the use of a online calculator and I'll show you a liar.

I didn't. i just made him more yellow ������

[Rolder50]

I like it when people bring up the Cactpot thing without realizing the tool doesn't have access to any additional information. It just sees the visible numbers and tells you which spots are the most likely to be what you need. Same as manually inputting the numbers on an external website, which is what people did before the tool existed.

[Koldan]