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

[Lucyfurr1988]

So, you are against everything that makes it easier for players to do stuff. Are you then also against all these fan sites that are out there? Who help you create crafting rotations or show you the most efficient route of gathering materials? Who have timer for gathering nodes or FATE spawns? Which use math and probability to "solve" cactpot?


Because if you are not against them, you are a hypocrite.

THIS. All of this

[elizeugba]

Just looked up the tools mentioned here with very easy google, and the one I've known about for a while-

I wouldn't categorize many of these as minuscule in benefits, if not I'd consider some of them insane QoL improvements (or maybe a bit 'cheaty' but at least not so much that it's into someone elses space). I'd also note it appears a lot of these different tools / devs are actively trying not to mess with other player's experience, just improve the experience for those who use it.

Here some that stuck out at me as I went through ones I've learned here or via reddit (mostly via reddit to be honest):

• Put housing objects where and how you want without having to deal with glitches
• Turn your combos into stuff that looks like pvp combos
• Deadly Boss mod (tells you what is coming up and sometimes what to do to deal with the mechanic)
• Notifications for skills and events (like if a player uses provoke, someone dies, you have a skill off cooldown, etc)
• Marks players that have debuffable debuffs, mark players that can be raised or if someone else is raising them
• Tells you you and others damage (parse)
• Check the market without being near the market
• Tell you when hunts are spotted and where they are exactly (based on community data I guess, so it's not a perfect system)
• Reduce a hardcoded animation lock so you can double and triple weave
• Hide or change players (graphics in general)
• Modify UI elements (though that should be obvious by this point)
• Help you play cactpot
• Help you play Triple Triad (NPCs only) - I want to note here that is is pretty interesting that developers self control their works to try and not to ruin other player's experience. Kind of sweet/cute.
• Info in deep dungeons
• Show exactly where your trigger pixel is so you can dodge AoE's insanely well
• More powerful UI features in general like filtering spam, blocklist, teleport ease, etc.
• Macros that can call other macros or be as long as you'd like
• Improved mouse over macros

• Most epic one I saw, adds chat bubbles.. XD

I use the chat bubbles one, it is really great and I would hate not having them anymore

[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.