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

[Shurrikhan]

XIVAlexander does that? Wasn't it just an animation lock mitigating thing?

Correct. XIV Alexander just subtracts your round-trip ping from the animation lock after the server resets it, making the game fairer for high-ping players --and at least noticeably smoother for the rest-- instead of adding twice their ping in uptime cost to every action.

The MiniCactpot cheat the OP is thinking of a separate plugin (that does the same thing as some websites, though the latter require you to put in the information). Pretty sure that plugin's even got Cact or Cactuar in its name.

If it states this then it's a scam. There is literally no way to do this.

As you guessed, it does not do that (nor say it does). XIVAlex just, in effect, keeps the server's confirming a skill's activation from resetting that skill's animation lock such that ping doesn't increase your animation lock -- i.e, all pings can double-weave until a 1.5s GCD if not for the lack of queuing on the later oGCDs (and even with that in mind, you're just looking at a single ping's worth of uptime cost across a double-weave instead of ~7x [animation lock from roundtripx3 + queue-less oGCD]). If anyone's going faster as a result of XIVAlex, it's because they can finally fill their need for (Skill) Speed without being screwed over by their ping's effects on animation lock from XIV's wonky coding.

[Krojack]

It can also adjust their ping to be near zero, allowing them to hit skills/nodes much faster than others.

If it states this then it's a scam. There is literally no way to do this.

[ErryK]

itt: op is a conspiracy theorist.

[Conundrum]

Is it time for the weekly whine about mods thread again already?


(actually, only being weekly would be a big reduction)

[RobynDaBank]

If it states this then it's a scam. There is literally no way to do this.

That's not what a scam is, though... That'd be a different word.

[Kandraxx]

Uhm, no. It doesn’t tell you where the numbers are, because it does know as much as you. All it does is fishing for possible 1-2-3 or 7-8-9 lines, which you would do regardless as any other reward is a joke.

Also way to complain about mundane things like that in a game that hands you out 560 gear for free at the hub.

[Shialan]

I already wondered when we would get another troll thread like this. The German one already died down 2 days ago. And it's always the same argument: Software doing something these people are too lazy to do in their head.


Everything these tools do can also be done with many websites. Cactpot? This is literally math and probability. Crafting rotations? Still literally math after reading your skill descriptions. DPS rotations? You got it: math. Also, where is the difference from a programm showing you what to press and following a rotation from some guide on the website? Everything these plugins do, you can do on yourself with Excel or a calculator. Yoshi-P even said so in the Q&A about third-party tools.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_i6mjiGerU

You people really need to watch AND understand this video.

[Driavna]

Honestly Alexander's built in latency mitigation is a godsend for certain players and i'd hate to see it go away for that reason alone, and most of these are rather benign, instead of trying to get rid of them for PC players, we should really be asking if some of these couldn't be baked into in game systems so that console also has access to things like better ui customization and such

The ones related to combat are a huge difference and some could even be consider cheating (changes to animation locks that supposedly were intended to be that way for example). I'm not against any of that stuff and I will rather SE just add official addon support that also console players can use. However, I still share Shougun opinion, what we have now is not something minor.

[ArcaviusGreyashe]

The ones related to combat are a huge difference and some could even be consider cheating (changes to animation locks that supposedly were intended to be that way for example).

It doesn't change the animation lock, it changes the "ping lock" if you prefer. There is no way devs would have made it so low ping players actually have twice the advantage they have over high ping players. Alexander fixes the netcode, it doesn't change anything to the animation locks.

[Driavna]

It doesn't change the animation lock, it changes the "ping lock" if you prefer. There is no way devs would have made it so low ping players actually have twice the advantage they have over high ping players. Alexander fixes the netcode, it doesn't change anything to the animation locks.

As I said I'm not against it, still, is not something that only benefit players with high ping. Also, players with better ping, better FPS and similar are going to have an easier time. Anyway, Alexander can't fix netcode, just go around it.