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

[Shurrikhan]

By adding add-on support what I mean is to do what Blizzard did with WoW, or other games like Warhammer Online/Wildstar, and is creating a LUA API that people will use to make addons with it. I really fail to see how hard will be to make it also available for console unless we are talking about some limitations imposed by Sony.

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Note that this also gives more control over the information available to said addons. Blizzard thereby has tighter control and means to prevent addons from seeing anything players themselves could not see without addons than XIV does, allowing us to forgo heavy-handed "solutions" like removing the ability to place waymarkers during combat.

[Ronduwil]

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.

I think you're misunderstanding what it's doing. It doesn't know what the highest reward is. It just lights up the ones that have the highest probability of yielding the best result. Much like this third party web site does: https://super-aardvark.github.io/yuryu/

You could do the same thing if you took the time to brute force out all the possibilities, but computers are way better at that. SE will never do anything about Alexander for the same reasons they don't do anything about ACT. Source: An interview with YoshiP - https://youtu.be/e_i6mjiGerU?t=180

• They want to avoid futile reporting wars because games shouldn't be about that.
• They don't know what all you have installed on your PC, and they can't really find out without seriously invading your privacy.
• It's natural for players to crave efficiency. As long as they're not calling out other players for matching their efficiency, SE is willing to live and let live.

I know ACT is an entirely different beast, but it has far more impact on gameplay than this other addon that you're talking about, and they've publicly stated that they're not taking action on it.

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

No, it can't. If you seriously believe this, you have no clue how the internet works. The ping is literally the time it takes the server to respond to your client's request. It is entirely dependent on the connection speeds between all the steps on your route to the server. No addon is going to magically speed up all the connections between your data center and your ISP. You often see third party services offering faster connection speeds to your favorite game. Use them at your own risk. In the best case, you're trading a slow connection to the data center for a faster connection to this third party service. At worst, you're simply trading a slow connection to the data center for a slow connection to the service. YMMV.

[IdowhatIwant]

• They want to avoid futile reporting wars because games shouldn't be about that.
• They don't know what all you have installed on your PC, and they can't really find out without seriously invading your privacy.
• It's natural for players to crave efficiency. As long as they're not calling out other players for matching their efficiency, SE is willing to live and let live.

I know ACT is an entirely different beast, but it has far more impact on gameplay than this other addon that you're talking about, and they've publicly stated that they're not taking action on it.

Play base apparently disagrees with Yoshi P on this. Which is kind of surprising as usually what Yoshi P says is scripture.

[Rolder50]

Play base apparently disagrees with Yoshi P on this. Which is kind of surprising as usually what Yoshi P says is scripture.

Oh man if they actually started cracking down on ACT and such, I can only imagine the awkwardness and cultural wars that would follow

[Lieri]

I dont use the tool because I find it very annoying having to open another window, it just looks dirty when I alt tab and find another program besides xiv and chrome. Yes, I like to keep my windows clean. However I have read the readme and all it does is remove animation lock for those who play with higher latency. So it doesnt make you do more skills than what youre normally capable of but letting you weave more skills than what youre LATENCY allows you to.

[Lieri]

The OP is having problem with tools that tell people what to do. WoW lets DBM addon to be created which essentially tells you every mechanic in a raid. Adding LUA just makes addons "legal" but you can be sure there will be loopholes here and there that the players will make use of. In the end adding LUA will also mean they need to have a dedicated people constantly updating and monitoring what is possible/impossible to do via addons, if unfair advantage is a concern.

[Kira_Yaeger]

You aren't the shiniest tool in the shed, are ya?

[Gardthorne]

ITT some guy complains about a mod he never used; read on the internet it actually kills babies.

[DkFusion]

Yeah, cacpot solver doesnt, what about yojimbo telegraphs? It gives good rewards, there are archivements for that, what about that one? Also good? What next? Cheating system to give you more than 450 tomes per week maybe? When do we stop?
All 3rd party software tempering with code/network packets should be disabled or made baseline.
One thing is just cheking your damage with combat log to parse, another thing is slowing you telegraphs you cant see, changing how client communicates with server to tripple weave and such.

Why do you do this constantly? Your posts and retorts have become so predictable. First is and example of something that has negligible impact followed by some sort of hyperbolic statement.

I every time I see “…where does it stop”, I recall marijuana being cast as some gateway drug. Oh you smoke pot? You’ll be a heroin addict in a month.

Sometimes I think there is no way you’re not here just trolling…

[ArcaviusGreyashe]

Sometimes I think there is no way you’re not here just trolling…

I do not think he's trolling... He's just a fanatic. He's been arguing for dozens of days now, and not once did he change his arguments.

A troller would make weird statements, he doesn't, he's just... Set in stone. Don't make my mistake, stop answering or you're in for 5 more pages.