Mahjong Fix

[Astrahime]

I met some cheaters in mahjong boosting their rating with addons and secondary characters (basically bots).
I researched how the addon for mahjong works and it just clicks on tiles shown by in-game hints. It doesn't read what tiles are on the table.

Now I want SE to remove hints from ranked matches even more than before. So people wouldn't use the addon to play the game for them.

I'm sorry, but this just sounds absurd. For every plugin controversy that happens, you can use google to find what it is they're using to cheat. It even acts like outrage marketing, the number of people who started cheating in Fall Guys skyrocketed after the video was posted on Reddit.
The developers of the ACRs that are a scourge on high-end content and market board don't have a Mahjong module. The two relevant githubs you find when you look up "FFXIV Mahjong Github" are a pre-alpha plugin that's completely incapable of doing anything due to modloader updates, and a datamine that has nothing to do with plugins.
Even the devs of the zoomhack and aoe marker hack haven't bothered to touch Mahjong because no-one cares about it.

Would you mind making some information on this supposed addon public? Because it sounds like you call everything you don't like a bot and are extrapolating the fact that most unranked players just press the ingame hint because Riichi is the hardest version of Mahjong for a newbie to pick up and FFXIV doesn't have a good tutorial other than the trial through fire of "just play against the NPC board here lol"

[Raionek]

Would you mind making some information on this supposed addon public?

Of course not. I don't want to promote it in any way. If you couldn't find it yourself I am glad it's not that easy to find.

it sounds like you call everything you don't like a bot and are extrapolating the fact that most unranked players just press the ingame hint because Riichi is the hardest version of Mahjong for a newbie to pick up and FFXIV doesn't have a good tutorial other than the trial through fire

Lack of good tutorial is one thing, hints are another thing and cheaters are completely different thing.

About the tutorial you're right. That is one of the reasons this thread even started. We asked SE to put a good tutorial in the game because the current one is just a wall of text. You can learn from it (as I did), but it takes more time than learning from a good tutorial. And the current tutorial is just not fun.

About unranked players playing with hints. I see no problem with it. Learning from hints may be good. But playing with them in ranked matches is totally no good. If a machine plays for you in a ranked match, how can you call it a ranked match? It's plain stupid to give players something like "ranks" and the option to let the computer play for them. It's like they would add an auto-play on pvp. It just makes no sense to do that.

And finally about cheaters. Today I found a second cheater. I even made them admit that they've cheated. They controlled 3 different characters in a single match and had them on auto-play.
If you want to spot a cheater I recommend queueing on all types of matches in the middle of the night. Usually, they queue to full ranked match in hours when there are almost no players online. (Though in most cases they just gonna "decline" the moment they realise that not all of their characters are in the game.)
Two different cheaters I've met used the same tactic. Logged on 4 characters. Queued on all of them. Their main character had the addon set on playing as hints show and other characters tried to lose. (In one case the low lv characters left the game to speed it up.)
The losing characters were low lv alts that barely could enter Gold Saucer (they had exactly lv18, I checked on lodestone).

[Astrahime]

Of course not. I don't want to promote it in any way. If you couldn't find it yourself I am glad it's not that easy to find.

Rule 32 of the internet: pics or it isn't real.
Crop and censor the screenshot as much as you want. But without any actual proof you just sound like a crazy person. Who queues for Mahjong in the middle of the night on a non-JP data center and expects a serious match? Consider joining a FFXIV Mahjong discord (like https://discord.gg/TFwvpPC) and asking people in the LFG channel to play with you.