3rd party tool go brrrrr

[KariTheFox]

No need to spy on me. I am telling you directly, I never cleared ultimate. Personally cleared most of the stuff I engaged with MIL, no echo, so your tool will claim I suck at dps, compared to the dps you did on the same content, how do you know I suck if you have no idea how you would perform with the same gear, you compare the gear, not the performence in that case.

I mean, if you're clearing old content at minilvl you won't be told you suck at dps by fflogs, or if you're any good. I believe you won't be given a number ranking at all because they simply do not do that for anything that isn't on-content. Why would they? You can't make a meaningful comparison when job design and potencies changes between patches and expansions anyway.

[Skiros]

How is this difficult? T_T

Go ahead and use third-party addons if you aren't intruding on someone else's gameplay experience. SE will never know unless you tell someone or broadcast it to the world.

I'm guessing it's because streamers have the loudest voice that people are so riled up about this. It's legitimately not a big deal. Streamers should know the risks they're taking by publicly breaking tos.

A significant portion of high-end raiders stream as well, not to make money but to evaluate their own VODs to review for mistakes during progression. It's the one single third party tool that eclipses everything else: Twitch and Discord.

And 2 viewer streams are being witch hunted and banned as well so even normal raiders are exposed to this mob hunt.

[SaberMaxwell]

The direct hit stat also has a huge effect on pre-stb content where it was accuracy on release. Direct hit it free damage that on content there was no equivalent to.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Well give it does give you an edge of sorts, it can be classified as a cheat. Given it can be set for triggers, give out call outs before the game even displays it. Yes i know someone will probably say "What about human call outs then ?" Well humans can screw up or respond late, while a program like that will rarely have that happen or not at all.

ACT is comparable to a calculator. It’s a tool. It displays you the number, (a) unit of measurement. It won’t specifically tell you ”Hey your number is low go improve lol.” right off the bat, because it simply has no power to do so. If you input wrong number… well, it’ll also display you a wrong answer. It’s entirely up to you to get it right.

One can however, ‘modify’ this calculator to be something more, and those are their ‘plug-ins’. This ranges from fluffs (make your calculator prettier by adding cute stickers) to borderline cheating. I.e. showing telegraphs that are otherwise should be invisible and/or showing what mechanic will be happening way, way sooner than what the in-game cues wants to tell you, whether before the audio/visual cue happens or specific dialogue happens.

CMIIW.

[Droxybrobotnik]

ACT is comparable to a calculator. It’s a tool. It displays you the number, (a) unit of measurement. It won’t specifically tell you ”Hey your number is low go improve lol.” right off the bat, because it simply has no power to do so. If you input wrong number… well, it’ll also display you a wrong answer. It’s entirely up to you to get it right.

One can however, ‘modify’ this calculator to be something more, and those are their ‘plug-ins’. This ranges from fluffs (make your calculator prettier by adding cute stickers) to borderline cheating. I.e. showing telegraphs that are otherwise should be invisible and/or showing what mechanic will be happening way, way sooner than what the in-game cues wants to tell you, whether before the audio/visual cue happens or specific dialogue happens.

CMIIW.

So ACT is completely harmless until you modify it to do more than intended. It would be so GREAT if all the snowflakes could get their shit straight before they run their mouths. Do you have a phone? If so you can join the Dalamud discord server and ask questions.

[kpxmanifesto]

changing the tos would be the better fix. if square enix took time away from working on other things in ff14 to work on making mods this community would be up in arms.

I'm not sure if you saw the screenshot in the other thread, but SE does in fact intend to make their own UI and HUD enhancements. There's no timeline or set date for this, however.

[EagleDynamics]

I'm not sure if you saw the screenshot in the other thread, but SE does in fact intend to make their own UI and HUD enhancements. There's no timeline or set date for this, however.

yes i saw the other threads. at first i thought most people would be against it but i guess i was wrong lol.

[Colt47]

honestly that part of the ToS is a hot mess that has been haunting the game for years.

[Maxilor]

[Colt47]

I mean the ToS does not directly call out "mods" or "third party software". It mostly states information around the use of software modifying the game files and then behaviors that are prohibited. Unless the program modifies game files or does something along those lines, they are not directly against the ToS. However, the behavior shown when using the mods can result in a ban, such as using tools to circumvent game mechanics or deliberately promoting the usage of mods. Like someone using a slide cast mod is definitely going to result in a ban if they catch them via stream, but discord overlays or what not would not. Neither would the use of shaders that do not directly inject into the running process and interact with the gpu logic.