Would you be opposed to SE implementing a program to scan for addons/parsers?

[Delis]

As a member of the “PCMR”, I fully agree.

Except, one small problem. We still need a final solution to console players who can’t use ACT. Square Enix would panic if we ended support for PS4/5 players because they care about money. I know WE don’t care about revenue, but the suits do. So we need to implement enough social pressure to ostracize console players into not even trying endgame content. Problem is, Square Enix is working against that. Yoshida is pressuring people to play 100% vanilla as proof of authenticity for their clears. The JP community already feels very, very strongly about add-ons and parsing because of the association with cheating. People are working against you and this’ll be difficult for you to accomplish. Furthermore, ACT doesn’t have a feature like DBM that alerts party members that it’s on. The most people can do is kick those without logs, but…virtually everyone has logs.

How exactly can we fix the problem?

Console players don't need ACT. You just need one person in the group that runs it. It is not ACT by itself that is most useful. When people talk about using ACT to improve, or using ACT to figure out dmg numbers for rotations or whatever, they are mostly talking about the logs that the ACT program generates. Running ACT you can see your dps numbers during the fight, sure, but that really does nothing for you in that moment. It's after the fight when the person running ACT uploads the logs and everyone can loom through them and break the fight down and see what they are doing second by second in the fight, that really matters. So along as one person in the group is on PC and running ACT, then the console players can also benefit from it.

[Ivtrix]

Console players don't need ACT. You just need one person in the group that runs it. It is not ACT by itself that is most useful. When people talk about using ACT to improve, or using ACT to figure out dmg numbers for rotations or whatever, they are mostly talking about the logs that the ACT program generates. Running ACT you can see your dps numbers during the fight, sure, but that really does nothing for you in that moment. It's after the fight when the person running ACT uploads the logs and everyone can loom through them and break the fight down and see what they are doing second by second in the fight, that really matters. So along as one person in the group is on PC and running ACT, then the console players can also benefit from it.

The best thing about ACT is being able to upload logs onto fflogs because you can take those logs and paste them into xivanalysis to review what you need to work on. It shouldn’t be controversial to want to see specifically how you can improve your play, but as per usual of this forum people who never touch the content think they understand how it works, but they just don’t.