You're delusional if you think SQEX can't detect ACT

[Onemaingun]

often people believe as long as you don't mention it explicitly in chat, that you cannot get banned for using ACT.

I see a lot of statics simply using it as if it were a necessary tool.

ACT requires admin permissions to run, which is a huge red flag.

It also does not read data from combat log, it requires network permissions to sniff network packets to read data. And the data it cannot read, it just makes it up with an approximation (dot tick damage)

Recently ACT had to be reworked for ffxiv because sqex changed the way they handled network packets, which should be telling

Oh and that goes for your mods too, if you think cosmetic mods are undetectable you are also delusional.

The only reason you are allowed to use all this shit is because sqex allows you to.

1. There are hundreds of legitimate programs and applications that need administrator permissions to run. UAC is horrible and was a tool first seen in Windows Vista. So what's your point?
2. In March of 2023 Square-Enix re-enabled Oodle TCP network compression. It's a technology used to compress data sent over the internet, reducing the amount of bandwidth required and improving performance. Advanced Combat Tracker (ACT) is not detectable by game developers as it does not interact with the game client or modify any game files. It only reads the combat logs generated by the game and provides an analysis of the data. Deucalion support is still turned off by default, and can be enabled by going to Plugins and enabling. Deucalion is an injected Windows library for capturing decoded FFXIV packets.
3.See #2
4. Yes, you're delusional.
5. Um nooo.