preludes wrote:
All of you agree with me that it's illegal because none of you would dare to contact a GM to tell them you are using it and ask if it's ok or not, that alone shows you know it's against the rules. Not one of you has done this even though it's a very simple thing to do.
Thats where i differ.
When it was just a log parser, I would contact a gm in a heart beat and ask him because i know full well log parsers are 100% legit programs and are used in every game. Any gm who bans someone for log parsing is a complete idiot and had no clue what a log parser is. I guarantee the developers used some kind of log parser to balance classes/fights. The gm you keep referencing was more upset that guy was lieing to his face about knowing what FFAPP was and if he was using it, youll notice the guy didnt actually get banned. The only reason the gm was called was because the guy was harassing a group member for being so low on dps, then lied to the gms face even though the gm had chat logs. Had there been no harassing comments about a player being low on dps, then no gm would have been called.
What drew the line for me was the radar. I know we can turn it off but as far as GMs are concerned its no different than the map radar in ffxi, and its built into the parser so at this point they cant tell if you are using the radar or not, they just know that if you use ffapp, you have access to a memory reading mapping radar. In ff11 its ban able because it lets you see where/when a NM last died. IN ff14 there's really no need for it to track those things since there are no over world NM, but its at the point now where it went from a legit program to parse logs to something that reads the memory to display stuff on the map that isnt usually available, which is why i personally dont use it anymore. It doesnt give any kind of unfair advantage to have the map, but its just come a step too far for me to be comfortable using it, thats all.
