pakomen said:
My definition of fair play is simple:
No third party ffxi tools whatsoever (including windower). If it wasn't built into the game--even if you think it should be--and you're using it, and I'm not, you do have an advantage over me. Even if it's only slight. You can pick a fight with me about it, I really don't care. But that's my view. And that's what was asked.
Quick question about windower distance plugin. I've been soloing a lot of goblin pets in newtown movolpolis lately and the goblins have really weird roaming patterns there. Anyone who's solo'd pets before knows that if the pet is even a fraction of a centimeter in front of the goblin, or if the goblin is looking your way when you pull, you will get aggro.
With the windower distance plugin, when you alternate between two different targets, even if they are the smallest distance away from each other, does the plugin reflect that? Does it go into the decimal of distances? Or only flat integers?
Well I know there are decimals, but I am certain how much it would help you in that situation since you can only check the distance of the one thing you are targeting at the moment. On the other hand, I'm not a BST so I'm not entirely sure of the potential. It's only really usefull for RNG, COR, and BRD though, as most other spell casters can move well within range for their spells while still being a safe distance. Even then people's random movents kinda require you to be well within range anyways so while it has the potential to help, in common practice it rarely does. I would imagine the same could be said for BSTs since mob movement is often as unpredictable as players, so being able to just stand within the cusp of what you wanted would still have a good chance of prooving futile. It's a tool, but even the slightest bit of experience is more usefull.
I really wanted to be able to use it sinse so many BRDs and such praised it, but it didn't help me in the least. In fact I spent so much time trying to get things perfect while using it I was far less effective, so I just dropped it. My instincts prooved more reliable.
I guess I draw my line at things that let someone do things that would otherwise be impossible for anyone in game otherwise. That is a little general but what I mean it changing .dats to exploit something instead of just make something look cooler. A coffer that looks like a hydra is cool, but obviously it gives a gross advantage over others.
TParty is a nifty little feature, but the only advantage it truely provides is seeing someone's TP that refuses to report it so you can plan around it. It is a small means to help me reduce my suffering when PT'd with poor players and cuts down a little battle spam in a group full of TParty users. I could never deny that it is a little unfair, but at the same time, the same information is readily available should people actually be playing well. I also just really like seeing little numbers so its actually fun to watch "the race" when I am just playing support in a PT.
Parsers are just a diagnostic tool to me, I see no problem with them. I never really could figure out how to use them, but I loved hearing the numbers from other people just because it's really neet. Had I been able to actually get one working, (or could live with keeping al my filters turned off *YUK!*) I would have been all over that shit like a fat kid on candy.
Windower is cool. There is no way I would be playing so long without it. I need to leave my computer capable of quickly moving to work mode and Windower is the only way that's possible.
