If YOU Could Be A Developer For The Next Year...

You forgot to tell me to go kill myself again Stilz.

Were the other posts not detailed enough? lol

I'm pretty sure that no one, SE included, ultimately gives two shits if you're using Windower to alt tab and bump draw distances/resolutions. While the original devs were clearly going for complete immersion, it doesn't look like they've made any effort to update those kind of features at a basic level and it doesn't look like they will any time soon.

Windower itself doesn't alter gameplay. It doesn't inject packets before/after they would normally be sent to the server and it doesn't automate any feature drastically beyond standard operation. But at the same time, everything involving Windower/addons/etc. is currently in a gray-area concerning their ToS as it applies to FFXI. The issue with Windower and friends that their devs were worried about is that it allows for other scripts to be executed in ways that impact gameplay and server stability beyond what would be considered normal. Seeing as the game is fifteen years old, coders with too much time on their hands have essentially cracked their source and server and have been using it to write all sorts of scripts that affect the game beyond normal means.

So, what is okay and what isn't and where does it need to stop?
Or does the almighty dollar supercede their own Terms of Service?

They need to update their ToS to reflect the game in its current state, or put their foot down and say, hey, writing a script that bypasses the console features entirely and automates equipment changes isn't something we want you to be doing with our game. Until that happens, essentially everyone using anything beyond the base game is violating their ToS and subject to having their accounts terminated for doing so.

And ten years ago, they would've aborted your account faster than Dr. Deleteus without a second thought.
It's kind of like federal law saying marijuana is an illegal substance and state law saying, "lol it isn't here".



Deleting script hacking scummers is progressive action and I personally find great joy in doing so.
Don't forget that integrity is dead and our generation killed it!


Gee, doc, sometimes I feel like I'm trying to explain legally binding documents to eight year olds raised by illiterate alcoholics.


Speaking of illiteracy, I think that fedora is choking the oxygen supply to your brain.

It gets really hard being right all the time.
No, wait! That's just my penis.

I'm just waiting for the mods to either lock this thread or do some cleanup.

/waits for a few of his posts to go missing.

Stiltz, perhaps find a better use for your time.