Bioware opening the door to "Hackers" with combat log

This. Been using ACT for years on eq2. Best parsing program available.

I do suggest going to Battleclinic and having a look around. No joke. No tricks. It's a great site and I do hope they support TOR when the combat logs go live. I think you'll change your mind. Check out the EVE Online killboard.

Yep. Yep.

The only people who want to open up the game itself to hacking are those who want mods and add-ons to be created by third parties.

Writing a text log to your computer in no way opens people up to hacking.

Try again.

Yep Battle clinic rocks and this is one thing I love about EvE's community and TOR's Community needs to adopt this.

As brutal and unforgiving the game world is you hardly ever see anyone putting someone else down over their build or their damage. If you are in a fleet they will gather around you and help you get better. the few that do are n00bs that aren't long for the game anyway.

Just as they caved with the dungeon finder, they'll cave with addons and full combat logs. Rift also didn't have addons in the beginning, they were against it. But now they have them. Why? Because mmorpg players enjoy them. Just as in that game there was a loud minority crowd that were against addons and all those goodies were eventually ignored, the same will happen in this game.

SWTOR will have addons and full combat logs within 1 year.

Sorry but who caved with what now lol.

They used to be against dungeon finder tools. However in an interview given on march 14 at http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/03...r-the-future/4 this is what they said.

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Ohlens admits that after the game launched, BioWare changed "what we are focusing on over the course of the year based on the feedback the fans have been giving us." He put forward the level-50 content and tools as being the greatest example:

"The number of level 50s is a lot higher than we thought it was going to be. Therefore, our group finder has become a much higher priority. It's essentially our highest-priority feature that is not going in 1.2. If there is one feature that 1.3 will have, it will be the group finder.

"A lot of our feedback from the level 50s revolves around the dungeon finder. We have two operations, four level 50 flashpoints, and the hardmodes for all of them. We have a ton of PvE high-level content, but our metrics show that a lot of it hasn't been consumed by level 50s. Dungeon finder is the key there. That's one of the reasons that PvP is so popular because PvP is so much easier to get into than PvE. Once I started getting that data I was like, 'Oh, OK.' I knew that group finder was important. When leveling up, like we found during beta, you don't really need the group finder, but when you reach the max level, it becomes very important."

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So to answer your question... "lol sorry who caved with what?"
"Who" = SWTOR devs and "What" = dungeon finder tools.

So back to what I was saying, they'll cave with other aspects and within a year there will be addons and full combat logs.

I've been playing EVE off and on since beta for it back in 03. Great game, and it's gotten so much better since then! I would love to see EVE style space combat in TOR, but chances are that won't happen.

Anyhow, you're completely correct. No such thing as paying back someone for the help. Pay it forward to the next newbie in the Corp. Help as you were helped. Constructive criticism on builds and advice on how to make them better. Also, EFT and EVE HQ are awesome for calculating DPS and anything else you need to know.

If BioWare and Battleclinic join forces, I would be down for actually doing PvP here. I enjoy it a LOT in EVE, tbh. Everything from 1v1 duels to solo and Corp gankfests.

Btw, all duels honorable, and all ransoms honored. o7 Fly safe.

Exactly. Amazes me how skilled people are avoiding responsibility and blaming others for their mistakes.

The dev team, the "anti log" people have nothing to do with an individual getting his account hacked.