Because managing your AoA wins you dogfights. Just look at the pro sim scene, they all use WTRTI for AoA and that elevator trimming trick to get more perfomance out of their planes
Yeah, I’ve yet to get into a situation where I need to rely on an AOA indexer. Finding ground targets however is one of the main tasks in most of the matches I play in Sim EC…
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maybe it’s because they are pro, the majority of sim players (myself included) do not have the game knowledge and skills necessary to manage a dogfight and check their AoA
checking the AoA will happen 2 to 3 times per game while ground targets can be almost constant
I am all for making War Thunder more fair, don’t get me wrong. I am defending this because it’s not really clear what’s allowed and what isn’t. I would like to see this info removed from sim, if it goes against the rules of sim. But you got to understand, this is a video game. Even worse, a competitive game. People will look for any advantage they can get. It’s just the nature of these thing. Banning this is like FIA banning all of those innovative designs from F1. They didn’t like someone made something better with the same resources, so they banned it.
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so don’t defend either of them
I wanted to make an overlay that shows direction and distance to enemy helipads, information that is crucial in SQB. I was under the impression that this was allowed, using data at port 8111 and an overlay.
I also wanted to make one so that people can draw arrows on their minimaps, like in WoT with XVM.
It’s a competitive game, everyone is looking for an edge over their opponents.
To me, if a game gives me some info, leaving it on the table just leaves me a the disadvantage, because the enemy might be using it.
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my bank has money in its coffers I’m going to rob it tomorrow, it is not because information is available that we must necessarily use it
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Ok, so :
1.Game sends packets to LH8111, given available to users for testing purposes, and creation of accurate bug reports.
2.You read those Packets to add Overlay of Userinterface over your screen, through a series of coded lines (basically a program)
3.The overlay is giving pinpoint information on everyone in game, or within a frontal sector defined by the program, that the game doesn’t give to every other players not using your Overlay.
In such we have :
3rd party software that is giving an unfair amount of information that everyone else can’t have unless they have done same or similar use of 3rd party software.
That’s everything rules are against.
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Bad analogy, it’s not like that money is sitting on the table with a sign that says “Free to take, no strings attached”
Coming from the guy comparing it to the Formula 1 constructors championship…
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if, robbing the bank will require effort and unless I’m mistaken the additional information on the screen does not appear by magic, you have to create a functional code by looking at what data to take
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Tech mods said that datamines and data obtained with WTRTI and through port 8111 can’t be used in bug reports.
This is simply false, this is not what this tools did at all.
Deducing the enemies location with sound doesn’t “appear on the screen by magic”, you have to think to get it
Then what’s that:
You should read what was written,…
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Was still used for specifical reports.
you know what I mean, the code provided in the other topic showed information that is not normally on the screen, in particular the position of the targets on the ground of the team opposite
It showed airfields, bases and ground bots. Not their exact location, but a direction to them. It didn’t show players as far as I remember. The video wasn’t up for long, I don’t remember exactly
Oh, sorry,… heading + distance → ain’t that pinpoint information that others don’t have?
Literally like an AWACS was telling you Bulleyes information,…
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I believe the GM and Stona have explained and made it very clear. It breaks rule 6.1.3. If you still can’t get It through your head, that’s honestly on you.
Just don’t come crying to the forums when you log on one day and are banned for cheating. You have been properly informed.
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