How Could SE Realistically Improve Modern FFXI?

I intend to read this. Thank you.

Just cheat...?? How?

1.) What plugins do I need?
2.) Where do they come from? Where do I download them from?
3.) How do I use the plugins that I downloaded? What is the complexity of their use?
4.) Do they sent false data upstream to SE? I have too much time, effort and money invested into my character to get booted now...
5.) If purchasing assault skips were an officially-sanctioned transaction, all of these... "Nuts and bolts??" issues would be handled by SE... I'm willing to pay for convenience.
6.) "Fast and Easy"... I don't understand why that's so hard to understand...?? "For money you get honey." Am I wrong??

What is "ASE"? How and why is it done? Whatever "ASE" is...? is it something that can get me banned...??
What is a "speedhack"...?? How and why is it done...?? Can it get me booted...??

Why stop there, they could implement a paid option to get every REMA in the game. There is no point in playing. Maybe a sign people are getting older, we just like to skip things.

1.) I'm not going to answer this because I don't condone this behavior, it was a rhetorical question (not supposed to be answered, supposed to make you think).
2.) Also not going to answer this, see #1.
3.) There is no complexity. You load them and then it solves your problem.
4.) No. Theoretically SE could notice it but likely only if they were actively watching you at the time. People use these things hundreds of times a day and there are no consequences
5.) Cheating in Windower is probably simpler than paying for a microtransaction on SE's website.
6.) This is the most important part of my point...the whole point of playing an RPG is for YOU to increase the power of your character and to enjoy the hard work YOU put into your character, to feel proud of how hard you worked on your character. If you're paying for the rewards to avoid playing the game, that defeats the whole point of an MMORPG.

I get where you're coming from where you want something that's officially-sanctioned and want something that's simpler than installing an add-on, sure. Still doesn't answer my question though.

If you're at the point where you're willing to skip playing the game to get the item, why not just buy gil from an RMT then pay a merc to do the content for you so you can swing your blue weapon?

I guess you kind of answered the question: you don't want to risk your character; that's a fine answer I guess. Except you just asked how to cheat, which seems like weird behavior for someone who doesn't want to cheat.


ASE is an addon/plugin for Windower. (among other things) it allows you to skip the assault requirement for mythic weapons. As I said above, it's extremely unlikely to get you banned, but it could.

Speedhack is a category of cheats used to...stick with me here...hack your speed. You download a program and change your speed. Yes, it can get you banned.

As you can tell from this discussion, lots of people don't give a ***about the fact that these things *can* get you banned because they've used them repeatedly for years and not been banned. SE's enforcement is terrible.

I'm going to laugh if after all these years the thing that takes Bill here out is speedhacking...

But if you want to be 100% sure just don't.

If you made it thru the Square-Enix account process on your own I bet you can do assaults, too.
I believe in you Bill!

If they wanted to they could have just added a timer that if you popped the chest before a certain time had elapsed you would clearly be using ASE and they could ban you. I think even SE realised it's quite sadistic to make you redo all 50 assaults and let people get away with it.