Since the last thread is now locked..

Addons that provide you with more information about your character (i.e. your damage output, cooldowns, resources, debuffs) should be allowed. Those that provide you with more information about your opponent's character - information that is not otherwise available in the game - should not be allowed.

Addons can improve one's gameplay, but should by no means be allowed to steal from one's opponent the element of surprise. Pretending to be out of mana/stamina, only to lure in your opponent and turn on him with your remaining resources, is a skilled play... a play that overextending addons would invalidate.

This is my opinion, anyways. I think this debate often boils down to whether or not addons should solely provide increased enjoyability of gameplay, or a competitive advantage. Realistically, addons will always exist to help one player defeat another, I say the question is to what extent to these addons provide an advantage.

Some of these addons that extract information from other players' APIs are akin, in my view, to Xray goggles.

To those of you who say that addons do not give an advantage ("the more skilled player will win"..."addons don't win fights"..."), of course skill can't be replaced by addons - but it can be augmented.

http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/540/667/795.gif

Well, those are my thoughts at least.

POLICE!

I see someone flogging a horse! I think it's dead!

OMG! He's flogging it so hard....

http://i.imgur.com/3kpd3WF.jpg

Thats a bit over kill.

heh..wow

Nice pool.

It's 2 or 3 for me.

My only problem is the "able to reveal otherwise unobtainable information about opponents"...it's kinda sad for me.

But I've voted 2 cuz I think that would could please more people.

People like you are why they close threads.

extreme overkill, wtf?

This made me laugh.

Then I read other peoples replies to this post and laughed again.

Then I cried a little because the underlying theme is true.

Sorry my pic link isn't animated Psy Kicking dead horse funny .. but this is what you want .. no restriction to API UI mod. Don't worry .. there are options to turn off some features. Sadly, it' only available by default UI commands

None of our business what that guy wants.

If he wants his screen full of spam, not any of our problems.

I love how he defends it, lol.

So the last thread was locked and another one is started. Anyone see a pattern forming?

This has been like the 10th thread on the same issue, so obviously its a big issue, but the thing is its been the same people for the passed 4 topics it seems.

Problem for me is that I want to be super competitive so I know that my fate is tied to having to stare at my UI once again.

Because mods will lock thread once its past the post limit...

An hour ago it was all PvP complaints. Now it's PvE. I don't know when this will stop.

I know some people will say everything they can to get their way, and damn everyone else and what they want.

*drops to his knees and cries*

Why! Oh God why do you torment us?

What type of UI do you need to be super competitive? What information do you need to be on top?

Not your link, that's for sure.

Far out. That's horrible.

My god, does anyone actually play on that resolution anymore?

The hell is that, 640x480?

If you want to be on top then you have to maximize the information that a game will allow your mods to display. If it means the rebirth of DBM then it's the rebirth of DBM. If it's cast bars/stats/interrupts then that's what you need to have.

Karlon wins.

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