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So MMO minion. This hunk of bloated garbage take like an hour to even install with over 10k small lil files it needs to download and sort out. Out of the box it does exactly nothing. Its nothing more than a LUA Scripting engine that hooks into the FF14 process. Minion relies solely on its plugin developers to make the product usable and they will happily nickel and dime you for it. The main plugin I personally used was the Latty79 MSQ Quest pack, which comes with a built in ACR that is also pretty garbage. When i used the MSQ questing routines i turned off the ACR, and had Miqo do the ACR instead and she did it so perfectly <3
Anyway the quest pack will fly through the msq leaving you to handle just the dungeons once it unlocks them. There are a plethora of other addons many of them competing for the same thing. and a majority of them are ACRs. All of them require extensive configuration and complex interfaces overall Minion’s plugins mostly suck really bad. I have yet to find a crafting / gathering plugin for Minion i can subscribe to as the ones i have tried on minion either do not work or require such fine tuning it isnt worth using at all. like Miqo has a built in crafting solver, these plugins have one too but its suffering from serious developmental disorders forcing you to use its tuning interface with is more complex than just doing the crafting yourself with a macro.
The other thing i used Minion for was for housing. A couple years back there was a plugin that offered the housing automation for plackard interaction for free. Now its in a paid plugin called squatter. It too has its own complex configuration system, clearly designed for the nefarious realestate lords looking to buy out whole wards. It has a built in scanner and interaction system that can be adjusted. But here is the thing, after looping for a few hours it starts to eat memory and slows down and gets beaten out by lighter weight tools. So its pretty much hot garbage.Overall there are only two things to write home about for Minion, MSQ routines are really solid. if you like having a bunch of alts across various datacenters Minion’s latty msq addon is really good.
If you have the patience for it you can configure the madao ACR to parse in the top 100 tier. I am not one of those people.I have used both minion and now reborn buddy. Ill make two posts covering my experience with each. First here Reborn Buddy.
For reborn buddy, out of the box it has some cute features but none of them are really great for the price point.
out of the box features with no plugins are a ACR (Automatic combat routine) called KUPO – its hot garbage honestly. i used it on bard and it felt the need to pop off all three songs at once.
There is a profile creator which is a little tricky to use in comparison to Miqo’s. After using it for a while i found a bunch of free plugins available from “RepoBuddy” that significantly increase its usability but the only thing that is done well really is ACR with the Magitek routine, and by well its ok but not great. basically good enough to get the job done with out major failure. There are a handful of trust dungeons profiles included with repobuddy but again you kinda gotta babysit it.
The saving grace here is a small paid addon called Lisbeth. This is a all in one Crafting and gathering scenario generator. once you get this thing configured which isnt all that complex at all it will automate the entire process of getting the thing you want it to get. Need purple crafter scripts, simply put that in the order field and it will gather materials and craft things to get purple scripts.Miqo offers much more granular control over this sort of thing which i personally appreciated.
The only features i am really happy with in the Reborn buddy project are Lisbeth and Magitek. everything else is not good enough for me to really sing any real high praise about. Stay tuned for Mmo Minion next.Couple of things i want to point out as a user for several years now. Trusts and squads is a relative new feature in terms of all the features miqo has available. those of us without a developer background may not realize that implementing something the first time takes the longest, once youve done it once or twice you learn ways to make improvements, abstracting things away, ect. These things make development faster, and since miqo has something like 8 dungeon profiles now, another 3 wont be nearly as long a wait as say refactoring miqo’s crafting routine which has to be done as well. Ultimately what we as users need to do is be patient and appreciate how well implemented miqo is even in her current state. <3
I might be wrong but it really seems that MacFatts feels that were Miqo to implement a MSQ routine, it would put other bots out of business. Seeing in my experience no 14 bot can do MSQ well, with one actively needing help from Miqo to even be remotely effective. Realistically that really is the only feature Miqo is missing to be a one stop shop. With that said, Miqo’s developers have done something extremely few in the industry can manage to do. Make a product that does what it does and does it well, while being extremely efficient in code. These devs are top tier developers and any software house would be lucky to have them on their payroll.
I use Miqo pretty religiously. What Miqo does, she does well and without the need to have to have been a developer on the project. About the only feature i am forced to turn to another bot to do is run MSQ for alts, Which by the way i have Miqo handle the combat because Miqo is frankly better. So when i bot MSQ im using two at the same time. If miqo did MSQ id have absolutely no reason to use anything else.
Miqo uses code to “hook” into the ff14 process to find, attach and scan ff14 memory. That kind of thing is common in other types of malware as well. Win 10 and a significantly high number of anti malware software use a heuristic library to identify malware which the IT industry largely believes to be a poor method of finding and preventing malware for the last 20 years. Long story short, what you have here is whats known as a false positive and is a result of the industry failing to rise to the challenge of creating effective ant malware tools.
