Talk:General Discussion/@comment-25519966-20141110031308/@comment-5003891-20141110123341

The anon taking about viewers "only translating the game" is exactly the situation we want to avoid. Not everybody who plays games on computers are as knowledgeable about technology as others. An untrained person won't know the difference between a viewer that simply reads data and another that makes synthetic API calls. To them, every viewer is " like KancolleViewer" . Add to that how some people aren't native English speakers and may have a hard time understanding explanations even when not filled with technical jargon.

The best we can do for them is recommend very specific viewers and not say "just a tool to help you play the game" and then when someone misunderstands, tell them "y ou have no idea whatsoever how it worked". Personally, I use a firefox plugin called 艦これタイマー but it's in Japanese so I can't recommend it to anyone.