Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25730832-20160802053812/@comment-26091666-20160802070213

The update thread were initially slightly derailed when there were people talking about Shinano despite no sources provided, then discussions like these as well as posts/responses that alternates between the two. I mean I could sit here all day and point out why (at times) Reddit users are better at keeping discussions on-topic.

Anyway, enough salting. The following below are based on my own personal opinions on what are good and bad about tools (which inherently includes the likes of viewers):  Pros : Cons:
 * Reveals stuff that not even the flash player would reveal to the end user, stuff like HP/compass prediction for instance when one (or more) of your ship(s) are about to receive a taiha.
 * You can turn that feature off you know, it is not like the viewer must show you that.
 * Enjoy reading raw JSON data otherwise which is technically challenging if not time consuming for curiosity sakes.
 * Does not have to be obtrusive and requires (just) a bit of mucking around to have almost the best of everything.
 * Keeps a record of your historical activities in a nice format and can also be easily shared (if you wish) with others.
 * Last but not least, you can also opt-in to help add/improve/verify information quickly to various databases you wish to contribute.
 * Deep down and technically, all the battle animations you see in the game with only just your browser are really replays and the flash player itself is technically also a viewer. If one were to really play kancolle without any sort of viewer, it would be interacting the server with only pure JSON codes. If you get caught doing that, enjoy your ban.
 * You sometimes have to face criticisms such as those who uses tools, gets banned (for whatever reason) tends to not (necessarily) reveal their story completely.
 * There are tools out there are evidently unsuitable for use and people still use it to this day which ultimately gets them banned so that they can further lament their hatred of tools/viewers in general.
 * Then you get cases like these when truth be told there's mountains of tools out there for Kancolle, ALL third party tools.
 * Did I mention about other unsafe tools? try this one. Originally it started as "barely safe" tool but then it has this Live2D hack, gg enjoy your ban as well for using something that wasn't allowed.

The most trivial answer to these cons is to avoid using tools that looks rather fishy and instead use tools that has a fairly large userbase. You cannot easily go wrong for using them unless you use features which would evidently stand out.

Crazy teitoku   ADMIN      TalkBlogContributionsEdit Count 07:02, August 2, 2016 (UTC)