Possibility of using third party helping tools to help with the game process?

Started by qunow, May 16, 2017, 09:52:50 AM

qunow

I was reading the game's term of service, and noticed that it said "The use of any third-party programs/software to access the game interface or functions is forbidden, excluding regular web browser softwares. AirwaySim may only be used with a standard web browser and using any additional software, browser extension, script or similar solution to access the game interface or analyze or store any data presented in it is forbidden.". It mean, I can only use standard web browser instead of any other things to access the game, but is it allowed to use tools that only read to or from the web browser interface without directly accessing the game? For instance as you click on different route planning screen, is it allowed to use softwares to record presented information? While it said it is not allowed to "use additional software to ... or analyze or store any data presented in it", it doesn't seems like a problem if I record those data manually into notebook and then analyze them within excel or calculator. Is the boundary being that data must be recorded manually instead of read automatically from the presented screen? Would it be allowed if I save those webpages as a html file and then feed those html files to some third party program for analysis as that is a snapshot of the game webpage instead of the game itself?

gazzz0x2z

I'm interested too on the answer. I hope it's "no" for everything.

In fact, if you browse the Html file, you're already above other players in terms of possible things. A good part of the game is looking for good lines. I'm even preparing a tutorial on the topic. If you automate the line search, you've got an unfair advantage over other players. I could easily do such a tool. But I don't. I map the demand by hand, because non-techies would be disadvantaged if I did use a robot. I have to confess that I did a few HTML browsing for airplane analysis, in the past. I don't anymore - it's just not fair.

Sami

Well, what that is trying to say that you cannot use any automation or similar system to extract data from the game interface (or use any system to input data).

But if you do some Excel work offline and so forth, then it is out of the system already. I know some people use excel as their notepad etc.etc.