To give a proper, non insulting answer:
Everything an addon can do has been made possible by Zenimax. They invested work to make it possible.
If they think any part of the Addon API would be a problem, it would cost them a 1 minute to turn it off.

The general rule seems to be:
If it exists as guide in the internet, you can have addon taht gives you the data ingame.
The other stuff (interacting with game world and other players) is heavily regulated, so they cannot do anything like botting.

I use minion for all my addons because minion was the suggested system by Zeni and they posted a link on facebook as the tool to use.

jdoe wrote: »

Damn, both of you guys (and half this forum) need to learn some civility.

Ahywhoo, yes Blade, you can safely use HarvestMap. AddOns use an interface (called an API) which Zenimax built just for that purpose, for them to use. So, OnlineGamer is largely right, if it's an AddOn, it means that it's using tools Zenimax themselves designed; thus it should be OK. If there were an AddOn that was somehow an exploit, Zenimax would just update the API not to support that function. Zenimax won't support AddOns (because, it's other people's code), but they support the use of AddOns.

kk, ty for the nice explanation. Just wanted to make sure it was ok to use thus the reason for my post. ^^

Dose anybody use Harvest Map & if so then is it working? Its not working for me for some reason.

LadyHen wrote: »

When you log on, make sure all your AddOn is checked. It only shows items that you already found.

Oh, that could be why I dont see anything then cuz I have not harvested anything since I have had it installed. That kinda sucks. Was hoping it would show you everything as soon as you installed it. Boohooo.

Mine works just fine

With the Harvest Map, go to Add-On settings. Make sure everything is checked on. Also make sure it says show on compass. It also allows you to change the colors for each item: plants, chest, wood, fishing, extra.

LadyHen wrote: »

With the Harvest Map, go to Add-On settings. Make sure everything is checked on. Also make sure it says show on compass. It also allows you to change the colors for each item: plants, chest, wood, fishing, extra.

Got Minion to help manage the addons. Hope that helps!

Ragnar_Lodbrok wrote: »

They should ban harvest map, as the bots use it for farming

....banning harvestmap to stop bots would be pointless.

All the location data for nodes is already known, which is all the bots use harvestmap for anyway. So, it'd probably take them less than an hour to just put the location data into the bot program itself & then the bots would work just like they do now, but without harvestmap.

If ZOS removed the ability for harvestmap to work & then also changed the location of every node in the game so that the location data was wrong...it still wouldn't take very long for people to find the new nodes, their locations would be mapped out on sites like esohead in less than a day (even if there wasn't a way to find your map coordinates in game, people would save their location data with screenshots or whatever & the location of most/all nodes would be on esohead very quickly) & that data would be ported into bot programs really really fast.

I know this may shock some people...but bot programs are pretty sophisticated. If they can move in a pre-set path, detect a mob, move to the mob, use abilities to kill the mob, loot the mob, then continue on a pre-set path (which they obviously can). Then they can also just as easily move in a pre-set path, detect node, move to node, loot node, continue on a pre-set path. There isn't a harvestmap addon that shows the location of mobs...and yet there are many botters running around high lvl zones killing & looting mobs. Removing harvestmap would just make node farming bots work on the same system that mob farming bots work on....meaning they'd still work just fine & bots would still exist.