About us / 01
We are veteran players with a passion for pushing the limits of what is possible.
Our story↓01Origin
We've been crafting in FFXIV since Heavensward. Along the way, we've written guides and supplied world-progression teams. Our public changelog documents how Drakos continues to evolve.
We don't think Drakos is just a means to automate the tedium. We believe Drakos can reach performance no individual can match. The crafting and gathering systems in FFXIV are, at the end of the day, mathematical optimization problems. That means tools exist to find an optimal approach to these systems.
02Approach
Drakos does not just follow the heuristics described in existing guides. Those rotations and guides are designed for a human with scarce working memory. Drakos uses dynamic programming, reinforcement learning, and Monte Carlo approaches to push the limits of efficiency.
We also work on cutting-edge statistics and mathematical optimization in our own careers. Drakos is born out of a fundamentally different approach to automation as a result. We believe in letting the math speak for itself, forgoing hand-written heuristics, which are not proven to be optimal. Instead, we treat FFXIV as a mathematical optimization problem to be solved with tools from optimization.
Most of our solvers are based on variants of DP algorithms seen in the optimization literature. Some others are based on reinforcement learning and Monte Carlo when solution time is a constraint. The challenge of Drakos is the trade-off between real solve-time and bounded optimality, something that is not often a first-class consideration in optimization research.
Our forthcoming economic engine is also based on a deep understanding of economic modeling, using auction theory and cutting-edge demand estimation frameworks to nail down market movements and deliver an intelligent system that maximizes profit on your behalf.
Solver methods / schematic
Reuse solved states to evaluate the decisions ahead. The lattice represents connected subproblems; the highlighted route represents a selected sequence of actions.
Learn a policy from rewards across repeated experience. The highlighted route represents the actions selected by a policy through the same state space.
Sample possible trajectories to estimate outcomes within a solve-time budget. Multiple routes represent sampled alternatives, rather than an exhaustive search.
03Privacy
We limit collection of your data to the bare minimum to make Drakos work. When joining our Discord and getting in touch with us, we encourage you to use alt accounts to keep your privacy secure, too. We have no interest in your data.
Read our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
Drakos does not collect your unique in-game identifiers. Drakos also does not collect any information about your hardware.
Drakos automatically hides your character's name, home world, and retainer names in its logs, and replaces your Windows user name in Drakos folder paths, so you can share logs in bug reports on our Discord. Check a log before you post it.
We do temporarily see your IP address because that's what the license heartbeat requires (every request to our servers necessarily has to have an IP associated with it). If you're not comfortable with that, we encourage you to use a VPN.
We don't sell data. We don't share it with third parties. We don't run analytics trackers on this website nor run ads. If you delete your account, your data goes with it. (In particular, that means if you delete or lose access to your account, we will not be able to provide any help in support.)
We are long-time FFXIV players that do much of the same activities as you: crafting, raiding, PvP. For obvious reasons, we prefer to keep our identities private, and you should too when using Drakos.
Only install Drakos from the repository on our installation page. Dalamud then downloads the plugin directly from our GitHub release. Our files are not code-signed. Drakos protects its code against copying, and some antivirus programs flag protected code like this. If yours does, tell us on Discord.
Using automation carries a risk of account penalties. Activity limits are not a guarantee against detection or bans. Keep that risk in mind when deciding whether to use Drakos. Drakos is not affiliated with or endorsed by Square Enix or the Dalamud team.
While it runs, Drakos keeps one connection open to our license server. It sends your license key, the Drakos version, and a short check-in every 10 seconds. It sends nothing about your character, your PC, or your game account. Our server sees your IP address, as any website does. The only other site Drakos contacts is etro.gg, and only when you import an etro gearset. Drakos has no telemetry or crash reporting. The Privacy Policy lists what we store.
If Drakos loses contact with our license server for 30 seconds, it finishes its current step, such as a craft or a gathering node, and stops. Start it again once status.drakos.gg shows the server is back. Major FFXIV patches usually break all plugins for a few days, and your prepaid time keeps counting down during that time. We may add days back, but we do not guarantee it.
Email support or message us on Discord. A refund cancels the time you were refunded for right away. A chargeback does the same. If that leaves no time on your key, Drakos stops.
Join our Discord for questions, bug reports, and discussion. For account or purchase issues, you can also email support.
04Contact
More questions? Want to report a bug? Have concerns about Drakos? Join our Discord or get in touch through our support email.
