Client abuse (Rules and Policies)

Every so often, it comes to our attention that people have decided that an edge can be gained in this game by creating increasingly complex scripts in their clients. While we welcome fair use of clients, and fully realize how much they improve the gaming experience, there are some limits as to how far client-side scripting can go before crossing the line.

The two primary ways that clients can be abused are as follows:

1. When Player A intentionally abuses/misuses Player B's client scripts to exploit/hijack Player B in some way that Player B does not wish to happen. We feel that both players share blame in such cases: Player A for obviously attempting to abuse someone's client, and Player B for allowing (even unintentionally) his or her client to be abused, by setting up insecure scripts/triggers.
2. When Player A configures his or her client in such a way that it crosses the line into botting. There are two main subitems here:
   1. "Classic" botting, where a client runs through a series of commands, performing actions such as killing mons, healing, selling gear and banking gold, all without requiring any input from the typist. See "help botting" for more on this.
   2. "Call-and-Response" botting, where a player configures his or her client to respond to stimuli from another player (such as a tell), perform an action based on that stimuli, and perform some further action with the results, such as (but not limited to) sending back a response with the results of whatever action was performed. This would be your "find bots" where Player A sends a tell to Player B of "find bob", and Player B's client fires a script to run the find, and send Player A back a tell with the results of the find.

Both of these scenarios provide what we consider to be an unfair client-based advantage, and both will be treated as botting if detected. The punishments for botting are usually severe, and generally involve forfeiting any involved characters, so great care should be given to staying within the rules. Intentionally attempting to find loopholes and gray areas, or relying on a "well you didn't explicitly say this was wrong" defense, is strongly discouraged.