As someone who isn't really a pker anymore and mostly just pvms, i'm more familiar with the pvm community than most others, but have a fair bit of knowledge of a lot of aspects of the game. The main issue is this can put them at a severe competitive disadvantage against those who do use them.ДЇor those of you who aren't as familiar with PvM or skilling in their current states, I assure you clients are a problem there as well. But there's clearly clans that are quite against using them as well, while i'm not sure if any actually have a policy against doing so, some very clearly look down on it.

There are obviously clans that wish to use them for the advantage, some of them not even caring about the risk of the ban due to it being easier than ever to obtain a new account or having alts not being as uncommon as it once was, coupled with what could be called a lower probability of getting banned than other things, largely due to the fact that you probably aren't using it all day or for long periods of time like an actual bot or other scripts, and you likely aren't getting reported while using it either. More detectable things include plugins which allow you to cast spells or use special attacks without going to your spell book or special attack bar, plugins which switch prayers for you (though I imagine this would be a nightmare if you were getting piled by different styles lmfao), plugins that switch gear for you, plugins that eat for you, and plenty more. There's also other things like freeze timers for both you and your opponent showing when you'll be unfrozen. There's also obviously friend finder which is a bit different but essentially allows you to locate any individual you have added as a friend regardless of whether or not their private is on. Just a few things that have been included in clients i've seen have been pile / target finders, some even with the ability to highlight the particular person whose having a pile called on them or at bare minimum highlighting the tile underneath them. Some things are detectable, but not as much so as other more prominent or invasive plugins or programs which results in a low probability of you getting caught or punished, meaning largely, people get away with using these with very little risk as long as they don't publicly upload it/stream it (sometimes they get away with it even then.) This also has resulted in people essentially playing with the line of what they are/aren't willing to develop (mostly oprs/private variations of runelite) and include in their client. Not everything is detectable at all, especially if it's essentially just an overlay. In PvP i'm sure you know someone in another clan who uses one, or perhaps even in this clan.

That's only the lighter half of it though, as there's a lot of clients out there which offer features that aren't quite allowed. Anything that Jagex don't want in the client doesn't pass, but a lot of things are added nonetheless, all with the purpose of making things easier in the game. Still, runelite has an open plugin hub which pretty much anyone can contribute to that ultimately results in the capability to make anything easier, as long as it complies with the rules of the game. Most jmods play on runelite, and aren't afraid to admit it, a lot of devs have a very good relationship with runelite devs as well. They knock a lot of effort off of a majority of tasks in the game and make a lot of things easier, this is quite true even for base runelite, which, is fully compliant with the rules or at least allowed as far as Jagex are concerned. They do a wide range of things not just in PvP but PvM, skilling, and general game play. I'm sure everyone here is at least to some degree familiar with them, knows someone who uses one or, or has seen what some of them do. Buckle up because as i'm sure you all know, I have a tendency to type quite a lot. Thought i'd make this discussion topic after seeing the topic come up a bit on Eric's topic about what people want to see from Jagex, as well as a post by Lavigne on Steve's AMA, and a few other places.

Cheat clients, 3rd party clients, aim bots, whatever you want to call them.

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