@Komo
I understand you and half agree with you. But before banning something it's better to find a way to identify who is using it because noones gonna have the balls to come public and admit it like some players did, otherwise the general rule should be that it should be allowed/released to everyone, as it is not possible to identify who uses it and who does not. (I'm talking about the banned rope script.)
And when I said I support modding, I was not talking strictly about software moding but fisical modding too, like when Mablak taught to use paper cones for the keyboard.. etc.
Your argument doesn't bring a solution, I think it is more comfortable to accept the fact of allowing the use of any hardware even if it does the same thing that can be achieved using software because it is something that you have no control over, while using software still brings this small feeling that people can be controlled and banned.
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Let's see for example how this is done for overclocking, it consists of using software programs to improve hardware performance to force hardware to go beyond limitations it's projected for.
It's publicly allowed and uses the same logic in my opinion. And there is no way to identify it right now.
It's just an example of modding your hardware with software and I personally put it in the same pot as the "banned" script, it's only improving your keyboard with software, and there's not a public statement saying it is "bypassing what the software of the game was designed to do", I don't think it is at all.
I see the banned rope script as a harmless modification as it's not automating anything for me, it's just removing a hardware limitation, it still requires me to know how to play the game and how to rope.
And as I said earlier there are probably good enough keyboards out there that money can buy that this limitation does not matter anymore.
I also want to point out that I was not talking about crate finder when I said "crate spy", there were some wk modules that enaabled permanent crate spy in the game to see what's in the crates beforing collecting and permanent laser sight too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overclocking