Handling Cheaters Gracefully vs Hardline ToS + Questionable legality of bans

[VerdeLuck]

There is no legal grey area, SE controls the servers and your rights to connect to it. If you don't play by their rules they can at any time take away your right to use their servers.
You have no recourse for this.
They're already extremely lenient in the fact that they have stated they will not crack down on any client only mods as long as they have no impact on other players and don't offer any inherent advantage. It's already don't ask don't tell, you can mod your game all you want just don't use your mods to ruin someone else's experience or talk about them in-game. It's a pretty lenient and clear set of rules imo.

That being said it's very weird you also lump in punishments for insults and harassment into this. That has nothing to do with modifying your game files for your own enjoyment.

[StealthPaladin]

There is no legal grey area, SE controls the servers and your rights to connect to it. If you don't play by their rules they can at any time take away your right to use their servers.
You have no recourse for this.
They're already extremely lenient in the fact that they have stated they will not crack down on any client only mods as long as they have no impact on other players and don't offer any inherent advantage. It's already don't ask don't tell, you can mod your game all you want just don't use your mods to ruin someone else's experience or talk about them in-game. It's a pretty lenient and clear set of rules imo.

That being said it's very weird you also lump in punishments for insults and harassment into this. That has nothing to do with modifying your game files for your own enjoyment.

Unfortunately this comment is simply hostile towards what I'm presenting for the mere sake of being hostile. That is in no way accurate. There is little I can do to respond since it is purposely misrepresenting things I've already addressed.

[Valfreyja]

They're already extremely lenient in the fact that they have stated they will not crack down on any client only mods as long as they have no impact on other players and don't offer any inherent advantage. It's already don't ask don't tell, you can mod your game all you want just don't use your mods to ruin someone else's experience or talk about them in-game. It's a pretty lenient and clear set of rules imo.

Uh...what?

Didn't Yoshi P come out in a thing and specifically stated to not use mods, they were against the ToS?
Where have they stated that they aren't going to crack down on client mods?

I've never heard anything like that. Just the Yoshi P. thing, because people were like, making porn with the game.