Third-party Tools Can Negatively Affect Players Not Using Them

[Y2K21]

Yes, they can. Ban those who are obviously cheating. Most texture modders are quiet in game unless with friends they can trust, in which case they will ask "Do you mare?" and if they say no it gets dropped. Cheaters end up being obvious enough with it that they can be pretty easily caught and banned.

They can, but its 90% more work - because SE would have to design a method of scanning players' folder for modifications of specific kinds and not just texture mods. Which mean they would have to have the code rule out SPECIFIC modifications or files rather than flat out limiting manipulation of ALL files.

Either SE is going to ban all of it or none of it.

[LianaThorne]

They can, but its 90% more work - because SE would have to design a method of scanning players' folder for modifications of specific kinds and not just texture mods. Which mean they would have to have the code rule out SPECIFIC modifications or files rather than flat out limiting manipulation of ALL files.

Either SE is going to ban all of it or none of it.

They've made their stance pretty clear by now, they aren't going to go to the trouble of saying which plugin is bad and which plugin is fine. It's a blanket blind eye unless it comes to official competitions like World First or someone goes and screams they're using them in the middle of a main city and get mass reported.

[redheadturk]

They can, but its 90% more work - because SE would have to design a method of scanning players' folder for modifications of specific kinds and not just texture mods. Which mean they would have to have the code rule out SPECIFIC modifications or files rather than flat out limiting manipulation of ALL files.

Either SE is going to ban all of it or none of it.

Beyond that. Cheaters do not usually get banned because they were reported, they get banned because their cheating is blatant enough for them to get caught by GMs.