Honour

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The Report Abuse screen.
We expect our players not to cheat or indulge in dishonest behaviour.
— Jagex[src]

Honour is one of the three categories of the Rules of RuneScape, which also include Respect and Security. Rules in the Honour category state that cheating or being dishonest in RuneScape is unacceptable to Jagex. Disobeying the Honour rule includes the following:<ref name="main">Jagex. "Rules of RuneScape, Honour." RuneScape Customer Support. *</ref>

Unacceptable behaviour

“ An item scam is defined as cheating another player during a trade. We don't consider it a scam to ask for large amounts of gp for an item, but it is not in the spirit of the game to overprice an item. It is your responsibility to make sure that you are paying a good price.

Asking for someone's bank PIN or recovery answers is just as serious as asking for a password; giving out your bank PIN allows other players access to your bank space. Never tell another player your password, PIN number or any other account security details.

If you notice a bug, please report it to us straight away. If, after noticing a bug, you continue to exploit it, you are likely to have action taken against your account.

There are no cheats for any of our games. Anyone that approaches you in-game to offer you cheats should be reported under 'Encouraging rule-breaking'.

Don't encourage rule-breaking, such as encouraging someone to try real-world trading, scamming or exploiting bugs.

You should not swap your account with another player, or share your account with anyone else. Sharing your account makes it less secure, and is also unfair to other players.

”
 
— Report Abuse Help - honour

Macroing, and use of bots or third-party software

Macroing.

Software means any type of program, including: downloadable software (e.g. an .exe file), or web-based software (e.g. a website set up to perform a similar function with flash, java, javascript or serverside scripts).<ref>Jagex. "Macroing, and use of bots or third-party software, 3. What do you mean by "software"?." RuneScape Customer Support. *</ref>

This offence can be reported by clicking the "Macroing or use of bots" button in the second page of the Report Abuse interface. More information about this rule can be found in the RuneScape Game Guide.

What is NOT allowed

Note that the third-party software that is not allowed is not limited to the following.<ref>Jagex. "Macroing, and use of bots or third-party software, 2. What type of third-party software is NOT allowed?." RuneScape Customer Support. *</ref>

  • Software that attempts to communicate directly with RuneScape's game worlds.
  • Software that monitors, modifies or decrypts the communications between the game applets and RuneScape's game worlds. (This includes the use of a debugger such as Cheat Engine.<ref>Mod Lorenzo. "Cheat Engine 5.6.1". 20 August 2010. General Forums. *</ref>)
  • Software that generates input to RuneScape game applets.
  • Modified or replacement versions of RuneScape game applets. Reverse-engineering the game applets is strictly prohibited. Using a modified version of the game applets is not permitted for any reason. Third-party software that displays pages/content from the RuneScape website(s), and that has specific features (i.e. toolkits) must not be used to access the website unless that software conforms with all of the other rules, and the following additional rules:
    • It must not encourage rule-breaking or endanger users.
    • It must not contain adverts or links to websites that encourage rule-breaking or endanger users.
    • It must not automatically make repeated page/content requests from the website or otherwise make excessively bandwidth-intensive requests from RuneScape servers (each page/content request should only be in direct response to a user request each time).
    • It must not bypass the normal navigation of the RuneScape website for users wishing to reach the game worlds. The software should initially only point at the front page of the websites, and should require the user to navigate through the website normally to reach the game worlds. The software must not contain or acquire direct links to the game applet.
    • It must not hide or encourage the hiding of any of the adverts on the RuneScape website. To avoid encouraging users to hide the advert above the game, the pane displaying pages from the website must default to at least 630 pixels high (if viewed on a screen with a resolution higher than 800x600), and it must not be possible to resize it to less height than that, i.e. the page must be displayed in such a way that both the game and advert are fully visible at the same time.
    • It must not attempt to make it easier to enter a busy game world than it would be for users not using the software. It must not contain any features to make it easier to enter or monitor busy worlds.
    • If the software has its own integrated chat feature, separate from the game chat, it should make it very clear to users that this chat is not part of Jagex games and is not official, endorsed, or moderated by Jagex in any way. Furthermore, this chat should still be moderated (just not by us), and the moderators should not allow chat which infringes our Rules of Conduct. To avoid confusion with the official game chat, moderators of the external chat should not be indicated with a silver or gold crown. If the chat is IRC based, then the software should only allow access to IRC channels which conform with the above rules.

Why this rule exists

“ First, we don't want players to download third-party software from untrusted sources that can, and often do, contain keyloggers, trojans and viruses. Many players have had their accounts stolen because they have inadvertently installed hacking software on their machines. Even if the author has good intentions, an unintended flaw in their software could still put your account at risk. Some supposedly reputable software has had problems in the past. There are also cases of people deliberately writing software which looks like a useful add-on, but actually just steals your password.

Secondly, macroing ruins the game for everyone else. We don't want some players having an unfair advantage and filling up all the best training spots with bots. This game is designed to be enjoyed by humans, not bots. In the past, when we have not enforced this rule, we have rapidly found it quickly spoils the game, and players themselves start demanding that we enforce it. Now we enforce it thoroughly.

”
 
— Jagex, Macroing, and use of bots or third-party software<ref>Jagex. "Macroing, and use of bots or third-party software, 1. Why do we have this rule?." RuneScape Customer Support. *</ref>

Real-world trading, or buying power-levelling

Real-world trading is the term used for the real-world purchase of services with the intention of advancing your Jagex character.<ref name="rwtdef">Jagex. "Real-world trading, or buying power-levelling, 1. What is real-world trading?." RuneScape Customer Support. *</ref> More information can be found in the RuneScape Game Guide.

What is NOT allowed

Note that what is not allowed is not limited to the following.

Why this rule exists

The reason for this is simple - We want RuneScape to be a game where everyone has the same chance regardless of their wealth in real-life.
— Jagex[src]

The RWT rule was in the Terms & Conditions for a while, but was not added to the website's rules until 9 September 2003, with the news post "Real World Trading Rule Added".<ref>Jagex. "Real World Trading Rule Added". 9 September 2003. RuneScape News. *</ref>

“ We have this rule for three reasons: firstly, because we don’t want you to be able to buy your way to success in our games. If we let players start doing this it devalues our games for other players. We feel your status in real-life shouldn’t affect your ability to be successful in the game. Secondly, we cannot monitor the transactions made between players outside the game, and if players swap items for external benefits we can’t see, to us it looks like an unbalanced suspicious trade. Thirdly, often when players attempt to break this rule and sell items for real cash the items are actually stolen, so you could even end up getting in trouble for receiving stolen property. If you purchased an account you might find it suddenly returned to the original rightful owner and yourself out of pocket. ”
 
— Jagex, Real-world trading, or buying power-levelling<ref>Jagex. "Real-world trading, or buying power-levelling, 2. Why do we have this rule?." RuneScape Customer Support. *</ref>

Buying, selling or sharing an account

Each account should only be used by one person. More information can be found in the RuneScape Game Guide. This rule is called "Buying or selling an account" in the Report Abuse screen.

What is NOT allowed

Why this rule exists

“ We have this rule for two reasons:
  1. Firstly, many of the accounts people try to sell are actually accounts they have stolen, so, by buying the account you are helping them profit from their crime, and encouraging them to do it more!
  2. Secondly, this rule is for your protection, as people who share accounts run the risk that the person using the account won't give it back, or that the person will break a game rule causing your account to be banned or muted.
 ”
 
— Jagex, RuneScape Customer Support<ref>Jagex. "Buying, selling or sharing an account, Why do we have this rule?." RuneScape Customer Support. *</ref>

Multiple logging-in

More information can be found in the RuneScape Game Guide.

What is NOT allowed

Why this rule exists

“ We have this rule to maintain a fair gaming experience. We don’t want our games to become games where everyone feels they need to use multiple accounts at once just to compete! It’s much better to team up with your friends. ”
 
— Jagex, <ref>Jagex. "Multiple logging-in, 1. Why do we have this rule?." RuneScape Customer Support. *</ref>

Knowingly exploiting a bug

You must not use or attempt to use any cheats or errors which you find in RuneScape's software. Any exploits which you find must be immediately reported to Jagex through Customer Support.<ref>Jagex. "Knowingly exploiting a bug." RuneScape Customer Support. *</ref> However, as long as you report the bug to Jagex straight away, don't tell anyone else until Jagex fixes it, and don't use the bug any more, then you won't get in trouble.<ref>Jagex. "Knowingly exploiting a bug, 2. What if I find a bug by accident? I don't want to get banned for accidentally discovering a bug!." RuneScape Customer Support. *</ref>

More information can be found in the RuneScape Game Guide.

Why this rule exists

“ We have put a lot of effort into balancing our games to make them as fair and fun as possible. Unintended bugs can spoil the effect of a game, so we obviously want to fix them as quickly as possible. Deliberately taking advantage of a bug can unbalance the game or devalue other players' efforts, therefore it is against the rules. ”
 
— Jagex, <ref>Jagex. "Knowingly exploiting a bug, 1. Why do we have this rule?." RuneScape Customer Support. *</ref>

Jagex staff impersonation

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Jagex Moderators have crowns next to their names.

You should not attempt to impersonate Jagex staff in any way, for any reason. Know that all and only Jagex Moderators have a gold crown next to their names in chat. Anyone who does not have a gold crown next to their name is not Jagex staff.<ref>Jagex. "Jagex staff impersonation." RuneScape Customer Support. *</ref> More information can be found in the RuneScape Game Guide.

Why this rule exists

“ We have this rule in place so our players can identify members of Jagex staff and to ensure that players can trust members of our staff for help and support with any game related problems they may have. ”
 
— Jagex, <ref>Jagex. "Jagex staff impersonation, 1. Why do we have this rule?." RuneScape Customer Support. *</ref>

Password, account, bank PIN or item scamming

Asking/trying to persuade another player to give you their password or bank PIN for any reason is against the rules and will not be tolerated by Jagex.<ref name="scam">Jagex. "Password, account, bank PIN or item scamming." RuneScape Customer Support. *</ref> More information can be found in the RuneScape Game Guide.

What is NOT allowed

Why this rule exists

“ This rule is in place to protect our players' accounts. Even if you genuinely only wanted to 'borrow' their account we obviously can't tell the difference between this and a malicious person stealing accounts. Asking other players for their password will be treated VERY seriously. ”
 

You must not deliberately block or hide the adverts which appear above the free version of the game.<ref>Jagex. "Advert blocking." RuneScape Customer Support. *</ref> If you find an advert offensive, click on the 'question-mark' icon shown to the bottom-right of the advert. This will pop-up a window with instructions on how to report that advert.<ref>Jagex. "Advert blocking, 2. What if I find an advert to be offensive?." RuneScape Customer Support. *</ref>

Most adverts don't slow down your computer, but if they do, right-click the advert and select low quality. If it is still slowing down your computer, report it.<ref>Jagex. "Advert blocking, 3. What if adverts slow my computer down?." RuneScape Customer Support. *</ref>

More information can be found in the RuneScape Game Guide.

Why this rule exists

“ The adverts shown with the free-to-play versions of our games are what enable us to keep the free games running! The sponsors who show their adverts there are the ones paying for you to enjoy a free game in the first place, so please don't block them. ”
 
— Jagex, <ref>Jagex. "Advert blocking, 1. Why do we have this rule?." RuneScape Customer Support. *</ref>

Encouraging others to break the rules

You must not encourage or help others to break any of the Rules of Conduct.<ref>Jagex. "Encouraging others to break the rules." RuneScape Customer Support. *</ref> More information can be found in the RuneScape Game Guide.

What is NOT allowed

  • Attempting to convince other players that the Rules of Conduct are different from what they actually are.
  • Trying to get a reaction from another player by using offensive language against them.
  • Creating, distributing or advertising third-party add-ons that break Jagex's third-party software rule.
  • Advertising or linking to real-world trading websites.
  • Encouraging others to abuse bugs - any bugs found should be reported to Jagex immediately.
  • Hosting, facilitating, linking to, or providing software which links to, forums/chat where users discuss behaviour which breaks rules, or help or encourage each other to do so (unless a genuine effort is made to moderate such chat and prevent such discussion).
  • Basically, anything else that makes someone else more likely to break a rule.<ref>Jagex. "Encouraging others to break the rules, 2. What do you mean by encouraging others to break the rules?." RuneScape Customer Support. *</ref>

Why this rule exists

“ The reason for this rule is pretty obvious. Encouraging or helping others to break the rules is as bad as breaking them yourself, and therefore anyone doing so will be treated as if they were the one breaking the rule. ”
 
— Jagex, <ref>Jagex. "Encouraging others to break the rules, 1. Why do we have this rule?." RuneScape Customer Support. *</ref>

See also

References

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Honour • Respect • (Inappropriate language or behaviour) • Security

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