not every 'cheats' are equal, some lets you get an unfair advantage in PvP but for most people, its because it provides some nice quality of life improvements,

not every 'cheats' are equal, some lets you get an unfair advantage in PvP but for most people, its because it provides some nice quality of life improvements, example: - improved inventory management - auto loot - quest tracker - enhanced HUD I've never been a fan of "banning" users, make your server authoritative if you care about that kind of things, or better, listen to your players feedback The process of modding a game and using cheats is the exact same: DLL injection, or MITM proxy for packets manipulation, so don't assume everyone has evil intentions only because of a open port ;) Example of well intentioned modding community for Online games: TrackMania: https://openplanet.dev/plugins https://openplanet.dev/plugins WoW: https://www.wowinterface.com/addons.php https://www.wowinterface.com/addons.php