Hi there,
A few comments.
1) Since TW is currently being refactored, it would make sense to wait for the refactoring to be complete (that is, very soon) before starting anything time-consuming. This time if your patches are clean, we could commit them to the official client (and improve the backing server-side features, like providing stats since game start).
2) I don't download / test the alternative clients out there, but one thing for sure, some features (including the auto -reconnect) don't seem legit to me (any I consider server polling option to be illegitimate and a disrespect to server admins) and I will gladly remove the download links to any client harboring those features. If the current Z-Pack provides it, I will remove the link now.
3) There's also the fact that the scripting feature itself seems to provide a way to use variables about a tee status (and making bind with current health / shields) that is very much cheating.
If you make those features available, don't post the client here. I can't do anything about it if it's on your forum, but at least mods provided here should be legit (as for people using those cheating clients, it's tricky for admins to ban them from their servers, I'm afraid the only solution is banning Russia altogether since Russian players are almost all using that client and they're the almost only ones ).
Cheating is not only providing aimbots / wall-hacks whatsoever, it's also providing more than the official client does as far as gameplay is concerned, because it provides everything that is fair already.
So there are two kinds of things I'll remove:
- Non-cheating features that are abusing resources (auto rejoin, auto join when free slot), removing fairness (auto vote yes), distracting gameplay (rainbow colors).
- Cheating features that provide an advantage however slight it might be (minimap, in-game zooming out, team colored projectiles, scripting that provides descriptive variables about the current game, and of course all forms of auto-aiming, etc).
You are free to post a modded client that does not infringe here or do whatever you want elsewhere and tell your potential users that they may get banned from servers who actually enforce rules about cheaters.
I'd appreciate if anyone can point to me which clients currently available on the forum are infringing. The only alternative one that I tested is Teecomp (official version. Stats & following spectators are OK) and I don't see anything infringing.
Finally, I'd like to add that if you provide your patches in the official client, you can have other people checking the legitimacy of the features and thus discard anything that is wrong .