Honour

"We expect our players not to cheat or indulge in dishonest behaviour."

- Jagex

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:


 * Macroing, and use of bots or third-party software
 * Real-world trading
 * Buying, selling or sharing an account
 * Multiple logging-in
 * Knowingly exploiting a bug
 * Jagex staff impersonation
 * Password, account, bank PIN or item scamming
 * Advert blocking
 * Encouraging others to break the rules

Macroing, and use of bots or third-party software
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).

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.


 * 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.
 * Software that generates input to RuneScape game applets.
 * Software that automatically moves the mouse pointer or generates mouse clicks
 * Autotyping is also not allowed
 * 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.

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. 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.
 * Purchasing gold or items
 * Buying a RuneScape (or any other Jagex game) account
 * Real-world purchase of, or offering to sell, having an account's experience (XP) raised
 * Real-world purchase of, or offering to sell, completion of quests or Activities
 * Exchange of game items or quest completion for benefits in other online games
 * Accepting a signature to use in the RuneScape Forums as payment for an item in-game

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

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".

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

 * Sharing an account with anyone, including family or friends
 * Selling an account
 * Transferring an account
 * Lending an account
 * Permitting anyone else to use your account
 * Accepting an account that somebody offers you
 * Swapping your account with another player
 * Selling the 'time' you have put into the account

Multiple logging-in
More information can be found in the RuneScape Game Guide.

What is NOT allowed

 * Having two of your own accounts interact in any way
 * Having two of your own accounts logged in at the same time
 * Drop trading
 * Any method of item transfer within a single person's accounts
 * Using third-party software to log into an account for yourself while you are logging into another
 * Having a friend play your account so you can trade between the characters
 * Giving items to another player from one of your accounts, so that they can then give the items to another character that you play

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. 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.

More information can be found in the RuneScape Game Guide.

Jagex staff impersonation
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. More information can be found in the RuneScape Game Guide.

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. More information can be found in the RuneScape Game Guide.

What is NOT allowed

 * Asking/trying to persuade another player to give you your password or PIN number for any reason, even if you don't succeed
 * Scamming or deceiving other players
 * Lying to other players for your own personal gain
 * Asking for someone's password in a different language
 * To claim an item is rare when it isn't
 * To switch items at the last second before pressing accept, and hoping the other player won't notice

Advert blocking
You must not deliberately block or hide the adverts which appear above the free version of the game. 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.

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.

More information can be found in the RuneScape Game Guide.

Encouraging others to break the rules
You must not encourage or help others to break any of the Rules of Conduct. 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.