Firstly, thank you very much for responding.
Secondly, unfortunately I've only been lead to more questions. I would appreciate any and all feedback that I can receive on the below topics. Truth be told, I'm not trying to be a thorn in the side, I'm just genuinely interested.


Section B states:
Thou shalt not:
"in whole or in part, modify, adapt, translate, reverse engineer, attempt to derive source code from, modify, disassemble, decompile, or create derivative works based on the Game; provided, however, that you may make one (1) copy of the Game Client and the manuals that accompany it for archival purposes only and you may install the relevant Game Client on one or more computers by you or under your legitimate control as described in Section 1 above; "

My question about this is that, while not typically in a "reverse engineering definition"; guessing without the use of any 3rd party appliances or software & solely based upon in game play & ones own mind, would that be included in your definition of reverse engineering?


Section E states:
Thou shalt not:
"use any unauthorized third-party software that intercepts, “mines”, or otherwise collects information from or through the Game or the Service, including without limitation any software that reads areas of RAM used by the Game to store information about a character or the game environment; provided, however, that ZeniMax may, at its sole and absolute discretion, allow the use of certain third party user interfaces and other third party software;"

Many 3rd party created add-ons (which Zenimax has listed above that they now own once created) do collect information from/through the game; although Zenimax restricts what data based on the API. Is there a separate licensing agreement or terms of service with particular details regarding the API?
Is there a separate licensing agreement or terms of service for the "public test server"?
What are the limitations set upon "authorized 3rd party software"?
What constitutes "authorized", especially for mod authors?

Regarding the "RAM" portion:
With exploit's always being an issue for end users becoming targeted, many people chose to protect themselves with things like "Microsoft's Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit aka EMET" which does utilize memory randomization among other things to protect software (including yours) from exploitation. Is this application, or others like it "allowed"?
How do you determine between software such as this versus something you would consider "stealing data from RAM"?

Thank you!
-kai

If you just show up with some unknown specifics with regard to how some stats/skills interact, I doubt that anyone is going to bother with you. But if you show up going "Hey I reverse engineered the game to figure this out", then yeh you'll probably be banned.