I totally agree with this tbh, that and the facts that you can: Use any custon textures you want for ANYTHING, from the crosshair, to brightly coloured arrows, invisible trees/bushes, light at night, transparant walls, turn off fog, and anything else u can think of. This disgusts me, cause I have watched some ppl's videos and screenshots with these additions/subtractions and it does make a different game. An ugly, easy, horrible game. I would fucking ADORE the mod who would open a line of communication with punkbuster and get their support. At least in games that have punkbuster, all custom content is a ban. I really do feel this way. Play the EXACT same game as everyone else or GTFO, there is NO reason to use ANY custom content in crpg EXCEPT because you gain an unfair advantage.
In my view using custom content is LITERALLY no different to autoblocking. Infact, it's worse, because while autoblockers do occasionally get busted, nothing will happen to those who use visual content, and the massive % of players who have a feint macro bound to their mouse buttons. These ppl need banning, they cheat, there are no 2 ways about it.
While I agree that custom modding the game specifically to make it easier for yourself (like the examples you posted) is incredibly lame, not all people mod their game like that.
I myself have made a few custom banner tweaks, everyone shouts "FUCKING BULLSHIT!" when hit by an arrow, instead of the standard woman yell I have "I'M GOING TO CUT OF YOUR COCK AND MAIL IT TO YOUR MOTHER YOU FUCKING bundle of sticks BITCH!" and more stuff like that.
Banning all custom content is a bad idea because it limits the game. Having a personalized game makes it more fun for me, and just how easy it is to mod the game is one of the big things that make warband so great imho. Sure it's annoying knowing that some people abuse it but in this case just let the lamers lame. It's not worth it imo.