“Exploits are uses and abuses of game mechanics to obtain an unfair advantage over other players including creating a detrimental play experience. For instance, item duplication, stashing of materials under the world terrain (undermesh), crashing servers or other player’s clients, accessing forbidden areas of the game and abuses of the building system of the game to negatively impact server and client performance.”
Duration of a ban
In many situations, we will proceed with a temporary suspension as a way to warn and deter against repeating infractions.
In cases of exploiting and abusing of in-game mechanics, the suspensions will range from a duration of 1 week to 1 month depending on the extent and gravity of the abuse.
These are official Funcom rules, stated here: