A. Account
- You are NOT PERMITTED, for any reason, to share account information with any other person(s), whether they play this game or not. You ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT log in and then ask other people around you to do anything that would involve making use of your account.
- Your username may not be vulgar, obscene, or offensive, as determined by an administrator of this game.
- DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES use an automated process to keep yourself logged in or refresh pages automatically to look for updates. If you have something else you'd like to do while waiting for the chest fest to start, you just go do it and check back every 15 minutes; don't have your browser auto refresh, because this isn't fair to others, and it puts undue stress on the server.
- ALWAYS play fair. Using programs, browser features, or tactics that other people don't have access to, or are not using because it is against the spirit of fair play, is NOT ACCEPTABLE.
Violating any of the above rules is punishable by an unannounced change of your account details, a slap on the wrist, or a ban. The punishment type and duration may be chosen at an administrator's discretion, depending on the frequency, severity, and effect of your offenses.
B. Community
The forums, shoutbox, and IRC chat are provided as a service, and as a privilege. They are designed to allow people to interact in a friendly fashion with one another. Follow these rules and you will be able to continue to use them.
- BE NICE TO THE NEWBIES. We all started out as one, and you wouldn't have liked to get treated as a piece of dirt, would you? Anyone caught flaming new or inexperienced players WILL BE SEVERELY PUNISHED! This is especially true for name-calling, obscenities, insults, sarcasm, or intentionally incorrect information!
- This IS a WAR GAME. Being attacked or getting your tater hit IS NOT AN EXCUSE for inappropriate or childish behavior.
- You MAY NOT use any means to bypass the word filters on the game that keep the common dirty words starred out. THIS MEANS DO NOT PLACE YOUR OWN MASKING CHARACTERS INSIDE YOUR POSTS. If it is a dirty word that the administrators do not want posted, the game will filter it out for you.
- You MAY NOT post any content which contains obscene, inappropriate, vulgar, or explicit words or phrases, harassment directed toward any person or persons playing or managing this game, or content which is copyrighted (unless you are the holder of the copyright or have express written consent to redistribute it).
- You MAY NOT post personal information about anyone other than yourself without express written consent from the person.
- You MAY NOT post non-publicized statistical information about any player other than yourself. This includes any information that requires a spy mission or attack mission on the player in order to find out.
- You MAY NOT accuse anyone of cheating. Period.
- NO RACISM, PREJUDICE, OR SUPERIORITY COMPLEXES. This should speak for itself. I thought it would be covered under the rule above about obscene, inappropriate, vulgar, explicit, harassment... So this is a continuation of that rule.
- People are NOT DUMBASSES if they cannot speak English. This game attracts many people from all walks of life, among just about every country that has internet access. Please be considerate of other people's cultures and ways of life. Don't post anything you wouldn't say in front of one of them, and try to get along. When speaking to someone from a country or language which is foreign to you, consider when you choose your words that they may have to translate every word you say, and that that translation may not come out correctly. Likewise, they may have to translate every word they want to say back
C. Alliances
Now that there is an official alliance system in place, here are the ground rules:
- You MAY NOT organize or recruit for your alliance using our shoutbox or forums. Set up your own forum or chat room and put a link to it in your alliance's profile.
- You MAY NOT place any content in your alliance's profile (name, tag, profile, rules, links, etc) which is obscene, vulgar, or which you wouldn't want your grandmother to read. Remember, all kinds of people from all places around the world play this game, and they may not care too much for seeing that kind of stuff.
And finally, the closing statement:
Your use of the community does not fall under the free speech law. If an administrator of the game deems your expressiveness to be disruptive to the community, you will be removed from it.
If you violate any of the rules of the community, depending on the offense, your privilege to use it and/or the game can be revoked.
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