IN GAME GUIDELINES

Why do we have guidelines ?

Guidelines are to ensure a friendly and happy environment for all players. Please follow the rules of the game which apply to all aspects of the game (including game play, conversing with other players, and all other activities) to allow the most enjoyable experience for all of those involved.

Game : Guidelines summary

1. Dont cheat
2. Only 1 account per game speed
3. Dont offend or harass other players


Game : Ethics

1. Be polite and dont lose your cool (temper) if you lose battles
2. Dont attack empires repeatedly (No more then twice in a row )


Game : Cheating

1. Using someone's* account to induce DP
2. Using someone's* account to gain planets or resources
3. Purposely transfer ownership* of planets to avoid counters
4. Constantly annoy or irritate other players
5. Harass players
6. Exploiting a loophole or bug in the system for personal* gain
7. Transfering minerals via the market.

Note
* also applies to members of your Fed/Guild or same accounts on same PC/IP
^ Detailed explaination of terms below


Game : Things to remember

1. No one wins all the time (average ratio is 20-40% win ratio)
2 Like in real-life this game has its ups and downs. If you lose a lot of battles / resources, dont lose heart just build up again, everyone goes through rough patches, it is those who stick around that get stronger.


Chat/Forum/PM/Help Center : Guideliness

1. Dont spam : posting long characters, junk, posting same message multiple times, ads/selling/marketing/promotion of anything not related to Gamestotal
2. Do not touch or bring up hate, sensitive or inappropriate topics topics (ex: religions, politics, sexual preferences, or anything that can start a flame war / mass argument)
3. Do not offend, harass, make fun of other players
4. No cursing or swearing, we put in a filter to avoid players `accidentally swear` therefore if you bypass the filter to swear this means you are doing it on purpose (ex: typing in s.w.e.a.r if swear is filtered). Also do not play with the filter on purpose to figure out what words is filtered.
5. No yelling. Completely capitalized words are considered yelling.
6. No posting up rubbish. Do not copy and paste what you see in the game to the chat (paraphrase if you wish to bring up a battle or market posting). Do not use non-standard characters.
7. No posting long strings (do not post lots of numbers/letters without spaces) or stretching the forum/pm/chat. Links of any kind, or words wider than the width of the chat, must be broken up so that they do not stretch the chat.
8. Only type in English on the public chat, if you wish to type in another language you may do so via PM. Do not use any secret code (just use PM).

Notes
This is a happy place, so anything that disturbs the peace, hate or `bad` appears, the admin`s duty is to silence everything who participate (not only the one who starts the topic). If at any time you arent happy with being silenced or if you believe you have been wrongfully silenced or warned then report it at `Help Center > Ask/Post > Silencing`. Any player who continues to disturb the peace on the chat by complaining or flaming any Guide, Admin or other players, may resulf with a deactivation of his/her account.


Breaking the guidelines

Firstly dont be `bad`. Our system have a log that tracks all `bad` records, and this `bad` records last forever in our game. If you have too many `bad` records your account may be permanently deactivated or blacklisted. All admins always hope that all players will learn their leason (ex: offensive player stop swearing). The below is some of the things that may happen for breaking our guidelines

Warning
You will receive a warning on being offensive or cheating. Players who does not listen to warnings will get silenced or deactivated.

Silence
You cannot post any messages in private message or public chat for the next couple of hours (4-12 hours).
Silencing cannot be undone even by admins.

Punishment
Depending on case to case basis you may receive some form of punishment which ranges from 0 turns for x day(s) to adjustment to your account.
Deactivation
Your account will be temporary deactivated until any outstanding issues has been resolved. Your duty is to post an appeal, and to help resolve the issue.

Blacklist
We generally dont do this, unless if the person has a very long history of being `bad` or donation frauds (ex: credit card fraud). You can never login or signup again.


Related topics: Restrictions Tips if you are sharing a PC with someone else
Related topics: What is cheating ? Defination of cheating explained here



Detail explaination of cheating terms

Using someone's* account to induce DP

Arranging battles with a friend online to:
1. Ensure minimal planet losses before dropping into DP
2. Drop a friend into DP

If you want to help your friend, get him/her to join your fed/vassal/lord & build reinforcements to help defend him, or send tribute resources to him to help help build his/her defenses.

Using someone's* account to gain planets or resources

Arranging battles with a friend online to:
1. Transfering planets by purposely losing a battle (ex: building 1 fodder and asking a friend to attack, term: planet farming)
2. Transfer of ships (for collective & viral capture ability)
3. `Market transfer` resources to a friend

or Logging into someone else`s account by stealing the person`s password to steal his/her game items (planets, resources, etc)

Transfering minerals via the market


You can transfer resources via the Tribute feature. Tryin to avoid paying tribute taxes or to send more tribute than you are allowed to, by market transfers is not allow. Example, your friend sells mineral to the market at $500 and you buy the mineral at $400 and sell it off again at $500, then you and your friend keep repeating this. This is term as `market transfer`