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The Dark Empire Law Crimes & punishments Following is a listing of violations of game law, and the resulting punishments. If the felonious player holds multiple accounts, all accounts may be subjected to the same punishment. (That is to say the offender is a person behind any given number of accounts, not just a particular account) Some offences may result in temporary suspension of posting privileges, the jail terms are reserved for repeat offenders. Game staff reserves the right to interpret these laws in certain situations to maintain the spirit of said laws. Hacking - Do not deliberately access another person's account without their prior consent. This also includes giving any links or sites that cause people to do things within their account without their knowledge or consent. Logging into or using another person's account without express permission will result in deletion of any/all of the offender's accounts. To clarify the account sharing issue, you cannot share an account with another person. You may "baby-sit" or "take care of" someone's account, but you may not use another person's account as your own for a prolonged period of time. This rule is mainly in place to deal with situations where two people claim ownership over an account. Also you may not do anything to the game, that may interfere with general game play, like hacking chat, or any page, using any sort of code. Punishment: Deletion Selling game information - Exchanging information for any kind of currency, whether game currency or real currency, is strictly prohibited. All game information is free and readily available for those who seek it. Don't take advantage of people by trying to charge people for it. Punishment: 10 days Jail Slutting - Do not batte in any type of fashion sense. For example, you are not allowed to pay players to attack you multiple times, revive, etc. Also to keep the game friendly limit your attacks on one person to 5 times aday. No more then this. Punishment: 5 days Jail or Fines. Blackmail - Threatening to report players who broke game rules unless you get something in return is unacceptable behavior. If you think someone is breaking game rules, please report it to an admin. Anyone caught trying to scare players into payment will be thrown in jail. Punishment: 15 days Jail Bug Abuse - If you find a bug or glitch that can be profited from, don't let us find out that you took advantage of it. ;) Depending on severity, game bug abuse will result in anywhere from a 30 day jail term to account deletion. Bugs, loopholes, security flaws, or any inconsistencies in the game should be immediately reported in the appropriate thread on the message boards or, if the subject in question is too sensitive for the message boards, you should contact one of the Game Developers (usually Managers or coders) with a detailed imail description. Punishment: 30 Days/ Deletion Ripping/Bad Trades/Clan Staff Selling - Taking money from another player and then not providing what you offered is illegal. Clan staff position selling can not and will not be tolerated. Game staff recommends against this kind of action. You have been warned. (Note that if a trade is made, and the items sent/received are more then what was agreed on in chat or imail, whoever receives the extra funds must refund the other player right away. If any funds are accidentally sent from one player to another that were not part of any deal made in chat or imail or on the message boards, it is up to the receiver to make a moral decision to return the funds.) Punishment: 15 days MB Ignorance, Chat Ignorance - Do not break the rules of any message board. Do not break the rules of the chat room(s). Punishment: According to individual rules Game's rules / Chat's rules - Game's rules apply in chat, as well as the chat's rules apply all over the game. For example, if you are asked to behave in game according to a rule that is found only in chat's rules, then you should obey, since chat is part of this game as well. Punishment: According to the broken rule + the punishment for disobeying a direct command of a staff member. Impersonation - Do not change names or how it appears to anything having to do with staff or imail players telling them you're staff - doing so is completely against Dark Empire Rules. Chat Monitor and up are considered staff members, Chat Monitor Trainee's can also not be impersonated, same punishment will apply. Punishment: 15 days Admin Begging - Do not ask Admin or Managers for currency or items, including asking for game secrets; feel free to ask for help, though. Anyone asking staff (or anyone else) about game secrets will be jailed. Punishment: 10 days Multi - Do not make more than one account. If you did that before you read this, imail an admin requesting them to delete your other account(s). One Account per user and only 5 accounts per IP Address/Computer Terminal. This is more than enough for a large family. No accounts on the same IP Address/Computer Terminal may trade with one another. If more then one member uses your computer, you must make sure yourself that you do not seem like a multi. Having your brother sending you his gold everyday isn't really having separate accounts. Using a clan or a "middle man" to try to hide your tracks and/or go around blocks that prevent multi trading can and will be used as evidence to persecute you under this rule. Persons found to have multiple accounts will have those accounts removed from the game and any assets/stats earned from or as a result of these accounts will removed, and their main account will jailed for 30 days. Furthermore, any one caught making new accounts while chat banned or jailed will find their sentence extended by 5 days for a first offense, 10 days for a second, etc. Punishment: 30 Days + Deletion Mass One-way Transactions: Many people have access to two or more PCs, thus we cannot count on IPs to help us catch all players using more than one account to cheat on this game. So, anyone caught sending massive (multiple) amounts of gems, gold, and/or mythril will be considered to be a multi, and will be treated as such. This includes using a clan or a middle man as a means of transfering these funds. Both accounts will be jailed, and all funds removed from the game. If you wish to explain your transactions, Contact Closure, manager, V-manager, or an Admin Punishment: 30 Days Promoting other games/URLs - Promoting other games or websites in Dark Empire will not be tolerated. If you promote them through imail then it becomes a general game offense. Inappropriate links or images sent through Imail, Chat, set as your phrase or represented in another form is considered a breach of this rule. Punishment: 30 Days Clan Banner / Signature Images - Any image used for your clan or Signature with a URL leading to another game will be considered advertising. The image will be removed and you will be punished according to the advertising rule. Punishment: 30 Days Game Secret Plotting - Do not talk about Game Secrets; sharing secrets is Extremely Illegal and will not go unpunished. Punishment: 30 Days Clan Ownership - All equipment and currency contained within clans, for example, B\branded weapons and armor, gems, and gold, is considered the property of the clan owner. Co-Owners may only use these items for the tasks they have been given permission to use them for. A Co-Owner who steals from a clan will be punished severely. Any clan without a leader set will be deleted. The clan will not be given to the co-leader. Punishment: 30 Days Multiple Clan Ownership - All players on Dark Empire may own only at most one clan. Any players caught using a second clan in any way will be jailed. Selling or trading a second clan is also illegal, as is selling a clan for a friend. Punishment: 20 days jail, excess clans deleted External Trading - Do not trade currency, items, or characters in this game for something out-of-game. You may not give your character to anybody. Doing so defeats the purpose of the game. If you are caught doing so, your punishment is up to Admins. Punishment: 40 Days/ Deletion Loans - Loans are allowed in Dark Empire, but the one that loans is not allowed to ask or accept interest for the loaned amounts. The loaned one is not allowed to offer or send more than the amount loaned to him/her. Also, loans are to be negotiated in mails or chat, and it is the sole responsibility of the loaner to make sure that the loaned amount has been returned at the due date. It is not the game's responsibility to solve the conflicts arising from this activity, nor to recuperate or return the lost amounts. Punishment for asking/accepting/offering interest: 30 Days for both players Flooding - Intentionally spamming or flooding the message boards, chat rooms, or other communication venues will result in a 5 day jail term. Punishment: 10+ days Renaming Weapons - Do not rename your weapons to anything inappropriate. This rule also includes using any URLs what so ever in the name. A good and allowed name for a weapon is "The Sword of Doom" for example. If you did this, "The Sword of Doom", that wouldn't be allowed either. URLs in your weapon name is a 30 Day Jail. If you use color, your weapon will be renamed to its default name and color will be removed. Second warning will result in a 1,000,000 gold fine. Profile pictures and profile text - Profile pictures - The maximum size accepted for the profile pictures is of 600 x 600 pixels. The pictures should not be innapropriate, should not contain outside Dark Empire links, and should not contain text in other languages but English. Profile text - Should not contain leet, profane or hateful text, or links to outside Dark Empire sites. For any of the above, a mail will be sent to the player, asking him/her to make a change/removal, or, according to the circumstances, a staff member will do the change/removal. Punishment: For ignoring the mail or for changing back the staff editing: 5 Days. For containing outside Dark Empire links: 30 Days Player Harassment - Game staff determine when communication crosses the line and becomes abusive. This is not to say everyone must play nice; this is a combat/competitive game after all. The harassment law only applies to continued and targeted harassment of a particular person, not sporadic insults. The following language assumes a staff member has deemed the interaction as continued harassment. Public harassment of fellow players will result in a 10 day jail term. In general, private communications are just that, private, and not subject to decency or harassment laws. Players are encouraged to use the provided privacy tools to stop harassment. With that said, persons who attempt to undermine the privacy tools will also get 10 days in jail. Degratory comments regarding other countries/races will not be allowed, nor will comments regarding sterotypes about those countries/races. Punishment: 10 days Staff Harassment / Slander - Any complaints against staff will be offered in a clear, courteous manner, free of profanity and overflowing in wit and charm. Slanderous/personal attacks/profane communications against staff members will not be tolerated, and will result in the offending remarks being removed and a 10 day jail sentence for the offender. Punishment: 10 Days Appendix A Players have had questions regarding illumination of certain laws, boundaries, and scenarios, and here are the answers: Staff obligations to players Staff are obligated to respond to, and, if possible, assist in any requests made. Official conduct between players and staff by imail is fine. Players can expect a reply to their queries within 2 business days. (Please note: requests should not be made to upper game management directly, as you're not going to get "better help" by asking the Managers or Vice Managers.) Responsibility The account owner is responsible for their account(s) at all times. This means if your friends/family/pet crocodile logged into your account and causes trouble, you will be held responsible. Keep your username and password secure as you would for any other site or the pin number for your home alarm system or cash card. Player-Staff interaction Both players and staff are expected to co-exist in a polite and respectful environment. This applies to professional interaction only as there are instances when the staff member is acting in the capacity of a player and not an administrator. This is not to say a staff member may become abusive and claim they were acting in a player capacity, but it does mean a staff member need not be stoic at all times. They're volunteers, and need/have the right to relax/get into arguments, too. This should never be the case in professional settings, though (i.e. Customer Service requests). Repeat offenders Harsher punishments/deletions may occur for repeat offenders. Loss of items due to unauthorized access or "hacking" Lost items will only be returned to clans, provided the items can be tracked. Wrongful Accusations If you feel you have been unfairly jailed, chat banned, or any other form of punishment, imail upper management (Managers and Vice Managers) a formal complaint. Loopholes Do not try and use/exploit loopholes in the rules. Doing so will result in you receiving punishment as stated in the rule you attempted to use a loophole with. Repeated attempts of trying to use loopholes to get around rules will result in an extended punishment as according to the rules. |
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