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1. By creating an account you agree to and are bound by these Forum Rules.

2. The Rules apply to the whole forum, including but not limited to: Private messages (PM), profiles and the individual sub-forums.

3. The moderators exist to make sure these rules are being followed. In case a violation happens, the moderation team reserves the right to punish the user accordingly. Punishments are covered by §4.
The moderation team is not obliged to answer game related questions through PMs or in threads. Such questions can be directed to the community by posting in the Help sub-forum.

4. These Rules are subject to change at any time, and they immediately apply to any open case at the moment of change.

5. Each person may only use one forum account. Using multiple accounts is only allowed if a permanent switch is being made form one account to another and with the permission of the moderation team.

6. The users are obliged to follow subsets of forum rules for particular sub-forums if this sub-forum has an etiquette addition to this set of rules.

7. Threads not published in the appropriate sub-forum may be locked or moved to another forum without notice by the moderators.

8. The moderators reserve the right to move individual posts and threads to the Valley of Hinnom if they are deemed in violation of the rules.

Behavior violating these content regulations is punishable and this applies to all posts, titles, and other user definable areas including forum account names, avatars and signatures.

1. Do not Re-post, Cross-post or Double-post. Re-posting a locked or deleted topic, or reposting significant content from locked or deleted topics in order to restart a locked discussion, is not allowed. Posting the same topic in multiple sub-forums (crossposting) is not allowed except for announcement-grade threads made by the Developers. Posting twice (or more) in a row in the same thread is not permitted except in case of announcements by the devolopers, or in the creation of guides, or a legitimate bump of an older thread such as a Trade thread. Users are encouraged to use the Edit-feature instead.

2. Do not post in a language other than English. If it is necessary to post in another language, an accurate English translation must be included.

3. Do not impersonate staff. Including posts in which the user points out that someone is breaking the forum rules. Report such an event using the report function. Also, other content which can be mistaken as official or otherwise cause similar confusion (such as posting with 'moderator green' text) is prohibited.

4. Do not Spam. Spam can include, but is not limited to: posts which do not contribute significantly to the thread's discussion; posts which are not related to the sub-forum overall theme; posts which contain nothing but quotes from other posters; overuse of emoticons. The moderation team is the final arbiter of what is or is not spam.

5. No pornographic, racist or otherwise discriminatory or inappropriate text or images. This can include, but is not limited to: overly abusive, sexist, or racist language; disparaging any religion, race, gender, age group, or sexual orientation, threatening persons with actions in real life.

6. Do not post transcripts of private communication without permission. This includes, but is not limited to, contents of forum PMs or emails, as well as conversations via any instant messaging service such as Skype or MSN. Permission from all parties involved must be given prior to posting such material.

7. Do not post personal data without permission. Personal information (such as real life name, address or photo) of a member may not be posted without the express consent of the person or people concerned. Any posting of personal data is entirely at the user's own risk.

8. Do not discuss forum bans or warnings in the forum. Discussion of or objection to forum bans or warnings should only occur through forum PM with the moderators or on this thread.

9. Do not post material which could be considered as illegal by the international law. This includes, but is not limited to, discussion of “warez” or cracked software. Links pointing to such material are also forbidden.

10. No advertisements, of any kind. This includes, but is not limited to, thief game links. Users may, however, start a thread for discussion of a game in the City on a Hill sub-forum. Such threads may be locked or moved to Valley of Hinnom at the moderation team's discretion.

11. No buying or selling for real world currency. Do not sell or imply that you will sell any in-game item, service, or information for real world currency.

12. No large signatures. Signatures are limited to a height 90 pixels, which is about equivalent to 7 lines of text, and a width of 600 pixels.

13. Do no derail. Do not derail a topic away from the subject of the original post. If necessary, create a new thread in the appropriate sub-forum and link the previous thread.

14. Do not attempt to coerce or provoke other users into breaking the above Rules.

1. Trolling. Troll posts, posts of a libelous nature, and posts of divisive or abusive nature are allowed in the House of Burgesses and City upon a Hill sub-forums only.

2. Bugs. All bugs should be posted in the Bugs & Technicalities sub-forum.

3. Help. Fishing for in-game information regarding base locations or other information which may be harmful to another player in-game is not allowed in the Help sub-forum.

1. Any account violating this set of forum rules may be warned, banned, perma-banned, or otherwise punished by staff members depending on the severity of the infraction inflicted on the forum rules. The punishment may be extended to any other account the forum user in question owns, if necessary.

2. Creating any amount of new accounts to evade a ban, perma-ban or punishment of another account is illegal and will be punished by a permanent ban of the account(s). Posting in the name of a banned person is considered as ban evasion and will be punished accordingly.

3. Topics and posts which violate the forum rules may be moved to the Valley of Hinnom at moderator discretion.

1. If you have a complaint or question about a moderator's decision, the complaint may be posted in the Rules thread in the Announcements sub-forum. Unresolved complaints involving moderation may also be directed to the developers Jorb or Loftar via forum PM.

2. Posting a thread / multiple threads to resolve a situation involving a complaint about a crew member is against the rules. In addition what is defined in §2 will apply.