Post by ~-=-~ Vaquera ~-=-~ on Jun 8, 2008 19:51:16 GMT -5
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Link to Up Dated Rules concerning in Game Issues
Friday, 9. November 2007, 14:59
Game Rules
Bitefight.Org - Game Rules
- The following rules will be valid from December 8th, 2007 for all Servers listed here and may be changed at any time.
- For contact details, see this thread: Contacts for Ingame Issues .
- Please be aware that discussions concerning a certain things are limited to the account owner and game staff.
-- Player is obligated to save his battle reports for 48h so that Game Operator can have those as evidence when deciding about the issue.
-- Without Battle Reports, Game Operator will NOT proceed with further actions regarding rules violation.
-- In cases of unclear issue, Super Game Operator or Game Admin can and will be involved in it.
-- Bitefight.org Game Team may enter players account when justified reason exists.
§1 Accounts
I. Multi-Accounting
Every player is allowed to play only a single account per Server.
Consequences: permanent ban
- If 2 or more players are sharing the same IP address(brother and sister, husband and wife) this has to be reported to the Game Operator in charge for their Server. If not accounts will be banned without warning!
- If more than one account is played from the same network the Game Operator has to be informed.
- Players must not attack each other while sharing the same network.(when opposite race)
- Players can not attack the same opponents, it has to pass at least 24h between the last attack of 1 player and first attack of the 2nd player.
Consequences:
1st offense - 2 days
2nd offense - 5 days
3rd offense - 7 days
Every next offense - 14days
II. Account Sharing
Every account is entitled to be played by one player only. The player of the account may only change if either account sitting takes place or if the account is exchanged.
Consequences: permanent ban
III. Account Sitting
Account sitting allows a player to take care of someone's account in accordance with following regulations:
* The GameOperator of the Server has to be informed before the sitting takes place.
* The only allowed actions while Sitting are: Graveyard Work, Manhunts, Grotto Hunt, Grotto Quests and spending gold (only for increasing player's stats and clan donations)
* The sitting is limited to a time from 2 to 7 continuous days.
* Before the Sitter logs in, the owner of the Account has to contact the GO of his Server. (E-mail his Pasword, his ingame Nick and inform GO about the period of time the Sitting will take place)
* Sitting of an account by the same person who has already sat an account on that specific server within the past 7 days is not allowed.
* Sitting is allowed once in 30days, after the sitting has been ended, it needs to pass 30 days so that same account can be sat again.
Some actions not allowed by the sitter:
* Attacking of other players with the sat account is not allowed.
* Attacking the sat account with the own account is not allowed.
* Changing the sat account's settings is not allowed.
* Editing clan settings from the sat account is not allowed.
* Battle Reports are not to be deleted during the sitting period.
* Game Operator may enter sat account in order to verify that there were no abuse of sitting privilege.
Abuse of the Accounts Sitting privilege:
Consequences: 7 days ban for both sitter and sat account
IV. Account Exchange
- Account Exchange is allowed to take place only using appropriate board section for it. You can find it here .
-- Additional Information and how to protect your account from being stolen, here
V. Account Names Change
- Cannot be done by the GameOperator, due to the newly added option of changing by the players using the "Library" ingame.
V.1 Account Name Change - Exception .
If Account Trade is done, via board, then Account Name can be changed after the trade took place, your server Game Operator will change nickname of your new account to desired one.
Important: After changing the name of the account, a bug can occur! Game Team, nor GameForge does NOT accept any responsibility if anything happens to your account.
§2. Bashing Rule
Bashing is calculated from 00:00 - 23:59. - SERVER TIME
I.Bashing (normal)
Maximum number of allowed attacks per level range:
Levels from 1 to 14 - 3 attacks allowed per day*
Levels from 15 to 40 - 4 attacks allowed per day*
Levels from 41 to 99 - 5 attacks allowed per day*
Levels from 100+ - 6 attacks allowed per day*
Defender’s level taken in order to apply Bashing Rule.
[Examples:
1.Attacker's level = 41, Defender's level = 39
-> Number of allowed attacks = 4 in one day*.
2.Attacker's level = 39, Defender's level = 41
-> Number of allowed attacks = 5 in one day*.]
!This Rule applies to attacks in minimum 1 day*.
Violation Consequences:
1st offense: 3 days
2nd offense: 7 days
3rd offense: 14 days
Each next offence – 14 days
II.Special Bashing Case
Attacker may be penalized if defender’s gameplay is influenced to a certain extend by constant attacks.
1.Special Bashing Case (ratio) can also be enforced if the following number of attacks is fulfilled.
From level 1 to 14 - 2 attacks / per day* allowed
From level 15 to 40 - 3 attacks / per day* allowed
From level 41 to 99 - 4 attacks / per day* allowed
From level 100+ - 5 attacks / per day* allowed
!This Rule applies to attacks made in minimum 5 days.
[How to calculate ratio: The average amount taken when the total number of attacks is divided with the number of days in which those attacks have been made.
(Total Number of attacks) / (Number of days) = # attacks per day]
2.If a player is suffering from unprovoked attacks with purpose of keeping his health points down so he/she can no longer be able to hunt/raid/quest**.
3.In any other situation that the defender’s gameplay is severely harmed.
!!!Abuse of this Rule may lead to ban or warn (depending on the severity of the abuse).
Violation Consequences:
1st offense: 1 to 3 days
2nd offense: 5 days
3rd offense: 7 days
4th offense: 14 days
Each next offense: up to 35days
III. Organized Clan Attacks (Clan Bashing)
Organized clan attacks from members of the same clan to one or more members of another clan in order to:
1.Raid as much gold as possible,
2.Damage player’s health (and gameplay),
3.In any case the GO estimates that it is necessary to interfere due to abuse of rules.
[Example:
1.Players of the same clan sharing victim in order to gain gold.
2.Players of the same clan sharing victim and keep attacking a player even after his health dropped down to 25hp**.]
!This Rule applies to attacks in minimum 2 days*.
!!! Abuse of this Rule may lead to ban or warn (depending on the severity of the abuse).
Consequences:
1st offense: warning to 3 days ban
2nd offense: 1 to 3 days ban
3rd offense: 5 days ban
4th offense: 7 days ban
Each next offense: 14 days ban
IV.-/+10 level attacks
-Levels from 1 to 66
-/+ 9 levels attacks as allowed by Game and Rule §2.I.
-Levels from 67 to 99
- when level difference is -/+ 9 levels: 5 attacks as allowed by Rule §2.I.
- when level difference is bigger than -/+9 levels: 2 attacks are allowed.
*This means. When you are level 80 you can attack from level 68 to level 92.
You are allowed to attack 5 times someone from level 71 to 89, BUT you are only allowed to attack twice a level 68 to 70 and 90 to 92.
Click here in order to check the limitations of your level range.
-Levels from 100+
- when level difference is -/+9 levels: 6 attacks as allowed by Rule §2.I.
- when level difference is bigger than -/+9 levels: 2 attacks allowed.
!This Rule applies to attacks in minimum 1 day*.
!!! Abuse of this Rule may lead to ban or warn (depending on the severity of the abuse).
Violation Consequences:
1st offense: 1day ban
2nd offense: 5 days ban
3rd offense: 7 days ban
4th offense: 14 days ban
Each next offense: 14 days ban
* Day/days in Rules are considered from 00:00 to 23:59 ~ Server Time~.
** If defender has already low health due to Grotto Fights ban could (but no necessarily) be replaced by a warning.
Notice: Bashing may be suspended due to players involvement in: Official Duels reported on Board (Bashing is suspended only on the player with who Duel is agreed).
Any Attempt to abuse these privileges will lead, as stated in §6 Abuse of the Rules to severe consequences.
OLD bashing rule - For reference ONLY
§3 Interference in the gameplay
I. Bug-Using
It is not allowed to purposely use a bug to gain advantages.
It is not allowed to purposely not report a bug that was found.
Bugs have to be reported to game staff immediately.
Consequences: permanent ban
II. Scripts
The usage of a program that interferes with the game in an unconventional way is not allowed. This includes programs with automated or semi-automated processes that are capable of performing ingame actions. Bots and Macros are especially disallowed.
Consequences: permanent ban
Friday, 16. November 2007, 15:44
RE: Game Rules
§4 Ingame Texts
Definition: Ingame texts are any form of ingame messages as well as the content of Clan Descriptions and Character Descriptions.
I. Language
The official language in all Bitefight.Org services is English. All ingame texts have to be in English, which means that all clan / character descriptions must be in English, any non-english descriptions may be deleted / edited by the Game Operator.
Consequences:
1st offense - warning
2nd offense - 3 days
3rd offense - 7 days
4th offense - 15 days
5th offense - permanent ban
II. Content
Ingame texts may not cause any offense to players of Bitefight by being of unacceptable quality. This is in particular the case
* when someone is insulted
* when foul language is used
* when a racist statement is made
* when political extreme statements or terms are used
* for improper pictures on alliance pages and links to improper websites
* using special characters(!@#$%^&*...) for the nicknames
* making character description bigger the normal in order to prevent opponents from seeing the "Attack Button"
But also in other cases. It is up to the judgment of gamestaff to decide if a content is bannable.
Consequences:
1st offense - 1-3 days(depending on the severity)
2nd offense - 5-7 days
3rd offense - 10-14 days
4th offense - permanent ban
III. Real life Threats
Implying that you are going to harm a person such as a player, a team member, a Gameforge representative or any other person is forbidden.
Consequences: permanent ban ingame and on the Board
IV. Spam
Sending messages with the purpose of annoying other persons or spamming them is not allowed. This includes
* repeated sending of empty messages
* sending the same message a couple of times
* sending messages that are clearly spam.
* sending bitelinks
Consequences:
1st offense - 1 day
2nd offense - 3 days
3rd offense - 7 days
4th offense - 15 days
5th offense - permanent ban
V. Ingame Names
Ingame names may not cause offense and have to follow the guidelines stated in II. Content.
§5 Proxies and alike
- The usage of a proxy or other method to hide the IP address in the game interface is not allowed. If the usage of the proxy is the only way to play the game the permission of the Game Operator has to be obtained before using the proxy.
-- If player is abusing proxy to be able to cheat the rules or to gain advantage, when detected will result in ban of all accounts on whole BiteFight.org and on the board.
Consequences: permanent ban
§6 Abuse of the Rules
Any attempt to get an unfair personal advantage from a team member's decision is disallowed. This includes in particular allowing someone to attack you as often as he wants and then reporting him for bashing and reporting someone for bashing you are officially at war with.
Consequences: permanent ban
Impersonating or claiming to be a staff member is forbidden.
Consequences: permanent ban
- Please note that a member of the game staff might ban you temporarily or permanent.
- This includes accounts that have or have not broken any of the above stated rules.
- Also take into account that your behavior on any of our services might end up in
a permanent or temporary ban from the whole community and its services.
The Terms and Conditions are above the rules,
please make sure to read them, too!
- The BiteFight team reserves the right to change the game rules as needed.
**All information provided by Gameforge for Bitefight.org
Link to Up Dated Rules concerning in Game Issues
Friday, 9. November 2007, 14:59
Game Rules
Bitefight.Org - Game Rules
- The following rules will be valid from December 8th, 2007 for all Servers listed here and may be changed at any time.
- For contact details, see this thread: Contacts for Ingame Issues .
- Please be aware that discussions concerning a certain things are limited to the account owner and game staff.
-- Player is obligated to save his battle reports for 48h so that Game Operator can have those as evidence when deciding about the issue.
-- Without Battle Reports, Game Operator will NOT proceed with further actions regarding rules violation.
-- In cases of unclear issue, Super Game Operator or Game Admin can and will be involved in it.
-- Bitefight.org Game Team may enter players account when justified reason exists.
§1 Accounts
I. Multi-Accounting
Every player is allowed to play only a single account per Server.
Consequences: permanent ban
- If 2 or more players are sharing the same IP address(brother and sister, husband and wife) this has to be reported to the Game Operator in charge for their Server. If not accounts will be banned without warning!
- If more than one account is played from the same network the Game Operator has to be informed.
- Players must not attack each other while sharing the same network.(when opposite race)
- Players can not attack the same opponents, it has to pass at least 24h between the last attack of 1 player and first attack of the 2nd player.
Consequences:
1st offense - 2 days
2nd offense - 5 days
3rd offense - 7 days
Every next offense - 14days
II. Account Sharing
Every account is entitled to be played by one player only. The player of the account may only change if either account sitting takes place or if the account is exchanged.
Consequences: permanent ban
III. Account Sitting
Account sitting allows a player to take care of someone's account in accordance with following regulations:
* The GameOperator of the Server has to be informed before the sitting takes place.
* The only allowed actions while Sitting are: Graveyard Work, Manhunts, Grotto Hunt, Grotto Quests and spending gold (only for increasing player's stats and clan donations)
* The sitting is limited to a time from 2 to 7 continuous days.
* Before the Sitter logs in, the owner of the Account has to contact the GO of his Server. (E-mail his Pasword, his ingame Nick and inform GO about the period of time the Sitting will take place)
* Sitting of an account by the same person who has already sat an account on that specific server within the past 7 days is not allowed.
* Sitting is allowed once in 30days, after the sitting has been ended, it needs to pass 30 days so that same account can be sat again.
Some actions not allowed by the sitter:
* Attacking of other players with the sat account is not allowed.
* Attacking the sat account with the own account is not allowed.
* Changing the sat account's settings is not allowed.
* Editing clan settings from the sat account is not allowed.
* Battle Reports are not to be deleted during the sitting period.
* Game Operator may enter sat account in order to verify that there were no abuse of sitting privilege.
Abuse of the Accounts Sitting privilege:
Consequences: 7 days ban for both sitter and sat account
IV. Account Exchange
- Account Exchange is allowed to take place only using appropriate board section for it. You can find it here .
-- Additional Information and how to protect your account from being stolen, here
V. Account Names Change
- Cannot be done by the GameOperator, due to the newly added option of changing by the players using the "Library" ingame.
V.1 Account Name Change - Exception .
If Account Trade is done, via board, then Account Name can be changed after the trade took place, your server Game Operator will change nickname of your new account to desired one.
Important: After changing the name of the account, a bug can occur! Game Team, nor GameForge does NOT accept any responsibility if anything happens to your account.
§2. Bashing Rule
Bashing is calculated from 00:00 - 23:59. - SERVER TIME
I.Bashing (normal)
Maximum number of allowed attacks per level range:
Levels from 1 to 14 - 3 attacks allowed per day*
Levels from 15 to 40 - 4 attacks allowed per day*
Levels from 41 to 99 - 5 attacks allowed per day*
Levels from 100+ - 6 attacks allowed per day*
Defender’s level taken in order to apply Bashing Rule.
[Examples:
1.Attacker's level = 41, Defender's level = 39
-> Number of allowed attacks = 4 in one day*.
2.Attacker's level = 39, Defender's level = 41
-> Number of allowed attacks = 5 in one day*.]
!This Rule applies to attacks in minimum 1 day*.
Violation Consequences:
1st offense: 3 days
2nd offense: 7 days
3rd offense: 14 days
Each next offence – 14 days
II.Special Bashing Case
Attacker may be penalized if defender’s gameplay is influenced to a certain extend by constant attacks.
1.Special Bashing Case (ratio) can also be enforced if the following number of attacks is fulfilled.
From level 1 to 14 - 2 attacks / per day* allowed
From level 15 to 40 - 3 attacks / per day* allowed
From level 41 to 99 - 4 attacks / per day* allowed
From level 100+ - 5 attacks / per day* allowed
!This Rule applies to attacks made in minimum 5 days.
[How to calculate ratio: The average amount taken when the total number of attacks is divided with the number of days in which those attacks have been made.
(Total Number of attacks) / (Number of days) = # attacks per day]
2.If a player is suffering from unprovoked attacks with purpose of keeping his health points down so he/she can no longer be able to hunt/raid/quest**.
3.In any other situation that the defender’s gameplay is severely harmed.
!!!Abuse of this Rule may lead to ban or warn (depending on the severity of the abuse).
Violation Consequences:
1st offense: 1 to 3 days
2nd offense: 5 days
3rd offense: 7 days
4th offense: 14 days
Each next offense: up to 35days
III. Organized Clan Attacks (Clan Bashing)
Organized clan attacks from members of the same clan to one or more members of another clan in order to:
1.Raid as much gold as possible,
2.Damage player’s health (and gameplay),
3.In any case the GO estimates that it is necessary to interfere due to abuse of rules.
[Example:
1.Players of the same clan sharing victim in order to gain gold.
2.Players of the same clan sharing victim and keep attacking a player even after his health dropped down to 25hp**.]
!This Rule applies to attacks in minimum 2 days*.
!!! Abuse of this Rule may lead to ban or warn (depending on the severity of the abuse).
Consequences:
1st offense: warning to 3 days ban
2nd offense: 1 to 3 days ban
3rd offense: 5 days ban
4th offense: 7 days ban
Each next offense: 14 days ban
IV.-/+10 level attacks
-Levels from 1 to 66
-/+ 9 levels attacks as allowed by Game and Rule §2.I.
-Levels from 67 to 99
- when level difference is -/+ 9 levels: 5 attacks as allowed by Rule §2.I.
- when level difference is bigger than -/+9 levels: 2 attacks are allowed.
*This means. When you are level 80 you can attack from level 68 to level 92.
You are allowed to attack 5 times someone from level 71 to 89, BUT you are only allowed to attack twice a level 68 to 70 and 90 to 92.
Click here in order to check the limitations of your level range.
-Levels from 100+
- when level difference is -/+9 levels: 6 attacks as allowed by Rule §2.I.
- when level difference is bigger than -/+9 levels: 2 attacks allowed.
!This Rule applies to attacks in minimum 1 day*.
!!! Abuse of this Rule may lead to ban or warn (depending on the severity of the abuse).
Violation Consequences:
1st offense: 1day ban
2nd offense: 5 days ban
3rd offense: 7 days ban
4th offense: 14 days ban
Each next offense: 14 days ban
* Day/days in Rules are considered from 00:00 to 23:59 ~ Server Time~.
** If defender has already low health due to Grotto Fights ban could (but no necessarily) be replaced by a warning.
Notice: Bashing may be suspended due to players involvement in: Official Duels reported on Board (Bashing is suspended only on the player with who Duel is agreed).
Any Attempt to abuse these privileges will lead, as stated in §6 Abuse of the Rules to severe consequences.
OLD bashing rule - For reference ONLY
§3 Interference in the gameplay
I. Bug-Using
It is not allowed to purposely use a bug to gain advantages.
It is not allowed to purposely not report a bug that was found.
Bugs have to be reported to game staff immediately.
Consequences: permanent ban
II. Scripts
The usage of a program that interferes with the game in an unconventional way is not allowed. This includes programs with automated or semi-automated processes that are capable of performing ingame actions. Bots and Macros are especially disallowed.
Consequences: permanent ban
Friday, 16. November 2007, 15:44
RE: Game Rules
§4 Ingame Texts
Definition: Ingame texts are any form of ingame messages as well as the content of Clan Descriptions and Character Descriptions.
I. Language
The official language in all Bitefight.Org services is English. All ingame texts have to be in English, which means that all clan / character descriptions must be in English, any non-english descriptions may be deleted / edited by the Game Operator.
Consequences:
1st offense - warning
2nd offense - 3 days
3rd offense - 7 days
4th offense - 15 days
5th offense - permanent ban
II. Content
Ingame texts may not cause any offense to players of Bitefight by being of unacceptable quality. This is in particular the case
* when someone is insulted
* when foul language is used
* when a racist statement is made
* when political extreme statements or terms are used
* for improper pictures on alliance pages and links to improper websites
* using special characters(!@#$%^&*...) for the nicknames
* making character description bigger the normal in order to prevent opponents from seeing the "Attack Button"
But also in other cases. It is up to the judgment of gamestaff to decide if a content is bannable.
Consequences:
1st offense - 1-3 days(depending on the severity)
2nd offense - 5-7 days
3rd offense - 10-14 days
4th offense - permanent ban
III. Real life Threats
Implying that you are going to harm a person such as a player, a team member, a Gameforge representative or any other person is forbidden.
Consequences: permanent ban ingame and on the Board
IV. Spam
Sending messages with the purpose of annoying other persons or spamming them is not allowed. This includes
* repeated sending of empty messages
* sending the same message a couple of times
* sending messages that are clearly spam.
* sending bitelinks
Consequences:
1st offense - 1 day
2nd offense - 3 days
3rd offense - 7 days
4th offense - 15 days
5th offense - permanent ban
V. Ingame Names
Ingame names may not cause offense and have to follow the guidelines stated in II. Content.
§5 Proxies and alike
- The usage of a proxy or other method to hide the IP address in the game interface is not allowed. If the usage of the proxy is the only way to play the game the permission of the Game Operator has to be obtained before using the proxy.
-- If player is abusing proxy to be able to cheat the rules or to gain advantage, when detected will result in ban of all accounts on whole BiteFight.org and on the board.
Consequences: permanent ban
§6 Abuse of the Rules
Any attempt to get an unfair personal advantage from a team member's decision is disallowed. This includes in particular allowing someone to attack you as often as he wants and then reporting him for bashing and reporting someone for bashing you are officially at war with.
Consequences: permanent ban
Impersonating or claiming to be a staff member is forbidden.
Consequences: permanent ban
- Please note that a member of the game staff might ban you temporarily or permanent.
- This includes accounts that have or have not broken any of the above stated rules.
- Also take into account that your behavior on any of our services might end up in
a permanent or temporary ban from the whole community and its services.
The Terms and Conditions are above the rules,
please make sure to read them, too!
- The BiteFight team reserves the right to change the game rules as needed.
**All information provided by Gameforge for Bitefight.org
