Rules

From Universe Wars

Game Rules

Multiple Accounts

• One person may not ever use more than one account. Players may not log into another player’s account. Swapping accounts or trading account details will not be allowed.
• Any violation of the above will be treated as a case of multiple accounts and will result in the player’s accounts being locked or deleted permanently. Any subsequent accounts that a locked player signs up for will be deleted.

Communication

• Excessive cursing or flaming (insulting) will not be tolerated in any in-game communication (Message Boards, Mails, or Chat).
• Spamming of the Message Boards, or any player’s Mail is not allowed.
• You may not beg for game funds via Mail or on the Message Boards.
• Prejudice comments are not welcome on Universe Wars. Prejudice includes, but is not limited to: racism, sexism, ageism, and any other comments based upon the sex, race, religion, or creed of a group or individual. If you have opinions that could be regarded by Staff to be prejudice, please keep them to yourself while interacting with others in the game.
• No pornography. Universe Wars is for players age 13 and older and therefore may not have pornography. If there is any question in your mind about the acceptability of a comment, picture, or link, just don’t post it. Violation of the above will be punished by a Message Board Ban and in extreme cases will result in accounts being locked or deleted.
• Players are to communicate in English only in the forums and chat unless there is a mod online who can speak their language.
• Universe Wars is a targetted towards people age 13 and over and as such, conversations of an explicit sexual nature on the Message Boards and Chat are not permitted.
• Offensive or discriminatory Commander or Empire names are not to be used when creating your account. Any offensive Commander or Empire names will be edited by a member of staff. Any discriminatory or extremely offensive names will result in the account being locked or deleted.

Selling Property/Affiliate Links

• In-game assets may not be sold for real life money or funds in another game. This includes selling resources, tokens, plus accounts, accounts, or anything else that is transferable in Universe Wars. Additionally, you may not pay for items transferred in another game with Universe Wars funds.
• Players may not make posts that offer to pay other players for clicking a link to any other site, or going to another site and performing some action. Players can discuss other games or websites on the Fun and Games forum, but only without offers of compensation. Referral links to other websites are not allowed to be posted on the Message Boards or Chat.
• Violations of these rules may result with message board bans or accounts being locked or deleted.

Spam

• Unsolicited messages of any form will not be tolerated and will result in the immediate termination of your account.

Glitches/Bugs

• Any player found exploiting a game glitch/bug will their account terminated. If you suspect you have found a glitch or bug it is your responsibility to inform a member of staff immediately.

Automated Programs

• Any player found using a program that performs any game task will have their account terminated.

Forum Rules

Failure to comply with these rules will result in punishment which normally will be a ban from the game forums for a specified amount of time. We reserves the right to change these rules at any time and without notice.

1. UWars prohibits discrimination of any kind, including, but not limited to, gender, sexual preference, race, disability or religious beliefs.
2. Posting graphics/links/text that could be considered pornographic or un-suitable for users under 18 is not allowed. Please remember there are younger people playing.
3. Excessive swearing and the use of terms un-suitable for a 13 year old are not allowed.
4. Impersonating Staff or other players for any reason is not allowed.
5. 'Begging' on the boards, i.e. asking gold, tokens etc., is not allowed.
6. Spamming is not allowed, which includes, but not limited to, posting multiple times in a row on a particular thread, posting the same post on multiple threads, posting pointless posts which include little or no content, posting purely to increase your post count etc etc.
7. Excessive flaming (also known as trolling) will not be tolerated.
8. Please post on the correct board for your topic.
9. Please use some common sense when posting and post with respect and courtesy.
10. Do not start threads solely for the purpose of criticizing an individual member of the board.
11. Multiple accounts are prohibited.
12. Do not over-use smilies. Over-use when more of your post is composed of smilies than text.
13. Do not post in an old, inactive thread unless you have something genuinely new and interesting to add to it.
14. Do not "follow someone around" because you dislike him, hijacking threads in which he participates in order to carry on your feud with him.
15. Do not change the subject in mid-stream. If you really want to talk about something, start a new thread.
16. Posting of personal information
    --- Do not post personal information such as Images, passwords, or any other information considered private without the express permission of the individual, even if previously publicly shared.
    --- Posting links or other access data to such information is equally not permitted.
    --- This includes login information for offsite websites, alliances and any other content that would otherwise require permission from owner.
17. Locked threads, and chat/forum Bans.
    --- If a topic has been locked by a moderator or administrator, please do not start a new topic to continue the discussion which lead to the original topic being locked. Doing so will result in the new topic being locked, and the person who restarted the thread will be warned and/or get a temporary ban.
    --- If you feel you have been unfairly banned or your topic should not have been locked you are welcome to contact the moderator who placed the ban/lock, Jeff or Synapse to discuss the matter. Someone will then contact you in regards to it with a final decision or clarification of action taken.
    --- Make sure your mail is respectful and with logical well formed reasoning explaining your situation. At no time should you demand, beg or continously mail to try to make your case. this will result in a longer ban and/or you may not recieve a response.
    Note: undoing a ban or thread lock is rare and unlikely.
18. Exceptions, Cases of Abuse & Unique Situations
    ---We realise that sometimes there may be reasons to make exceptions to some of the rules above and the management (Jeff/Andy) reserves the right to be able to make exceptions to rules if we think it is for the betterment of the Community. As well, abusive or unique situations will always come up, and we hold the right to deal with these situations, as we see fit, regardless of whether we have a rule for it or not. Please do not think that because something is not stated in the rules, that this gives you a loophole to think up or create new ways to abuse the forums or its posters. Such behavior wont be tolerated.