Decalogue

The decalogue containts the rules that define what is Fairplay in the The Reincarnation.

Note: this wiki page is protected by the TR-team, because it is the admins that formulate these rules, not the players. The talk page is open.

THE PRICE OF SIN IS DEATH

Violators of the Decalogue will face severe punishments such as or losing a full amount of turns (Time Twister), freezing of mages (Frozen Hell) and immediate deletion of mages (Fury of God). Repeated offenses will result in bans from game servers and forum.

THOU SHALT PLAY FAIR

Try to keep the play in spirit of healthy competition, without cheating. Players should follow the rules in the Decalogue and should not tolerate anybody who is breaking them. Any controversial action that is not disclosed in these commandments are reviewed and judged by the Game Administrators. The Game Administrators will always remain neutral in any conflict between players. Remember that even though many people take playing TR rather seriously, it still is only a game.

THOU SHALT NOT MULTIMAGE

Multimaging is a form of cheating. It is strictly prohibited to play mages using more than one TR account (UBB account). A TR account allows a player to maintain one mage on each server at any given time. Multimages (several mages on the same server that are played by the same player) are tracked, the mages are frozen and the accounts are deactivated and deleted.

• Players with a mage in a guild that hosts many multimages, can find their mage frozen too.
• Players that share their connection with a cheating player, can have their accounts deactivated too.

THOU SHALT BEAR RESPONSIBILITY OF THY OWN ACCOUNT

Players are held responsible for everything that happens through their account. Questionable actions are always charged to the original account creator. Account sharing is multimaging.

• It is forbidden to share the access to your UBB account and mages with others.
• It is forbidden to log in to someone else account, not even for ‘checking’, ‘babysitting’ or ‘teaching’. This also goes for players that share their connection. When TR admins notice too many alternating logins from a shared connection every day, it is considered multimaging and a violation of THOU SHALT NOT MULTIMAGE and 3.
• It is forbidden to trade accounts or inherit accounts.

THOU SHALT NOT WHINE FOR BUGS NOR ABUSE THESE BUGS

TR is a game in permanent ‘beta’ testing phase. TR can not guarantee bug-free game play. TR is trying to provide the best possible service, but there always remains a chance of problems with player accounts:

• Players must report any bugs found to the developers (on the UBB forum, or through e-mail).
• Taking advantage of a bug is not permitted – mages that do are frozen.
• In cases of small code malfunction, TR-developers cannot and will not repair any damage to mages.
• In cases of major code malfunction that affected many mages on a server, TR-developers can stop the server and announce a roll back (resuming the game from a saved earlier situation) to just before the bug occurrence.

THOU SHALT NOT HARASS OTHER PLAYERS

It is forbidden to harass other players, in game messages and in forum posts. Please mind your attitude and language. Be polite and have fun. Harassment includes, but is not limited to: offensive language, sexually explicit language, spamming or sending unwanted messages when requested to stop.

Taunting opponents is fine as long as it is role played. Verbal aggressive behavior and threats are frowned upon. Insults and personal attacks are not tolerated. The mass sending of recruiting messages for a guild is considered spam. Repeated creation of disposable mages simply to attack and harass other players in game is considered harassment.

THOU SHALT REGISTER THY ALLIANCE

Players are only allowed to share information on targets and to coordinate attacks with fellow players, after officially registering their alliance. There are three forms of registered alliance that allow coordination:

• (1) Mages that are each others direct allies (on non-solo servers).
• (2) Mages that are member of the same guild (on guilded servers).
• (3) Mages that are members of allied guilds (on guilded servers).

Other forms of registered alliance (ally of an ally, NAP-ed guilds) do not allow sharing information and coordinating attacks. Examples:

• Mages that are member of a guild cannot have direct allies outside their guild and are not allowed to coordinate with non-guilded mages. Receiving a Serenity from a non-guilded mage to get rid of enemy enchantments is illegal coordination and not allowed.
• Mages that are member of a guild are not allowed to send in-game information regarding targets to NAP-ed guild members.
• Mages that are not yet a member of a guild, can only share and coordinate with their direct allies.

All other coordinated action is considered illegal guild activity.

THOU SHALT NOT REVEAL IN-GAME INFORMATION

Don’t spoil the game by public posting of information from within the game that only attacking and defending mages can know about. It is not allowed to reveal the troop types and tactics of enemy mages to other players in general. Players can only share such information with registered allies on that server (Rule 6), using in-game messages or closed parts of the guild forum.

• Players that want to post fragments of battle reports on the forum or in their mage description should blank out the name and number of the enemy mage and of any allied mages involved.
• Players are not allowed to reveal information on possible Armageddon casters.

THOU SHALT NOT MILK

Milking is a form of cheating. It is the intentional movement of resources between two consenting parties. Common examples are:

• (1) Pillaging / Attacking / Sieging a consenting mage to transfer resources (land, geld, population, items).
• (2) Pillaging / Attacking / Sieging / Spelling a consenting mage to hand out protection status.
• (3) Pillaging / Attacking / Sieging a consenting mage to kill off unwanted troops.
• (4) Iteming / Spelling a consenting mage to transfer resources (geld, population, items, unique items).

Currently NOT considered milking is:

• (1) The casting of Serenity or Cancellation on a registered ally / own guild member / allied guild member, to get rid of enemy enchantments (but see rule 6 on Serenity from non-guilded mages).
• (2) The casting of offensive enchantments on a registered ally / own guild member / allied guild member, to avoid enemy enchantments being cast.

Players can contact the Game Administrators to clear doubt on what is Milking and what not.

THOU SHALT NOT AUTOMIZE THY GAME

TR is intended to be played by real players, not by little computer programs (bots, scripts) that they may invent. TR is a game played through a web browser. Players can make use of any tool that a default browser offers (multiple windows, window refreshing, bookmarks). Running bots and scripts to optimize gameplay makes the TR servers run slow. Furthermore, it creates a gap between players that use them (veterans, chat network communities) and players that do not yet have access (new players, individual players). There are many features installed in TR to equalize the competition and to reduce the urge to develop scripts that actively contact our servers. Scripts that do not contact the TR servers, for example for battle report analysis or hero leveling, are allowed and even stimulated by TR developers.

The use of scripts or bots that spend turns or otherwise actively contact our server (instead of the player clicking pages) is forbidden.

THOU SHALT NOT VANDALIZE OR HACK OUR SERVICE

Hacking and deliberate bug triggering is forbidden. This includes attempts to hack into player-accounts, hacks into our servers, attempts to flood our servers and databases and attempts to modify any of our web-pages. The TR servers are monitored and hackers and deliberate bug abusers are banned from playing TR.