Bitefight.us Game Rules
DISCLAIMER:
The following rules will be valid from December 13 2010 for all Servers listed here and may be changed at any time.
Please be aware that discussions concerning certain things are limited to the account owner and Game Staff. Players are obligated to save his/her battle reports for 48h (2 days), so that Game Operator can have those as evidence when deciding about the issue. Without Battle Reports, Game Operators will NOT proceed with further actions regarding rule violations.
In cases of unclear issue, Super Game Operator or Game Admin can and will be involved in it. Bite-fight.us Game Team may enter players account when justified reason exists.
- Account Rules
- Bashing
- Gameplay Interferance
- Ingame Text Rules
- Proxy Rules
- Abuse of the Rules
Account Rules
I. Multi-Accounting
- Every player is allowed to play only ONE account per Server.Consequences: permanent ban
- If 2 or more players are sharing the same IP address (brother and sister,husband and wife, Coworkers, roommates, etc.) 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.
- If your account gets banned, for IP sharing it is up to the GO if they want to unban you once they look into it.
- Players must not attack each other while sharing the same network (when opposite race).
- Players can not attack the same opponents. 24 hrs must pass inbetween the last attack of 1 player, and first attack of the 2nd player.
- Players can not trade items from the market between each other while sharing the same network and registered as ip sharing users.
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 is taking place.
- The only actions allowed in the account are: Graveyard Work, Manhunts, Grotto and spending gold FOR STATS ONLY.
- The sitting is limited to a time from 2 to 7 continuous days.
- Before the owner of the Account logs in, he/she or the sitter has to post in
the same thread which they made about the sitting being finished.
- 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 30 days. After the sitting has been ended, 30 days MUST pass 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.
V. Account Names Change
- Account names can be changed for 10% of gold held, or 10 Hellstones.
- During an account trading, a GO can change your user name for no charge
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.
Bashing Rules & Definition
New Combat System (Statistics Based)
I. Definition
Bashing is per day, which means 00:00 - 23:59. - SERVER TIME .
Each player, regardless of level, is allowed to attack any given opponent a maximum of five (5) times per day It doesn't matter whether race-hunt or henchmen-fight, which means 00:00 - 23:59 - SERVER TIME .
Any proven breach of the bash-rule will be punished with a ban of following length:
1st rule violation: 3 days
2nd rule violation: 7 days
3rd rule violation: 14 days
Each next rule violation: 14 days
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 ยง6 Abuse of the Rules to severe consequences.
Rules and important information for the Speedserver
Important!
Premium features can be used, but please keep in mind that the server is
thought to be a testserver for new versions, and it is posible that
there might come up bugs that require a server-reset.
- Premium features as Shadow Lord
are bind to normal 24 hours counting, that means it offers exactly the
same as in normal servers
The speedfactor on the server is x4. That means that a Speedserver day is about 6 hours long; that has an impact on the following options:
- Vacation-Mode - Speed is active
- Work
hours - Speed is active BUT the compensation stays the same. That
means: regarding the work on the graveyard a normal hour stays 60
minutes and the fee acording to it
- Hunting time - Speed is active
- Regeneration - Speed is active
- Changing of Clan -> 3 days impossibility to enter new clan - Speed is active
- Quests that require investigations - Speed is active
- Waiting time for new quests - Speed is active
- Attack protection (1 hour) - Speed is active
- Rituals/ condition of start - Speed NOT active
- Cool down - Speed active
Rules
For the reasons that this is a TEST-SERVER and we would like you to test
the versions before we update the normal servers with them, some rules
will change.
Bashing-Rule
For each player it is not allowed to attack more than
5 times the same player
within a range of 6 hours.
Any proven breach of the bash-rule will be punished with a ban of following length:
1st rule violation: 3 days
2nd rule violation: 7 days
3rd rule violation: 14 days
Each next rule violation: 14 days
It is counted from the first attack on + 6 hours / how many attacks have
been done within the time range on a determined account.
The Bashing rule for the Speedserver does not apply for fights in the House of Pain.
- For the moment. Bashing rule is the only one that changes.
The Bitefight-Team does not exclude the possibility that there might
follow in the future some other rule-changes respecting the
Speed-Server. Therefore, please consider to often look into this section
to stay updated.
Gameplay Interference
I. Bug-Using
- It is not allowed to purposely use a bug to gain advantage
- It is not allowed to purposely not report a bug that was found.
- Bugs MUST 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 not allowed.
Consequences: permanent ban
Ingame Text Rules
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 Bite-fight.us 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.
- If English is not your primary language, please try to use a translator, or just leave your descriptions blank.
Consequences:
1st offense - warning
2nd offense - 3 day ban
3rd offense - 7 day ban
4th offense - 15 day ban
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 insulting another user or potential group of users.
- When foul language is used.
- When a racist statement is made.
- When extreme political statements or terms are used.
- The posting of improper pictures on alliance pages and/or links to improper websites.
- Using special characters (!@#$%^&*...) for the nicknames.
- Making character description bigger then normal in order to prevent opponents from seeing the "Attack Button".
It is up to the judgment of gamestaff to decide if a content is bannable.
Consequences:
1st offense - 1-3 day ban (depending on the severity)
2nd offense - 5-7 day ban
3rd offense - 10-14 day ban
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
IV. Spam
Sending messages with the purpose of annoying other persons or spamming them is not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to: - repeated sending of empty messages
- sending the same message a couple of times
- sending messages that are clearly spam.
Consequences:
1st offense - 1 day ban
2nd offense - 3 day ban
3rd offense - 7 day ban
4th offense -15 day ban
5th offense - permanent ban
Ingame Reporting:
All messages sent in the game have a Report Function attached to it. This is to make it easier to report inappropriate content in messages, only. Misuse of this function may result in a 24 hour ban from the game.
V. Ingame Names
Ingame names may not cause offense and have to follow the guidelines stated in Ingame texts
II. Content.
Proxy Rules
I. Proxies
- 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 a player is abusing the proxy to be able to cheat the rules or to gain advantage, when detected, will result in ban of all accounts on BiteFight.us and on the board.
Consequences: permanent ban
Abuse of the Rules
- Any attempt to get an unfair personal advantage from a team member's decision is not allowed.
- This includes in particular allowing someone to attack you as often as he wants and then reporting him for bashing reporting someone for bashing you are officially at war with.
Consequences:permanent ban
- Impersonating or claiming to be a staff member of BiteFight.us is forbidden.
Consequences: permanent ban
- Extortion is illegal and forbidden
Consequences: permanent ban
NOTE: 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.us team reserves the right to change the game rules as needed to benefit it's users, and the community.
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