IKARIAM GAMES RULES

I. Multi-Accounting
Each player is allowed to control no more then a single account per World (Server).

If two or more accounts are usually, occasionally, or permanently being
played from the same network a GameOperator must be notified, without
exception. In these cases the accounts are not allowed to have fleet
contact while on the same connection.


II. Account Sharing

Each account is entitled to be played by a single player at a time, account sitting being the only exception.Account Sitting is allowed.

Account sitting entitles a given player to have his account watched over under the following regulations:

• A GameOperator must be informed before the sitting takes place, for example by IRC or opening a ticket.
  
• No troop movements are allowed while the account is being
  sat unless an attack that may raid or crash the account is incoming, in
  which case you may save your troop(s) by deploying or transporting to a
  city owned by the account being sat. You may not ninja an incoming
  attack in cases where you would need to move troops for it.
  
• An
  account may only be sat for a maximum period of 12 continuous hours
  (GameOperators permission needs to be obtained in cases where a time
  extension is needed).
  
• The sitting period will be considered over if the actual owner logs in.
  
• No account may be sat during the first 3 weeks of a new World (Server).
  

The sitter may, on the account being sat and while the sitting period lasts:

• Spend Ressources on buildings or researches.
  
• Save
  any troops that imminently endangered by an incoming attack, only with
  a deployment or transport mission to one of the accounts own cities.
  
• Place an account into vacation mode.
  

The sitter may not:

• Transport resources, neither between cities of the account being sat, nor to any other city.
  
• Spend Resources on defensive structures or troops.
  
• Sit an account if he sat another one within the previous 7 days.
  
• Sit an account that was sat within the previous 7 days.
  
• Remove an account from vacation mode.
  
• Change / delete any account characteristics
  

III. Account exchange

Account Exchanges within a single world must be done with the assistance of a GameOperator.

No complaints will be processed in cases where the players do not
change their e-mail addresses after inter world exchanges or free
accounts giveaways. Note that the only complaints considered will be
the ones that come from the owner of a given accounts permanent email
address.

Once a given account changes its owner, 28 days must pass before it
changes ownership again. After a new owner takes over a given account
he should change the dynamic e-mail address within the first 12 hours
after the account switched owners.

IV. Bashing

It is not allowed to attack any given city owned by a player over 6 times in a single 24 hours period.

Bashing is only allowed when your Alliance is at war with another Alliance
The War must be announced on the official Ikariam.com board, in the
correct forum and must comply with the boards specific rules.

Note: Attacking troops that are completely destroyed do not count towards the bashing rule.

V. Pushing

It is not allowed for any account to obtain unfair profit out of a lower ranked account in a matter of resources.This includes but is not limited to:

• Resources sent from a lower ranked account to a higher ranked one with nothing tangible in return.
  
• "Loans" that are not returned within 48 hours.
  
• Trades in which the higher ranked player does not return the resources within 48 hours.
  
• Trades
  that mean an unfair profit to the higher ranked player by make use of
  range of ratios which are far off the world-specific ones.
  

Notes:

• Extorting a player or alliance for resources is not permitted.
  
• If
  you unexpectedly receive resources from a lower ranked player, you
  cannot keep them. Contact your GO immediately and send the resources
  back to a citiy owned by the player who pushed you.
  After a pushing ban is over you MUST send the resources back to the player who pushed you.
  

Bounties:

• Bounties
  need to be acknowledged to the GameOperators before they happen. They
  can only be paid for after the conditions of the bounty have been
  fulfilled.
  

VI. Bugusing

Using a bug for anyones profit intentionally or not reporting a bug intentionally is strictly forbidden.

VII. Scripting

Using a program as interface between the player and his game is
prohibited. Any other form of automatically generated information
generated for a group of players advantage with malicious intentions is
forbidden as well.This includes but is not limited to:

• Bots
  
• Macros
  
• Automated island databases.
  
  
  Only exceptions to this are programs that are expressly approved by GameForge.
  

VIII. Proxies

A player logging in through a cell phone must notify the GameOperator of the world(s) he may be playing in.

IX. Abuse of the rules and their applications

Any form, way and or any attempt to get personal profit unfairly out of any staff member's decision is forbidden.This includes but is not limited to:

• Non English messages sent to obtain vacation mode.
  
• Reporting messages that do not break or point at any breaking of the rules.
  
• Impersonating or claiming to be staff with or without intentions of personal profit.
  

X. Real Life Threats

• Voicing the intention to find
  and do harm to another person (for example user, team member or
  Gameforge representative) within the game, forum as well as the
  official IRC-Channel is strictly forbidden.
  

XI. Spam

Any situation intended to saturate a players interface through any method is forbidden.This includes but is not limited to:

• Personal Messages spam
  
• Advertising other games or content
  

XII. Content

Anything that causes offense by being of an unacceptable quality that
may hurt an individuals integrity is strictly forbidden. The standards
in the game environment will be set by the game team to meet the users
moral views. Content might be censored, punished in a temporary or
permanent basis; no complaints will be processed about this and as
always the final word will be with the game team.

XIII. Language

The game publisher reserves the right to exclude players from outside
the publishing country or these ones who are not able to speak the
respective native language. This includes but is not limited to: Game, Board and IRC official chat-rooms.


MEMBERS PLEASE AVOID GETTING YOURSELF BAN BY FOLLOWING THE ABOVE RULES