Seafight Rules and Chat guidelines

RULES

The use of external applications to influence the game is not permitted. Automating game processes is forbidden and will result in your account being blocked.


CHAT GUIDELINES


The chat has been developed as an entertainment-platform, to make communication easier.

Please treat others with respect.

Seafight does not have an age-limitation and we therefore have players under the age of 8.

Therefore we ask you to keep this in mind and follow the guidelines below.

Unfortunately the chat is currently limited to 6 lines and scrolling has not yet been implemented.

Please use the Forum for discussions, explanations, and support questions.

We cannot guarantee a support via. Chat at this time.


1. The Chat-Language is English under Seafight (English), German under Seafight (German), etc.

2. Messages that disrupt the chat for other users, intentional or not, are prohibited.

This includes, but is not limited, to:

-Blank Messages

-Sending multiple identical or near-identical messages

-Messages consisting of all or mostly capital.

-Intentionally hard-to-read messages (i.e. using all, mostly, or alternating capital letters;

using no spaces, capital letters, or punctuation; using large amounts of "1337 speak", etc)

3. For Guild-Presentation, Guild-Member recruiting – the chat is simply too small.

Please use the Forum and its corresponding threads for such purposes.

You may also sign-up for a sub-forum explicitly for your Guild.

If you are looking (“hiring”) for members or help – please follow these simply guidelines:


Wanted - Guidelines

-State what you're Guild is about.

-Provide clear information about how you're Guild works.

-State who you are looking for and what sort of talents they should bring along.

-If you are offering your expertise or help – please follow these guidelines.


Offering - Guidelines

-Introduce yourself

-State you're talent(s).

-Provide information on your playing-habit.

-Provide information about what sort of work / guild you were thinking about providing / joining.




4. Spamming - Messages that clearly advertise or disturb the chat flow, are not allowed.

This includes, but is not limited to:

-Personal web site advertisements / Guild advertisement

-For-Sale/For-Trade/For-Auction/Wanted notices – content in the Forum.

-Chain letters, and pyramid schemes

-Users are allowed to include a web site address in a signature, or providing a relevant link to another site at one point.



5. Offensive chatting – Messages of an offensive nature are not allowed.

This includes, but is not limited to:



-Using vulgar, profane, or sexually explicit language

-Using race, religion, sexual orientation, culture, ethnicity, handicap, nationality, or gender as a means of insult

-Using sexual preference terms as a term of insult in any way, shape, or form

-Using threatening, harassing, defamatory, hate-speech, or libelous language

-Providing or requesting links to or material from pornographic, obscene, or hate-speech web sites

-Providing links to web sites with potentially offensive content without a clear warning

-Descriptions or details about any sexual act or sexual organs



6. Flamming / Trolling / Illegal Matters - Messages clearly insulting other guild members, individually or as a group, directly or indirectly, are not allowed.

This includes, but is not limited to:

-Name-calling

-Direct insults

-Offensive orders

-Insinuations

-Messages intended to annoy and/or offend other Guilds or Guild-Members by disturbing the nature of the chat are strictly prohibited.

This includes, but is not limited to:

-Provoking other users to respond with “flames”

-Provoking fans of a particular guild or guild-member

-Providing false information as fact.

-Messages that violate or provoke others to violate the law are not allowed.

This includes, but is not limited to, asking for or providing, in any way, shape, or form:

-Illegal copies of copyrighted software (ROMs, Warez)

-Methods of circumventing copyright protection (Cracks, CD Keys, mod chips)

-Illegal copies of copyrighted music (MP3s), movies, videos, or any other type of media

-Methods of cheating in online games

7. Violating any of the above rules with a username or any part of the user profile (signature, quote, e-mail, IM) is considered a severe violatio.n


8. The publication of personal information is strictly prohibited over the chat.

This includes, but is not limited to:

-Telephone Numbers

-E-mail-Addresses

-ICQ-Numbers


Please use the private messaging system on the forum for such purposes.

Respect the moderators. If your thread is closed, don't repost it. Do not argue or flame moderators for enforcing the rules.

When these rules are broken, you may be banned. You may or may not receive a warning depending on the seriousness of the breach.



- Seafight Team