Hiddenworld Rules

[Lord Morgoth Dawndeth]

Note: These Rules are now completely controlled, set and changed by the Guardians of Hiddenworld. Currently Salocin, Wildfire and Ecthelion.

Changes must be made by these 3 figures.

Recent rule updates are indicated in red

1. Chat behaviour:
a. Swearing in the Chat rooms is not allowed.
b. No overtly sexual language or actions, i.e. no ‘cybersex’. The chat rooms are a public place, so anything you would normally do in public is okay.
c. Spamming in the Chat rooms is not allowed, this includes: excessive use of caps, pointless or gibberish posts and ordering items from the inn excessively (5 times or more).
d. Advertising or posting the URL of any other online game is not allowed.
e. Personal attacks in the Chat rooms are not allowed. This would include: Deliberate, prolonged (and hurtful) name calling, deliberately provoking a fight (verbally) with another player in OOC, or if anyone asks you to stop any form of personal comments, and you fail to do so.

2. Names (Characters and Teams):
a. No junk names, names must make some kind of sense as a name. This includes: Random characters, repeated characters, over use of caps, sentences or unacceptable modern names (famous people or modern items).
b. Names must not be offensive, either sexually, racially or use any word generally considered offensive.
c. Names may not mimic current player or team names.
d. Names used by the game may not be used, this includes: Town/province names, creation story names or titles used by the game like king, queen and monsters found in the forest fights.
e. Any name of an ex Admin, or that appears in the Hall of Legends (previous and current version) are disallowed with the exception of the original person re-creating their character.
f. If you need a name change you must apply to the Guardians/Knights, who will vote on your application. You must have a very good reason for anything more than a minor change or correction.

Any character at level 3 or below that violates these guidelines will be permanently banned. Characters at level 4 and above with names deemed inappropriate will be asked to change the name if they wish to continue using the character.

3. Alt interaction:
a. Characters belonging to one player may not be on the same team at any time. A team containing alts may be disbanded.
b. You may not kill or attempt to kill an alt (another character that belongs to you.)
c. Alts may not marry (characters belonging to the same player may not marry.)
d. Opening accounts at, or purchasing lottery tickets from your alts banks is forbidden.
e. Lords/Knights/Guardians cannot give grants to, exile or ban an alt.
f. No one player may use more than 3 votes in Uprisings or Knight Elections.

4. Lordships:
a. Lords cannot continuously die whether deliberate or not, or the King/Queen stay in Suraly, so the Lordship cannot be taken by other players.
b. A Lord can have no more than 5 characters banned from their province at any one time.
c. A character may make no more than 5 provincial bans in one game day.

Infringements of the above rules will result in the revoking of Lordship, and the loss of access to Lordships if it continues.

5. Privileged Guest and Nobility Status:
a. Players must be at least level 15 for PG, and level 30 for Nobility in order to request a status increase. Increased status is not automatic at these levels, an application must be sent to the Knights (Use the “Inform the Knights” feature in the Palace).
b. Privileged Guest: Requires a short request stating you are requesting PG status and may contain brief reasons why you deserve or want the status.
c. Nobility: Applications should be longer and may be set in or out of character, but should be imaginative, creative, and as original as possible. Your application may include: Reasons you deserve or want status, what qualities you posses that make you suitable for it, any activities in the wider Hiddenworld community or anything you think will aid the Knights in making their decision. The Knights may also consider any knowledge they have of the applicant, this may include: Previous characters, current alternate characters, chat and community behaviour and any previous or current disciplinary actions.
d. You should receive a reply within a week.
e. No more than 3 applications may be submitted for Nobility within a 6 month period.
f. PG and/or Nobility may be removed by a Guardian or Knight if just cause is found to remove the status.

6. Bugs:
a. Any character found exploiting any bug that give your character or others an advantage that is obviously not intentional, will be banned.
b. Any bug found should be reported directly to Nick/Salocin.

7. Penalties:
a. For all infringements of the rules the penalties, in addition to those listed above will be as follows: At the first offence, there shall be a warning whether done verbally or through a scribe. At the second offence, there shall be a three day temporary banning. At the third offence the person responsible shall be permanently banned.
b. Depending on the severity of the offence the acting Guardian/Knight may skip any of the above levels of penalties as they see fit.

These rules are subject to additions and revisions so please be sure you check them out frequently.

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