Server Rules

I. General things
§1.1 The Uthgard concept
Uthgard is free a DAoC server. The operator offers all players a free DAoC experience on the server within the Uthgard ruleset. The following rules are to be read and understood under the impression of this concept.
§1.2 Player rights
Players have no claim to play on the Uthgard server as this is a free service. There is no claim on the server availability. Players have no claim on any accounts, characters or other content on the accounts and characters, including items and money. All those things belong to the server operator. The only right of the players is the possibility to play on Uthgard within its availability and within the rules.
§1.3 Player obligations
Players have the obligation to only connect and play on the Uthgard server within the Uthgard ruleset.
§1.4 Server operator rights
The operator has the right to restrict or cancel the availability of the Uthgard server, as well as the right to restrict access to accounts, characters and other ingame content for individual players.
§1.5 Server operator obligations
The server operator offers a free DAoC game server. The server operator does not and will never charge fees for access to the gameserver. Everything on Uthgard is and will always be for free. There is no possibility to buy anything within the Uthgard server with money - no extra treatments, no accounts, no characters.
§1.6 Inclusion of the rules
While connecting and playing on the Uthgard game server, the players accept the Uthgard ruleset as it is. They declare their agreement with the Uthgard concept by accepting when starting to play on the server. The players accept that they are only allowed to play on Uthgard within the rules. They are the base for any actions on the game server.

II. Staff authority and support
§2.1 Staff rights and rule changes
The Uthgard staff has the right to make changes and decisions in all community parts in it's sole discretion. This includes the game server itself, the Teamspeak server, the forum, the IRC-channel and all other community parts. The following rules are under ongoing development and can be changed at any time. Changes will usually be posted in the news. In addition a player can always ask the staff about rules changes.
§2.2 Staff rights
The staff attempts to treat all players fair and equal. If a player violates the server rules, the staff has the right to punish the player without any warning. Serious rule violations can and will result in permanent bans.
§2.3 Staff authority
The authority of the Uthgard staff is unimpeachable in all community parts. Staff decisions are to be followed and not to be discussed. Violations may result in punishments. In serious cases they may even result in a permanent ban.
§2.4 Problems with staffmembers – how to proceed in such cases
For the Uthgard adminstration, a fair and unbiased staff is very important. In a case of a serious problem between a player and a member of staff (including the suspicion of abuse by a member of staff), any player has the right to contact the administration. The player should write an email to nayru [at] uthgard-server.net. He should not post or discuss the problem in IRC, the forum or any other community part, as this won't be tolerated by the staff and may result in punishments against the player.
§2.5 Staffmember identities
The staff members's identities are secret for the protection of each member of staff. They need to be and stay a secret. Spreading information about the identity of a member of staff is strictly prohibited. If a player gets knowledge about a staff members identity, he has to keep that knowledge secret. Any violation of this rule will result in a permanent ban.
§2.6 Pretending to be a member of staff
Pretending to be a member of staff is strictly prohibited and will result in a permanent ban.
§2.7 Behavior towards the staff
A player has to show basic respect towards members of staff. Any insults or threats against members of staff will result in punishments. Misleading or lying to a member of staff will also result in punishments.
§2.8 The /advice command – game questions
If a player has questions about game contents, he may ask the community for help by using the /advice command. The staff will not reply to gameplay related questions.
§2.9 Problems in the game – the /appeal command
If a player runs into technical problems in the game, he may contact the staff by using the /appeal command. The player has to explain the situation and the problem as detailed and precise as possible. Replies may take some time, since there is not always a member of staff online. If you don't receive a reply immediately, wait some time and try again later. If you submit an appeal, please state your appeal directly and clear instead of asking whether someone if available. Please note that all appeals are logged and stored. If there is nobody online to help with your appeal, the staff may contact the player later to help with the problem. No appeal is lost.
§2.10 Abuse of /advice and /appeal
The abuse of support features like /advice and /appeal is not allowed and may result in punishments.
§2.11 Penalty calculation - "second instance"
The penalty calculation and decision are in the free discretion of the acting staffmember. This includes the kind of punishment as well as the duration. If you do not agree with the penalty, you have to talk to the acting member of staff about the matter. If this does not help, you may contact the administration as “second instance”. Write an email to nayru [at] uthgard-server.net or send a private message in the forum. You may not post or discuss the problem in the IRC, forum or other community parts. Such behavior won't be tolerated and will be punished.
§2.12 Negative behavior on the gameserver or in other community parts
In a case of negative behavior of a player on the gameserver or in other parts of the Uthgard community, the staff has the right to take actions without a written rule that prohibits the behavior/action. The staff has the right to punish the acting player if necessary.
§2.13 IP-relatedness of punishments
In case of a rule violation, the staff will check the IP address of the acting player. All accounts that are or were bound to the IP address will usually be taken into account. There will be no check how many players have logged in through the affected IP address. The only exception will be done if a player is able to convince the staff that one or more affected accounts have nothing to do with the acting player who violated the rule.
§2.14 Account-relatedness of punishments
In case of a rule violation, all accounts of the player who violated the rule will be affected, regardless of the kind or duration of the punishment.
§2.15 Prohibition of playing on Uthgard while during penalties
When a player -and all of his accounts- got a time based punishment (ban), he is not allowed to play on Uthgard for the duration of the ban. This prohibition includes the login of non-affected or new accounts of the same player or other players. In a violation of this rule, the staff is allowed to enhance the ban to the “not affected” or new accounts. If the player wants an exception from this rule, he has to ask the staff about it.

III. General conduct
§3.1 Ingame behavior between players
Players have to abstain from using insults, harassing, threats, compromisings and spam. This especially includes racist, nationalistic, ethnic, religious and sexistic harassments. It is not allowed to defame someone abouthis disabilities and origins. Violations of the rule will be punished and can result in permanent bans.
§3.2 Crossrealming – playing in different realms
It is not forbidden to play characters in different realms. There is no restriction. However it is strictly prohibited to use characters from different realms for espionage. This includes the login in different realms to gain informations, especially about the location of characters of a realm and their actions – to support or organize the RvR in another realm.
§3.3 Cooperation between players and realms
Deliberate cooperation between players of different realms is forbidden. The server/game concept states that the realms are in a never ending war against each other and there shall be no exception from this situation. Unintended cooperation between players (example: three players of different realms fighting) is of course allowed. As soon as players or groups of different realms start to organize their fighting, it becomes a rule violation.
§3.4 Fights between players of different realms – arranged duels
Arranged duels between players of different realms are not allowed. The players are not allowed to organize or arrange their fighting. This is realmpoint-farming and is strictly prohibited.
§3.5 Realmpoint farming
Letting yourself repeatedly be killed by characters of other realms in order to give them free experience and realmpoints is not allowed. This is defined as realmpoint-farming and is strictly forbidden. Violations of this rule will be punished and may result in experience and realmpoint drains.
§3.6 Killstealing
Killstealing between members of the same realm is not allowed. Killstealing is defined as the unwanted, repeated and deliberate killing of mobs that are in combat with another character.
§3.7 Experience leeching
Leeching of experience is not allowed. Experience leeching is defined as the unwanted, repeated attacking and damaging of monsters that are in combat with other players, in order to get experience from the kill. This can even include healing of players that are in combat with a monster. This rule only affects fights between players and mobs, not between players.
§3.8 Logging in two accounts - buffbotting
Logging in two ore more accounts simultaneously is always forbidden. There are no exceptions. This explicitly includes typical buffbots and all kind of dual logins like crafters and mule characters. Any violation against this rule will be punished. The usage of a buffbot will result (besides the punishment for all accounts of the player) in a permanent ban for the buffbot. If a staffmember suspects a player of dual logging, the suspected person(s) have to obey his orders (buffbot detection tests). If a player ignores this, logs out, or out of sudden goes linkdead with one or both characters, it will be considered as an illegal dual login. There are no exceptions.
§3.9 Greykilling
The killing of realm enemies that are coloured grey for the killing character (and therefore are way below his level and do not give any experience, realm points or kill stats) is explicitly not forbidden. It will not result in any punishments against the killing player. Players with low level characters move into a RvR zones at their own risk and have to accept the danger of being killed.
§3.10 Buffbot like behavior
It is not allowed to login a second char only for a short period of time to give the first char time based buffs and benefits. Such behavior will be handled as buffbots and will face the same penalties. Of course it is not forbidden to switch characters to give a group time based buffs (as long as there is only one char per person logged in at a time).
§3.11 Advertising on Uthgard
Advertising is strictly forbidden in all parts of the Uthgard community. This includes advertising in the forum and the IRC channel. The only exception is advertising for Uthgard or issues that are related to Uthgard.

IV. General behavior in the IRC and the forum
§4.1 How to use the #uthgard IRC channel
The forum and the IRC channel #uthgard are free to use for all Uthgard players within the scope of the following rules.
§4.2 Appliance of rules 2.11 to 2.15 for IRC and forum
In the forum and in the IRC channel the same rules for behavior apply (especially for spam). Violations against this rule will result in punishments and may in serious cases result in permanent bans for forum and/or IRC and can even affect the user on the game server.
§4.3 Consequences of punishments in other community parts
Negative behavior of a player in one community part may effect the player in other community parts of Uthgard as well (forum, IRC, gameserver). This means for example that a negative behavior in the forum may have effects on the ingame account of the player as well.
§4.4 Moderators in IRC and forum
In forum and IRC there is another level of staffmembers acting, the moderators. Moderators are also a part of the Uthgard staff, they have similar rights. Players have to obey moderators's orders the same way like orders of a member of staff. For moderators the rules for staffmembers apply.
§4.5 RvR-information
In general and especially in the IRC channel, publishing of RvR information for organizing or arranging fights in RvR is strictly forbidden. RvR information is defined as information that gives other players a benefit in RvR. This includes especially informations about numbers and locations. The decision whether it is an illegal RvR information or not lies in the discretion of the staff. Violation of the rule may result in punishments.
§4.6 Guild- and alliance channels in IRC
The irc guild channels do not belong to Uthgard. Therefore we have limited jurisdiction there. In case there is a guild or alliance bot in the channel, the Uthgard rules apply. The unwanted (without the permission of the guild/alliance) invasion of such a channel and usage of the guild/alliance bot may result in punishments. The guilds/alliances have to secure their channels with a password. If they don’t, the staff has the right to remove the bot from the channel. In case a channel is unused, the guild/alliance has to inform the staff about the situation. Guild/alliance bots are limited ressources.

V. Accountresponsibility and -restorations
§5.1 Responsibility for accounts
Every player is responsible for his loginname and password. Rule violations that are committed will affect the account and the owner of the account, no matter who actually violated the rule. Account sharing is no excuse or reason for an exception.
§5.2 Restoration of lost characters, items and other data
There is no claim on the restoration of lost characters, items and other data. The decision whether to restore data or not lies in the sole discretion of the staff. Deliberately and accidently deleted characters will not be restored. There is no claim on an account recovery if the account was stolen because of insecure accountnames and/or passwords.
§5.3 Stolen accounts
If an account got stolen, hacked or is insecure in any other kind, it will be closed by the staff to prevent damage from the characters and items on the account. The account will stay closed until the issue is resolved and the rightful owner is found. We try to resolve such issues as soon as possible. Please excuse any inconvenience.
§5.4 Guildmanagement
If a guild's leader has been absent for more than three months, the staff may promote guild members to higher ranks to help them managing their guild.
§5.5 Forbidden account- and charactertrades
Account- and charactertrades on Uthgard are forbidden. It doesn't matter where the trade is being negotiated. Even attempts of selling or tradeing any accounts, characters, items or ingame money are forbidden and will be punished. There are no exceptions!
§5.6 Commercial use of virtual goods or skills
The trade with virtual goods (items, ingame money and all other data) and skills (crafting, leveling) for real money is strictly forbidden and will lead to a permanent ban / deletion of the account in question. In addition all other accounts of the affected players will be banned permanently. If you sell or buy any virtual goods from Uthgard services for real money, you will receive a free ban. There are no exceptions!

VI. Character- and guildnames
§6.1 Name prohibitions – general
It is not allowed to choose a character name that violates the general conduct. This includes insults, harrassing, racistic, ethnic insulting, obscene, vulgar, sexistic and useless names in all languages.
§6.2 Name prohibitions – names of staffmembers
It is not allowed to choose a character name that is similar to a name of a member of staff.
§6.3 Name prohibitions - religion/history
It is not allowed to choose a character name that is offensive due to religious or historical reasons.
§6.4 Name prohibitions - diseases/drugs
It is not allowed to choose a character name that is a name or similar to a name of a disease or drug. This includes names that are or are similar to medicine or other substances.
§6.5 Name prohibitions – combination of first- and lastname
It is not allowed to choose a name that violates the rules in combination with first- and lastname.
§6.6 Staff rights regarding names
The staff has the right to change any name that violates the server rules and has the right to force a player to change the character's name. Violating lastnames will be changed without any notification. The staff will try to contact players before changing names. If there is a firstname to be changed, the staff usually will contact the player and ask him to choose a new name. If there is no reaction, the player will be forced to choose a new name. In serious cases, especially if the name is used as a provocation against the staff, there will be no contact to the player. In such situations, the staff has the right to delete the char.
§6.7 No claim on name changes
Names of characters are not changed unless they violate the server rules. There is no claim for a name change.

VII. Abuse, exploits, bugs and 3rd party software/hardware
§7.1 Prohibition of hacks and tools
The usage of hacks or exploits will lead to the permanent ban of all accounts of the player. This includes radar tools, speedhacks, macrotools (leveltools) and sniffertools. In such cases the ban will be set without any notification of the player. Programmed hardware (keyboard, mouse) or the usage of other tools (even a small stick attached to the keyboard to continuously press a key) that causes the character to make actions while being away from the game are affected by this rule and will have the same consequences.
§7.2 Prohibition of using bugs and exploits
The usage of bugs and exploits as well as the abuse of obvious game errors will lead to punishments and can result in permanent account bans. If you are not sure whether something is a bug or an error or not, ask the staff for help and clarification.
§7.3 Obligation to inform the staff about bugs and exploits
Bugs and exploits have to be reported to the staff as soon as they are discovered. If a player deliberately does not tell the staff about a bug or exploit, it may be punished. Assuming the staff to know about the bug/exploit is no excuse.
§7.4 Help from players
Abuse and rule violations should be reported. The staff wants a working community where the rules are followed. Therefore we count on your help to reach that goal. This includes reports about buffbots and macrotool-users like levelbots. If you want to report an abuse or a rule violation, use the /appeal command or contact a staffmember in the IRC or forum. Such reports will be treated confidentially. We are grateful for each report. Please note that in most cases the staff can only take actions if you provide screenshots and/or logfiles.

VIII. Logging and privacy
§8.1 Logging of IP adresses
All logins, accountnames and the used IP-adresses are logged and stored. The players declare their agreement.
§8.2 Privacy
All personal data (IP adresses, email adresses, login times and other things) will be kept confidentially and are not published to third parties. In case of rule violations or suspicions of rule violations the staff may use the data.

Last Updated on Monday, 21 May 2012 12:49

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