Rules

If you want to play War of Gods, you are obliged to stand by our rules. The rules are here to ensure that the game is fair for everyone. By playing War of Gods, you are implying agreement to follow these rules even if you may not agree with what the rules say.

Continuously ignoring and/or breaking these rules is taken as indication that you no longer wish to continue playing this game and we shall act accordingly. See help warning, help banish.

This help file lists only the basic backbone of the rules. We expect players to follow the spirit of the rules, not just the letter of the law. If you think you have found a way around the letter, you can be pretty sure you are violating the spirit and will be treated no less harshly.

Still, we have details available of what exactly the rules mean, so further information can be found in related help files listed below. Do not think, however, that following even the most precise wording is any excuse for ignoring the spirit of the rules.

Remember, if you're not sure whether something is illegal, assume that it is, unless a creator tells you otherwise. Feel free to ask !

You may own as many characters as you want, but they all must belong to the same account. Yes, you may have only one account and different people may not share the same account. This is the rule number one and violation of this rule means deletion of all your characters.

Multiplaying is playing more than one character at a time. Multiplaying is ILLEGAL at ALL TIMES. You may have as many characters as you'd like, however, they may not be on at the same time, not may they interact in such a way as follows:

You may not take vengence with an alt. That is, if any of your characters is killed in a PK you may not take revenge by using any other of your characters.

You may not transfer money, equipment or any items between characters from the opposite sides (darkie/whittie). This also means selling an item with one character and then buying it back with another. That is illegal.

You may not switch between whittie/darkie characters. This means you rent your whittie character and at next minute you are logged in with darkie and vice versa. Time between change of white/darkie character is 30 minutes.

The same character cannot be shared by more than one player.

Here at the War of Gods we promote a roleplaying environment. Because of this atmosphere, we do not allow just any name you may want. The names must meet a certain criteria and if they do not, they will be denied. The criteria are following:

The name must be original as far as you know. (You can't use the name mentioned in any book, film and also names known from history or the names used in this mud)

The name can't be a combination of two other names.

The name can't be found in any dictionary or a common slang term.

The name must fit to the fantasy theme and to the race you will choose.(Don't use name John or Charles for your dwarf)

If your name is not appropriate, then we reserve the right to REMOVE it and DELETE your character without notification !

Power leveling is gaining experience with the help of more than 15 levels higher players. The reason is to prevent lower level people with high-level friends from having huge advantages over true new players.

Methods of aiding other players without creating a party are illegal. Following somebody else around to heal or spell them up while they fight is illegal, regardless of the levels involved. Wounding a mob to let somebody else finish it off is illegal.

Use common sense when trying to decide if something is acceptable or not; it's okay for a low-level character to occasionally get some spells from a higher-level friend, but not okay for that low-level character to have access to a constant high-level spell up.

If you have solved a quest you are not allowed to tell others how to solve it. Several people who have not yet solved a quest may work on it together. Asking for quest info is against the rules. However, if you think you need an item to solve a quest you may ask others where that item may be located.

We ask you to try to keep personal attacks and arguments out of global channels. Please act in a mature fashion and do not insult other people unless you have a good reason to do so.

It is unrealistic to ask that nobody ever swear in War of Gods. However, as this is an all-ages mud, we do want to keep global channels clean of any obscene, foul, and/or adult content. Please keep that in mind.

Spamming is the repeated display of messages to an annoying degree. It can be in the form of tells, shouts, says, emotes or channels.

This means if someone else is killing a monster or a player you can not join in without their permission. This also means you can not loot the corpse when the monster or the player dies. However, this does not mean you can't kill a wounded monster when there is no one around, nor does it mean you can not loot corpses of either monsters or players that you may come across.

Scripting is illegal. Scripting is creating a 'bot' which is basically a scripted program which allows you to play while away from the keyboard.

The only scripts which are allowed are ones which let you traverse great distances with a few keystrokes. If you are not at the keyboard your character MUST remain idle if you do not disconnect.

Simply if your scripts or triggers are playing the game for you, they are illegal.

Triggers are not illegal (this does not include autokill, autofollow or similar triggers, which may give you an advantage in PK).

Triggers are allowed, AS LONG AS YOU ARE AT THE KEYBOARD. Triggers which allow you to auto-loot corpses when monsters die, or heal others are allowed AS LONG AS YOU ARE AT THE KEYBOARD.

Note that “AT THE KEYBOARD” means “at your keyboard and paying attention to the game”. If you have a mud client in a window in the background and you're not paying attention to it, then the above restrictions still apply.

If you find a bug, or think you might have found a bug, report it. The same goes for people breaking the rules.

Exploiting bugs, intentional or not is illegal. This includes, but is not limited to bugs which allow easy money, experience or obtaining of equipment. It also includes bugs which can harm another player in any way.

The game is played by players and run by creators. Creators can not, in any way, change the flow of the game. This includes any information about quests, healing, resetting rooms and so on. So don't ask.

The only time you may ask a creator for help is if you are stuck in a room with no exits and no room description, or when a monster you are fighting will not die, or any other such bug prevents a normal day in War of Gods.

It is impossible to keep track of everyone's equipment and reimburse it when lost. Because of this, only rare and hard-to-find items can be reimbursed, and even then, only in special circumstances.

Try not to drop or leave valuable items on the ground. It the game crashes, they will be gone. War of Gods offers the possibility to deposit your equipment, so use it.

If you lose such items, please report it to a creator as soon as possible and send a log that show that you owned those items.

Sometimes it is necessary to make unpopular decisions and players may often have grievances with creators and/or other players. This is a part of mud life and is normal. If you have a problem then make your opinion known, just do it respectfully, no-one is going to listen to 'you idiots sux for that changes!'.

If this 'rule' troubles you, it shouldn't. If you constantly push your luck and stretch rules to the limit then you will be warned and if it does not stop you will BE stopped. For the vast majority of players this is just not an issue. Do not mistake this rule as a sign that we do not want to hear (constructive) criticism, honest feedback is extremely valuable and has been always appreciated. If you just want to keep pointing out how stupid you think creators are and how you can do so much better, then go prove it, somewhere else.

Remember, who you are and what you are when you turn off the computer is of absolutely no consequence here. In War of Gods you are determined solely by your words and actions. So please… Think before you type.