Bitefight.co.za - Game Rules
- The following rules will be valid from September 23rd, 2009 for all may and they can be changed at any time. It´s your own obligation to keep your self updated.
- For contact details, see this thread: Contacts for Ingame Issues .
- Please be aware that discussions concerning a certain things are limited to the account owner and game staff.
-- Player is obligated to save his battle reports for 48h so that Game Operator can have those as evidence when deciding about the issue.
-- Without Battle Reports, Game Operator will NOT proceed with further actions regarding rules violation.
-- In cases of unclear issue, Super Game Operator or Game Admin can and will be involved in it.
-- Bitefight.co.za Game Team may enter players account when justified reason exists.
§1 Accounts
I. Multi-Accounting
Every player is allowed to play only a single account per Server.
Consequences: permanent ban
- If 2 or more players are sharing the same IP address(brother and sister, husband and wife) this has to be reported to the Game Operator in charge for their Server. If not accounts will be banned without warning!
- If more than one account is played from the same network the Game Operator has to be informed.
- Players must not attack each other while sharing the same network.(when opposite race)
- Players can not attack the same opponents, it has to pass at least 24h between the last attack of 1 player and first attack of the 2nd player.
Consequences:
1st offense - 2 days
2nd offense - 5 days
3rd offense - 7 days
Every next offense - 14days
II. Account Sharing
Every account is entitled to be played by one player only. The player of the account may only change if either account sitting takes place or if the account is exchanged.
Consequences: permanent ban
III. Account Sitting
Account sitting allows a player to take care of someone's account in accordance with following regulations:
- The GameOperator of the Server has to be informed before the sitting takes place.
- The only allowed actions while Sitting are: Graveyard Work, Manhunts, Grotto Hunt, Grotto Quests and spending gold (only for increasing player's stats and clan donations)
- The sitting is limited to a time from 2 to 7 continuous days.
- Before the Sitter logs in, the owner of the Account has to contact the GO of his Server. (E-mail his Pasword, his ingame Nick and inform GO about the period of time the Sitting will take place)
- Sitting of an account by the same person who has already sat an account on that specific server within the past 7 days is not allowed.
- Sitting is allowed once in 30days, after the sitting has been ended, it needs to pass 30 days so that same account can be sat again.
Some actions not allowed by the sitter:
- Attacking of other players with the sat account is not allowed.
- Attacking the sat account with the own account is not allowed.
- Changing the sat account's settings is not allowed.
- Editing clan settings from the sat account is not allowed.
- Battle Reports are not to be deleted during the sitting period.
- Game Operator may enter sat account in order to verify that there were no abuse of sitting privilege.
Abuse of the Accounts Sitting privilege:
Consequences: 7 days ban for both sitter and sat account
IV. Account Exchange
- Account Exchange is allowed to take place only using appropriate board section for it. .
-- Additional Information and how to protect your account from being stolen,
V. Account Names Change
- Cannot be done by the GameOperator, due to the newly added option of changing by the players using the "Library" ingame.
V.1 Account Name Change - Exception .
If Account Trade is done, via board, then Account Name can be changed after the trade took place, your server Game Operator will change nickname of your new account to desired one.
Important: After changing the name of the account, a bug can occur! Game Team, nor GameForge does NOT accept any responsibility if anything happens to your account.
§2 Bashing
I. Definition
It is not allowed to attack other player more then following:
[Level range - number of attacks in 24h]
1-14level - 3 attacks
15 - 40level - 4 attacks
41- 99lvls - 5 attacks
100+lvls - 6 attacks
Note that 24 hours is meant as 24 hours and not from midnight till next midnight!
Defender's level is taken when Bashing Rule is being applied.
-- Example: Attacker's level = 41, Defender's level = 39 -> Number of allowed attacks = 4 in 24h since the first attack
-- Example#2: Attacker's level = 39, Defender's level = 41 -> Number of allowed attacks = 5 in 24h since the first attack.
Bashing Rule violation consequences:
1st offense - 3 days
2nd offense - 7 days
3rd offense - 14 days
Every next offense - 14days
II. Special Cases
If the attacks influence the game play of a player to a certain extent the attacker(s) can be punished.
Special Case Bashing will be enforced if the following level range/number of attacks is fulfilled:
[Level range - number of attacks over 5 to 7 days]
1-14level - 2 attacks / per day*
15 - 40level - 3 attacks / per day*
41- 99lvls - 4 attacks / per day*
100+lvls - 5 attacks / per day*
*The average amount taken when the total number of attacks is divided with the number of days in which those attacks have been made.
(Total Number of attacks) / (Number of days) = # attacks per day
- If a player is suffering from unprovoked attacks with the purpose of keeping his health points down so he cannot attack others or do manhunt.
- Any other situation in which players gameplay is severely harmed
Consequences:
1st offense - 1-5 day
2nd offense - 1-7 days
3rd offense - 3-14 days
4th offense - 5-35 days
Every next offense - up to 35days
III. Organized Clan Attacks on a player
- Constant attacks from the several members of the same clan on 1 or more players from the same clan in opposite race over 2 or more days, with the goal to make opponents unable to play the game, meaning that their health points are below 25hp, is not allowed and will result in attacking players being warned or even banned.
- Organized Clan Attacks is also when players among 1 clan are "sharing" the victim among themselves in order to raid as much gold as possible.
Consequences:
1st offense : warning to 5 days ban
2nd offense : 5 days ban
3rd offense : 7 days ban
4th offense : 14 days ban
5th offense : 35 days ban
IV. -10levels attacks
- Any attack with bigger level difference then 9 to 49 levels is allowed at max 2 times in 24h.
- Any attack with bigger level difference then 50+ levels is allowed at max 1(once) in 24h.
Note that 24 hours is meant as 24 hours and not from midnight till next midnight!
Consequences:
1st offense - 1 day ban
2nd offense - 5 days ban
3rd offense - 7 days ban
4th offense - 14 days ban
every next offense - 14 days ban
NOTICE:Bashing may be suspended due to players involvement in:- Clan War
- Official Duels reported on the board(Bashing is suspended only on the player with who Duel is agreed)
Any Attempt to abuse these privileges will lead to, as stated in §6 Abuse of the Rules to severe consequences.
§3 Interference in the gameplay
I. Bug-Using
It is not allowed to purposely use a bug to gain advantages.
It is not allowed to purposely not report a bug that was found.
Bugs have to be reported to game staff immediately.
Consequences: permanent ban
II. Scripts
The usage of a program that interferes with the game in an unconventional way is not allowed. This includes programs with automated or semi-automated processes that are capable of performing ingame actions. Bots and Macros are especially disallowed.
Consequences: permanent ban
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