Promise Rules

Ascendia Rules
Rule violations may result in suspension, skill loss, or permanent account removal without compensation, based on severity and player history. Rules can change at any time, with updates on the website. To ensure fairness, players must be respectful. We may act against disruptive behavior in-game, on the website, or across our services, including:

Rule 1	Names
a)	Offensive Name Names that are insulting, racist, sexually related, drug-related, harassing or generally objectionable.
b)	Name Containing Forbidden Advertising Names that advertise brands, products or services of third parties, content which is not related to the game or trades for real money.
c)	Unsuitable Name Names that express religious or political views.
d)	Name Supporting Rule Violation Names that support, incite, announce or imply a violation of the Rules.
e)	Impersonation Names that are pretending to be another high profile player for the purpose of fraud.

Rule 2	Statements
a)	Offensive Statement Insulting, racist, sexually related, drug-related, harassing or generally objectionable statements.
b)	Spamming Excessively repeating identical or similar statements or using badly formatted or nonsensical text.
c)	Forbidden Advertising Advertising third-party brands, products, services, or unrelated content is prohibited. Trades involving real money, including the buying or selling of items/accounts, are not allowed.
d)	Off-Topic Public Statement Religious or political public statements or other public statements which are not related to the topic of the used channel or board.
e)	Violating Language Restriction Non-English statements in boards and channels where the use of English is explicitly required.
f)	Disclosing Personal Data of Others Disclosing personal data of other people.
g)	Supporting Rule Violation Statements that support, incite, announce or imply a violation of the Rules.

Rule 3	Cheating
a)	Bug Abuse Exploiting obvious errors of the game or any other part of Promise services
b)	Using Unofficial Software to Play Manipulating the official client program or using additional software to play the game.
c)	Multi-clienting You are only allowed to have one character online at a time per person. Using multiple computers/devices to connect at the same time is not allowed.
d)	VPN You are not allowed to use VPN to stay logged into more accounts than one.

Rule 4	Fraud
a)	Pretending to be Promise Staff Pretending to be a representative of Promise or to have their legitimation or powers.
b)	Slandering or Agitating against Promise Publishing clearly wrong information about or calling a boycott against Promise or its services.
c)	False Information to Promise Intentionally giving wrong or misleading information to Promise in reports about rule violations, complaints, bug reports or support requests.

Rule 5	Legal Issues
a)	Hacking Stealing other players' account or personal data.
b)	Attacking Promise Service Attacking, disrupting or damaging the operation of any Promise server, the game or any other part of Promise's services.
c)	Violating Law or Regulations Violating any applicable law, Promise Service Agreement or rights of third parties.

Rule 6	Destructive Behavior
a)	Harassment Comments and banter between players must still comply with previously rules regarding statements in game. "Baiting" insulting statements may also be considered harassment. Players can use the in-game ignore features to ignore comments in game and are encouraged to at least attempt to settle disputes respectfully in game. Video/Screenshot evidence may be considered if harrassment is considered to be excessive an beyond private messaging.
b)	Power Abuse Promise Service What is deemed "Power Abuse" may be at the gamemasters discretion. Collective examples may need to be examined to determine what constitutes power abuse and if the examples provided can be shown to be excessive without reasonable justification and/or be considered intentional greifing.

Harassment
Comments and banter between players must still comply with previously rules regarding statements in game. "Baiting" insulting statements may also be considered harassment. Players can use the in-game ignore features to ignore comments in game and are encouraged to at least attempt to settle disputes respectfully in game. Video/Screenshot evidence may be considered if harrassment is considered to be excessive an beyond private messaging.

Power Abuse Promise Service
What is deemed "Power Abuse" may be at the gamemasters discretion. Collective examples may need to be examined to determine what constitutes power abuse and if the examples provided can be shown to be excessive without reasonable justification and/or be considered intentional greifing.