Dark Swords Chat Rules

Chat rules are necessary so that players can communicate, trade, and discuss the game without spam, insults, and intentional provocations. The rules are mandatory for all players, including additional characters (twinks/mults) and auto-responder messages. Violations may result in a warning, mute, or other in-game punishments.

It is forbidden in all chats:

• 1.1. Insulting Administration representatives — administrators, moderators, helpers, judges, and other representatives.
  

Punishment: mute for 3, 6, or 24 hours.

• 1.2. Publicly discussing the actions of the Administration and its representatives. If you disagree with a decision, submit a petition (a support request on the website).
  

Punishment: mute for 30 minutes or 12 hours.

• 1.3. Publishing malicious links and advertising other gaming projects.
  

Punishment: mute for 24 hours.

• 1.4. Threatening players in real life, publishing their personal data, or stalking them outside the game.
  

Punishment: mute for 6 or 24 hours.

• 1.5. Buying, selling, or exchanging characters and accounts. Account sharing/transfer is also prohibited.
  

Punishment: mute for 24 hours or a ban.

• 1.6. Exchanging in-game values for real money or services, as well as offering real money or services for in-game values. Exception: Dealers within their authority.
  

Punishment: mute for 24 hours or a ban.

• 1.7. Inciting hatred and hostility on national, racial, religious, or other grounds, promoting violence and prohibited forms of human exploitation.
  

Punishment: mute for 30 minutes or 3 hours.

• 1.8. Agreeing on a pre-determined PvP battle outcome in religious, clan, alliance, and tournament battles, or calling for such battles.
  

Punishment: mute for 1 or 3 hours.

• 1.9. Insulting players' relatives, including using sexual, vulgar, or humiliating statements towards them.
  

Punishment: mute for 3 or 6 hours.

• 1.10. Using twinks/mults to bypass the rules. If a violation is committed by an additional character, the punishment may apply to the main character and the player's other mults.
  

Punishment: the mute duration is doubled compared to the previous one.

In addition to the main rules, it is forbidden:

• 2.1. Flooding. Do not send identical messages more often than once every 20 seconds. Do not clutter the chat with repeating characters, smileys, or meaningless messages.
  

Punishment: mute for 5 or 15 minutes.

• 2.2. Trading. Offers to buy, sell, or exchange in-game values, price discussions, and store advertising are allowed in the trade chat or paid GRA messages.
  

Punishment: mute for 5 or 15 minutes.

• 2.3. Using profanity and obscene expressions. The ban applies regardless of whether they are addressed to anyone or not. Replacing letters with symbols, spaces, and other signs does not make profanity acceptable.
  

Punishment: mute for 15 or 30 minutes.

• 2.4. Insulting players. The ban also applies to insults against relatives and other people, even if they do not participate in the conversation.
  

Punishment: mute for 15 or 30 minutes.

• 2.5. Provoking other players to violate chat rules. The moderator has the right to evaluate the behavior of communication participants and decide whether a violation has occurred.
  

Punishment: mute for 15 or 30 minutes.

• 2.6. Using sexual harassment and obscene statements, advertising drugs, and publishing other messages that disrupt chat order. Veiled expressions can also be considered a violation.
  

Punishment: mute for 15 minutes or 1 hour.

• 2.7. Publicly announcing departure from the game or urging others to leave. Such statements may be considered a request to block the character at their own request.
  

Punishment: mute for 3 or 24 hours.

• 2.8. Insulting or distorting players' nicknames. The ban also applies to pet names and pseudonyms used for communication in the general chat.
  

Punishment: mute for 15 or 30 minutes.

The rules also apply to paid GRA messages, the auto-responder, and character information.

The trade chat is intended for buying, selling, exchanging in-game values and offering in-game services.

It is forbidden here:

• 3.1. Writing off-topic. Messages must relate to trade or in-game services. Exceptions are provided for price inquiries and product information, as well as separate messages from Dealers and Pastors.
  

Punishment: mute for 5 or 15 minutes.

• 3.2. Insulting players.
  

Punishment: mute for 15 or 30 minutes.

• 3.3. Using profanity and obscene expressions, including veiled ones.
  

Punishment: mute for 15 or 30 minutes.

• 3.4. Publishing meaningless or inappropriate trade offers that lack a reasonable purpose.
  

Punishment: mute for 5 or 15 minutes.

• 3.5. Mixing trade with extraneous messages. A trade ad must remain a trade ad. Promotional slogans and calls to pay attention to the product are allowed.
  

Punishment: mute for 5 or 15 minutes.

• 3.6. Cluttering the chat with symbols and smileys. Do not use long repeating sequences or sets of symbols that carry no understandable meaning.
  

Punishment: mute for 5 or 15 minutes.

Private chats include:

• Whisp — private messages;

• Group — group chat;

• Clan — clan chat;

• Ally — alliance chat.

The main rules from section 1 apply in these chats. Additional restrictions of the general and trade chats do not apply to them, except for cases explicitly provided for by these rules.

In private messages, it is forbidden to insult players' relatives and use racial slurs.

For insulting relatives and racial slurs in private messages, a mute of 30 minutes, 3, or 6 hours is provided. Other violations in private chats are punished at the moderator's discretion.

If another player interferes with your communication, use the "Ignore" function: right-click on their nickname and select the corresponding command.

Clan leaders and advisors can restrict the communication of their clan members. In particularly gross or repeated cases of antisocial behavior in the clan or alliance chat, moderators may intervene.

The auto-responder and character information are moderated according to the general chat rules, but trade messages are allowed there.

In private messages to administrators, moderators, helpers, and judges, it is forbidden:

• Using profanity and obscene expressions.

• Insulting Administration representatives.

• Cluttering private messages and interfering with the work of Administration representatives.

If you need help, describe the problem to the point and do not send multiple identical messages.

Punishments for violations in private messages to Administration representatives are determined by the Administration.

• 6.1. Moderators have the right to deviate from the specified mute periods if necessary and choose punishment taking into account the specific situation.

• 6.2. If a violation carries a mute of 5 or 15 minutes, the moderator has the right to replace it with a warning.

• 6.3. In cases provided for by the rules, stricter punishments, including a ban, may be applied.

• 6.4. You can find out which moderators are on duty using the \duty_list command.

• 6.5. Administration representatives are also required to comply with chat rules.

• 6.6. Dealers are considered regular players when applying chat rules.

• 6.7. It is forbidden to abuse the support service and the complaint function. Multiple identical complaints, spamming complaints, and intentional clogging of the complaint system can lead to punishment.

• 6.8. It is forbidden to use offensive or obscene names for characters and pets, as well as to pass off pets as real players using similar nicknames.

• 6.9. A moderator's warning is a requirement to stop the violation and prevent its repetition.

• 6.10. In exceptional cases, moderators can block chat, send a character to penal servitude or prison within their authority.

• 6.11. A player can ask a moderator to disable their chat for a period of 12 to 24 hours. Early removal of such a restriction is not provided.

• 6.12. Moderators and helpers must not use mutes for casual communication with players.

• 6.13. The Administration has the right to amend and supplement the rules.

Ignorance of the rules does not exempt from responsibility. The final decision on punishment is made by an authorized representative of the Administration within their authority.