Basic rules:

• 1] Respect all other players in the game, as well as in the forum! This also includes the L2-BF staff.
• 2] Play fair! This includes reporting exploitable bugs before abusing them as well as not tricking other players.*
• 3] Any kind of explicit postings and statements are prohibited. This includes racism, pornography, discrimination and all kinds of political propaganda.
• 4] The staff of TnS has the administrative sovereignty. Their decisions must be accepted at any time and can deviate from the rule set.

* This rule doesn't protect you from scam. Common sense is to be used for all actions and transactions. We will not compensate the lack of it. 




Game-specific rule set:


[Accounts]

You may only have one forum/website account. There is no limitation of how many game accounts you may create within this account.

In case you want to create a forum/website account for a friend who can't (for any reason) create his own account, then name it significantly different than your own account.

The sharing of accounts is allowed, but not recommended, due to the danger of account/ingame property stealing.

You as account owner are responsible for all actions done with it. This means you will also suffer punishments, if someone else logs your account and violates this rule set.

When you create a character, its nick must not violate any point of this rule set, else it can get renamed or banned. Your nick may include standard English characters and numbers.

All created accounts are property of the server owners and can be deleted, banned or modified at any time. Selling of accounts or items for real money is forbidden.



[Behavior]

The first of the basic rules has highest priority. This means that insulting other players is forbidden and will be punished by the staff. Flaming, to a certain extent, is considered part of the game by most players and we will tolerate it as long as you don't seriously insult other players.

Don’t behave like a troll, this means, no racism, no caps-lock, no “THIS IS A JOKE??”, no “OH MY GOD" or “WTH??”.
You won’t get previous warning for trolling, this is, you will be banned or punished as soon as you behave like a troll.

Don't make a hobby out of reporting other people for average flame or even lesser insults, which are considered as colloquial in real life too.

Don't annoy staff members or other players. This includes spamming of whispers, trades and begging for items or Adena.

Accusing other players of being "GM friend, edited, etc." will not be tolerated. Also don't slander players of being member of the staff. Keep such thoughts for yourself, no matter how sure you are that you are right. If you bully someone with such allegations, you can receive a serious punishment.


[Use of the ingame chat]

The behavior guidelines apply to all chats. In addition, each chat must be used for it's designated purpose.

Trade chat is for trading. Continuous spam of same offers or requests is undesirable. The preferable language for the trade chat is English with the common trading terms wtb, wts and wtt. Since all tradable items have an English name, use it for the trade chat please, so all players can understand you.

Shout chat is for general conversations and limited to regions.

The content of hero chat conversations are subject to the same conditions like that shout chat, just their range is unlimited and the preferable language is English. Do not use the hero chat to start or sustain a verbal war.

Misuse of the chats will lead to temporary expulsion from them (chat ban). In case of violation of the first basic rule, harder punishments can be applied. Advertising for other servers will result in a permanent expulsion from the community.


[Gameplay]

PvP and PK are allowed unless you take part in an event which is organized by a staff member and which is obviously a non-PvP event.

High level characters are not allowed to molest low level characters. This rule doesn't apply if the low level character is on his subclass and has the possibility to defend himself by switching to his main class or has other high level characters to defend his low level ones.
In the low level areas around the starting villages it's also forbidden for high levels to attack newbies unless provoked by them. Keep in mind that we need to welcome new people, not discourage them to join our server.


[Olympiad]

Participants of the Olympiad are not allowed to intentionally lose against others in order to transfer points (feeding). This violates the fair play basic rule and will lead to temporary expulsion from the Olympiad for the feeder and all chars on accounts which are in any connection (IP/Forum account) to the feeder.

If anyone feeds you against your will, you must report him immediately to the forum, including documentation (videos are prefered, as usual).

It is not allowed to compete in an Olympiad game against an other character belonging to you. Never have 2 or more characters registered to the Olympiad game at the same time. Doing so will lead to a temporary expulsion from the Olympiad games for the rest of the month of all of the players characters.

All documentations of Olympiad feed must include a visibly displayed date. You can see the current date by using the .time command. So do this first, whenever you want to make a screenshot for reporting.

There is no limitation on how many characters with hero status a player may own as long as he gained all his points in a fair way (read above).


[Third party software]

The use of third party software, like bots, packet hacks, etc. is forbidden. All you may use to connect to Battle Force is your Lineage 2 client.


[Game Masters - what they are and what they are not]

Game Masters are chosen by the owners of the server, who have full confidence in them. They sacrifice their free time to help other players. This should be appreciated by the community and rewarded with respect.

Game Masters will help you with doubts about L2-BF, execution of this rule set and they will sometimes entertain you with special events. You can contact them by petition. All GMs speak English. Some of them also offer support for other languages, but in most cases English will be the chosen language. When you make a petition, then put a good description of your problem when creating it. Petitions with descriptions like "help gm" can get rejected. The Game Masters need to know about the priority and the necessary time to handle a petition as well as the necessary language.

Game Masters are not your Lineage 2 guides. Petitions about game content related questions can be rejected. Please consult other sources of the internet to get answers for your questions or ask other players in the game.

Don't accuse Game Masters of being corrupt. Neither in public chats, nor in the forum. All GM actions are logged and visible on the website. If you're of the opinion that a GM is corrupt and you got strong proofs for it, you can contact the developers or the admins with a well structured message, including proofs and complaints.

As stated in the basic rules, Game Masters have the administrative sovereignty. Their decisions must be accepted and their orders followed and can only be questioned in a substantually justified manner in the forum.


[List of punishments - noncommital]

Misuse of a chat - chat ban <duration depends on seriousness> | trade chat - ban <duration depends on recidivism, up to permament>
Offending staff - ban <duration depends on seriousness, up to permanent>
Feeding in the Olympiad - expulsion of the feeding char [and all related, (read above)] for the current month
Abusing of bugs - ban <duration depends on seriousness, up to permament>
Advertising other servers - ban <permanent>
Using external software - automatic ban