Acclaim Rules of Conduct

RULES OF CONDUCT

Acclaim’s goal is to create a fun and safe environment to play our games. Violating any of these rules could mean the temporary banning or permanent banning of your account(s) across all of our games and forums.

Please carefully read these rules:

Player's Responsibility:
You are fully responsible for all activities conducted through your account and under your Account ID.

We Are One Community:
The breaking of these rules in one community or game can effect your accounts on all of Acclaim's communities and games.

Protect Your Passwords:

At no time will the employees of Acclaim ever ask for you password.

Players are never allowed to ask someone for their account password and you should never give out your password.

Because you may never give out your password the sharing and trading of accounts is expressly forbidden.

Hacked Accounts:

Advertisement blocking:
You cannot use software or make changes to our games to remove the advertisements.

Advertising other sites or services:
You cannot use our game chat or forums to advertise non-Acclaim games or services.

Griefing, Scamming, Harassment, Hate and Abuse:

You may not harass or threaten other players, nor use any sexually explicit, harmful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, obscene (including common swear words), hateful, racially or ethnically offensive expressions or statements. This applies to any language.
Griefing and Abuse can be defined as any repetitive or ongoing activity by a player or group of players specifically done to make the game unplayable or unenjoyable for other players.
Scamming is defined as anyone attempting to gain access to accounts, items or in-game currency in any way, through deception or fraudulent means.
Harassment can be defined as damaging the other players experience voluntarily. Players doing this generally have the sole purpose of "annoying" other players and direct all their efforts to this end.
Hate is considered to be written or spoken language intended to degrade, intimidate, or incite violence or prejudicial action against a person or group of people based on their race, gender, age, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, language ability, moral or political views, socioeconomic class, occupation or appearance (such as height, weight, and hair color), mental capacity and any other distinction-liability. You may not organize nor be a member of any guilds or groups within the Acclaim's games that are based on, or espouse, any racist, sexist, anti-religious, anti-ethnic, anti-homosexual, or any other philosophy deemed to be hate-mongering.
Anyone caught or reported (with proof) doing any of the above will be immediately banned for 3 days without prior warning. Repeated offenses will result in a permanent ban. This, of course, applies to every member of every community. The above activities in one community can effect your accounts on all of Acclaim's communities.

Naming Policy:

When selecting a character or guild, you must abide by the following Naming Policy. Names in are encouraged to reflect the genre of the game.
Your character or guild name must not contain words that are offensive, sexually explicit, vulgar, racist, hateful, obscene, defamatory, or any other language that is offensive in nature (including common swear words, name concerned with the anatomy, and intentional misspellings, anagrams, and homonyms of these words).
You shall not choose a character name that is specifically designed so that your account becomes hard to contact in-game by Acclaim Games Inc., Partner Companies or other players. This includes creating names containing the same character repeatedly, or use of non-alphanumerical characters. This also includes character names made up of only vowels or consonants or containing characters that could be mistaken for other characters such as using an uppercase "i" in place of a lowercase "L".
Character and/or Guild/Clan names must not be a name or handle of any Games Inc. employee and/or a name that may mislead other players to believe you to be an employee of Acclaim Games Inc.
Character names must not be a combination of words that produces an offensive result or violates any of the above rules.
Character names must not use misspellings or alternative spellings of names that violate any of the previous rules.
Character names must not include any registered trademark names.
Acclaim Games Inc. reserves the right to ban accounts, at its sole discretion, with names that are deemed vulgar, offensive, otherwise inappropriate, believed to be in violation of these rules or the spirit of the rules.

Impersonation:
You may not impersonate any Acclaim employee, including without limitation Corporate Officers and Employees, Corporate Partners, Game Masters and Support Staff.

Asking for player personal details or providing personal details:
You cannot ask for, give or provide anyone's personal details (including full real name, phone number, address, age, etc.) Acclaim allows you to post IM and email information in your forum profile for players to see, however, you cannot and should not provide additional information to anyone.

Cheats, Bug Exploits and Game Loopholes:

You are not allowed to use software or game bugs to cheat in our games. If you find a bug or a game weakness that can be exploited to cheat, you should send a private post to a Game Master, Volunteer Game Master or Forums Moderator.
You are not allowed to modify the game, game memory, or its incoming or outgoing packets in any manner.
The use of Bots, Key Jamming, Macros and other tools to allow your character to gain levels, skills, etc. without the player physically interacting with the game is strictly forbidden.
Anyone caught or reported (with proof) to be using Cheats, Bug Exploits and Game Loopholes will be immediately banned without prior warning. This, of course, applies to every member of every community.

Item Purchasing:

You are not permitted to purchase coin items from other players in game.
You are not permitted to purchase coin items, vendor items, characters or in-game currency from other players or unauthorized sources out of game.
You are not permitted to sell coin items, vendor items, characters or in-game currency to other players or unauthorized sources out of game.

A player needs to reply to GM / VGM / Mod:
You should always try to respond a GM /VGM / Mod when in game. If your character is investigated for issues like AFK leveling, exploits, botting and any other rules of conduct issues and you do not repond your account may be banned.

Multiple Acclaim accounts:
You can have more than one Acclaim account but you cannot sign into a game more than once at the same time to gain an unfair advantage.

Encouraging other to break our rules:
You cannot try to convince other players to break our rules or deceive them in thinking doing so is not breaking a rule.

Misusing our Forums:

Signatures and Signature Images You may have as many signature images as you wish provided the total sum of all the images' top and left sides do not exceed 500px. This means you can have one image at 250 x 250 image, two images at 200 x 100, four at 100X100, etc. These images must conform to the other rules on this page and may not contain offensive material. Flash based signatures are not allowed.
The text and/or images of the signature should not be presented in way they detracts from the readability forums. Excessively long signatures that force a user to scroll great lengths to continue reading are specifically forbidden.
Avatar Images
Avatar images may not exceed 80px in width and/or 100px in height.
Posting
Due to the vast variety of players that we have, all forum posts are to be kept "Family Friendly".
The text and/or images in the should not be presented in way they detracts from the readability forums.

Spamming
Off topic
Warez
Flaming
Bumping

Terribly redundant. (When does the Open Beta Start?, How can I play the Open Beta?, Where is the Download? Release Open Beta already!)

Use of l33t speak or txt spk
Sexually Oriented, Offensive or Suggestive text, images or topics.

Off topic. (After you have been warned a few times)
Illegal files or Activities (hacks, music, warez, CD cracks/codes, or otherwise)
Hate speech (including racism, sexism, etc.)
Spam or commercial messages. (for example: "In before lock" is spam)
Should have been a private message.
Posting or linking to Pornography, tasteless images or text.

Any kind of Scamming including but not limited to: Posting any website that asks for passwords, fake login pages, or anything that tells you to change your email address. This includes advertising cheats or links to cheat websites, etc.

"What about my Freedom of Speech?"

We are not stopping you from starting your own boards out there on the Internet (in fact we encourage it), to say what ever you want, but here the above just won't be tolerated.