Rules and Regulations
INTRO
These Rules describe the conduct requirements for Nightmare Online (hereinafter referred to as \\\"Nightmare Online\\\") players on the game servers. Take note that these Rules do not describe all possible situations of bad conduct. In all cases, the administration of the server (hereinafter referred to as \\\"The Team\\\") has the final say. Each situation will be reviewed individually, and the penalty will depend on the specific circumstances and severity of the specific violation.
The Team reserves the right to change the rules at any time upon its necessity, and the Team also reserves the right to suspend, permanently ban or terminate your game account at any time for reasons that include, but are not limited to, your failure to comply with these rules of conduct.
We ask you to respect these rules to ensure a fun and stress-free gaming experience for both yourself and others. We also ask you to immediately follow any requests or orders made by Admin(s) of the Team. Failure to follow these instructions may result in exclusion from Nightmare Online.
The Team is entitled to interrupt the operation of Nightmare Onlinewithout prior notice if there are urgent technical reasons or because of necessary maintenance works. In all other cases reasonable advance notice will be provided using suitable means.
ABOUT Nightmare Online
Nightmare Online is a non-commercial private PVP test server funded by staff and not an official owner of RYL & ROW. With creation of an Account on Nightmare Online you accept all rules and responsibility. Announcement about changes can be found via website/facebook/discord and can be subject to change at any time.
ACCOUNT
Sharing of account data amongst family, friends and flatmates is permitted. Trading, selling, buying and exchange of accounts remains prohibited and will result in a permanent ban for all parties involved, even the attempt will be punished with a ban. You should never share your account information/password with anyone. If you choose to do so, this is at your own risk. GMs will not restore any items/gold lost with a shared account, nor will they mediate any disputes.
There are no rights of ownership and/or value of the accounts and their characters. Any loss (even as result of a crash and/or rollback) of the character will not be refunded.
For Account Security - Please do not use the same login information on this server if it has been previously used on another server.
BEHAVIOR
Communication between players should remain clean and polite. Foreign advertising of all kinds for other Private Servers will not be tolerated. Insulting Staff or players is prohibited and will be punished at the discretion of GM, if reported. You may NOT violate the right of others and their rights to play and enjoy the game. You may not defraud, harass, threaten, or cause distress and/or unwanted attention to other players.
Excessive begging for items , skills , spells, etc. is prohibited and will be punished at the discretion of the GM.
BUGS AND CHEATS
You may NOT exploit any bugs or game design errors in the Game or communicate the existence of any such bugs. Use of any known exploit is strictly prohibited. If you find an exploit, it is expected that you will report it via our Discord server. Specifically, but not limited to: The use of any hacking software, The abuse of bugs to your or other’s advantage, The abuse of game mechanics to your or other’s advantage Script commands: which interfere in the game or affect it are prohibited.
FORBIDDEN ACTIONS
You may NOT kill steal from other players. Kill stealing is defined as the repetitive killing of monsters who are already in combat with or pursuit of another player, without the other person\\\\\\\'s express permission.
You may NOT leech experience from other players. XP Leeching is defined as uninvited, repetitive initiation of combat against monsters that are already in combat with another player -OR- uninvited, repetitive healing of a nation-mate in combat with a monster. This is usually with the express intent of gaining experience with little or no risk to yourself.
Disciplinary Policy
It is Nightmare Online\\\\\\\'s intent to provide a game that everyone can enjoy without the intrusion of any Admin. However, there are times when issues arise that violate the Rules and Regulations. When this happens, our Admins will investigate each incident fully, ensuring that we are fair and equitable in our dealings with everyone involved. Depending on the severity of the violation and the players past history, we may take the following actions after investigation.
We point out expressly that every account is property of Nightmare Online and so there is no claim of account ownership for any player. Therefore it\\\\\\\'s possible to terminate any account (temporarily or permanently) without stating reasons for Nightmare Online at any time. Please Note - Exclusion of any rule not stated above does not indicate it is permissible. Please exercise caution and good judgement as staff will continue to address situations found to be inappropriate regardless of not being listed above.
1. We may do nothing at all. If we find that there was no violation, we will let everyone involved know that we found none, and remove ourselves from the area so that the players can continue gameplay.
2. We may suspend the players account for 24 hours. This is intended to be a \\\\\\\"time-out\\\\\\\" period that allows the player to think about their actions and cool down.
3. We may suspend the player account for 3 days.
4. We may permanently BAN (cancel) the account.
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU AGREE TO THESE RULES AND WILL ABIDE BY THEM. YOU FURTHER AGREE THAT THESE RULES WILL APPLY TO ANYONE THAT YOU ALLOW TO USE YOUR ACCOUNT AND THAT YOU ARE PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONSEQUENCES (INCLUDING TERMINATION OF YOUR ACCOUNT) THAT MAY RESULT IF ANY SUCH PERSON BREAKS THESE RULES.