The Rules!

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Welcome to the Signal Studios forums! Our forums are meant to provide you with a friendly place where you can discuss ideas, give gameplay advice and honest feedback to the Signal Studios staff. There will be times that conversations will get ‘heated’; we do ask that you still conduct yourself in a civilized manner in order to continue to promote a community-friendly environment.

Your access to these forums is a “privilege” and not a “right”. Signal Studios reserves the right to suspend your access to these forums, remove, edit, and move or close any content at any time for reasons that include, but are not necessarily limited to your failure to abide by these guidelines.

For more information, please consult our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

By posting in our forums you agree to the following:

1) CONTENT: The following sections outline language, expression, images, and naming of characters, accounts, or guilds, clear or masked, which is not allowed on the Signal Studios forums.

A. Race, Ethnicity, Nationality, Life Choices, Religion, and Politics

• Anything that promotes, is recognized as, or alludes to symbols of racial, ethnic, national, life choice, religious, or political hatred or slurs.
• Anything related to politics.
• Anything related to religion (edit 11/7/13: Besides relations to our game Ascend).

B. Sexuality and Violence

• Anything that promotes, is recognized as, or alludes to symbols of excessively sexual or violent acts.
• Anything that promotes, is recognized as, or alludes to symbols of minors in sexual situations.
• Anything that insults or demeans any aspect of any sexual orientation.
• Anything construed as pornographic.

C. Personal Information, Attacks, and Threats

• Any release of personal information about yourself, other individuals, or Signal Studios employees.
• Any language that can be perceived as an attack against other individuals or Signal Studios employees.
• Any threats veiled or otherwise, made against you, other individuals, or Signal Studios employees.

D. Inappropriate Obscenity, Vulgarity, and Profanity

• Anything construed as referring to human anatomy or bodily functions inappropriately.
• Anything construed as excessively crude or offensive.

E. Illegal Activity

• Requesting, arranging, or offering copyright infringement (piracy), illegal activities, or illegal drugs.
• Discussing illegal activity committed personally.

F. Harassment and Defamatory Statements

• Anything construed as referring to other individuals or Signal Studios employees using any disallowed content or behavior.

G. Discussion of Moderator Action

• Excessive and direct reference to past, present or future moderator action on the Signal Studios forums.
• Excessive discussion or debate of the Signal Studios forums rules.

H. Foreign Languages

• Use of foreign languages to circumvent moderation.

I. Call-Outs

• "Calling out" other users or Signal Studios staff in the title or content of a thread or post.

2) BEHAVIOR: The following sections outline actions which are not allowed on the Signal Studios forums.

A. Disruption

• Any language or actions intended to disturb other individuals.
• Any disruption or exploitation of contests and promotions.
• Disruptive practical jokes on any day other than April 1.

B. Spamming and Post Content

• Excessive repetition of a single phrase, similar phrases, image or images, or incoherent gibberish.
• Excessive use of Caps Lock.
• "First posting".
• Posts with minimal or no content.
• Posts that do not contribute to the overall conversation.
• Threads or posts whose primary purpose is dramatic effect rather than substantive discussion.
• "Goodbye" threads. Please note, "goodbye" threads will result in immediate thread removal and the author's permanent suspension from the forums.
• Posts made only to "bump" a thread to the front page of that forum section.

C. Advertising

• Any promotion of non-Signal Studios commercial ventures.

D. Scamming

• Acquiring items, currency, or any other in-game possessions from another individual through misinformation, confusion, or fraud.

E. Cheating

• All forms of illegal or unfair gameplay including the use of third-party applications to improve performance.

F. Multiple Accounts and Impersonation

• Creation of multiple accounts by a single individual solely for use on the official forums.
• Creation of multiple accounts for the purpose of evading suspension or account closure.
• Any impersonation of other individuals or Signal Studios, or their partners' employees. Note: All Signal Studios, and partner company representatives are required to have a custom title denoting their position and employer, so you will always be aware of whom is a company representative.

G. Misrepresentation

• Misrepresentation of Signal Studios or their partners. This includes falsely quoting moderators or staff members, or quoting moderators or staff members in such a way that the content or context of the material quoted is changed.

H. Trading In-Game Items or Accounts for Real-World Currency

• Requesting, arranging, or offering the exchange of in-game items or accounts for real-world currency.
• Requesting, arranging, or offering the exchange of real-world currency.

3) MODERATOR PREROGATIVE: Interpretation of the above rules is at the sole discretion of the moderators. Content and behavior outside of these listed rules are also subject to moderator review and action. All decisions made by Signal Studios and moderators are final.

4) ACCOUNT CLOSURE: Account closures executed by the Signal Studios moderators are permanent. New accounts made by owners of closed accounts will be summarily closed.

5) PUBLIC IDENTITY: Public identities are subject to these rules. Account holders with public identities that are in violation of these rules may be contacted and asked to change their public identity or otherwise warned or suspended from the Signal Studios forums. If a new appropriate public identity is not provided by the account holder in a reasonable amount of time, it will be changed to an appropriate public identity by Signal Studios staff.

Accounts found to be violating these rules may:

• Be given a warning.
• Be given a final warning where any further violations will result in suspension from the official Signal Studios forums or account closure.
• Be temporarily suspended from the Signal Studios forums.
• Be permanently closed.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at: [email protected]