Rules of conduct within Age of Conan

The following are the basic rules of conduct that govern player interaction and activity within Age of Conan. Failure to act responsibly and comply with these rules may result in the termination of your account without any refund of any kind. These rules may be revised without notice. This version was last revised on May 29^th, 2008.

You may not harass or threaten other players in any form while online in Age of Conan.

You may not use information you get in-game to harass people out of the game.

The use of excessive and /or extremely sexually explicit, abusive, defamatory or obscene language is not allowed. Racially or ethnically offensive language is strictly prohibited.  The game is M rated, not Adult Only rated. It is up to the GMs to determine if something is over the line in order to protect the community at large.

The first step in dealing with the above should be to use /ignore <name>

You may not impersonate any Funcom employee, including, but not limited to, any Customer Support people, nor may you impersonate any member of the FoA (Followers of Asura) organization.

You may not violate any local, state, national or international law or regulation for the location you are playing from.

You may not arrange for the exchange or transfer of any pirated or illegal software while in Age of Conan or the Age of Conan website including the Age of Conan official Forums.

You will always follow the instructions of authorized personnel while in Age of Conan. Authorized personnel are hereby defined as GMs and FoA members.

You may not modify, or try to modify, any part of the Age of Conan Client, Age of Conan Server or any part of the Age of Conan web pages located at http://www.ageofconan.com, http://support.ageofconan.com, or https://register.ageofconan.com.

You may not organize nor be a member of any clans or groups within Age of Conan that are based on, or espouse, any real world racist, anti-religious, anti-ethnic, or other hate-mongering philosophy.

You will not attempt to interfere with, hack into, or decipher any transmissions to or from the servers running Age of Conan, however allowed to use status pages provided by Funcom.

You may not give false information or intentionally hide any information when registering your Age of Conan account on https://register.ageofconan.com/.

You will not exploit any bug in Age of Conan and you will not communicate the existence of any such exploitable bug (bugs that grant the user unnatural or unintended benefits in game for a character of their profession and level), either directly or through public posting, to any other user of Age of Conan.

You will promptly report any exploits to exploit@ageofconan.com.

You will not attempt to play or run Age of Conan on any server that is not controlled or authorized by Funcom.

You will not upload or transmit on Age of Conan, or on the Age of Conan websites any copyrighted content that you do not own all rights to, unless you have the expressed written permission of the author or copyright holder.

You will not create, use or provide any server emulator or other site where Age of Conan may be played, and you will not post or distribute any utilities, emulators or other software tools related to Age of Conan without the expressed written permission of Funcom.

Abuse

The following things would be considered as "abuse" in game:

Hate Mongering - participation in or propagation of Hate literature, behavior, or propaganda related to real -world characteristics.

Sexual Abuse or Harassment - untoward and unwelcome advances of a graphic and sexual nature. This includes graphical descriptions of sexual acts, overt sexual overtures, and stalking of a sexual nature.

Attempting to Defraud a Support Representative - Petitioning with untrue information with the intention of receiving benefits as a result. This includes reporting bug deaths, experience or item loss, or accusing other players of wrongdoing without basis for it.

Impersonating a Customer Service Representative - falsely representing yourself to another player as a FoA or a Funcom employee.

CS Personnel Abuse -- sending excessive /tells to a CS Representative, excessively using say or other channels to communicate to a CS Representative, making physical threats, or using abusive language against a CS Representative.

Using Threats of Retribution by GM Friends - attempting to convince another player that they have no recourse in a disagreement because favoritism is shown to one of the parties by Funcom or the FoA staff.

Note: We encourage role-playing in the game and on the role-playing conference, but remember that role-playing is no excuse for harassment.

If you want to play an obnoxious role, you have a great responsibility to avoid hurting other people's feelings. These social guidelines take precedence over role-playing in a conflict.

Exploitation

You will not exploit any bug in Age of Conan and you will not communicate the existence of any such exploitable bug (the definition of bugs like this is: a bug that grants the user unnatural or unintended benefits in game), either directly or through public posting, to any other user of Age of Conan. You will promptly report any such exploit via exploit@ageofconan.com address and never use it again.

An exploit in the game is a bug or design error that makes it possible for characters to fight monsters, solve quests, or earn money that normally should be out of that character's reach. Funcom is actively working to remove exploits from the game.

An exploit is regarded as a bug that we have to fix. We expect players to inform us about exploits, not tell other players about their discovery and to not use the exploit after they have found it. Exploits could lead to suspension of your account or banning. This has happened to some accounts already.

The investigating of exploits in Age of Conan is based on two sources of information: Reports from players and reading through logs. All reports received through mail and petition are used to get exploits out of the game.

While logged in to Age of Conan, you must be present at the computer that is being used to play the game.  Unattended gameplay (botting, scripting etc.) will result in disciplinary action.

In addition, we are able to find detailed information about characters. This is used to find characters that have disproportionate amounts of credits or are augmenting in level faster than we would expect.

It is important not to spread information about exploits after they have been discovered, as the team needs time to solve the problem. It is dangerous to tell you that we are working on a fix, because this information could lead to more people learning about the exploit and using it. While the team is working on it, please do not tell anybody about the exploit.

Naming Policy

The Naming Policy rules can be found here. Remember that RP names have additional rules that can be found at the bottom of that page.