This document is intended for use by customers of Mythic Entertainment as a rulebook for behavior within the game, Dark Age of Camelot. DAoC support staff has final say over what constitutes a violation of these rules. Mythic Entertainment and DAoC reserves the right to change its policies at any time. REPEATED VIOLATIONS OF THESE RULES OF CONDUCT WILL CONSTITUTE A VIOLATION OF THE DAoC END USER ACCESS AND LICENSE AGREEMENT (EUALA), AND MAY SUBJECT YOUR ACCOUNT (S) TO BE TERMINATED.
Rules of Conduct
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While playing Dark Age of Camelot, you must respect the rights of others and their rights to play and enjoy the game. These are basic guidelines that everyone must follow, and will be enforced by Dark Age of Camelot Customer Service Staff.
1. Mythic Entertainment is committed to fair and equal treatment of all of its customers. If there is a suspected violation of the Rules of Conduct, we will investigate fully, with the responsibility to prove the violation resting solely with us. Certain violations of the Rules of Conduct may, at Mythic Entertainment's sole discretion, result in the immediate termination of Player's Account with no advance notice required and other actions which Mythic may determine are necessary.
2. Player may not engage in any conduct or communication while using the DAoC Services which is unlawful or which restricts or inhibits any other Player from using or enjoying these Services.
3. Player agrees to use the DAoC Services only for lawful purposes. The list of prohibited conduct below provides examples of unacceptable conduct. The list is not exhaustive, and Mythic reserves the right, but not the responsibility, to restrict conduct which Mythic deems, in its sole discretion, to be harmful to individual members, damaging to the Services, or in violation of Mythic' or any third party's rights. Mythic may prohibit or delete conduct, communication or content transmitted on Mythic services that is deemed to be in violation of applicable laws or is harmful to other members, the Mythic service community or the rights of Mythic in general. Player acknowledges, however, that communication over the DAoC Services often occurs in real-time and Mythic cannot, and does not intend to, screen communication in advance.
4. Player will follow any instructions that are given to them by official representatives of DAoC Customer Support. Failure to comply with requests or instructions received from Mythic Representatives is a violation of the Code of Conduct and disciplinary action will be taken as necessary.
Prohibited Conduct
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PLAYER MAY NOT USE THE DAoC SERVICES TO:
1. Harass, threaten or embarrass another Player of the Services or to cause distress, unwanted attention or discomfort of such Player, or any other person or entity. Mythic does not condone harassment in any form and may suspend or terminate the account of any Player who harasses others. Personal attacks, such as those based on a person's race, national origin, ethnicity, religion, gender, lifestyle choice, disablement or other such affiliation, are strictly prohibited.
2. Post or transmit sexually explicit images, or point to or reference such images.
3. Organize or participate in any guilds or groups that are based on, or espouse, any racist, sexist, anti-religious, anti-ethnic, anti-gay, or other hate-mongering philosophy.
4. Transmit any unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, obscene, vulgar, harassing, and defamatory, hateful, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable content.
5. Impersonate any person, including, but not limited to, Mythic' employees, CSRs or hosts. Player shall not hold himself or herself out or portray himself or herself as a Mythic staff member or employee while engaging in all forms of online communication, including, but not limited to, member names, member profiles, voice, text or graphic chat, message postings or any form of communication on line. Impersonation of Mythic staff shall be grounds for immediate account termination.
6. Engage in "disruptive behavior" in chat areas, game areas, bulletin boards, or any other area of the DAoC Services. Disruptive behavior shall be deemed to include, but will not be limited to, conduct which purposefully interferes with the normal flow of gameplay or dialogue in a Service area. Disruptive behavior shall also include, but not be limited to, commercial postings, solicitations and advertisements.
7. Post or transmit chain letters or pyramid marketing schemes. This type of material places an unnecessary load on the DAoC Services and is considered a nuisance by many members. Certain types of chain letters and pyramid schemes are also illegal. Such prohibited conduct includes, but is not limited to, the transmission of letters or messages which offer a product or service and which are based on the structure of a chain letter.
8. Post or transmit unsolicited advertising, promotional materials, or other forms of solicitation.
9. Violate any operating rule, policy or guideline of any other online service. Player further agrees to abide by the rules of Player's Internet service provider.
10. Violate, intentionally or unintentionally, any applicable local, state, national or international law or regulation.
11. Modify any files that Mythic does not specifically authorize Player to modify. Use of material which is subject to the rights of any person or entity without the express permission of such rights holder is prohibited, and will result in the termination of Player's membership and possible civil and/or criminal liability.
12. Abuse or exploit bugs, undocumented features, design errors or problems in the game collectively referred to as Problems. Player acknowledges and agrees to report all problems, errors or bugs in the game to Mythic as soon as they are found as their continued use can damage the enjoyment of the game for all its players. Mythic will do everything within their power to fix these types of issues in a timely manner, and will give all customers the benefit of the doubt when dealing with these problems.
13. Use any scripting or macroing tools, hardware or software.
14. Use any game hacking/altering/cheating software or tools. Use of these types of programs will result in immediate termination of the Account and may subject you to civil and/or criminal liability.
15. Any disassembly or modification of any of the Game's executable code, databases and/or files. Nor may you interfere with or attempt to decipher any transmissions to or from the servers running Dark Age of Camelot. Doing this will result in immediate termination of the Account and may subject you to civil and/or criminal liability.
16. Engage in any behavior that is contrary to the 'spirit of the game' as defined by Mythic in its sole discretion.
17. Play Dark Age of Camelot on any server or service that is not provided or authorized by Mythic Entertainment.
18. You may NOT cross-team spy. This means you are not allowed to have characters in different realms on the same server (usually used for the purpose of spying on opposing realms). This includes characters on different accounts. However, we will not discourage 2 realms from cooperating with each other against a 3rd (commonly referred to as cross-teaming), as long as you do not act against your home-realm. While we want all 3 realms to wage war against each other, there are times when a little cooperation is appropriate. "Cross-teaming" in this manner is not a violation of our rules.
19. "Roleplaying" is not an excuse for violating any policy.
For a more detailed list of policy violations and the disciplinary actions that may be associated with them, please read the policy entitled "Detailed List of Policy Violations and Disciplinary Actions", which is located at Support.Darkageofcamelot.Com.
Character and Guild Naming Policy
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When creating a character or guild name for Dark Age of Camelot, it is encouraged that you select a name that reflects the medieval time period, and the realm that you are
