PokemonLegendsRules

NOTE: these rules were written by the staff (not me) to have a better community and to keep the game safe.

Failure to follow any of the rules may result in a warning or ban.

1. Registered usernames, messages, images and links within all areas of this game site are not allowed to contain:

• Profanity (this includes evading filters by altering those words in ways that would prevent the catcher from triggering)

• Vulgar or inappropriate content

• Advertising to non-affiliated Pokemon sites (but official Nintendo game related Pokemon content is okay)

• Illegal drug related content (this also includes marijuana since not everywhere has it legalised yet)

• Deeply religious or political discussions. (these types of discussions don't end well).

• Requesting of personal or private information (this includes but is not limited to asking for age, birthday, real name, as well as phishing and asking for passwords)

2. The following activities are not approved of and should be avoided. Performing any of the behaviours below anywhere in game may result in a ban, depending on the situation and severity:

• Provoking a fight, harassing or purposely annoying other users

• (Extreme) negativity or hostility to the game environment.

• (Extreme) stupidity, ignorance and randomness

• Spamming and/or flooding

• Posting messages entirely in capital letters

• Lieing to staff on official moderator business

• Impersonation of another user

• Entering another person's account without their permission

• Scamming (this is engaging in fraudulent activities to gain in game money, tokens, items, information or Pokemon)

• Donation Fraud (this is when you donate to the game then perform chargebacks after obtaining the donation benefits.) You will be permanently banned if devs catch you doing this! To avoid this you can contact a developer if a refund is needed so that they can do the proper token and premium reversals at the same time.

• Trading for anything outside of the game system

• Using multiple accounts in order to provide an advantage to you over other players, for example in tournaments, using alternate accounts to increase auctions bids, etc.

• Evading bans

The staff are the ones who determine when a situation falls within breach of the rules.

3. Rules regarding in-chat auctions:

a. Auctions can only be held in the Trade chat

b. Only one auction can run at a time. If someone is starting an auction, wait until they are done before starting yours (this prevents bidding confusion).

c. No fake/false auctioning. The following is considered to be fake/false auctioning:

• Auctioning something you don't intend to actually sell

• Starting an auction and cancelling it if you don't get the offer you want

• Having someone win an auction but not giving them the auctioned prize

d. No fake bidding. Only bid if you intend to actually pay the amount offered if you won.

• This also includes logging into alt accounts to post fake bid offers to raise the price. This also is the case for auctions using the ingame auctions page.

e. No delaying/postponing auctions-auctions must end with the highest bidder if no one else bids after a few minutes.

• If you set a time limit for your auction, 'last call' bids are to be done within the time limit you originally set. This means no adding on time or going over your time limit to get last minute bids. If this is a problem for you, you can stop placing time limits on your auction and instead end it when people stop bidding after a few minutes.

f. All bids to auctions held in the chat must have all bids posted to the chat. Bids from PMs or other private areas will be disqualified. This is to prevent bid price gouging.

g. Interfering with auctions, such as asking the auctioneer to lower the starting bid or asking people not to bid high early in the auction, should be avoided. Interfering in the case of false advertisement, e.g. wrong Pokemon being auctioned, mis-advertised rarity or stats of the Pokemon, do not fall under this rule.

4. Cheats, cracks, botting, macroing, autoclickers, hacks, exploits, bug exploits and other abuses of similar nature are not allowed.

If you discover one or become aware of one in use, please contact a staff member and report it. Failure to do so may result in a ban if the bug or exploit is serious enough to warrant a ban and there is evidence that you used it.

5. Please use the game chat channels for their intended purpose. Trade-related activities should stay in the trade channel and the help channel is for help inquires only.

While people generally won't get banned for misusing the channels, if you are requested to take your topic of conversation to the appropriate channel you should do so. A chat ban may be issued if an individual continues to disregard requests to chat in the appropriate channel, or if one becomes hostile to said requests.

What to do if you see someone break the rules

You can remind them that it is against the rules to be doing what they're doing if you wish. If they are abusing a bug, suggest that they come clean to the staff so it can be resolved nicely. Of course it depends on the situation; if someone is being an obvious troll or is intentionally breaking the rules then screenshotting and reporting them may be better than trying to talk to them. You may send a PM a Mod if it is a bug or exploit report.

Note: If you are reporting someone please include screenshots or other means of evidence.

If you want to learn how to take a screenshot, visit http://www.take-a-screenshot.org/!

What to do if you are banned

For now you can send a private message in discord, as an appeal form, to the Mods (not the devs)

If you strongly feel like a rule should or should not be on here, post it on the suggestions channel at the discord server (Click here to join) with the words "Rules Adjustment Suggestion" in your post. Rules are bound to change and is recommended that you read it at least once a month so you can keep up with any changes!