Rules (Rules and Policies)

These are the rules of conduct for The Two Towers. By playing The Two Towers, you are implying agreement to follow these rules regardless of whether you agree with them or not. Continuously ignoring and/or breaking these rules is taken as indication that you no longer wish to continue playing The Two Towers MUD and we shall act accordingly.

In general there are three guidelines for acceptable behavior:

• Respect the MUD as a community.
• Respect the MUD as a computer system.
• Respect the rights of other people to use and enjoy the system.

We expect players to follow the spirit of the rules, not just the letter of the law. If you think you have found a way around the letter, you can be fairly certain you are violating the spirit and will be treated no less harshly.

1. Profanity - Keep foul/abusive language out of public forums. See 'help comm policy' for our rules for public channels, and be aware that we consider guild comms to be public channels.
2. Harassment - Keep personal attacks and arguments out of public forums. We will become involved if such things get out of hand. We may also get involved in private instances of harassment. See 'help harassment' for more detailed guidelines.
3. Spam - Do not spam commands, spam on channels, or spam in any other way, especially during combat.
4. Multiplaying - Your characters cannot be online at the same time or aid each other in any way. The same character cannot be shared by more than one player.
5. Bug Abuse - If you find a bug, or think you might have found a bug, report it. The exploitation of a bug will not be tolerated.
6. Triggers - Client triggers are subject to the rules in 'help botting', 'help triggers', and 'help client abuse'. Also, any triggers used to simulate the hunt ability, or artificially inflate your character age, are not allowed.
7. Botting - Do not use scripts to control your character while you are not at the keyboard.
8. KillStealing - Repeated/consistent stealing of another player's kills is considered harassment and will be handled as such; other than that, killstealing is not against the rules.
9. PlayerKilling - We allow limited player killing, subject to the game's internal law system. However we do not allow the killing of new players. Please note that since the implementation of the Blessing of Mandos, the Administration no longer recognizes levelbashing or spreekilling as law-reportable offenses. See 'help levelbashing' and 'help spreekilling' for more information.
10. PlayerStealing - We allow players to steal from other players, subject to the game's internal law system. However, repeated stealing from the same player as a form of harassment is not allowed.
11. QuestInfo - Do not give out quest information using public lines of communication such as comms and boards. Likewise, do not share ainur-only information on any of our public comms/boards. This includes code snippets, exact item stats and any other information you could only know from seeing our source code.
12. Roleplaying - The Two Towers is a roleplaying MUD, and some level of roleplaying is required when using certain features. In particular, check 'help names' and 'help titles'.
13. Advertising - Do not advertise other online games or commercial products on The Two Towers MUD. Do not use our MUD to organize playing other games.
14. Troublemaking - General trouble making such as public insults, flames, taunts, excessive complaining, and similar disruptive behavior is not tolerated.
15. Proxies - Connection via proxy servers/accounts is forbidden, unless express permission has been granted by the Administration.

Please refer to the specific help file of any of the above rules for more detailed information.

Violation of any of these rules may result in various punishments, from a formal warning to deletion of all of your characters and banishment from the game. See 'help punishments' for further details on what may happen to rule breakers.

If you observe a violation of our rules, please use the 'law' command to bring it to our attention.

For other rule-related topics that do not refer directly to things we disallow (such as the process of bug reporting), see 'help policies'.