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The Rules

Like any game, Battlemaster has a few rules to it, mostly to keep the community from killing each other.

How it works:

There is the Social contract, and Government Rules. The Social contract is a summary of all of rules players follow, detailing acceptable behavior for a good game play envierment. It is broken into a few parts, each of which are discussed at length below the summary of each concept. The Government rules are meant for those that take a Council position (Ruler, General, Judge, Banker) in the game, and are related to certain buttons associated with those positions.

When someone breaks the rules, the Titans are called, to discuss guilt, and pass punishment on the player in question. To report potential violations, go to Messages, and on the far right there is a link to "Contact the Titans." Should you have any questions about a rule, please bring it up politely on the forum (Case Archives > Questions and Answers), on Discord (!titans <message>), or in an email to admins (mailto:community@battlemaster.org).

The Social contract

There are five tenets of the Social contract. Each point is laid out in detail below.

Activity is the #1 right of every player. All players have an absolute right to log in as frequently or as rarely as suits them, and stay online as little or as much as they wish.

• Players have an absolute right to pause their characters, temporarily or permanently.

• Note that this does not exempt characters from expectations to fulfill basic duties when the player is still active, nor does it protect players who log in only enough to avoid auto-pausing or auto-abdication, and do not actually interact or play, from the consequences of not interacting. The auto-abdication limit is 5 days for council positions, 7 dukedoms and lordships. Auto-pausing is set to 14 days.

One account only. No player is permitted more than a single account.

• This includes an absolute prohibition on "account babysitting" or "co-playing". If your child/sibling/friend/etc is not old enough, or not interested enough, to play their own account entirely on their own, then they are not ready for BattleMaster yet.

• While you can delete your account, and then make a fresh one, you must delete the previous account.

Do not exploit bugs. Play through bugs that hit you. Report bugs you can cause.

• When you encounter behavior in the game that seems likely to be unintended, please report it at https://bugs.battlemaster.org at your earliest opportunity.

• If it is something transitory and out of your control, but not massively game-breaking, like a turn script failure or a combat that didn’t run, play through the bugs—that is, don’t worry about trying to pretend that the bug didn’t happen or avoiding actions that you couldn’t have taken under normal circumstances.

• If it is something more long-lasting, or something you can deliberately trigger, taking advantage of it is absolutely forbidden. Those found deliberately exploiting bugs will receive very little mercy.