Battle.Net� Channel �Clan NoL� Rules and Terms

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BATTLE.NET� CHANNEL �CLAN NOL� & PvPGN ADDITIONAL TERMS

i. Your use of DotA-Alliance�s Battle.Net� channel �Clan NoL� is subject to the below �Additional Terms� agreement between you and DotA-Alliance. This document sets out all of the terms.

ii. DotA-Alliance denounces Racism, Badmanners and Abuse of any kind.

iii. DotA-Alliance promotes Sportsmanship, therefore, behavior outside the limits of sportsmanship will be punished.

1.0 Ingame Rules

1.1 Item Restriction

There is no restriction on how many items of the same type a team can carry.


1.2 Creep skipping & Creep blocking

There is no restriction on �creep skipping� & �creep blocking�.


1.3 Game ruining

The game administrator is allowed to ban using his judgement only in the following cases where the actions of a player ruin the game for the rest of the players on purpose:
a. Blutantly puproseful game ruining (eg. feeding on purpose, destroying or selling items for no reason etc).
b. Repeated killstealing in battles where the player did not participate (didn't hit at all and just went in for the last hit/spell).
c. Absense from battles where any of the buildings of the base is being defended (unless the majority of the team agrees that the player should be pushing or farming at that time).
d. Repeated absence from pushes that affect the outcome of the game.
e.Total time of afk is more than 5 (five) minutes.
f.Stealing or destroying an allies' items.
g.Unnecessary use of Pause.

There are NO other cases where banning for gameruining is permitted.
Noobplaying is NOT considered gameruin.
Any other cases where it may be considered that a player is runining the game should be reported at the forum (user abuse report).


1.4 Backdoor

Backdooring is allowed in all cases.


1.5 Pause command

Any player has the oppurtinity to use the Pause command,typing !pause or !p,now the total pause time is 1 minute,for resuming the game use the !resume or !r command.

To extend the pause time another player may use the pause command.

Any player has the right to use the pause command 1 time/1 minute,so use it carefully.


1.6 Leaving the game

Leaving the game voluntarily is automatically punished in ALL cases.

Any suspicious disconnect (�plugging�) might be punished by an Admin on his own judgment on whether or not it was intentional. The Admin must take into consideration the facts prior of the disconnection (eg. disconnection right after a death that makes it obvious the player disconnected on purpose), and the user's !stats.

Intentional disconnects should be punished with a ban.


1.7 Use of the !end command

The use of the !end command in clan NoL games can be used by any player (users and admins) only if there is a leaver and before the message "Players may no longer use the !end command if a player leaves/drops." appears. There is a two minute (regardless of any pauses/lagscreens etc) window after the leave, during which the !end command can be used.

Game admins are NOT obliged to use the !end command in the case of a leaver (unless they personally want to as players before the above message appears). Game admins can use the !end force command ONLY when the majority of the players of both teams ask for it for a serious reason. When opinions are split, !end force cannot be used



1.8 Use of the !mute command

The use of the !mute command is allowed at the discretion of the owner of the game in cases of spam, insulting and annoying chatting towards the rest of the players. The mute must remain at most 2 minutes. After the unmute, if the player continues with the same behaviour, he will be banned and muted permenantly.


1.9 Use of the !kick and !votekick command

The use of the !kick command is allowed only in cases of gameruining (see rule 1.3). The use of that command should be followed by the ban of that player.

The use of the !votekick command is allwed by any player only in the above cases for the !kick command as well as in cases of extreme noobplay if agreed upon by all the players in the game.
Any other usage of this command as well as participating in a votekick (using !yes) is bannable. The game admin should abort any such use of the votekick command using !votecancel.
Also, he has to explain to the other players that the use of !votekick is bannable, and in case of persistant !votekick, the admin must ban the player who used it.
If in the end !votekick is passed and the player is kicked, he must NOT be banned.



1.10 Spoofcheck

From now on, everyone has to spoofcheck before the game starts (at the lobby) by using the following command.

 /w DA-HB-?? sc

(replace ?? with the hostbot numbers)
Βypass of this command by and admin by using !start force, is punishable by demote.



1.11 Software abuse

The use of any kind of software (eg. maphack) that can offer an unfair advantage to the user is forbidden and strictly punishable.
Moreover, the abuse of any bug in the involved software (including Warcraft, the Dota Map and GHost++) is also strictly punishable.

Such cases must be immediately reported to the forum (user abuse report).

Only in case of maphack, the admin can kick+ban the user only when he is 100% sure that he is using it.
Also, after the game, the admin has to post a report in the forum, including the sertain clues of maphack.



1.12 Manners and how to deal with them
Proper manners is one of the most important issues in dota-alliance.
The community is loose on the use of "light" inappropriate language, however repeated use of this kind of language will at first be punished with mute, and then, in case of no compliance, ban.

Also, inappropriate language regarding family or divine entities must be punished with ban.

Else bad language will be first punished with mute, and in case of no compliance, ban.



1.13 Extreme Cases

These general rules will apply to all games hosted in Clan NoL but we do recognize that there are extreme and special situations where we will approach each incident by a case by case basis, always following, however, the Clan NoL general principles.


Note for inhouse bots: When a staff member is in the game, the game creator has to follow any order of the staff member, without carrying any responisbility for his actions.

Note for eleos bots:: When a staff member is in a game along with other admins, and undertakes the management of the situation, the rest of the admins must respect the staff member's actions, and do not carry any responsibility for them.

2.0 Channel & Ingame Chat Rules

You agree that you will not:

a. Post any comment that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;

b. Harm minors in any way;

c. Impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, a DotA-Alliance Project Staff; also mislead the players that you have Game Administrator right when you don't.

d. Manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any content transmitted through the channel;

e. Make available any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;

f. Disrupt the normal flow of dialogue or otherwise act in a manner that negatively affects other users' ability to engage in real time exchanges;

g. Interfere with or disrupt the DotA-Alliance servers or networks connected to the Battle.Net�, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to DotA-Alliance;

h. "Stalk" or otherwise harass another;

i. Collect or store personal data about other users in connection with the prohibited conduct and activities set forth in paragraphs a through h above.

j. Threaten for a ban or demote or any other kind of punishment for no reason, aiming to achieve personal goals through intimidation.

k. "Troll". Meaining that you will not try to enrage, in purpose, another player so that he will step over the line and be punished for that, or in any way enrage others without a particular reason.

l. Any ironic / or generally scornful comment with derogatory content to staff member, shall be punished with immediate ban.





Thanks to Dragonwolf- for the translation help.