Rules

The following points are valid for all the Universes listed at OGame.us.

If you are in doubt of any of the points below or have been banned, please contact your GameOperators over IRC or through our ticket system at: http://support.ogame.us/

Note that complaints and inquires regarding particular accounts will only be disclosed to their owners for privacy reasons.

1. Accounts

The owner of an account is always the owner of the email-address, that was deposited in the game account. Each account is entitled to be played by a single player at all time, account sitting being the only exception. Account exchanges within a single universe must be done with the assistance of a GameOperator.

You can contact the support at http://support.ogame.us
Once a given account changes its owner, one month must pass before it changes ownership again. After a new owner takes over a given account he should change the email-address within the first 12 hours after the account has been switched.

2. Multi Account

Each player is allowed to control a single account per universe.
If two or more accounts are usually, occasionally, or permanently being played from the same network(e.g. schools, universities, Internet cafes…) it is highly recommended to notify a GameOperator. You can contact the support at http://support.ogame.us
In these cases the accounts will not be able to have fleet contact while on the same connection. Also other similarities are not allowed in this case.

3. Account Sitting

Account sitting entitles a given player to have his account watched.
A GameOperator must be informed before the sitting takes place through the support system: http://support.ogame.us
An account may only be sat for a maximum period of 12 hours.

The sitting period will be considered over if the actual owner logs in.
No Fleet movements are allowed while the account is being seated unless an attack that may raid or crash the account is incoming, in which case you may save your fleet(s) by deploying or transporting to a planet or to a moon owned by the account being seated. The sitter may only spend resources on buildings or researches, not on defense and ships.
It`s only allowed to sit an account, if there was no sitting in the last 7 days on that account.

4. Bashing

It is not allowed to attack any given planet or moon, owned by a player, more than 6 times in a 24 hour period.
This rule applies also for moon destruction missions.
In specially-designed and on the forum (http://board.ogame.us ) announced universes the bashing rule can be modified or abolished.
Attacking with probes and interplanetary missile attacks do not count towards the bashing rule. Bashing is only allowed when your Alliance is at war with another Alliance. The war must be announced on the relevant OGame board, in the correct forum and must comply with the boards specific rules.

5. Pushing

It is not allowed for any account to obtain unfair profit out of a lower ranked account in a matter of resources.
Pushing is, but not only limited to this example, resources sent from a lower ranked account to a higher ranked one with nothing tangible in return and a player crashing his fleet into a higher ranked one for the higher ranked one to keep the Debris Field, and thus profiting from it. A trade has to be completed within 48 hours.
For all exceptions (like ACS splits, bounties, recycling help...) a GameOperator needs to be informed via TicketSystem: http://support.ogame.us

6. Bugusing / Scripting

Using a bug for anyone`s profit intentionally or not reporting a bug intentionally is strictly forbidden. Using a program as interface between the player and his game is prohibited. Any other form of automatically generated information generated for a group of players advantage with malicious intentions is forbidden as well.

7. Real-life threats

Implying that you are going to locate and harm another player, team member, Gameforge representative, or any person that might be related in any way to any of the game services is forbidden.

8. Insults and Spam

Any kind of insult and spam are not allowed.

9. Language

The game publisher reserves the right to exclude players, who are not able to speak the respective native language (e.g. in Game, Board and IRC official chat-rooms).

10. Breach of the rules

Any kind of breach of the rules will be punished with warnings up to permanent ban of the account. The corresponding GameOperators decide the type and duration of punishments and are contact persons for bans.

11. Terms and Conditions

The T&C`s are supplemented with these rules and must also be abided by at all times.

12. Exceptions

The game`s community management reserves the right to have exceptions to these rules. In special cases (e.g. during events) game rules can be changed or suspended. The user group concerned will be informed when and if this is the case.