Game rules

Macroing and third-party software

You must not use bots, macros, auto-clickers, or any third-party software or hardware that plays any part of the game for you, automates your input, or reads the game’s memory. Automation of any part of play is a breach, however it is discovered.

Exploiting a bug

If you find a bug, you must report it and must not abuse it or encourage others to do so. Gains made from an exploit are removed. A bug reported in good faith will not be held against you, even if you triggered it while working out what you had found.

Account sharing

Your account is for you alone. You must not let anyone else play it — including friends and family — and you must not play anyone else’s. You are responsible for everything done on your account.

Multiple accounts

Each person may create, own, or control one account. Separate people in the same household may each have their own; a shared home, device, or connection is not a breach by itself. Staff act on evidence of common ownership or control, never on a shared IP address alone. Using another account to evade a sanction leads to action against every account involved.

Disrupting the game

You must not attack or overload our servers, interfere with other players’ connections, deliberately crash clients, or abuse lag. Anything done to degrade the game for the people around you is a breach.

Inappropriate language or behaviour

You must not harass, threaten, or abuse other players. This includes slurs or hate directed at race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sex, gender, sexuality, disability, or age; sexual harassment; threats of real-world harm; and sustained targeting of a player to drive them from the game. Sexual content involving minors ends the account and is reported to the authorities. Content must remain suitable for the broad age range that shares these isles.

Sharing personal information

You must not share, or threaten to share, another person’s real-world information — name, address, workplace, photographs, or accounts elsewhere — without their clear permission.

Spam and advertising

You must not flood support or report channels, and you must not use names, reports, or official community spaces to advertise other games, servers, communities, or businesses.

Misuse of reporting and support

Report tools exist to protect players. Filing knowingly false reports, or organising a group to mass-report a player, is itself a breach. A report made in good faith is always welcome, even when we conclude no rule was broken.

Staff impersonation

You must not claim or imply that you are Isles of Calamity staff, or impersonate another player. Staff will never ask for your password, never ask you to hand over items, and never contact you about your account from an unrelated address.

Offensive names

Character names and account display names are public. They must not contain slurs, hate, or sexual content (including disguised spellings); must not read as staff (“mod”, “admin”, or similar); must not impersonate a real person or another player; and must not carry advertising or web addresses.

A name that breaks this rule is reset rather than banned: it is replaced with a temporary name and you choose its replacement from your account page. A reset leaves a mark on the account (see Enforcement); a name chosen to be as offensive as possible may earn a ban on top. Account display names are otherwise permanent — a staff reset is the only thing that changes one.

Real-world trading

You must not buy, sell, or exchange accounts, characters, items, or gold for real-world money, cryptocurrency, goods, services, or anything else of value outside the game’s own systems. This applies to both sides of the trade, and to “gifts” that are really payment. Gold acquired this way is removed, and advertising real-world trading is itself a breach.

Scamming

You must not use a market listing, an official community space, or a support interaction to deceive another player out of items, gold, or account access. Misdescribed listings, staged giveaways, and promises of payment you do not intend to keep are scams. An honest price moving after a fair listing is not.

Account security

Keep your account secure: never share your password, use one you use nowhere else, keep your email address current, and turn on two-factor authentication from your account page. You must not attempt to access another player’s account by any means — phishing, credential stuffing, or guessing at recovery answers. Attempting it is a breach whether or not it succeeds.