City of Villains Rules of Conduct

The following rules govern basic interaction within the City of Villains game and the City of Villains website (including message boards). Please be aware that failure to comply with these rules of conduct may result in the termination of your City of Villains game account according to the City of Villains User Agreement.

In addition to these rules of conduct, explicit rules affecting your account may be found in the City of Villains User Agreement.

1. While playing City of Villains, you must respect the rights of others and their rights to play and enjoy the game. To this end, you may not defraud, harass, threaten, or cause distress and/or unwanted attention to other players.
2. You may not post or communicate any player's real world information (name, address, account name, etc.) through the City of Villains game or on the official City of Villains website.
3. You may not use sexually explicit, harmful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, obscene, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive language.
4. You may not post or link to any sexually explicit, harmful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, obscene, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive imagery or content.
5. When communicating in City of Villains using Global Chat (server wide chat), you may not spam, flood, or make duplicate posts. For more information, please see the User Agreement section 4 (k).
6. You may not impersonate any employee of NC Interactive, Inc., NCsoft Corporation or their affiliates.
7. You may not violate any local, state, national, or international laws or regulations.
8. You may not market, promote, advertise, or solicit within the City of Villains game or on the official City of Villains website.
9. You may not modify any part of the City of Villains Client , Server, or any part of the official City of Villains website.
10. You may not advertise the intent to or commit the act of buying, selling, trading, sharing, or transferring access to any City of Villains account.
11. You may not advertise the intent to or commit the act of buying or selling items for cash or trading items from one server to another.
12. You may not arrange for the exchange or transfer of any pirated or illegal software while using the City of Villains game or website.
13. You will follow the instructions of authorized personnel while in the City of Villains game or website.
14. You may not organize nor be a member of any pledges or groups within the City of Villains game that are based on or espouse any racist, sexist, anti-religious, anti-ethnic, anti-gay, or other hate mongering philosophies.
15. You may not provide false information or intentionally hide any information when registering for your City of Villains account.
16. You may not upload or transmit on City of Villains or the City of Villains website any copyrighted or trademarked content that you do not own all rights to without the express written permission of the author or copyright or trademark holder.
17. You will not attempt to interfere with, hack into, or decipher any transmissions to or from the servers running City of Villains .
18. You will not exploit any bug in City of Villains and you will not communicate the existence of any such exploitable bug (bugs that grant the user unnatural or unintended benefits) either directly or through public posting, to any other user of City of Villains.
19. You will not attempt to play City of Villains on any server that is not controlled or authorized by NC Interactive or its designees.
20. You will not create, use, or provide any server emulator or other site where City of Villains may be played, and you will not post or distribute any utilities, emulators or other software tools related to City of Villains without the express written permission of NC Interactive.