Welcome to Skylords Reborn!
Remember that these rules apply to our entire domain, including Discord and the game itself, and are subject to change at ANY time.
Modifications made to the rules may be applied to ALL posts, including posts pre-dating the change.
[SUMMARY]
This is a guideline and summary of the rules in Skylords Reborn. More information about each rule can be found after the summary.
[GLOBAL RULES]
1. No Inappropriate Content
No offensive, vulgar, disrespectful, threatening or insulting content.
1.1. Language
English is the official and preferred language on the forum and Discord Server. You can speak any language in-game but please stick to English for global chats.
1.2. Keeping it Legal
Do not use or share cheats, hacks or other piracy means.
2. Spamming or Unconstructive Behaviour
Avoid posting repetitive, non-constructive, or disruptive content in forum and in-game messages.
3. Unsportsmanlike Behaviour
Refrain from engaging in disrespectful, disruptive, or intentionally uncooperative actions in communication and in-game interactions.
4. No Multi-Accounting
Do not make more than one account in the forum or in-game.
5. Impersonation
Do not under any means impersonate another player, organisation or staff member.
6. Making Up Dev Statements
Do not make up fake announcements or spread false information about Skylords Reborn.
7. Trade Rules
Do not beg or scam other players. No transfers or suggestions or mention of transfers involving any real-life currency or services. Trade strictly through in-game currency and/or cards on both ends of a deal. Additionally, unbalanced trades raise suspicion. For more details, see below.
8. Avoiding Penalties
Do not avoid any warnings or bans given to yourself, it will only make it worse.
9. Being a robot
Do not use any kind of bots in our forum or in-game.
10. Responding to Rule Violation / Reporting Content
Do not denounce someone publicly for breaking rules. Report the person and leave it to Moderation staff members.
11. Respect the Staff and their Decisions
Treat staff and their decisions with respect! If you have issues with a member of staff speak to the Lead Moderator!
11.1 Respect warnings and the privacy thereof
Received a warning? Please keep the information to yourself.
12. Content Uploading Policy
You can stream and make YouTube videos of the game.
13. Game client and bug abuse
Do not abuse the game client or any bugs you find, report them instead.
14. Cheating
Do not use cheats or hacks in our game to keep it fair for all!
[PRIVACY AND COMMUNICATIONS MONITORING POLICY]
15. Communications and privacy monitoring
Communications within Skylords Reborn domains may be monitored and recorded for moderation purposes.
[ADDITIONAL FORUM/DISCORD RULES]
16. Posting Behavior
Do not spam, thread boost, necro-post, harass or insult others in this forum.
17. Profile Restrictions
Do not use any form of animated images, should abide by rule 1 and do not exceed the size of 600x150px for imagery.
[DETAILED RULES]
The rules are what is expected from all community members. Please keep in mind that Moderators and Administrators have full discretion to address any behavior, topic or event that they deem inappropriate or fail to accord to our code of conduct. All staff reserve the right to suspend or even deny your access to this forum and game at any time for reasons that include, but are not limited to, failing to conform to these guidelines. Warnings are usually non-negotiable, but users reserve the right to ask for clarification, whilst being aware that this will in no way ensure a response to said warning and will in no way ensure a change of result. Repetitive violation of the rules may result in permanent banishment from the forum and therefore the game or other platforms used in connection with Skylords Reborn. Note that these rules are not language-restrictive; they apply globally. Staff reserve the right to take preventative or retroactive measures against known threats to our domain, including but not limited to spambots, known toxicity, and otherwise known people that may disrespect or have disrespected our policy. If these cases require discussion or you would like to appeal, please use the contact form or any official channel to get in touch with Global Moderators.
[GLOBAL RULES]
1. No Inappropriate Content
The forum and game are to be kept clean, safe and friendly to users of all ages, beliefs, moralities, ethnicities, and situations. We therefore do not allow obscene content or content with a (high) risk of offending users. This includes posts, links, images, videos, and any other direct medium. This category includes, but is not limited to, content which refers to or in itself is:
Vulgar, pornographic/mature or graphic
Of religious nature
Disrespectful
Offensive in any way (Racial/Ethnic/Country-based)
Promoting (symbols of) nationalistic/patriotic hatred
Obscene
Irrelevantly (ergo: not focused around SR) advertising any product, including self-promotion without permission)
Sexually oriented
Insulting, threatening, provoking or calling out another member (Cynicism may also be seen as insulting)
Relating to drugs or activities involving them
Invasion or distributing any other's information that could be private, without their consent or approval
Harassing or defamatory (This includes things like "kys" or other "popular memes" that are currently going on)
Publicly denouncing a person (Defamation of character or wild accusations of scamming)
Linked to or by itself harmful and malicious software or website, such as viruses, Trojans, etc.
Sharing political statements or discussing them on any platform should be avoided if it could hurt or offend someone
Examples of any of the above (but not limited thereto) within your post will result in your post being deleted and a warning being issued. Multiple warnings may result in account suspension or restriction of indeterminate length.
Important notice: saying "kappa" or using the "kappa" or "troll" emote is by absolutely no means an excuse to act vulgarly or break the forum rules in any way. Not even as a joke. Same goes for any form of indicating sarcasm, such as "/s".
1.1. Language
These forum and our Discord server are made for a global community. We assume English (UK/US) to be our global language and thereby it is required that every user posts their content within the English language. Additionally, inappropriate or vulgar language (cursing, swearing, etc.) is not permitted. In-game you are allowed to write in any language and do not require translations.
Posts outside of the English (UK/US) language will result in a request for translation, which, if not obeyed, will result in post deletion and a warning being issued. Multiple warnings may result in account suspension or restriction of indeterminate length.
1.2. Keeping it Legal
We kindly ask you to not bring seriously illegal topics into the forum, Discord or into the game. Whereas sometimes these topics are allowed to be used in a discussion or post, please try to set boundaries and ensure that topics will not rise to a criminal level. Refrain from expressing specific methods of piracy or committing crimes. Though unlikely to appear, refrain from posting cheats or hacks for the game, even if this is to point out they exist. If you are thus far urged to report such an activity, contact a staff member or use the forum or in-game report tool.
2. Spamming or Unconstructive Behavior
Spamming and unconstructive behavior is not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to, the following:
Excessively communicating the same phrase, similar phrases, gibberish, or any repetitive posts of the same content
Creating threads or in-game messages or unwanted contact attempts with the purpose of scamming, causing unrest and/or disturbance within the community
Making non-constructive comments
Clustering spoiler boxes (aka a spoiler in a spoiler in a spoiler in a spoiler etc.)
Making senseless or other rule 2-infringing posts to increase rank
"Adding fuel to the fire" or ensure the continuation or lengthening of fights, harassment, insults, and flame wars
Abusing the Report tool (false alarms, nonsensical messages, insults)
Posts marking a thread numbered, IBTL, TL;DR, or any other mocking statements
Creating duplicate accounts for whatever reason
Mind that these rules apply as much to the Off-Topic board as to any other forum board, as well as in-game where applicable. Examples of any of the above will be deleted at sight. Depending on re-occurrence or the severity of the violation, this may result in warnings or direct account suspension or restriction for an indeterminate time.
3. Unsportsmanlike Behaviour
Unsportsmanlike behaviour is not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to, the following:
Causing disturbances in forum threads, discord channels or in-game, such as picking fights, making severely off-topic posts that may ruin the thread, and insulting others
In-game: Griefing or purposely hindering allied players including abusing Shadow's self-damage skills
In-game: Being AFK/Away or being purposely inactive (letting the others do the work for you without consent)
In-game: Deliberately losing PvP matches to exploit reward or ELO systems. Examples of this behaviour include, but are not limited to trading ELO with another player or helping other players with ranked PvP achievements
4. No Multi-Accounting
Making duplicate accounts to circumvent bans, to circumvent daily reward or ELO systems, or for literally any other reason, is strictly forbidden, both in the forum as well as in-game. We do not condone making additional accounts to speed up progression, get more points, to hide your identity, or for any other reason whatsoever. Routine and automatic multi-accounting detection has been applied to prevent multi-accounting, and accounts with IP matches may be suspended. Shared or public computers are taken into account, and if you accidentally get caught by our system while you are not intending to multi-account (e.g. have siblings/roommates/friends on the same IP or network, public PC, shared PC), feel free to contact staff via any official channel. If sufficient proof is given, we can revert your penalties. Any registrations that closely resemble multi-accounting may have all their accounts banned immediately and without warning.
5. Impersonation
Impersonating a Skylords Reborn staff member, forum user or third party to do harm, create fake posts or announcements in order to make others believe they originate from the impersonated person, or unjustly cause confusion among other users will result in immediate account suspension for an indeterminate duration without pre-warning.
6. Making Up Dev Statements
Making up dev statements, especially feature dates is strictly forbidden. Do not assume you know more than the forum, streams or official social media tell, and never make up any release dates or fake information, not even as a joke.
7. Trade Rules
No begging
No scamming
No public reports/blaming of others
Avoid unbalanced trades, especially for high valuable cards, larger amounts of BFP, and Boosters*
Unbalanced trades of promo cards, scratch-id boosters and achievement rewards are forbidden
Unbalanced trades with common or uncommon cards (with the exception of promo cards) are allowed
Do not transfer all valuable items to another account when leaving the game to prevent exploiting the reward system or appearing to engage in multi-accounting, which may result in potential risks to your account*
No forum or in-game account selling
No transfers or suggestions or mention of transfers, transactions, or trades involving any real-life currency, including online measures such as Paypal. Trade strictly through in-game currency and/or cards on both ends of a deal
Failing to follow the last two rules of this section will result in a permanent ban without pre-warning or negotiation. Any violation of the other rules may result in a warning. Consecutive warnings may result in account suspension or restriction of indeterminate length.
*If you receive large, unexpected donations from an unknown account, or want to know if a trade/gift is within our accepted limits, please do not hesitate to contact the moderators to ensure fair play and to prevent any potential rule violations.
8. Avoiding Penalties
Do not break the rules and do not avoid penalties thereof. This includes making duplicate accounts, as well as making others post on your behalf. Duplicate accounts for any purpose whatsoever are considered to be an infringement of the rules. Attempting to avoid penalties will result in an extension of said penalty, possibly to the extent of lengthy suspensions, permanent banishment or account deletion.
9. Being a robot
Spam-bots or suspected spam-bots will be deleted at sight. If staff has accidentally mistaken you for a spam-bot, try to contact Skylords Reborn staff in another way, such as private messaging in the forum, or use the #contact-staff on our Discord Server.
10. Responding to Rule Violation / Reporting Content
If a user does not follow these rules, it is strictly forbidden to publicly denounce or point out to this user that they are breaking the rules. This counts as public denouncement/insulting and is not tolerated. If you wish to inform someone of their rule violation, do so in a private, kind, supportive and structured way whilst following Rule 1. If you wish for SR staff to act, rather than sending a private message to them, click the report button under the infringing post. Provide a reason and staff will get behind this whenever they can or see fit. Abusing the report button will result in immediate warnings which may lead to account suspension or restriction of indeterminate length.
Similarly, you can report other players in-game by right clicking on the players and clicking "Report". Again, it is important to know that forum and in-game reports must abide by rules 1 and 2. Failure to abide by this may result in receiving penalties yourself.
11. Respect the Staff and their Decisions
We try our utmost best to do our job of managing this forum, the game, the community and all other platforms to our own ability. We try to do our jobs at a pace we see fit, please have patience. We apply lenience of rule enforcement to our own standards. Any threads or posts mocking staff decisions may be removed at sight and consequences may apply as would be taken to act against public denouncement. If you have a problem with the actions of a staff member, discussing it via ticket or privately, preferably with that staff member, is the only right way to approach it such a situation. No reporting, no public denouncement. Rudeness towards staff may be penalized as staff sees fit. Criticizing development speed may be penalized as staff sees fit. Severe problems with Moderators that you feel should be anonymous for whatever reason must be sent to an Administrator or to the Lead Moderator and by absolutely no means anybody else.
11.1 Respect warnings and the privacy thereof
If you end up receiving a warning, we expect you to keep this information private, as is already described in the rules above. Publicly talking about, discussing or criticizing warnings of any form, or action taken against you or another forum member, is subject to possibly increasing your warning's value or duration and is in violation with rule 10.
12. Content Uploading Policy
You are allowed to make Youtube videos, streams, write blogs and posts etc. about Skylords Reborn.
Additionally, the SR team reserves the right to intervene with content distribution if they deem this necessary. If they see the need to shut certain community content uploading down, they may do so without reasoning or warning. However, if any content will be a victim to this, these will most likely be provided anyway.
13. Game client and bug abuse
The usage of any bugs within any in-game content to any unintended benefit to any user in the game is forbidden and will result in bans. This includes breaking the game, manipulating the client or server in any way, using bugs to your or anyone else's advantage, generating any currency, value or account data outside of their intended purposes, and generally doing anything to the game (local or global) that you should not be doing. This does not include using design flaws on maps to get a more efficient clear time, but does include pretty much any other illegal action, such as cheating, data manipulation, or bug abuse. Currency or other data involved will not be refunded.
14. Cheating
In addition to the rules above it's important to emphasize that the usage of any tools, trainers, software or other methods of affecting the game in order to cheat, gain advantages, or for any other purpose whatsoever, is strictly forbidden. These programs or forms of abuse provide us with enough reason to act immediately. Having such tools linked to the game or affecting it in any way, even when unaware thereof or when they aren't used at all, is considered in conflict with our code of conduct. Only using them in single player, only using them for yourself, or assuming other players are not affected are invalid excuses and such reasoning will be directly ignored, as will subsequent ban appeal(s) and their reasoning. Affected networks or other accounts will not be taken into consideration when cheating players are banned, and we hold the infringing player accountable for any such results affecting those around them. We consider this to be common sense.
[PRIVACY AND COMMUNICATIONS MONITORING POLICY]
15. Communications and privacy monitoring
Communications within Skylords Reborn, including in-game chat, Discord, and forum interactions, should not be considered private. The moderation team may monitor and log these communications for purposes including:
Analyzing toxicity,
Preventing cheating and fraud,
Enforcing Skylords Reborn rules (e.g., addressing multi-accounting and unbalanced trading)
Chat logs are stored for a period of up to six months in compliance with the GDPR's data retention guidelines. This retention period may be extended if there is reasonable suspicion of misconduct based on behavior observed in the game or chat logs.
Additionally, Skylords Reborn stores necessary functional game data, which is retained unless the account is deleted. This includes, but is not limited to, our connection logs that include IP addresses and a unique identifier of the PC.
By playing Skylords Reborn, you agree to this Privacy Policy and acknowledge that your communications may be monitored and recorded as outlined above.
[ADDITIONAL FORUM/DISCORD RULES]
16. Posting Behaviour
There are a number of rules every user should stick to whilst they create a thread or response to an existing thread or chat:
No thread-bumping within 24 hours of a thread's last post
Necroposting outside of Off-Topic boards is not recommended (Applies to threads of which the last post is older than 30 days)
No all-caps posts
No threads that already exist or questions that are already answered in the FAQ (Use the Search Function!)
No IMspeak/netspeak/txtspeak, please take your time to create an understandable reply or topic
No double-posting. Or multi-posting. No consecutive similar posts. This applies to both threads and replies and is accepted as spam
No more than 2 animated pictures (.GIF) per post
No public blaming, no matter how right or wrong both you and the subject matter are
No insulting. Cynicism may count as insulting
No "Staff-acting" - impersonating or posting as a moderator or member of the Skylords Reborn team to spread false statements or rule enforcements related to Skylords Reborn
Please use the report function or contact the moderation team for any possible violation
Similarly, staff behavior and rule enforcing leniency should preferably be discussed privately and should be respected. No begging for admin/dev/mod approval or response. We'll find your thread ourselves
Post your topics within the appropriate forum. (If not, Moderators will move your topic, but if this happens too much, appropriate measures will be taken, e.g. warnings/suspensions)
Use descriptive thread titles outside of Off-Topic boards. Not only will threads with titles like "Hi", "Help", "Plz", "Error", etc. repel users, but they are also vague and unhelpful
No lying or awakening false hopes through made-up dev statements. You can help people out by explaining Developer statements, but don't assume you know what you do not know, as this is punishable
Failure to abide by these rules may result in edits and/or warnings. Consecutive warnings will result in account suspension or restriction for indeterminate length.
17. Profile Restrictions
Although most restrictions to accounts are automatically implemented, we want to make you aware of some points and rules regarding your user profile.
Avatars/Profile Photos
Must abide by at the very least the entirety of Rule 1
Must not be animated (applies to the forum)
Signatures
Can't be longer than 255 characters
Have a total restriction in size of 600x150px for imagery. The total signature height should not exceed 150px (that includes both images and text together)
Animated GIFs are not permitted
Embedded content, such as YouTube videos and widgets, is not permitted
Should not contain overly large text
Must abide by at the very least the entirety of Rule 1
referral/affiliate links are not permitted
Cover Photos
Should not be animated (applies to the forum)
Should abide by at the very least the entirety of Rule 1
About Me
Animated GIFs are not permitted
Should abide by at the very least the entirety of Rule 1
Usernames
Should not contain links
Should abide by at the very least the entirety of Rule 1
Other profile fields
Should abide by at the very least the entirety of Rule 1
Any violation of these rules may result in editing or a warning. Consecutive warnings may result in account suspension or restriction of indeterminate length.
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