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Mr. D

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Hi all,

"Domination: Earth" is free for everyone to enjoy, which is why there are a few key rules that we'd like our players to follow in order to maintain the enjoyable and friendly environment.

  • No advertising
    We do not force any form of advertising on our players and ask you to do the same.
    Please do not use your display name or name of your lands to promote a 3rd party product or website unrelated to domination.

    If your lands represent a fan website (e.g. an alliance or guild of "Domination: Earth" players) it is fine to mention that group's name in your land title, but not as a web address (i.e. without "http", "www.", ".com" or other domain attributes).
    Display name should still relate to the person in charge of the account.

    Violation of this rule will lead to a forceful renaming of your display name / lands title. Repeat violation will lead to account deactivation.
     
  • No offensive content
    Any names and land titles that promote discrimination, racism or content that may be upsetting to other players will not be tolerated.

    Violation of this rule will lead to the change of offensive name without notice and, in case of repeat violation, account deactivation.
     
  • About multiple devices
    "Domination: Earth" can be played from multiple devices and sharing of an account with family members or friends is not prohibited, as long as all parties are playing close to each other (e.g. travelling as a group in one location) and your account is not logged in and active on more than one device at a time.
    I.e. it is allowed to:
    a) Log out from your original device and login to your friend's phone if that friend is standing physically next to you.
    b) Login to another device you have if your original phone's battery is dead.

    It is not recommended to:
    c) Ask someone else in a different part of the world to login to your account to establish a remote base.
    d) Remain logged in and active in the game on more than one device that aren't located next to each other.

    Failure to comply with this recommendation puts your account at risk of being flagged by our anti-cheat: if that happens you may get a permanent ban for falsifying your position.

    That is why we always encourage all players to create their own accounts and advise against sharing your password with anyone else.
    We will also *never* ask for your password for any reason, so please be wary of anyone doing the opposite - this is most definitely a scam!
     
  • Multiple accounts
    Use of multiple accounts for one person is not prohibited as long as it is used for legitimate purposes (i.e. not exploiting the trade or resource sharing mechanics) and does not affect other players.
    For example, having multiple PvP-enabled accounts for the purpose of bypassing combat restrictions and simultaneously attacking a player and defending against attacks of others is considered "bad behaviour": we do not want to encourage use of multiple accounts, but actions like that inevitably force victims to use the same tactics to defend themselves.
    Any instances of similar combat-related multi-logging abuse can be reported to me and the offending account will be suspended from combat activity temporarily.
     
  • Abusing known exploits and dubious strategies
    Abusing bugs or features of the game that allow bypassing certain restrictions (e.g. the need to travel to create new lands) are generally frowned upon. If you're in doubt about a particular feature as it looks "too good to be true" - please ask, it's better than being sorry at a later stage. ;)
    Any exploit abuse usually leads to severe penalties and/or removal from leaderboards.

    Please note that additional restrictions are now in force until the mechanics changes described in the following post are implemented:

     
  •  Common sense
    We do rely on everyone's common sense when playing "Domination: Earth" or using this forum and will refrain from listing rules that are too obvious (e.g. "do not arrange real-world arms deals on our forum" :)).
    So if something is obviously illegal or completely amoral, please don't do it even if this list doesn't mention that subject. ;) 

    Please also note that this list may be updated and more rules added without any notice if the situation demands it.

If you see anyone in violation of these rules, please report the abuse on the forum or via email at support@domination.earth

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On 11/03/2018 at 1:55 AM, Green05 said:

Uh, I broke one of these rules (I used multiple accounts for bonus resources) but now I feel bad. So should I delete the app from the other device (both my accounts are on different devices) or is there a way to delete the account?

No problem, I appreciate the honesty! ;)
You don't need to delete the app from the other device; you can simply logout and the inactive account should become invisible in 7 days.

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2 hours ago, Greater German Reich said:

Would my lands name and desplay name be ok? I made it the way it is due to my love of history and not in the idea that it would discriminate or be racist

Yup, your name is perfectly fine, don't worry! :)

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I have a question because I'm not sure if this is considered cheating, and I'd feel bad if it was. I own a land within 500m of my home base, and regularly hit its flag to collect resources (after using the defense bonus for my base.) Would this be considered a No No? 

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17 minutes ago, ShUhFP said:

I have a question because I'm not sure if this is considered cheating, and I'd feel bad if it was. I own a land within 500m of my home base, and regularly hit its flag to collect resources (after using the defense bonus for my base.) Would this be considered a No No? 

Thanks for double-checking it with me, it is indeed much better to be safe than sorry! :)
However, this particular scenario is perfectly fine in the current set of rules. Unless we can find a way to seriously exploit this functionality it is likely to remain this way. :)

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5 hours ago, Mr. D said:

Thanks for double-checking it with me, it is indeed much better to be safe than sorry! :)
However, this particular scenario is perfectly fine in the current set of rules. Unless we can find a way to seriously exploit this functionality it is likely to remain this way. :)

Well, here's the thing: when hitting the Flag icon on the nearby land, it collects the resources without setting off the 15 minute timer, allowing me to instantly hit the flag button on my HQ and respawn new resources. Would this be an exploit? 

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4 hours ago, ShUhFP said:

Well, here's the thing: when hitting the Flag icon on the nearby land, it collects the resources without setting off the 15 minute timer, allowing me to instantly hit the flag button on my HQ and respawn new resources. Would this be an exploit? 

This is known behaviour indeed and it's considered to be "ok" at the moment, as long as performing a base capture does trigger the 15 minute timer. :)

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6 hours ago, Mr. D said:

This is known behaviour indeed and it's considered to be "ok" at the moment, as long as performing a base capture does trigger the 15 minute timer. :)

 Okay thanks. Now for one more thing. xD So I had my girlfriend use her phone to capture land while she visited Vegas, which was why I was here to begin with. I see that using multiple devices IS okay, which tells me this was just a glitch, but I woke up this morning to find a fake GPS warning in myessages. Do you have anything on your side of things to know why the game did this? 

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8 hours ago, ShUhFP said:

 Okay thanks. Now for one more thing. xD So I had my girlfriend use her phone to capture land while she visited Vegas, which was why I was here to begin with. I see that using multiple devices IS okay, which tells me this was just a glitch, but I woke up this morning to find a fake GPS warning in myessages. Do you have anything on your side of things to know why the game did this? 

Unfortunately, since our anti-cheat upgrade it is no longer recommended to use multiple devices for one account concurrently; this really makes it difficult to tell cheaters from genuine players apart.
I will update the rules to avoid confusion, but please make sure that you don't "teleport" like that into other parts of the world: when I said that it's ok to use multiple devices I meant you can do it for yourself locally (e.g. your phone's battery is dead, so you take someone else's phone to play today), but I did not say it's ok to establish remote bases by asking people around the world to login to your account. :)

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6 minutes ago, Mr. D said:

Unfortunately, since our anti-cheat upgrade it is no longer recommended to use multiple devices for one account concurrently; this really makes it difficult to tell cheaters from genuine players apart.
I will update the rules to avoid confusion, but please make sure that you don't "teleport" like that into other parts of the world: when I said that it's ok to use multiple devices I meant you can do it for yourself locally (e.g. your phone's battery is dead, so you take someone else's phone to play today), but I did not say it's ok to establish remote bases by asking people around the world to login to your account. :)

Ohhhh crap, well then, I'm very sorry! xD Oh jeez. There goes my plans for paying people to establish bases everywhere... I guess that fake GPS warning was, in a way, legitimate then. Okay. I'll keep that in mind, going forward. I'd thought tye several-people-one-account thing was simply not recommended for the password reason. 

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6 hours ago, ShUhFP said:

Ohhhh crap, well then, I'm very sorry! xD Oh jeez. There goes my plans for paying people to establish bases everywhere... I guess that fake GPS warning was, in a way, legitimate then. Okay. I'll keep that in mind, going forward. I'd thought tye several-people-one-account thing was simply not recommended for the password reason. 

No problem! :)
The main thing is that this misunderstanding has now been resolved and you will not be caught by the anti-cheat again. ;) 

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