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Welcome to the Tanktastic Official English Forum!

This Forum is here to provide you with a friendly atmosphere where you can discuss ideas, participate in events, share and receive game play advice, and discuss any other aspects of Tanktastic with other players. The Tanktastic Forum is at its best when participants treat their fellow posters with respect and courtesy. Therefore, we ask that you conduct yourself in a civilised manner when participating on this Forum and respect the rules.

However your access to the Forum is a “privilege” and not a “right.”: the TECT (Tanktastic English Community Team) reseves the right to suspend your access to the Forum at any time for reasons that include, but are not necessarily limited to, your failure to abide by these rules.
If a member is found to violate any of the Forum rules listed below, they may receive an official warning and be given a temporary ban from the Forum. Depending upon severity of the violation of the rules, the suspension could be permanent.

Before posting any kind of information on this Forum, all users are obliged to read and follow the rules posted below.


 

 

 

1. GENERAL PROVISIONS:
The basic and most important informations for newcomers. 

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1.1 -Registration requirements:
There is no requirement for users to use their real name or to use any other form of identification that can be used to easily trace identities. All e-mail addresses that are provided will be kept private.
Users are solely responsible for protecting their accounts from access by others. Users are strongly encouraged to select a hard-to-guess password and not re-use that password on any other sites where it may be read by the owners or administrators of that site. It is highly recommended that board users do not share their accounts with others, or share their computers used to access the site with others. In case of lost or hacked account, users are to inform support immediately.

1.2 -Forum purpose:
The purpose of this Forum is to discuss anything related to Tanktastic and military-related topics, get to know fellow players, and to give feedback to the Tanktastic developers.

1.3 -Responsibility:
The TECT (Tanktastic English Community Team) is not responsible for any message posted by any user: the messages express the views of the author of the message, not necessarily the views of this board. Any user who feels that a posted message is objectionable is encouraged to contact the support staff or moderators immediately. TECT members have the ability to remove objectionable messages and will make every effort to do so, within a reasonable time limit, if it is found that removal is necessary. Users agree, through the use of this service, that they will not use this forum to post any material which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise in violation of any law. Users agree not to post any copyrighted material unless the copyright is owned by said user or by G.H.O.R.

1.4 -Ban policy:
Violations of these guidelines may lead to users being banned from this Forum in the form of a temporary or even a permanent suspension of their account.

1.5 -Reporting Forum & In-game users:
Report any Forum or in-game user privately to a member of the Tankastic English MOderating Team (TECMOT) or, alternatively, create a report in the form of a standard Topic in this apposite section of the Tanktastic English Forum in accordance with the established procedure.

1.6 -Reporting bugs, errors et cetera:
Report any error, bug, glitch in the apposite section of the Tanktastic English Forum.

 

 

 

2. PROHIBITIONS & RESTRICTIONS: 
Everything you must know about the prohibition and restrictions imposed by the Tanktastic Administrative Team in order to maintain a clean and professional environment for all users to enjoy. 

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2.1 -Forum etiquette:
Users are not allowed to abuse others, make personal attacks or behave disrespectfully. This prohibition applies to both public threads and private messages (PMs). Disrespect can include:

• 2.1.1 -Flaming.
• ​2.1.2 -Making non-constructive posts, or creating threads on non-constructive topics.
• ​2.1.3 -Harassment or defamatory remarks.
• ​2.1.4 -Cursing and profanities: inappropriate language.
• ​2.1.5 -Personal abuse or attacks.
• ​2.1.6 -Insults or derogatory comments based on race, nationality, religion, culture, sex, or sexual preference. This includes "jokes" in bad taste.
• ​2.1.7 -Excessive capitalization.
• ​2.1.8 -Naming and Shaming. Distribution of other forum users' personal information without their prior consent.
• ​2.1.9 -Discussion on social, religious, political topics that create controversy.
• ​2.1.10 -Insults towards any member of the Tanktastic Staff.
• ​2.1.11 -Insults or provocation via PM after being warned for a violation.
• ​2.1.12 -Death threats and other threats of violence in real life, directed towards either other Community users or members of Tanktastic Staff.
• ​2.1.13 -Impersonation of members of the Tanktastic Staff.
• ​2.1.14 -Defamation of the Tanktastic Staff.

If a member is found to have participated in such actions, they will:
• Be officially warned and/or temporarily banned from the Tanktastic English Forum, depending upon severity.
• Be given a final warning, with any further violations possibly resulting in permanent ban from the Tanktastic English Forum.
This behavior has no place on the Tanktastic English Forum due to its extremely offensive and inappropriate nature.

 

 

2.2 -Distribution of real life information and real-life threats:
Postings and discussions which contains users’ personal data (such as addresses, telephone numbers, emails, other contact information), regardless of whether this is their own or that of other users, will be removed. Users who publish this type of content on the Forum will be warned or suspended by a member of the TECT (Tanktastic English Community Team).
If a thread or post is in violation of the Forum rules, users are encouraged to use the report button on the post and provide information as to why the thread or post is in violation.
No rude or disrespectful posts to or about any member of the TECT (Tanktastic English Community Team), as well as no release of real-life information about any member of the TECT (Tanktastic English Community Team).
The only accepted form of complaint regarding the actions and/or the behaviour of a member of the TECMOT (Tanktastic English Community MOderating Team) from a Community member is by providing a screenshot of their inadequate and/or negligent behavior to a member of the TECMAT (Tanktastic English Community MAnagement Team).
Real-life threats include both clear and masked language and/or links to websites containing such language or images which refers to violence in any capacity that is not directly related to the game world.

If a member is found to have participated in such actions, they will:
• Be officially warned and/or temporarily banned from the Tanktastic English Forum, depending upon severity.
• Be given a final warning, with any further violations possibly resulting in permanent ban from the Tanktastic English Forum.

 

 

2.3 -Advertising:
This category includes:

• 2.3.1 General advertising: users are not allowed to post threads or comments here that advertise or solicit any non-beneficial, non-Tanktastic-related businesses, organizations, or websites. Explicit advertising and solicitation in signatures are also prohibited.
• 2.3.2 Creation of content related to competing projects, i.e. MMO games featuring/based on ground warfare, tank battles in particular.
• 2.3.3 Promotion of YouTube channels or other personal resources that do not comply with the current administrative guidelines, i.e. do not regularly feature Tanktastic-related content.

If a member is found to have been advertising, they will:
• Be officially warned and/or given a temporary ban from the Tanktastic English Forum, depending upon severity.
Forum rules allow discussing other games in "Off-topic" area only; however any kind of solicitation of or linking to other games is not permitted Also please do not use images related to games other than Tanktastic in your signature, avatar or name.

 

 

2.4 -Accounts, gold/credits, levelling services, begging:
This category includes:

• 2.4.1 -Creating alternative accounts with malicious intents, including but not limited to, using them as an unfair way of getting reputation points, determining polls' results et cetera.
• 2.4.2 -Advertising of, or selling of game accounts.
• 2.4.3 -Advertising of, or selling of in game currency such as gold/credits.
• 2.4.4 -Advertising of, or selling of leveling services.
• 2.4.5 -Begging in any form. Begging includes but is not limited to: boosting; asking for real money, asking for additional gold/credits, requesting to transfer in-game gold/credits,
• 2.4.6 -Linking to or promoting websites that contain the afore-mentioned prohibited services.

All types of posts for the sale or promotion of the exchange or transfer of accounts, currency and other services from one user to another violate the EULA and are prohibited within the Tanktastic English Forum and in-game chats.

If a member is found to have participated in such actions, they may:
• Be given a temporary/permanent account suspension from both the game and the Forum, depending upon severity.

 

 

2.5 -Off topic, spamming and trolling:
This category includes:

• 2.5.1 -Excessively communicating the same phrase, similar phrases, or pure gibberish.
• 2.5.2 -Creation of topics that already exist on the Forum (Please use search and add to existing topics were possible).
• 2.5.3 -Off-topic posting, such as attempting to derail serious threads or creating topics in the wrong Forum section.
• 2.5.4 -Creating threads for the sole purpose of causing unrest on the Forum.
• 2.5.5 -Creating threads for purpose of reporting or discussing Forum/in-game violations. Such incidences are to be directly reported to the TECT (Tanktastic English Community Team) or, alternatively, by creating a report in the form of a standard Topic in this apposite section of the Tanktastic English Forum and in accordance with the established procedure.
• 2.5.6 -Causing disturbances in Forum threads, such as picking fights, making off-topic posts that ruin the thread, insulting other posters.
• 2.5.7 -Making non-constructive posts, or creating threads on non-constructive Topics.
• 2.5.8 -Abusing the "Report" feature by sending false alarms or nonsensical messages.
• 2.5.9 -Numbering a thread, posting “First!”, “IBTL” (“in before thread lock”) or any other fad statements.
• 2.5.10 -Bumping” posts (Bumping is where you reply to a Topic for the sole purpose of getting it back to the top of the section again). A moderated “bumping” is allowed to some extent.
• 2.5.11 -Creation of topics in the wrong sections of the Tanktastic English Forum.

Users should make sure to create new Topics in the appropriate section of the Forum: users are asked to familiarize themselves with the Forum first. This helps other users and moderators maintain an overview; also before creating a new Topic, look and see if an active thread on that topic has already been created using the "Search" feature, located at the top-right corner of the interface. If so, post your comments there instead.
Posts which drift off topic, or content-free posts will be edited or removed. Posting multiple messages with the same content across several sections is unwelcome and inappropriate, since such activities divide the targeted discussions and makes gathering feedback considerably more difficult. Such "cross posts" will be merged, closed and redirected or removed. If so, place your comments there instead.

If a member is found to have participated in such actions, they will:
• Be officially warned and/or temporarily banned from the Tanktastic English Forum, depending upon severity.

 

 

2.6 -Politics, major religions or religious figures:
Posting about social, religious, political, illegal or other controversial topics that may create offense. As well as negative portrayal of religious and political figures.

If a member is found to have participated in such actions, they will:
• Be officially warned and/or temporarily banned from the Tanktastic English Forum, depending upon severity.

 

 

2.7 -Law violations:
This category includes:

• 2.7.1 -Posting discussion threads on, or linking to, cheats, hacks, trojan horses, or malicious programs. If you suspect that a cheat or hack exists, provide the necessary information to the TECT (Tanktastic English Community Team), it is not to be discussed within the Forum.
• 2.7.2 -Illegal drugs or activities. Both clear and masked language and/or links to websites containing such language or images which reference to abusing illegal drugs or to performing illegal activities are prohibited.

If a member is found to have participated in such actions, they will:
• Be given a final warning, with any further violations possibly resulting in permanent ban from the Tanktastic English Forum.
Users are expected to act lawfully when participating on the Forum. Posting about or discussing issues that violate local or international laws is not allowed under any circumstance.
The TECMAT (Tanktastic English Community MAnagement Team) reserves the right to delete, update or modify any information which is considered inappropriate on this Forum.

 

 

2.8 -Discussing disciplinary actions:
This category includes:

• 2.8.1 -Creating posts or threads to discuss disciplinary actions taken against a player in-game or on the Forum.
• 2.8.2 -Creating posts or threads to discuss moderators' decisions and actions.

The only possible complaint regarding the actions of a member of the TECMOT (Tanktastic English Community MOderating Team) from a Community member is by providing a screenshot of their inadequate behavior to a member of the TECMAT (Tanktastic English Community MAnagement Team).

If a member is found to have participated in such actions, they will:
• Be officially warned and/or temporarily banned from the Tanktastic English Forum, depending upon severity. 

 

 

 

3. ADDITIONAL MISCELLANEOUS PROHIBITIONS & RESTRICTIONS:
Additional informations you must know about miscellaneous prohibition and restrictions imposed by the Tanktastic Administrative Team in order to maintain a clean and professional environment for all users to enjoy. 

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3.1 -Language:
The official language of this forum is English. Transliteration and intentionally distorted or illiterate language is unwelcome. 

Community members are to be considerate towards those users who obviously have difficulties with English, and similarly towards those members of the Staff who have to moderate in languages other than their native one.

 

If a member is found to have participated in such actions, they will:
• Be officially warned and/or temporarily banned from the Tanktastic English Forum, depending upon severity.

 

 

3.2 -Hard-to-read posts:
Posts that disrupt the message boards for other users, intentional or not, are prohibited. This category includes, but is not limited, to:

• 3.2.1 -Conducting conversations in foreign languages.
• 3.2.2 -Posting solely or predominantly in capital letters; excessive text spacing or line breaks; use of "1337 5p34k" or other hard-to-read writing styles.
• 3.2.3 -Using misleading topic titles, excessive punctuation, and/or non-standard symbols.

While posting on these forums users are to be reasonable with font size and color. Stick to default font size and try to avoid use of text colors different from black. Red color is exclusively reserved to the members of the TECT (Tanktastic English Community Team).
The TECMAT (Tanktastic English Community MAnagement Team) reserves the right to modify inappropriate posts and give warnings to their authors.

 

If a member is found to have participated in such actions, they will:
• Be officially warned and/or temporarily banned from the Tanktastic English Forum, depending upon severity.

 

 

3.3 -Links and images:
Whenever linking to a website or image or posting a image, be sure to check that they don't violate any of the rules written above or the EULA (End-User License Agreement). Sites or images that display illegal content, pornography, nudity, gratuitous violence, Nazi symbols such as swastikas, obscenities and any other content that goes against the standards of this community will be moderated. In addition to the above we also request you not post ASCII art (pictures created by using letters and symbols on a keyboard) they are usually quite large and can be misinterpreted based on display issues.

 

If a member is found to have participated in such actions, they will:
• Be officially warned and/or temporarily banned from the Tanktastic English Forum, depending upon severity.

 

 

3.4 -Names (players and clans), avatars, images/video, signatures & clan logos:
Certain content for names, avatars, images/video, signatures & clan logos, have no place on the Tanktastic English Forum or within the game itself, due to their extremely offensive, annoying or inappropriate nature. The following list is only a summary, but it gives an idea of those names, images, signatures, avatars and clan logos which are not allowed.

Names, Avatars, Images/Video, Signatures & Clan logos et cetera...

• 3.4.1 -that contain insults, personal attacks, abuse or harassment...
• 3.4.2 -which have (in any way) racist or nationalistic implications which may create offense to a certain nation, ethnic, religious or racial group...
• 3.4.3 -that contain an allusion of racial or national supremacy, as well as discriminative propaganda on any level...
• 3.4.4 -which are derogatory discriminative or offensive to people with a disability or illness...
• 3.4.5 -which have an association with sexuality, pedophilia, sexual abuse; or have an offensive connection to the human body or bodily functions...
• 3.4.6 -which contain excessive gore or violence, or are obscene/vulgar...
• 3.4.7 -which make reference to addictive or illegal substances or their use, or any other illegal activities...
• 3.4.8 -which either in whole or partly contain copyrighted or registered trade mark elements...
• 3.4.9 -that contain reference to current mainstream religions that may create offense, i.e. names such as God, Jesus, Allah, etc...
• 3.4.10 -that contain Logotypes, symbols, emblems or figures connected in one way or another with organizations, that violate or were violating existing laws and rules...
• 3.4.11 -that are connected with negative historical or political personalities, first of all those who are judged by international courts for crimes against humanity, those that generally arouse feelings of suffering or disgust in the majority of people, as well as members of currently existing terrorist organizations...
• 3.4.12 -that negatively portraits the Tanktastic Staff or the game itself...
• 3.4.13 -which in any other manner violates the EULA (End-User License Agreement) or the Forum Rules...

...either implicitly or explicitly are prohibited (this also contains links to websites containing the above). If names (player or clan), avatars, signatures, images/video, clan logos within the Forum or within the game violate these rules, the offending account may be edited and/or sanctioned and/or suspended. Moreover, the TECT (Tanktastic English Community Team) reserves the right to delete, update or modify any name (Community members' or clans') and avatar, images or clan images which are considered inappropriate on the Forum or in-game.

Additionally, excessively long forum signatures are not permitted. Signatures should not exceed three lines. If these limitations are exceeded, then the disruptive elements will be removed without explanation and the offending account may receive sanctions. Community members are allowed to use images in their signature, but their size must not exceed 300x150 pixels (length x width). The signatures may contain animations, but it should not be annoying.

 

If a member is found to have participated in such actions, they will:

• Be officially warned and/or temporarily banned from the Tanktastic English Forum, depending upon severity. 

 

 

 

4. FORUM ADMINISTRATION & MODERATION:

Everything you need to know about the Tanktastic Staff on the official Forum.

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4.1 -Forum Staff structure:
TECT (Tanktastic English Community Team)

• TECMAT (Tanktastic English Community MAnagement Team)

- Administrators; including additional pro forma management positions, e.g Lead Moderator.

- Developers.

- In-game Administrators.

- Senior Moderators (a latere).

• TECMOT (Tanktastic English Community MOderation Team)

- Senior Moderators.
- Moderators.

- Trial Moderators.

- In-game Senior Moderators.

- In-game Moderators.

 

4.2 -Moderators:
Moderators are volunteers, recruited from the Community member's Group; moderators are entrusted to enforce the Forum rules and provide any assistance to users.
There are two several types of moderators:

• Senior Moderator - They have full control over all the aspects of moderation and are the TECMOT (Tanktastic English Community MOderation Team) representatives; they are entrusted with working directly alongside Administrators and Developers on particular management tasks.
• Moderator - They have the right to edit topics, profiles, posts, as well as being able to warn and ban Community members.
• Trial Moderators - Moderators on trial; still awaiting full approvation from TECMAT. They have the right to edit topics, profiles, posts, as well as being able to warn and ban Community members.
• In-game Senior Moderators - They provide assistance with any in-game issues and with in-game reports submitted on the Tanktastic Forum and are TECMOT representatives; they are entrusted with working directly alongside Administrators and Developers on particular management tasks.
• In-game Moderators - They provide assistance with any in-game issues  and with in-game reports submtted on the Tanktastic Forum.

 

4.3 -Administrators and Moderators’ powers:
Administrators and moderators have the right to warn and suspend Community members in the case of a violation of the Forum rules. 
Any measures undertaken by moderators can be appealed to Senior Moderators in accordance with the established procedure. Measures taken by the members of the TECMAT, with the exception of Senior Moderators, are not subject to appeal. In some cases, which go beyond the forum rules, TECMAT members can warn or suspend certain Community members, even if their actions formally don’t fall under the current prohibitions and restrictions. The Lead Moderator is officially entrusted with managing every aspect of the moderating system, their decisions not being restricted by administrative guidelines.

4.4 -Warnings:
Warnings and official notifications are set off in red, this font color is reserved to members of the TECT (Tanktastic English Community Team). Any other message written by any member of the TECT is considered to be an ordinary one and is equal to a message of any Forum member. Once a post has been moderated, users are not permitted to edit the moderators' notes placed within the post. Similarly, the impersonation of a member of the TECT, in any way, is strictly forbidden.

Depending upon severity of the violated rule, players may be issued with a different amount of warning points:
Most warning points will expire between 14 and 180 days, however the record of the offense will remain. Serious infractions and points acquired from them will not expire. You can always view your warnings on your profile page. Only you and the TECT members can see your list of warnings.

• 1 points: user's content moderated for 3 days.
• 2 points: user's content moderated for 7 days.
• 3 points: user's content moderated for 14 days.
• 4 points: user's privilege to create content removed for 3 days. User's content moderated for 7 days.
• 5 points: user's privilege to create content removed for 7 days. User's content moderated for 14 days.
• 6 points: user's privilege to create content removed for 14 days. User's content moderated for 30 days.
• 7 points: user's account suspended for 7 days. User's content moderated for 14 days.
• 8 points: user's account suspended for 14 days. User's content moderated for 30 days.
• 9 points: user's account suspended for 21 days. User's content moderated for 60 days.
• 10 points: permanent suspension.

 

 

 

 

 

The TECMAT (Tanktastic English Community MAnagement Team) reserves the right to update and modify these rules as the needs of the Community dictate to ensure the smooth operation of this Community.

Repeatedly violating any area of these rules or EULA, including the areas detailed above, will often result in the permanent suspension from the game and/or the Forum.

The bottom line is that we want Tanktastic to be a fun and safe environment for all players. Tanktastic is a Massive Multiplayer Online (MMO) game, and the key words are “Massively Multiplayer”.
While playing this game and posting on its Forum, you will encounter hundreds of other players who share different experiences and come from vastly different backgrounds. While certain language and images may not be offensive to you, do consider the fact that that same language and images may have a completely different effect on someone else.

We’ve done everything we can to make this a great game and enviroment, but now it’s up to you, the players, to breathe life into the world.
Best Regards from all the members of the Tanktastic Staff!