§4 Friendly fire
You may not allow other players to attack or conquer a village willingly if it does not clearly benefit the account being attacked or conquered. This includes villages you own or are sitting for. Being blackmailed into allowing a village to be attacked or conquered is also not permissible. All of the participants in the attack(s) may be punished.
Resources that have been placed in a village only for the purpose of being stolen are considered the same as resources that have been sent via the marketplace (§3). This does not apply to villages which are property of the attacking account.
Attacking accounts connected to your own account via the sitter function or ‘same pc usage’ is not permissible when there is no obvious benefit to the attacked account. This also applies to accounts in the same alliance.
§4.1 Conquering villages
It is impermissible to...
1.conquer a village belonging to an account for which you are or have been a sitter, unless two weeks have passed since canceling the sitter option.
2.conquer a village belonging to an account that has been sitting for you, unless two weeks have passed since canceling the sitter option.
3.conquer villages belonging to players entered as ‘same pc usage’, unless two weeks have passed since canceling the same pc usage.
4.conquer a village that has been part of your alliance, unless two days have passed since the account left the alliance.
5.conquer a village that is in your alliance or is in an alliance that is allied with your alliance.
Oases are excluded from this rule.
§5 Money transactions
The sale of Travian accounts is impermissible.
Any sales or purchases concerning real money regarding accounts, units, villages, resources, or any other aspect of Travian are impermissible. In addition, you may not accept or offer real money for performing actions in the game.
§6 Netiquette
Everyone must communicate in a polite, conversational tone. Multihunters may change inappropriate profiles and village names without warning.
- Following behavior is punishable and applies to all descriptions, the account name, alliance and village names and messages:
Participation in abusive, defamatory, sexist, racist or profane language; disparaging any religion, race, nation, gender, age group, or sexual orientation; threatening persons with actions in real life.
Posting or transmission of any material not suitable for underage persons or violating any applicable local, provincial, national or international laws or regulations, including sexually explicit, illegal, indecent or obscene images, material or links.
Blackmailing players in a way that violates any of Travian's rules resp. the general terms and conditions.
Displaying battle reports in public without consent of both concerned players. - Profiles have to be kept free of content disrupting Travian's original layout.
- Impersonation of officials or official positions, including, but not limited to, Administrators, Multihunters and the Support, is illegal in any way.
- Advertisement of any kind that has not been permitted by the Travian Team is impermissible.
§7 Punishments
If there is an offense against these game rules, the Multihunters and, if necessary, the Administrators will ban the account(s) in question and decide on a proper punishment.
Possible punishments include, but are not limited to the following:
1.full deletion or partial deletion of inhabitants (building levels and resource field levels),
2.deletion of villages,
3.partial or complete emptying of warehouses/granaries,
4.partial or complete deletion of troops,
5.removal of or from the alliance,
6.deletion of the account or permanently removing access to in game accounts.
§7.1 Replacements
Resources, buildings, villages or troops lost during the time of suspension will not be replaced by the Travian Team.
§7.2 Gold/Plus
- No player has the right to claim payment or replacement for Plus/Gold time lost due to suspension.
- There is no special treatment for Travian Plus/Gold users regarding the game rules neither in the time needed to deal with the case nor in the punishment.
§7.3 Appeals
Players may talk to the Multihunter who banned them or an administrator either via IGM or e-mail. Bans, punishments or deletions are not to be discussed in public (e.g. IRC or Forums). Appeals must be written in English unless the Multihunter or Administrator expressively agrees on another language.
Additionally, the Travian Team will not provide information to persons other than the account owner.
§7.4 Special regulation
On Travian Speed worlds obvious multi-accounts may be deleted on sight without discussion or ban. Illegal resource transfers (§3) may be be punished appropriately without ban or discussion.
This special regulation may be applied to all other game worlds until two weeks after the start and to accounts up to 100 inhabitants even after these two weeks.
§8 Illegal Logins
It is not permitted to gain access to another account in an illegal way. The violation of this rule can lead to expulsion from the game. The Travian Team never asks for your password.
§9 Instigation & Collaboration
Inciting, manipulating, encouraging, assisting or conspiring with others to violate any of Travian Rules is impermissible.
§10 Deletions
These rules apply for players that will delete their accounts or are currently deleting their accounts without exception.
§11 Changing of rules
The Travian Team reserves the right to change the rules at any time.
§12 Correction clause
If individual regulations of this set of rules should be ineffective, it does not affect the validity of the remaining regulations of this set of rules. The administrators commit themselves to replace ineffective regulations with new regulations which replace the ineffective regulations in legally permissible way. These enter into force without delay and will be used in any current case. This also applies to regulation gaps contained in the set of rules. To correct the gap the administrators commit themselves to work toward a correction, that abides by the intended purpose of the existing rules.
