Rules

While you are a member of the HelbreathUSA Online Service, you must abide by the following rules. IF YOU BREAK ANY OF THESE RULES, YOUR HelbreathUSA ONLINE ACCOUNT, AND YOUR RIGHT TO USE THE HelbreathUSA ONLINE SERVICE, MAY BE TERMINATED IMMEDIATELY BY HelbreathUSA. IF THIS HAPPENS, YOU WILL NOT BE ENTITLED TO ANY REFUND OF ANY AMOUNTS PAID BY YOU TO USE THE HelbreathUSA ONLINE SERVICE AND YOU WILL FORFEIT ALL OF YOUR UNUSED ACCESS TIME.

The usage of profanity or vulgarity in chat will result in a possible lock of your account. This includes public, town, guild, local chat and whispers. Vulgar names, or names with a profanity will be changed to a random name - in order to change to a preferred name you will have use the form to request the name change.

Macros are illegal, you will have your skills reset to zero. If it continues your character will be deleted and you'll be forced to restart your character. This includes taping down the mouse or any other actions that allow your character to complete an action while you are not at the computer.

Any type of game hacks are illegal, you will receive an account lock as a warning. If you continue your account will remain permanently banned.

Punishments range from (but not limited to) temp blocks of your accounts, skill resets, EXP reductions, item removal, long term and permanent bans.

1) You may not harass, threaten, embarrass or cause distress, unwanted attention or discomfort to another player. Such harassment is determined by Administration at IENT. If you feel you are being harassed please take screen shots and submit them with a TIXX at http://www.helsupport.com.

2) You may not use any offensive or sexually explicit language, or use variations of capital letters and ASCII characters to avoid the in game chat filter.

3) You may not use any unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, hateful, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable language toward any other player.

4) You may not impersonate any HelbreathUSA Online Customer Support representative or other employee of HelbreathUSA. This includes making characters with the prefix or suffix of "GM"

5) You may not market, promote or advertise anything, or make any other form of solicitation (including pyramid schemes and chain letters) on the HelbreathUSA Online Service or through the HelbreathUSA Online Web Site.

6) You may not violate any local, state, national or international law or regulation.

7) You may not modify any part of the HelbreathUSA Online Service or Web Site that HelbreathUSA does not specifically authorize you to modify. This includes but is not limited to editing *.pak [image] files, sound files and game appearance.

8) You may not arrange for the exchange or transfer of any pirated software or other contraband while you are on the HelbreathUSA Online Service or Web Site, or use the HelbreathUSA Online Service or Web Site for any other illegal purpose.

9) You may not organize any guilds or groups that are based on, or espouse, any racist, sexist, anti-religious, anti-ethnic, anti-gay, or other hate-mongering philosophy.

10) You may not use the HelbreathUSA Online Service or the HelbreathUSA Online Web Site for any activities other than activities that are permitted within the game world.

11) You may not post or communicate any employee's or player's real world personal information within the HelbreathUSA Online Service or through the HelbreathUSA Online Web Site or bulletin board Helbreath Portal (http://www.Hbportal.net).

12) You may not give false information or intentionally hide any information, such as email address or billing information, which is required at the time you register with the HelbreathUSA Online Service. It is your responsibility to keep this information up-to-date using the web site located at http://secure.ient.com/am/. Do not share this information with others. Doing so is at your own risk. Real GM's will never ask for your password.

13) You will not upload or transmit on the HelbreathUSA Online Service, or through the HelbreathUSA Online Web Site or bulletin board, any copyrighted content that you do not own all rights to, unless you have the express written permission of the author or copyright holder.

14) You will not attempt to interfere with, hack into, or decipher any transmissions to or from the servers running the HelbreathUSA Online Service.

15) You will not exploit any bug in the HelbreathUSA Online product or the HelbreathUSA Online Service to gain unfair advantage in the game and you will not communicate the existence of any such bug (either directly or through public posting) to any other user of the HelbreathUSA Online Service. You will promptly report any such bug via the bugs@helbreathusa.com email address.

16) You will not attempt to play HelbreathUSA Online on any service that is not controlled or authorized by HelbreathUSA.

17) You will not create, use or provide any server emulator or other site where HelbreathUSA Online may be played, and you will not post or distribute any utilities, emulators or other software tools related to HelbreathUSA Online without the express written permission of HelbreathUSA.

18) You will not do anything else that interferes with the ability of other HelbreathUSA Online users to enjoy playing the game in accordance with its rules, or that increases the expense or difficulty of HelbreathUSA in maintaining the HelbreathUSA Online Service for the enjoyment of all its users.

19) You may not disrupt the normal playability of a zone or area.

Zone/Area Disruption is defined as any activity designed to harm or inconvenience a number of groups rather than a specific player or group of players. This includes, but is not limited to:

• Continually killing players of the same fraction is illegal and subject to punishment. Repeat offenders will have their experience reduced accordingly or dealt with as harassment. This is subject to the Administration at HelbreathUSA.
  

• Blocking any doorway of any building so players cannot get in to is illegal and subject to punishment. Repeat offenders will be banned and or have their experience reduced accordingly.
  

• Boxing a player is alright everywhere, except if it blocks a building.

• Blocking within a map with the intention of impairing the normal playability of the zone or other players is illegal and subject to punishment. This intention will be decided by IENT staff and is not available to question once a decision has been made. Be aware that if there is another way to enter the map and a player(s) is hindering one of the other entrances this might not considered blocking. Players found inappropriately blocking zones will receive an appropriate punishment. Repeat offenders will be banned and or have their main characters experience points reduced [as well as their level and statistics].

• Bringing summons from the spell "Summon-Creature" and Ogre Pots to the entrances of the Promise Lands and the Beginner Dungeon is illegal. Area effect spells such as "Cloud-Kill" and "Poison-Cloud" are legal, as is the use of "Fire Bows".

• During a Crusade or Siege it's "all out war". Blocking doors, entrances to maps and pathways is a legal tactic.

• Refusing to cooperate with the other parties at a contested spawn site or a Game Master's (GM's) event after having been instructed to do so by a HelbreathUSA representative is illegal, and is punishable by either a mute, ban or experience point reduction.

• Making excessive [spam] and inappropriate use of public channels of communications in general, town, guild, local and whispers is illegal and is punishable by either a mute, ban or experience point reduction.

• Intentionally causing excessive zone latency (creating excessive corpses, abusing spell effects, etc.) is illegal and is punishable by either a mute, ban or experience point reduction.

• Causing intentional experience loss to other players (deliberately impeding fleeing players by blocking their escape route, intentionally training NPC's on other players, etc.) is illegal and is punishable by either a mute, ban or experience point reduction
  If you feel some one is disrupting the normal playability of a zone or area, please take screen shots and submit them with a TIXX at http://www.helsupport.com.
  
  Note: Any map where you are sent to jail for killing a member of town where the repetitive killing of any person by a singular person or guild could result in further action. Maps protected by the jail penalty are designed for leveling, and players should be allowed to do so with out the domination of another player(s) killing them by PK (Same town). This is determined by Administration.

  Any map where you remain on the map for killing a member of town is deemed to be part of game mechanics and to be handled within the game by players. Maps that are not protected by the jail penalty are designed for hunting, and players should be able to do so with the knowledge that they are in a dangerous map. This is determined by Administration.

  As long as no 1 person or guild is being hunted down and killed specifically because they are that person or targeted because they are in that guild. Pit etiquette* is to be expected but not required by the person entering the area. As long as 1 group of people do not dominate an area full time. This is determined by Administration.

  * Asking if they mind your presence, reacting on their reply as you see fit.
  

20) You may not defraud other players.

• Fraud is defined as falsely representing one's intentions to make a gain at another's expense, this is determined by Administration. Examples of this activity include, but are not limited to, using deception to deprive another player of items, slandering another player or impersonating them with the intention of causing harm to that player's reputation, or falsely representing one's identity in order to gain access to another player's items, account or account information also referred to as scamming.
  
  

• Fraud in all transactions between players may result in disciplinary action when confirmed by a HelbreathUSA representative.
  Sharing items in game is not supported by IENT, doing so is at your own risk. If you share your items with some one who shares their account unbeknownst to you, it is still your responsibility having given the items in the first place. We reserve the right to act on each report as necessary and treat each one as required. See here for a guideline to protecting yourself.

21) IENT takes no responsibility for lost or stolen items if you share your account. Accidentally selling items or passing them to another player is the responsibility of the player. The game offers a confirmation screen.

22) We reserve the right to change offensive Character and Guild names or profiles without prior notification of the account holder.

23) Laming is the organizing of the enemy to benefit yourself or your town. This is split in to two different sections.

• EKs - EKs are Enemy Kills and are used for getting Hero Gear and event items. Laming EKs is when the another character from the opposite fraction assists in being killed to facilitate the gaining of the EKs which are used to collect Hero Gear. Whether an EK is lame is determined by GM1 through the use of game logs. Laming EKs is punished by the removal of all EKs and any Hero Gear previously gained on the account, not just the character. Repeat offenders will have a 20% exp removal. Kill toys, the characters which are killed in order to get the EKs will be locked and possibly deleted regardless of items held on the character.
  
  

• Crusade Points - During the crusade points are given by killing the enemy, random enemy town summons, enemy buildings and enemy units. Laming crusade points by organizing a member of the enemy town to create buildings with the intention of being killed by yourself or your guild or your fellow town people is laming points. Guilds who take advantage of the game mechanics by abusing in such a manner will have the Guild Master sent to bleeding island to break the connection between the summons and the Guild Master. If the abuse continues the Guild Master account will be locked for a minimum of a week and the guild will be disband.
  

24) Sharing accounts - If an infraction of any rule occurs the account is still liable for any punishment due. "It was my brother.." or friend or the family parrot does not matter. IENT doesn't support the sharing of accounts. By giving some one your account information, you are allowing them to do with your account as they wish. We will not restore, refund or place the punishments of their actions on their accounts. The account it happens on is the account that is punished.

25) "It was a joke.." or "I didn't know" - is not viable as an excuse. Saying or doing anything that is normally punishable under our rules is still punishable despite the fact that you and the other person involved may have thought it all humorous or didn't know. No one else is in on the joke so it is taken seriously and dealt with in accordance with the other rules listed here. By agreeing with the Terms of Service you acknowledge that you've read through the rules and understand them.

26) Item restoration is possible if iEntertainment is informed within 24 hours of the item being either sold to the Blacksmith or Shop Keeper. Scroll restoration is also possible if iEntertainment is informed within 24 hours of the item being depleted / learnt by the character. IEntertainment can not restore any items lost due to misplacement EG: Dropping on the ground or passed to another person (accidentally or intentional). Items lost due to sharing the item and or account information is not covered by this rule.

27) IEntertainment is offering a slate restoration service to any slates lost due to disconnection. IEntertainment must be notified within 24 hours of the lost slate.

YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU AGREE TO THESE RULES AND WILL ABIDE BY THEM.

YOU FURTHER AGREE THAT THESE RULES WILL APPLY TO ANYONE THAT YOU ALLOW TO USE YOUR HelbreathUSA ONLINE ACCOUNT OR USER ID, AND THAT YOU ARE PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONSEQUENCES (INCLUDING TERMINATION OF YOUR ACCOUNT) THAT MAY RESULT IF ANY SUCH PERSON BREAKS THESE RULES.

YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT IF YOUR ACCOUNT AND RIGHT TO USE THE HelbreathUSA ONLINE SERVICE IS TERMINATED BY HelbreathUSA FOR ANY REASON, YOU WILL NOT BE ENTITLED TO A REFUND OF ANY FEES PAID BY YOU FOR USE OF THE HelbreathUSA ONLINE SERVICE AND YOU WILL FORFEIT ANY UNUSED ACCESS TIME THAT YOU HAVE REMAINING AT THE TIME OF TERMINATION.

IN ORDER TO HELP MAKE HelbreathUSA ONLINE A GOOD EXPERIENCE FOR EVERYONE, HelbreathUSA MAY OCCASIONALLY FIND IT NECESSARY TO MAKE CHANGES TO, OR RESET CERTAIN PARAMETERS OF, AN ON-GOING WORLD IN ORDER TO BRING IT BACK INTO BALANCE. THESE CHANGES OR RESETS MAY AFFECT CHARACTERS UNDER YOUR CONTROL AND MAY CAUSE YOU SETBACKS WITHIN THE GAME WORLD.

THESE RULES MAY BE CHANGED, AND NEW RULES MAY BE ADDED, AT ANY TIME. YOU AGREE TO CHECK THE HelbreathUSA ONLINE WEB SITE FROM TIME TO TIME TO REVIEW ANY RULE CHANGES THAT HelbreathUSA MAY HAVE MADE.
YOU AGREE TO READ CAREFULLY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH IN THE HelbreathUSA ONLINE SERVICE AGREEMENT THAT IS POSTED ON THE WEB SITE AT http://www.helbreathusa.com/newaccount.php.