Fair Play Rules

Overview

We are trying to build a game that will survive the test of time. To achieve that we all need to have some degree of trust that the game is a fair one. Violations of the spirit of the game diminish trust and overall stability of Pirate Nation.

We aim to cultivate a sustainable, player-driven economy. Behaviors that excessively extract resources from the current closed beta environment undermine the game's long-term health.

As such, we will define some guidelines for future reference working toward both goals in the sections following.

Moving forward we will:

• Punish players who break the rules for personal gain

• Reward players who uphold the rules for community gain

Acceptable Behavior

Social Organization. Discussing which World Boss to target to increase collective odds of victory.

Web3 games are inherently social, this is to be expected and embraced.

Contract Data Mining. Reading the publicly available information onchain and in published smart contracts. Using known data about the game to develop tools to help others play the game.

Web3 games are inherently more transparent with data, this is to be expected and embraced.

Unacceptable Behavior

Technical Exploits. Client Hacking, DDoS Attacking, Double Spending, Smart Contract Exploits, and any other similar exploits.

Social Exploits: Phishing, Scamming other players into unintentionally giving away private keys, resources, or other game assets.

Self-referring: Using your own referral code to generate new accounts and accrue referral-related reward points is not allowed. Doing so may risk punitive action, including a potential loss of related points and referrals.

Sharing & Self-Trading Ships or Founder's Pirates: Selling ships or Founder Pirates is allowed, but trading a ship or Founder Pirate to an alt account or a fellow player with the goal of ranking on a leaderboard in an event or challenge will be closely monitored. Players may face penalties if found utilizing this to exploit leaderboards and other challenges.

Alt accounts: While playing with multiple accounts is permitted, players may only earn ranked rewards in PvP events once for the top 1000 places. Secondary accounts in the top 1000 will not receive ranked rewards.

Anti-competitive gameplay: Players found to be coordinating or intentionally rigging the outcomes of competitive game features will risk disqualification from rewards. This includes, but is not limited to, sandbagging, early quitting/fleeing in PvP, or coordinating combat choices with your opponent.

Sybil

Unacceptable: Sybil Attacks. We reserve the right to investigate and take action upon any account believed to primarily extract resources, or that is otherwise behaving as part of a sybil network. Factors considered include manipulating events through multi-accounting or wash trading, resource acquisition rate, transfers off-platform, exchange sales, and more. Penalties will scale with the degree of coordinated exploitation detected through investigations.

Acceptable: Multi-Accounting. Users are free to create as many personal accounts as they want, but please note that only 1 account can be logged in at a time.

Bots & Scripting

As an onchain game, we distinguish between two types of bots: Gameplay Bots and Onchain Bots.

Acceptable: Onchain Bots, Onchain Calls. In web3 these use public-facing smart contract calls and APIs to interface with components of the game. We acknowledge their existence and take measures to ensure they don't disrupt the game's fairness and stability.

Unacceptable: Gameplay Bots, Client Injection. These automate traditional games and go against our priority of creating a fair game experience for humans. Therefore, we do not allow their use, and players caught using them may face penalties or account banning.

In both cases, any bot violating the terms of service will be subject to the same consequences as human players. We strive to design and use technologies that enable fair challenges and equal opportunities for all players.

Enforcement

If investigation determines systematic exploitation, penalties may apply even if specific behaviors were not previously explicit. Extraction harms the game's overall economy over time.

Those intentionally undermining the closed beta economy may face penalties including event rewards ineligibility, deprioritized game actions, unsubsidized transaction fees, and account banning.

We will acknowledge players who responsibly disclose exploits.