These rules outline standard expectations but cannot list every possible edge case. Players must act in good faith. Exploiting loopholes, arguing technicalities in bad faith, or attempting to bypass systems will be penalized as direct violations. Attempting to break any rule is penalized to the same extent as successfully breaking it, and encouraging or pressuring others to break rules (incitement) carries the full penalty of the violated rule.
Edge cases are evaluated at the sole discretion of the 4Classic staff. Direct instructions issued by staff members in-game or via support tickets must be followed immediately. If you disagree with an instruction, you must still comply in the moment and may file a complaint with the Team Manager afterward via support ticket.
Sanctions apply to the player, not just the individual character. Breaking rules on alternate accounts ("twinks") will directly impact your main account, and penalties scale based on your complete infraction history across all linked profiles. Continuously accumulating bans across any category will result in progressively harsher penalties, up to a permanent Hardware (PC) Ban.
Donating grants zero immunity or special treatment. All players are judged by the same standards. Demanding exemptions based on financial contributions is prohibited.
Insults, trolling, hate speech, racism, sexism, excessive derogatory remarks, and targeted harassment are prohibited across all chat channels.
Disruptive chat behavior is forbidden, including repetitive messages, character spam, typing exclusively in capital letters, begging, or flooding global chats.
Channels designated for specific functions (such as Trade Chat) must only be used for their intended purpose. General chatter, political debates, drama, and unrelated discussions are forbidden in these channels.
Character names, guild names, and guild tags must remain appropriate. Names containing sexual, discriminatory, hateful, political, or religiously offensive themes, as well as names advertising external services or commercial entities, are prohibited.
You may request the release of an inactive character name via support ticket. To qualify, the target character must be inactive for over 90 days and below Level 90 (the level limit does not apply if the target account is permanently banned).
Using character names, guild titles, or nicknames that resemble staff members or include official rank prefixes (such as GM, TGM, GA, or TM) is forbidden. Furthermore, claiming to be friends with or related to staff members to intimidate others, is prohibited.
Intentional deception designed to defraud another player for personal gain (including deceptive trade window swaps, misleading item placements, or broken trade agreements) is prohibited.
Lending items, equipment, or gold to other players is entirely at your own risk. Staff will not intervene, recover, or replace items lost through voluntary lending arrangements.
Selling, purchasing, trading, or gifting in-game gold, items, or 4Classic accounts in exchange for real-world currency, cryptocurrency, gift cards, external services, or assets on other game servers is strictly forbidden.
Operating as a commercial seller, broker, or middleman for transactions prohibited under Rule 4.1 is strictly forbidden.
Account sharing is permitted entirely at your own risk. The account creator remains responsible for all actions taken on the account. If a shared account violates server rules, sanctions may extend to all linked accounts of every party involved due to hardware or network association. Items lost through account sharing may not be restored.
Exploiting authorized account access to sabotage another user's progress, assets, or standing (including intentional asset deletion or forced rule violations) is strictly forbidden.
Losing access to your registered email address means losing control of your account. Staff will only update a registered email address if ownership can be conclusively established via the verified PC and Hardware ID consistently used to play the account, or through other equally conclusive verification methods.
Unauthorized modification or manipulation of the game client, network traffic, game memory, or system environment to gain any unfair gameplay or informational advantage is prohibited.
Using virtual machines (VMs), sandboxes, MAC changers, or hardware spoofers to hide your identity or bypass restrictions is prohibited. Standard commercial VPNs used purely for connection routing are permitted.
Any unauthorized attempt to access, probe, brute-force, or compromise another player's account regardless of the method or tools used, is strictly prohibited.
Abusing bugs, glitches, unintended mechanics, or map geometry to gain any in-game advantage is strictly prohibited. Any bug, exploit, or unintended behavior that provides an advantage must be reported immediately via support ticket. Concealing, withholding, or sharing such exploits with others to enable abuse instead of reporting them is forbidden.
Manipulating your connection, inducing artificial lag, forcing client crashes, or pulling network cables to evade death, manipulate PvP, or disrupt gameplay is prohibited.
Using third-party bots, scripts, or macro software to automate resource gathering, mob farming, leveling, gold farming, or minigames (including Rock, Paper, Scissors) is prohibited.
While owning multiple accounts is allowed, operating multiple accounts, secondary clients, or secondary computers simultaneously to bypass restrictions, farm items/AP/online boxes, or farm rewards in Battle Modes is prohibited.
Trading kills, staging deaths with the opposing faction, or manipulating PvP engagements to farm Honor, credits, or achievements is prohibited.
Deploying low-level or undergeared characters into contested PvP zones solely to disrupt mechanics or intentionally disrupt gameplay is prohibited.
Disrupting official GM events, attacking event areas without permission, or ignoring event rules is prohibited.
Leaving an active Battle Mode early or standing AFK inside the instance is prohibited.
Intentionally sabotaging or griefing your own team inside a Battle Mode is prohibited. Every player is expected to contribute positively to team dynamics and work towards the common objective.
Cooperating with opposing players or teams outside the intended design of the game mode, or teaming up with players who actively exploit mechanics, is prohibited.
Additional penalties, such as reduction of credits & honour, may be imposed for serious or repeated violations
It's prohibited to disproportionately focus your in-game actions, strategies, or resources solely on a single player or team to the extent that it creates a one-sided disfavor for that player or team. This includes, but is not limited to continuous harassment, one-sided engagements, or making all gameplay decisions based on undermining a particular player's or teams experience.
Only the physical computer used to register for a tournament may participate (enforced via automated hardware check). Bypassing, spoofing, or tampering with this hardware verification is prohibited.
You may register a maximum of one character per concurrent tournament category: one in Solo, one in Falkenhain, and one in Leya's Knight.
Registering placeholder characters or abandoning matches to block other participants from taking tournament slots is prohibited.
Throwing matches or colluding with opponents to fix the outcome of a tournament is prohibited.
Selling tournament slots for gold, items, or other assests is prohibited.
Active members may claim leadership of an inactive guild via support ticket if the Guild Master and both Deputies have been offline for at least 180 consecutive days, provided the guild has fewer than ten Level 90 characters.
If a Guild Master receives a permanent account ban, guild ownership does not automatically transfer. The banned Guild Master may submit a support ticket requesting the transfer of guild leadership to an active guild member of their choice.
Deliberately harming a guild using specific granted permissions without the Guild Master's consent (such as stealing guild funds, abusing mercenary contracts, or mass-kicking members) is prohibited.
Guilds from different countries shall not engage in any form of collusion for their own benefit or to the detriment of others. Such actions include, but are not limited to, sharing confidential information, coordinating actions to manipulate the outcome of TW/CW or forming agreements to restrict competition.
All player reports must be submitted privately via support ticket in English (exceptions for language are only made in urgent emergencies). To protect privacy, staff only discuss sanction details and evidence with the penalized account owner, never with the reporter or third parties.
Reports without verifiable evidence will be dismissed. Screenshots must be uncropped and full-screen. Videos must be unedited, clearly display the offender's name, and include timestamps for longer clips.
Lying to staff or submitting forged, cropped, or fabricated evidence in tickets to avoid penalties or frame other players is prohibited.
Sanctions must be appealed via support ticket within 7 calendar days of issuance. You may request an escalation to a senior staff member within your existing ticket, with the Team Manager serving as the final authority. Opening duplicate tickets or messaging multiple staff members to overturn a final decision will result in an extension of your active ban.
All purchases, transactions, and contributions (including Moonstones and virtual items) are final and strictly non-refundable. Opening a payment dispute, claim, or chargeback through your payment provider, or exploiting payment gateways and regional currency pricing, is strictly prohibited. If you experience an issue or technical error during a transaction, you must contact staff immediately by submitting a support ticket so it can be investigated and resolved.
Players hold no ownership or monetary rights over virtual goods, characters, items, Moonstones, or account data. Virtual assets have no real-world value and cannot be redeemed for fiat currency. The administration reserves the right to modify, rebalance, or remove any game asset, feature, or account data at any time without notice or liability.