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==Terms of Service==<br />
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Total War Center (TWC) provides the services to you, the visitor, based on its Terms of Service (TOS) outlined here. When using the services provided by TWC, you are subject to these posted terms. Usage of the services on this site indicates acceptance of these terms. The TOS may be changed at any time and without direct notice to individual visitors, so it is recommended that you check back with this page whenever you have questions or concerns.<br />
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===Registration Requirements===<br />
In order to view messages on the TWC message boards without user restrictions, no registration is required or necessary. In order to post messages on the boards, and use other advanced services, you must register with TWCenter. Provision of a valid e-mail address is recommended to permit recovery of your account should you forget your password, but it is not currently required.<br />
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TWCenter does not require you to use your real name or other identification that can be easily traced to you, and the e-mail address you provide will be kept private. In order to register on TWCenter, registrants must be 13 years of age or older. TWC does not knowingly collect any information from any users under 13 years, and if it is found that an underage user has fraudulently registered, their account will immediately be terminated.<br />
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===Content Notice===<br />
By viewing the site content, you agree that all content on the TWCenter message boards is the responsibility of the person from which the content originated. You agree that neither TWCenter nor its sponsors or affiliates are responsible for all content that you personally post or upload. TWCenter does not directly control any content posted on the boards, and does not guarantee the truthfulness or quality of any content.<br />
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You agree that while using the TWCenter message boards, you may be exposed to content that is offensive or objectionable, and that you will in no way hold TWCenter nor its sponsors or affiliates liable in any way, shape, or form for any harm or loss that may come to you or others as a result of viewing this content. TWCenter is not responsible for screening content before it is posted, although an offensive language filter is installed on the system that will reject certain posts that may contain certain words deemed offensive or used most often in an offensive way.<br />
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===Account Responsibility===<br />
Users are solely responsible for protecting their accounts from access by others. You 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.<br />
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While it is acceptable for users to maintain multiple accounts on TWCenter, TWC can and does track multiple shared accounts from a single or multiple computers as one account in terms of TOS violations. If the TOS is violated severely enough to warrant the banning of one account, all known accounts shared between a single or multiple users who use the same computer may also be banned for the actions of the violating account at the administrators' discretion.<br />
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Because of this rule, it is highly recommended that board users do not share their accounts with others, nor share their computers used to access the site with others, as the actions of some other person could easily directly impact all known shared message board accounts.<br />
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===Privacy and Release of Information===<br />
TWC is a non-commercial site staffed by volunteers, and cannot provide a binding guarantee of privacy to its members (except as required by law). However, we try to protect our members' privacy as far as is reasonable.<br />
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Visiting any website will expose your IP address to that website. We may store members' IP addresses indefinitely for record-keeping purposes. We may also use services such as advertisements and analytics scripts to fund the operation of the site, let us run it more effectively, or for any other reason. Visitors' IP addresses may be exposed to the providers of those services to allow them to function, and we have no control over how this information is used.<br />
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As is customary on web forums, we permit members to hotlink images and other media from other websites, for convenience and to reduce our bandwidth costs. Anyone viewing a page with a hotlinked file will necessarily have their IP address exposed to whatever site hosts the file. All of the foregoing also applies to other possibly identifying information, such as User-Agent strings.<br />
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Users must be logged into a TWC account to edit the Wiki.<br />
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TWC uses cookies for a variety of purposes. Cookies are necessary to allow users to log in to the forum and the wiki. They are also used to compile publicly-viewable statistics such as "Who's Online", to allow moderators to track violators of the rules, and possibly for a variety of other purposes. Browsers will typically accept cookies by default from any site they request content from, so any site that a TWC page includes content from might also set cookies.<br />
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Some information (for instance, e-mail address) is deliberately submitted by members and is not publicly viewable. This information may be kept indefinitely, but will not normally be given out to third parties or posted publicly. Sending e-mail using the forum or wiki might reveal the sender's e-mail address to the recipient.<br />
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TWC does not normally send unsolicited bulk e-mail. Automated or bulk e-mails are normally sent only to members who have opted in to thread subscriptions or other features. Members may opt out of these features by altering their [http://www.twcenter.net/forums/usercp.php forum preferences] or [https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=Special:Preferences wiki preferences]. Moderators and administrators may send personalized, non-bulk e-mail to members on occasion regardless of preferences.<br />
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Users who would like a greater degree of privacy should configure their browser appropriately. Some popular browsers can be configured not to accept cookies without confirmation, not to save cookies for some sites, not to load files from some sites, etc. Users who disable features of their browser might not be able to fully use the site (e.g., some cookies are necessary to allow login).<br />
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===Modding Permissions Policy===<br />
Modders/Mod Teams who use TWC as a medium to promote or share their work are asked to provide a permissions statement. This must state whether and under what conditions permission to use their work in another mod would be granted if it is not possible to contact them. Where such a statement is provided then the Hexagon Council/Moderation will enforce it. Staff recognises however that not all modders or mod teams have such a statement, but may still be uncontactable. If the following conditions are met and the original Modder/Mod Team does not deny permission, use of that work will not lead to further action:<br />
*Those requesting permission to use the work of another must show the Hexagon Council/Moderation that they have attempted to contact the original modder/mod team themselves and have not been answered.<br />
*An attempt by Hex to contact the original modder/mod team needs have gone unanswered for a month or more.<br />
*The original modder/mod team has been inactive on TWC for at least 2 years.<br />
*Hex are satisfied that if the original modder/mod team were present that permission would have been given.<br />
Use of work without receiving permission and without meeting the above conditions is liable to penalisation as detailed in the Member Conduct section below.<br />
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===Moderator Discretion===<br />
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The list following below is intended to cover all ToS violations, but it is naturally impossible to include examples of every single possible variation. Therefore moderator discretion will be exercised and moderating action should be expected where and when moderators deem appropriate, that might not exactly correspond to any of the following violation categories.<br />
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===Member Conduct===<br />
You agree that you will not use any aspect of this service including -but not limited to- the wiki, blogs, social groups, tags, visitor messages and private messages, to perform the following actions:<br />
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====Image Size Violation (1 point)====<br />
Members may not post .gif images of a size that exceeds 1.5 MB.<br />
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Members may not use signatures where the total size in bytes of all signature images combined is more than 250 KB.<br />
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====Off-topic Posting (1, 2 or 4 points)====<br />
Topicality is expected and will be enforced on all forums, so take the extra time to post on the proper forum. Examples of off-topic posting include, but are not limited to:<br />
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* Threads that are not related to the topic of the forum in question, or that contain no material that can reasonably be discussed<br />
* Posts that are not related to the topic of the thread in question, or that contain no material that can reasonably be discussed<br />
* Re-posting threads that you know have already been posted elsewhere<br />
* Outside of the Administrative Forums, personal references, whether implicit or explicit, are off-topic. Personal references of a negative or derogatory nature and statements that disrupt the discussion, regardless of intent, will be singled out in particular.<br />
* Any quote of another member in a signature has to be fully referenced by use of a link to the quoted post and not be edited as to blatantly misrepresent the wording of the quoted member.<br />
* Unsolicited advertisement for any website, product, service, funding request or facility not first approved by TWC staff<br />
* Patreon and PayPal links will be allowed in signatures, the first post of a mod thread, or in a sticky in a Hosted Mod forum.<br />
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You can advertise websites, products, etc., in your signature, avatar, or other profile fields, as long as you post productively and don't just try to get exposure for your advertisements. Recommendation of websites, products, or other resources are also allowed if relevant to legitimate discussions. <br />
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====Censor Bypassing (1 or 2 points)====<br />
Attempting to bypass the censor by misspelling, inserting spaces or symbols, transposing letters, using look-alike symbols, or any other method is not allowed. For example, if "gris" is a banned word:<br />
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* Not allowed: g-r-i-s, gr*s, g***, 9|-1$, girs, gryeeeas, grizznizz, **** (rhymes with "bris")<br />
* Allowed: ****, ****ed, ****ing, g'ed, g-word<br />
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Prohibited words may not be used in images. If external websites or videos use prohibited words, you can link to them or embed them only if you post a warning alongside the link/video.<br />
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====Hard-to-Read Posts (1 or 2 points)====<br />
Posts that disrupt the message boards for other users, intentional or not, are prohibited. This includes, but is not limited, to:<br />
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* Conducting conversations in languages other than English. The exception is in forums explicitly designated for a specific language other than English.<br />
* Posting excessively in capital letters, leet speak, or other hard-to-read writing styles<br />
* Using misleading topic titles<br />
* Consecutive posting. (I.e., double posts, triple posts)<br />
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====Contempt of Court (variable)==== <br />
This infraction is given for violations that occur within the Tribunal. It is given by administrators at the request of the Tribunes. The infraction forfeits use of the Tribunal for one month '''and cannot be appealed.''' Points vary based on the specific violation that incurs the Contempt of Court infraction<br />
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====Disruptive Posting (1, 3, or 6 Points)====<br />
Any post(s) designed to disrupt the flow of conversation, radically change the topic of the thread or elicit a response that violates these Terms of Service.<br />
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====Defying Moderators (1, 3, or 6 Points)====<br />
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Any action that disregards a staff moderator's specific request, whether the request is made by a post in the thread, by PM to the user, or by other means such as, but not limited to, forum Announcements. The requests can be, but are not limited to:<br />
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* Re-posting content (text, images, video, etc) that was previously removed by a moderator<br />
* Re-posting a thread on a topic that was previously closed by a moderator<br />
* Ignoring a thread warning made by a moderator<br />
* Taking action that has previously been warned against by a moderator<br />
* Refusing to follow reasonable directives pertaining to moderation<br />
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====Insulting Others (1, 3, or 6 points)====<br />
Posts clearly insulting other board members, individually or as a group, directly or indirectly, are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to:<br />
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* Name-calling ("You're an idiot", "You moron")<br />
* Direct insults ("Screw you")<br />
* Offensive orders ("Go kill yourself", "Shut up")<br />
* Using threatening, harassing, defamatory, hate-speech, or libelous language<br />
* Using race, religion, sexual orientation, culture, ethnicity, disability, nationality, or gender as a means of insult, either directly or implied<br />
* Insinuations ("Are you stupid or something?") or insults towards family ("Your mom...")<br />
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Instead, members should criticize the post, not the poster. SEGA, the Creative Assembly, and related bodies are considered board members for this purpose, since some of them are. You can still criticize their games without insulting them personally.<br />
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====Obscene Content (1, 3, 6, or 12 points)====<br />
Obscene content is not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to:<br />
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1. Providing images, videos, or verbal descriptions of nudity. This includes, but is not limited to:<br />
*Any figure whose genitals, pubic hair, buttocks, or (if female) nipples or areolas are exposed, partially or totally; or are not exposed, but it's clear that this is only because of the angle of the shot or incidental intervening objects (e.g., hands, hair, bits of cloth).<br />
*Visible outlines of genitals or female nipples through clothing.<br />
*Anything that falls narrowly outside the previous provisions, at the discretion of the moderators.<br />
*Verbally describing or providing image, video, or audio files that represent or hint at sexual acts. Passing references may be acceptable, but descriptions that are graphic or include any details are not permitted.<br />
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This applies to photographs, drawings, or any other representation of humanoid figures. It may also apply to non-humanoid figures such as animals, at the discretion of the moderators. Nudity may be permitted for serious and non-titillating purposes, such as the exhibition of recognized art or historical models in modifications, at the discretion of the moderators.<br />
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2. Providing images, videos, or verbal descriptions of an unreasonably disgusting nature. This includes, but is not limited to:<br />
*Excrement and other obscene example of bodily functions.<br />
*Real-world violence and extreme gore, including executions and the dead or wounded of armed conflict.<br />
*Extreme virtual or imagined violence.<br />
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Links may not be posted for the purpose of providing obscene content. If a website incidentally includes some reasonably obscene content, it's acceptable to link to it for some other purpose as long as a clear warning is given. Similarly, if content incidentally includes some reasonably obscene content, it's acceptable to include it in a post for some other purpose, as long as a clear warning is given and the reader must actively click a button to view it (e.g., spoiler boxes or YouTube videos).<br />
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Excessively obscene content, particularly porn and extreme gore, is still not allowed to be posted or linked to in any fashion. The distinction between acceptable and excessive obscenity is at the discretion of the moderators. As always, if you are not sure, ask a moderator. <br />
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====Using Modders' Work Without Permission (1, 3, or 6 points)====<br />
Using part or all of any modification without permission is prohibited.<br />
Distributing part or all of any modification is prohibited if:<br />
*it is distributed exclusively via Steam and the author has not given express permission to create non-steam mirrors.<br />
*the author(s) has expressly forbidden its further distribution.<br />
*there is no proper and full accreditation of the author(s).<br />
Alternate mirrors are permitted for authorised uploads as long as full credit is given to the author(s).<br />
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====Evading a Suspension (1, 3, or 6 points)====<br />
Suspended or banned users must not create or use additional accounts. Users banned from a particular activity (such as posting visitor messages, posting in a particular forum, etc.) must not use any other account to perform that activity. In addition to [[#Terms Violations|the normal penalties]], the user's ban may be extended, and the additional account they made will be banned indefinitely.<br />
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====Impersonation (1 or 4 points)====<br />
*Falsely claiming to be another specific message board member or other known individual or holding a rank to which you are not entitled (moderator, administrator, Creative Assembly employee, or any type of staff member), or sockpuppeting is not allowed.<br />
*Impersonating others by claiming their intellectual effort as your own is prohibited, as is failing to properly reference it. As such, all material must be sourced with a link and/or [quote][/quote] tags.<br />
*While the use of alternative accounts is permissible, the misuse of such accounts (such as but not limited to self-repping, multi-voting in polls et.c.) will carry an additional penalty commensurate with the offense (loss of rep etc).<br />
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Moderators may use discretion in enforcing this against impersonations that are clearly not serious and so unlikely to fool anyone.<br />
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====Promoting Illegal Activities (1, 4, or 8 points)====<br />
Posts that promote violation of the law are not allowed. Violation of the law includes, but is not limited to:<br />
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* Substantial use of copyrighted material without permission. Examples of acceptable uses would be brief quotes, fan art, signature/avatar images, brief video clips (e.g., YouTube), screenshots, or reasonably limited decorative images in a mod. Unacceptable uses would include entire songs, long videos, large collections of images, altered game executables, pirated operating systems, unmodified game files (except those released by the developers themselves, for example converted .bin files released by CA for M2TW) that are not essential parts of modifications or anything that competes with the work you're copying (i.e., people might just download your copy instead of buying the original). The exact threshold of substantial use will be decided on a case-by-case basis ― if in doubt, consult Moderation Staff.<br />
* Obtaining or providing ways to circumvent copy protection. This includes no-CD hacks, key generators, hacked ROMs, etc.<br />
* Cheating in online games, or otherwise violating license agreements.<br />
* Possessing, distributing, or using drugs in a way that would be illegal in most jurisdictions (e.g., owning marijuana).<br />
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"Promoting" illegal activity includes, but is not limited to:<br />
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* Asking for someone else to commit an illegal activity (e.g., asking for a cracked game).<br />
* Assisting someone else in an illegal activity (e.g., linking to a site that distributes cracked games).<br />
* Encouraging or advocating an illegal activity, or portraying it as normal or acceptable (e.g., casually mentioning that you have pirated games/smoked pot/etc. as though this were normal and acceptable). Exceptions will be made for threads that are devoted to serious discussion of illegal activities in an abstract sense (e.g., about whether copyright law should be relaxed or marijuana should be legalized), on a case-by-case basis.<br />
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What exactly qualifies as illegal depends on jurisdiction. When jurisdictions differ on whether something is legal, moderators will decide on a case-by-case basis which jurisdiction to follow.<br />
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====Harassment or Invasion of Privacy (1, 4, or 8 points)====<br />
Continual harassing behavior directed towards a certain individual or group with the intent of creating an intimidating, offensive, or hostile environment on the boards, with or without use of explicit or implicit threats is prohibited. Information obtained on TWC through custom user permissions (moderation permissions, restricted forum access etc) or submitted in reports to Moderation may not be published in public areas without the permission of the member/department concerned. Information about members obtained from external sources (multimedia, e-mail etc) may not be published in public areas without the permission of the member concerned.<br />
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====Inappropriate Content in Blogs or Blog Comments====<br />
Some content is not appropriate for blogs and blog comments. If you have a blog, or if you post comments on any blogs, you must follow these rules, which will be applied strictly:<br />
* no religion<br />
* no politics<br />
* no content which breaks any other part of TWC's Terms of Service (please note that this means all content must be family friendly).<br />
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Anyone who breaks these rules will lose the ability to post blogs and also the ability to post comments on blogs, and their blog will be deleted. Appeals to the Tribunal will have no effect on this decision - this is a purely administrative matter and the decision will be made by the site administrators.<br />
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====Other====<br />
Any activity not previously outlined but still deemed detrimental to the operation of the site, normal activities of the board and flow of conversation may be subject to moderation. Users responsible for these posts may be penalized at the discretion of the Hexagon council and the Moderation branch.<br />
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===Violations of the Terms of Service===<br />
Violations of the Terms of Service are tracked using the Infraction System, which allows moderators to record transgressions in a reliable and centralized fashion. All such records are viewable in the user's profile to Administrators, Moderators, Tribunes and the user in question only.<br />
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====Notes====<br />
Notes are given when the actions of a member require Moderation to officially contact them regarding a violation. They are a formal record of that contact and do not increase a member's Infraction Level in and of themselves, however further violations of the same type would lead to Infractions at Moderation's Discretion. They are recorded both to let other moderators know that the user has been informed of the particular rule, and to give the user a record of all contacts with moderators they have had.<br />
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====Infractions====<br />
Infractions are given when a member commits an offense of a type for which they have already received a Note, or if the offense was deemed sufficiently great that Moderation do not consider a Note to be appropriate. Infractions expire after three months and contribute toward a member's Infraction Level. The number of points given for a particular offense is down to Moderation's Discretion. The possible values are given next to each offense type listed in the Member Conduct section.<br />
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====Infraction Levels====<br />
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Infraction Levels lead to penalties as follows:<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
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| 3 || Ability to view social groups and leave visitor messages removed<br />
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| 4 || Can neither give nor display reputation<br />
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| 5 || No posting in the Discussion & Debate Forums<br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Suspension for 1 day and no custom title or invisible mode<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Suspension for 3 days and cannot use avatar/signature/profile picture<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Suspension for 7 days and placement in probation in addition to a permanent resetting of the user's reputation points to 0<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Suspension for 30 days along with all of the above penalties.<br />
|}<br />
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Penalties last until the Infraction Level is reduced below the specified number of points unless otherwise specified. Release from probation is at Moderation's discretion. <br />
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===TWC's Probation System===<br />
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If a user is a repeat offender they may be entered into the probation system, following discussion amongst Moderation Staff. A user will be put on probation automatically if they receive 20 infraction points over the course of 12 months or reach 16 active infraction points at any time.<br />
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====How it works====<br />
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* If a user violates the terms of their probation, it results in a suspension, from one day to a month or more.<br />
* Subsequent suspensions during a probation period may increase in length.<br />
* The length of probation period is decided by Moderation Staff and is usually no shorter than three months.<br />
* A user on probation will have their case reviewed periodically, which may result in the user's removal from probation at the discretion of Moderation Staff.<br />
* The user in question is made fully aware of the rules and function of the system.<br />
* A user on probation will receive a "Probation" note, which will be reversed when the user is removed from probation.<br />
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====And what about the "permaban"?====<br />
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The permaban is normally reserved for cases of spambots and posting porn.<br />
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== See Also ==<br />
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*[http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?688585-Moderation-FAQ Moderation FAQ]<br />
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==Terms of Service==<br />
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Total War Center (TWC) provides the services to you, the visitor, based on its Terms of Service (TOS) outlined here. When using the services provided by TWC, you are subject to these posted terms. Usage of the services on this site indicates acceptance of these terms. The TOS may be changed at any time and without direct notice to individual visitors, so it is recommended that you check back with this page whenever you have questions or concerns.<br />
<br />
===Registration Requirements===<br />
In order to view messages on the TWC message boards without user restrictions, no registration is required or necessary. In order to post messages on the boards, and use other advanced services, you must register with TWCenter. Provision of a valid e-mail address is recommended to permit recovery of your account should you forget your password, but it is not currently required.<br />
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TWCenter does not require you to use your real name or other identification that can be easily traced to you, and the e-mail address you provide will be kept private. In order to register on TWCenter, registrants must be 13 years of age or older. TWC does not knowingly collect any information from any users under 13 years, and if it is found that an underage user has fraudulently registered, their account will immediately be terminated.<br />
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===Content Notice===<br />
By viewing the site content, you agree that all content on the TWCenter message boards is the responsibility of the person from which the content originated. You agree that neither TWCenter nor its sponsors or affiliates are responsible for all content that you personally post or upload. TWCenter does not directly control any content posted on the boards, and does not guarantee the truthfulness or quality of any content.<br />
<br />
You agree that while using the TWCenter message boards, you may be exposed to content that is offensive or objectionable, and that you will in no way hold TWCenter nor its sponsors or affiliates liable in any way, shape, or form for any harm or loss that may come to you or others as a result of viewing this content. TWCenter is not responsible for screening content before it is posted, although an offensive language filter is installed on the system that will reject certain posts that may contain certain words deemed offensive or used most often in an offensive way.<br />
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===Account Responsibility===<br />
Users are solely responsible for protecting their accounts from access by others. You 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.<br />
<br />
While it is acceptable for users to maintain multiple accounts on TWCenter, TWC can and does track multiple shared accounts from a single or multiple computers as one account in terms of TOS violations. If the TOS is violated severely enough to warrant the banning of one account, all known accounts shared between a single or multiple users who use the same computer may also be banned for the actions of the violating account at the administrators' discretion.<br />
<br />
Because of this rule, it is highly recommended that board users do not share their accounts with others, nor share their computers used to access the site with others, as the actions of some other person could easily directly impact all known shared message board accounts.<br />
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===Privacy and Release of Information===<br />
TWC is a non-commercial site staffed by volunteers, and cannot provide a binding guarantee of privacy to its members (except as required by law). However, we try to protect our members' privacy as far as is reasonable.<br />
<br />
Visiting any website will expose your IP address to that website. We may store members' IP addresses indefinitely for record-keeping purposes. We may also use services such as advertisements and analytics scripts to fund the operation of the site, let us run it more effectively, or for any other reason. Visitors' IP addresses may be exposed to the providers of those services to allow them to function, and we have no control over how this information is used.<br />
<br />
As is customary on web forums, we permit members to hotlink images and other media from other websites, for convenience and to reduce our bandwidth costs. Anyone viewing a page with a hotlinked file will necessarily have their IP address exposed to whatever site hosts the file. All of the foregoing also applies to other possibly identifying information, such as User-Agent strings.<br />
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Users must be logged into a TWC account to edit the Wiki.<br />
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TWC uses cookies for a variety of purposes. Cookies are necessary to allow users to log in to the forum and the wiki. They are also used to compile publicly-viewable statistics such as "Who's Online", to allow moderators to track violators of the rules, and possibly for a variety of other purposes. Browsers will typically accept cookies by default from any site they request content from, so any site that a TWC page includes content from might also set cookies.<br />
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Some information (for instance, e-mail address) is deliberately submitted by members and is not publicly viewable. This information may be kept indefinitely, but will not normally be given out to third parties or posted publicly. Sending e-mail using the forum or wiki might reveal the sender's e-mail address to the recipient.<br />
<br />
TWC does not normally send unsolicited bulk e-mail. Automated or bulk e-mails are normally sent only to members who have opted in to thread subscriptions or other features. Members may opt out of these features by altering their [http://www.twcenter.net/forums/usercp.php forum preferences] or [https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=Special:Preferences wiki preferences]. Moderators and administrators may send personalized, non-bulk e-mail to members on occasion regardless of preferences.<br />
<br />
Users who would like a greater degree of privacy should configure their browser appropriately. Some popular browsers can be configured not to accept cookies without confirmation, not to save cookies for some sites, not to load files from some sites, etc. Users who disable features of their browser might not be able to fully use the site (e.g., some cookies are necessary to allow login).<br />
<br />
===Modding Permissions Policy===<br />
Modders/Mod Teams who use TWC as a medium to promote or share their work are asked to provide a permissions statement. This must state whether and under what conditions permission to use their work in another mod would be granted if it is not possible to contact them. Where such a statement is provided then the Hexagon Council/Moderation will enforce it. Staff recognises however that not all modders or mod teams have such a statement, but may still be uncontactable. If the following conditions are met and the original Modder/Mod Team does not deny permission, use of that work will not lead to further action:<br />
*Those requesting permission to use the work of another must show the Hexagon Council/Moderation that they have attempted to contact the original modder/mod team themselves and have not been answered.<br />
*An attempt by Hex to contact the original modder/mod team needs have gone unanswered for a month or more.<br />
*The original modder/mod team has been inactive on TWC for at least 2 years.<br />
*Hex are satisfied that if the original modder/mod team were present that permission would have been given.<br />
Use of work without receiving permission and without meeting the above conditions is liable to penalisation as detailed in the Member Conduct section below.<br />
<br />
===Moderator Discretion===<br />
<br />
The list following below is intended to cover all ToS violations, but it is naturally impossible to include examples of every single possible variation. Therefore moderator discretion will be exercised and moderating action should be expected where and when moderators deem appropriate, that might not exactly correspond to any of the following violation categories.<br />
<br />
===Member Conduct===<br />
You agree that you will not use any aspect of this service including -but not limited to- the wiki, blogs, social groups, tags, visitor messages and private messages, to perform the following actions:<br />
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<ol><br />
<li><br />
====Image Size Violation (1 point)====<br />
Members may not post .gif images of a size that exceeds 1.5 MB.<br />
<br />
Members may not use signatures where the total size in bytes of all signature images combined is more than 250 KB.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Off-topic Posting (1, 2 or 4 points)====<br />
Topicality is expected and will be enforced on all forums, so take the extra time to post on the proper forum. Examples of off-topic posting include, but are not limited to:<br />
<br />
* Threads that are not related to the topic of the forum in question, or that contain no material that can reasonably be discussed<br />
* Posts that are not related to the topic of the thread in question, or that contain no material that can reasonably be discussed<br />
* Re-posting threads that you know have already been posted elsewhere<br />
* Outside of the Administrative Forums, personal references, whether implicit or explicit, are off-topic. Personal references of a negative or derogatory nature and statements that disrupt the discussion, regardless of intent, will be singled out in particular.<br />
* Any quote of another member in a signature has to be fully referenced by use of a link to the quoted post and not be edited as to blatantly misrepresent the wording of the quoted member.<br />
* Unsolicited advertisement for any website, product, service, funding request or facility not first approved by TWC staff<br />
* Patreon and PayPal links will be allowed in signatures, the first post of a mod thread, or in a sticky in a Hosted Mod forum.<br />
<br />
You can advertise websites, products, etc., in your signature, avatar, or other profile fields, as long as you post productively and don't just try to get exposure for your advertisements. Recommendation of websites, products, or other resources are also allowed if relevant to legitimate discussions. <br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Censor Bypassing (1 or 2 points)====<br />
Attempting to bypass the censor by misspelling, inserting spaces or symbols, transposing letters, using look-alike symbols, or any other method is not allowed. For example, if "gris" is a banned word:<br />
<br />
* Not allowed: g-r-i-s, gr*s, g***, 9|-1$, girs, gryeeeas, grizznizz, **** (rhymes with "bris")<br />
* Allowed: ****, ****ed, ****ing, g'ed, g-word<br />
<br />
Prohibited words may not be used in images. If external websites or videos use prohibited words, you can link to them or embed them only if you post a warning alongside the link/video.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
====Hard-to-Read Posts (1 or 2 points)====<br />
Posts that disrupt the message boards for other users, intentional or not, are prohibited. This includes, but is not limited, to:<br />
<br />
* Conducting conversations in languages other than English. The exception is in forums explicitly designated for a specific language other than English.<br />
* Posting excessively in capital letters, leet speak, or other hard-to-read writing styles<br />
* Using misleading topic titles<br />
* Consecutive posting. (I.e., double posts, triple posts)<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Contempt of Court (variable)==== <br />
This infraction is given for violations that occur within the Tribunal. It is given by administrators at the request of the Tribunes. The infraction forfeits use of the Tribunal for one month '''and cannot be appealed.''' Points vary based on the specific violation that incurs the Contempt of Court infraction<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Disruptive Posting (1, 3, or 6 Points)====<br />
Any post(s) designed to disrupt the flow of conversation, radically change the topic of the thread or elicit a response that violates these Terms of Service.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Defying Moderators (1, 3, or 6 Points)====<br />
<br />
Any action that disregards a staff moderator's specific request, whether the request is made by a post in the thread, by PM to the user, or by other means such as, but not limited to, forum Announcements. The requests can be, but are not limited to:<br />
<br />
* Re-posting content (text, images, video, etc) that was previously removed by a moderator<br />
* Re-posting a thread on a topic that was previously closed by a moderator<br />
* Ignoring a thread warning made by a moderator<br />
* Taking action that has previously been warned against by a moderator<br />
* Refusing to follow reasonable directives pertaining to moderation<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Insulting Others (1, 3, or 6 points)====<br />
Posts clearly insulting other board members, individually or as a group, directly or indirectly, are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to:<br />
<br />
* Name-calling ("You're an idiot", "You moron")<br />
* Direct insults ("Screw you")<br />
* Offensive orders ("Go kill yourself", "Shut up")<br />
* Using threatening, harassing, defamatory, hate-speech, or libelous language<br />
* Using race, religion, sexual orientation, culture, ethnicity, disability, nationality, or gender as a means of insult, either directly or implied<br />
* Insinuations ("Are you stupid or something?") or insults towards family ("Your mom...")<br />
<br />
Instead, members should criticize the post, not the poster. SEGA, the Creative Assembly, and related bodies are considered board members for this purpose, since some of them are. You can still criticize their games without insulting them personally.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Obscene Content (1, 3, 6, or 12 points)====<br />
Obscene content is not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to:<br />
<br />
1. Providing images, videos, or verbal descriptions of nudity. This includes, but is not limited to:<br />
*Any figure whose genitals, pubic hair, buttocks, or (if female) nipples or areolas are exposed, partially or totally; or are not exposed, but it's clear that this is only because of the angle of the shot or incidental intervening objects (e.g., hands, hair, bits of cloth).<br />
*Visible outlines of genitals or female nipples through clothing.<br />
*Anything that falls narrowly outside the previous provisions, at the discretion of the moderators.<br />
*Verbally describing or providing image, video, or audio files that represent or hint at sexual acts. Passing references may be acceptable, but descriptions that are graphic or include any details are not permitted.<br />
<br />
This applies to photographs, drawings, or any other representation of humanoid figures. It may also apply to non-humanoid figures such as animals, at the discretion of the moderators. Nudity may be permitted for serious and non-titillating purposes, such as the exhibition of recognized art or historical models in modifications, at the discretion of the moderators.<br />
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2. Providing images, videos, or verbal descriptions of an unreasonably disgusting nature. This includes, but is not limited to:<br />
*Excrement and other obscene example of bodily functions.<br />
*Real-world violence and extreme gore, including executions and the dead or wounded of armed conflict.<br />
*Extreme virtual or imagined violence.<br />
<br />
Links may not be posted for the purpose of providing obscene content. If a website incidentally includes some reasonably obscene content, it's acceptable to link to it for some other purpose as long as a clear warning is given. Similarly, if content incidentally includes some reasonably obscene content, it's acceptable to include it in a post for some other purpose, as long as a clear warning is given and the reader must actively click a button to view it (e.g., spoiler boxes or YouTube videos).<br />
<br />
Excessively obscene content, particularly porn and extreme gore, is still not allowed to be posted or linked to in any fashion. The distinction between acceptable and excessive obscenity is at the discretion of the moderators. As always, if you are not sure, ask a moderator. <br />
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</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Using Modders' Work Without Permission (1, 3, or 6 points)====<br />
Using part or all of any modification without permission is prohibited.<br />
Distributing part or all of any modification is prohibited if:<br />
*it is distributed exclusively via Steam and the author has not given express permission to create non-steam mirrors.<br />
*the author(s) has expressly forbidden its further distribution.<br />
*there is no proper and full accreditation of the author(s).<br />
Alternate mirrors are permitted for authorised uploads as long as full credit is given to the author(s).<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Evading a Suspension (1, 3, or 6 points)====<br />
Suspended or banned users must not create or use additional accounts. Users banned from a particular activity (such as posting visitor messages, posting in a particular forum, etc.) must not use any other account to perform that activity. In addition to [[#Terms Violations|the normal penalties]], the user's ban may be extended, and the additional account they made will be banned indefinitely.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Impersonation (1 or 4 points)====<br />
*Falsely claiming to be another specific message board member or other known individual or holding a rank to which you are not entitled (moderator, administrator, Creative Assembly employee, or any type of staff member), or sockpuppeting is not allowed.<br />
*Impersonating others by claiming their intellectual effort as your own is prohibited, as is failing to properly reference it. As such, all material must be sourced with a link and/or [quote][/quote] tags.<br />
*While the use of alternative accounts is permissible, the misuse of such accounts (such as but not limited to self-repping, multi-voting in polls et.c.) will carry an additional penalty commensurate with the offense (loss of rep etc).<br />
<br />
Moderators may use discretion in enforcing this against impersonations that are clearly not serious and so unlikely to fool anyone.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Promoting Illegal Activities (1, 4, or 8 points)====<br />
Posts that promote violation of the law are not allowed. Violation of the law includes, but is not limited to:<br />
<br />
* Substantial use of copyrighted material without permission. Examples of acceptable uses would be brief quotes, fan art, signature/avatar images, brief video clips (e.g., YouTube), screenshots, or reasonably limited decorative images in a mod. Unacceptable uses would include entire songs, long videos, large collections of images, altered game executables, pirated operating systems, unmodified game files (except those released by the developers themselves, for example converted .bin files released by CA for M2TW) that are not essential parts of modifications or anything that competes with the work you're copying (i.e., people might just download your copy instead of buying the original). The exact threshold of substantial use will be decided on a case-by-case basis ― if in doubt, consult Moderation Staff.<br />
* Obtaining or providing ways to circumvent copy protection. This includes no-CD hacks, key generators, hacked ROMs, etc.<br />
* Cheating in online games, or otherwise violating license agreements.<br />
* Possessing, distributing, or using drugs in a way that would be illegal in most jurisdictions (e.g., owning marijuana).<br />
<br />
"Promoting" illegal activity includes, but is not limited to:<br />
<br />
* Asking for someone else to commit an illegal activity (e.g., asking for a cracked game).<br />
* Assisting someone else in an illegal activity (e.g., linking to a site that distributes cracked games).<br />
* Encouraging or advocating an illegal activity, or portraying it as normal or acceptable (e.g., casually mentioning that you have pirated games/smoked pot/etc. as though this were normal and acceptable). Exceptions will be made for threads that are devoted to serious discussion of illegal activities in an abstract sense (e.g., about whether copyright law should be relaxed or marijuana should be legalized), on a case-by-case basis.<br />
<br />
What exactly qualifies as illegal depends on jurisdiction. When jurisdictions differ on whether something is legal, moderators will decide on a case-by-case basis which jurisdiction to follow.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Harassment or Invasion of Privacy (1, 4, or 8 points)====<br />
Continual harassing behavior directed towards a certain individual or group with the intent of creating an intimidating, offensive, or hostile environment on the boards, with or without use of explicit or implicit threats is prohibited. Information obtained on TWC through custom user permissions (moderation permissions, restricted forum access etc) or submitted in reports to moderation may not be published in public areas without the permission of the member/department concerned. Information about members obtained from external sources (multimedia, e-mail etc) may not be published in public areas without the permission of the member concerned.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Inappropriate Content in Blogs or Blog Comments====<br />
Some content is not appropriate for blogs and blog comments. If you have a blog, or if you post comments on any blogs, you must follow these rules, which will be applied strictly:<br />
* no religion<br />
* no politics<br />
* no content which breaks any other part of TWC's Terms of Service (please note that this means all content must be family friendly).<br />
<br />
Anyone who breaks these rules will lose the ability to post blogs and also the ability to post comments on blogs, and their blog will be deleted. Appeals to the Tribunal will have no effect on this decision - this is a purely administrative matter and the decision will be made by the site administrators.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Other====<br />
Any activity not previously outlined but still deemed detrimental to the operation of the site, normal activities of the board and flow of conversation may be subject to moderation. Users responsible for these posts may be penalized at the discretion of the Hexagon council and the Moderation branch.<br />
</li><br />
</ol><br />
<br />
===Violations of the Terms of Service===<br />
Violations of the Terms of Service are tracked using the Infraction System, which allows moderators to record transgressions in a reliable and centralized fashion. All such records are viewable in the user's profile to Administrators, Moderators, Tribunes and the user in question only.<br />
<br />
====Notes====<br />
Notes are given when the actions of a member require Moderation to officially contact them regarding a violation. They are a formal record of that contact and do not increase a member's Infraction Level in and of themselves, however further violations of the same type would lead to Infractions at Moderation's Discretion. They are recorded both to let other moderators know that the user has been informed of the particular rule, and to give the user a record of all contacts with moderators they have had.<br />
<br />
====Infractions====<br />
Infractions are given when a member commits an offense of a type for which they have already received a Note, or if the offense was deemed sufficiently great that Moderation do not consider a Note to be appropriate. Infractions expire after three months and contribute toward a member's Infraction Level. The number of points given for a particular offense is down to Moderation's Discretion. The possible values are given next to each offense type listed in the Member Conduct section.<br />
<br />
====Infraction Levels====<br />
<br />
Infraction Levels lead to penalties as follows:<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Ability to view social groups and leave visitor messages removed<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Can neither give nor display reputation<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || No posting in the Discussion & Debate Forums<br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Suspension for 1 day and no custom title or invisible mode<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Suspension for 3 days and cannot use avatar/signature/profile picture<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Suspension for 7 days and placement in probation in addition to a permanent resetting of the user's reputation points to 0<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Suspension for 30 days along with all of the above penalties.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Penalties last until the Infraction Level is reduced below the specified number of points unless otherwise specified. Release from probation is at Moderation's discretion. <br />
<br />
===TWC's Probation System===<br />
<br />
If a user is a repeat offender they may be entered into the probation system, following discussion amongst Moderation Staff. A user will be put on probation automatically if they receive 20 infraction points over the course of 12 months or reach 16 active infraction points at any time.<br />
<br />
====How it works====<br />
<br />
* If a user violates the terms of their probation, it results in a suspension, from one day to a month or more.<br />
* Subsequent suspensions during a probation period may increase in length.<br />
* The length of probation period is decided by Moderation Staff and is usually no shorter than three months.<br />
* A user on probation will have their case reviewed periodically, which may result in the user's removal from probation at the discretion of Moderation Staff.<br />
* The user in question is made fully aware of the rules and function of the system.<br />
* A user on probation will receive a "Probation" note, which will be reversed when the user is removed from probation.<br />
<br />
====And what about the "permaban"?====<br />
<br />
The permaban is normally reserved for cases of spambots and posting porn.<br />
<br />
== See Also ==<br />
<br />
*[http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?688585-Moderation-FAQ Moderation FAQ]<br />
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Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=The_Ferrets54_Experience&diff=85053
The Ferrets54 Experience
2021-05-16T18:55:03Z
<p>Tango12345: </p>
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<div>'''The Ferrets54 Experience''' is TWC's youngest citizen house, founded on May 28th 2008. It is an unorthodox house in that its members are not connected by patronage, and are adopted into the family tree. It was established as a counter-movement to a perceived increase in pedantry and seriousness by many in the citizen base, and as an attempt to recapture some perspective and fun on the forums.<br />
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[[Category:The Ferrets54 Experience]]</div>
Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=TWC_Official:Terms_of_Service&diff=83800
TWC Official:Terms of Service
2021-01-03T12:42:54Z
<p>Tango12345: /* Evading a Suspension (1, 3, or 6 points) */ updating terminology</p>
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==Terms of Service==<br />
<br />
Total War Center (TWC) provides the services to you, the visitor, based on its Terms of Service (TOS) outlined here. When using the services provided by TWC, you are subject to these posted terms. Usage of the services on this site indicates acceptance of these terms. The TOS may be changed at any time and without direct notice to individual visitors, so it is recommended that you check back with this page whenever you have questions or concerns.<br />
<br />
===Registration Requirements===<br />
In order to view messages on the TWC message boards without user restrictions, no registration is required or necessary. In order to post messages on the boards, and use other advanced services, you must register with TWCenter. Provision of a valid e-mail address is recommended to permit recovery of your account should you forget your password, but it is not currently required.<br />
<br />
TWCenter does not require you to use your real name or other identification that can be easily traced to you, and the e-mail address you provide will be kept private. In order to register on TWCenter, registrants must be 13 years of age or older. TWC does not knowingly collect any information from any users under 13 years, and if it is found that an underage user has fraudulently registered, their account will immediately be terminated.<br />
<br />
===Content Notice===<br />
By viewing the site content, you agree that all content on the TWCenter message boards is the responsibility of the person from which the content originated. You agree that neither TWCenter nor its sponsors or affiliates are responsible for all content that you personally post or upload. TWCenter does not directly control any content posted on the boards, and does not guarantee the truthfulness or quality of any content.<br />
<br />
You agree that while using the TWCenter message boards, you may be exposed to content that is offensive or objectionable, and that you will in no way hold TWCenter nor its sponsors or affiliates liable in any way, shape, or form for any harm or loss that may come to you or others as a result of viewing this content. TWCenter is not responsible for screening content before it is posted, although an offensive language filter is installed on the system that will reject certain posts that may contain certain words deemed offensive or used most often in an offensive way.<br />
<br />
===Account Responsibility===<br />
Users are solely responsible for protecting their accounts from access by others. You 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.<br />
<br />
While it is acceptable for users to maintain multiple accounts on TWCenter, TWC can and does track multiple shared accounts from a single or multiple computers as one account in terms of TOS violations. If the TOS is violated severely enough to warrant the banning of one account, all known accounts shared between a single or multiple users who use the same computer may also be banned for the actions of the violating account at the administrators' discretion.<br />
<br />
Because of this rule, it is highly recommended that board users do not share their accounts with others, nor share their computers used to access the site with others, as the actions of some other person could easily directly impact all known shared message board accounts.<br />
<br />
===Privacy and Release of Information===<br />
TWC is a non-commercial site staffed by volunteers, and cannot provide a binding guarantee of privacy to its members (except as required by law). However, we try to protect our members' privacy as far as is reasonable.<br />
<br />
Visiting any website will expose your IP address to that website. We may store members' IP addresses indefinitely for record-keeping purposes. We may also use services such as advertisements and analytics scripts to fund the operation of the site, let us run it more effectively, or for any other reason. Visitors' IP addresses may be exposed to the providers of those services to allow them to function, and we have no control over how this information is used.<br />
<br />
As is customary on web forums, we permit members to hotlink images and other media from other websites, for convenience and to reduce our bandwidth costs. Anyone viewing a page with a hotlinked file will necessarily have their IP address exposed to whatever site hosts the file. All of the foregoing also applies to other possibly identifying information, such as User-Agent strings.<br />
<br />
Users must be logged into a TWC account to edit the Wiki.<br />
<br />
TWC uses cookies for a variety of purposes. Cookies are necessary to allow users to log in to the forum and the wiki. They are also used to compile publicly-viewable statistics such as "Who's Online", to allow moderators to track violators of the rules, and possibly for a variety of other purposes. Browsers will typically accept cookies by default from any site they request content from, so any site that a TWC page includes content from might also set cookies.<br />
<br />
Some information (for instance, e-mail address) is deliberately submitted by members and is not publicly viewable. This information may be kept indefinitely, but will not normally be given out to third parties or posted publicly. Sending e-mail using the forum or wiki might reveal the sender's e-mail address to the recipient.<br />
<br />
TWC does not normally send unsolicited bulk e-mail. Automated or bulk e-mails are normally sent only to members who have opted in to thread subscriptions or other features. Members may opt out of these features by altering their [http://www.twcenter.net/forums/usercp.php forum preferences] or [https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=Special:Preferences wiki preferences]. Moderators and administrators may send personalized, non-bulk e-mail to members on occasion regardless of preferences.<br />
<br />
Users who would like a greater degree of privacy should configure their browser appropriately. Some popular browsers can be configured not to accept cookies without confirmation, not to save cookies for some sites, not to load files from some sites, etc. Users who disable features of their browser might not be able to fully use the site (e.g., some cookies are necessary to allow login).<br />
<br />
===Modding Permissions Policy===<br />
Modders/Mod Teams who use TWC as a medium to promote or share their work are asked to provide a permissions statement. This must state whether and under what conditions permission to use their work in another mod would be granted if it is not possible to contact them. Where such a statement is provided then the Hexagon Council/Moderation will enforce it. Staff recognises however that not all modders or mod teams have such a statement, but may still be uncontactable. If the following conditions are met and the original Modder/Mod Team does not deny permission, use of that work will not lead to further action:<br />
*Those requesting permission to use the work of another must show the Hexagon Council/Moderation that they have attempted to contact the original modder/mod team themselves and have not been answered.<br />
*An attempt by Hex to contact the original modder/mod team needs have gone unanswered for a month or more.<br />
*The original modder/mod team has been inactive on TWC for at least 2 years.<br />
*Hex are satisfied that if the original modder/mod team were present that permission would have been given.<br />
Use of work without receiving permission and without meeting the above conditions is liable to penalisation as detailed in the Member Conduct section below.<br />
<br />
===Moderator Discretion===<br />
<br />
The list following below is intended to cover all ToS violations, but it is naturally impossible to include examples of every single possible variation. Therefore moderator discretion will be exercised and moderating action should be expected where and when moderators deem appropriate, that might not exactly correspond to any of the following violation categories.<br />
<br />
===Member Conduct===<br />
You agree that you will not use any aspect of this service including -but not limited to- the wiki, blogs, social groups, tags, visitor messages and private messages, to perform the following actions:<br />
<br />
<ol><br />
<li><br />
====Image Size Violation (1 point)====<br />
Members may not post .gif images of a size that exceeds 1.5 MB.<br />
<br />
Members may not use signatures where the total size in bytes of all signature images combined is more than 250 KB.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Off-topic Posting (1, 2 or 4 points)====<br />
Topicality is expected and will be enforced on all forums, so take the extra time to post on the proper forum. Examples of off-topic posting include, but are not limited to:<br />
<br />
* Threads that are not related to the topic of the forum in question, or that contain no material that can reasonably be discussed<br />
* Posts that are not related to the topic of the thread in question, or that contain no material that can reasonably be discussed<br />
* Re-posting threads that you know have already been posted elsewhere<br />
* Outside of the Administrative Forums, personal references, whether implicit or explicit, are off-topic. Personal references of a negative or derogatory nature and statements that disrupt the discussion, regardless of intent, will be singled out in particular.<br />
* Any quote of another member in a signature has to be fully referenced by use of a link to the quoted post and not be edited as to blatantly misrepresent the wording of the quoted member.<br />
* Unsolicited advertisement for any website, product, service, funding request or facility not first approved by TWC staff<br />
* Patreon and PayPal links will be allowed in signatures, the first post of a mod thread, or in a sticky in a Hosted Mod forum.<br />
<br />
You can advertise websites, products, etc., in your signature, avatar, or other profile fields, as long as you post productively and don't just try to get exposure for your advertisements. Recommendation of websites, products, or other resources are also allowed if relevant to legitimate discussions. <br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Censor Bypassing (1 or 2 points)====<br />
Attempting to bypass the censor by misspelling, inserting spaces or symbols, transposing letters, using look-alike symbols, or any other method is not allowed. For example, if "gris" is a banned word:<br />
<br />
* Not allowed: g-r-i-s, gr*s, g***, 9|-1$, girs, gryeeeas, grizznizz, **** (rhymes with "bris")<br />
* Allowed: ****, ****ed, ****ing, g'ed, g-word<br />
<br />
Prohibited words may not be used in images. If external websites or videos use prohibited words, you can link to them or embed them only if you post a warning alongside the link/video.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
====Hard-to-Read Posts (1 or 2 points)====<br />
Posts that disrupt the message boards for other users, intentional or not, are prohibited. This includes, but is not limited, to:<br />
<br />
* Conducting conversations in languages other than English. The exception is in forums explicitly designated for a specific language other than English.<br />
* Posting excessively in capital letters, leet speak, or other hard-to-read writing styles<br />
* Using misleading topic titles<br />
* Consecutive posting. (I.e., double posts, triple posts)<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Contempt of Court (variable)==== <br />
This infraction is given for violations that occur within the Tribunal. It is given by administrators at the request of the Tribunes. The infraction forfeits use of the Tribunal for one month '''and cannot be appealed.''' Points vary based on the specific violation that incurs the Contempt of Court infraction<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Disruptive Posting (1, 3, or 6 Points)====<br />
Any post(s) designed to disrupt the flow of conversation, radically change the topic of the thread or elicit a response that violates these Terms of Service.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Defying Moderators (1, 3, or 6 Points)====<br />
<br />
Any action that disregards a staff moderator's specific request, whether the request is made by a post in the thread, by PM to the user, or by other means such as, but not limited to, forum Announcements. The requests can be, but are not limited to:<br />
<br />
* Re-posting content (text, images, video, etc) that was previously removed by a moderator<br />
* Re-posting a thread on a topic that was previously closed by a moderator<br />
* Ignoring a thread warning made by a moderator<br />
* Taking action that has previously been warned against by a moderator<br />
* Refusing to follow reasonable directives pertaining to moderation<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Insulting Others (1, 3, or 6 points)====<br />
Posts clearly insulting other board members, individually or as a group, directly or indirectly, are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to:<br />
<br />
* Name-calling ("You're an idiot", "You moron")<br />
* Direct insults ("Screw you")<br />
* Offensive orders ("Go kill yourself", "Shut up")<br />
* Using threatening, harassing, defamatory, hate-speech, or libelous language<br />
* Using race, religion, sexual orientation, culture, ethnicity, handicap, nationality, or gender as a means of insult, either directly or implied<br />
* Insinuations ("Are you stupid or something?") or insults towards family ("Your mom...")<br />
<br />
Instead, members should criticize the post, not the poster. SEGA, the Creative Assembly, and related bodies are considered board members for this purpose, since some of them are. You can still criticize their games without insulting them personally.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Obscene Content (1, 3, 6, or 12 points)====<br />
Obscene content is not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to:<br />
<br />
1. Providing images, videos, or verbal descriptions of nudity. This includes, but is not limited to:<br />
*Any figure whose genitals, pubic hair, buttocks, or (if female) nipples or areolas are exposed, partially or totally; or are not exposed, but it's clear that this is only because of the angle of the shot or incidental intervening objects (e.g., hands, hair, bits of cloth).<br />
*Visible outlines of genitals or female nipples through clothing.<br />
*Anything that falls narrowly outside the previous provisions, at the discretion of the moderators.<br />
*Verbally describing or providing image, video, or audio files that represent or hint at sexual acts. Passing references may be acceptable, but descriptions that are graphic or include any details are not permitted.<br />
<br />
This applies to photographs, drawings, or any other representation of humanoid figures. It may also apply to non-humanoid figures such as animals, at the discretion of the moderators. Nudity may be permitted for serious and non-titillating purposes, such as the exhibition of recognized art or historical models in modifications, at the discretion of the moderators.<br />
<br />
2. Providing images, videos, or verbal descriptions of an unreasonably disgusting nature. This includes, but is not limited to:<br />
*Excrement and other obscene example of bodily functions.<br />
*Real-world violence and extreme gore, including executions and the dead or wounded of armed conflict.<br />
*Extreme virtual or imagined violence.<br />
<br />
Links may not be posted for the purpose of providing obscene content. If a website incidentally includes some reasonably obscene content, it's acceptable to link to it for some other purpose as long as a clear warning is given. Similarly, if content incidentally includes some reasonably obscene content, it's acceptable to include it in a post for some other purpose, as long as a clear warning is given and the reader must actively click a button to view it (e.g., spoiler boxes or YouTube videos).<br />
<br />
Excessively obscene content, particularly porn and extreme gore, is still not allowed to be posted or linked to in any fashion. The distinction between acceptable and excessive obscenity is at the discretion of the moderators. As always, if you are not sure, ask a moderator. <br />
<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Using Modders' Work Without Permission (1, 3, or 6 points)====<br />
Using part or all of any modification without permission is prohibited.<br />
Distributing part or all of any modification is prohibited if:<br />
*it is distributed exclusively via Steam and the author has not given express permission to create non-steam mirrors.<br />
*the author(s) has expressly forbidden its further distribution.<br />
*there is no proper and full accreditation of the author(s).<br />
Alternate mirrors are permitted for authorised uploads as long as full credit is given to the author(s).<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Evading a Suspension (1, 3, or 6 points)====<br />
Suspended or banned users must not create or use additional accounts. Users banned from a particular activity (such as posting visitor messages, posting in a particular forum, etc.) must not use any other account to perform that activity. In addition to [[#Terms Violations|the normal penalties]], the user's ban may be extended, and the additional account they made will be banned indefinitely.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Impersonation (1 or 4 points)====<br />
*Falsely claiming to be another specific message board member or other known individual or holding a rank to which you are not entitled (moderator, administrator, Creative Assembly employee, or any type of staff member), or sockpuppeting is not allowed.<br />
*Impersonating others by claiming their intellectual effort as your own is prohibited, as is failing to properly reference it. As such, all material must be sourced with a link and/or [quote][/quote] tags.<br />
*While the use of alternative accounts is permissible, the misuse of such accounts (such as but not limited to self-repping, multi-voting in polls et.c.) will carry an additional penalty commensurate with the offense (loss of rep etc).<br />
<br />
Moderators may use discretion in enforcing this against impersonations that are clearly not serious and so unlikely to fool anyone.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Promoting Illegal Activities (1, 4, or 8 points)====<br />
Posts that promote violation of the law are not allowed. Violation of the law includes, but is not limited to:<br />
<br />
* Substantial use of copyrighted material without permission. Examples of acceptable uses would be brief quotes, fan art, signature/avatar images, brief video clips (e.g., YouTube), screenshots, or reasonably limited decorative images in a mod. Unacceptable uses would include entire songs, long videos, large collections of images, altered game executables, pirated operating systems, unmodified game files (except those released by the developers themselves, for example converted .bin files released by CA for M2TW) that are not essential parts of modifications or anything that competes with the work you're copying (i.e., people might just download your copy instead of buying the original). The exact threshold of substantial use will be decided on a case-by-case basis ― if in doubt, consult Moderation Staff.<br />
* Obtaining or providing ways to circumvent copy protection. This includes no-CD hacks, key generators, hacked ROMs, etc.<br />
* Cheating in online games, or otherwise violating license agreements.<br />
* Possessing, distributing, or using drugs in a way that would be illegal in most jurisdictions (e.g., owning marijuana).<br />
<br />
"Promoting" illegal activity includes, but is not limited to:<br />
<br />
* Asking for someone else to commit an illegal activity (e.g., asking for a cracked game).<br />
* Assisting someone else in an illegal activity (e.g., linking to a site that distributes cracked games).<br />
* Encouraging or advocating an illegal activity, or portraying it as normal or acceptable (e.g., casually mentioning that you have pirated games/smoked pot/etc. as though this were normal and acceptable). Exceptions will be made for threads that are devoted to serious discussion of illegal activities in an abstract sense (e.g., about whether copyright law should be relaxed or marijuana should be legalized), on a case-by-case basis.<br />
<br />
What exactly qualifies as illegal depends on jurisdiction. When jurisdictions differ on whether something is legal, moderators will decide on a case-by-case basis which jurisdiction to follow.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Harassment or Invasion of Privacy (1, 4, or 8 points)====<br />
Continual harassing behavior directed towards a certain individual or group with the intent of creating an intimidating, offensive, or hostile environment on the boards, with or without use of explicit or implicit threats is prohibited. Posting private information without permission is also prohibited.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Inappropriate Content in Blogs or Blog Comments====<br />
Some content is not appropriate for blogs and blog comments. If you have a blog, or if you post comments on any blogs, you must follow these rules, which will be applied strictly:<br />
* no religion<br />
* no politics<br />
* no content which breaks any other part of TWC's Terms of Service (please note that this means all content must be family friendly).<br />
<br />
Anyone who breaks these rules will lose the ability to post blogs and also the ability to post comments on blogs, and their blog will be deleted. Appeals to the Tribunal will have no effect on this decision - this is a purely administrative matter and the decision will be made by the site administrators.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Other====<br />
Any activity not previously outlined but still deemed detrimental to the operation of the site, normal activities of the board and flow of conversation may be subject to moderation. Users responsible for these posts may be penalized at the discretion of the Hexagon council and the Moderation branch.<br />
</li><br />
</ol><br />
<br />
===Violations of the Terms of Service===<br />
Violations of the Terms of Service are tracked using the Infraction System, which allows moderators to record transgressions in a reliable and centralized fashion. All such records are viewable in the user's profile to Administrators, Moderators, Tribunes and the user in question only.<br />
<br />
====Notes====<br />
Notes are given when the actions of a member require Moderation to officially contact them regarding a violation. They are a formal record of that contact and do not increase a member's Infraction Level in and of themselves, however further violations of the same type would lead to Infractions at Moderation's Discretion. They are recorded both to let other moderators know that the user has been informed of the particular rule, and to give the user a record of all contacts with moderators they have had.<br />
<br />
====Infractions====<br />
Infractions are given when a member commits an offense of a type for which they have already received a Note, or if the offense was deemed sufficiently great that Moderation do not consider a Note to be appropriate. Infractions expire after three months and contribute toward a member's Infraction Level. The number of points given for a particular offense is down to Moderation's Discretion. The possible values are given next to each offense type listed in the Member Conduct section.<br />
<br />
====Infraction Levels====<br />
<br />
Infraction Levels lead to penalties as follows:<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Ability to view social groups and leave visitor messages removed<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Can neither give nor display reputation<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || No posting in the Discussion & Debate Forums<br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Suspension for 1 day and no custom title or invisible mode<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Suspension for 3 days and cannot use avatar/signature/profile picture<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Suspension for 7 days and placement in probation in addition to a permanent resetting of the user's reputation points to 0<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Suspension for 30 days along with all of the above penalties.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Penalties last until the Infraction Level is reduced below the specified number of points unless otherwise specified. Release from probation is at Moderation's discretion. <br />
<br />
===TWC's Probation System===<br />
<br />
If a user is a repeat offender they may be entered into the probation system, following discussion amongst Moderation Staff. A user will be put on probation automatically if they receive 20 infraction points over the course of 12 months or reach 16 active infraction points at any time.<br />
<br />
====How it works====<br />
<br />
* If a user violates the terms of their probation, it results in a suspension, from one day to a month or more.<br />
* Subsequent suspensions during a probation period may increase in length.<br />
* The length of probation period is decided by Moderation Staff and is usually no shorter than three months.<br />
* A user on probation will have their case reviewed periodically, which may result in the user's removal from probation at the discretion of Moderation Staff.<br />
* The user in question is made fully aware of the rules and function of the system.<br />
* A user on probation will receive a "Probation" note, which will be reversed when the user is removed from probation.<br />
<br />
====And what about the "permaban"?====<br />
<br />
The permaban is normally reserved for cases of spambots and posting porn.<br />
<br />
== See Also ==<br />
<br />
*[http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?688585-Moderation-FAQ Moderation FAQ]<br />
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==Terms of Service==<br />
<br />
Total War Center (TWC) provides the services to you, the visitor, based on its Terms of Service (TOS) outlined here. When using the services provided by TWC, you are subject to these posted terms. Usage of the services on this site indicates acceptance of these terms. The TOS may be changed at any time and without direct notice to individual visitors, so it is recommended that you check back with this page whenever you have questions or concerns.<br />
<br />
===Registration Requirements===<br />
In order to view messages on the TWC message boards without user restrictions, no registration is required or necessary. In order to post messages on the boards, and use other advanced services, you must register with TWCenter. Provision of a valid e-mail address is recommended to permit recovery of your account should you forget your password, but it is not currently required.<br />
<br />
TWCenter does not require you to use your real name or other identification that can be easily traced to you, and the e-mail address you provide will be kept private. In order to register on TWCenter, registrants must be 13 years of age or older. TWC does not knowingly collect any information from any users under 13 years, and if it is found that an underage user has fraudulently registered, their account will immediately be terminated.<br />
<br />
===Content Notice===<br />
By viewing the site content, you agree that all content on the TWCenter message boards is the responsibility of the person from which the content originated. You agree that neither TWCenter nor its sponsors or affiliates are responsible for all content that you personally post or upload. TWCenter does not directly control any content posted on the boards, and does not guarantee the truthfulness or quality of any content.<br />
<br />
You agree that while using the TWCenter message boards, you may be exposed to content that is offensive or objectionable, and that you will in no way hold TWCenter nor its sponsors or affiliates liable in any way, shape, or form for any harm or loss that may come to you or others as a result of viewing this content. TWCenter is not responsible for screening content before it is posted, although an offensive language filter is installed on the system that will reject certain posts that may contain certain words deemed offensive or used most often in an offensive way.<br />
<br />
===Account Responsibility===<br />
Users are solely responsible for protecting their accounts from access by others. You 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.<br />
<br />
While it is acceptable for users to maintain multiple accounts on TWCenter, TWC can and does track multiple shared accounts from a single or multiple computers as one account in terms of TOS violations. If the TOS is violated severely enough to warrant the banning of one account, all known accounts shared between a single or multiple users who use the same computer may also be banned for the actions of the violating account at the administrators' discretion.<br />
<br />
Because of this rule, it is highly recommended that board users do not share their accounts with others, nor share their computers used to access the site with others, as the actions of some other person could easily directly impact all known shared message board accounts.<br />
<br />
===Privacy and Release of Information===<br />
TWC is a non-commercial site staffed by volunteers, and cannot provide a binding guarantee of privacy to its members (except as required by law). However, we try to protect our members' privacy as far as is reasonable.<br />
<br />
Visiting any website will expose your IP address to that website. We may store members' IP addresses indefinitely for record-keeping purposes. We may also use services such as advertisements and analytics scripts to fund the operation of the site, let us run it more effectively, or for any other reason. Visitors' IP addresses may be exposed to the providers of those services to allow them to function, and we have no control over how this information is used.<br />
<br />
As is customary on web forums, we permit members to hotlink images and other media from other websites, for convenience and to reduce our bandwidth costs. Anyone viewing a page with a hotlinked file will necessarily have their IP address exposed to whatever site hosts the file. All of the foregoing also applies to other possibly identifying information, such as User-Agent strings.<br />
<br />
Users must be logged into a TWC account to edit the Wiki.<br />
<br />
TWC uses cookies for a variety of purposes. Cookies are necessary to allow users to log in to the forum and the wiki. They are also used to compile publicly-viewable statistics such as "Who's Online", to allow moderators to track violators of the rules, and possibly for a variety of other purposes. Browsers will typically accept cookies by default from any site they request content from, so any site that a TWC page includes content from might also set cookies.<br />
<br />
Some information (for instance, e-mail address) is deliberately submitted by members and is not publicly viewable. This information may be kept indefinitely, but will not normally be given out to third parties or posted publicly. Sending e-mail using the forum or wiki might reveal the sender's e-mail address to the recipient.<br />
<br />
TWC does not normally send unsolicited bulk e-mail. Automated or bulk e-mails are normally sent only to members who have opted in to thread subscriptions or other features. Members may opt out of these features by altering their [http://www.twcenter.net/forums/usercp.php forum preferences] or [https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=Special:Preferences wiki preferences]. Moderators and administrators may send personalized, non-bulk e-mail to members on occasion regardless of preferences.<br />
<br />
Users who would like a greater degree of privacy should configure their browser appropriately. Some popular browsers can be configured not to accept cookies without confirmation, not to save cookies for some sites, not to load files from some sites, etc. Users who disable features of their browser might not be able to fully use the site (e.g., some cookies are necessary to allow login).<br />
<br />
===Modding Permissions Policy===<br />
Modders/Mod Teams who use TWC as a medium to promote or share their work are asked to provide a permissions statement. This must state whether and under what conditions permission to use their work in another mod would be granted if it is not possible to contact them. Where such a statement is provided then the Hexagon Council/Moderation will enforce it. Staff recognises however that not all modders or mod teams have such a statement, but may still be uncontactable. If the following conditions are met and the original Modder/Mod Team does not deny permission, use of that work will not lead to further action:<br />
*Those requesting permission to use the work of another must show the Hexagon Council/Moderation that they have attempted to contact the original modder/mod team themselves and have not been answered.<br />
*An attempt by Hex to contact the original modder/mod team needs have gone unanswered for a month or more.<br />
*The original modder/mod team has been inactive on TWC for at least 2 years.<br />
*Hex are satisfied that if the original modder/mod team were present that permission would have been given.<br />
Use of work without receiving permission and without meeting the above conditions is liable to penalisation as detailed in the Member Conduct section below.<br />
<br />
===Moderator Discretion===<br />
<br />
The list following below is intended to cover all ToS violations, but it is naturally impossible to include examples of every single possible variation. Therefore moderator discretion will be exercised and moderating action should be expected where and when moderators deem appropriate, that might not exactly correspond to any of the following violation categories.<br />
<br />
===Member Conduct===<br />
You agree that you will not use any aspect of this service including -but not limited to- the wiki, blogs, social groups, tags, visitor messages and private messages, to perform the following actions:<br />
<br />
<ol><br />
<li><br />
====Image Size Violation (1 point)====<br />
Members may not post .gif images of a size that exceeds 1.5 MB.<br />
<br />
Members may not use signatures where the total size in bytes of all signature images combined is more than 250 KB.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Off-topic Posting (1, 2 or 4 points)====<br />
Topicality is expected and will be enforced on all forums, so take the extra time to post on the proper forum. Examples of off-topic posting include, but are not limited to:<br />
<br />
* Threads that are not related to the topic of the forum in question, or that contain no material that can reasonably be discussed<br />
* Posts that are not related to the topic of the thread in question, or that contain no material that can reasonably be discussed<br />
* Re-posting threads that you know have already been posted elsewhere<br />
* Outside of the Administrative Forums, personal references, whether implicit or explicit, are off-topic. Personal references of a negative or derogatory nature and statements that disrupt the discussion, regardless of intent, will be singled out in particular.<br />
* Any quote of another member in a signature has to be fully referenced by use of a link to the quoted post and not be edited as to blatantly misrepresent the wording of the quoted member.<br />
* Unsolicited advertisement for any website, product, service, funding request or facility not first approved by TWC staff<br />
* Patreon and PayPal links will be allowed in signatures, the first post of a mod thread, or in a sticky in a Hosted Mod forum.<br />
<br />
You can advertise websites, products, etc., in your signature, avatar, or other profile fields, as long as you post productively and don't just try to get exposure for your advertisements. Recommendation of websites, products, or other resources are also allowed if relevant to legitimate discussions. <br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Censor Bypassing (1 or 2 points)====<br />
Attempting to bypass the censor by misspelling, inserting spaces or symbols, transposing letters, using look-alike symbols, or any other method is not allowed. For example, if "gris" is a banned word:<br />
<br />
* Not allowed: g-r-i-s, gr*s, g***, 9|-1$, girs, gryeeeas, grizznizz, **** (rhymes with "bris")<br />
* Allowed: ****, ****ed, ****ing, g'ed, g-word<br />
<br />
Prohibited words may not be used in images. If external websites or videos use prohibited words, you can link to them or embed them only if you post a warning alongside the link/video.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
====Hard-to-Read Posts (1 or 2 points)====<br />
Posts that disrupt the message boards for other users, intentional or not, are prohibited. This includes, but is not limited, to:<br />
<br />
* Conducting conversations in languages other than English. The exception is in forums explicitly designated for a specific language other than English.<br />
* Posting excessively in capital letters, leet speak, or other hard-to-read writing styles<br />
* Using misleading topic titles<br />
* Consecutive posting. (I.e., double posts, triple posts)<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Contempt of Court (variable)==== <br />
This infraction is given for violations that occur within the Tribunal. It is given by administrators at the request of the Tribunes. The infraction forfeits use of the Tribunal for one month '''and cannot be appealed.''' Points vary based on the specific violation that incurs the Contempt of Court infraction<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Disruptive Posting (1, 3, or 6 Points)====<br />
Any post(s) designed to disrupt the flow of conversation, radically change the topic of the thread or elicit a response that violates these Terms of Service.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Defying Moderators (1, 3, or 6 Points)====<br />
<br />
Any action that disregards a staff moderator's specific request, whether the request is made by a post in the thread, by PM to the user, or by other means such as, but not limited to, forum Announcements. The requests can be, but are not limited to:<br />
<br />
* Re-posting content (text, images, video, etc) that was previously removed by a moderator<br />
* Re-posting a thread on a topic that was previously closed by a moderator<br />
* Ignoring a thread warning made by a moderator<br />
* Taking action that has previously been warned against by a moderator<br />
* Refusing to follow reasonable directives pertaining to moderation<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Insulting Others (1, 3, or 6 points)====<br />
Posts clearly insulting other board members, individually or as a group, directly or indirectly, are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to:<br />
<br />
* Name-calling ("You're an idiot", "You moron")<br />
* Direct insults ("Screw you")<br />
* Offensive orders ("Go kill yourself", "Shut up")<br />
* Using threatening, harassing, defamatory, hate-speech, or libelous language<br />
* Using race, religion, sexual orientation, culture, ethnicity, handicap, nationality, or gender as a means of insult, either directly or implied<br />
* Insinuations ("Are you stupid or something?") or insults towards family ("Your mom...")<br />
<br />
Instead, members should criticize the post, not the poster. SEGA, the Creative Assembly, and related bodies are considered board members for this purpose, since some of them are. You can still criticize their games without insulting them personally.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Obscene Content (1, 3, 6, or 12 points)====<br />
Obscene content is not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to:<br />
<br />
1. Providing images, videos, or verbal descriptions of nudity. This includes, but is not limited to:<br />
*Any figure whose genitals, pubic hair, buttocks, or (if female) nipples or areolas are exposed, partially or totally; or are not exposed, but it's clear that this is only because of the angle of the shot or incidental intervening objects (e.g., hands, hair, bits of cloth).<br />
*Visible outlines of genitals or female nipples through clothing.<br />
*Anything that falls narrowly outside the previous provisions, at the discretion of the moderators.<br />
*Verbally describing or providing image, video, or audio files that represent or hint at sexual acts. Passing references may be acceptable, but descriptions that are graphic or include any details are not permitted.<br />
<br />
This applies to photographs, drawings, or any other representation of humanoid figures. It may also apply to non-humanoid figures such as animals, at the discretion of the moderators. Nudity may be permitted for serious and non-titillating purposes, such as the exhibition of recognized art or historical models in modifications, at the discretion of the moderators.<br />
<br />
2. Providing images, videos, or verbal descriptions of an unreasonably disgusting nature. This includes, but is not limited to:<br />
*Excrement and other obscene example of bodily functions.<br />
*Real-world violence and extreme gore, including executions and the dead or wounded of armed conflict.<br />
*Extreme virtual or imagined violence.<br />
<br />
Links may not be posted for the purpose of providing obscene content. If a website incidentally includes some reasonably obscene content, it's acceptable to link to it for some other purpose as long as a clear warning is given. Similarly, if content incidentally includes some reasonably obscene content, it's acceptable to include it in a post for some other purpose, as long as a clear warning is given and the reader must actively click a button to view it (e.g., spoiler boxes or YouTube videos).<br />
<br />
Excessively obscene content, particularly porn and extreme gore, is still not allowed to be posted or linked to in any fashion. The distinction between acceptable and excessive obscenity is at the discretion of the moderators. As always, if you are not sure, ask a moderator. <br />
<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Using Modders' Work Without Permission (1, 3, or 6 points)====<br />
Using part or all of any modification without permission is prohibited.<br />
Distributing part or all of any modification is prohibited if:<br />
*it is distributed exclusively via Steam and the author has not given express permission to create non-steam mirrors.<br />
*the author(s) has expressly forbidden its further distribution.<br />
*there is no proper and full accreditation of the author(s).<br />
Alternate mirrors are permitted for authorised uploads as long as full credit is given to the author(s).<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Evading a Suspension (1, 3, or 6 points)====<br />
Suspended or banned users must not create or use additional accounts. Users banned from a particular activity (such as posting visitor messages, posting in a particular forum, etc.) must not use any other account to perform that activity. In addition to [[#Terms Violations|the normal penalties for warnings]], the user's ban may be extended, and the additional account they made will be banned indefinitely.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Impersonation (1 or 4 points)====<br />
*Falsely claiming to be another specific message board member or other known individual or holding a rank to which you are not entitled (moderator, administrator, Creative Assembly employee, or any type of staff member), or sockpuppeting is not allowed.<br />
*Impersonating others by claiming their intellectual effort as your own is prohibited, as is failing to properly reference it. As such, all material must be sourced with a link and/or [quote][/quote] tags.<br />
*While the use of alternative accounts is permissible, the misuse of such accounts (such as but not limited to self-repping, multi-voting in polls et.c.) will carry an additional penalty commensurate with the offense (loss of rep etc).<br />
<br />
Moderators may use discretion in enforcing this against impersonations that are clearly not serious and so unlikely to fool anyone.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Promoting Illegal Activities (1, 4, or 8 points)====<br />
Posts that promote violation of the law are not allowed. Violation of the law includes, but is not limited to:<br />
<br />
* Substantial use of copyrighted material without permission. Examples of acceptable uses would be brief quotes, fan art, signature/avatar images, brief video clips (e.g., YouTube), screenshots, or reasonably limited decorative images in a mod. Unacceptable uses would include entire songs, long videos, large collections of images, altered game executables, pirated operating systems, unmodified game files (except those released by the developers themselves, for example converted .bin files released by CA for M2TW) that are not essential parts of modifications or anything that competes with the work you're copying (i.e., people might just download your copy instead of buying the original). The exact threshold of substantial use will be decided on a case-by-case basis ― if in doubt, consult Moderation Staff.<br />
* Obtaining or providing ways to circumvent copy protection. This includes no-CD hacks, key generators, hacked ROMs, etc.<br />
* Cheating in online games, or otherwise violating license agreements.<br />
* Possessing, distributing, or using drugs in a way that would be illegal in most jurisdictions (e.g., owning marijuana).<br />
<br />
"Promoting" illegal activity includes, but is not limited to:<br />
<br />
* Asking for someone else to commit an illegal activity (e.g., asking for a cracked game).<br />
* Assisting someone else in an illegal activity (e.g., linking to a site that distributes cracked games).<br />
* Encouraging or advocating an illegal activity, or portraying it as normal or acceptable (e.g., casually mentioning that you have pirated games/smoked pot/etc. as though this were normal and acceptable). Exceptions will be made for threads that are devoted to serious discussion of illegal activities in an abstract sense (e.g., about whether copyright law should be relaxed or marijuana should be legalized), on a case-by-case basis.<br />
<br />
What exactly qualifies as illegal depends on jurisdiction. When jurisdictions differ on whether something is legal, moderators will decide on a case-by-case basis which jurisdiction to follow.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Harassment or Invasion of Privacy (1, 4, or 8 points)====<br />
Continual harassing behavior directed towards a certain individual or group with the intent of creating an intimidating, offensive, or hostile environment on the boards, with or without use of explicit or implicit threats is prohibited. Posting private information without permission is also prohibited.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Inappropriate Content in Blogs or Blog Comments====<br />
Some content is not appropriate for blogs and blog comments. If you have a blog, or if you post comments on any blogs, you must follow these rules, which will be applied strictly:<br />
* no religion<br />
* no politics<br />
* no content which breaks any other part of TWC's Terms of Service (please note that this means all content must be family friendly).<br />
<br />
Anyone who breaks these rules will lose the ability to post blogs and also the ability to post comments on blogs, and their blog will be deleted. Appeals to the Tribunal will have no effect on this decision - this is a purely administrative matter and the decision will be made by the site administrators.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Other====<br />
Any activity not previously outlined but still deemed detrimental to the operation of the site, normal activities of the board and flow of conversation may be subject to moderation. Users responsible for these posts may be penalized at the discretion of the Hexagon council and the Moderation branch.<br />
</li><br />
</ol><br />
<br />
===Violations of the Terms of Service===<br />
Violations of the Terms of Service are tracked using the Infraction System, which allows moderators to record transgressions in a reliable and centralized fashion. All such records are viewable in the user's profile to Administrators, Moderators, Tribunes and the user in question only.<br />
<br />
====Notes====<br />
Notes are given when the actions of a member require Moderation to officially contact them regarding a violation. They are a formal record of that contact and do not increase a member's Infraction Level in and of themselves, however further violations of the same type would lead to Infractions at Moderation's Discretion. They are recorded both to let other moderators know that the user has been informed of the particular rule, and to give the user a record of all contacts with moderators they have had.<br />
<br />
====Infractions====<br />
Infractions are given when a member commits an offense of a type for which they have already received a Note, or if the offense was deemed sufficiently great that Moderation do not consider a Note to be appropriate. Infractions expire after three months and contribute toward a member's Infraction Level. The number of points given for a particular offense is down to Moderation's Discretion. The possible values are given next to each offense type listed in the Member Conduct section.<br />
<br />
====Infraction Levels====<br />
<br />
Infraction Levels lead to penalties as follows:<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Ability to view social groups and leave visitor messages removed<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Can neither give nor display reputation<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || No posting in the Discussion & Debate Forums<br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Suspension for 1 day and no custom title or invisible mode<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Suspension for 3 days and cannot use avatar/signature/profile picture<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Suspension for 7 days and placement in probation in addition to a permanent resetting of the user's reputation points to 0<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Suspension for 30 days along with all of the above penalties.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Penalties last until the Infraction Level is reduced below the specified number of points unless otherwise specified. Release from probation is at Moderation's discretion. <br />
<br />
===TWC's Probation System===<br />
<br />
If a user is a repeat offender they may be entered into the probation system, following discussion amongst Moderation Staff. A user will be put on probation automatically if they receive 20 infraction points over the course of 12 months or reach 16 active infraction points at any time.<br />
<br />
====How it works====<br />
<br />
* If a user violates the terms of their probation, it results in a suspension, from one day to a month or more.<br />
* Subsequent suspensions during a probation period may increase in length.<br />
* The length of probation period is decided by Moderation Staff and is usually no shorter than three months.<br />
* A user on probation will have their case reviewed periodically, which may result in the user's removal from probation at the discretion of Moderation Staff.<br />
* The user in question is made fully aware of the rules and function of the system.<br />
* A user on probation will receive a "Probation" note, which will be reversed when the user is removed from probation.<br />
<br />
====And what about the "permaban"?====<br />
<br />
The permaban is normally reserved for cases of spambots and posting porn.<br />
<br />
== See Also ==<br />
<br />
*[http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?688585-Moderation-FAQ Moderation FAQ]<br />
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==Terms of Service==<br />
<br />
Total War Center (TWC) provides the services to you, the visitor, based on its Terms of Service (TOS) outlined here. When using the services provided by TWC, you are subject to these posted terms. Usage of the services on this site indicates acceptance of these terms. The TOS may be changed at any time and without direct notice to individual visitors, so it is recommended that you check back with this page whenever you have questions or concerns.<br />
<br />
===Registration Requirements===<br />
In order to view messages on the TWC message boards without user restrictions, no registration is required or necessary. In order to post messages on the boards, and use other advanced services, you must register with TWCenter. Provision of a valid e-mail address is recommended to permit recovery of your account should you forget your password, but it is not currently required.<br />
<br />
TWCenter does not require you to use your real name or other identification that can be easily traced to you, and the e-mail address you provide will be kept private. In order to register on TWCenter, registrants must be 13 years of age or older. TWC does not knowingly collect any information from any users under 13 years, and if it is found that an underage user has fraudulently registered, their account will immediately be terminated.<br />
<br />
===Content Notice===<br />
By viewing the site content, you agree that all content on the TWCenter message boards is the responsibility of the person from which the content originated. You agree that neither TWCenter nor its sponsors or affiliates are responsible for all content that you personally post or upload. TWCenter does not directly control any content posted on the boards, and does not guarantee the truthfulness or quality of any content.<br />
<br />
You agree that while using the TWCenter message boards, you may be exposed to content that is offensive or objectionable, and that you will in no way hold TWCenter nor its sponsors or affiliates liable in any way, shape, or form for any harm or loss that may come to you or others as a result of viewing this content. TWCenter is not responsible for screening content before it is posted, although an offensive language filter is installed on the system that will reject certain posts that may contain certain words deemed offensive or used most often in an offensive way.<br />
<br />
===Account Responsibility===<br />
Users are solely responsible for protecting their accounts from access by others. You 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.<br />
<br />
While it is acceptable for users to maintain multiple accounts on TWCenter, TWC can and does track multiple shared accounts from a single or multiple computers as one account in terms of TOS violations. If the TOS is violated severely enough to warrant the banning of one account, all known accounts shared between a single or multiple users who use the same computer may also be banned for the actions of the violating account at the administrators' discretion.<br />
<br />
Because of this rule, it is highly recommended that board users do not share their accounts with others, nor share their computers used to access the site with others, as the actions of some other person could easily directly impact all known shared message board accounts.<br />
<br />
===Privacy and Release of Information===<br />
TWC is a non-commercial site staffed by volunteers, and cannot provide a binding guarantee of privacy to its members (except as required by law). However, we try to protect our members' privacy as far as is reasonable.<br />
<br />
Visiting any website will expose your IP address to that website. We may store members' IP addresses indefinitely for record-keeping purposes. We may also use services such as advertisements and analytics scripts to fund the operation of the site, let us run it more effectively, or for any other reason. Visitors' IP addresses may be exposed to the providers of those services to allow them to function, and we have no control over how this information is used.<br />
<br />
As is customary on web forums, we permit members to hotlink images and other media from other websites, for convenience and to reduce our bandwidth costs. Anyone viewing a page with a hotlinked file will necessarily have their IP address exposed to whatever site hosts the file. All of the foregoing also applies to other possibly identifying information, such as User-Agent strings.<br />
<br />
Users must be logged into a TWC account to edit the Wiki.<br />
<br />
TWC uses cookies for a variety of purposes. Cookies are necessary to allow users to log in to the forum and the wiki. They are also used to compile publicly-viewable statistics such as "Who's Online", to allow moderators to track violators of the rules, and possibly for a variety of other purposes. Browsers will typically accept cookies by default from any site they request content from, so any site that a TWC page includes content from might also set cookies.<br />
<br />
Some information (for instance, e-mail address) is deliberately submitted by members and is not publicly viewable. This information may be kept indefinitely, but will not normally be given out to third parties or posted publicly. Sending e-mail using the forum or wiki might reveal the sender's e-mail address to the recipient.<br />
<br />
TWC does not normally send unsolicited bulk e-mail. Automated or bulk e-mails are normally sent only to members who have opted in to thread subscriptions or other features. Members may opt out of these features by altering their [http://www.twcenter.net/forums/usercp.php forum preferences] or [https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=Special:Preferences wiki preferences]. Moderators and administrators may send personalized, non-bulk e-mail to members on occasion regardless of preferences.<br />
<br />
Users who would like a greater degree of privacy should configure their browser appropriately. Some popular browsers can be configured not to accept cookies without confirmation, not to save cookies for some sites, not to load files from some sites, etc. Users who disable features of their browser might not be able to fully use the site (e.g., some cookies are necessary to allow login).<br />
<br />
===Modding Permissions Policy===<br />
Modders/Mod Teams who use TWC as a medium to promote or share their work are asked to provide a permissions statement. This must state whether and under what conditions permission to use their work in another mod would be granted if it is not possible to contact them. Where such a statement is provided then the Hexagon Council/Moderation will enforce it. Staff recognises however that not all modders or mod teams have such a statement, but may still be uncontactable. If the following conditions are met and the original Modder/Mod Team does not deny permission, use of that work will not lead to further action:<br />
*Those requesting permission to use the work of another must show the Hexagon Council/Moderation that they have attempted to contact the original modder/mod team themselves and have not been answered.<br />
*An attempt by Hex to contact the original modder/mod team needs have gone unanswered for a month or more.<br />
*The original modder/mod team has been inactive on TWC for at least 2 years.<br />
*Hex are satisfied that if the original modder/mod team were present that permission would have been given.<br />
Use of work without receiving permission and without meeting the above conditions is liable to penalisation as detailed in the Member Conduct section below.<br />
<br />
===Moderator Discretion===<br />
<br />
The list following below is intended to cover all ToS violations, but it is naturally impossible to include examples of every single possible variation. Therefore moderator discretion will be exercised and moderating action should be expected where and when moderators deem appropriate, that might not exactly correspond to any of the following violation categories.<br />
<br />
===Member Conduct===<br />
You agree that you will not use any aspect of this service including -but not limited to- the wiki, blogs, social groups, tags, visitor messages and private messages, to perform the following actions:<br />
<br />
<ol><br />
<li><br />
====Image Size Violation (1 point)====<br />
Members may not post .gif images of a size that exceeds 1.5 MB.<br />
<br />
Members may not use signatures where the total size in bytes of all signature images combined is more than 250 KB.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Off-topic Posting (1, 2 or 4 points)====<br />
Topicality is expected and will be enforced on all forums, so take the extra time to post on the proper forum. Examples of off-topic posting include, but are not limited to:<br />
<br />
* Threads that are not related to the topic of the forum in question, or that contain no material that can reasonably be discussed<br />
* Posts that are not related to the topic of the thread in question, or that contain no material that can reasonably be discussed<br />
* Re-posting threads that you know have already been posted elsewhere<br />
* Outside of the Administrative Forums, personal references, whether implicit or explicit, are off-topic. Personal references of a negative or derogatory nature and statements that disrupt the discussion, regardless of intent, will be singled out in particular.<br />
* Any quote of another member in a signature has to be fully referenced by use of a link to the quoted post and not be edited as to blatantly misrepresent the wording of the quoted member.<br />
* Unsolicited advertisement for any website, product, service, funding request or facility not first approved by TWC staff<br />
* Patreon and PayPal links will be allowed in signatures, the first post of a mod thread, or in a sticky in a Hosted Mod forum.<br />
<br />
You can advertise websites, products, etc., in your signature, avatar, or other profile fields, as long as you post productively and don't just try to get exposure for your advertisements. Recommendation of websites, products, or other resources are also allowed if relevant to legitimate discussions. <br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Censor Bypassing (1 or 2 points)====<br />
Attempting to bypass the censor by misspelling, inserting spaces or symbols, transposing letters, using look-alike symbols, or any other method is not allowed. For example, if "gris" is a banned word:<br />
<br />
* Not allowed: g-r-i-s, gr*s, g***, 9|-1$, girs, gryeeeas, grizznizz, **** (rhymes with "bris")<br />
* Allowed: ****, ****ed, ****ing, g'ed, g-word<br />
<br />
Prohibited words may not be used in images. If external websites or videos use prohibited words, you can link to them or embed them only if you post a warning alongside the link/video.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
====Hard-to-Read Posts (1 or 2 points)====<br />
Posts that disrupt the message boards for other users, intentional or not, are prohibited. This includes, but is not limited, to:<br />
<br />
* Conducting conversations in languages other than English. The exception is in forums explicitly designated for a specific language other than English.<br />
* Posting excessively in capital letters, leet speak, or other hard-to-read writing styles<br />
* Using misleading topic titles<br />
* Consecutive posting. (I.e., double posts, triple posts)<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Contempt of Court (variable)==== <br />
This infraction is given for violations that occur within the Tribunal. It is given by administrators at the request of the Tribunes. The infraction forfeits use of the Tribunal for one month '''and cannot be appealed.''' Points vary based on the specific violation that incurs the Contempt of Court infraction<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Disruptive Posting (1, 3, or 6 Points)====<br />
Any post(s) designed to disrupt the flow of conversation, radically change the topic of the thread or elicit a response that violates these Terms of Service.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Defying Moderators (1, 3, or 6 Points)====<br />
<br />
Any action that disregards a staff moderator's specific request, whether the request is made by a post in the thread, by PM to the user, or by other means such as, but not limited to, forum Announcements. The requests can be, but are not limited to:<br />
<br />
* Re-posting content (text, images, video, etc) that was previously removed by a moderator<br />
* Re-posting a thread on a topic that was previously closed by a moderator<br />
* Ignoring a thread warning made by a moderator<br />
* Taking action that has previously been warned against by a moderator<br />
* Refusing to follow reasonable directives pertaining to moderation<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Insulting Others (1, 3, or 6 points)====<br />
Posts clearly insulting other board members, individually or as a group, directly or indirectly, are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to:<br />
<br />
* Name-calling ("You're an idiot", "You moron")<br />
* Direct insults ("Screw you")<br />
* Offensive orders ("Go kill yourself", "Shut up")<br />
* Using threatening, harassing, defamatory, hate-speech, or libelous language<br />
* Using race, religion, sexual orientation, culture, ethnicity, handicap, nationality, or gender as a means of insult, either directly or implied<br />
* Insinuations ("Are you stupid or something?") or insults towards family ("Your mom...")<br />
<br />
Instead, members should criticize the post, not the poster. SEGA, the Creative Assembly, and related bodies are considered board members for this purpose, since some of them are. You can still criticize their games without insulting them personally.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Obscene Content (1, 3, 6, or 12 points)====<br />
Obscene content is not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to:<br />
<br />
1. Providing images, videos, or verbal descriptions of nudity. This includes, but is not limited to:<br />
*Any figure whose genitals, pubic hair, buttocks, or (if female) nipples or areolas are exposed, partially or totally; or are not exposed, but it's clear that this is only because of the angle of the shot or incidental intervening objects (e.g., hands, hair, bits of cloth).<br />
*Visible outlines of genitals or female nipples through clothing.<br />
*Anything that falls narrowly outside the previous provisions, at the discretion of the moderators.<br />
*Verbally describing or providing image, video, or audio files that represent or hint at sexual acts. Passing references may be acceptable, but descriptions that are graphic or include any details are not permitted.<br />
<br />
This applies to photographs, drawings, or any other representation of humanoid figures. It may also apply to non-humanoid figures such as animals, at the discretion of the moderators. Nudity may be permitted for serious and non-titillating purposes, such as the exhibition of recognized art or historical models in modifications, at the discretion of the moderators.<br />
<br />
2. Providing images, videos, or verbal descriptions of an unreasonably disgusting nature. This includes, but is not limited to:<br />
*Excrement and other obscene example of bodily functions.<br />
*Real-world violence and extreme gore, including executions and the dead or wounded of armed conflict.<br />
*Extreme virtual or imagined violence.<br />
<br />
Links may not be posted for the purpose of providing obscene content. If a website incidentally includes some reasonably obscene content, it's acceptable to link to it for some other purpose as long as a clear warning is given. Similarly, if content incidentally includes some reasonably obscene content, it's acceptable to include it in a post for some other purpose, as long as a clear warning is given and the reader must actively click a button to view it (e.g., spoiler boxes or YouTube videos).<br />
<br />
Excessively obscene content, particularly porn and extreme gore, is still not allowed to be posted or linked to in any fashion. The distinction between acceptable and excessive obscenity is at the discretion of the moderators. As always, if you are not sure, ask a moderator. <br />
<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Using Modders' Work Without Permission (1, 3, or 6 points)====<br />
Using part or all of any modification without permission is prohibited.<br />
Distributing part or all of any modification is prohibited if:<br />
*it is distributed exclusively via Steam and the author has not given express permission to create non-steam mirrors.<br />
*the author(s) has expressly forbidden its further distribution.<br />
*there is no proper and full accreditation of the author(s).<br />
Alternate mirrors are permitted for authorised uploads as long as full credit is given to the author(s).<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Evading a Suspension (1, 3, or 6 points)====<br />
Suspended or banned users must not create or use additional accounts. Users banned from a particular activity (such as posting visitor messages, posting in a particular forum, etc.) must not use any other account to perform that activity. In addition to [[#Terms Violations|the normal penalties for warnings]], the user's ban may be extended, and the additional account they made will be banned indefinitely.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Impersonation (1 or 4 points)====<br />
*Falsely claiming to be another specific message board member or other known individual or holding a rank to which you are not entitled (moderator, administrator, Creative Assembly employee, or any type of staff member), or sockpuppeting is not allowed.<br />
*Impersonating others by claiming their intellectual effort as your own is prohibited, as is failing to properly reference it. As such, all material must be sourced with a link and/or [quote][/quote] tags.<br />
*While the use of alternative accounts is permissible, the misuse of such accounts (such as but not limited to self-repping, multi-voting in polls et.c.) will carry an additional penalty commensurate with the offense (loss of rep etc).<br />
<br />
Moderators may use discretion in enforcing this against impersonations that are clearly not serious and so unlikely to fool anyone.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Promoting Illegal Activities (1, 4, or 8 points)====<br />
Posts that promote violation of the law are not allowed. Violation of the law includes, but is not limited to:<br />
<br />
* Substantial use of copyrighted material without permission. Examples of acceptable uses would be brief quotes, fan art, signature/avatar images, brief video clips (e.g., YouTube), screenshots, or reasonably limited decorative images in a mod. Unacceptable uses would include entire songs, long videos, large collections of images, altered game executables, pirated operating systems, unmodified game files (except those released by the developers themselves, for example converted .bin files released by CA for M2TW) that are not essential parts of modifications or anything that competes with the work you're copying (i.e., people might just download your copy instead of buying the original). The exact threshold of substantial use will be decided on a case-by-case basis ― if in doubt, consult Moderation Staff.<br />
* Obtaining or providing ways to circumvent copy protection. This includes no-CD hacks, key generators, hacked ROMs, etc.<br />
* Cheating in online games, or otherwise violating license agreements.<br />
* Possessing, distributing, or using drugs in a way that would be illegal in most jurisdictions (e.g., owning marijuana).<br />
<br />
"Promoting" illegal activity includes, but is not limited to:<br />
<br />
* Asking for someone else to commit an illegal activity (e.g., asking for a cracked game).<br />
* Assisting someone else in an illegal activity (e.g., linking to a site that distributes cracked games).<br />
* Encouraging or advocating an illegal activity, or portraying it as normal or acceptable (e.g., casually mentioning that you have pirated games/smoked pot/etc. as though this were normal and acceptable). Exceptions will be made for threads that are devoted to serious discussion of illegal activities in an abstract sense (e.g., about whether copyright law should be relaxed or marijuana should be legalized), on a case-by-case basis.<br />
<br />
What exactly qualifies as illegal depends on jurisdiction. When jurisdictions differ on whether something is legal, moderators will decide on a case-by-case basis which jurisdiction to follow.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Harassment or Invasion of Privacy (1, 4, or 8 points)====<br />
Continual harassing behavior directed towards a certain individual or group with the intent of creating an intimidating, offensive, or hostile environment on the boards, with or without use of explicit or implicit threats is prohibited. Posting private information without permission is also prohibited.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Inappropriate Content in Blogs or Blog Comments====<br />
Some content is not appropriate for blogs and blog comments. If you have a blog, or if you post comments on any blogs, you must follow these rules, which will be applied strictly:<br />
* no religion<br />
* no politics<br />
* no content which breaks any other part of TWC's Terms of Service (please note that this means all content must be family friendly).<br />
<br />
Anyone who breaks these rules will lose the ability to post blogs and also the ability to post comments on blogs, and their blog will be deleted. Appeals to the Tribunal will have no effect on this decision - this is a purely administrative matter and the decision will be made by the site administrators.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Other====<br />
Any activity not previously outlined but still deemed detrimental to the operation of the site, normal activities of the board and flow of conversation may be subject to moderation. Users responsible for these posts may be penalized at the discretion of the Hexagon council and the Moderation branch.<br />
</li><br />
</ol><br />
<br />
===Terms Violations===<br />
Infractions of the terms of service are tracked using the infraction system, which allows moderators to record incidents in a reliable and centralized fashion. All such records of infractions are viewable in the user's profile to moderating staff and the user in question, but no one else.<br />
<br />
====Note====<br />
Notes are given when the actions of a member require staff to officially contact them. They are simply a record of that contact and do not contribute toward a member's warning level. They are recorded both to let other moderators know that the user has been informed of the particular rule, and to give the user a record of all contacts with moderators they have had.<br />
<br />
====Warning====<br />
Warnings are given when a member commits an offense (other than a very mild one) when the member should already know the rule in question, such as if a moderator has previously discussed that type of offense with them. Warnings expire after three months and contribute toward a member's warning level. How many levels an offense is worth can be found in the Member Conduct section in (parentheses). Whether to give the first or second number, if applicable, is up to moderator discretion.<br />
<br />
===Warning Levels===<br />
<br />
Warning levels are penalized as follows:<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Ability to view social groups and leave visitor messages removed<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Can neither give nor display reputation<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || No posting in politics, history, or ethos forums<br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Suspension for 1 day and no custom title or invisible mode<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Suspension for 3 days and cannot use avatar/signature/profile picture<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Suspension for 7 days and placement in probation in addition to a permanent resetting of the user's reputation points to 0<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Suspension for 30 days along with all of the above penalties.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Penalties (other than suspensions and bans) last until the warning level is reduced below the specified penalty. Time during which a user is banned may not counted toward the expiration of warning levels.<br />
<br />
==TWC's Probation System==<br />
<br />
If a user is a repeat offender they may be entered into the probation system, following discussion amongst Moderation Staff. A user will be put on probation automatically if they receive 20 infraction points over the course of 12 months or reach 16 active infraction points at any time.<br />
<br />
====How it works====<br />
<br />
* If a user violates the terms of their probation, it results in a suspension, from one day to a month or more.<br />
* Subsequent suspensions during a probation period may increase in length.<br />
* The length of probation period is decided by Moderation Staff and is usually no shorter than three months.<br />
* A user on probation will have their case reviewed periodically, which may result in the user's removal from probation at the discretion of Moderation Staff.<br />
* The user in question is made fully aware of the rules and function of the system.<br />
* A user on probation will receive a "Probation" note, which will be reversed when the user is removed from probation.<br />
<br />
====And what about the "permaban"?====<br />
<br />
The permaban is normally reserved for cases of spambots and posting porn.<br />
<br />
== See Also ==<br />
<br />
*[http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?688585-Moderation-FAQ Moderation FAQ]<br />
<br />
<br />
{{TWC Info}}<br />
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Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=TWC_Official:Terms_of_Service&diff=83528
TWC Official:Terms of Service
2020-10-18T15:56:31Z
<p>Tango12345: /* TWC's Modding Policy */</p>
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==Terms of Service==<br />
<br />
Total War Center (TWC) provides the services to you, the visitor, based on its Terms of Service (TOS) outlined here. When using the services provided by TWC, you are subject to these posted terms. Usage of the services on this site indicates acceptance of these terms. The TOS may be changed at any time and without direct notice to individual visitors, so it is recommended that you check back with this page whenever you have questions or concerns.<br />
<br />
===Registration Requirements===<br />
In order to view messages on the TWC message boards without user restrictions, no registration is required or necessary. In order to post messages on the boards, and use other advanced services, you must register with TWCenter. Provision of a valid e-mail address is recommended to permit recovery of your account should you forget your password, but it is not currently required.<br />
<br />
TWCenter does not require you to use your real name or other identification that can be easily traced to you, and the e-mail address you provide will be kept private. In order to register on TWCenter, registrants must be 13 years of age or older. TWC does not knowingly collect any information from any users under 13 years, and if it is found that an underage user has fraudulently registered, their account will immediately be terminated.<br />
<br />
===Content Notice===<br />
By viewing the site content, you agree that all content on the TWCenter message boards is the responsibility of the person from which the content originated. You agree that neither TWCenter nor its sponsors or affiliates are responsible for all content that you personally post or upload. TWCenter does not directly control any content posted on the boards, and does not guarantee the truthfulness or quality of any content.<br />
<br />
You agree that while using the TWCenter message boards, you may be exposed to content that is offensive or objectionable, and that you will in no way hold TWCenter nor its sponsors or affiliates liable in any way, shape, or form for any harm or loss that may come to you or others as a result of viewing this content. TWCenter is not responsible for screening content before it is posted, although an offensive language filter is installed on the system that will reject certain posts that may contain certain words deemed offensive or used most often in an offensive way.<br />
<br />
===Account Responsibility===<br />
Users are solely responsible for protecting their accounts from access by others. You 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.<br />
<br />
While it is acceptable for users to maintain multiple accounts on TWCenter, TWC can and does track multiple shared accounts from a single or multiple computers as one account in terms of TOS violations. If the TOS is violated severely enough to warrant the banning of one account, all known accounts shared between a single or multiple users who use the same computer may also be banned for the actions of the violating account at the administrators' discretion.<br />
<br />
Because of this rule, it is highly recommended that board users do not share their accounts with others, nor share their computers used to access the site with others, as the actions of some other person could easily directly impact all known shared message board accounts.<br />
<br />
===Privacy and Release of Information===<br />
TWC is a non-commercial site staffed by volunteers, and cannot provide a binding guarantee of privacy to its members (except as required by law). However, we try to protect our members' privacy as far as is reasonable.<br />
<br />
Visiting any website will expose your IP address to that website. We may store members' IP addresses indefinitely for record-keeping purposes. We may also use services such as advertisements and analytics scripts to fund the operation of the site, let us run it more effectively, or for any other reason. Visitors' IP addresses may be exposed to the providers of those services to allow them to function, and we have no control over how this information is used.<br />
<br />
As is customary on web forums, we permit members to hotlink images and other media from other websites, for convenience and to reduce our bandwidth costs. Anyone viewing a page with a hotlinked file will necessarily have their IP address exposed to whatever site hosts the file. All of the foregoing also applies to other possibly identifying information, such as User-Agent strings.<br />
<br />
Users must be logged into a TWC account to edit the Wiki.<br />
<br />
TWC uses cookies for a variety of purposes. Cookies are necessary to allow users to log in to the forum and the wiki. They are also used to compile publicly-viewable statistics such as "Who's Online", to allow moderators to track violators of the rules, and possibly for a variety of other purposes. Browsers will typically accept cookies by default from any site they request content from, so any site that a TWC page includes content from might also set cookies.<br />
<br />
Some information (for instance, e-mail address) is deliberately submitted by members and is not publicly viewable. This information may be kept indefinitely, but will not normally be given out to third parties or posted publicly. Sending e-mail using the forum or wiki might reveal the sender's e-mail address to the recipient.<br />
<br />
TWC does not normally send unsolicited bulk e-mail. Automated or bulk e-mails are normally sent only to members who have opted in to thread subscriptions or other features. Members may opt out of these features by altering their [http://www.twcenter.net/forums/usercp.php forum preferences] or [https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=Special:Preferences wiki preferences]. Moderators and administrators may send personalized, non-bulk e-mail to members on occasion regardless of preferences.<br />
<br />
Users who would like a greater degree of privacy should configure their browser appropriately. Some popular browsers can be configured not to accept cookies without confirmation, not to save cookies for some sites, not to load files from some sites, etc. Users who disable features of their browser might not be able to fully use the site (e.g., some cookies are necessary to allow login).<br />
<br />
===Modding Permissions Policy===<br />
Modders/Mod Teams who use TWC as a medium to promote or share their work are asked to provide a permissions statement. This must state whether and under what conditions permission to use their work in another mod would be granted if it is not possible to contact them. Where such a statement is provided then the Hexagon Council/Moderation will enforce it. Staff recognises however that not all modders or mod teams have such a statement, but may still be uncontactable. If the following conditions are met and the original Modder/Mod Team does not deny permission, use of that work will not lead to further action:<br />
*Those requesting permission to use the work of another must show the Hexagon Council/Moderation that they have attempted to contact the original modder/mod team themselves and have not been answered.<br />
*An attempt by Hex to contact the original modder/mod team needs have gone unanswered for a month or more.<br />
*The original modder/mod team has been inactive on TWC for at least 2 years.<br />
*Hex are satisfied that if the original modder/mod team were present that permission would have been given.<br />
<br />
===Moderator Discretion===<br />
<br />
The list following below is intended to cover all ToS violations, but it is naturally impossible to include examples of every single possible variation. Therefore moderator discretion will be exercised and moderating action should be expected where and when moderators deem appropriate, that might not exactly correspond to any of the following violation categories.<br />
<br />
===Member Conduct===<br />
You agree that you will not use any aspect of this service including -but not limited to- the wiki, blogs, social groups, tags, visitor messages and private messages, to perform the following actions:<br />
<br />
<ol><br />
<li><br />
====Image Size Violation (1 point)====<br />
Members may not post .gif images of a size that exceeds 1.5 MB.<br />
<br />
Members may not use signatures where the total size in bytes of all signature images combined is more than 250 KB.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Off-topic Posting (1, 2 or 4 points)====<br />
Topicality is expected and will be enforced on all forums, so take the extra time to post on the proper forum. Examples of off-topic posting include, but are not limited to:<br />
<br />
* Threads that are not related to the topic of the forum in question, or that contain no material that can reasonably be discussed<br />
* Posts that are not related to the topic of the thread in question, or that contain no material that can reasonably be discussed<br />
* Re-posting threads that you know have already been posted elsewhere<br />
* Outside of the Administrative Forums, personal references, whether implicit or explicit, are off-topic. Personal references of a negative or derogatory nature and statements that disrupt the discussion, regardless of intent, will be singled out in particular.<br />
* Any quote of another member in a signature has to be fully referenced by use of a link to the quoted post and not be edited as to blatantly misrepresent the wording of the quoted member.<br />
* Unsolicited advertisement for any website, product, service, funding request or facility not first approved by TWC staff<br />
* Patreon and PayPal links will be allowed in signatures, the first post of a mod thread, or in a sticky in a Hosted Mod forum.<br />
<br />
You can advertise websites, products, etc., in your signature, avatar, or other profile fields, as long as you post productively and don't just try to get exposure for your advertisements. Recommendation of websites, products, or other resources are also allowed if relevant to legitimate discussions. <br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Censor Bypassing (1 or 2 points)====<br />
Attempting to bypass the censor by misspelling, inserting spaces or symbols, transposing letters, using look-alike symbols, or any other method is not allowed. For example, if "gris" is a banned word:<br />
<br />
* Not allowed: g-r-i-s, gr*s, g***, 9|-1$, girs, gryeeeas, grizznizz, **** (rhymes with "bris")<br />
* Allowed: ****, ****ed, ****ing, g'ed, g-word<br />
<br />
Prohibited words may not be used in images. If external websites or videos use prohibited words, you can link to them or embed them only if you post a warning alongside the link/video.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
====Hard-to-Read Posts (1 or 2 points)====<br />
Posts that disrupt the message boards for other users, intentional or not, are prohibited. This includes, but is not limited, to:<br />
<br />
* Conducting conversations in languages other than English. The exception is in forums explicitly designated for a specific language other than English.<br />
* Posting excessively in capital letters, leet speak, or other hard-to-read writing styles<br />
* Using misleading topic titles<br />
* Consecutive posting. (I.e., double posts, triple posts)<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Contempt of Court (variable)==== <br />
This infraction is given for violations that occur within the Tribunal. It is given by administrators at the request of the Tribunes. The infraction forfeits use of the Tribunal for one month '''and cannot be appealed.''' Points vary based on the specific violation that incurs the Contempt of Court infraction<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Disruptive Posting (1, 3, or 6 Points)====<br />
Any post(s) designed to disrupt the flow of conversation, radically change the topic of the thread or elicit a response that violates these Terms of Service.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Defying Moderators (1, 3, or 6 Points)====<br />
<br />
Any action that disregards a staff moderator's specific request, whether the request is made by a post in the thread, by PM to the user, or by other means such as, but not limited to, forum Announcements. The requests can be, but are not limited to:<br />
<br />
* Re-posting content (text, images, video, etc) that was previously removed by a moderator<br />
* Re-posting a thread on a topic that was previously closed by a moderator<br />
* Ignoring a thread warning made by a moderator<br />
* Taking action that has previously been warned against by a moderator<br />
* Refusing to follow reasonable directives pertaining to moderation<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Insulting Others (1, 3, or 6 points)====<br />
Posts clearly insulting other board members, individually or as a group, directly or indirectly, are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to:<br />
<br />
* Name-calling ("You're an idiot", "You moron")<br />
* Direct insults ("Screw you")<br />
* Offensive orders ("Go kill yourself", "Shut up")<br />
* Using threatening, harassing, defamatory, hate-speech, or libelous language<br />
* Using race, religion, sexual orientation, culture, ethnicity, handicap, nationality, or gender as a means of insult, either directly or implied<br />
* Insinuations ("Are you stupid or something?") or insults towards family ("Your mom...")<br />
<br />
Instead, members should criticize the post, not the poster. SEGA, the Creative Assembly, and related bodies are considered board members for this purpose, since some of them are. You can still criticize their games without insulting them personally.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Obscene Content (1, 3, 6, or 12 points)====<br />
Obscene content is not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to:<br />
<br />
1. Providing images, videos, or verbal descriptions of nudity. This includes, but is not limited to:<br />
*Any figure whose genitals, pubic hair, buttocks, or (if female) nipples or areolas are exposed, partially or totally; or are not exposed, but it's clear that this is only because of the angle of the shot or incidental intervening objects (e.g., hands, hair, bits of cloth).<br />
*Visible outlines of genitals or female nipples through clothing.<br />
*Anything that falls narrowly outside the previous provisions, at the discretion of the moderators.<br />
*Verbally describing or providing image, video, or audio files that represent or hint at sexual acts. Passing references may be acceptable, but descriptions that are graphic or include any details are not permitted.<br />
<br />
This applies to photographs, drawings, or any other representation of humanoid figures. It may also apply to non-humanoid figures such as animals, at the discretion of the moderators. Nudity may be permitted for serious and non-titillating purposes, such as the exhibition of recognized art or historical models in modifications, at the discretion of the moderators.<br />
<br />
2. Providing images, videos, or verbal descriptions of an unreasonably disgusting nature. This includes, but is not limited to:<br />
*Excrement and other obscene example of bodily functions.<br />
*Real-world violence and extreme gore, including executions and the dead or wounded of armed conflict.<br />
*Extreme virtual or imagined violence.<br />
<br />
Links may not be posted for the purpose of providing obscene content. If a website incidentally includes some reasonably obscene content, it's acceptable to link to it for some other purpose as long as a clear warning is given. Similarly, if content incidentally includes some reasonably obscene content, it's acceptable to include it in a post for some other purpose, as long as a clear warning is given and the reader must actively click a button to view it (e.g., spoiler boxes or YouTube videos).<br />
<br />
Excessively obscene content, particularly porn and extreme gore, is still not allowed to be posted or linked to in any fashion. The distinction between acceptable and excessive obscenity is at the discretion of the moderators. As always, if you are not sure, ask a moderator. <br />
<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Using Modders' Work Without Permission (1, 3, or 6 points)====<br />
Using part or all of any modification without permission is prohibited.<br />
Distributing part or all of any modification is prohibited if:<br />
*it is distributed exclusively via Steam and the author has not given express permission to create non-steam mirrors.<br />
*the author(s) has expressly forbidden its further distribution.<br />
*there is no proper and full accreditation of the author(s).<br />
Alternate mirrors are permitted for authorised uploads as long as full credit is given to the author(s).<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Evading a Suspension (1, 3, or 6 points)====<br />
Suspended or banned users must not create or use additional accounts. Users banned from a particular activity (such as posting visitor messages, posting in a particular forum, etc.) must not use any other account to perform that activity. In addition to [[#Terms Violations|the normal penalties for warnings]], the user's ban may be extended, and the additional account they made will be banned indefinitely.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Impersonation (1 or 4 points)====<br />
*Falsely claiming to be another specific message board member or other known individual or holding a rank to which you are not entitled (moderator, administrator, Creative Assembly employee, or any type of staff member), or sockpuppeting is not allowed.<br />
*Impersonating others by claiming their intellectual effort as your own is prohibited, as is failing to properly reference it. As such, all material must be sourced with a link and/or [quote][/quote] tags.<br />
*While the use of alternative accounts is permissible, the misuse of such accounts (such as but not limited to self-repping, multi-voting in polls et.c.) will carry an additional penalty commensurate with the offense (loss of rep etc).<br />
<br />
Moderators may use discretion in enforcing this against impersonations that are clearly not serious and so unlikely to fool anyone.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Promoting Illegal Activities (1, 4, or 8 points)====<br />
Posts that promote violation of the law are not allowed. Violation of the law includes, but is not limited to:<br />
<br />
* Substantial use of copyrighted material without permission. Examples of acceptable uses would be brief quotes, fan art, signature/avatar images, brief video clips (e.g., YouTube), screenshots, or reasonably limited decorative images in a mod. Unacceptable uses would include entire songs, long videos, large collections of images, altered game executables, pirated operating systems, unmodified game files (except those released by the developers themselves, for example converted .bin files released by CA for M2TW) that are not essential parts of modifications or anything that competes with the work you're copying (i.e., people might just download your copy instead of buying the original). The exact threshold of substantial use will be decided on a case-by-case basis ― if in doubt, consult Moderation Staff.<br />
* Obtaining or providing ways to circumvent copy protection. This includes no-CD hacks, key generators, hacked ROMs, etc.<br />
* Cheating in online games, or otherwise violating license agreements.<br />
* Possessing, distributing, or using drugs in a way that would be illegal in most jurisdictions (e.g., owning marijuana).<br />
<br />
"Promoting" illegal activity includes, but is not limited to:<br />
<br />
* Asking for someone else to commit an illegal activity (e.g., asking for a cracked game).<br />
* Assisting someone else in an illegal activity (e.g., linking to a site that distributes cracked games).<br />
* Encouraging or advocating an illegal activity, or portraying it as normal or acceptable (e.g., casually mentioning that you have pirated games/smoked pot/etc. as though this were normal and acceptable). Exceptions will be made for threads that are devoted to serious discussion of illegal activities in an abstract sense (e.g., about whether copyright law should be relaxed or marijuana should be legalized), on a case-by-case basis.<br />
<br />
What exactly qualifies as illegal depends on jurisdiction. When jurisdictions differ on whether something is legal, moderators will decide on a case-by-case basis which jurisdiction to follow.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Harassment or Invasion of Privacy (1, 4, or 8 points)====<br />
Continual harassing behavior directed towards a certain individual or group with the intent of creating an intimidating, offensive, or hostile environment on the boards, with or without use of explicit or implicit threats is prohibited. Posting private information without permission is also prohibited.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Inappropriate Content in Blogs or Blog Comments====<br />
Some content is not appropriate for blogs and blog comments. If you have a blog, or if you post comments on any blogs, you must follow these rules, which will be applied strictly:<br />
* no religion<br />
* no politics<br />
* no content which breaks any other part of TWC's Terms of Service (please note that this means all content must be family friendly).<br />
<br />
Anyone who breaks these rules will lose the ability to post blogs and also the ability to post comments on blogs, and their blog will be deleted. Appeals to the Tribunal will have no effect on this decision - this is a purely administrative matter and the decision will be made by the site administrators.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
<br />
====Other====<br />
Any activity not previously outlined but still deemed detrimental to the operation of the site, normal activities of the board and flow of conversation may be subject to moderation. Users responsible for these posts may be penalized at the discretion of the Hexagon council and the Moderation branch.<br />
</li><br />
</ol><br />
<br />
===Terms Violations===<br />
Infractions of the terms of service are tracked using the infraction system, which allows moderators to record incidents in a reliable and centralized fashion. All such records of infractions are viewable in the user's profile to moderating staff and the user in question, but no one else.<br />
<br />
====Note====<br />
Notes are given when the actions of a member require staff to officially contact them. They are simply a record of that contact and do not contribute toward a member's warning level. They are recorded both to let other moderators know that the user has been informed of the particular rule, and to give the user a record of all contacts with moderators they have had.<br />
<br />
====Warning====<br />
Warnings are given when a member commits an offense (other than a very mild one) when the member should already know the rule in question, such as if a moderator has previously discussed that type of offense with them. Warnings expire after three months and contribute toward a member's warning level. How many levels an offense is worth can be found in the Member Conduct section in (parentheses). Whether to give the first or second number, if applicable, is up to moderator discretion.<br />
<br />
===Warning Levels===<br />
<br />
Warning levels are penalized as follows:<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
| 3 || Ability to view social groups and leave visitor messages removed<br />
|-<br />
| 4 || Can neither give nor display reputation<br />
|-<br />
| 5 || No posting in politics, history, or ethos forums<br />
|-<br />
| 8 || Suspension for 1 day and no custom title or invisible mode<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Suspension for 3 days and cannot use avatar/signature/profile picture<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Suspension for 7 days and placement in probation in addition to a permanent resetting of the user's reputation points to 0<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Suspension for 30 days along with all of the above penalties.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Penalties (other than suspensions and bans) last until the warning level is reduced below the specified penalty. Time during which a user is banned may not counted toward the expiration of warning levels.<br />
<br />
==TWC's Probation System==<br />
<br />
If a user is a repeat offender they may be entered into the probation system, following discussion amongst Moderation Staff. A user will be put on probation automatically if they receive 20 infraction points over the course of 12 months or reach 16 active infraction points at any time.<br />
<br />
====How it works====<br />
<br />
* If a user violates the terms of their probation, it results in a suspension, from one day to a month or more.<br />
* Subsequent suspensions during a probation period may increase in length.<br />
* The length of probation period is decided by Moderation Staff and is usually no shorter than three months.<br />
* A user on probation will have their case reviewed periodically, which may result in the user's removal from probation at the discretion of Moderation Staff.<br />
* The user in question is made fully aware of the rules and function of the system.<br />
* A user on probation will receive a "Probation" note, which will be reversed when the user is removed from probation.<br />
<br />
====And what about the "permaban"?====<br />
<br />
The permaban is normally reserved for cases of spambots and posting porn.<br />
<br />
== See Also ==<br />
<br />
*[http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?688585-Moderation-FAQ Moderation FAQ]<br />
<br />
<br />
{{TWC Info}}<br />
[[Category: Total War Center Information]]</div>
Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=TWC_Official:Terms_of_Service&diff=83527
TWC Official:Terms of Service
2020-10-18T15:52:17Z
<p>Tango12345: /* Privacy and Release of Information */ adding modding policy</p>
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==Terms of Service==<br />
<br />
Total War Center (TWC) provides the services to you, the visitor, based on its Terms of Service (TOS) outlined here. When using the services provided by TWC, you are subject to these posted terms. Usage of the services on this site indicates acceptance of these terms. The TOS may be changed at any time and without direct notice to individual visitors, so it is recommended that you check back with this page whenever you have questions or concerns.<br />
<br />
===Registration Requirements===<br />
In order to view messages on the TWC message boards without user restrictions, no registration is required or necessary. In order to post messages on the boards, and use other advanced services, you must register with TWCenter. Provision of a valid e-mail address is recommended to permit recovery of your account should you forget your password, but it is not currently required.<br />
<br />
TWCenter does not require you to use your real name or other identification that can be easily traced to you, and the e-mail address you provide will be kept private. In order to register on TWCenter, registrants must be 13 years of age or older. TWC does not knowingly collect any information from any users under 13 years, and if it is found that an underage user has fraudulently registered, their account will immediately be terminated.<br />
<br />
===Content Notice===<br />
By viewing the site content, you agree that all content on the TWCenter message boards is the responsibility of the person from which the content originated. You agree that neither TWCenter nor its sponsors or affiliates are responsible for all content that you personally post or upload. TWCenter does not directly control any content posted on the boards, and does not guarantee the truthfulness or quality of any content.<br />
<br />
You agree that while using the TWCenter message boards, you may be exposed to content that is offensive or objectionable, and that you will in no way hold TWCenter nor its sponsors or affiliates liable in any way, shape, or form for any harm or loss that may come to you or others as a result of viewing this content. TWCenter is not responsible for screening content before it is posted, although an offensive language filter is installed on the system that will reject certain posts that may contain certain words deemed offensive or used most often in an offensive way.<br />
<br />
===Account Responsibility===<br />
Users are solely responsible for protecting their accounts from access by others. You 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.<br />
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While it is acceptable for users to maintain multiple accounts on TWCenter, TWC can and does track multiple shared accounts from a single or multiple computers as one account in terms of TOS violations. If the TOS is violated severely enough to warrant the banning of one account, all known accounts shared between a single or multiple users who use the same computer may also be banned for the actions of the violating account at the administrators' discretion.<br />
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Because of this rule, it is highly recommended that board users do not share their accounts with others, nor share their computers used to access the site with others, as the actions of some other person could easily directly impact all known shared message board accounts.<br />
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===Privacy and Release of Information===<br />
TWC is a non-commercial site staffed by volunteers, and cannot provide a binding guarantee of privacy to its members (except as required by law). However, we try to protect our members' privacy as far as is reasonable.<br />
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Visiting any website will expose your IP address to that website. We may store members' IP addresses indefinitely for record-keeping purposes. We may also use services such as advertisements and analytics scripts to fund the operation of the site, let us run it more effectively, or for any other reason. Visitors' IP addresses may be exposed to the providers of those services to allow them to function, and we have no control over how this information is used.<br />
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As is customary on web forums, we permit members to hotlink images and other media from other websites, for convenience and to reduce our bandwidth costs. Anyone viewing a page with a hotlinked file will necessarily have their IP address exposed to whatever site hosts the file. All of the foregoing also applies to other possibly identifying information, such as User-Agent strings.<br />
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Users must be logged into a TWC account to edit the Wiki.<br />
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TWC uses cookies for a variety of purposes. Cookies are necessary to allow users to log in to the forum and the wiki. They are also used to compile publicly-viewable statistics such as "Who's Online", to allow moderators to track violators of the rules, and possibly for a variety of other purposes. Browsers will typically accept cookies by default from any site they request content from, so any site that a TWC page includes content from might also set cookies.<br />
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Some information (for instance, e-mail address) is deliberately submitted by members and is not publicly viewable. This information may be kept indefinitely, but will not normally be given out to third parties or posted publicly. Sending e-mail using the forum or wiki might reveal the sender's e-mail address to the recipient.<br />
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TWC does not normally send unsolicited bulk e-mail. Automated or bulk e-mails are normally sent only to members who have opted in to thread subscriptions or other features. Members may opt out of these features by altering their [http://www.twcenter.net/forums/usercp.php forum preferences] or [https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=Special:Preferences wiki preferences]. Moderators and administrators may send personalized, non-bulk e-mail to members on occasion regardless of preferences.<br />
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Users who would like a greater degree of privacy should configure their browser appropriately. Some popular browsers can be configured not to accept cookies without confirmation, not to save cookies for some sites, not to load files from some sites, etc. Users who disable features of their browser might not be able to fully use the site (e.g., some cookies are necessary to allow login).<br />
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===TWC's Modding Policy===<br />
Modders/Mod Teams who use TWC as a medium to promote or share their work are asked to provide a permissions statement. This must state whether and under what conditions permission to use their work in another mod would be granted if it is not possible to contact them. Where such a statement is provided then the Hexagon Council/Moderation will enforce it. Staff recognises however that not all modders or mod teams have such a statement, but may still be uncontactable. If the following conditions are met and the original Modder/Mod Team does not deny permission, use of that work will not lead to further action:<br />
*Those requesting permission to use the work of another must show the Hexagon Council/Moderation that they have attempted to contact the original modder/mod team themselves and have not been answered.<br />
*An attempt by Hex to contact the original modder/mod team needs have gone unanswered for a month or more.<br />
*The original modder/mod team has been inactive on TWC for at least 2 years.<br />
*Hex are satisfied that if the original modder/mod team were present that permission would have been given.<br />
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===Moderator Discretion===<br />
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The list following below is intended to cover all ToS violations, but it is naturally impossible to include examples of every single possible variation. Therefore moderator discretion will be exercised and moderating action should be expected where and when moderators deem appropriate, that might not exactly correspond to any of the following violation categories.<br />
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===Member Conduct===<br />
You agree that you will not use any aspect of this service including -but not limited to- the wiki, blogs, social groups, tags, visitor messages and private messages, to perform the following actions:<br />
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====Image Size Violation (1 point)====<br />
Members may not post .gif images of a size that exceeds 1.5 MB.<br />
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Members may not use signatures where the total size in bytes of all signature images combined is more than 250 KB.<br />
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====Off-topic Posting (1, 2 or 4 points)====<br />
Topicality is expected and will be enforced on all forums, so take the extra time to post on the proper forum. Examples of off-topic posting include, but are not limited to:<br />
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* Threads that are not related to the topic of the forum in question, or that contain no material that can reasonably be discussed<br />
* Posts that are not related to the topic of the thread in question, or that contain no material that can reasonably be discussed<br />
* Re-posting threads that you know have already been posted elsewhere<br />
* Outside of the Administrative Forums, personal references, whether implicit or explicit, are off-topic. Personal references of a negative or derogatory nature and statements that disrupt the discussion, regardless of intent, will be singled out in particular.<br />
* Any quote of another member in a signature has to be fully referenced by use of a link to the quoted post and not be edited as to blatantly misrepresent the wording of the quoted member.<br />
* Unsolicited advertisement for any website, product, service, funding request or facility not first approved by TWC staff<br />
* Patreon and PayPal links will be allowed in signatures, the first post of a mod thread, or in a sticky in a Hosted Mod forum.<br />
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You can advertise websites, products, etc., in your signature, avatar, or other profile fields, as long as you post productively and don't just try to get exposure for your advertisements. Recommendation of websites, products, or other resources are also allowed if relevant to legitimate discussions. <br />
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====Censor Bypassing (1 or 2 points)====<br />
Attempting to bypass the censor by misspelling, inserting spaces or symbols, transposing letters, using look-alike symbols, or any other method is not allowed. For example, if "gris" is a banned word:<br />
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* Not allowed: g-r-i-s, gr*s, g***, 9|-1$, girs, gryeeeas, grizznizz, **** (rhymes with "bris")<br />
* Allowed: ****, ****ed, ****ing, g'ed, g-word<br />
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Prohibited words may not be used in images. If external websites or videos use prohibited words, you can link to them or embed them only if you post a warning alongside the link/video.<br />
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<li><br />
====Hard-to-Read Posts (1 or 2 points)====<br />
Posts that disrupt the message boards for other users, intentional or not, are prohibited. This includes, but is not limited, to:<br />
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* Conducting conversations in languages other than English. The exception is in forums explicitly designated for a specific language other than English.<br />
* Posting excessively in capital letters, leet speak, or other hard-to-read writing styles<br />
* Using misleading topic titles<br />
* Consecutive posting. (I.e., double posts, triple posts)<br />
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<li><br />
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====Contempt of Court (variable)==== <br />
This infraction is given for violations that occur within the Tribunal. It is given by administrators at the request of the Tribunes. The infraction forfeits use of the Tribunal for one month '''and cannot be appealed.''' Points vary based on the specific violation that incurs the Contempt of Court infraction<br />
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<li><br />
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====Disruptive Posting (1, 3, or 6 Points)====<br />
Any post(s) designed to disrupt the flow of conversation, radically change the topic of the thread or elicit a response that violates these Terms of Service.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
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====Defying Moderators (1, 3, or 6 Points)====<br />
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Any action that disregards a staff moderator's specific request, whether the request is made by a post in the thread, by PM to the user, or by other means such as, but not limited to, forum Announcements. The requests can be, but are not limited to:<br />
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* Re-posting content (text, images, video, etc) that was previously removed by a moderator<br />
* Re-posting a thread on a topic that was previously closed by a moderator<br />
* Ignoring a thread warning made by a moderator<br />
* Taking action that has previously been warned against by a moderator<br />
* Refusing to follow reasonable directives pertaining to moderation<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
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====Insulting Others (1, 3, or 6 points)====<br />
Posts clearly insulting other board members, individually or as a group, directly or indirectly, are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to:<br />
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* Name-calling ("You're an idiot", "You moron")<br />
* Direct insults ("Screw you")<br />
* Offensive orders ("Go kill yourself", "Shut up")<br />
* Using threatening, harassing, defamatory, hate-speech, or libelous language<br />
* Using race, religion, sexual orientation, culture, ethnicity, handicap, nationality, or gender as a means of insult, either directly or implied<br />
* Insinuations ("Are you stupid or something?") or insults towards family ("Your mom...")<br />
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Instead, members should criticize the post, not the poster. SEGA, the Creative Assembly, and related bodies are considered board members for this purpose, since some of them are. You can still criticize their games without insulting them personally.<br />
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<li><br />
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====Obscene Content (1, 3, 6, or 12 points)====<br />
Obscene content is not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to:<br />
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1. Providing images, videos, or verbal descriptions of nudity. This includes, but is not limited to:<br />
*Any figure whose genitals, pubic hair, buttocks, or (if female) nipples or areolas are exposed, partially or totally; or are not exposed, but it's clear that this is only because of the angle of the shot or incidental intervening objects (e.g., hands, hair, bits of cloth).<br />
*Visible outlines of genitals or female nipples through clothing.<br />
*Anything that falls narrowly outside the previous provisions, at the discretion of the moderators.<br />
*Verbally describing or providing image, video, or audio files that represent or hint at sexual acts. Passing references may be acceptable, but descriptions that are graphic or include any details are not permitted.<br />
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This applies to photographs, drawings, or any other representation of humanoid figures. It may also apply to non-humanoid figures such as animals, at the discretion of the moderators. Nudity may be permitted for serious and non-titillating purposes, such as the exhibition of recognized art or historical models in modifications, at the discretion of the moderators.<br />
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2. Providing images, videos, or verbal descriptions of an unreasonably disgusting nature. This includes, but is not limited to:<br />
*Excrement and other obscene example of bodily functions.<br />
*Real-world violence and extreme gore, including executions and the dead or wounded of armed conflict.<br />
*Extreme virtual or imagined violence.<br />
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Links may not be posted for the purpose of providing obscene content. If a website incidentally includes some reasonably obscene content, it's acceptable to link to it for some other purpose as long as a clear warning is given. Similarly, if content incidentally includes some reasonably obscene content, it's acceptable to include it in a post for some other purpose, as long as a clear warning is given and the reader must actively click a button to view it (e.g., spoiler boxes or YouTube videos).<br />
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Excessively obscene content, particularly porn and extreme gore, is still not allowed to be posted or linked to in any fashion. The distinction between acceptable and excessive obscenity is at the discretion of the moderators. As always, if you are not sure, ask a moderator. <br />
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====Using Modders' Work Without Permission (1, 3, or 6 points)====<br />
Using part or all of any modification without permission is prohibited.<br />
Distributing part or all of any modification is prohibited if:<br />
*it is distributed exclusively via Steam and the author has not given express permission to create non-steam mirrors.<br />
*the author(s) has expressly forbidden its further distribution.<br />
*there is no proper and full accreditation of the author(s).<br />
Alternate mirrors are permitted for authorised uploads as long as full credit is given to the author(s).<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
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====Evading a Suspension (1, 3, or 6 points)====<br />
Suspended or banned users must not create or use additional accounts. Users banned from a particular activity (such as posting visitor messages, posting in a particular forum, etc.) must not use any other account to perform that activity. In addition to [[#Terms Violations|the normal penalties for warnings]], the user's ban may be extended, and the additional account they made will be banned indefinitely.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
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====Impersonation (1 or 4 points)====<br />
*Falsely claiming to be another specific message board member or other known individual or holding a rank to which you are not entitled (moderator, administrator, Creative Assembly employee, or any type of staff member), or sockpuppeting is not allowed.<br />
*Impersonating others by claiming their intellectual effort as your own is prohibited, as is failing to properly reference it. As such, all material must be sourced with a link and/or [quote][/quote] tags.<br />
*While the use of alternative accounts is permissible, the misuse of such accounts (such as but not limited to self-repping, multi-voting in polls et.c.) will carry an additional penalty commensurate with the offense (loss of rep etc).<br />
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Moderators may use discretion in enforcing this against impersonations that are clearly not serious and so unlikely to fool anyone.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
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====Promoting Illegal Activities (1, 4, or 8 points)====<br />
Posts that promote violation of the law are not allowed. Violation of the law includes, but is not limited to:<br />
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* Substantial use of copyrighted material without permission. Examples of acceptable uses would be brief quotes, fan art, signature/avatar images, brief video clips (e.g., YouTube), screenshots, or reasonably limited decorative images in a mod. Unacceptable uses would include entire songs, long videos, large collections of images, altered game executables, pirated operating systems, unmodified game files (except those released by the developers themselves, for example converted .bin files released by CA for M2TW) that are not essential parts of modifications or anything that competes with the work you're copying (i.e., people might just download your copy instead of buying the original). The exact threshold of substantial use will be decided on a case-by-case basis ― if in doubt, consult Moderation Staff.<br />
* Obtaining or providing ways to circumvent copy protection. This includes no-CD hacks, key generators, hacked ROMs, etc.<br />
* Cheating in online games, or otherwise violating license agreements.<br />
* Possessing, distributing, or using drugs in a way that would be illegal in most jurisdictions (e.g., owning marijuana).<br />
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"Promoting" illegal activity includes, but is not limited to:<br />
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* Asking for someone else to commit an illegal activity (e.g., asking for a cracked game).<br />
* Assisting someone else in an illegal activity (e.g., linking to a site that distributes cracked games).<br />
* Encouraging or advocating an illegal activity, or portraying it as normal or acceptable (e.g., casually mentioning that you have pirated games/smoked pot/etc. as though this were normal and acceptable). Exceptions will be made for threads that are devoted to serious discussion of illegal activities in an abstract sense (e.g., about whether copyright law should be relaxed or marijuana should be legalized), on a case-by-case basis.<br />
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What exactly qualifies as illegal depends on jurisdiction. When jurisdictions differ on whether something is legal, moderators will decide on a case-by-case basis which jurisdiction to follow.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
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====Harassment or Invasion of Privacy (1, 4, or 8 points)====<br />
Continual harassing behavior directed towards a certain individual or group with the intent of creating an intimidating, offensive, or hostile environment on the boards, with or without use of explicit or implicit threats is prohibited. Posting private information without permission is also prohibited.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
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====Inappropriate Content in Blogs or Blog Comments====<br />
Some content is not appropriate for blogs and blog comments. If you have a blog, or if you post comments on any blogs, you must follow these rules, which will be applied strictly:<br />
* no religion<br />
* no politics<br />
* no content which breaks any other part of TWC's Terms of Service (please note that this means all content must be family friendly).<br />
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Anyone who breaks these rules will lose the ability to post blogs and also the ability to post comments on blogs, and their blog will be deleted. Appeals to the Tribunal will have no effect on this decision - this is a purely administrative matter and the decision will be made by the site administrators.<br />
</li><br />
<li><br />
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====Other====<br />
Any activity not previously outlined but still deemed detrimental to the operation of the site, normal activities of the board and flow of conversation may be subject to moderation. Users responsible for these posts may be penalized at the discretion of the Hexagon council and the Moderation branch.<br />
</li><br />
</ol><br />
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===Terms Violations===<br />
Infractions of the terms of service are tracked using the infraction system, which allows moderators to record incidents in a reliable and centralized fashion. All such records of infractions are viewable in the user's profile to moderating staff and the user in question, but no one else.<br />
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====Note====<br />
Notes are given when the actions of a member require staff to officially contact them. They are simply a record of that contact and do not contribute toward a member's warning level. They are recorded both to let other moderators know that the user has been informed of the particular rule, and to give the user a record of all contacts with moderators they have had.<br />
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====Warning====<br />
Warnings are given when a member commits an offense (other than a very mild one) when the member should already know the rule in question, such as if a moderator has previously discussed that type of offense with them. Warnings expire after three months and contribute toward a member's warning level. How many levels an offense is worth can be found in the Member Conduct section in (parentheses). Whether to give the first or second number, if applicable, is up to moderator discretion.<br />
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===Warning Levels===<br />
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Warning levels are penalized as follows:<br />
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| 3 || Ability to view social groups and leave visitor messages removed<br />
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| 4 || Can neither give nor display reputation<br />
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| 5 || No posting in politics, history, or ethos forums<br />
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| 8 || Suspension for 1 day and no custom title or invisible mode<br />
|-<br />
| 12 || Suspension for 3 days and cannot use avatar/signature/profile picture<br />
|-<br />
| 16 || Suspension for 7 days and placement in probation in addition to a permanent resetting of the user's reputation points to 0<br />
|-<br />
| 20 || Suspension for 30 days along with all of the above penalties.<br />
|}<br />
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Penalties (other than suspensions and bans) last until the warning level is reduced below the specified penalty. Time during which a user is banned may not counted toward the expiration of warning levels.<br />
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==TWC's Probation System==<br />
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If a user is a repeat offender they may be entered into the probation system, following discussion amongst Moderation Staff. A user will be put on probation automatically if they receive 20 infraction points over the course of 12 months or reach 16 active infraction points at any time.<br />
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====How it works====<br />
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* If a user violates the terms of their probation, it results in a suspension, from one day to a month or more.<br />
* Subsequent suspensions during a probation period may increase in length.<br />
* The length of probation period is decided by Moderation Staff and is usually no shorter than three months.<br />
* A user on probation will have their case reviewed periodically, which may result in the user's removal from probation at the discretion of Moderation Staff.<br />
* The user in question is made fully aware of the rules and function of the system.<br />
* A user on probation will receive a "Probation" note, which will be reversed when the user is removed from probation.<br />
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====And what about the "permaban"?====<br />
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The permaban is normally reserved for cases of spambots and posting porn.<br />
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== See Also ==<br />
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*[http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?688585-Moderation-FAQ Moderation FAQ]<br />
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'''This is a guide to your membership, abilities, options and access on the [[Total War Center]]. If you are a new user, please review the New User FAQ; more experienced users may also find this page a useful reference.'''<br />
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*For the site's rules please see the '''[[TWC Official:Terms of Service|Terms of Service]]''', you are expected to follow them at all times on the platform!<br />
*For information about where to post, what to enter, and where to find interesting articles please see the '''[[The Community Portal]]'''.<br />
*For a general overview of the site, please see '''[[Total War Center]]'''.<br />
*If you've read through these pages and still can't find the answer you're looking for please log in to TWC and ask in the '''[https://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=9 Questions and Suggestions forum]'''. Also, if there is a known issue with the site, or planned downtime for maintenance, staff will post about it in that forum.<br />
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=About Total War Center=<br />
<br />
'''Total War Center is one of the largest and oldest communities for the [[Total War Series]] on the internet.''' The site is centered around modding, discussion, and cultivating a multi-decade community with users across the game generations. While the most active area is in Medieval II: Total War, the forum is open to all gaming fans and also welcomes those who just want political discussion, technical advice, a place to write and so on. <br />
<br />
The site is represented in the following main formats:<br />
* The vBulletin site containing:<br />
** '''The [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/ Forums], where most of the community activity and modding resources are located.'''<br />
** The [https://www.twcenter.net/ Home Page], with announcements and news for the site, the TW series and mods. Users cannot post here but may [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/announcement.php?f=11&a=452 request an announcement].<br />
** The [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/content.php Articles section], where Content Staff publish articles, reviews and features.<br />
** The [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/blog.php Blogs], where TWC members can publish their own blogs (subject to some [[#Blogs|constraints]]).<br />
** The [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/downloads.php Download section], where members can upload and access small mods and resources.<br />
* '''The [[Main Page|TWC Wiki]], hosting information about the site (including this page), the TW series, mods and modding.'''<br />
* The [https://discordapp.com/invite/w6GRHFp TWC discord server], a chat service open to all users, registered or not.<br />
* The [https://twitter.com/twcnet TWC Twitter] account, which posts news items and accepts messages.<br />
<br />
=New User FAQ=<br />
'''Welcome to TWC!''' Check out what interests you and make yourself at home! There are various communities and sub-communities available. Some work differently from others and some are more active than others. Check out what you're interested in, and if you don't see what you want, don't be afraid to ask questions, make suggestions or strike up something new.<br />
==Registering and New Accounts==<br />
'''If you haven't done so already, the first step is to [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/register.php register]!''' You will need an activated account before you are able to post on TWC. For some functions to work, you will need to wait till you've made 25 posts and been registered for one week, after that point, you will be a full member and will be able to do everything the general membership can do. <br />
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! '''How can I register on TWC?'''<br />
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Click the "Register" button on the forums or follow [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/register.php this link]. You will need to provide your date of birth, choose a user-name and password, provide a valid email address and agree to abide by the Terms of Service. You will receive an account activation email in your inbox. You MUST follow the link in that email before you can post, until you do that you will be able to log-in but not post! <br />
|}<br />
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
! '''What can I do if I haven't received my activation email?'''<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
If it is not instantly in your inbox, please give it some time, as it can take a little while to arrive. If you still don't see it, check your spam folder. If it's not there you can [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/register.php?do=requestemail request the automated email to be re-sent]. If that still doesn't help you can send a message to staff on [https://twitter.com/twcnet TWC's Twitter], please be patient when waiting for a reply. If you use Discord you can also seek advice on the [https://discord.gg/w6GRHFp TWC Discord server].<br />
|}<br />
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
! '''I've activated my account, why can't I do ''"xyz"'' yet?'''<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
New users will find that they cannot immediately access all the forum features, you must make 25 posts and be registered for one week, before you can use features such as; creating or voting in polls, editing posts and making a signature. Access to many of these features has been restricted to stop new accounts being set-up solely to spam the forums with advertising. If you urgently need to access one of the features, for example, needing to edit a post to present information about a mod, you can contact a site moderator for assistance. <br />
<br />
Spamming the forum with posts just to get past the 25 post limit is obviously discouraged, but you should find areas such as the [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?60-Coliseum Coliseum] or [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?6-Thema-Devia Thema Devia] where it is easy to join in games and casual conversations.<br />
|}<br />
==Forum Sections==<br />
'''The main index page for the forums is [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/ here].''' The headings for the forum sections are shown on the left; some recent blogs, announcements and posts are shown on the right. Some of the forum headings you see on the index such as the Hosted Modification forums will have a lot of sub-forums within them that you can select if you click through to the lower level.<br />
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
! '''Eeeek! That forum index is huge! How can I make it more manageable?'''<br />
|-<br />
|<br />
Forum sections you are not interested in may be closed with the small ^ in the upper right corner of the category, shrinking your scrolling space. Double-clicking on a forum's left-hand icon will mark it as read. <br />
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You can also use "Subscriptions" to subscribe to the threads or forums you are interested in, updates to those threads/forums will then show up in your [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/usercp.php "My Account"] page.<br />
|}<br />
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
! '''How do I know where to post or where to find information?'''<br />
|-<br />
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'''[[The Community Portal]]''' on the wiki explains which forum sections might be most useful for your particular interests or problems. A large part of the forum index is devoted to sections for each of the Total War Series games. Non-Total War Games also have their own sections. The Common Community sections of TWC are almost as big as the Total War areas and include spaces for debate, advice and chat, creative writing and graphic arts, forum games and competitions, and much more! <br />
|}<br />
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
! '''Why am I seeing the default vBulletin white/blue skin? Doesn't TWC have its own skin?'''<br />
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The vBulletin skin has been set as the default skin for mobile users; some users may find it useful if using a very small screen, but some features will be inaccessible. If you've arrived at that view and don't want it, scroll down to the bottom of the page and select the "Full Site" button. Once you've got to the full site you can select alternative skins from the drop-down box at the bottom of each page. If you've allowed your browser to accept cookies you should then see your choice of skin every time you visit the forum<br />
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==Who's Who: Staff, Titles, Badges and Bling==<br />
'''A full list of TWC Staff and a description of their roles can be found [[Staff|here]].''' On the forum, badges and titles can indicate that an individual has a variety of different staff/non-staff roles or awards. User displays (to the left of each post) are customised with coloured names and titles, avatars, badges, reputation symbols and medals. It's not necessary to understand all the intricacies but a basic understanding of the badges is useful if you need to choose who to contact about an issue.<br />
*'''Post Count Titles / Custom User Titles''' are shown directly below the avatar and above badges. See [[#Post Count Titles|below]] for details.<br />
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*'''Badges''' are the rectangular images like this:<br><br />
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*'''Role Titles''' these are shown below the badge locations. If a user has more than one badged award or role they can select which badge to display and the other roles will be shown in text here. <br />
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*'''Reputation''' symbols are the smallest images, arranged in lines to show the total amount of rep a user has acquired. See [[#Reputation|below]] for details.<br />
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*'''Medals''' are smaller images shown below badges and rep symbols, if you click on a medal in someone's profile it will take you to an explanation about the award. Medals are the result of past activity and do not imply someone is currently fulfilling a role.<br />
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When you view a forum thread you will see that many members have badges under their avatar, such as these;<br><br />
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Badges can indicate one of the following;<br />
*An award or position granted by the Curia.<br />
*The user is a member of TWC Staff.<br />
*The user is a holder of a Special Title.<br />
The [[User Badges]] page shows the currently available badges and which branch they represent. In some cases, a member may be entitled to use more than one type of badge and has to choose between them. Staff members are normally required to show the badge for their highest staff position.<br />
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Users with badges will often also have their user-name displayed in a different colour to the standard dark grey. Entitlement to other badged roles can be shown by the name of that role/award being listed under the badge they've chosen to display.<br />
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While the [[Staff]] link is the most accurate source to tell who's who, you can also see a list of people who have specific editing powers for a section by scrolling to the bottom of its forum index page and finding the list of ''"Moderators of this Forum"'', that list will normally contain a mixture of Staff and "Local Moderators"<br />
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Note that users can have multiple titles and feature in different departments. When choosing someone to contact, for the best results, check where their jurisdictions are, and if they have been active recently. <br />
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Technical support for games and mods are '''not''' site staff problems you should message staff about; unless they solicit those messages; sections like the Basement, the tech boards for each game, and the various mod forums for mod problems, should be places to check first.<br />
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Local moderators are not part of TWC Staff and do not display a badge for the role; though they may display their names in light grey and use a custom user-title. They are usually modders who have been granted edit powers for their mod teams' hosted forum. The local moderators' role is for 'housekeeping' purposes in their sub-forum, they do not enforce the Terms of Service and should not attempt to discipline users. <br />
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'''{{Admin Colour|text=Hexagon Council}}''', also known as Hex or Administrators, are distinctively coloured in bold red; they are in charge of the overall management of the site. If you need to take a site issue to the highest levels, they are the ones to approach. Hex members are also assigned to the main departments shown below, the best results come from approaching the right department so please see the staff links below.<br><br />
Official comments by Hex may be made in bolded red.<br />
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'''{{Moderator Colour|text=Moderators}}''', coloured in bold dark-blue are the first line of defence and thus contact whenever there are disputes on the forum. You can message individual moderators if you need to discuss a problem but the best approach to issues in a thread is often to "Report" a post and explain the issue in the report. Current Moderators and Moderation Hex are shown [[Staff#Moderators|here]].<br><br />
Moderators often make their comments in dark bolded blue when officially regulating a thread.<br />
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'''{{Content Colour|text=Content Staff}}''' wear lighter blue names, whilst they manage the rules for some competitions they should not be confused with site moderation. Content Staff's work ranges between making graphics, publishing news announcements and articles, managing various events and competitions, maintaining information archives, managing this Wiki and more. If you want to be more involved in any function, competition or event, contact a Content Staff member or the Content Hex [[Staff#Content Staff|assigned to that area]]. <br />
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'''{{Gaming Colour|text=Gaming Staff}}''' with orange names, manage some of the specific on-forum games and competitions, for example, the Total War Hotseat section and the Total Guess Competition. "Gaming" in this context does '''not''' mean involvement in the Total War Series and Modding sections. If you have queries or would like to be more involved in a game or event contact a Gaming Staff member or the Gaming/Awards Hex [[Staff#Gaming Staff & Awards|assigned to that area]].<br />
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'''{{Tech Colour|text=Technical Staff}}''' manage the backend of the website. They are not normally available for member questions. If you have queries about technical issues with the site post in [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?9-Questions-amp-Suggestions Questions and Suggestions]. For troubleshooting computer issues with your own hardware/software use the [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?8-The-Basement Basement]. For problems with computer games or mods use the sub-forum relevant to the game/mod.<br />
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'''{{Black Colour|text=Tribunes}}''' are the Staff appointed members of the appeal tribunal, they share black coloured names with Magistrates who are the Curia appointed members. If you wish to appeal a decision made by a moderator, amongst [[#Moderator Actions, Infractions and Appeals|other options]], you can refer to the [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?146-The-Tribunal Tribunal] and the Tribunes will help judge your case.<br />
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All staff members are ultimately regular users who have volunteered their time and drive to help improve and maintain the site, please treat them with courtesy! Also please note that real-life commitments may sometimes mean individuals are temporarily unavailable. <br />
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{{Medals and Awards}}<br />
The Total War Center has a wide-ranging system of Medals and Awards, they vary between awards given to long-standing staff members, awards given by the Curia, awards given by TWC Administrators (Hex) and medals that can be won in competition or awarded by public vote. Links to pages showing the currently available medals and awards are given in the box to the right:<br />
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==Rules and Conduct Advice==<br />
'''Every member when they sign up has to agree to keep to the rules in the [[TWC Official:Terms of Service|Terms of Service]]'''. They're enforced by the moderators, and failure to comply can result in warnings, infraction points, suspensions and ultimately a permanent ban. We recommend you read and familiarise yourself with them! <br />
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The Terms of Service apply as a minimum standard throughout the site, some forum sections such as The Mudpit and the Personal Help and Advice Fora have additional rules and/or recommended codes of conduct. Check the "Sticky:" threads pinned at the top of a forum to see if special rules apply.<br />
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===Conduct Advice===<br />
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To improve your chances of having a civilised debate in these areas remember: read, edit, give sources, and stay calm.<br />
*Read - Try to read the entire thread. This is important as it can give you sources for information (which are very important for a debate) and tells you what has already been argued about. Unless you are bringing new information regarding a past issue or point, it is redundant to dredge up an old settled argument, especially if it has been some time since it was last talked about in the thread.<br />
*Edit - After you have written your response, always send it through a spellchecker after reading it over again yourself. Your post will be better received if it doesn't include obvious spelling and grammatical errors.<br />
*Give Sources - A credible source can go a long way in helping you win a debate. Facts without sources will be often disregarded as mere opinion.<br />
*Stay Calm - Far too often, members become frustrated and angry on various threads. This happens to all at times, and the best cure is to step away from the debate. What you do after that is up to you, but do not go back to the debate until you have calmed down. If a debate looks like it is getting too heated, a moderator will often close down a thread temporarily to clean up heated posts, as well as giving all parties a chance to calm down.<br />
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Hopefully, you won't have to! But if someone does flame you or troll you, report their post using the Report button. DON'T respond in kind. If you flame someone who flames you, that just starts a flame war and you'll find yourself in as much trouble as the original flamer (provoker).<br />
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Try emailing them if they enabled their email address, or use the "private messaging" - PM. Be careful though, members do (and should) report harassing or annoying PMs to moderators. Just because it is a private message, it does not give you leeway to flame or troll others.<br />
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The "Report" function is available in threads, visitor messages & even private messages so just use that and a site moderator will intervene and deal with the issue. Harassment is not allowed on TWC as per [[TWC_Official:Terms_of_Service#Harassment_or_Invasion_of_Privacy_(1,_4,_or_8_points)| these rules]].<br />
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This button at the bottom right of each post will generate an automatic email to all the moderators of that forum telling them that the post has been reported. You can use it to tell the moderators every time you see a post that breaks the Terms of Service. While it is not our aim to create a generation of informants, experience has proven time and again that reporting a post that you consider offensive or disruptive is far better than attempting to deal with it "on your own", by either attacking the poster or threatening with some form of action in the thread. Furthermore, a report is the fastest way to alert the moderators about serious breaches of ToS such as posting of porn and also to get yourself rid of ad-bots. Reporting posts is encouraged!<br />
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===Moderator Actions, Infractions and Appeals===<br />
'''TWC's staff moderators enforce the Terms of Service throughout the site and can issue warnings and infraction points for breaches.''' There are methods of appeal if you feel you have been given an infraction unfairly (that is outside the terms of the ToS).<br />
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If you think you are being mistreated or that a moderator is acting outside the ToS then you should PM one of the administrators who oversee moderation on a daily basis. These are the current Moderation Overseers:<br />
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You can also post about any problems you're having, or your thoughts about moderation, in the [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=272653 Moderation Commentary Thread] where administrators will try to resolve your problem or answer any of your relevant questions regarding site moderation, it is best to be calm and coherent when talking about the matter in public as it breeds positive conversations which further breeds solutions and satisfaction.<br />
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There are a variety of possible methods please see below:<br />
*'''Appeal by PM to the Moderator concerned or to a Moderation Hex''': Members should feel free to discuss any moderator action or decision either with the moderator concerned or with one of the moderation overseers. This is usually the best way to start if you disagree with an infraction you have received, but you should also start here if you have an issue with other actions such as thread warnings, thread closures, notes, and so on. These are the current Moderation Overseers:<br />
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*'''Appeal to the Praetorium''': Appeals in the [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=1309 Praetorium] are heard by all moderation staff, and all cases are private, which means that other members will not be able to view your appeal thread. You can appeal infractions in the Praetorium and you can also ask for an official ruling on any instruction you have been given by a moderator via PM, note, or thread warning. You cannot appeal other moderator actions like post deletions, thread closures, probation, and so on. You can find the Praetorium guidelines [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=320988 here].<br />
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*'''Appeal to the Tribunal''': Appeals in the [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=146 Tribunal] are heard by an independent panel of Tribunes and Magistrates, and all cases are public, which means that other members will be able to view your appeal thread. You can only appeal infractions and other penalties in the Tribunal. You can find the Tribunal guidelines [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=98523 here].<br />
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Appeals against infractions follow much the same process in both the Praetorium and the Tribunal. To open an appeal against an infraction, simply create a thread requesting an appeal. Try to provide relevant information about the infraction such as the approximate time the infraction was given, the name of the moderator who issued the infraction, and the relevant thread or forum. After you have created the thread, a moderator will post the infraction and deliberations will begin. You may explain your position in the appeal thread. After you have given your side of the story, a thread will be created in a hidden forum and deliberations will be initiated. Once a decision has been reached you will be informed of the verdict.<br />
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=Features Breakdown=<br />
Please see also: ''[https://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?569659-Shankbot-s-Unofficial-Guide-for-New-Members-step-by-step-instructions-on-creating-sigs-editing-thread-titles-adding-rep-and-more! Shankbot's Unofficial Guide for New Members - step by step instructions on creating sigs, editing thread titles, adding rep and more!]'', which explains some of the features in more detail and includes screenshots (you will need to be logged in to view the thread).<br />
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==Forum Posts and Messages==<br />
'''The TWC forum uses vBulletin software, with BB code for posting.''' [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/misc.php?do=bbcode This page lists most of the BB tags used on TWC]; the page explains how to make bold or italic text and use other more advanced formatting options for posts. You can switch between BB code being shown in the reply window and WYSIWYG mode by clicking the <sup><small>A</small></sup>/<sub>A</sub> buttons at the top left of your reply screen. The "Go Advanced" reply option gives you access to shortcuts for more BB code features, such as spoilers and indents. You can also access the "Preview Post" function from the Advanced reply screen.<br />
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The following are frequently asked questions about posting:<br />
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Sorry for the inconvenience, members have to have 25 posts and been registered for at least one week in order to edit their posts. This was introduced to prevent spam advertising accounts from editing their posts.<br />
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Yes, if you posted the first post in the thread you can change the thread title. Either "Edit" the first post and use the "Go Advanced" button to access the title, or from the forum view, double-click on the thread title to open just the title for editing.<br />
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No you can't unfortunately, you can report it though and explain in the report why you would like a site moderator to close/delete it for you, he/she may or may not close/delete it at his/her discretion.<br />
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Sorry, only moderators can move threads or posts, please report your own post and explain where you think it should be moved to. Please try and avoid posting the same post/thread in multiple locations!<br />
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You can only add a poll to the first post in a thread. When you start a new thread select the tick box below "Post a poll" near the bottom of the screen and enter the number of options you require in the box below that, compose the main text of your post and then click to "Submit New Thread" you will then be taken to a new screen where you can enter your poll options. To add a poll to a thread you have already started select the "Thread Tools" drop-down and "Add a Poll to this Thread".<br />
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If you need to amend the contents of a poll you have posted you will need to PM an Administrator. To create polls you need to have 25 posts and have been registered for at least one week.<br />
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To vote in polls you have to have 25 posts and been registered for at least one week. This was introduced to prevent people creating duplicate accounts and spamming site awards or competition votes with them. Note: If you have more than one account you should not use them to multi-vote in the same poll!<br />
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No you can't unfortunately, however you can report your opening post in your thread and ask a site moderator to edit the poll for you to whatever you want. Alternatively, you can also create a new thread and report the old thread for deletion, whichever you prefer.<br />
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To post visitor messages, you have to have 25 posts and been registered for at least one week. After that, you can view another user's profile and post a message using the "Visitor Messages" tab. If you want to reply to a message someone has left on your profile use the "View Conversation" button so the reply goes to their profile and not yours! Please note that visitor messages are public by default. <br />
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Click on someone's name in their user display and you will see an envelope symbol and "Private Message" button, you can use that to open the message window with their name as the recipient. You can also find the "Send New Message" button in the "My Messages" section at the top left of your "My Account" view. If you start typing in the "Recipient Users:" box you will get an autofill of the possible user-names starting with your text (which can help on hard to spell names). You can send messages to multiple recipients by adding a ';' between names, but please don't 'spam' other users!<br />
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Private messages can be formatted in exactly the same way as forum posts. You can even send yourself a message as a way of saving a draft for a complex forum post.<br />
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To join or create a group you have to have 25 posts and been registered for at least one week. Groups are accessed from your '''My Profile"''' page not "My Account". Go to your profile page and on the left-hand side under "Albums" you will see "Groups" with "Join Groups" link next to it, note this is a different section to "Permission Groups". Click that Join Groups button to join or create a social group. Also remember to search the already made Social Groups to see if there is already one for your topic.<br />
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Just contact any [[Staff#Moderators|{{Moderator Colour|text=Site Moderator}}]], and they can rename/delete or edit your group description if need be. Alternatively, you can post your request in [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=459174 this thread].<br />
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==Reputation==<br />
'''Reputation is a fun feature that theoretically enables you to see your community standing with the other members of TWC.''' In theory, the more reputation you have, the more highly thought of you are by the other members of the community. It has no other real meaning, and many members choose to disable the display.<br />
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Reputation here will be described as if you were using the default TWCenter skin. The symbols are different on the other skins, the principle is the same however.<br />
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You can add reputation to a post by clicking this button:<br />
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You can only add 1 point of rep to each post and you can only give 7 points total a day. Additionally, you have to rep 3 different users before you can give rep to the same user again, in order to prevent rep abuse.<br />
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Because of issues with account cloning in the past, where people created accounts just to give themselves rep, only users registered for at least one week with over 25 posts may give rep. Furthermore, it may take an hour or so after your 25th post for your rep to start working, even if you've been registered for over one week by that point.<br />
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Generally people also mention their username along with the rep comment, if they have not chosen to do so then it's an anonymous rep and you won't be able to find out who it came from. However, if you have been insulted via rep feature then contact any moderator or an administrator as they have the access to view it, they can remove the insult and take care of the offender as per TWC's terms of service.<br />
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Your reputation shows up in two places. One, on the left hand side where you post, a collection of symbols shows a rough guide to how much rep you have. Two, in your control panel, which gives your total number of points and a more comprehensive display of the last 20 rep points you received, showing which post you got it for, who gave it, and any comment they left.<br />
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You can see the current number of rep points on your profile by clicking [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/usercp.php My Account]. The total is shown at the top of the "Latest Reputation Received" table.<br />
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Yes, you can disable the display of your reputation in your control panel under "General Settings". If you do so, your own rep won't be displayed on your posts but you will still be able to give other people rep as well as receive it and view rep messages.<br />
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Each symbol represents a certain number of rep points. It starts at 3, so if you have less than 3 rep points, you'll show the scales symbol for neutral rep.<br />
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Some very few members who have received negative rep from the staff will have this replaced by a red square. Those users who have disabled the reputation feature will simply show a grey square.<br />
Once you hit 3 rep points, you'll get 1 gold ring<br />
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Each ring = 3 points, so if someone has 5 rings, they have 15 Rep points. You can only get a maximum of 5 rings, after that the rings are transferred into a fleur-de-lis. <br />
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Each gold fleur-de-lis is worth 15 rep points.<br />
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Each red fleur-de-lis is worth 150 rep points. <br />
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===Reputation Descriptions===<br />
'''When you hover over the reputation icons in someone's post a reputation description will be shown.''' The descriptions are based on famous movie quotes, the quotes change as the number of rep points increase. <br />
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Below is a list of all the descriptions, and which film they came from, sorted by the number of rep points. "User" in the descriptions will be replaced by the member's actual user-name.<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 0 || User, My precious - ''Lord of the Rings'' <br />
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|rowspan="1" | 16-20 || User ought to go careful in Vienna. Everybody ought to go careful in a city like this - ''The Third Man''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 21-25 || User came to TWC for the waters - ''Casablanca''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 26-35 || User coulda had class. Coulda been a contender. Could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what he is - ''On the Waterfront''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 36-45 || User was once tested by a census taker. He ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti - ''Silence of the Lambs''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 46-55 || User, you got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk? - ''Dirty Harry''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 56-65 || User, TWC thinks this is a the beginning of a beautiful friendship - ''Casablanca''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 66-75 || User's looking at you, kid - ''Casablanca''<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | 76-85 || User is not in Kansas anymore - ''Wizard of Oz''<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | 86-95 || User could carry a coconut by gripping it by the husk - ''Monty Python and the Holy Grail''<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | 96-105 || User didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition - ''Monty Python's Flying Circus''<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | 106-115 || User , Hasta la vista - ''Terminator''<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | 116-125 || User , short of being attacked by a giant octopus, would like to be undisturbed for the next thirty minutes - ''Crimson Tide''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 126-150 || User can't fight in here! This is the Total War Room - ''Dr. Strangelove''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 151-175 || User says: Freeeeeeeeeeedom! - ''Braveheart''<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | 176-200 || User . James Bond - ''James Bond''<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | 201-225 || User 's hometown were two miles of public lighting in the streets when London was a village - ''Lawrence of Arabia''<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | 226-250 || User has seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion - ''Bladerunner''<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | 251-275 || User made us an offer we could not refuse - ''The Godfather''<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | 276-300 || User knows what they call a Quarter Pounder with cheese in France - ''Pulp Fiction''<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | 301-325 || User is following the white rabbit - ''Matrix''<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | 326-350 || User is like the smell of napalm in the morning - ''Apocalypse Now''<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | 351-375 || User is Keyser Söze - ''The Usual Suspects''<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | 376-425 || User CAN simply walk into Mordor - ''Lord of the Rings''<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | 426-475 || User will dine tonight in Elysium - ''Gladiator or 300''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 476-525 || User is big! It's the rep icons that got small - ''Sunset Boulevard''<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | 526-575 || User is Rosebud - ''Citizen Kane''<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | 576-625 || User lived in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias - ''The Third Man''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 626-675 || User is poised on steady legs, then begs for several eggs frothed to a mousse - ''Cyrano de Bergerac''<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | 676-725 || User is getting cuter every minute - ''The Big Sleep''<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | 726-775 || User has all the usual vices, besides those they've invented for themselves - ''The Big Sleep''<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | 776-825 || User likes his brandy in a glass - ''The Big Sleep''<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | 826-875 || User knows what gold does to men's souls - ''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 876-925 || User had a friend once. A dear friend - ''Once Upon a Time in America''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 926-975 || User doesn't have to show you any stinking badges - ''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre''<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | 976-1025 || User shall possess, unscathed, something outlasting mortal flesh - - ''Cyrano de Bergerac''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 1026-1075 || User will show you where the iron crosses grow - ''Cross of Iron''<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | 1076-1125 || User is the stuff that dreams are made of - ''The Maltese Falcon''<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | 1126-1175 || User grieves over his manners on long winter evenings - ''The Big Sleep''<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | 1176-1225 || User frankly just doesn't give a damn - ''Gone with the Wind''<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | 1226-1275 || User likes talking to a man who likes to talk - ''The Maltese Falcon''<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | 1276-1325 || User bets you 105,000 dollars that you go to sleep before he does - ''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre''<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | 1326-1375 || User knows there are two kinds of people in the world - ''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 1376-1425 || User , I expect you to die - ''Goldfinger''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 1426-1475 || User is ice cold in TWC - ''Ice-Cold in Alex''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 1476-1525 || User kicks ass for the Lord - ''Dead Alive''<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | 1526+ || User doesn't feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever - ''The Third Man''<br />
|}<br />
|}<br />
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==Post Count Titles==<br />
'''In your user display directly under your avatar, you will see a short line of text, this is your post count title, or custom user-title.''' Post count titles don't have any deep meaning they are merely associated with your post count. The more posts you have, the further you progress up this list. Citizens, Local Moderators and TWC Staff have the ability to override their default title with a custom user-title of their own choosing.<br />
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Here's the list of the current default titles, they were based on the game [[Total War: Attila]].<br />
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
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| '''Title''' || '''English Translation''' || '''Required Post Count'''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | Barbarus || A barbarian|| 0<br />
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|rowspan="1" | Laetus || A Barbarian settler defeated by the Romans and dispersed to another or several parts of the Empire. || 1 <br />
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|rowspan="1" | Foederatus || Barbarian settler or soldier in a group under treaty with the Romans || 25 <br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | Libertus || A freed slave. ||50 <br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | Civis || A citizen ||100 <br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | Tiro || A soldier in training ||200 <br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | Miles || A soldier, known as Pedes or Eques depending on his unit. ||300 <br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | Semisalis || A veteran soldier with 1.5 times pay grade. ||400 <br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | Decanus ||The same as the Strategikon's Dekakontarchos, or the commander of a Contubernium. ||500 <br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | Biarchus || Equivalent to the Strategikon's Pentakontarchos, commander of 50 men, essentially the Late Roman Optio. ||600 <br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | Ordinarius || A centurion in a Limitanei unit. ||700 <br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | Centenarius || A centurion in a Comitatenses or Auxilia Palatina unit. ||800 <br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | Ducenarius || A commander of two centuries in the Late Roman Era in Auxilia Palatina units. ||900 <br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | Senator || Not much is known about the rank, but modern historians think he was a battlefield herald. ||1,000 <br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | Campidoctor || regimental drill master ||1,500 <br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | Domesticus || regimental chief-of-staff ||2,000 <br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | Vicarius|| Not to be confused with a Late Roman Governor, this man was the replacement should the Tribunis die in combat. ||2,500 <br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | Primicerius|| The Lieutenant Commander and Administrative head of a Late Roman unit. ||3,000 <br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | Protector Domesticus || A cadet officer earmarked for military or political role that often served in a Late Roman unit. Like an ensign, in a way.||4,000 <br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | Praepositus || Commander of a Limitanei garrison, or in some cases an old Legion ||5,000 <br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | Praefectus || Commander of a Roman Legion ||6,000 <br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | Tribunus || A generic command title, but always used in the Legio and Auxilia Palatina regiments, the elite forces of the field armies. ||7,000 <br />
|-<br />
|rowspan=”1”| Praeses ||the Governor of a minor province, such as Pannonia Valeria ||7,500<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | Vicarius Provinciae || Governor of an important province, such as Dalmatia ||10,000 <br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | Limitis ||A count of Limitanei in a province: this is a rather unusual occurence and seems to be beneath the command of a Dux. E.g. Comes Tractus Aremoriciani||12,500 <br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | Dux Limitis || The Commander of the Limitanei in a Province or sometimes a region. E.g. Dux Thebaidos ||15,000 <br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1"| Comes Rei Militaris || The Commander of a Comitatensian Field Army. E.g. Comes Dalmatae ||20,000 <br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | Patricius || The title of Patrician, which at this time held no real privleges but paved the way for obtaining higher ranks. ||25,000 <br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | Domesticorum || The Commander of the Protectores Domestici, originally the Imperial Guard but by the Late 4th century an Officer's Cadre. ||30,000 <br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | Cura Palatii || The new commander of the Imperial Guard units, according to Dr. Meaghan McEvoy. Lit. "Curator of the Palace" ||40,000 <br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | Magister Militum || The Commander of a Regional Field army, such as Comes et Magister Militum per Gallias. ||50,000<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | Praefectus Praetorio || The administrative chief of a praetorian prefecture, such as the Praefectus Praetorio Italiae, Illyrici, et Africae. ||60,000 <br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | Magister Officiorum || The Commander of the Scholae Palatinae and the administrative chief of offices in the Empire. ||70,000 <br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | Magister Militum || Meaning "Master of the Soldiers", was a top-level military command. ||80,000 <br />
|-<br />
|rowspan=”1”| Patricius Noster|| The Full title being Magnificus vir parens patriciusque noster, the title that cemented men like Stilicho and Aetius as supreme commander. ||90,000<br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | Augustus || There were two of them: one in Constantinople, usually the Senior Augustus, and one in Ravenna, usually the Junior Augustus, for each administrative half. ||100,000<br />
|}<br />
|}<br />
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==Profile and Account Settings==<br />
'''The [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/usercp.php "My Account"] section gives access to a number of ways you can personalise your TWC profile, including adding signatures, avatars and profile pictures.''' Here you can also choose how much information you'd like to add to your profile, e.g. if you'd like everyone to know your gender, or birthday, or which Total War games you own. You can also set a number of privacy options and choose if you are emailed notifications about your thread subscriptions.<br />
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Some common queries about profile features are answered below:<br />
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To discourage joining/posting simply to spam signature links all signatures are currently disabled for new users. Once you have 25 posts and have been a member for a week you will be able to create a signature.<br />
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
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Signatures can contain text and/or images, the dimensions are bound to a 550&times;175 pixel box automatically, with anything outside of that being cut off. The text can include BB code and hyperlinks. The maximum combined file size of all images in a signature may not exceed 250 KB according to the current [[TWC Official:Terms of Service|TOS]]. <br />
Any images used must be uploaded to an independent hosting site.<br />
|}<br />
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
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The "Edit Avatar" button in your control panel allows you to select an avatar from some pre-defined images hosted on TWC. You can also choose to use your own custom avatar which can have a maximum size of 100&times;100 pixels or 80 KB (whichever is smaller). You can upload the image to TWC but uploading images to an independent hosting site is preferred.<br />
|}<br />
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
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The "Edit Profile Picture" button in your control panel allows you select a small picture to display in your profile. The image can have a maximum size of 640&times;480 pixels or 250 KB (whichever is smaller). You can upload the image to TWC but uploading images to an independent hosting site is preferred.<br />
|} <br />
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
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|-<br />
| <br />
You can't do this yourself from your account options, but you can request a name change in the [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=581961 Name change requests] thread in the Questions & Suggestions forum and an administrator will rename your Username. Please note that you cannot change to a name that is already in use, even if the other user has not been active.<br />
|}<br />
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
! '''I can't remember my user-name/password, how can I log-in?''' <br />
|-<br />
| <br />
Sometimes members use a typical username, or include special symbols in it and forget them, hence they can't re-login again, in that case, use the [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/sendmessage.php contact us] option and explain your problem. You can also send a message to staff on [https://twitter.com/twcnet TWC's Twitter] (please be patient when waiting for a reply) and if you use Discord you can also seek advice on the [https://discord.gg/w6GRHFp TWC server].<br />
|}<br />
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As a rule, TWC never deletes an account. However it is possible to have yourself suspended if you no longer have the time for TWC, or just need to take a break. To have your account temporarily suspended just send an Admin a private message with your request. To request deletion of your personal data, please use the '[https://www.twcenter.net/forums/sendmessage.php contact us]' button at the bottom of the forum index and select the relevant option. <br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Features for Modders==<br />
'''TWC provides a range of features that can help modders including the possibility of having their own hosted mod-forum.'''<br />
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
! '''Where can I post information about my mod?'''<br />
|-<br />
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Each of the game sections has a 'Modifications' sub-forum, these are normally subdivided further with separate sections for WIP/Proposals and Released Mods. If you start your thread in the wrong section or would like it moved when the status changes from WIP to released, you can message a moderator for the forum, or report your own post to request the move. (Moving the thread will mean anyone already subscribed to it can find the new location)<br />
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Substantial released mods or very active mods in development may benefit from having their own Hosted Mod Forum.<br />
|}<br />
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
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To obtain a hosted forum at TWC mod teams need to be able to show that they already have a good track record of making progress with their mod. If you have a mod and would like to apply for a subforum, private message a {{Admin Colour|text=Modding Hex}}. Links to the profiles of the current Modding Hex/Hexes can be found '''[[Staff#Hexagon Council (Administration)|here]]'''.<br />
|}<br />
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
! '''How can I advertise my mod?'''<br />
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In addition to posting mod details on the forum, modders can create pages for their mods on this Wiki. Modders can also '''[https://www.twcenter.net/forums/announcement.php?f=734&a=452 request News Announcements]''' for releases, updates, previews, recruitment drives etc. The announcements will appear on TWC's home page and can optionally also be posted on TWC's Twitter feed.<br />
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Ensuring your released mod is included in TWC's Modding Awards can also help raise awareness.<br />
|}<br />
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
! '''Can I upload my mod to the TWC server?'''<br />
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The '''[https://www.twcenter.net/forums/downloads.php Download Section]''' can be used to post small (max 100MB) mods, tools and resources for the Total War games. You can also create a page in the downloads section which links to a larger file hosted externally, the page can be retained and edited and the file link changed for later updates allowing you to see the total number of downloads over various versions. <br />
|}<br />
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
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Mod contents are not normally treated as having a 'copyright' as they are in some part based on the game assets and software. However, TWC maintains a policy of protecting modders 'rights' within TWC and will not host mods that have used modders' work without permission. The [[Mod Register]] provides a way for modders to register brief details about their mod and include a permission statement indicating their intentions regarding re-use of their content. The Terms of Service also includes a [[TWC Official:Terms of Service#Using Modders' Work Without Permission (1, 3, or 6 points)|penalty clause]] for using modders' work without permission. <br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Blogs==<br />
'''TWC's blogs are written by members of TWC, they can all be found [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/blog.php here].''' A wide variety of topics can be covered but special rules apply to the blogs and political or religious topics are not allowed. Members are welcome to apply to join the blogging group if they want to start their own blog or just want to comment on existing blogs.<br />
<br />
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
! '''How can I get my own blog or comment on someone else's?'''<br />
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Anyone can request permission to have a blog. Requests should be made by going to your profile and clicking on [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/profile.php?do=editusergroups "Join Groups"] in the "Permission Groups" section, and then clicking to join the "Bloggers" group. The site administrators will decide whether or not people should have permission to post a blog on a case by case basis.<br />
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Only people with permission to post blogs will be able to post comments on blogs. If you do not want to post a blog of your own, but you do want to be able to post comments on blogs, then you should follow the steps above and request permission to have a blog.<br />
|}<br />
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
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Some content is not appropriate for blogs and blog comments. If you have a blog, or if you post comments on any blogs, you must follow these rules, which will be applied strictly:<br />
* no religion<br />
* no politics<br />
* no content which breaks TWC's [[TWC Official:Terms of Service|Terms of Service]] (please note that this means all content must be family-friendly).<br />
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Anyone who breaks the rules above will lose the ability to post blogs and also the ability to post comments on blogs, and their blog will be deleted. Appeals to the Tribunal will have no effect on this decision - this is a purely administrative matter and the decision will be made by the site administrators.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=Citizenship & Opportunities=<br />
'''TWC openly and actively encourages participation in its structure, which offers users various levels of responsibility, awards and bling!''' Browsing the forums, you may notice that many users have at least a few medals, perhaps a badge and title, a coloured name etc. Rewards and positions can result from anything like helping with graphics, to proving yourself for the moderation team, to being a good modder, to patching up errors on the wiki. Whatever your niche, if you're dedicated at something on the site and stick to it, you will almost inevitably be rewarded, and if you're really putting in legwork, you may be offered [[Citizenship]] or a staff position (they do not mutually exclude or require each other). If you just want to be a normal user doing your thing, that's perfectly fine too!<br />
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If you want to strive for more, or think you could help the site in some way, please read on:<br />
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
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Citizenship is recognition for your contributions to the website. It is a badge, a coloured title, a bit of recognition and a small extra selection of forums open for you to post in (the [[Curia]]). It is also a path to the Magistrate position and local moderation/management positions within the Curia. Finally, it is a place to propose users for existing awards or suggest new awards, as well as make and vote on suggestions for both the Curia itself and for the website in general. Note that votes passed in the Curia are still subject to the wants/abilities of the administration, and further, to be a Citizen is not to hold a staff title or authority over other members. Likewise, you are not obliged to participate in the curia and discussions - but it would be appreciated if you lend your input.<br />
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
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The minimum requirements to be considered for the award are; to have made at least fifty posts, been registered for at least two months, and not have received a warning within the last six months. You will also need to have contributed constructively to the forums in some way beyond that expected of a normal member, and have another Citizen act as a Patron to propose your application to the Curia. Please see [[Citizen#How_to_Become_a_TWC_Citizen|here]] for more details.<br />
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
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There are some established roles where you can help out without having to officially "join staff", editing the wiki is one way (please see the section below). Other possibilities exist, such as volunteering for the Member or Modding Award Committees, helping out with certain competitions, or running Hotseat games. If you see an opportunity to contribute to another section but don't want to actually become "Staff" contact a relevant staff member to see what sort of help or items they'd be able to use and accept.<br />
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Most branches of staff will welcome new recruits and there will normally be more than one area actively recruiting. <br />
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All staff areas will require members to have a good history of complying with the [[ToS]]. Within staff some additional rules such as non-disclosure of private information will also apply. Moderation, Administration (Hex) and Technical departments will tend to be more stringent in their requirements, the Administration and Technical Departments particularly will require that you've built up a high level of trust over a longer period of time on the forum, they are much more likely to approach members themselves than accept applications. <br />
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The widest range of opportunities tends to be within the Content and Gaming branches; read on below if you are interested.<br />
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
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'''[[Content Staff]]''' cover a wide range of areas, working for them could involve:<br />
*Writing articles for publication.<br />
*Publishing news bulletins.<br />
*Running writing or graphics competitions.<br />
*Producing graphics for use on the site.<br />
*Supervising or working on this Wiki.<br />
*Acting as a Librarian for the Scriptorium.<br />
*Helping organise access to modding information.<br />
*Looking after the Downloads section.<br />
*and more...<br />
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If you're interested in joining please contact the head of the section you're interested in, or Content Hex, see current staff [[Staff#Content_Staff| here]]<br />
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
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'''[[Gaming Staff]]''' cover a range of on-forum games and competitions including:<br />
*Play by Post RPGs<br />
*Total War Hotseats<br />
*The Total Guess Competition<br />
*The Post of the Fortnight Competition<br />
(The Site Awards for Members and Modding are also handled by the Awards & Competitions Hex, but are run by committees of staff and non-staffers.)<br />
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If you're interested in joining please contact the head of the section you're interested in, or the Hex in charge, see current staff [[Staff#Gaming Staff & Awards|here]]<br />
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<br />
=TWC Wiki=<br />
'''You're here! Welcome to the [[TWC Wiki]]!''' This Wiki hosts information about the TWC site and the Total War games; it includes articles on TWC site history, site information, summaries of modding knowledge, lists and pages for mods, and overviews of the games themselves as well as their features. Making it better is a never-ending process for a site that's been online over a decade. <br />
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
! '''I can't find an edit button, only "view source", why is that?'''<br />
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Users must be [[Special:UserLogin|logged in]] in order to edit pages. If you have ever previously logged in your account name and password should still be valid. If you haven't logged in yet you will need to [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?796550-Request-a-Wiki-Account-HERE request a wiki account] on the forum.<br />
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Once you have logged in you should see an "edit" button on ''most'' pages, you will also get the option to "create" pages if you follow a link to a page that does not exist yet. Some popular pages are semi-protected so that very new users cannot edit them and a few pages like the Terms of Service and System Files that change the default behaviour of the wiki are protected so that only wiki administrators can edit them. If you spot something that needs changing on one of those pages you can edit or create the "discussion" page for that article to explain what is needed.<br />
|}<br />
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
! '''I can't see a "Register" button, how do I get a wiki account?'''<br />
|-<br />
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You can't register for an account directly on this wiki. The function has been removed because the standard wiki software is too vulnerable to spammers and bots signing up solely to spam advertising.<br />
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To get a wiki account please first log in to TWC and post a request in '''[https://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?796550-Request-a-Wiki-Account-HERE this thread]'''. A wiki admin will make you an account using your forum user-name and message you with a temporary password for the wiki account (which you should change as soon as possible). If you give the wiki your email address you can thereafter retrieve your account if you forget the password, you can also "watchlist" pages, which works similarly to a thread subscription and gives you an email notification of changes.<br />
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You are welcome to request an account even if you don't want to edit the wiki, being able to log-in allows you to use the watchlist and set various preference options such as viewing the wiki with a different skin.<br />
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The [[TWC Wiki:Help|Help page]] gives some editing advice to get you started. The [[TWC_Wiki:Things to do|things to do]] page gives you an idea of what the priorities are at the time, but you're free to just find pages and subjects you're interested in and work on them as you see fit. You're always welcome to contact the [[TWC_Wiki#Wiki_Director|Wiki Director]] for advice, especially if you might be interested in joining the Wiki Team.<br />
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Please note that the [[TWC Official:Terms of Service|Terms of Service]] and the [[TWC Wiki Policy & Guidelines]] apply throughout the Wiki; importantly you must not submit copyrighted work without permission! Deliberate vandalism or repeatedly ignoring the Wiki Staff may result in temporary or even permanent removal from the Wiki (which is '''not''' open to appeal on the forum), breaches of the ToS may also result in disciplinary action taken against your forum account.<br />
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There are a series of [[Special_Contribution_Awards#TWC_Wiki_Editor_Award|TWC Wiki Editor Award]] medals available to non-staff for merit and time served as a non-staff member editing the wiki. The medals are given at the discretion of the Wiki Director and Hex. Wiki Team members who are part of Content Staff instead receive the Scribe's Quill award for their service, but members of other staff branches (e.g. moderation) who do work on the wiki unrelated to their staff role could also be eligible for the Wiki Editor Award medals.<br />
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You can't directly acquire forum rep for edits or pages on the wiki, but if you post somewhere like the [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?788480 Discuss the Wiki] thread to explain what you've been working on, that can help generate more help/interest and you ''may'' incidentally find your posts about it receive rep.<br />
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As you've read above you don't ''need'' to be a staff member to edit the wiki, and becoming an official member of the team doesn't necessarily affect what you can do on the wiki itself. The TWC Wiki Team is part of [[Content Staff]], joining that would give you the Content Staff badge and access to the Wiki Staff Forum and Content Administration areas which can help aid coordination with other team members. Becoming an official part of TWC staff does impose some extra constraints on your behaviour but also involves you in the very friendly staff community which can make the teamwork all the more enjoyable!<br />
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If you'd like to join please contact the [[TWC_Wiki#Wiki_Director|Wiki Director]] or Content Hex.<br />
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'''This is a guide to your membership, abilities, options and access on the [[Total War Center]]. If you are a new user, please review the New User FAQ; more experienced users may also find this page a useful reference.'''<br />
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*For the site's rules please see the '''[[TWC Official:Terms of Service|Terms of Service]]''', you are expected to follow them at all times on the platform!<br />
*For information about where to post, what to enter, and where to find interesting articles please see the '''[[The Community Portal]]'''.<br />
*For a general overview of the site, please see '''[[Total War Center]]'''.<br />
*If you've read through these pages and still can't find the answer you're looking for please log in to TWC and ask in the '''[https://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=9 Questions and Suggestions forum]'''. Also, if there is a known issue with the site, or planned downtime for maintenance, staff will post about it in that forum.<br />
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=About Total War Center=<br />
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'''Total War Center is one of the largest and oldest communities for the [[Total War Series]] on the internet.''' The site is centered around modding, discussion, and cultivating a multi-decade community with users across the game generations. While the most active area is in Medieval II: Total War, the forum is open to all gaming fans and also welcomes those who just want political discussion, technical advice, a place to write and so on. <br />
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The site is represented in the following main formats:<br />
* The vBulletin site containing:<br />
** '''The [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/ Forums], where most of the community activity and modding resources are located.'''<br />
** The [https://www.twcenter.net/ Home Page], with announcements and news for the site, the TW series and mods. Users cannot post here but may [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/announcement.php?f=11&a=452 request an announcement].<br />
** The [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/content.php Articles section], where Content Staff publish articles, reviews and features.<br />
** The [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/blog.php Blogs], where TWC members can publish their own blogs (subject to some [[#Blogs|constraints]]).<br />
** The [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/downloads.php Download section], where members can upload and access small mods and resources.<br />
* '''The [[Main Page|TWC Wiki]], hosting information about the site (including this page), the TW series, mods and modding.'''<br />
* The [https://discordapp.com/invite/w6GRHFp TWC discord server], a chat service open to all users, registered or not.<br />
* The [https://twitter.com/twcnet TWC Twitter] account, which posts news items and accepts messages.<br />
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=New User FAQ=<br />
'''Welcome to TWC!''' Check out what interests you and make yourself at home! There are various communities and sub-communities available. Some work differently from others and some are more active than others. Check out what you're interested in, and if you don't see what you want, don't be afraid to ask questions, make suggestions or strike up something new.<br />
==Registering and New Accounts==<br />
'''If you haven't done so already, the first step is to [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/register.php register]!''' You will need an activated account before you are able to post on TWC. For some functions to work, you will need to wait till you've made 25 posts and been registered for one week, after that point, you will be a full member and will be able to do everything the general membership can do. <br />
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Click the "Register" button on the forums or follow [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/register.php this link]. You will need to provide your date of birth, choose a user-name and password, provide a valid email address and agree to abide by the Terms of Service. You will receive an account activation email in your inbox. You MUST follow the link in that email before you can post, until you do that you will be able to log-in but not post! <br />
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If it is not instantly in your inbox, please give it some time, as it can take a little while to arrive. If you still don't see it, check your spam folder. If it's not there you can [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/register.php?do=requestemail request the automated email to be re-sent]. If that still doesn't help you can send a message to staff on [https://twitter.com/twcnet TWC's Twitter], please be patient when waiting for a reply. If you use Discord you can also seek advice on the [https://discord.gg/w6GRHFp TWC Discord server].<br />
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New users will find that they cannot immediately access all the forum features, you must make 25 posts and be registered for one week, before you can use features such as; creating or voting in polls, editing posts and making a signature. Access to many of these features has been restricted to stop new accounts being set-up solely to spam the forums with advertising. If you urgently need to access one of the features, for example, needing to edit a post to present information about a mod, you can contact a site moderator for assistance. <br />
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Spamming the forum with posts just to get past the 25 post limit is obviously discouraged, but you should find areas such as the [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?60-Coliseum Coliseum] or [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?6-Thema-Devia Thema Devia] where it is easy to join in games and casual conversations.<br />
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==Forum Sections==<br />
'''The main index page for the forums is [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/ here].''' The headings for the forum sections are shown on the left; some recent blogs, announcements and posts are shown on the right. Some of the forum headings you see on the index such as the Hosted Modification forums will have a lot of sub-forums within them that you can select if you click through to the lower level.<br />
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Forum sections you are not interested in may be closed with the small ^ in the upper right corner of the category, shrinking your scrolling space. Double-clicking on a forum's left-hand icon will mark it as read. <br />
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You can also use "Subscriptions" to subscribe to the threads or forums you are interested in, updates to those threads/forums will then show up in your [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/usercp.php "My Account"] page.<br />
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'''[[The Community Portal]]''' on the wiki explains which forum sections might be most useful for your particular interests or problems. A large part of the forum index is devoted to sections for each of the Total War Series games. Non-Total War Games also have their own sections. The Common Community sections of TWC are almost as big as the Total War areas and include spaces for debate, advice and chat, creative writing and graphic arts, forum games and competitions, and much more! <br />
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The vBulletin skin has been set as the default skin for mobile users; some users may find it useful if using a very small screen, but some features will be inaccessible. If you've arrived at that view and don't want it, scroll down to the bottom of the page and select the "Full Site" button. Once you've got to the full site you can select alternative skins from the drop-down box at the bottom of each page. If you've allowed your browser to accept cookies you should then see your choice of skin every time you visit the forum<br />
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==Who's Who: Staff, Titles, Badges and Bling==<br />
'''A full list of TWC Staff and a description of their roles can be found [[Staff|here]].''' On the forum, badges and titles can indicate that an individual has a variety of different staff/non-staff roles or awards. User displays (to the left of each post) are customised with coloured names and titles, avatars, badges, reputation symbols and medals. It's not necessary to understand all the intricacies but a basic understanding of the badges is useful if you need to choose who to contact about an issue.<br />
*'''Post Count Titles / Custom User Titles''' are shown directly below the avatar and above badges. See [[#Post Count Titles|below]] for details.<br />
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*'''Badges''' are the rectangular images like this:<br><br />
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*'''Role Titles''' these are shown below the badge locations. If a user has more than one badged award or role they can select which badge to display and the other roles will be shown in text here. <br />
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*'''Reputation''' symbols are the smallest images, arranged in lines to show the total amount of rep a user has acquired. See [[#Reputation|below]] for details.<br />
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*'''Medals''' are smaller images shown below badges and rep symbols, if you click on a medal in someone's profile it will take you to an explanation about the award. Medals are the result of past activity and do not imply someone is currently fulfilling a role.<br />
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Badges can indicate one of the following;<br />
*An award or position granted by the Curia.<br />
*The user is a member of TWC Staff.<br />
*The user is a holder of a Special Title.<br />
The [[User Badges]] page shows the currently available badges and which branch they represent. In some cases, a member may be entitled to use more than one type of badge and has to choose between them. Staff members are normally required to show the badge for their highest staff position.<br />
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Users with badges will often also have their user-name displayed in a different colour to the standard dark grey. Entitlement to other badged roles can be shown by the name of that role/award being listed under the badge they've chosen to display.<br />
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While the [[Staff]] link is the most accurate source to tell who's who, you can also see a list of people who have specific editing powers for a section by scrolling to the bottom of its forum index page and finding the list of ''"Moderators of this Forum"'', that list will normally contain a mixture of Staff and "Local Moderators"<br />
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Note that users can have multiple titles and feature in different departments. When choosing someone to contact, for the best results, check where their jurisdictions are, and if they have been active recently. <br />
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Technical support for games and mods are '''not''' site staff problems you should message staff about; unless they solicit those messages; sections like the Basement, the tech boards for each game, and the various mod forums for mod problems, should be places to check first.<br />
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'''{{Admin Colour|text=Hexagon Council}}''', also known as Hex or Administrators, are distinctively coloured in bold red; they are in charge of the overall management of the site. If you need to take a site issue to the highest levels, they are the ones to approach. Hex members are also assigned to the main departments shown below, the best results come from approaching the right department so please see the staff links below.<br><br />
Official comments by Hex may be made in bolded red.<br />
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'''{{Moderator Colour|text=Moderators}}''', coloured in bold dark-blue are the first line of defence and thus contact whenever there are disputes on the forum. You can message individual moderators if you need to discuss a problem but the best approach to issues in a thread is often to "Report" a post and explain the issue in the report. Current Moderators and Moderation Hex are shown [[Staff#Moderators|here]].<br><br />
Moderators often make their comments in dark bolded blue when officially regulating a thread.<br />
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'''{{Content Colour|text=Content Staff}}''' wear lighter blue names, whilst they manage the rules for some competitions they should not be confused with site moderation. Content Staff's work ranges between making graphics, publishing news announcements and articles, managing various events and competitions, maintaining information archives, managing this Wiki and more. If you want to be more involved in any function, competition or event, contact a Content Staff member or the Content Hex [[Staff#Content Staff|assigned to that area]]. <br />
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'''{{Gaming Colour|text=Gaming Staff}}''' with orange names, manage some of the specific on-forum games and competitions, for example, the Total War Hotseat section and the Total Guess Competition. "Gaming" in this context does '''not''' mean involvement in the Total War Series and Modding sections. If you have queries or would like to be more involved in a game or event contact a Gaming Staff member or the Gaming/Awards Hex [[Staff#Gaming Staff & Awards|assigned to that area]].<br />
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'''{{Tech Colour|text=Technical Staff}}''' manage the backend of the website. They are not normally available for member questions. If you have queries about technical issues with the site post in [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?9-Questions-amp-Suggestions Questions and Suggestions]. For troubleshooting computer issues with your own hardware/software use the [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?8-The-Basement Basement]. For problems with computer games or mods use the sub-forum relevant to the game/mod.<br />
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'''{{Black Colour|text=Tribunes}}''' are the Staff appointed members of the appeal tribunal, they share black coloured names with Magistrates who are the Curia appointed members. If you wish to appeal a decision made by a moderator, amongst [[#Moderator Actions, Infractions and Appeals|other options]], you can refer to the [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?146-The-Tribunal Tribunal] and the Tribunes will help judge your case.<br />
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All staff members are ultimately regular users who have volunteered their time and drive to help improve and maintain the site, please treat them with courtesy! Also please note that real-life commitments may sometimes mean individuals are temporarily unavailable. <br />
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{{Medals and Awards}}<br />
The Total War Center has a wide-ranging system of Medals and Awards, they vary between awards given to long-standing staff members, awards given by the Curia, awards given by TWC Administrators (Hex) and medals that can be won in competition or awarded by public vote. Links to pages showing the currently available medals and awards are given in the box to the right:<br />
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==Rules and Conduct Advice==<br />
'''Every member when they sign up has to agree to keep to the rules in the [[TWC Official:Terms of Service|Terms of Service]]'''. They're enforced by the moderators, and failure to comply can result in warnings, infraction points, suspensions and ultimately a permanent ban. We recommend you read and familiarise yourself with them! <br />
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The Terms of Service apply as a minimum standard throughout the site, some forum sections such as The Mudpit and the Personal Help and Advice Fora have additional rules and/or recommended codes of conduct. Check the "Sticky:" threads pinned at the top of a forum to see if special rules apply.<br />
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===Conduct Advice===<br />
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*Read - Try to read the entire thread. This is important as it can give you sources for information (which are very important for a debate) and tells you what has already been argued about. Unless you are bringing new information regarding a past issue or point, it is redundant to dredge up an old settled argument, especially if it has been some time since it was last talked about in the thread.<br />
*Edit - After you have written your response, always send it through a spellchecker after reading it over again yourself. Your post will be better received if it doesn't include obvious spelling and grammatical errors.<br />
*Give Sources - A credible source can go a long way in helping you win a debate. Facts without sources will be often disregarded as mere opinion.<br />
*Stay Calm - Far too often, members become frustrated and angry on various threads. This happens to all at times, and the best cure is to step away from the debate. What you do after that is up to you, but do not go back to the debate until you have calmed down. If a debate looks like it is getting too heated, a moderator will often close down a thread temporarily to clean up heated posts, as well as giving all parties a chance to calm down.<br />
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Hopefully, you won't have to! But if someone does flame you or troll you, report their post using the Report button. DON'T respond in kind. If you flame someone who flames you, that just starts a flame war and you'll find yourself in as much trouble as the original flamer (provoker).<br />
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Try emailing them if they enabled their email address, or use the "private messaging" - PM. Be careful though, members do (and should) report harassing or annoying PMs to moderators. Just because it is a private message, it does not give you leeway to flame or troll others.<br />
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This button at the bottom right of each post will generate an automatic email to all the moderators of that forum telling them that the post has been reported. You can use it to tell the moderators every time you see a post that breaks the Terms of Service. While it is not our aim to create a generation of informants, experience has proven time and again that reporting a post that you consider offensive or disruptive is far better than attempting to deal with it "on your own", by either attacking the poster or threatening with some form of action in the thread. Furthermore, a report is the fastest way to alert the moderators about serious breaches of ToS such as posting of porn and also to get yourself rid of ad-bots. Reporting posts is encouraged!<br />
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===Moderator Actions, Infractions and Appeals===<br />
'''TWC's staff moderators enforce the Terms of Service throughout the site and can issue warnings and infraction points for breaches.''' There are methods of appeal if you feel you have been given an infraction unfairly (that is outside the terms of the ToS).<br />
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If you think you are being mistreated or that a moderator is acting outside the ToS then you should PM one of the administrators who oversee moderation on a daily basis. These are the current Moderation Overseers:<br />
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You can also post about any problems you're having, or your thoughts about moderation, in the [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=272653 Moderation Commentary Thread] where administrators will try to resolve your problem or answer any of your relevant questions regarding site moderation, it is best to be calm and coherent when talking about the matter in public as it breeds positive conversations which further breeds solutions and satisfaction.<br />
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There are a variety of possible methods please see below:<br />
*'''Appeal by PM to the Moderator concerned or to a Moderation Hex''': Members should feel free to discuss any moderator action or decision either with the moderator concerned or with one of the moderation overseers. This is usually the best way to start if you disagree with an infraction you have received, but you should also start here if you have an issue with other actions such as thread warnings, thread closures, notes, and so on. These are the current Moderation Overseers:<br />
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*'''Appeal to the Praetorium''': Appeals in the [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=1309 Praetorium] are heard by all moderation staff, and all cases are private, which means that other members will not be able to view your appeal thread. You can appeal infractions in the Praetorium and you can also ask for an official ruling on any instruction you have been given by a moderator via PM, note, or thread warning. You cannot appeal other moderator actions like post deletions, thread closures, probation, and so on. You can find the Praetorium guidelines [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=320988 here].<br />
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*'''Appeal to the Tribunal''': Appeals in the [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=146 Tribunal] are heard by an independent panel of Tribunes and Magistrates, and all cases are public, which means that other members will be able to view your appeal thread. You can only appeal infractions and other penalties in the Tribunal. You can find the Tribunal guidelines [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=98523 here].<br />
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Appeals against infractions follow much the same process in both the Praetorium and the Tribunal. To open an appeal against an infraction, simply create a thread requesting an appeal. Try to provide relevant information about the infraction such as the approximate time the infraction was given, the name of the moderator who issued the infraction, and the relevant thread or forum. After you have created the thread, a moderator will post the infraction and deliberations will begin. You may explain your position in the appeal thread. After you have given your side of the story, a thread will be created in a hidden forum and deliberations will be initiated. Once a decision has been reached you will be informed of the verdict.<br />
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=Features Breakdown=<br />
Please see also: ''[https://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?569659-Shankbot-s-Unofficial-Guide-for-New-Members-step-by-step-instructions-on-creating-sigs-editing-thread-titles-adding-rep-and-more! Shankbot's Unofficial Guide for New Members - step by step instructions on creating sigs, editing thread titles, adding rep and more!]'', which explains some of the features in more detail and includes screenshots (you will need to be logged in to view the thread).<br />
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==Forum Posts and Messages==<br />
'''The TWC forum uses vBulletin software, with BB code for posting.''' [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/misc.php?do=bbcode This page lists most of the BB tags used on TWC]; the page explains how to make bold or italic text and use other more advanced formatting options for posts. You can switch between BB code being shown in the reply window and WYSIWYG mode by clicking the <sup><small>A</small></sup>/<sub>A</sub> buttons at the top left of your reply screen. The "Go Advanced" reply option gives you access to shortcuts for more BB code features, such as spoilers and indents. You can also access the "Preview Post" function from the Advanced reply screen.<br />
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The following are frequently asked questions about posting:<br />
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! '''Why can't I edit my posts?'''<br />
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Sorry for the inconvenience, members have to have 25 posts and been registered for at least one week in order to edit their posts. This was introduced to prevent spam advertising accounts from editing their posts.<br />
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
! '''Can I re-name my own thread?'''<br />
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Yes, if you posted the first post in the thread you can change the thread title. Either "Edit" the first post and use the "Go Advanced" button to access the title, or from the forum view, double-click on the thread title to open just the title for editing.<br />
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
! '''Can I delete\close my own thread?'''<br />
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No you can't unfortunately, you can report it though and explain in the report why you would like a site moderator to close/delete it for you, he/she may or may not close/delete it at his/her discretion.<br />
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
! '''I've realised I posted in the wrong forum, can I move the post/thread?'''<br />
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Sorry, only moderators can move threads or posts, please report your own post and explain where you think it should be moved to. Please try and avoid posting the same post/thread in multiple locations!<br />
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
! '''How do I make polls?'''<br />
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You can only add a poll to the first post in a thread. When you start a new thread select the tick box below "Post a poll" near the bottom of the screen and enter the number of options you require in the box below that, compose the main text of your post and then click to "Submit New Thread" you will then be taken to a new screen where you can enter your poll options. To add a poll to a thread you have already started select the "Thread Tools" drop-down and "Add a Poll to this Thread".<br />
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If you need to amend the contents of a poll you have posted you will need to PM an Administrator. To create polls you need to have 25 posts and have been registered for at least one week.<br />
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
! '''Can I vote in polls?'''<br />
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To vote in polls you have to have 25 posts and been registered for at least one week. This was introduced to prevent people creating duplicate accounts and spamming site awards or competition votes with them. Note: If you have more than one account you should not use them to multi-vote in the same poll!<br />
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
! '''Can I edit a poll that I created in my thread?'''<br />
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No you can't unfortunately, however you can report your opening post in your thread and ask a site moderator to edit the poll for you to whatever you want. Alternatively, you can also create a new thread and report the old thread for deletion, whichever you prefer.<br />
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
! '''How do I post and reply to visitor messages?'''<br />
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To post visitor messages, you have to have 25 posts and been registered for at least one week. After that, you can view another user's profile and post a message using the "Visitor Messages" tab. If you want to reply to a message someone has left on your profile use the "View Conversation" button so the reply goes to their profile and not yours! Please note that visitor messages are public by default. <br />
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
! '''How do I send a private message?'''<br />
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Click on someone's name in their user display and you will see an envelope symbol and "Private Message" button, you can use that to open the message window with their name as the recipient. You can also find the "Send New Message" button in the "My Messages" section at the top left of your "My Account" view. If you start typing in the "Recipient Users:" box you will get an autofill of the possible user-names starting with your text (which can help on hard to spell names). You can send messages to multiple recipients by adding a ';' between names, but please don't 'spam' other users!<br />
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Private messages can be formatted in exactly the same way as forum posts. You can even send yourself a message as a way of saving a draft for a complex forum post.<br />
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
! '''How do I make or join a Social Group?'''<br />
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To join or create a group you have to have 25 posts and been registered for at least one week. Groups are accessed from your '''My Profile"''' page not "My Account". Go to your profile page and on the left-hand side under "Albums" you will see "Groups" with "Join Groups" link next to it, note this is a different section to "Permission Groups". Click that Join Groups button to join or create a social group. Also remember to search the already made Social Groups to see if there is already one for your topic.<br />
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
! '''How do I rename or delete my Social Group?'''<br />
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Just contact any [[Staff#Moderators|{{Moderator Colour|text=Site Moderator}}]], and they can rename/delete or edit your group description if need be. Alternatively, you can post your request in [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=459174 this thread].<br />
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==Reputation==<br />
'''Reputation is a fun feature that theoretically enables you to see your community standing with the other members of TWC.''' In theory, the more reputation you have, the more highly thought of you are by the other members of the community. It has no other real meaning, and many members choose to disable the display.<br />
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Reputation here will be described as if you were using the default TWCenter skin. The symbols are different on the other skins, the principle is the same however.<br />
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
! '''How do I give rep?'''<br />
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You can add reputation to a post by clicking this button:<br />
:https://www.twcenter.net/forums/images/y2skin/buttons/reputation-40b.png<br><br />
You can only add 1 point of rep to each post and you can only give 7 points total a day. Additionally, you have to rep 3 different users before you can give rep to the same user again, in order to prevent rep abuse.<br />
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
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Because of issues with account cloning in the past, where people created accounts just to give themselves rep, only users registered for at least one week with over 25 posts may give rep. Furthermore, it may take an hour or so after your 25th post for your rep to start working, even if you've been registered for over one week by that point.<br />
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
! '''How do I know which member gave me rep?'''<br />
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Generally people also mention their username along with the rep comment, if they have not chosen to do so then it's an anonymous rep and you won't be able to find out who it came from. However, if you have been insulted via rep feature then contact any moderator or an administrator as they have the access to view it, they can remove the insult and take care of the offender as per TWC's terms of service.<br />
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
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Your reputation shows up in two places. One, on the left hand side where you post, a collection of symbols shows a rough guide to how much rep you have. Two, in your control panel, which gives your total number of points and a more comprehensive display of the last 20 rep points you received, showing which post you got it for, who gave it, and any comment they left.<br />
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
! '''How many rep points do I have?'''<br />
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You can see the current number of rep points on your profile by clicking [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/usercp.php My Account]. The total is shown at the top of the "Latest Reputation Received" table.<br />
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
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Yes, you can disable the display of your reputation in your control panel under "General Settings". If you do so, your own rep won't be displayed on your posts but you will still be able to give other people rep as well as receive it and view rep messages.<br />
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
! '''What does it look like?'''<br />
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Each symbol represents a certain number of rep points. It starts at 3, so if you have less than 3 rep points, you'll show the scales symbol for neutral rep.<br />
:https://www.twcenter.net/forums/images/y2skin/Reputation_New/Balance.png <br />
Some very few members who have received negative rep from the staff will have this replaced by a red square. Those users who have disabled the reputation feature will simply show a grey square.<br />
Once you hit 3 rep points, you'll get 1 gold ring<br />
:https://www.twcenter.net/forums/images/y2skin/reputation/reputation_pos.png<br />
Each ring = 3 points, so if someone has 5 rings, they have 15 Rep points. You can only get a maximum of 5 rings, after that the rings are transferred into a fleur-de-lis. <br />
:https://www.twcenter.net/forums/images/y2skin/reputation/reputation_pos2.png<br />
Each gold fleur-de-lis is worth 15 rep points.<br />
:https://www.twcenter.net/forums/images/y2skin/reputation/reputation_highpos.png<br />
Each red fleur-de-lis is worth 150 rep points. <br />
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===Reputation Descriptions===<br />
'''When you hover over the reputation icons in someone's post a reputation description will be shown.''' The descriptions are based on famous movie quotes, the quotes change as the number of rep points increase. <br />
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Below is a list of all the descriptions, and which film they came from, sorted by the number of rep points. "User" in the descriptions will be replaced by the member's actual user-name.<br />
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
! '''List of Rep Descriptions and Point Levels'''<br />
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{| class="collapse-custom" |'''Rep Points''' || '''Rep Description'''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 0 || User, My precious - ''Lord of the Rings'' <br />
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|rowspan="1" | 1-5 || User, we have a problem - ''Apollo 13''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 6-15 || User can't handle the truth - ''A Few Good Men''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 16-20 || User ought to go careful in Vienna. Everybody ought to go careful in a city like this - ''The Third Man''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 21-25 || User came to TWC for the waters - ''Casablanca''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 26-35 || User coulda had class. Coulda been a contender. Could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what he is - ''On the Waterfront''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 36-45 || User was once tested by a census taker. He ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti - ''Silence of the Lambs''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 46-55 || User, you got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk? - ''Dirty Harry''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 56-65 || User, TWC thinks this is a the beginning of a beautiful friendship - ''Casablanca''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 66-75 || User's looking at you, kid - ''Casablanca''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 76-85 || User is not in Kansas anymore - ''Wizard of Oz''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 86-95 || User could carry a coconut by gripping it by the husk - ''Monty Python and the Holy Grail''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 96-105 || User didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition - ''Monty Python's Flying Circus''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 106-115 || User , Hasta la vista - ''Terminator''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 116-125 || User , short of being attacked by a giant octopus, would like to be undisturbed for the next thirty minutes - ''Crimson Tide''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 126-150 || User can't fight in here! This is the Total War Room - ''Dr. Strangelove''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 151-175 || User says: Freeeeeeeeeeedom! - ''Braveheart''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 176-200 || User . James Bond - ''James Bond''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 201-225 || User 's hometown were two miles of public lighting in the streets when London was a village - ''Lawrence of Arabia''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 226-250 || User has seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion - ''Bladerunner''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 251-275 || User made us an offer we could not refuse - ''The Godfather''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 276-300 || User knows what they call a Quarter Pounder with cheese in France - ''Pulp Fiction''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 301-325 || User is following the white rabbit - ''Matrix''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 326-350 || User is like the smell of napalm in the morning - ''Apocalypse Now''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 351-375 || User is Keyser Söze - ''The Usual Suspects''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 376-425 || User CAN simply walk into Mordor - ''Lord of the Rings''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 426-475 || User will dine tonight in Elysium - ''Gladiator or 300''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 476-525 || User is big! It's the rep icons that got small - ''Sunset Boulevard''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 526-575 || User is Rosebud - ''Citizen Kane''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 576-625 || User lived in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias - ''The Third Man''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 626-675 || User is poised on steady legs, then begs for several eggs frothed to a mousse - ''Cyrano de Bergerac''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 676-725 || User is getting cuter every minute - ''The Big Sleep''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 726-775 || User has all the usual vices, besides those they've invented for themselves - ''The Big Sleep''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 776-825 || User likes his brandy in a glass - ''The Big Sleep''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 826-875 || User knows what gold does to men's souls - ''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 876-925 || User had a friend once. A dear friend - ''Once Upon a Time in America''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 926-975 || User doesn't have to show you any stinking badges - ''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 976-1025 || User shall possess, unscathed, something outlasting mortal flesh - - ''Cyrano de Bergerac''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 1026-1075 || User will show you where the iron crosses grow - ''Cross of Iron''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 1076-1125 || User is the stuff that dreams are made of - ''The Maltese Falcon''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 1126-1175 || User grieves over his manners on long winter evenings - ''The Big Sleep''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 1176-1225 || User frankly just doesn't give a damn - ''Gone with the Wind''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 1226-1275 || User likes talking to a man who likes to talk - ''The Maltese Falcon''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 1276-1325 || User bets you 105,000 dollars that you go to sleep before he does - ''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 1326-1375 || User knows there are two kinds of people in the world - ''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 1376-1425 || User , I expect you to die - ''Goldfinger''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 1426-1475 || User is ice cold in TWC - ''Ice-Cold in Alex''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 1476-1525 || User kicks ass for the Lord - ''Dead Alive''<br />
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|rowspan="1" | 1526+ || User doesn't feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever - ''The Third Man''<br />
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==Post Count Titles==<br />
'''In your user display directly under your avatar, you will see a short line of text, this is your post count title, or custom user-title.''' Post count titles don't have any deep meaning they are merely associated with your post count. The more posts you have, the further you progress up this list. Citizens, Local Moderators and TWC Staff have the ability to override their default title with a custom user-title of their own choosing.<br />
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Here's the list of the current default titles, they were based on the game [[Total War: Attila]].<br />
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|rowspan="1" | Barbarus || A barbarian|| 0<br />
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|rowspan="1" | Laetus || A Barbarian settler defeated by the Romans and dispersed to another or several parts of the Empire. || 1 <br />
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|rowspan="1" | Foederatus || Barbarian settler or soldier in a group under treaty with the Romans || 25 <br />
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|rowspan="1" | Libertus || A freed slave. ||50 <br />
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|rowspan="1" | Civis || A citizen ||100 <br />
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|rowspan="1" | Tiro || A soldier in training ||200 <br />
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|rowspan="1" | Miles || A soldier, known as Pedes or Eques depending on his unit. ||300 <br />
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|rowspan="1" | Semisalis || A veteran soldier with 1.5 times pay grade. ||400 <br />
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|rowspan="1" | Decanus ||The same as the Strategikon's Dekakontarchos, or the commander of a Contubernium. ||500 <br />
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|rowspan="1" | Biarchus || Equivalent to the Strategikon's Pentakontarchos, commander of 50 men, essentially the Late Roman Optio. ||600 <br />
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|rowspan="1" | Ordinarius || A centurion in a Limitanei unit. ||700 <br />
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|rowspan="1" | Centenarius || A centurion in a Comitatenses or Auxilia Palatina unit. ||800 <br />
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|rowspan="1" | Ducenarius || A commander of two centuries in the Late Roman Era in Auxilia Palatina units. ||900 <br />
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|rowspan="1" | Senator || Not much is known about the rank, but modern historians think he was a battlefield herald. ||1,000 <br />
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|rowspan="1" | Campidoctor || regimental drill master ||1,500 <br />
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|rowspan="1" | Domesticus || regimental chief-of-staff ||2,000 <br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | Vicarius|| Not to be confused with a Late Roman Governor, this man was the replacement should the Tribunis die in combat. ||2,500 <br />
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|rowspan="1" | Primicerius|| The Lieutenant Commander and Administrative head of a Late Roman unit. ||3,000 <br />
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|rowspan="1" | Protector Domesticus || A cadet officer earmarked for military or political role that often served in a Late Roman unit. Like an ensign, in a way.||4,000 <br />
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|rowspan="1" | Praepositus || Commander of a Limitanei garrison, or in some cases an old Legion ||5,000 <br />
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|rowspan="1" | Praefectus || Commander of a Roman Legion ||6,000 <br />
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|rowspan="1" | Tribunus || A generic command title, but always used in the Legio and Auxilia Palatina regiments, the elite forces of the field armies. ||7,000 <br />
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|rowspan=”1”| Praeses ||the Governor of a minor province, such as Pannonia Valeria ||7,500<br />
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|rowspan="1" | Vicarius Provinciae || Governor of an important province, such as Dalmatia ||10,000 <br />
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|rowspan="1" | Limitis ||A count of Limitanei in a province: this is a rather unusual occurence and seems to be beneath the command of a Dux. E.g. Comes Tractus Aremoriciani||12,500 <br />
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|rowspan="1" | Dux Limitis || The Commander of the Limitanei in a Province or sometimes a region. E.g. Dux Thebaidos ||15,000 <br />
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|rowspan="1"| Comes Rei Militaris || The Commander of a Comitatensian Field Army. E.g. Comes Dalmatae ||20,000 <br />
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|rowspan="1" | Patricius || The title of Patrician, which at this time held no real privleges but paved the way for obtaining higher ranks. ||25,000 <br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | Domesticorum || The Commander of the Protectores Domestici, originally the Imperial Guard but by the Late 4th century an Officer's Cadre. ||30,000 <br />
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|rowspan="1" | Cura Palatii || The new commander of the Imperial Guard units, according to Dr. Meaghan McEvoy. Lit. "Curator of the Palace" ||40,000 <br />
|-<br />
|rowspan="1" | Magister Militum || The Commander of a Regional Field army, such as Comes et Magister Militum per Gallias. ||50,000<br />
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|rowspan="1" | Praefectus Praetorio || The administrative chief of a praetorian prefecture, such as the Praefectus Praetorio Italiae, Illyrici, et Africae. ||60,000 <br />
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|rowspan="1" | Magister Officiorum || The Commander of the Scholae Palatinae and the administrative chief of offices in the Empire. ||70,000 <br />
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|rowspan="1" | Magister Militum || Meaning "Master of the Soldiers", was a top-level military command. ||80,000 <br />
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|rowspan=”1”| Patricius Noster|| The Full title being Magnificus vir parens patriciusque noster, the title that cemented men like Stilicho and Aetius as supreme commander. ||90,000<br />
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|rowspan="1" | Augustus || There were two of them: one in Constantinople, usually the Senior Augustus, and one in Ravenna, usually the Junior Augustus, for each administrative half. ||100,000<br />
|}<br />
|}<br />
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==Profile and Account Settings==<br />
'''The [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/usercp.php "My Account"] section gives access to a number of ways you can personalise your TWC profile, including adding signatures, avatars and profile pictures.''' Here you can also choose how much information you'd like to add to your profile, e.g. if you'd like everyone to know your gender, or birthday, or which Total War games you own. You can also set a number of privacy options and choose if you are emailed notifications about your thread subscriptions.<br />
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Some common queries about profile features are answered below:<br />
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! '''Why can't I create a signature yet?'''<br />
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To discourage joining/posting simply to spam signature links all signatures are currently disabled for new users. Once you have 25 posts and have been a member for a week you will be able to create a signature.<br />
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! '''What can I put in a signature?'''<br />
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Signatures can contain text and/or images, the dimensions are bound to a 550&times;175 pixel box automatically, with anything outside of that being cut off. The text can include BB code and hyperlinks. The maximum combined file size of all images in a signature may not exceed 250 KB according to the current [[TWC Official:Terms of Service|TOS]]. <br />
Any images used must be uploaded to an independent hosting site.<br />
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
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The "Edit Avatar" button in your control panel allows you to select an avatar from some pre-defined images hosted on TWC. You can also choose to use your own custom avatar which can have a maximum size of 100&times;100 pixels or 80 KB (whichever is smaller). You can upload the image to TWC but uploading images to an independent hosting site is preferred.<br />
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
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The "Edit Profile Picture" button in your control panel allows you select a small picture to display in your profile. The image can have a maximum size of 640&times;480 pixels or 250 KB (whichever is smaller). You can upload the image to TWC but uploading images to an independent hosting site is preferred.<br />
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
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You can't do this yourself from your account options, but you can request a name change in the [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=581961 Name change requests] thread in the Questions & Suggestions forum and an administrator will rename your Username. Please note that you cannot change to a name that is already in use, even if the other user has not been active.<br />
|}<br />
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
! '''I can't remember my user-name/password, how can I log-in?''' <br />
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Sometimes members use a typical username, or include special symbols in it and forget them, hence they can't re-login again, in that case, use the [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/sendmessage.php contact us] option and explain your problem. You can also send a message to staff on [https://twitter.com/twcnet TWC's Twitter] (please be patient when waiting for a reply) and if you use Discord you can also seek advice on the [https://discord.gg/w6GRHFp TWC server].<br />
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
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As a rule, TWC never deletes an account. However it is possible to have yourself suspended if you no longer have the time for TWC, or just need to take a break. To temporarilyu suspend your account just send an Admin a private message with your request. To request deletion of your personal data, please use the '[https://www.twcenter.net/forums/sendmessage.php contact us]' button at the bottom of the forum index and select the relevant option. <br />
|}<br />
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==Features for Modders==<br />
'''TWC provides a range of features that can help modders including the possibility of having their own hosted mod-forum.'''<br />
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
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Each of the game sections has a 'Modifications' sub-forum, these are normally subdivided further with separate sections for WIP/Proposals and Released Mods. If you start your thread in the wrong section or would like it moved when the status changes from WIP to released, you can message a moderator for the forum, or report your own post to request the move. (Moving the thread will mean anyone already subscribed to it can find the new location)<br />
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Substantial released mods or very active mods in development may benefit from having their own Hosted Mod Forum.<br />
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To obtain a hosted forum at TWC mod teams need to be able to show that they already have a good track record of making progress with their mod. If you have a mod and would like to apply for a subforum, private message a {{Admin Colour|text=Modding Hex}}. Links to the profiles of the current Modding Hex/Hexes can be found '''[[Staff#Hexagon Council (Administration)|here]]'''.<br />
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
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In addition to posting mod details on the forum, modders can create pages for their mods on this Wiki. Modders can also '''[https://www.twcenter.net/forums/announcement.php?f=734&a=452 request News Announcements]''' for releases, updates, previews, recruitment drives etc. The announcements will appear on TWC's home page and can optionally also be posted on TWC's Twitter feed.<br />
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Ensuring your released mod is included in TWC's Modding Awards can also help raise awareness.<br />
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The '''[https://www.twcenter.net/forums/downloads.php Download Section]''' can be used to post small (max 100MB) mods, tools and resources for the Total War games. You can also create a page in the downloads section which links to a larger file hosted externally, the page can be retained and edited and the file link changed for later updates allowing you to see the total number of downloads over various versions. <br />
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Mod contents are not normally treated as having a 'copyright' as they are in some part based on the game assets and software. However, TWC maintains a policy of protecting modders 'rights' within TWC and will not host mods that have used modders' work without permission. The [[Mod Register]] provides a way for modders to register brief details about their mod and include a permission statement indicating their intentions regarding re-use of their content. The Terms of Service also includes a [[TWC Official:Terms of Service#Using Modders' Work Without Permission (1, 3, or 6 points)|penalty clause]] for using modders' work without permission. <br />
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==Blogs==<br />
'''TWC's blogs are written by members of TWC, they can all be found [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/blog.php here].''' A wide variety of topics can be covered but special rules apply to the blogs and political or religious topics are not allowed. Members are welcome to apply to join the blogging group if they want to start their own blog or just want to comment on existing blogs.<br />
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Anyone can request permission to have a blog. Requests should be made by going to your profile and clicking on [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/profile.php?do=editusergroups "Join Groups"] in the "Permission Groups" section, and then clicking to join the "Bloggers" group. The site administrators will decide whether or not people should have permission to post a blog on a case by case basis.<br />
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Only people with permission to post blogs will be able to post comments on blogs. If you do not want to post a blog of your own, but you do want to be able to post comments on blogs, then you should follow the steps above and request permission to have a blog.<br />
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Some content is not appropriate for blogs and blog comments. If you have a blog, or if you post comments on any blogs, you must follow these rules, which will be applied strictly:<br />
* no religion<br />
* no politics<br />
* no content which breaks TWC's [[TWC Official:Terms of Service|Terms of Service]] (please note that this means all content must be family-friendly).<br />
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Anyone who breaks the rules above will lose the ability to post blogs and also the ability to post comments on blogs, and their blog will be deleted. Appeals to the Tribunal will have no effect on this decision - this is a purely administrative matter and the decision will be made by the site administrators.<br />
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=Citizenship & Opportunities=<br />
'''TWC openly and actively encourages participation in its structure, which offers users various levels of responsibility, awards and bling!''' Browsing the forums, you may notice that many users have at least a few medals, perhaps a badge and title, a coloured name etc. Rewards and positions can result from anything like helping with graphics, to proving yourself for the moderation team, to being a good modder, to patching up errors on the wiki. Whatever your niche, if you're dedicated at something on the site and stick to it, you will almost inevitably be rewarded, and if you're really putting in legwork, you may be offered [[Citizenship]] or a staff position (they do not mutually exclude or require each other). If you just want to be a normal user doing your thing, that's perfectly fine too!<br />
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If you want to strive for more, or think you could help the site in some way, please read on:<br />
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Citizenship is recognition for your contributions to the website. It is a badge, a coloured title, a bit of recognition and a small extra selection of forums open for you to post in (the [[Curia]]). It is also a path to the Magistrate position and local moderation/management positions within the Curia. Finally, it is a place to propose users for existing awards or suggest new awards, as well as make and vote on suggestions for both the Curia itself and for the website in general. Note that votes passed in the Curia are still subject to the wants/abilities of the administration, and further, to be a Citizen is not to hold a staff title or authority over other members. Likewise, you are not obliged to participate in the curia and discussions - but it would be appreciated if you lend your input.<br />
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The minimum requirements to be considered for the award are; to have made at least fifty posts, been registered for at least two months, and not have received a warning within the last six months. You will also need to have contributed constructively to the forums in some way beyond that expected of a normal member, and have another Citizen act as a Patron to propose your application to the Curia. Please see [[Citizen#How_to_Become_a_TWC_Citizen|here]] for more details.<br />
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
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There are some established roles where you can help out without having to officially "join staff", editing the wiki is one way (please see the section below). Other possibilities exist, such as volunteering for the Member or Modding Award Committees, helping out with certain competitions, or running Hotseat games. If you see an opportunity to contribute to another section but don't want to actually become "Staff" contact a relevant staff member to see what sort of help or items they'd be able to use and accept.<br />
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Most branches of staff will welcome new recruits and there will normally be more than one area actively recruiting. <br />
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All staff areas will require members to have a good history of complying with the [[ToS]]. Within staff some additional rules such as non-disclosure of private information will also apply. Moderation, Administration (Hex) and Technical departments will tend to be more stringent in their requirements, the Administration and Technical Departments particularly will require that you've built up a high level of trust over a longer period of time on the forum, they are much more likely to approach members themselves than accept applications. <br />
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The widest range of opportunities tends to be within the Content and Gaming branches; read on below if you are interested.<br />
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
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'''[[Content Staff]]''' cover a wide range of areas, working for them could involve:<br />
*Writing articles for publication.<br />
*Publishing news bulletins.<br />
*Running writing or graphics competitions.<br />
*Producing graphics for use on the site.<br />
*Supervising or working on this Wiki.<br />
*Acting as a Librarian for the Scriptorium.<br />
*Helping organise access to modding information.<br />
*Looking after the Downloads section.<br />
*and more...<br />
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If you're interested in joining please contact the head of the section you're interested in, or Content Hex, see current staff [[Staff#Content_Staff| here]]<br />
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
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'''[[Gaming Staff]]''' cover a range of on-forum games and competitions including:<br />
*Play by Post RPGs<br />
*Total War Hotseats<br />
*The Total Guess Competition<br />
*The Post of the Fortnight Competition<br />
(The Site Awards for Members and Modding are also handled by the Awards & Competitions Hex, but are run by committees of staff and non-staffers.)<br />
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If you're interested in joining please contact the head of the section you're interested in, or the Hex in charge, see current staff [[Staff#Gaming Staff & Awards|here]]<br />
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=TWC Wiki=<br />
'''You're here! Welcome to the [[TWC Wiki]]!''' This Wiki hosts information about the TWC site and the Total War games; it includes articles on TWC site history, site information, summaries of modding knowledge, lists and pages for mods, and overviews of the games themselves as well as their features. Making it better is a never-ending process for a site that's been online over a decade. <br />
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Users must be [[Special:UserLogin|logged in]] in order to edit pages. If you have ever previously logged in your account name and password should still be valid. If you haven't logged in yet you will need to [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?796550-Request-a-Wiki-Account-HERE request a wiki account] on the forum.<br />
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Once you have logged in you should see an "edit" button on ''most'' pages, you will also get the option to "create" pages if you follow a link to a page that does not exist yet. Some popular pages are semi-protected so that very new users cannot edit them and a few pages like the Terms of Service and System Files that change the default behaviour of the wiki are protected so that only wiki administrators can edit them. If you spot something that needs changing on one of those pages you can edit or create the "discussion" page for that article to explain what is needed.<br />
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
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You can't register for an account directly on this wiki. The function has been removed because the standard wiki software is too vulnerable to spammers and bots signing up solely to spam advertising.<br />
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To get a wiki account please first log in to TWC and post a request in '''[https://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?796550-Request-a-Wiki-Account-HERE this thread]'''. A wiki admin will make you an account using your forum user-name and message you with a temporary password for the wiki account (which you should change as soon as possible). If you give the wiki your email address you can thereafter retrieve your account if you forget the password, you can also "watchlist" pages, which works similarly to a thread subscription and gives you an email notification of changes.<br />
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You are welcome to request an account even if you don't want to edit the wiki, being able to log-in allows you to use the watchlist and set various preference options such as viewing the wiki with a different skin.<br />
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The [[TWC Wiki:Help|Help page]] gives some editing advice to get you started. The [[TWC_Wiki:Things to do|things to do]] page gives you an idea of what the priorities are at the time, but you're free to just find pages and subjects you're interested in and work on them as you see fit. You're always welcome to contact the [[TWC_Wiki#Wiki_Director|Wiki Director]] for advice, especially if you might be interested in joining the Wiki Team.<br />
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
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Please note that the [[TWC Official:Terms of Service|Terms of Service]] and the [[TWC Wiki Policy & Guidelines]] apply throughout the Wiki; importantly you must not submit copyrighted work without permission! Deliberate vandalism or repeatedly ignoring the Wiki Staff may result in temporary or even permanent removal from the Wiki (which is '''not''' open to appeal on the forum), breaches of the ToS may also result in disciplinary action taken against your forum account.<br />
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
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There are a series of [[Special_Contribution_Awards#TWC_Wiki_Editor_Award|TWC Wiki Editor Award]] medals available to non-staff for merit and time served as a non-staff member editing the wiki. The medals are given at the discretion of the Wiki Director and Hex. Wiki Team members who are part of Content Staff instead receive the Scribe's Quill award for their service, but members of other staff branches (e.g. moderation) who do work on the wiki unrelated to their staff role could also be eligible for the Wiki Editor Award medals.<br />
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You can't directly acquire forum rep for edits or pages on the wiki, but if you post somewhere like the [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?788480 Discuss the Wiki] thread to explain what you've been working on, that can help generate more help/interest and you ''may'' incidentally find your posts about it receive rep.<br />
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{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapse-custom" <br />
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As you've read above you don't ''need'' to be a staff member to edit the wiki, and becoming an official member of the team doesn't necessarily affect what you can do on the wiki itself. The TWC Wiki Team is part of [[Content Staff]], joining that would give you the Content Staff badge and access to the Wiki Staff Forum and Content Administration areas which can help aid coordination with other team members. Becoming an official part of TWC staff does impose some extra constraints on your behaviour but also involves you in the very friendly staff community which can make the teamwork all the more enjoyable!<br />
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If you'd like to join please contact the [[TWC_Wiki#Wiki_Director|Wiki Director]] or Content Hex.<br />
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{{TWC Info}}<br />
[[Category: Total War Center Information]]</div>
Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=Rule_Britannia&diff=77929
Rule Britannia
2019-08-25T21:57:10Z
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<div>{{Mod Information Table<br />
|Platform=Medieval II: Kingdoms <br />
|Mod Type=Overhaul<br />
|Mod Leader=[https://www.twcenter.net/forums/member.php?96751-AJStoner AJStoner]<br />
|Release Status= Version 1.7<br />
|Mod Foldered=Yes<br />
|Forum=https://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?467632-RULE-BRITANNIA-Mod-Overview<br />
|Campaign Map=Not yet added<br />
}}<br />
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==Description==<br />
Rule Britannia Total War overhauls the Britannia campaign from the kingdoms expansion, adding scripted events and a new reworked recruitment system as well as re-introducing religion into the campaign.<br />
Characters now also want more payment and gain better traits by sitting around in high level cities.<br />
Also added is the auxiliary troop system and the exotic troop system.<br />
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==Team Members==<br />
Team Leader [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/member.php?96751-AJStoner AJStoner]<br />
Team members<br />
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Magus <br />
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Lord Condormanius, <br />
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davide.cool <br />
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Ishan <br />
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Dearmad <br />
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Pukas <br />
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Agart <br />
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King Kong<br />
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==Other Information==<br />
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==Permissions==<br />
Anyone who wishes may incorporate any element of RB into their own mod without permission; please simply credit in your ReadMe.<br />
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The items from Magus, Lord Condormanius, davide.cool, Ishan, Dearmad and Pukas are listed as usable with a credit in your ReadMe.<br />
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Agart specifies ReadMe credit and wishes to be informed when his models are being used.<br />
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King Kong requires advance permission.<br />
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==External Links==<br />
*View on TWC [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?1793-Rule-Britannia-(RB) here]<br />
*Download the Mod [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?798765-Rule-Brittania-1-7-Steam-compatible here]<br />
*View TWC Mod Registry Form Not yet registered. <br />
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[[Category:M2TW Mods (Hosted)]]</div>
Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=Rule_Brittania&diff=77930
Rule Brittania
2019-08-25T21:57:10Z
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Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=File:Skythikon_info_thumbnail.jpg&diff=72020
File:Skythikon info thumbnail.jpg
2018-10-07T22:02:05Z
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[[Category:M2TW Cavalry Images]]</div>
Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=File:Scythia_Generals_Bodyguard-Vanilla.jpg&diff=72019
File:Scythia Generals Bodyguard-Vanilla.jpg
2018-10-07T21:59:49Z
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[[Category:RTW Cavalry Images]]</div>
Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=File:Tufangis.jpg&diff=72018
File:Tufangis.jpg
2018-10-07T21:59:22Z
<p>Tango12345: Quick-adding category "ETW Infantry Images" (using HotCat)</p>
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[[Category:ETW Infantry Images]]</div>
Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=File:Tufangis_thumb.png&diff=72017
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2018-10-07T21:59:19Z
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[[Category:ETW Infantry Images]]</div>
Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=File:Tribesmen_thumb.png&diff=72016
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2018-10-07T21:59:16Z
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[[Category:ETW Infantry Images]]</div>
Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=File:Tuscany.jpg&diff=72015
File:Tuscany.jpg
2018-10-07T21:59:10Z
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<div>Tuscany<br />
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[[Category:ETW Faction Images]]</div>
Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=File:Turks_Thumbnail.png&diff=72014
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2018-10-07T21:59:02Z
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[[Category:M2TW Faction Images]]</div>
Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=File:Uk.png&diff=72013
File:Uk.png
2018-10-07T21:58:41Z
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[[Category:NTW Faction Images]]</div>
Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=File:PortugueseFlagETW.png&diff=71968
File:PortugueseFlagETW.png
2018-10-07T17:20:34Z
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<div>Flag of the Kingdom of Portugal as it appears in Empire: Total War<br />
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[[Category:ETW Faction Images]]</div>
Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=File:Symbol_vandals.png&diff=71967
File:Symbol vandals.png
2018-10-07T17:14:23Z
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[[Category:RTW Faction Images]]</div>
Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=File:Symbol_turks.jpg&diff=71966
File:Symbol turks.jpg
2018-10-07T17:14:17Z
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<div>Turks faction symbol from [[Medieval II: Total War]] game by [[Creative Assembly]] <br />
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© 2006 The Creative Assembly Limited<br />
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[[Category:M2TW Faction Images]]</div>
Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=File:Symbol_timurids.jpg&diff=71965
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2018-10-07T17:14:13Z
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<div>Timurids faction symbol from [[Medieval II: Total War]] game by [[Creative Assembly]] <br />
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© 2006 The Creative Assembly Limited<br />
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[[Category:M2TW Faction Images]]</div>
Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=File:Symbol_spain.jpg&diff=71964
File:Symbol spain.jpg
2018-10-07T17:14:09Z
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<div>Spain faction symbol from [[Medieval II: Total War]] game by [[Creative Assembly]] <br />
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© 2006 The Creative Assembly Limited<br />
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[[Category:M2TW Faction Images]]</div>
Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=File:Symbol_slavs.png&diff=71963
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2018-10-07T17:14:03Z
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Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=File:Symbol_slaves.png&diff=71962
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2018-10-07T17:13:53Z
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<div>[[Category:M2TW Faction Images]]<br />
[[Category:RTW Faction Images]]</div>
Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=File:Symbol_slaves.png&diff=71961
File:Symbol slaves.png
2018-10-07T17:13:39Z
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[[Category:M2TW Faction Images]]</div>
Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=File:Symbol_sicily.jpg&diff=71960
File:Symbol sicily.jpg
2018-10-07T17:13:35Z
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<div>Sicily faction symbol from [[Medieval II: Total War]] game by [[Creative Assembly]] <br />
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© 2006 The Creative Assembly Limited<br />
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[[Category:M2TW Faction Images]]</div>
Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=File:Symbol_scotland.jpg&diff=71959
File:Symbol scotland.jpg
2018-10-07T17:13:27Z
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<div>Scotland faction symbol from [[Medieval II: Total War]] game by [[Creative Assembly]] <br />
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© 2006 The Creative Assembly Limited<br />
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[[Category:M2TW Faction Images]]</div>
Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=File:Symbol_saxons.png&diff=71958
File:Symbol saxons.png
2018-10-07T17:13:24Z
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[[Category:RTW Faction Images]]</div>
Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=File:Symbol_sassanids.png&diff=71957
File:Symbol sassanids.png
2018-10-07T17:13:16Z
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[[Category:RTW Faction Images]]</div>
Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=File:Symbol_sarmatians.png&diff=71956
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2018-10-07T17:13:11Z
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[[Category:RTW Faction Images]]</div>
Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=File:Symbol_roxolani.png&diff=71955
File:Symbol roxolani.png
2018-10-07T17:13:04Z
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[[Category:RTW Faction Images]]</div>
Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=File:Symbol_romano_british.png&diff=71954
File:Symbol romano british.png
2018-10-07T17:12:58Z
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[[Category:RTW Faction Images]]</div>
Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=File:Symbol_portugal.jpg&diff=71953
File:Symbol portugal.jpg
2018-10-07T17:12:52Z
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<div>Portugal faction symbol from [[Medieval II: Total War]] game by [[Creative Assembly]] <br />
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© 2006 The Creative Assembly Limited<br />
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[[Category:M2TW Faction Images]]</div>
Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=File:Symbol_poland.jpg&diff=71952
File:Symbol poland.jpg
2018-10-07T17:12:49Z
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<div>Poland faction symbol from [[Medieval II: Total War]] game by [[Creative Assembly]] <br />
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© 2006 The Creative Assembly Limited<br />
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[[Category:M2TW Faction Images]]</div>
Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=File:Symbol_papal_states.png&diff=71951
File:Symbol papal states.png
2018-10-07T17:12:46Z
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<div>Papal States faction symbol from Medieval II: Total War game by Creative Assembly © 2006 The Creative Assembly Limited<br />
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Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=File:Symbol_ostrogoths.png&diff=71950
File:Symbol ostrogoths.png
2018-10-07T17:12:43Z
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Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=File:Symbol_moors.jpg&diff=71949
File:Symbol moors.jpg
2018-10-07T17:12:36Z
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<div>Moors faction symbol from [[Medieval II: Total War]] game by [[Creative Assembly]] <br />
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© 2006 The Creative Assembly Limited<br />
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[[Category:M2TW Faction Images]]</div>
Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=File:Symbol_mongols.jpg&diff=71948
File:Symbol mongols.jpg
2018-10-07T17:12:33Z
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<div>Mongols faction symbol from [[Medieval II: Total War]] game by [[Creative Assembly]] <br />
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© 2006 The Creative Assembly Limited<br />
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[[Category:M2TW Faction Images]]</div>
Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=File:Symbol_milan.jpg&diff=71947
File:Symbol milan.jpg
2018-10-07T17:12:27Z
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<div>Milan's faction symbol from [[Medieval II: Total War]] game by [[Creative Assembly]] <br />
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© 2006 The Creative Assembly Limited<br />
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[[Category:M2TW Faction Images]]</div>
Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=File:Symbol_lombardi.png&diff=71946
File:Symbol lombardi.png
2018-10-07T17:12:24Z
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Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=File:Symbol_huns.png&diff=71945
File:Symbol huns.png
2018-10-07T17:12:18Z
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Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=File:Symbol_hungary.jpg&diff=71944
File:Symbol hungary.jpg
2018-10-07T17:12:12Z
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<div>Hungary's faction symbol from [[Medieval II: Total War]] game by [[Creative Assembly]] <br />
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© 2006 The Creative Assembly Limited<br />
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[[Category:M2TW Faction Images]]</div>
Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=File:Symbol_hre.jpg&diff=71943
File:Symbol hre.jpg
2018-10-07T17:12:08Z
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<div>Holy Roman Empire faction symbol from [[Medieval II: Total War]] game by [[Creative Assembly]] <br />
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© 2006 The Creative Assembly Limited<br />
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[[Category:M2TW Faction Images]]</div>
Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=File:Symbol_goths.png&diff=71942
File:Symbol goths.png
2018-10-07T17:12:05Z
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Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=File:Symbol_franks.png&diff=71941
File:Symbol franks.png
2018-10-07T17:11:59Z
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Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=File:Symbol_france.jpg&diff=71940
File:Symbol france.jpg
2018-10-07T17:11:49Z
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<div>France faction symbol from [[Medieval II: Total War]] game by [[Creative Assembly]] <br />
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© 2006 The Creative Assembly Limited<br />
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[[Category:M2TW Faction Images]]</div>
Tango12345
https://wiki.twcenter.net/index.php?title=File:Symbol_england.jpg&diff=71939
File:Symbol england.jpg
2018-10-07T17:11:26Z
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<div>England's faction symbol from [[Medieval II: Total War]] game by [[Creative Assembly]] <br />
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© 2006 The Creative Assembly Limited<br />
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[[Category:M2TW Faction Images]]</div>
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