Rules of Conduct

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Use of and participation in the CCG Workshop Forum, the chat room, and online games is contingent upon your acceptance of the following terms and rules. By participating in the interactive community, you acknowledge your acceptance of these terms. For purposes of this agreement, "Members" refers to you.

Contents 1 Rules of Chat Room Conduct 2 Rules of Game Conduct 3 Ghost Conduct 4 Game Experts (Pac-Man) 5 Shepherds 6 Forums 7 Screen Names 8 Privacy 9 Rights of CCG Workshop / Disclaimer of Liability 10 Member's Indeminification and Obligations 11 Termination

Rules of Chat Room Conduct

Ghosts (policing members) have the power to muzzle members who are not following these rules.

• You will not use profanity in your messages.
• You will not spam the room with information, links, or banter not related to CCG Workshop or the playing of games on the gatlingEngine.
• If you are going to have a lengthy conversation with another member over a topic that is not of interest to other members, please move to another empty room.
• You will not harrass other members.
• If you have a disagreement with another member, do not argue in the Main room. You will take it to another room that is sparsely populated.
• If there is a technical issue that is preventing you from playing or enjoying your game to the fullest extent, please post a defect on it.

If there is something you would like to see added to the engine or one of your games, please post it to the forum.

• CCG Workshop's community is for the exchange of ideas. Members may not use the community to post or transmit advertisements or commercial solicitations of any kind.

Rules of Game Conduct

• You will not jump into an open lobby if it was understood that someone else was going to. That is just plain rude.
• In casual play, you will present a deck to play against an opponent that matches their skill level.
• You will be courteous and respectful to your opponents.
• If you lose a game, you will be a good sport about it and congratulate your opponent for a game well-played.
• You will not create another account to play against yourself and bolster your ranking.
• You will not not create another account to gain extra free games.
• Game Experts are allowed to make on-the-spot rulings based on past rulings by their game's official rules team. If you have a rules disagreement, please ask your local Game Expert immediately for a ruling. Please use the ruling that you are given to avoid lengthy arguments.
• CCG Workshop's community is for the exchange of ideas. Members may not use the community to post or transmit advertisements or commercial solicitations of any kind.

Ghost Conduct

• You are a representative of CCG Workshop and will conduct yourself as such.
• You will not abuse your powers as a CCG Workshop policing member.
• You will not get into arguments with other members. If you find yourself drawn into a disagreement, end it as quickly and peacefully as possbile.

Game Experts (Pac-Man)

Game Experts are an honorary title that carries great weight within the community.

• A Game Expert, although he or she may not know ALL the rules, knows where to find the rules and how to make rulings based on them.
• A Game Expert is allowed to make a ruling on a game in the event of a dispute between players. Once that ruling is made, all players in the game shall adhere to that ruling for the remainder of the game without question or argument. A player that continues to fight the ruling or is argumentative shall be in violation of the Rules of Conduct.
• A Game Expert shall participate in the development of their game communtity on CCG Workshop by helping new players, settling disputes, dispensing advice, help with deck building, etc.
• A Game Expert shall assist the project lead in the implementation of the game.
• A Game Expert shall, whenever possible, organize and run tournaments or leagues, or help with the organization of a tournament or league.
• A Game Expert shall be humble in their status and their knowledge of their game.
• It is not proper, nor is it appreciated to ask to become a Game Expert, since the title has to be earned. If you have conducted yourself by the rules above, you will already have been noticed.
• A game's Project Lead will nominate a member to be a Game Expert. The 11 Ghosts will vote on that member becoming a Game Expert based on their impression of that member's conduct.

Shepherds

CCG Workshop Shepherds internally promote Licensed Games within the CCG Workshop community. They are members who sign up to give tours for their tended game. These tours provide a playing partner for other members at a consistant time every week, and allows members to try and learn new games. A Shepherd also administers tournaments for their tended game.

1. During their tour time slot, shepherds are expected to have their tended game loaded during the entire hour. <li>During their tour time slot, shepherds are expected to have their a lobby open for their tended game during the entire hour, ready for players to join. </ol>
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   Forums

   <li>Members shall not post or transmit through CCG Workshop any defamatory, threatening, obscene, harmful, pornographic or other material which would violate or infringe in any way upon the rights of others, or which would give rise to criminal or civil liability and/or violate federal or local law or regulation. You many not transmit materials that would encourage conduct that constitutes a criminal offense. <li>Members shall not upload, post, or otherwise make available on the CCG Workshop site any material protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right without the express permission of the owner of such copyright, trademark or other proprietary right. <li>For the protection of all Members, Forum postings and Game Chat shall not contain any telephone numbers or addresses. If Members seek to transmit such information, they should use the Forum Private Messaging feature or outside emails and with caution. <li>CCG Workshop encourages the submission of questions, articles, tactics, tips, editorials, game reviews, and other submissions that might be found useful by the CCG Workshop community. Authors of such material will have full rights to the work although CCG Workshop reserves the right to publish such submissions. <li>Members further authorize CCG Workshop to utilize in any manner it sees fit and for eternity, the submissions posted on the site, which shall become the property of CCG Workshop. Members release CCG Workshop from any and all claims or liability in connection therewith, agrees to indemnify CCG Workshop in connection therewith. Members agree and acknowledge that participation in the CCG Workshop site shall not give rise to any confidential, fiduciary, implied-in-law, contractual or other special relationship between Members and CCG Workshop (other than the contractual relationship between CCG Workshop and Members entered into by virtue of Members' agreement to these Communications Guidelines.) <li>CCG Workshop's community is for the exchange of ideas. Members may not use the community to post or transmit advertisements or commercial solicitations of any kind.

   
   

   
   

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   Screen Names

   When you post a message or send any communications through CCG Workshop, your screen name will automatically appear with your message. You may choose a name to use in connection with your messages in the interactive community. However, you may not use a user name (or email address) that attempts to impersonate another person; that belongs to another person, without his or her prior consent; that violates the intellectual property rights of any person; or that CCG Workshop deems to be offensive.

   
   

   
   

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   Privacy

   The Forum and Game Chat are open and public areas for all to see. CCG Workshop will endeavor to keep all Private Messaging viewable only to the sender and addressed recipient. Nevertheless as system operators, CCG Workshop may look at Private Messages if there is reason to believe that the Private Messages are being misused or there is a concern to protect CCG Workshop or other users from injury, damage, or liability. This right is outlined in the federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). If we find that Private Messages are connected with illegal activities, CCG Workshop may disclose it to the authorities to protect the entire CCG Workshop company and community.

   
   

   
   

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   Rights of CCG Workshop / Disclaimer of Liability

   CCG Workshop is a meeting place and a publisher of its interactive community. The content is supplied predominantly by Members. CCG Workshop will contribute with game oriented current event postings and responses to Members' queries. CCG Workshop shall police, monitor, and editing such content to best of its ability in order to respond to or comment upon communications by Members and in order to determine compliance with the foregoing Communications Guidelines. CCG Workshop shall have the right and sole discretion to edit, to refuse to post or to remove any content whatsoever which it finds to be in violation of these provisions or which it finds in its sole discretion to be otherwise objectionable for any reason.

   The opinions expressed in the forums are not necessarily (an in some cases not at all) those of CCG Workshop. CCG Workshop is not responsible for any materials provided by users which are deemed harmful or offensive to others. CCG Workshop is not responsible in any way for any injury, loss, or damage, which occurs as a result of an opinion expressed or information, provided in these sections of the site. CCG Workshop is not responsible for the content of any sites linked to a CCG Workshop site.

   CCG Workshop makes no warranties, expressed or implied, as to the content in the CCG Workshop site or the accuracy or reliability of any information or statements contained therein. All statements, advice and opinions made by Members in CCG Workshop forums are those of such Members only, CCG Workshop neither endorses nor shall be held responsible for the reliability or accuracy of same.

   
   

   
   

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   Member's Indeminification and Obligations

   Member agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless CCG Workshop and their respective directors, officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims, losses, costs, and expenses (including attorneys fees) arising out of Member's use of CCG Workshop's site when they violate these Communications Guidelines. These include, without limitation, any communication by Member which is deemed to be defamatory, obscene or otherwise unlawful, including violations of the copyright, trademark, proprietary or other rights of third parties, or which constitutes a submission of materials.

   
   

   
   

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   Termination

   CCG Workshop shall have the right to immediately terminate any Member's use of the CCG Workshop site if CCG Workshop determines in its sole discretion that Member has violated the Communications Guidelines set forth herein or otherwise breached this agreement, or has engage in conduct which CCG Workshop determines in its sole discretion to be unacceptable.