Calculator Tools
by Sword of Estel

It has come to our attention that a number of player-created tools have been released recently. Some of these even require the user to enter their login information. DO NOT USE THESE TOOLS. To do so is to possibly compromise your own nation and/or your computer's security.



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Private Exchanges
by The Mod

It has come to the attention of the Game Staff that users within the game have sent other nations real life money for in-game foreign aid. This is in violation of line 19 of the site terms of use located here. If you are caught doing so, it will result in your nation being deleted.

Signature reminder


With the return of image tags I would like to remind you all of the current rules for signatures on these boards. As stated here:



If you are unsure of the size of the image you wish to put in your signature simply right-click (ctrl-click on Mac OS) and select "properties", which should give you the dimensions. Please remember: only one signature image no more than 450 pixels in length and 150 pixels in height.

Regarding IRC and passwords.

Attention all members of the Cyber Nations community

Some users have recently been infected with a worm and/or virus while using IRC. While we have always encouraged separate passwords for your forum, game, and IRC accounts, it would be wise that you change them if they are all the same so you can protect your nation/forum account. All users should be cautious if IRC is not acting normal, and NEVER accept any .exe or other files from IRC no matter who is sending them to you.

Thanks
~ Moderation Staff

The Public Archive


If anyone feels that a certain topic should be moved there, they can PM me with a link to the topic and the reason(s) why they think it deserves to be there.

Clarification of Clause 2 the Cyber Nations Terms and Conditions of Service



Regarding the bolded part in the above quoted text:

Real-life possessions include, but are not limited to, offsite forums, domain names, offsite forum accounts, and any tangible possession or currency. It is the judgement of the senior staff that compelling an alliance to give increased access on an offsite forum through the threat of ingame action is in violation of this clause. There have been a few instances of this in the past few days that have not escaped our notice. In the interest of fairness to all parties involved we feel we need to clarify this clause so that everyone is on the same page regarding it. No action will be taken against the perpetrators of the recent incidents but in the future such things will be dealt with harshly.

Any further infractions of this policy should be immediately reported to the Cyber Nations Senior Staff for action. Don't argue with the parties demanding things from you, don't agree to hand over what they are demanding - just come to us and we will look into it.

As you all are no doubt aware, you can now see the number of people viewing a particular forum and/or thread. While this is indeed an exciting new development, it does not mean that you should be posting that information at every possible moment, especially in an IC forum. Future posts consisting of such may be subject to warns.

The Academic Subforum was a noble experiment to raise the level of discourse. It failed. Thank you to those of you who put out the effort. All threads from that forum have been relocated to Open World Forum, and the Academic subforum is now closed.

Those who report others for the sole purpose of getting their enemies warned will receive a warning and suspension. Just now we have had to suspend two members for doing so and it is absolutely childish to have deal with such behavior. Using moderators as weapons will not end well for those of you caught doing so, let this be your warning.

This is a reminder that the Open World Forum is NOT the proper area to advertise technology sales/purchases.

Please post threads pertaining to the sale of technology, donations, etc. in the BLACK MARKET FORUM. Threads posted in the Open World Forum will be LOCKED on sight.

Thank you.

The Cyber Nations Moderation Staff

The CN staff has gone under a bit of restructuring. Some of you may have noticed that the Community Structure team has had a long overdue name change to the Gameplay Team, as almost everything they moderate is well, gameplay forums. The Gameplay/RP team is now just the Role Play team. The areas that each moderate have not changed.

The Senior Staff members now have new areas of expertise, so to speak, and the team has been expanded to include both Atlas and Philotheos. It would be a good idea for everyone to check out the updated list detailing moderator positions and see who should be contacted for whatever your needs are.


If anyone has questions about the update please feel free to PM either myself or any other member of the Senior Staff with your questions.

For those who've been PMing questions and anyone else who might be curious, I've elaborated on how/why these changes were made and how to best contact the mod team (plus some other interesting mod sekrits) here:

http://forums.cybernations.net/index.php?a...p;showentry=310

The Moderation team has become aware of a trend in the In-Character subforums. Many players are making posts in IC threads that contain isolated words or phrases mid-sentence surrounded by [OOC] faux-BBCode tags. We would like to remind players that at this time such posts are considered attempted circumvention of the IC nature of these forums, especially where the overall meaning of the post is clearly OOC.

This topic is currently under discussion in the Moderation forum, here. Further clarification of the current policy on this subject may be found in the same thread, here. Users are encouraged to participate in this policy discussion; please remember to keep the politics at the door and follow the guidelines of the Moderation forum.

Thank you for your cooperation.