Extinction/Rules

What is Cheating?

• Operating two or more characters in the same building is cheating.
• Tearing down barricades to assist or protect another of your own characters is cheating.
• Intentionally using two or more of your characters to attack a single target is cheating. If the target moved several blocks between attacks, then this could certainly happen by accident. To avoid the appearance of cheating, your characters should remain at least 10 blocks apart at all times.

Note: If you are an honest and ethical player and two or more of your characters are in the same building, it is strongly recommended that you (1) publicly apologize, (2) read the rules and FAQ of Urban Dead again, paying particular attention to the issue of separate lives, (3) move your characters several suburbs apart, with screenshots, and (4) publicly affirm that your characters will not interact in the future (for example, by agreeing to a probation). Please be sympathetic toward the fact that Urban Dead has its share of obnoxious unrepentant cheating trolls, and that your own behavior at this stage needs to clearly distinguish you from the trolls.

"Grey" Tactics?

Extinction defines grey tactics as a strategy used by one player or group that another player or group does not like. Every player or group has a different view on what is fair & unfair. Extinction has NEVER judged another group based on grey tactics, we treat all groups as equals.

• A zombie getting revived and entering a safehouse to report numbers is, while unethical in game, not cheating, but unfair.
• Putting lies in your profile or group or spraypaint is unethical, yet it is not cheating, but unfair.
• The use of the ?rise command in the URL is not cheating, but unfair.
• Combat reviving is not cheating, but unfair.
• Running more than one alt in a group while obeying the rules is not cheating, but unfair.
• Using Maps that check barricade status, zed numbers, survivor numbers etc, not cheating, but unfair.

Where no explicit written policies exist, accusations of cheating are usually backed by "spirit of the game" arguments. However, when a significant portion of the gaming community enjoys or engages in or acquiesces to behavior, spirit-violation claims are unlikely to be persuasive. For example, while some people might be unhappy with player-killing or with human-zombie alliances, these sorts of things are not considered cheating.

Every player group uses tools/tactics that others don't like or agree with, we simply ask that there be no drama or bullshit fights over grey tactics...