Preamble

Before joining SAGT, it is of crucial importance that you are not only familiar to the Code of Ethics. During your stay, we want you to live and act in accordance with it. We want you to understand the reasons why the Code of Ethics looks like it does and behave in correspondingly. The Code of Ethics holds to all members of SAGT in the same way, without any exceptions.

If our Code of Ethics or parts of it, is something you can not uphold to, then SAGT is not the place you should go.

Section 1: Administration

The administration of SAGT is performed by the current Council Members and all members, which have the Administrator-tag. They are the game-masters of the current season of SAGT and are legitimated to enforce the Code of Ethics by using measures as they see appropriate. These measures range from (and are not limited to) editing posts up to perma-banning users. The administrators actions are considered presumptively fair so long as they are undertaken in furtherance of maintaining the integrity of the game and its community.

Section 2: Cheating

A large part of SAGT is built upon trust between its users. Intentional cheating is strictly forbidden. There are no reasons for users to cheat under any circumstances. SAGT is played along the additional rule-sets, which can be found here. Users are expected to be up to date about any rulechanges, which might have occured.

Section 3: Conduct

All members of SAGT handle each other respectfully, regardless of their age, gender, nationality, race, religious beliefs or sexual orientation. SAGT is a community open for all users. The same rules apply for all applicants.

As an international game the language of all communications in SAGT is english. You are suppossed to understand english texts and compose such texts yourself. All public texts are supposed to be written in english.

Language of adult or offensive nature will not be tolerated, this rule is independent of the form of communication (chat, forums, email, external links etc.). Nobody wants to be offended. Also mind that on the other end a person might sit, which frowns upon any loose language, e.g. parents playing this game together with their young children.

Members of SAGT will not issue any real-world religious or political statements. This is a place to game and not to debate. Keep any political or religious jokes to yourself, there are enough other things to talk about and make fun of. You do not know, if even a casual political or religious statement is disliked by any other member, even if you think you do.

It is expected of all members to actively work towards a friendly and respectful community.

Section 4: Roleplaying

SAGT allows for great amounts of roleplaying, which is encouraged. If you encounter a situation, which you can solve in a roleplaying and a non-roleplaying way, we would like to see you opt the roleplaying way. However, this is not a rule and there might be various reasons to go for non-roleplaying solutions.

Roleplaying is no excuse to break any of the other points made in this Code of Ethics. If you see yourself in the "dilemma" of breaking the Code of Ethics or not roleplaying, you always go for "not roleplaying".

Section 5: Participation

There is no minimum requirement of games you need to play to enjoy SAGT. However be aware, that a a lot of design decissions of SAGT rely on the assumption, that all members in SAGT are active members. If you are an inactive member you are effectively disrupting the course of a SAGT-season.

We also strongly encourage members to contribute to SAGT in any possible form. Especially be active in the Research Lab (to help improving the SAGT-experience), make SAGT public, recruite new members, as well as show interest into the organizations of SAGT.

We all have real life issues and commitments. Especially gathering the crew can be a tough challenge, when members are busy in real life. There is no shame in skipping a season, just inform an administrator about it and they can adjust game parameters accordingly. You can come back for every other season any time.