Game Rules

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Be nice to each other.

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Hate speech is not tolerated.

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Trolling is not tolerated.
Trolling is annoying other players, e.g. destroying cars, blocking water path, blocking construction, destroying the map, joining unprotected companies just to spend all money etc.

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Sharing primary resources, including towns and cities, is allowed.

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Stealing cargo from secondary industries is not tolerated. You may agree on cooperation.

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Any language in chat is fine. Prefered is English as the most players can understand it.
You may use the automatic translation service (command !lang) for your convenience.

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Beaming (a trick of spreading stations across a long distance) is allowed for as long as it is realistic.
E.g., you may put an additional station(s) to collect passengers from a nearby area. Obvious cheating to get almost-zero transportation time is not tolerated.

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Companies without a password and without any vehicles are automatically removed after one game-month when nobodyplays the company.

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Password-protected companies stay intact until the end of the game round (if not closed because of bankrupcy or rules violation).

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One game round starts on January, 1st 1950 and ends on December, 31st 2049.

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There are in-game commands that can be used by anyone (entered as a public or server chat message):
!help for a list of command and a short description of them
!top for a short version of the Hall of Fame
!admin [message] for requesting administrator's support, optionally with a message
!reset for resetting the own company
!name new_name for changing player's name
!lang language_code for an automatic chat translation to the requested language (by ISO code)
!who for a list of active players