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Hello! I strongly suspect that not all players are aware of the game rules. Maybe they could be shown upon registration?

go idea or maybe even putting the rules into the read me file, that way after game is installed the readme.txt file auto populates with the rules.

Ah, that's also a good idea, but I'm not sure everybody reads the readme.

and you think that when you display the rules during registration everyone would read it? Maybe there a few more people who would read, but I'm sure there are always people who won't read it. always.

We could do something similar to an EULA where they have to agree to the rules before creating an account.

That's a simple matter of clicking on an "I Agree" checkbox. This doesn't force users to read rules and regulations, even in very large MMO's like World of Warcraft (I can't tell you how many users say "I didn't know that!" when they get banned for violating rules).

Anyway, something like that when creating a new account can cover bases so that users can't use the "I didn't know!" excuse but it will not force users to actually know the rules.

No, we can't force them to read, but since there are only five short rules, the chances that they will read them are relatively high, I think. And like leeor said, they can't use the "I didn't know" excuse then.

I do want to point out, however, that I agree with Vink and that at the very least an effort has been made on the part of the developers/moderators to give users an obvious opportunity to make sure they are informed. If they refuse to read upon registration they have no excuses and can't blame anybody but themselves for misbehavior and any appropriate disciplinary actions taken against them.

I 'm not read this stuff during registration, All I want is get in the game quickly

It's just five rules, less than 100 words. Even if you click OK within the second you will probably read at least some of them during that time, because your brain won't have time to notice that it's not something you want to read.

jimao888 wrote:I 'm not read this stuff during registration, All I want is get in the game quick

And that's beside the point. The point of displaying those rules is to give the user an opportunity to inform themselves. If they refuse to do this and end up incurring disciplinary actions, they have nobody to blame but themselves and can't use the "omg1!!!11!! gms are abuzing theyre power!1!!!11" line.