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Rules and Regulations

In order to maintain order within LCN and fairness in dealing with other members of the earth community, our family has instituted this set of general guidelines and rules. Rules violations may be subject to various punishment including but not limited to a simple reprimand, payment of reparations to other members, revocation of privileges such as the country search engine for a short period of time, demotion, and if necessary, removal from the alliance. We recognize that from time-to-time accidents may occur. In such cases, immediately talk to your DL (division leader) or a FA (foreign affairs leader) and explain what happened. Alliance leadership may review any issue and reserve final judgment.

If you break the following rules, you will be expelled from LCN:
- No cheating. This means no multiple accounts, no bots, no exploitation of game bugs.
- No treason. Do not pass information about LCN onto other alliances or individuals.
- No inactivity. Those members who do not actively participate within LCN for the betterment of LCN are not welcome.
- No party poopers. If you are found not having fun, there shall be dire consequences. :P

The following rules pertain to landgrabbing (these rules do not pertain to LCN enemies):
- The only acceptable kinds of attacks are standard strikes (SS) and planned strikes (PS).
- You may not attack other members of the LCN family unless specifically allowed by an LCN head, usually dealing with the removal of cheaters from the LCN family.
- Alliances marked as "Friend" shall not be hit, as they are our closest allies.
- Alliances marked as "Don't Attack" shall not be hit, as they are alliances with whom we have formal relations or with whom we are pursuing better relations.
- It is suggested that alliances marked as "Will Retal" should be avoided if possible to prevent the trading of land. You may still hit these countries, though, and all rules that apply to "Neutral" alliances also apply to "Will Retal" alliances.
- Alliances marked as "Neutral" or "Untagged" may be hit.
- If the country has done a retal on LCN, that country is off limits for 72 hours after the retal hit.
- It is suggested that you use the Boxcar country search report (or a similar tool) to find landgrab targets and use the appropriate selections to insure that you are not an hitting an LCN ally or a country recently hit by LCN.
- You should also do an INGAME country search to insure that the country is not a member of a friendly alliance (the Boxcar database is not always 100% up-to-date) and and ingame news search to make sure that the Boxcar report didn't miss any recent attacks.
- If an alliance retals your hit on them, you may not hit them back. If you feel you have been retalled improperly, contact an LCN FA or make a post in the WTF Forum.

In order to deter others from landgrabbing LCN, we have instituted a retaliation policy in which all hits on LCN are retaliated.

The following rules pertain to retals:
- Land grabs against LCN will be retalled and LCN's land will be retaken, unless specified different in an alliance pact.
- LCN will retal hits land:land. A land:land retal is where LCN will hit the country as many times as neccesary to regain the lost land. Land:land retals have nothing to do with top-, bottom-, mid-, side-, or upside-down feeds.
- The only acceptable kinds of retaliations are SS and PS. LCN members are encouraged to use only PS for their retals.
- The attacked member gets first shot at the retal and has an obligation to make sure it gets taken (either by themselves or by another member of LCN if they cannot take it).
- If the attacked member can't do the retal or needs to wait more than 48 hours to get it done, they must post the original landgrab news in the retal forum and indicate their intention to take it themselves or open it up to any member of LCN.
- Open retal threads may be claimed by anyone for a period of 1 hour. If a retal is claimed and taken, the news of the hit must be posted in the original retal thread. If the retal isn't completed within 1 hour, it will be considered open again and can be claimed by someone else. Make sure you clearly post your intention to take a retal to avoid confusion.
- Retaliation grabs after 72 hours from the initial hit are not allowed. They will be considered as a landgrab.
- Hits within 48 hours after a retal on the retaler will be considered a retal on a retal and should be handled by a member of the FA staff. If someone retals your retal on them, talk to a FA immediately. Additionally post the news in the WTF forum for FA follow-up. Do not retaliate until further instructions are given.
- In certain cases, you may be entitled to reparations for a hit on you. However, these cases will be few and far between (usually when LCN is at war). Almost all landgrabs on LCN will be handled with retaliations.
- If you are hit more than once by the same country, have harmful spy operations done on you, or are hit with an act of war (missiles, artillery barrages, bombing runs, guerilla assaults), contact a FA or post on the WTF forum before taking any retaliations.

SIC (Special Idiot Clause) -- LCN reserves the right to respond creatively and with whatever action is deemed necessary when conducting retals to landgrabs made by select special idiots ... you know who you are!

Bottom line: Other alliances will not gain land when they hit LCN. We will take our land back.