DEADLANESBETATerms of Service
By creating an account or playing Deadlanes you accept these terms. If you don't accept them, don't play.
1. The service
Deadlanes is a live multiplayer game. The world is persistent and seasonal: seasons end on a published schedule, seasonal state (ships, cargo, credits, territory) resets by design, and persistent progression (knowledge, blueprints, reputation, cosmetics) carries per the game's rules. A season reset is the game working as intended, not a loss of your property. We may change, rebalance, suspend, or discontinue features or the service; we'll give reasonable notice of discontinuation where practicable.
2. Your account
One account per person; you're responsible for what happens on it. Minimum age: 13 (or your region's higher minimum). Keep your credentials to yourself — sharing an account or selling one isn't allowed. You can delete your account at any time in-app (Profile → Account).
3. Purchases & virtual items
Aurum and everything it buys are licensed, limited, revocable, non-transferable game content — not property, not currency, and not redeemable for money. Purchases are processed by Apple/Google; their refund policies apply. Aurum buys convenience and cosmetics only, never gameplay power — and we won't convert money into in-game credits, turns, or blueprints, for anyone, ever. Prices and catalog may change. Deleting your account forfeits remaining virtual items; when required by law, statutory rights are unaffected.
4. Fair play
Prohibited, with enforcement up to permanent bans: modified clients, automation/botting, exploiting bugs (report them instead — in-app feedback), multi-accounting to evade limits or feed a main, real-money trading of accounts or items, and attacking the service itself. The server is authoritative; what your client displays never overrides what the server resolved. PvP — including losing a ship, its fitted components, and its cargo to another player while offline — is a designed part of the game and never grounds for a claim.
5. Chat & user content
Guild chat, names, and other text you enter must not contain: harassment, hate, threats, sexual content involving minors, doxxing, spam, illegal content, or impersonation of Deadlanes staff (Abaddon speaks only through the dispatch system). You license us to store, display, and moderate what you post. Moderation tools: report (long-press a message), block/mute, guild-officer deletion, and a staff review queue. We may remove content and restrict accounts at our judgment; repeated or severe violations end accounts. Report abuse in-app or by email.
6. Intellectual property
The game, its fiction (the Vael, the Llethe, the Blight, Kerubiel, Abaddon, and the rest), art, and code are ours or our licensors'. You get a personal, non-exclusive, revocable license to play. Your callsign/ship names/chat remain yours, licensed to us as above.
7. Termination
You can stop playing or delete your account anytime. We can suspend or terminate accounts that break these terms, harm other players, or threaten the service — with virtual items forfeited where lawful.
8. Disclaimers & liability
The service is provided "as is"; live games have downtime, bugs, and rollbacks, and we may restore state to fix exploits or corruption. To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total liability is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim; we're not liable for indirect or consequential damages. Some regions don't allow these limits — where they don't, they don't apply.
9. Disputes & changes
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, USA. We may update these terms; material changes will be noted in-game, and continued play is acceptance.