Amazon Basin Diablo II Gameplay Ethics

The Amazon Basin strives to be a community of friends playing games in a cooperative environment and serves as a safe haven against antisocial behavior, cheating and unfair gameplay. Behavior in the Amazon Basin community and games should embody basic principles of mutual respect, honesty, and consideration for others.

This document seeks to clarify the ethical issues related to the following areas:

• Non-consensual Hostility (PK/PKK)
• Third Party Programs
• Trading and Items

Non-consensual Hostility:

The Amazon Basin Diablo II community is strongly opposed to all non-consensual PK (Player Killing) activities, as these activities fundamentally conflict with the gameplay experience for which we strive. These activities also include hunting down and killing PK characters or chasing PKs from game to game (PKK). We do not seek to police individual members’ responses within the games in which they are hostiled, however, and recognize many players may desire to defend themselves, their party, or their games against PK activities. We strongly recommend, however, that members should keep the overall safety and good of the Basin in mind, as they should at all times, when dealing with PK situations.

Mutually agreed-upon duels and Friendly Fire games are exempted, as the players in question have each consented to hostilities.

Third Party Programs:

The Amazon Basin Diablo II community believes that a friendly and cooperative environment is one in which members can expect fair play both in game and in trading. Fair play is predicated on trusting that each player has the same opportunities to develop his or her character within the game's structure. As a result, the Basin believes that fair play involves rejecting game modifications that could give one player an advantage over another, either in game play or in trading.

Therefore, the Amazon Basin Diablo II community is opposed to hacks and cheats, which could detract from other players’ enjoyment of the game or contribute to the degradation of the battle.net environment. This includes, but is not limited to, Maphacks, Pindlebots, Shopbots, hacked items (e.g., Occy rings), duped items and any other mechanisms that contribute to unfair gameplay.

Because it compensates for older, slower computers without contradicting the fundamental principle of cooperative fair play, the only game modification tolerated in Amazon Basin games is the Lag Reduction Module (LRM). However, members should understand that they assume all risks for potential violations of Blizzard’s Terms of Service.

Trading and Items:

The Diablo II community recognizes that while our forums, channels, and games are not used for trading, many members enjoy trading with other individuals, both inside and outside of the Basin environment. In keeping with our overall concerns for maintaining a fair environment within the Basin and our desire to uphold our reputation for fairness within the general battle.net community, we ask that all members engage in honorable trading at all times. Trading honorably includes, but is not limited, to the following:

• Making your trading partner aware of the origins of any items traded.
• Refraining from using third party programs to dupe, hack, or Pindle/Shopbot items for trade under any circumstances.
• Refraining from using or trading any items known or suspected to be duped, hacked, or Pindle/Shopbotted under any circumstances.

We also ask that members who trade educate themselves about the most commonly duped items circulating on battle.net in order to avoid unwittingly circulating these items both in the Basin environment and on the realms.