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- You grant moderators of this forum the right to delete, move or edit any topic at any time.-Respect All Admins and MOD'sRespect them obey them because they where not their just to make fun of all of you.. and being a Moderator's/Admins is a big responsible. if you have complains about this admins/moderators tell us and we will make a fair action about it-No leavingLeaving creates a shortage of players on your team and may cause your team to lose. Leaving just because you drew a "bad" hero, or leaving because "you're tired of the game," ruins the game not only for yourself, but for 9 other people as well. You should have others in mind when deciding to leave. However if you have to leave, explain to everybody your reason and they will most surely understand you.-No feedingFeeding is when you deliberately decide to kill yourself, whether it is just to aquire deaths for your team, or to overpower your enemy because you "don't like your teammates."Feeding is just as bad as leaving, if not even worse. It makes the game very unenjoyable and makes it lose its purpose. Same as leaving, when feeding you're ruining the game for 9 other players. Try to keep these things in mind when deciding to feed.Some players may call you a feeder if you are new to the game and die a lot. This is different. This is an example of discourtesy, and as long as you did not die intentionally, do not be discouraged by their behavior.-No laggingIf you find yourself lagging a lot during games, although you may not be directly at fault, you're still disrupting the game. Try to turn off other applications and restarting your computer before playing DOTA so as to create a pleasant gaming atmosphere.-No maphackingMaphacking is when you use a third party program to make the entire playing map visible to you. Maphacking gives you an unfair advantage, and YES it is cheating. Maphacking is despicable and doing so will throw you to the lowest level of existing gamers. Maphacking is lame and is considered a weakness of the gamer. Maphacking won't make you better! Maphacking will cause your status as a gamer to decline. Maphacking is officially deemed illegal by Battle.net, and using it may get you banned. If your performance is lacking because you are new or are just having a bad day, don't be discouraged; ask WCR for help, and the community will gladly help you in any aspect of DOTA.-No backdooring (disputable)In DOTA creeps are spawned in waves and they run toward each other in order to meet and fight. You can aid your own creeps by killing incoming enemy creeps and moving forward with the goal of getting to an enemy tower and destroying it. In the beginning of the game an enemy tower will kill you in 5-15 hits and you obviousely need the aid of your creeps. As the game progresses however, you get stronger, and you slowly develop the ability to destroy an enemy tower by yourself, and not take too much damage from it. As the game progresses even more and you grow really strong, you can take a tower down very easily and very fast. Because of that, enemy heros usually don't have time to react to your actions and lose the tower. For this reason an unofficial rule that most DOTA players abide by, is to push a tower by advancing with your creeps towards it and thus keeping the starting/beginning standards of the game. This allows enemy heros to notice you and if they decide so, to prevent you from reaching/destroying the tower. Cutting in front of your creeps and going off to kill a tower by yourself is considered backdooring. Backdooring is accepted by some people, and in certain leagues it is allowed to backdoor side towers; in others it is allowed to backdoor all towers outside the enemy base (base ends at the ramp). This rule varies from league to league, but on random custom games hosted on Battle.net the act of backdooring is largely hated, and may cause players on the opposing team to leave. It is advisable not to backdoor any towers in public games on Battle.net.-No using heros of left allies (disputable)Some people dissagree with this, and here it can be argued either way ("DOTA is intended for the use of one hero only," or "if it's not meant for you to control a leaver's hero, why does the game give you control of it in the first place?"). Regardless, the general belief in public custom DOTA games hosted on Battle.net is that you should not use the heros of allies who have left the game. In private or lan games, or in certain leagues this rule may vary, and therefore you should check with the host beforehand.-No custom kickingCustom kicking is when the host downloads a program that enables him to discontinue communication between his computer and a player's computer. This causes the player to be disconected from the game, or in other words kicked off. Although this may sound like something very useful, it can damage the game tremenduousely if the program falls in the wrong hands. Is very hard to find people who are responsable enough to handle such a tool. Therefore a majority of people agree that hosts should not even be in posession of such a program as this. On top of that, this is a third party program and it is officially deemed illegal by Battle.net, and using it may get you banned!-No creepjacking your alliesCreepjacking your allies is when you see one of your allies creeping and you deliberatly go to the spot he is creeping at, and try to get the creep kill, or the last hit on the creep. This causes you to get money and experience for the creep kill, while your ally who has done the grunt work of reducing the majority of the creep's health gets nothing.-No Kill StealingKill Stealing is similar to Creepjacking; you wait until one of your allies brings an enemy hero down to low health, and then you interfere, with the intent to get the hero kill for yourself. The action is referred to as a "KS." The simplest example of a KS is when you use Lord of Olyimpia's Ultimate ability to kill an enemy with 1% percent health when one of your allies killed the other 99% and is about to deliver the finishing blow. It is a wrong thing to do, especially if you know that your ally is capable of getting the kill himself.Notice that the case is completely different if you help weakening the enemy. Using the case of Lord of Olympia, if you reduced approximatively 50% of an enemy's health, then you have perfect right to get the kill. It may be argued here that even if you reduced the enemy's health by only 20% you still have the right for the kill.The case is also different if you kill a runaway hero that your ally can't get to, or if you ambush a weak enemy who has just killed one of your allies (who weakened the enemy in the first place).In conclusion, if your ally is capable of getting a hero as much as you are, and you feel that he deserves the kill more than you do, you should probably let him have it.-No picking of two herosThis is a bug that allows you to pick two heros at the start of the game. For obvious resons the process of how to do this will not be explained here. If you know it already, keep other players in mind when you are exploiting it because you are ruining the balance and the pleasure of DOTA by doing it.-No banlisting for stupid reasonsBanlist is a list shared by frequent DOTA hosts that lists the names of players that are known to have disturbed DOTA games in the past (link to ballist: www.banlist.nl) If you are banlisted, you will probably have trouble getting into a DOTA game since hosts will not allow you join their games because of your reputation. Banlist is a useful tool, however if it falls in the wrong hands it can stirr more trouble than necessary. Although hosts don't often abuse the banlist, there is the occasional "bad" host that banlists people for no reason, or for petty, unimportant things (i.e. if the host is annoyed by a better player, or if the host has a grudge on that player, etc.). Banlist is not a toy and its use should not be based on your feelings. If you are a host which posseses banlist, try to keep this in mind when banlisting somebody.-No taking items from a player who has left the game(disputable)Here players have mixed feelings as of whether you should be allowed to do this. In custom public games hosted on Battle.net everybody performs this action and the turnout is even. In private games or in leagues it may be implied that taking items from players who have left the game is illegal. Make sure you are aware whether this rule is enforced or not before the game, but if nothing is said, this action should be assumed illegal (except for public custom games hosted on Battle.net).-No stealing items from a teammate still playingThis is possible to do by picking up an item one of your allies has purpousely dropped in order to purchase something else. An ally will never put down an item he doesn't intend to use in the future, and picking up something that's not yours is stealing. Stealing is stupid because 99% of the time the item will be right next to its owner and your action will be seen. This may and probably will cause the rightful owner of the item to leave, and the game would be ruined.-No petty/lame jokes intended for the purpouse of annoying your teammatesIn life, if you attempt to annoy people on purpouse, the probability that you would get harmed is high. Same principle applies to DOTA. When you purpousely surround your allies with Prophet's "Sprout" ability, or when you try to block them with Earthshaker's "Fissure" ablity, or when you put them to sleep with Bane Elemental's "Nightmare" ablity, or when you imprison them with Obsidian Destroyer's "Astral Imprisonment" spell, or when you send them home with Holy Knight's "Test of Faith" ablity from one corner of the map to another when they didn't ask for it, chances are high that your allies will be very annoyed. The only way they can harm you in this case is to leave the game, and ruin it for you. The problem is that by doing so they would also ruin the game for eight other people; all because of your unthought-of actions. Again, try to keep others in mind before something as purpouseless as this.-No TrashtalkingSome Warcraft III The Frozen Throne tournaments it is not allowed to behave in an uncivilized manner and throw out insults like a mindless cocaine addict. Doing so may cause you to be eliminated. Same thing applies to DOTA games. Although in public custom games hosted on Battle.net this rule is not severly enforced, it is implied that you should behave properly. By behaving erratically you may cause other players toa). Be annoyed by you and leave.b). Ban youc). Kick youd). Find you and beat you upNobody enjoys an agressive attitute, and if you keep your negative thoughts to yourself, you would be doing everybody a favor.
