Terms of Service

The agreement between you and Nirvana. Please read it before creating an account — it is short, and it is meant to be understood.

1 · Your account

• You are responsible for your account and for keeping its password secret. Anything done with it is treated as done by you.
• One person may hold more than one account, but using several at once to gain an unfair advantage is not allowed — see fair play below.
• You must be old enough to agree to these terms where you live.
• Your account is a licence to play, not property. It cannot be sold, rented, gifted or transferred.

2 · Fair play

Nirvana is a shared world and its rules exist so that other people's time is worth something. You agree not to:

• Modify the game client, or use software that automates play, reveals information the game does not show you, or changes what the server would otherwise allow.
• Take advantage of a defect instead of reporting it. Reporting one is welcome and will never be held against you.
• Buy or sell accounts, characters, in-game currency or items for real money outside the official top-up shop.
• Harass, threaten or defraud other players, or impersonate staff.
• Attack, overload, or attempt to gain unauthorised access to the service.

In-game conduct rules are set out in the Rules & Conduct section of the Codex, in game and on the site. They form part of these terms. How fair play is checked — on the server only, including an analysis of how you play — is set out in sections 3 and 6 below.

3 · How enforcement works

We think this is the part most worth reading, because it is the part that constrains us rather than you.

• Nothing is installed on your computer. Nirvana does not install any anti-cheat software on your computer — no DLL, no driver, no launcher agent — and will not. Fair play is checked on the server, from what the server already receives.
• No machine bans anyone. Every restriction with a real consequence is decided by a person and recorded.
• A machine may pause you briefly — around half an hour, pausing trading, selling, storage and mail — while something is reviewed. It takes nothing, records nothing against you, and lifts by itself.
• A machine may ask you to prove you are at the keyboard. If automated play is suspected, including when another player reports it, a short picture challenge can appear and your actions pause while it is open. Passing it costs you nothing. Missing it returns you to character select and records a low-confidence note for a person to read — it is not a ban and does not restrict your account.
• A machine may ask you a harmless question. To tell a person from a program, the server may, rarely and with daily limits, show you a picture check, send you a short whisper from a named server character, or place an ordinary item or a harmless monster near you. A picture check pauses play while it is on screen, but unlike the challenge above, missing it does not send you to character select. Nothing happens to your account whichever way you respond: the outcome is recorded for one person to read, and a missed check adds only a low-weight note.
• You can always appeal, through the Appeal a Restriction page, which works even while your account is restricted and needs no login session.
• You can check our work. Enforcement records are written to a tamper-evident chain you can verify yourself with the public record verifier, without an account.
• We may restrict or close an account that breaks these terms. Where we can do so without harming an investigation, we will say why.

4 · Purchases

• Top-ups buy in-game currency for cosmetic and convenience items. They are not an investment and have no value outside the game.
• Purchases are generally final. If something is delivered incorrectly or not at all, contact us and we will put it right.
• A restriction on your account does not block you from topping up, but you will not be able to spend while it lasts — we tell you so on the top-up page before you pay, and the decision is yours.
• If the service closes, unspent balances cannot be redeemed for money.

5 · Your content

Character names, guild names, chat and anything else you submit remain yours, but you give us permission to store, display and moderate them as part of running the game. Keep anything you would not want recorded off the game — as the Codex says plainly, chat is logged.

6 · Your data

What we collect and why is set out in the Privacy Notice, which forms part of these terms. The server builds a per-character profile of how you normally play (timing, movement, item use, trades, when you log in, who you play with) to spot automation; the Privacy Notice lists exactly what, why, and for how long. The fair-play rules are in the Codex.

7 · The service itself

• Nirvana is a private server run by enthusiasts. It is provided as-is, without warranty, and it may go down, lose progress, or change.
• We may add, change or remove game content and features at any time.
• We may end the service. If we plan to, we will give as much notice as we reasonably can.
• To the extent the law allows, our liability is limited to what you have paid us in the previous six months.

8 · Changes to these terms

If we change the substance of these terms, we publish the new version and ask you to accept it again. Wording and clarity fixes do not bump the version. Your acceptance is recorded against the version you were actually shown.

9 · Contact

Reach us through the support link in the site footer or in our community server. If any part of these terms is unclear, ask — an agreement nobody understands is not one worth having.

Version 2026-10-04 · See also Privacy Notice and the Codex Rules.
These terms are maintained by the operator and have not yet been reviewed by a lawyer.