Terms of Service
Welcome to Throne of the Grey Tide. By playing, signing up or linking an account you agree to these terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the game.
1. Accounts
- You can start playing as a guest. A guest's progress lives only in the current browser: clearing your browser data or switching computers or browsers may lose it for good. Link an email, Google or Facebook to sign in on any device.
- Founding or joining an alliance, posting on the forum, and buying anything require a linked account.
- Keep your password and sign-in methods safe, and do not lend, sell or buy accounts. You are responsible for what is done with your account.
- Names must not impersonate others or contain abusive, hateful or illegal content; we may ask you to change your name.
2. Fair play
Please do not:
- use cheats, scripts, bots or any automation to play for you;
- profit from bugs (please report them to us);
- use multiple accounts to funnel resources or sway battles;
- harass, threaten or discriminate against others in chat, on the forum or in names, or post illegal or inappropriate content;
- attack or disrupt the game's servers and network;
- trade accounts, resources or in-game items for real money.
If you break these rules we may warn you, remove what you gained, or suspend or ban your account.
3. The game changes
The game is under active development: worlds, ages, expansions, balance and rules may change, and new worlds and maps will open over time. We do our best to keep the service running, but we do not guarantee that the game will always be available or error-free, or that any feature will remain.
4. Virtual items and purchases
Resources, gold, lands, troops and everything else in the game are part of the game only; they have no real-world value and cannot be exchanged for money.
The game is free to play. Purchases are limited to cosmetics (things that only change how you look, such as titles) and expansion passes. We never sell power, speed-ups or resources, and there are no loot boxes, random draws or in-game currency for sale.
- You need a linked account to buy anything. What you buy is a licence to use those items in the game, attached to your account: it stays with you across worlds and expansions, and it cannot be transferred or exchanged for money.
- Our order process is conducted by our online reseller Paddle.com. Paddle.com is the Merchant of Record for all our orders. Paddle provides all customer service inquiries and handles returns. Prices include the taxes due where you live, and Paddle's buyer terms also apply. We never receive your card number.
- Items are delivered to your account as soon as you pay. Within 14 days of paying you can get a full refund without giving a reason, and after that we still refund real problems such as a double charge or an item that never arrived; see the Refund Policy.
- If a payment is refunded or charged back, the items from that purchase are taken back and removed from your look. The store stops selling for a while to accounts with repeated refunds, and closes for accounts with a chargeback (see the Refund Policy).
- Minors may only buy with the consent of a parent or guardian.
- If the game shuts down, purchased items can no longer be used; we will announce any shutdown in the game in advance.
5. The player forum
- Topics and replies on the forum are public: anyone can read them, including visitors who are not signed in and search engines. Please do not post your own or anyone else's personal information (email, phone number, address, real name), and do not post ads or spam.
- You can delete your own topics and replies at any time; deleting removes them from our servers. We delete topics and replies that break these terms; for serious or repeated breaches we may stop you from posting or act on your account under section 7.
- A topic posted with the in-game Feedback button carries your world, the game day, your lord's name, age, interface language, screen size and browser identifier. Only you and the administrators can see this; we use it to track down problems.
- We are free to use the suggestions and ideas you post on the forum to improve the game, without payment to you.
6. Intellectual property
The game's software, art, text and design belong to Kun Zou. What you write in the game (names, chat, forum topics and replies) remains yours; you allow us to display and store it in the game and on the forum.
7. Deleting your account and termination
You can delete your account at any time (see Data deletion). We may suspend or terminate accounts that seriously or repeatedly break these terms.
8. Disclaimer and limitation of liability
The game is provided as is. To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect losses arising from using or being unable to use the game, such as lost progress or virtual items.
9. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of （待定 / to be decided）. If a dispute arises, we will first try to resolve it amicably.
10. Changes to these terms
If these terms change in an important way, we will update the effective date and, where appropriate, tell you in the game. Continuing to play after a change means you accept the new terms.