Sign up & Character Creation

As explained in the Game Information Thread "19th Century - War between the States" is a historic MMORPG-Simulation and - at the moment - only forum based. In later stages it is planned to be devised as a browser based game, thus negating the need to download any additional software to play.

In order to play in "19th Century - War between the States" , you will need to create a forum account which will serve as your Player Character ("PC"). This PC does represent YOU in the world of this simulation game. You should take some time to brood over how your character should be like since every member of "19th Century - War between the States" may only have ONE character and you will not be able to change it once it is created and added to the game. Registering more than one character, logging into someone else's account, or giving your character to someone else in order to create a new one is PROHIBITED. Anyone breaking these rules will be banned from the game immediately. Depending on the type of violation, you may even be eligible for judicial prosecution and face criminal charges - especially if you are hacking into other peoples accounts, try to hack the game or forum in any way, use our boards for any form of criminal activities or threaten other players OOCly (in all of those cases the ones responsible for such violations will face the long arm of the EU and international laws and we will take all the necessary measures to see that justice is served).

Should you be sharing your computer or Internet connection with other persons that are also "19th Century - War between the States" members, you must inform the Admin via PM right after registration (please do include all of those Player Character names and the email addresses of all relevant players). We check regularly if there are multi accounts - players who are found out are eligible for at least 1 month ban on their first offense (2nd offense 3 months ban, 3rd offense indefinite ban) and may be subject to partial removal of credits, assets and/or XP, to be determined on a case-by-case basis upon their return to the community. The punishment as well as the dimension of it is under the sole discretion of the administration and the assigned moderators. Be warned that it may not be disputed in any way as this is a condition of being unbanned.

To create your very own character you need to move through the following steps (and keep in mind that the game is firmly rooted in the middle of the 19th Century world) and be advised to take your time with this, since selecting a good character name is possible one of the most important decisions:

1. Read the "Rules for Character Name Selection". Please do check those rules thoroughly , so you are able to select a valid account name and thus prevent any unnecessary delays in the registration procedure. Always keep in mind that the forum account name will also function as your characters name.
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2. Decide if you want to RP a male or a female character
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3. Decide which ethnic group you want your character to belong to (e.g. Caucasian, African-American, Native-American, Asian, half-breed...)
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4. Decide where your characters origins are (Fresh immigrant, or long time dweller that already has deep roots).
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5. Think about if he lives in the North, in the Border States or in the South.
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6. Think about your characters possible careers.
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7. Select your characters name ("handle") accordingly and in compliance with the rules you can find in the thread under the heading "Rules for Character Name Selection".
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8. If you have made up your mind you may either follow this link or click on "Register" in the top menu to create a forum account with the name you have chosen for your character.
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9. Be sure to provide a VALID e-mail address during the registration process or else your account will not be activated, since our staff always will contact you via e-mail prior to any activation.
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10. Wait until you receive an e-mail by our staff (make sure to check the spam folder in case your spam filter put the message there by accident). Please do reply to this e-mail as soon as possible to prove to us that the account in question was indeed created by a human interested to play the game.
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11. If you have replied to the activation e-mail you've only to wait until your account has been fully activated.

Please be patient, since the manual activation of your account might take some time, depending on how busy our staff is - just make sure you reply to the activation e-mail so we are able to process things faster..

Should the activation take longer than 3 days it might as well be that you have violated some of the name selection rules (visit: "Rules for Character Name Selection") in one way or the other and have not replied to the e-mail send to you by our staff. In that case please do check the e-mail address you have provided upon registration, since it is very likely that you have been contacted about this by our staff with further instructions. Be advised that if you do not answer to that e-mail within two weeks the pending account will be deleted without further notice and you'll have to try again.

In any case we look forward to your participation in ''19th Century - War between the States''.



Please note the following rules before joining, as they revolve about some very important points (thus they are enacted vigorously):

role-playing activities are now considered a key requirement for having an account and being a member of the game inactive accounts of notoriously inactive players, that can't be bothered to join any RP activities, will be removed All new members will be put on a "probation period" to separate the proverbial wheat from the chaff early on If someone shows no interest and doesn't join any RP activities one warning shall be given, in case nothing changes the account will be removed without any further notice Whenever possible the LOA/RAL thread must be used to inform everyone of busy RL schedules (so f.e. actions can be taken to cover for any IC work waiting to be done and/or the need for moderators to take over one of the participants characters to keep the scenario running)

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