Fansites

Looking for some details about TibiaME? Searching for information in your language? Interested in some funny stories and helpful articles of your fellow TibiaME players? Curious about the latest developments of your favourite online game TibiaME? The fansites listed here might be just the right place to visit.

If you like to join our growing fansites community, the following documents might be helpful:

- Fansite Programme

- Fansite Agreement

- TibiaME Rules

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Fansite Programme

Visiting fansites is a great way for our players to receive extra information about TibiaME, be it information in different languages, statistics or detailed information in wikis. We think it is great that there are people in the TibiaME community who invest a lot of time in creating and administrating a fansite. For this reason, we are supporting qualified sites, and with them their administrators and helpers.

If you have created a TibiaME fansite and are interested in taking part in our fansite programme, please send an email to fansites@TibiaME.com with a short description of your fansite's content. We will check your site then and it will be added to our list of "Monitored Fansites". "Monitored Fansites" are watched for a while to see how they develop. As soon as your site qualifies for the fansite programme it will be listed in our fansite section. Every 6 months your official TibiaME fansite will be re-evaluated in order to see if it still meets the requirements stated in our Fansite Agreement.

Should your site not qualify for the fansite programme, you will receive feedback about how you can improve your site. Applications can only be resubmitted quarterly.

Please note that our fansite programme is currently only open for general fansites about TibiaME. We are not accepting guild sites or sites for specific game worlds only. Furthermore, fansites which also deal with other games than TibiaME (general MMO sites, for example) cannot be part of our fansite programme.

Fansites receive the following benefits:

- A direct link from our fansite section

- Access to our internal fansite board on which materials like news articles, screenshots, artwork, and update teasers are presented in advance

- A contact person from the community management department of CipSoft, who will assist you in all fansite related questions

- Test server access for the contact person and 5 fansite helpers

- An exclusive interview with a CipSoft member once a year

- A badge for supported TibiaME fansites

- Free premium time for the contact person for a period of 6 months, until the website is re-evaluated.

For further information, especially on the requirements to join the programme, please read the TibiaME Fansite Agreement carefully. If you are interested in joining the fansite programme, it is obligatory to sign this agreement and abide by it in order to be accepted.

Are there still any questions? Please send us an email to fansites@TibiaME.com!

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Fansite Agreement

1. It has to be stated on your site that TibiaME is made by CipSoft and that all content from the official TibiaME website or which has been provided by CipSoft, for example any graphics that you may use, is copyrighted by CipSoft. The references to our company and TibiaME should be presented as links on your site.

2. Your fansite needs a section with contact details, for example the name of the site's creator and a contact address.

3. We need a reliable contact person who should be one of the responsible administrators of the fansite. We need this person's name, his TibiaME character and an email address at which we can contact him. This person has to be able to communicate in English at an acceptable level. The contact person needs to check his emails regularly, and also needs to check the internal fansite board regularly.

4. Of course it is alright to have advertisements and sponsors for your site, but you have to make sure that they are suitable for our customers, many of whom are minors. Please make sure that you have control of the content of the ads you publish at your fansite.

5. The content of the fansite has to be about TibiaME only. We set high standards, therefore your fansite needs to be updated regularly. Please make sure that the information given on your website is correct and fair. The texts on your site should also be accurate concerning their grammar and spelling. We also expect you to have a professional and appealing design.

6. We appreciate it if you publish own generated content as well, and not only a copy and/or translations of our news. It has to be clear though for all your visitors which articles are fansite-made, and which are not. Plagiarism from other fansites cannot be tolerated. If you want to use pictures, tables etc. from another site, please only do so if you have the permission of its owner. Please use your own thoughts on your site. Basically you can publish anything that comes to your ears as a rumour. When you are in doubt, if what you are about to publish is correct, you may always check back with the fansite coordinator. If you do not receive a confirmation, you can still decide to publish the information, but you should mark it accordingly (e.g. "This information has not been confirmed by CipSoft"). You will be held responsible for your publications.

7. Giving general information about quests is fine. Complete quest solutions need to be marked with a disclaimer that warns players that quests are spoiled in the following sections. Fansites can post detailed information on all monsters and items that exist in the game. However, we will not support you in finding any information on monsters or items since those are things the community should find out themselves.

8. You have to be able to moderate your site. You also need to enforce reasonable behavioural standards on your site. Spamming, offensive statements or posting hack links in your forums must be avoided by all means. If you have moderators or helpers for your fansite, choose them wisely and support them in their work. We will hold the contact person responsible for everything that happens on the site, so you should be able to trust your team.

9. Your site may not contain downloads for any kind of cheat tools, illegal software, links that lead to such sites, or advertisements for them. If you offer any downloads on your site at all, you are expected to attach a disclaimer in which your customers are informed that these tools are not created by CipSoft. Moreover, make your best effort that the offered downloads contain no viruses, backdoors etc. In general we advise you not to offer downloads at all since you can never be sure about the security of tools you receive from other persons.

10. You have to make sure that the TibiaME Rules are followed on your site. For instance, there should not be any trading of accounts via your forum or any trading of characters/items for real life money etc. in any threads. Also, screenshots containing any cheat tool advertisements need to be avoided and removed immediately as soon as you learn about them.

11. In return, we offer the benefits that are listed in our fansite programme.

12. The co-operation may be mutually terminated at any time and without giving reasons, which will result in a withdrawal of all benefits.

13. Approved fansites that do not stick to the points mentioned above will either receive a warning, or, in serious or repeated cases, be removed from the programme.

14. These guidelines may be changed at any time. All changes will be announced.

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