Game rules

Last updated: 14 October 2026 · apply in all regions, layers and game modes – during the beta as well

These rules make sure every Keeper can play fairly. They supplement the terms of use and are just as binding. For data protection reasons we discuss matters concerning an account only with its owner. Not sure whether something is allowed? Ask us first via the contact form. This English version is a translation; if in doubt, the German version applies.

1. Accounts
2. One account per person
3. Sharing, giving away, selling
4. Fight fair
5. Trade, market and pushing
6. Bugs, bots and cheat software
7. Conduct and chat
8. Names
9. Threats and personal data
10. Language
11. The Echolon team
12. Violations, sanctions and appeals
13. Beta, events and exceptions
14. Support and reports

1. Accounts

An account belongs to the person who created it and who holds its password and recovery code. It is played exclusively by that person. Within your account you may have up to four characters – together they count as one player.

2. One account per person

• Every person plays with one account. Guest accounts count too.
• Secondary accounts that you use to get yourself gold, items, Starborn, leaderboard points or guild renown are forbidden – even if you use them “just briefly”.
• Several people playing over the same internet connection (family, shared flat, school, club) is fine. Please let us know in advance via the contact form (list all account names) so that nobody is mistaken for a multi-account. Between you, the rules on trade and pushing then apply especially strictly.

3. Sharing, giving away, selling

• Never give your password or recovery code to anyone – not even friends or guild members. Someone else playing your account on your behalf (“sitting”) does not exist in Echolon.
• Accounts must not be given away, swapped or sold.
• Trading game content – accounts, characters, Starborn, items, gold or echo stones – for real money or other consideration outside the game is forbidden.

4. Fight fair

• Duels and Tourney Court: no arranged wins or losses, no deliberate surrendering to hand someone points, no fights against your own or borrowed secondary accounts.
• Leaderboards (Tourney Court, cave runs, deeds): points only count if you earn them yourself.
• Guild War: arranged wars in which one side loses on purpose to farm guild renown or rewards are forbidden – as is moving members into another guild just for one war.
• Joint fights (Colossus, raid, group caves, world events): do not sabotage them on purpose, for example by joining and doing nothing.
• Requests: declining a duel, trade or group request means no. Asking again and again, following or pestering a player counts as harassment.

5. Trade, market and pushing

Trading is part of Echolon. Allowed are swaps, market prices set by supply and demand (high ones too), small gifts between friends and helping newcomers. What is forbidden is gaining an unfair advantage at the expense of others or through other accounts (“pushing”):

• Funnelling gold, items or Starborn from a secondary or someone else’s account into yours without fair consideration.
• One-sided deliveries from weaker players to clearly stronger ones that only benefit the stronger player – including as “protection money” or under pressure.
• Using the market or trades to shift gold between accounts, for example buying junk at fantasy prices.
• Fraud: false statements about value, swapped items in the trade window, advance-payment deals that are not honoured.

Unsure about a big trade? Ask first via the contact form.

6. Bugs, bots and cheat software

• Please report bugs right away – in the game via Menu → Options → “Send feedback” (type “Bug”) or via the contact form. Exploiting bugs, keeping them quiet or spreading them is forbidden. Bugs that duplicate items, Starborn, gold or echo stones (duping) are especially serious.
• If you trigger a bug by accident and report it straight away, you have nothing to fear. We may reset any advantages it gave you.
• Forbidden: bots, macros, auto-clickers and scripts that play for you, modified game files or clients, interfering with network traffic (forging, replaying or speeding up messages), reading the game’s memory, and programs that give you information the game does not show.
• Allowed: screen recordings and streams, screen magnifiers, screen readers and other accessibility aids, controllers and custom key bindings – as long as one key press triggers exactly one action.
• Attacks on the servers or other players (overloading, snooping, phishing) are forbidden and may be a criminal offence.

7. Conduct and chat

• Forbidden: insults, hate speech and discrimination (for example because of origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation or disability), sexual harassment, glorifying violence or extremism, and content harmful to minors or otherwise illegal.
• No spam: no repeated messages, message floods, strings of characters or constant capitals, no advertising for other games, sites, services or sales, no links to harmful content.
• Nobody asks for passwords or recovery codes – whoever does so anyway breaks the rules.
• Settle arguments in whispers or not at all. Layer and world chat are for everyone.

8. Names

Account, character and guild names as well as guild tags must not be insulting, discriminatory, sexual or extremist, must not imitate real people, must not take over names of other games or brands and must not look like team, admin, system or server. We block accounts with inappropriate names; you can suggest a new name via the contact form.

9. Threats and personal data

• Threats against players, the team or anyone else are forbidden – even “as a joke”. We report serious threats to the police.
• Other people’s personal data (real names, addresses, phone numbers, photos) is neither asked for nor published.

10. Language

Echolon is available in German and English, and everyone plays in the same world. In layer and world chat, write in German or English so that as many players as possible can follow; a short greeting in another language is of course fine. In whisper, group and guild chat any language is allowed.

11. The Echolon team

Messages from the team appear in chat as system messages marked “[Server]”. Pretending to be the team, an admin or a moderator is forbidden. The team never asks for your password or recovery code.

12. Violations, sanctions and appeals

• Depending on severity, a notice, a warning, removal of unfairly gained advantages (gold, items, Starborn, leaderboard places, guild renown), a temporary or a permanent ban will follow. For serious violations – cheat software, duping, real-money trading, threats – also without prior warning. Multi-accounts that belong together may be banned together.
• The operator decides on type and duration according to the circumstances of the individual case. The game shows the reason for a ban when you try to log in.
• You can appeal within four weeks via the contact form (topic “Appeal against a ban”, with your account name). We will then review the case again.

13. Beta, events and exceptions

• During the beta, content and values change constantly and server wipes are possible (see the terms of use, section 4). Bug reports and suggestions are very welcome.
• Individual rules may be adjusted or suspended for events. We announce this in the game beforehand.
• Only the operator grants exceptions to these rules – ask first via the contact form.

14. Support and reports

• For problems, questions or bugs, use the contact form or “Send feedback” in the game. Get in touch as soon as you can: we delete server logs after 14 days, and we usually cannot investigate incidents more than three months old.
• Report rule violations or illegal content via the contact form (topic “Report a player or content”) with time, region and layer, character names and, if possible, the exact wording – we do not store chat messages.