Please remember that Blue Byte Software develops games for gamers of all ages, and therefore we will do our utmost to keep this lobby fun for everyone. With your help, this can be done. If you would like to participate in this lobby, we recommend you take a few minutes to read and understand the following rules:

1. The netiquette applies for all forum and chat participants. We reserve the right to delete at once all postings which violate the netiquette.
2. Your participation in conferences and chats, are subject to review, modification, and deletion, without notice, by the Blue Byte Sysops manager responsible for this lobby.
3. Please do not use any profanities or sexually explicit language in this lobby or any of The Settlers IV Forums.
4. Please do not use ethnic, racial, sexual, or religious slurs.
5. Please do not fight, provoke, or engage in personal attacks of any nature.
6. Please do not create a Login member ID with any sexually explicit profanities, innuendoes, or racial, ethnic, or religious slurs of any description.
7. Use of the The Settlers Online lobby for the promotion of any illegal activities is prohibited.
8. Always be considerate to all users in this lobby.
9. Disruptive behavior will not be tolerated; hence making lewd and unnecessary comments, may lead to your removal from this lobby.
10. Please avoid excessive shouting (use of all caps) or flooding (continuous posting of repetitive text) or even lewd Emoticons.
11. Any impersonations of other Forum or Chat participants or particularly members of the Blue Byte Online Sysops Team is prohibited and will not be tolerated. False representation of yourself as a Blue Byte Employee or Settlers IV Sysop can result in immediate termination of your Blue Byte Settlers IV Online account.
12. The use of nicknames with the initials BB (BB_romulus, BBzaodai, AliKhanBB, etc.) is reserved exclusively for easy and unambiguous identification of Blue Byte employees. Nicknames of others containing the initials BB will be deleted to avoid any confusion.
13. Threatening or harassing tournament hosts, Settlers IV Online Sysops, and Blue Byte employees is prohibited and can result in immediate termination of your Settlers IV Online account. Without exceptions.
14. Settlers IV Sysops cannot monitor Settlers IV Online gamer's conversations or game play within individual games. Therefore, all game Hosts are empowered to remove (boot) players within their games and at their discretion.
15. Lastly, please remember this Code of Conduct and encourage Online Settlers IV member to adhere to it.