Terms of Service & EULA

Gray Doom is a persistent, browser-accessible massively multiplayer online real-time strategy (MMORTS) game operated by Gray Doom Interactive & Strategic Software Ltd. ("Operator", "we", "us"). By registering an account, accessing `graydoom.com`, or executing tactical commands, you enter into a binding contractual agreement with the Operator.

• 1.1 Dynamic Live Service: Gray Doom is provided on an "as-is" and "as-available" basis. The Operator continuously optimizes balance formulas, updates 2.5D visual assets, deploys security patches, and reconfigures shard parameters to maintain competitive integrity.
• 1.2 System Availability: While we target 99.9% uptime across active shards, scheduled maintenance windows, emergency server migrations, and DDoS mitigation events may temporarily suspend access. The Operator is not liable for incidental gameplay disruptions during announced maintenance.
• 1.3 Age Eligibility: Gray Doom is rated PEGI 12. Users must be at least 13 years of age (or the minimum legal age of digital consent in their jurisdiction). Minors must obtain consent from a legal guardian prior to registration and virtual currency acquisition.

Your commander account represents a personal, revocable digital license to participate in designated world shards.

• 2.1 Credential Confidentiality: You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your login credentials and authentication tokens. Any action executed through your verified session is attributed to your legal identity.
• 2.2 Prohibition of Account Sales / Transfers: Selling, buying, leasing, auctioning, or transferring commander accounts, settlements, coordinates, or troops for real-world fiat currency, cryptocurrency, or external goods (Real-Money Trading / "RMT") is strictly prohibited.
• 2.3 Commercial Exploitation Ban: Utilizing Gray Doom to facilitate third-party commercial transactions, commercial boosting, paid mercenary raiding, or mercenary alliances is grounds for immediate capital termination of all involved accounts.

Gray Doom provides access to premium digital amenities through in-game virtual tokens known as Commander Gold and Commander Silver.

• 3.1 Limited License Nature: Gold and Silver tokens are limited, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, revocable licenses for in-game digital features. They possess ZERO real-world cash equivalence and do not constitute personal property, stored value, or legal currency.
• 3.2 Non-Refundable & Final: All purchases of Gold tokens via verified payment gateways (e.g., Stripe, PayPal) are final and non-refundable once credited to the commander account, except where explicitly mandated by mandatory consumer protection law in the European Union (14-day statutory withdrawal before service execution).
• 3.3 No Inter-Player Gold Trading: Gold cannot be directly transferred between player accounts. Silver tokens earned through the 24/7 Hero Auction House can only be utilized for internal equipment bidding or converted to Gold according to fixed server ratios.
• 3.4 Premium Amenities Balance: Gold provides quality-of-life amenities (e.g. Commander Club queue automation, crop production overviews, archive search) and cosmetic heraldry. Gray Doom strictly prohibits pay-to-win teleportation, instant army fabrication, or artificial protection shields during active combat.

Gray Doom operates on finite seasonal shard lifecycles that culminate in a dramatic global endgame.

• 4.1 Shard Endgame & Wonder Victory: A game world shard naturally concludes when an alliance successfully constructs the Slot 99 Meridian Wonder to Level 100 and repels the final Sunward siege waves. Upon world conclusion, the shard enters a read-only Hall of Fame state.
• 4.2 Reset Invariant: Upon shard conclusion, all settlements, armies, resource field tiers, and diplomatic treaties on that world are permanently retired. No game state carries over into subsequent seasonal shards.
• 4.3 Gold Transfer Voucher System: Any purchased, unspent Commander Gold remaining on a concluded seasonal shard is not lost. The server automatically issues a cryptographically signed Gold Transfer Voucher redeemable on any active or future Gray Doom shard.
• 4.4 Promotional Gold Exclusion: Gold awarded freely via quests, beginner onboarding bonuses, or promotional events is shard-specific and cannot be converted into transferable vouchers.

All components comprising Gray Doom—including software code, server daemons, toroidal coordinate engines, 2.5D visual assets, character dossiers, heraldry, narrative chronicles, and musical compositions—are the exclusive intellectual property of the Operator and protected by international copyright laws.

• 5.1 Reverse Engineering Ban: You shall not decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, extract AST structures, decrypt network payloads, or attempt to derive source code from any client-side bundle or server WebSocket interface.
• 5.2 Scraping & Asset Extraction Ban: Automated extraction or scraping of 2.5D graphics, SVG vector glyphs, unit turnaround plates, or novel manuscripts for external commercialization, dataset training, or private server reproduction is strictly prohibited.
• 5.3 User Content License: By publishing battle reports, alliance manifestos, forum dispatches, or community artwork within Gray Doom conduits, you grant the Operator a perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide license to display and distribute that material in promotional channels.

• 6.1 Consequential Damages: To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Operator shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, punitive, or consequential damages arising from the use or inability to use the game service.
• 6.2 Virtual Loss Disclaimer: In-game combat, catastrophic siege bombardment, settlement loss, and unit casualties are fundamental gameplay mechanics. The Operator will not restore lost virtual assets resulting from regular gameplay warfare or tactical defeat.
• 6.3 Statutory Rights: Nothing in these Terms shall limit or exclude the Operator's liability for intent, gross negligence, bodily injury, or statutory liabilities that cannot be waived under German or EU consumer protection legislation.

• 7.1 Termination by Player: You may terminate your account at any time via the Account Security portal or by submitting an erasure request pursuant to our Privacy Policy.
• 7.2 Termination by Operator: The Operator may suspend or terminate your account without prior notice in the event of material violations of these Terms, the Rules of Engagement, or the Fair Play Policy.
• 7.3 Governing Law: These Terms and any dispute arising from them are governed exclusively by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG).
• 7.4 Place of Jurisdiction: For commercial entities and users without a general place of jurisdiction in Germany, the exclusive legal venue for all disputes is Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany.