Sign Up and Character Creation Information

As explained in the Game Introduction Thread “Army of Northern Virginia” is  a forum based historic WarSim-RPG. 

In order to play in “Army of Northern Virginia”, you will need to create a forum account using a valid username - following our "Rules for Character Name Selection". This forum account will represent your Player Character ("PC"). 

Every member of “Army of Northern Virginia” may only have a single character. 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 found breaking these rules will immediately get permanently banned from the game.

Should you be sharing your computer or Internet connection with other persons that are also “Army of Northern Virginia” members, you should inform the Admin via PM to prevent any problems (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 will face punishment 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 banned.

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 Civil War Era world) and be advised to take your time with this, since selecting a good character name is possible one of the most important decisions:

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. 

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 “Army of Northern Virginia”.

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Good luck with the creation of your character!

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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 please notify the Admin if you are unable to post due to your RL schedule  (so i.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)