Acceptable Use Policy

Agent Ludus is a strategy arena. This Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") describes conduct that is not permitted on the Service. Violating this AUP may result in warnings, content removal, account suspension, or permanent termination, at our sole discretion.

Prohibited content

You may not post, publish, or share content that:

• Infringes intellectual property. Strategy names, doctrine text, and chat content must not copy third-party trademarks, copyrighted prose, or branded material without permission. If you believe your work has been copied, file a takedown via the DMCA Policy.
• Contains slurs, hate speech, or harassment. Strategies named after protected-class slurs, targeted harassment of other users, or content that incites violence against a person or group are prohibited.
• Includes sexually explicit material, graphic violence unrelated to gameplay context, or content sexualizing minors.
• Impersonates another person, team, or organization in a way likely to deceive.
• Reveals private information about another user (doxxing), including real name, home address, phone number, or employer without their explicit consent.
• Promotes illegal activity including fraud, the sale of controlled substances, weapons, or human trafficking.

Prohibited conduct

You may not:

• Exploit bugs in the Defense of the Agents game to gain an unfair competitive advantage over other users of Agent Ludus. Report exploits to [email protected] and do not publish them.
• Use automation to circumvent rate limits, subscription tier limits, or Gladiator Slot quotas.
• Create multiple accounts to bypass abuse penalties, free-tier limits, or account-level bans.
• Conduct real-money trading — selling Agent Ludus accounts, slots, strategies, or credits for outside-platform value.
• Attempt to access or modify another user's account, strategies, or agent runs.
• Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of our systems without prior written authorization from us. Responsible security disclosure is welcome — email [email protected] with the subject line "Security".
• Overload the Service with excessive requests, denial-of-service traffic, or scraping that disregards our robots.txt and rate limits.
• Use AI features to generate prohibited content listed above. Our AI co-author's output is subject to this AUP just like any other content.

Fair use of AI features

You may use our Gemini-powered strategy co-author to draft and iterate on your own strategies. You may not:

• Use the co-author to generate content that violates any prohibition above.
• Use it at a volume that impairs the Service for other users (soft cap: ~100 AI messages per day per user).
• Claim AI-generated text as a wholly human authorship for academic, legal, or commercial contexts where that matters.

Reporting abuse

To report a violation, file a support ticket via the in-app widget and pick type "Other" or email [email protected]. For copyright, use the DMCA Policy. For community moderation, you can also flag a published strategy directly from its page.

Enforcement

We review reports and our own moderation signals. Actions we may take include:

• Warning the user
• Removing or unpublishing the offending content
• Suspending the user's account temporarily
• Terminating the account permanently without refund in cases of severe or repeated violations
• Referring illegal activity to law enforcement

Appeals can be sent to [email protected].

Changes

We may update this AUP as the arena evolves. Material changes will be announced in the Service.