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Realms Beyond Empire You should be able to find "Realms Beyond" in the Empire listing, but if not, you can use the search feature. I believe a player joins an empire by being logged in and visiting the empire's profile, where a join button or something similar should be available. (I didn't think to check this out before creating the empire, and since I can only belong to one empire... Oops.) Here are the preliminary rules, which are subject to a bit of ironing as we go: * Membership by invitation only. Players must agree to abide by all of our rules to qualify. * Misclicks not penalized. As with the Epics, you may reload to correct a misclick or other interface mistake, or a slip of the mind, where you overlook a specific and important move you had decided to make, with a minor lapse in attention. Please do not abuse this. This is not a license for tactical do-overs. * Limited spoilers, in the spirit offered by the metaverse. You may back up one time to benefit from limited spoiler information. Better if you can succeed without doing so, but it is allowed if you find your opening to have been unsatisfactorily managed. (We'd rather see you use limited spoilers openly than to get the same result de facto by quitting partial games and restarting until your opening judgement and luck turn out favorably). * One replay, in the spirit of the metaverse. If you play a game all the way through and would like to try the same map again, to try a different strategy, you may do so. * Results submissions. We encourage submission of all results, with three exceptions. 1) Kobaiyashi Maru games need not apply. If you take on a no-win scenario in pursuit of extreme challenge and get roundly stomped (screenshot of my 33 to 1 loss inserted here) you should not submit. 2) If you are experimenting with new difficulty levels, variants, or other challenges, and get roundly stomped, showing you were out of your depth, choice of whether or not to submit is up to you. 3) If you are playing "above your current skill level", choice of whether or not to submit is up to you. Please submit all games that do not fit these categories. * No "Bait Rape" Exploit. Surprise attacks, even coordinated surprise attacks, are allowed. Bribing AI's to war on one another is allowed. Bribing AI's to fight, for the express purpose of luring away your target's fleet, so that you can deliver a deathblow surprise attack on undefended colonies is not allowed. This is a gross hole in the AI that (we hope) will eventually be fixed. * No "IP" Exploit. No repeated gifting of single influence points, or other minutiae gifts, to artificially boost relations. Reasonable gifts are allowed, but if you are going to give 20 influence points, give 20 at one time, not one on twenty different occasions. Use common sense. * No Do-overs. No use of reloading to recover from tactical or strategic mistakes, to alter or undo random events, or any other abuse of the game. The only sanctioned reloads are to start a new session, to undo a misclick or momentary lapse of attention on a move you specifically planned, or for limited spoilers as outlined above. * No map shopping. If you draw a particularly gruesome terrain layout, or a situation that does not fit well with the kind of game you wanted to try, you can reroll the map if you wish. However, no repeated use of map restarts in search of "perfect" layouts and ideal situations, to artificially deflate the challenge factor. * Real excellence is not measurable by scoring systems. RB players don't need score to tell them whether or not they played a good game or faced a tough challenge. Don't let the scoring take over your fun.
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