Understanding the Rules
Terms of Use
Privacy Policy
FCoC
Public vs Private Channels
Who Enforces the Rules
The Terms of Use, or ToU, are the set of regulations that all players automatically agree to upon downloading the game. Players are expected to follow these rules regardless of if they have read them.
Privacy Policy
The Privacy Policy explains and outlines what information is collected from the game.
FCoC
The Forum Code of Conduct, or FCoC, is the set of regulations that dictate what content is acceptable to post in forums.
Public vs Private Channels
Public channels are moderated while private channels are not. Public channels include: Campus, Exchange, Student Union, Connections, Forums, Profiles, and Walls. The ToU also applies to IGNs, statuses, Pet Names, Club Walls and Club Names. Private messages, gifts, and Club & Tutor Chat are not considered public channels.
Who Enforces the Rules
Moderators and Developers keep players in check. For the current list of Mods and Devs, check out this guide.
Silences
What is a Warning?
What is a Silence?
Important Info:
How can I reverse my Silence?
Though rare, warnings are occasionally given by moderators. Warnings are situational and are only given in extremely mild cases. Players who have been warned will receive a pm containing their infringing message with a link to the ToU. Warnings do not always precede a silence.
What is a Silence?
A silence is when a player is muted for a set amount of time when they break part(s) of the ToU.
Important Info:
Silences operate on a tiered system, starting at the lowest duration and moving up for your next silence. The tiers are 1 day, 7 days, and 30 days. After your silence has ended, your silence tier will decrease by 1 for every 30 days without additional silences.
In addition to profile status messages, players can also be silenced for IGNs and pet names that break ToU.
While silenced, players will not be able to post in public channels or send gifts and their status message will change to show that they are silenced. Faking a silenced status is silenceable.
In addition to profile status messages, players can also be silenced for IGNs and pet names that break ToU.
While silenced, players will not be able to post in public channels or send gifts and their status message will change to show that they are silenced. Faking a silenced status is silenceable.
How can I reverse my Silence?
You can appeal a silence by sending a help ticket to the devs. If the silence is valid, it will be upheld. If it is incorrect, the silence will be lifted. Moderators do not have the ability to lift silences.
Bans
What is a Ban?
How can I reverse it?
A ban is a full restriction on your device from PIMD and is given in extreme cases. Bans are only given by developers. Contrary to popular belief, mods cannot ban.
How can I reverse it?
You can appeal a ban by sending a help ticket to the devs. If the ban is valid, it will be upheld. If it is incorrect, the ban will be lifted. If support is no longer offered to your account then it is unlikely the ban will be lifted but you can make a new account to send a help ticket if necessary. Moderators do not have the ability to lift bans.
Forum Bans
What is a Forum Ban?
How can I reverse it?
A forum ban is when a player’s access to forums is disabled for 1 day. In more extreme cases, a player’s forum access can be removed for longer periods of time.
How can I reverse it?
Forum bans can be appealed in the same way silences can, by sending a help ticket to the devs. Moderators cannot lift forum bans.
PIMD Discord Bans
What is a Discord Ban?
How can I reverse it?
What does it mean to be muted?
Players who exhibit extreme, negative behavior or repeatedly break the server rules may be banned and cannot rejoin.
How can I reverse it?
These bans are currently unable to be appealed.
What does it mean to be muted?
Getting muted in the server operates on a tiered system, starting at the lowest duration and moving up for your next silence. The tiers are 1 day, 7 days, and 14 days. After your mute has ended, your silence tier will decrease by 1 for every 30 days without additional mutes.
Reporting Players
Support/Help & Mods
If a violation occurs in campus/pub, ss it, as only reporting it verbally will not give the proper evidence needed for a silence. This ss can be uploaded to an image hosting site, such as imgur, and sent to the devs through a help ticket or shared with a moderator. If a violation happens in other moderated spaces, you can report it to a moderator or send a help ticket and include the usernames, what was said, and where it took place.
Identifying Violations
Account Sharing/Piloting
Age Restriction
Bypassing With Intent To Harass
Channel Specific Silences
Encouraging Abuse
Harassment
Impersonation
Inappropriate Conduct
Public Defamation
Real World Currency Transactions
SFW & Farming
Sharing Personal Information
Spam
Third Party Information
Piloting is when someone plays on an account that doesn’t belong to them. ToU states that “you may not use accounts that do not belong to you.” Account trading, gifting, sharing, or responding to ads for these are bannable offenses.
Age Restriction
PIMD is a 18+ game.
All players found to be 17-13 will have all social features removed, and have extremely limited access to the game. Any player under 13 will have their account immediately disabled. Soliciting players under the age of 18 will have their accounts immediately disabled.
All players found to be 17-13 will have all social features removed, and have extremely limited access to the game. Any player under 13 will have their account immediately disabled. Soliciting players under the age of 18 will have their accounts immediately disabled.
Bypassing With Intent To Harass
Calling another player derogatory or discriminatory words is not permitted.
Channel Specific Silences
Campus: Chatting
Exchange: All buying / selling / trading posts. All item related posts such as requesting gifts / price checks.
Student Union: All club related posts & banners including potd clubs / ec clubs / flashes / bbb.
Connections: Clean rp requests / RS requests / "Add me" requests / Hire requests
Chat channels were updated on June 11th, 2026. You can find the original update thread here.
Exchange: All buying / selling / trading posts. All item related posts such as requesting gifts / price checks.
Student Union: All club related posts & banners including potd clubs / ec clubs / flashes / bbb.
Connections: Clean rp requests / RS requests / "Add me" requests / Hire requests
Chat channels were updated on June 11th, 2026. You can find the original update thread here.
Encouraging Abuse
Encouraging other players to post content that is in violation of the ToU is not permitted.
Harassment
Posting messages or engaging in actions that discriminate, promote hate, violence, or advocate hatred or discrimination against individuals, groups, races, cultures, or organizations.
Harassment vs Trash Talk
Harassment vs Trash Talk
Trash talk is not considered harassment until it violates the ToU. If someone is making you uncomfortable with their messages, you should block them. If they continue to reach out to you using alts, that is considered a form of harassment.
Impersonation
This is when a player falsely claims to be a mod, dev, or another player.
Inappropriate Conduct
This is considered to be any content that is obscene, pornographic, excessively violent, harmful/self-harmful, or sexually explicit. This includes using emojis or text symbols to create inappropriate art. Soliciting nudes in any way is not allowed.
Public Defamation
Posting comments or content that is “tortuous, defamatory, libelous or invasive of another's privacy or publicity rights” is not permitted. This includes all accusations directed at other players regardless of if true or false.
The most frequent occurence of public defamation is when players are called scammers in a public channel.
The most frequent occurence of public defamation is when players are called scammers in a public channel.
Real World Currency Transactions
RWC for in Game Items
Buying/Selling Accounts
Bento Anchors
Transactions of any type involving any non-game currency (including, but not limited to real-world currency, gift cards, credit transactions, and cryptocurrencies) is not permitted.
Buying/Selling Accounts
Buying and selling accounts, or responding to ads for this, breaks the Virtual Currency Transfers/Transactions part of the ToU. The selling/trading of accounts is forbidden and is subject to a ban once discovered.
Bento Anchors
Bento anchors are placed in a player's showcase by a developer when they are being investigated for selling/buying bentos with real world currency. The anchor makes it impossible to trade or gift bentos and chibis until it is removed. If no account abuse is found, the anchor will be removed and the items can be used normally. If the investigation determines there has been misconduct, it will result in the anchor being permanent and/or an account ban.
SFW & Farming
Farming (hitting repeatedly) and hiring tutors are not against the ToU.
If a farmer fails to give CF terms (cease fire terms) you may be able to report them. This will only require them to set CF terms and does not stop them from farming.
Items that have an ec value cannot be used as a CF and may be able to be reported via help ticket if stated in public channels. As of November 23rd, 2020, farmers can no longer request entering/breaking an RS or name changes as a ceasefire.
For more specifics and details pertaining to extortion, check this thread.
If a farmer fails to give CF terms (cease fire terms) you may be able to report them. This will only require them to set CF terms and does not stop them from farming.
Items that have an ec value cannot be used as a CF and may be able to be reported via help ticket if stated in public channels. As of November 23rd, 2020, farmers can no longer request entering/breaking an RS or name changes as a ceasefire.
For more specifics and details pertaining to extortion, check this thread.
Sharing Personal Information
Sharing or exposing the personal information of others is not permitted. This includes claiming to be below the age of 18, and soliciting individuals under the age of 18. Failure to specify age while soliciting for teens or “younger” players is also restricted.
Players are allowed to post their first name, gender, age (18+), city, state/region, and country.
These rules were updated in October 2019.
Players are allowed to post their first name, gender, age (18+), city, state/region, and country.
These rules were updated in October 2019.
Spam
Spam is no longer silenceable unless it intentionally disrupts chat. Club ad spam is considered 10 posts in 5 minutes.
This rule was updated in October 2019.
This rule was updated in October 2019.
Third Party Information
Posting links or mentioning third party apps and asking for/giving usernames is silenceable.
Account Issues
Recovering Your Account
Email, Facebook, and Apple Linking
Resetting/Deleting
By selecting ‘Recover Account’ on the login screen and inputting your ATA ID, an email will be sent to the verified email you used when first setting up your account. This link will let you recover your account without needing a password. You can find more information on this here.
Email, Facebook, and Apple Linking
The options to change your ATA account email/password or link to Facebook/Apple can be found by tapping the gear icon in the top left of the home page and selecting “Account.”
To change your email, you will be prompted to enter your current email and password, then type the new email you wish to associate with your ATA account.
You can link your PIMD account to Facebook and/or Apple in the same Account tab. This can be used as an alternate way of logging in. Players who connect to their Facebook and/or Apple account receive 1 free DN. Shown below, Android is on the left and iOS is on the right.
To change your email, you will be prompted to enter your current email and password, then type the new email you wish to associate with your ATA account.
You can link your PIMD account to Facebook and/or Apple in the same Account tab. This can be used as an alternate way of logging in. Players who connect to their Facebook and/or Apple account receive 1 free DN. Shown below, Android is on the left and iOS is on the right.
Resetting/Deleting
The ability to reset accounts was removed in August 2015 after being determined to have a negative effect on the community.
Gameplay Issues
Game Lag
Temporary server issues can cause the game to lag. This can lead to delayed drops from parties or even the inability to access the game. These issues will usually be solved in a short period of time and players often receive small compensation for the issue.
If this is a personal device issue instead of a widespread server issue, you may need to clear your app’s cache or re-install and make sure your phone has sufficient storage space. If problems continue, you should send in a help ticket.
If this is a personal device issue instead of a widespread server issue, you may need to clear your app’s cache or re-install and make sure your phone has sufficient storage space. If problems continue, you should send in a help ticket.
Party Item Issues
Vehicles and Amps
Jets
If you complete a party, then yacht, and complete the second party before the first set of notifications, you will need to wait for 2 sets of notifications before you are able to use a vehicle or an amp. This issue often occurs at flashes due to how fast the parties are started and completed. A ‘set’ of notifications is shown below:
Jets
Jets often run into issues such as delayed drops and a delay of the jet effect if you try to use a vehicle on the following party. It is advised to not use a vehicle then for the jet to work properly.
Threads Referenced in this Guide
Account Recovery Information
Extortion Information
Forum Code of Conduct
Guide of Mods/HS/Devs
Policy Update: October 2019
Privacy Policy
Regarding Account Resets
Terms of Use
You can learn more and find other helpful links here
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