Community run re-implementation of The Sims Online™, based on the original FreeSO project by riperiperi. LegacySO or FreeSO are not in any way affiliated with Electronic Arts or The Sims.

Terms of Service

To make LegacySO a safe and fair place to play for everyone, there are rules and policies in place to protect players, the economy and the wider game itself. Because LegacySO is based on the original FreeSO project, many of our rules, terms of service and conditions of use are the same as that of FreeSO. To read the original documentation for FreeSO, click here.

Important Information

When you sign up to LegacySO, you agree to a few things:

  • All information submitted to the game servers may be stored in the game database, lot state saves, or object persist saves.
    • This includes obvious transmissions such as lot descriptions and object arrangements, but also includes things such as the data in signs objects, results of user interactions, and permissions information stored for doors.
    • This data is additionally backed up to minimise data loss in the event of a server failure.
  • Information stored for your account will include:
    • Username
    • Email
    • Salted & Hashed password (for authentication)
    • IP history
    • Client unique identifier (for account security & moderation)
    • Messages and lot actions are not logged for player properties, but in-game emails are stored in server until they are deleted, so they can be synced across different game clients or devices.
    • Currently, all property chat and interactions are logged for job lots. This is so that we can replay the events of a past job shift for both moderation purposes (e.g., user deliberately sabotaging job gameplay) and reproducing bugs.
  • In the event of the server closing down, or a wipe, the data from the server may be released publicly for historical purposes. Sensitive data such as password hashes, emails, other identifying info, in-game messages and door permissions state will be wiped should this occur.
    • Note that sign contents will not be erased, so don’t put any sensitive information on signs on properties.

The Rules

In addition to the above terms of service, playing LegacySO is subject to the below set of rules.

Breaking these rules may result in a ban without warning, or your account’s funds being wiped. Typically, we will contact you first if we are sure that a rule is being broken. Immediately disconnecting your sim or avoiding contact will force us to skip this step!

  • To protect the economy and ensure a fair playing ground, Multi-accounting is not permitted. This includes:
    • Creating multiple accounts for one person. (due to event objects and roomie benefits) You have 3 sims for a reason!
    • Any person using multiple accounts at the same time.
    • Any person using multiple sims from the same account at the same time.
    • Pooling funds or goods from other sims into one, if both were ever active at the same time.
    • Not knowing this rule is not an excuse! Action will still have to be taken to ensure a fair economy for other users who simply used one sim.
    • Exception: You are allowed to use another sim for around 5 minutes to transfer property or money from one sim to a new sim. This is a workaround for retire sim and other lot ownership features being incomplete.
  • Do not exploit bugs in the game software to some benefit. Any issues of this kind should be privately reported to a moderator or developer on Discord.
    • Note that while you may deem certain bugs as “possibly intentional”, obviously exploiting the behaviour for profit will still result in action being taken against your account, which may include removal of funds.

Additionally, it is important to note that moderation action from our server hosting team does not include any personal conflicts between users.  There are two exceptions:

  • Users who attempt to get around ignore lists, ban lists, or simply try to offend as many people as possible. These users will be considered for a global ban from the game.
  • Users who disrupt Job Lot gameplay. This includes users who deliberately do very little during job rounds, or attempt to hinder job performance of other players.
    • Due to some incomplete code in this area, this rule will be enforced very strictly.

These rules are subject to change – changes in the rules will likely be signalled through the game client, blog and discord community.

Neighbourhood Rules

These rules are lifted from FreeSO’s website page of the same name, due to their obvious relevance and the fact that the feature works exactly the same in both games.

Neighbourhood features have publicly visible content and effects, which may include content submitted by users (e.g., bulletin posts, ratings, campaign messages). Normally we allow properties to manage their own moderation through the admit/ban features and ignore list, but these are privately owned. Therefore, we have a few extra rules you must follow when using neighbourhood related gameplay features:

  • NO HARASSMENT: Do not single out or harass any single user, in the related neighbourhood or not.
  • NO SPAMMING: The bulletin board system operates on community trust – spamming posts about the same topic will just make the board useless for everyone else. If you are hosting an event, you should only be posting up to two posts about it, an announcement and a reminder. (can have more if you are announcing months in advance, be sensible though)
  • NO ELECTION BRIBERY: Do not bribe users to vote for you in exchange for money, objects or any other benefits. Example: promising payouts at your lot upon winning. Campaigns should be on what you will do with the town hall, Mayor bulletin section and your personality.

Failure to follow these rules may get you temporarily banned from neighbourhood gameplay… However, following them will make the game much more fun for everyone!