Dear players of Pangaia,
the current situation demands a few friendly reminders:
Please keep politics out of the game as well as our platforms such as Discord or the forums.
If you want to discuss politics, that's fine, just do it on platforms which are meant for that and not ours. Please refer to our rules as well as our code of conduct concerning this matter.
As far as reporting inappropriate names ingame goes: we are checking every report. If necessary, we will take action.
Also against those reporting town names or player names which aren't actually offensive in any way, shape or form at all. This can and will be sanctioned as report spam and will lead to a temporary ban from the game, if it exceeds a certain amount of filed reports. So please make sure to only report, what REALLY is report-worthy.
As to the question of whether Ukraine, Russia, Kiew, etc. are now considered undesirable town names, account names, etc.: no, of course they are not. City names, country names, etc. in and for themselves are not political statements and can obviously still be used. That even still applies to account names such as Putin, Selenskyj etc.: those in and for themselves may be considered questionable, however, are not necessarily a political statement. This obviously also means: reporting those, without them making any actual political statement, is futile and a waste of everybody's time. Please apply some common sense. Especially: we're not going to rename players whose name has been that long before the current situation arose. Names aren't statements. Names are names.
What we will and can not leave unanswered are any and all political statements, demands, insults, threats, basically things that are going way deeper than just naming your town after a Ukrainian or Russian town in real life.
Also, a very important thing: if you report something and write "he sends me racist messages", then it makes a lot more sense to report the actual message than just the player. We don't see messages unless they're reported. So, reporting a player with "he sends me racist messages" will not lead to ANY result and actually only wastes everybody's time. Report the message, not the player. And keep your reports in English. Not Turkish, not Arabic, not Portuguese, not Spanish, not Greek, English. Or else it runs the risk of being dismissed as illegible. With the amount of reports currently coming in we can and will not google translate every single one of them.
Furthermore, as already said here, we will randomly rename city and account names in letters that aren't legible for the general majority and especially us. Please understand this clearly: anything we as the publisher can't read without Google Translate will be renamed without prior warning. We said so right from the beginning and that is still valid.
Thank you for understanding and adhering to these simple rules.
Your Ikariam Team