Terms of Use

These terms cover your use of MetaRoK (meta-rok.com). By using the site you agree to them. They are written in plain language; where they describe how a feature behaves, they describe what the site actually does today. How your data is handled is covered separately in the privacy policy.

About the site

MetaRoK is a fan-made companion site for Rise of Kingdoms, run by Cortex. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Lilith Games. Rise of Kingdoms, its commanders, artwork, item names and other game assets are the property of Lilith Games and appear here for identification and commentary about the game. Everything else on the site (the rankings, guides, tools and code) belongs to MetaRoK or its contributors; what you may do with it is under Reusing MetaRoK content.

The site is free to use. Some extras require a paid tier, sold through Patreon (see Paid tiers), and visitors without one see ads on some pages.

Reusing MetaRoK content

MetaRoK's own work belongs to MetaRoK or its contributors: the rankings and tier placements, pairings, investment ratings, march and gear plans, guides and other written text, the site's code and design, and the work that goes into compiling and processing its data files and images. Rise of Kingdoms game content (commanders, artwork, item names, stats and other game data) belongs to Lilith Games: MetaRoK claims no rights in it, and nothing here gives you permission to use it.

You are welcome to:

• link to any page of the site;
• share screenshots of the site, and the images its profile, kingdom and maker pages export for you, with the meta-rok.com mark left in place (the graphic maker has its own rules, below);
• quote a short passage with a link back to the page it came from.

The graphic maker has its own rules for what you make with it:

• YouTube thumbnails, channel art and video covers (for Shorts, Reels and TikTok) you make with it carry no MetaRoK mark, at any tier and any size. They are yours to use on your videos and your channel.
• Community graphics (posters, leaderboards, schedules, Discord banners, square, portrait and story posts) exported on the free tier carry a small meta-rok.com mark. You can move it to any corner, but do not remove, cover or crop it out.
• Supporter and higher can export community graphics without the mark (see Paid tiers); those are yours to share like a thumbnail.
• The game art in the tool (commanders, items, backgrounds, logos and the rest) still belongs to Lilith Games, as above: placing it in your graphic gives you no rights in it beyond what Lilith allows for fan content. The bundled fonts are under their own open licences, which allow using them in your images. Using the tool's art inside the graphics you make with it is fine; taking the art files themselves out of the tool to republish them is the copying the list below asks you not to do.

Without written permission from MetaRoK, do not:

• copy, republish, mirror or redistribute MetaRoK's rankings, written text, data files, processed images or code, in whole or in substantial part, whether you take them from the pages, the files those pages load or the code they run;
• extract them systematically, by hand or with scripts, scrapers or crawlers, to build or feed another website, app, bot, dataset or AI model;
• remove or change the source information MetaRoK puts in its files and exports, such as the meta-rok.com mark on exported images that carry one or the source details embedded in its image files.

To ask for permission, or to report a copy of MetaRoK's work, use the contact form.

Accounts and profiles

• You sign in with a Discord or Google account. You are responsible for that account and for what is done on MetaRoK while signed in with it. Discord's own rules require you to be at least 13 years old; the same applies here.
• One login can hold up to 20 profiles. Every profile you create must be for a game account that is yours. A Governor ID can be held by only one profile on the site; enter only your own.
• If another profile is holding your Governor ID, use the report dialog rather than a second account. Reports need an in-game screenshot, are reviewed by admins, and a false report is itself a breach of these terms.
• Profile data (power, kill points, commanders and so on) is self-reported. Nothing on the site verifies it, and you should not present other people's data as your own.

Your content

You keep ownership of what you post and upload: profile details, images, notes and saved tier lists. By posting it you give MetaRoK permission to store it, display it to the people your visibility settings allow, resize and cache it, and include it in the pages and exports the site generates (for example a kingdom showcase image). You can withdraw that permission by deleting the content, a profile or your whole account, subject to the retention notes in the privacy policy.

Only upload images you have the right to use.

Acceptable use

Do not use the site to:

• harass, threaten or defame anyone, or post hateful, sexual or otherwise abusive material;
• impersonate another player, kingdom, alliance, content creator or the site itself;
• post spam, advertising, scams, or anything illegal where you or the site operate;
• claim a Governor ID, kingdom or leadership role that is not yours;
• try to see profiles, kingdom data, activity times or notes that your visibility level does not grant you, or to interfere with anyone else's account;
• scrape, flood or automate requests against the site or its API. The API is rate limited and exists for the site's own pages, not as a public data feed;
• upload files that are not images, or attempt to bypass the upload checks.

Kingdom tools and leadership

Kingdom leadership on MetaRoK is determined by a roster of kings and officers published by codexhelper.com and keyed on Discord IDs, plus manual promotions made by verified kings. MetaRoK does not control that roster and cannot guarantee it is current. If a leader is missing or wrong, the fix lies with the roster (or a manual promotion from a verified king), not with the site.

Verified leaders can approve and remove members, send invitations, assign rally and garrison captains, leave notes on members' equipment and commander sets, suggest march pairings, upload kingdom images and set who can see the kingdom's aggregated activity. Leaders should use those tools for running their kingdom. Using them to harass members, or notes to post abuse, is a breach of these terms.

Joining a kingdom on the site is a record on your profile, not an in-game action; being approved here grants nothing in the game, and kingdom membership never grants leadership rights on the site.

Moderation

Site admins can release or reassign a disputed Governor ID and view any profile or kingdom in order to deal with reports. Kingdom leaders can remove members from their kingdom's list.

Moderation decisions are made in good faith and as promptly as a one-person site allows. If you think a decision was wrong, raise it through the contact form or on the Discord server.

Game data and accuracy

Tier lists, march compositions, talent builds and commander rankings are opinions about the current meta, and they change with every patch. Use them as guidance, not as a guarantee of in-game results.

Paid tiers

Three paid tiers add extras to the free site: Supporter, Strategist and Coaching. What each one includes is listed on the pricing page.

• Sold through Patreon. The tiers are memberships on Patreon, bought and managed there under Patreon's terms. Billing, cancellation, VAT, refunds and receipts are all handled by Patreon; MetaRoK takes no payment itself and cannot change or refund a charge.
• How perks reach the site. There are two ways, and when both apply the higher tier counts. Connect Patreon: press Connect Patreon under Your perks (on the pricing page or the Account tab of your profile) and sign in to the Patreon account you paid with; the site then reads your tier from Patreon, and Patreon keeps it up to date. It works with a Discord or a Google login, from any profile of it. Or the Discord role Patreon assigns for your tier in the Cortex Discord server: connect your Discord account on Patreon, join the Cortex Discord server, and sign in to MetaRoK with that same Discord account (or link it to your MetaRoK login). The site can only see that tier while the role is there: if the role is missing, for example because you left the server, those perks stop until it is back, and a new membership can take a few minutes to show up. Either way, the Discord role and channels that come with every tier are Patreon's own Discord perk, so they still need your Discord account connected on Patreon and the server joined.
• One membership, one login. A Patreon account can be connected to one MetaRoK login at a time: connecting it on another login moves it there. A connected Patreon account gives no tier while the Discord account connected on it belongs to another MetaRoK login that gets a paid tier through that account's Discord role, since the membership already counts there.
• Every profile. A tier applies to every profile of your login, not to one profile.
• When a membership ends, the paid perks stop, including the exclusive showcase backgrounds on your profile. A cancelled membership keeps its perks until the end of the period you paid for. Through Connect Patreon a declined or refunded payment ends them at once, and a gift membership counts for 31 days at a time, then needs a Reconnect, because Patreon does not tell the site when a gift runs out. Values you already imported and your progress history stay yours.
• Screenshot import reads values automatically and can misread them. Only what was read for certain is saved at once, and the import window lists it; anything else waits until you confirm it on the review screen. Check what was saved and each value you confirm: what your profile shows is your responsibility, as with anything you type yourself. Imports come with a monthly allowance shown in the import window. Unless you untick its "Keep a private copy" box, the stats and armament screenshots you import are kept for 90 days to improve the reader, as the Privacy Policy describes.
• Graphic maker exports. The graphic maker and its game art are free for everyone. Supporter and higher add larger exports (1920x1080 and 3840x2160 for thumbnails and 16:9 posters, 1920x1080 for Discord banners, 2160x2160 for square posts, 2160x2700 for portrait posts and 2160x3840 for video covers and story posts), and community graphics (posters, leaderboards, schedules, Discord banners, square, portrait and story posts) exported without the small meta-rok.com mark that free exports of them carry. YouTube thumbnails, channel art and video covers never carry a mark, at any tier and any size.
• Perks can change. The perks of each tier may be added to, changed or retired over time, and the pricing page shows the current list. A Strategist perk is available only once the Strategist tier is on sale.
• Original art. Paid cosmetics (such as the exclusive showcase backgrounds and the Founder frame) are original artwork made for MetaRoK, not game files.

Coaching

The Coaching tier includes a live one-to-one call with Cortex, on these terms:

• Book your call in the Coaching members' channel on the Cortex Discord server or by direct message with Cortex on Discord.
• One 30-minute call per calendar month. An unused call does not roll over to the next month.
• You can reschedule up to 24 hours before the call.
• A no-show forfeits that month's call.
• Seats are limited (30 members), so the tier may be full when you want to join.
• For the review, Cortex may look at the profile you share on meta-rok.com.

Founder frame

The Founder avatar frame goes to the first 100 logins whose paid membership MetaRoK has seen without a break for 8 days or more, numbered in the order they qualify. The rule depends on how the site sees your membership. Through Connect Patreon, the count starts the first time the connection shows a paid membership (usually when you connect) and restarts if a payment lapses, you cancel, you disconnect or you connect a different Patreon account; free trials and gift memberships never count there. Through the Discord role, the count starts the first time the site checks your role, which happens after you sign in with Discord; time before that does not count, two checks more than 48 hours apart count as a break, and because the role cannot tell a gift from a payment, a gift counts on that path. Complimentary tiers do not count, and one Discord account or Patreon account can hold one frame at a time. It is purely cosmetic, belongs to the login that earned it, and cannot be transferred to another login; disconnecting Patreon does not give it up. Deleting your account gives up the frame and its number, which can then go to the next member who qualifies; the same Discord or Patreon account can earn a frame again only from scratch, with a new unbroken run of 8 days, and only while places remain.

Advertising

Visitors without a paid tier see ads, served by Google, on some pages once Google approves the site for them; until then no ads run. How that works, and the choices you have about it, is described in the privacy policy.

Availability and liability

The site is provided as is, with no promise that it will be available, error-free or kept online. It may change or be taken down at any time. To the extent the law allows, MetaRoK is not liable for any loss arising from your use of the site, from reliance on its content, or from anything posted by other users. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, or takes away rights you have as a consumer.

Ending your use

You can stop using the site at any time, sign out, delete your content, delete secondary profiles (from the Account tab of your profile or from the profile switcher), and delete your whole account, every profile on it included, from the Account tab of your main profile. What that deletes, and what is kept, is in the privacy policy. A paid membership is cancelled at Patreon: signing out, unlinking Discord, disconnecting Patreon or deleting your MetaRoK account does not cancel it. MetaRoK can restrict or remove an account that breaks these terms, remove content that breaks them, and refuse service where necessary to protect other users or the site.

Changes to these terms

These terms may change as the site changes. The date at the top is updated when they do, and notable changes are listed in the changelog. Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the updated terms.

Contact

Questions about these terms go to the contact form or the Cortex Discord server.