1. Purpose and Scope
These rules apply to competitive play on GONE Fishing, on gonefishing.gg and in the Aquarium mobile apps. That includes catch and gamble submissions, leaderboard and profile rankings, Aquarium casts, duels, the market, crews, and any other feature that can give a player an advantage. They are intended to preserve fair play and trust in public standings.
2. Blanket Anti-Cheat Rules
Any attempt to fabricate, alter, or improperly influence competitive data is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to:
- Client or memory manipulation (for example: Cheat Engine, Wand, trainers, editors, scripts, or similar tools)
- Packet tampering, request replay, POST/body manipulation, or API abuse to alter submitted values
- Modifying local files, game state, or runtime values to create impossible or invalid results
- Auto-clickers, macros, bots, or other tools that cast, duel, trade, fish, or submit results for you
- Automating submissions or interactions intended to bypass normal gameplay conditions
- Altering, replaying, or fabricating requests or saved data so a result does not match real gameplay
- Knowingly submitting manipulated data, even if generated by someone else
If data cannot be reasonably produced through intended gameplay, it may be treated as invalid or cheating.
Data manipulation is fully detectable by our anti-cheat systems. When anti-cheat flags are triggered, staff review and enforcement action will be taken.
3. Accounts
Competitive play is one person, one account. Extra accounts used to gain an advantage are prohibited, including:
- Feeder accounts, or any extra account used to supply fish, currency, items, or progression to another account
- A second account used for duels, crews, the market, or any other Aquarium feature
- Sharing, selling, or lending an account so someone else can play it competitively
- Creating or using another account to avoid a ban, restriction, or other enforcement
Staff may treat accounts that share a device, Android ID, or network as the same person when the pattern fits a feeder, an alt, or ban evasion.
4. Exploitation Policy
Exploitation is the use of unintended game behavior, edge cases, or system quirks to gain a competitive advantage over other players. A tool or external cheat is not required for exploitation to be actionable.
- Repeatedly using known unintended mechanics for ranking gain may be treated as an exploit violation
- Using bugs to inflate catches, gamble outcomes, duel results, progression, or leaderboard position is prohibited
- “Unintentional at first” does not excuse continued use after awareness of the advantage
- Players are expected to report severe or ranking-impacting exploits when discovered
Staff review intent, repetition, impact, and competitive context when determining whether behavior constitutes exploitation.
5. Enforcement and Staff Discretion
GONE Fishing Staff reserves the right to remove entries, invalidate data, limit features (including casts, duels, trades, the market, and crews), or ban any user from leaderboards or Aquarium at any time if we suspect these rules have been violated. Enforcement may occur with or without prior warning while investigations are ongoing.
6. Appeals
Banned users may submit an appeal through the website Ticket system.
- There is no time limit for filing an appeal.
- Submitting an appeal does not guarantee that an account will be unbanned.
- Staff reserve the right to uphold previous enforcement decisions.
- Confirmed cheaters can be unbanned at staff discretion; honest and open disclosure about how and why cheating occurred may increase the chance of reinstatement.
- Unbanned accounts are monitored. If a second ban occurs, the account may be re-banned permanently without further appeal.
7. Related Policies
This page should be read together with our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.