About

About this library and its publisher

Element Network is a small reference site about online naval combat games, written for readers in Australia. This page states who publishes it, how it is paid for, and the rules the entries are written under.

The publisher

Element Network is published by Creative Cover s.r.o., a company registered in the Czech Republic.

The site is written and maintained by the Creative Cover s.r.o. editorial team. There are no named authors here and no personal profiles, because attributing this material to an invented individual would tell you nothing true. The company named above is responsible for everything published on this domain, and the email address above reaches it.

What this site covers, and what it does not

The subject is narrow on purpose: online naval combat games played on desktop computers, the free-to-play economics that fund them, and the Australian consumer and safety context around playing them. Entries are organised as a reference library, concept by concept, rather than as articles with dates attached.

What this site is not: it is not a news outlet, it does not review games against a score, and it does not survey the market. It publishes one product entry, and that product is one with which the publisher has a commercial relationship. Anyone looking for an independent comparison of every title in the genre should look elsewhere, and should treat any site funded the way this one is with the same reservation.

How coverage is decided and written

The honest description of the selection method is short. Category entries are chosen by what a new player in Australia is likely to need explained before spending time or money: what the genre is, how the money works, what hardware is needed, how accounts are protected, and where to check a classification. Product coverage extends to exactly one product, and the reason it is that product is that its advertising programme pays this publisher a commission. No other product has been assessed and rejected; there is no ranking, and no ordering that could be influenced.

Three rules govern what appears in an entry:

1. Product claims come from the programme materials. Where those materials are silent — on prices, requirements, versions, classifications, current promotions — the entry says the detail is not stated instead of supplying a plausible one.
2. General claims are either linked to their source or phrased as general guidance. Where an entry describes something about Australian law, a regulator or a reporting route, the regulator’s own page is linked so it can be checked rather than trusted.
3. Category descriptions are general. Entries about how these games work describe the genre as a class. They are not a description of any particular title’s current behaviour, which changes with every patch.

There are no testimonials on this site, no user reviews, no star ratings, no performance statistics and no awards, because none of those could be sourced honestly here. Where a judgement is offered — that a fortnight of play is a better basis for a purchase decision than a shop page, for instance — it is offered as a judgement, in plain words.

How the site is funded

Advertising, from a single source. Creative Cover s.r.o. takes part in an affiliate programme for World of Warships, and is paid a commission when a reader follows a link from this site, downloads the game and activates an account. That is the whole of the revenue model. It is described in full, including where the links appear and what the payment does not buy, on the affiliate disclosure page.

Two things follow from having one advertiser. The first is that this site cannot claim neutrality about that product, and does not. The second is that there is no incentive to rank anything, because there is nothing to rank against — what remains is an incentive to be accurate, since a reader who installs a game that was never going to run on their computer is no use to anyone.

What the site does with data

Nothing. There is no form anywhere on this site, no newsletter, no account, no quiz and no chat widget. It sets no cookies, uses no analytics, carries no advertising tag and loads no third-party script. The only personal information that can reach this publisher is what a reader chooses to put in an email. The privacy policy and the cookie policy describe that position precisely, including the ordinary server logs the hosting provider keeps.

Corrections

If something here is wrong, the correct response is to fix it. Write to info@elementnetwork.online with the page and the problem, and the entry will be corrected or the claim removed. The date at the foot of every page records when the site was last reviewed as a whole. The contact page explains what this publisher can and cannot help with — account and billing problems belong with the game’s own support, not here.