Realm Domination

Realm Domination is DoD's team territory mode in Second Life. Earn flags, claim regions, lay siege to rival teams, and defend the territory your team holds. You play through your updated game HUD. The website lets you join, follow attacks, find your team's regions, compare standings, and review your results.

This guide is for existing DoD players. Rules and website features checked on 8 October 2026.

The objective

Capture a region by planting a flag and helping its team fill a claim to 100%. Defend a region by pushing back an enemy flag while your team keeps ownership.

Eligible players influence the capture bar by being present in permitted parts of the same region. More eligible players on your side give you an advantage. Equal numbers hold the bar still. Combat helps you remove opponents from the count and protect your flag planter.

An owned region remains with its team until an opposing flag's claim reaches 100%. Draining the owner's control to zero does not, by itself, take the region.

Join Realm Domination

1. Wear the updated DoD HUD that includes the Action Bar and Bag.
2. Sign in to the DoD website. Use your HUD password or Enter with In-World Link. Your HUD password is separate from your Second Life account password.
3. Open Gameplay → Realm Domination.
4. In Your participation, turn on Take part.
5. Wait for the saved confirmation, then check In-game status.
6. Open the HUD's settings button and choose Action bar.

You can read the website page while opted out. Turning Take part on saves your choice; you still need to meet the in-world requirements below to influence a battle. The website's participation message does not mean you are currently online or being counted in a particular region.

Your choice remains saved between visits. To leave the mode, turn Take part off on the website. Closing the Action Bar, closing the website, or turning off the alert sound does not opt you out.

Your first capture

1. Earn a flag on qualifying system land. The current earning location is Uphill; see Flags for the requirements.
2. Go to a region where Realm capture and combat are allowed.
3. Stay alive and stand, walk, or run normally on a supporting surface.
4. Open the Bag and click your flag, or click an assigned flag shortcut.
5. If the region is Unclaimed, choose Use to plant. In an enemy Controlled region, choose Lay Siege, reduce the owner's bar to 50% or below, then choose Use.
6. Keep the original planter alive and in the region. Help the flag's team fill its claim to 100%.
7. Check your team's territory and your completed results on the website.

You do not need your own flag to help an existing attack or defense. A player carrying a flag must start a siege or plant the flag.

Who is on your team?

Your Realm team follows your current political allegiance automatically.

Your current allegiance	Your Realm team
Outlaw without a Dynasty	You alone
Dynasty without a Clan	Everyone in that Dynasty
Dynasty in a Clan that follows no Bloodline leader	Everyone in that Clan
Clan following a Bloodline leader	Everyone in the Clans following that same leader

Dynasty is the general name for a House, Pack, Coven, or Order. Your biological ancestry does not choose your Realm team.

Changing allegiance changes the team you help. Earlier results remain with the team you helped at the time. A flag already planted stays with its original team. If its planter changes teams, forward progress stops until that original planter is back in the region on the flag's original team.

When you count in a battle

You must be opted in, able to participate, alive with health remaining, and wearing a working updated HUD. Stay in a permitted part of the region, on foot and supported by the ground, a floor, or a platform.

Standing, walking, and ordinary running count. The current ground-speed limit is 5.5 metres per second, which allows normal Second Life running. Flying, sitting, crouching, falling, being knocked into the air, or moving too fast stops your influence and contribution time. After landing or teleporting, allow a fresh HUD update before expecting to count again.

A battle covers the whole region. Teammates can spread across its permitted parcels; there is no circle you must stand inside around a flag. You do not need to rez a flag object, so no-build land can still allow Realm play.

Safe areas block planting and influence. A safe parcel does not necessarily make the rest of a region safe. A whole-region safe zone blocks Realm play throughout it. Follow the HUD's location message.

Normal DoD combat, death, hunger, and revival rules continue to apply. Players who have not joined Realm can still fight wherever ordinary combat allows, but they do not move the Realm bar or earn Realm contribution credit.

Choose a guide

Browse All Guides for the full guide index, or choose a topic below.

• HUD Action Bar and Bag: every control and the capture display.
• Flags: earning, carrying, and using flags.
• Capturing and Defending: battle rules, protection, and contribution credit.
• Website Guide: participation, territory, rankings, settings, and history.
• Help and FAQ: common messages and problems.
• Complete Guide: all six topics in one document.