# Accounts and memberships

> Sign in for free to dock in any Hold. A membership on Patreon owns Holds and hosts them. The demo needs no account.

Everyone who plays with a crew signs in, on [Play](https://orbium.games/play). Docking is free: sign
in, and dock in any Hold by its link or its code. Owning and hosting Holds is
what a membership on Patreon pays for, and it keeps the servers running.

## Signing in

Sign in with **Patreon** or **Google**. Your account is the same on every
browser you sign in with: the same unit, the same name (change it on
[your account](https://orbium.games/account)), the same place in every Hold's record.

Signed in with Google and a member on Patreon? Link your Patreon account from
your account, so your membership counts. A Patreon account links to one Orbium
account only.

A sign-in lasts 7 days on a browser, renewed each time you come back. Sign out,
in the menu behind your avatar at the top of every page, forgets it on that
browser; Sign out everywhere, on your account, on every browser.

You're in one Hold at a time, so you play one match at a time: docking in
another Hold undocks you from the one you were in (a match running there counts
you as left), and its page tells you so.

## Memberships

A membership is a tier on [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/OrbiumGames). Its
price is there; what it does here is this:

| Tier          | Holds you own | Holds you host for others, a month | On the backers' page   |
| ------------- | ------------- | ---------------------------------- | ---------------------- |
| No membership | none          | none                               |                        |
| Backer        | 3             | 3                                  |                        |
| Host          | 10            | 15                                 |                        |
| Founding Host | 20            | 30                                 | your name              |
| Sponsor       | 50            | no limit                           | your name and a link   |
| Gold Sponsor  | 50            | no limit                           | your name, image, link |

Each Hold you own also plays and keeps by your tier
([tournaments](https://orbium.games/docs/platform/holds#tournaments)):

| Tier                    | Tournaments at once | Matches kept in full | Ended tournaments kept |
| ----------------------- | ------------------- | -------------------- | ---------------------- |
| Backer                  | 1                   | 50                   | 5                      |
| Host                    | 3                   | 200                  | 20                     |
| Founding Host, Sponsors | 5                   | 500                  | 50                     |

Founding Host is limited to the first 100 members. A change on Patreon reaches
your account here within moments; it is checked again when you sign in, and at
least once a day.

Orbium can also give a membership, for a time or for good: to community members,
in a promotion, for a test. Your account shows when one ends. With a membership
from Patreon and one given, the higher counts. Your account id, on your account,
is how we find your account when you ask.

## Owners and hosts

**Owners.** Whoever opens a Hold owns it, and it counts in their membership.
Only its owner opens it again once its crew has gone, unless they invited a
host. An owner can delete a Hold from Play, which frees its place.

**Invited hosts.** In the Hold's panel, its owner invites docked members to host
it (the **Hosts** list). A host opens the Hold when its owner can't be there, or
to start it in their own region: a Hold runs on the server nearest whoever opens
it. Hosting takes the host's own membership, and counts in its month: each Hold
once a calendar month (UTC), however often it is opened, starting again on the
1st.

**The crew** need no membership: they sign in and dock.

## A smaller membership

Nothing is deleted when a membership gets smaller or ends. Your Holds stay, and
you open as many of them as your tier allows, the most recently opened first;
the others show as locked on Play until you upgrade or delete some. With no
membership you open none of yours, but the members you invited can still host
them.

## The demo

[The demo](https://orbium.games/demo) needs no account and no server: the whole Hold runs in your
browser. You hold the beam, a crew of bots runs and hides, and every Hunter's
tool is yours: the lasers, the zoom, the World. Sign in for a real crew.

## Your email and your account

Signing in gives us your email (from the first provider you sign in with), and
your account shows it: that's where we write about your account, your membership
and the help you ask for. News about Orbium only if you tick it there. **Delete
account**, at its foot, deletes your account and your Holds for good: you
confirm it by typing `delete my account`.

## What is kept

See [privacy](https://orbium.games/docs/platform/privacy): what we keep about your account, and why.