Calm Trait · about this publication
About Calm Trait
Calm Trait is a small, free workbook for people in Australia who are new to online PC games. It is five steps long, it ends in checklists, and it is published by a company that earns money from affiliate links. All three of those facts are on this page because all three affect how you should read it.
Who publishes it
Calm Trait is published by Evropastar s.r.o., Na Vyhlídce 1317/16, 360 01 Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, company registration 29161266. The publisher can be reached at info@calmtrait.online.
Written material on the site is produced by the Evropastar s.r.o. editorial team. We do not publish bylines, author biographies or staff photographs, because a workbook of this kind does not need them and inventing an expert persona to make general guidance look authoritative would be dishonest. Where something requires expertise we do not have, the course links to the body that does have it rather than paraphrasing.
How the course was put together
The structure came first. We wrote down everything a person has to decide between hearing about a game and finishing a first session, grouped those decisions, and found that they fall into five clusters that have to happen in order: understanding the offer, measuring the computer, creating an account, dealing with classification and money, and the first session itself. Each cluster became a step. Each step ends in a checklist because a decision you have written down is one you can revisit.
Within each step, the rule we applied was that any sentence has to be one of three things: a description of something you can see on your own screen, a statement attributed to a source we link, or an explicitly flagged general observation. Sentences that were none of those were cut. This is why the course does not tell you how long a download takes, what a specific game's requirements are, or which category a particular title received — those are facts about a moving target, and the right place to read them is at the source.
What each step relies on
| Step | Where its content comes from |
|---|---|
| Step 1 | Publicly published publisher and storefront pages, read for structure rather than content; the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission for how consumer law treats product claims. |
| Step 2 | The built-in system information tools of current versions of Windows, macOS and common Linux desktops, described generically because the labels move between versions. |
| Step 3 | The common structure of registration and double opt-in flows; Scamwatch and the Australian Cyber Security Centre for the material on fraudulent messages and account security. |
| Step 4 | The Australian Classification Board for classification; the ACCC for consumer law; the eSafety Commissioner for material aimed at parents and carers. |
| Step 5 | The ordinary behaviour of game clients on first launch; the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner for access, correction and privacy complaints. |
Those bodies are linked where they are relevant inside the steps. We do not reproduce their guidance, because they revise it and we would not notice in time.
How often it is reviewed
The whole course is reviewed at least every six months, and sooner if something underneath it changes — a classification process, the way an operating system reports its own specifications, or a link that no longer resolves. The date of the most recent review appears in the footer of every page, and the short dispatch log in the margin of each page notes what changed and when.
Reviews are substantive rather than cosmetic: links are opened, the hardware procedure is re-walked on current operating system versions, and anything that no longer matches is rewritten or removed. We do not change a published date without changing something on the page.
The commercial relationship, stated plainly
This site is funded by affiliate commission. Enlisted is mentioned in the course, and links to it are paid affiliate links: if you register an account through one, Evropastar s.r.o. may be paid a commission by the affiliate network that operates the link. You pay no more because of it.
So yes — the one game named in the course is a game the publisher has a commercial relationship with. There is no useful way to dress that up, so we state it on the homepage, beside every link, and in full on the funding page.
What it does not do is decide the content. The course is written to be complete and useful with every affiliate link stripped out, and that is the test we apply when editing: if removing the links would leave a hole in a step, the step is written wrong. The course does not rank games, score them, compare them against one another, or claim any of them is best. Where a general statement would have favoured the game we link to, we have left the statement out.
What this site is not
It is not affiliated with, authorised by or endorsed by any game publisher. It is not a news outlet and does not report news. It is not a download site; nothing is hosted here and no installer is offered. It is not accredited training: there is no enrolment, no assessment, no certificate and no record that you read anything. It is not technical support, and it is not advice about your particular computer, your particular household or your particular circumstances.
It also collects nothing. There is no form on this site, no account, no newsletter, no analytics and no cookie. The checklists do not remember your ticks because there is nowhere for them to be remembered. The Privacy Policy sets that out principle by principle, and the Cookie Policy lists what we checked for.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, write to info@calmtrait.online and say which page and which sentence. Corrections to matters of fact are made and the review date updated. We would rather be told.