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The List of Rules!

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Shard Rules

• Macroing AFK to gather resources is not allowed.
  [list:2kp41fgh]1st Offense: there will be a warning and your account will be flagged.
  2nd Offense: You will receive a final warning and a second flag will be added.
  3rd Offense: You will receive a jail sentence of no less than 2 hours
  4th Offense: You will be jailed for a minimum of 3 days.
  5th Offense: We will remove all resources you have gathered within the last 30 days along with a jailing.
  [list:2kp41fgh] Jail times are based on the length of time a player is AFK

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Harassment will not be tolerated. If you feel that you are being harassed, page and a staff member will come as quick as possible.

• 1st Offense: You will receive your first and only warning.
  2nd Offense: Your logs will be reviewed for all possible harassment and punishment will be given based on the findings.
  3rd Offense: You will be jailed for a length equal to double the time of your last sentence.
  4th Offense: There will be no 4th Offense.
  [list:2kp41fgh]We do not tolerate any harassment that a player can truly have their gaming experience ruined from.

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Excessive swearing is not allowed.

• We acknowledge that people need to express themselves in certain ways and that profanity may be one of those ways but we ask that you keep it under control.

Impersonating a staff member is not allowed.

• If you are seen attempting to impersonate a staff member for any reason, the punishment will be severe.

Obtaining another players skill rewards in any manner is not allowed.

• You are not allowed to buy or sell rewards earned through mastering a skill.
  You cannot trade, steal or trick a player out of their skill reward.
  If you loot a players house, you cannot take their skill rewards, regardless of their carelessness.
  [list:2kp41fgh]Skill rewards are the only items we do not allow to be traded, stolen, etc.

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If you find a bug, report it immediately!

• Abuse of any bug will result in a loss of the player's account.

You can have a maximum of 5 chars per account, but only 1 account per IP.

• If you're on a shared connection you must talk to Shade to allow multiple connections from your IP.

When you choose a name, please use common sense.

• Using any "leet" spelling may result in your name being changed without your consent.
  You are not allowed to have the same name as a staff member.

Do not ruin or interfere with any player's roleplay.

• You do not have to roleplay or play along if you do not wish to do so but we ask that you respect their way of playing the same way you want others to respect yours.

We ask that you behave and act civilized.

• We ask this so that no other players are offended or their experience isn't ruined.
  This isn't a rule we directly enforce, unless things get out of hand, but we want everyone to enjoy the time they spend here.

Advertising for other shards is not allowed.

• Please don't do this. Other shards would not appreciate it done to them, so don't do it here.

Auto-cutting corpses is not allowed.
Luring vendors to your house is not allowed.

• While this is next to impossible, please don't even try.

Revealing a staff's mortal character is not allowed.

• Staff members who decide to play have the choice to let players know if they choose to do so.
  We encourage staff to have an active player account to help them stay in touch with our world.

Players must follow all rules declared at any type of events.

• Please listen carefully to staff or announcements before or during an event.

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We ask everyone to use their common sense.
Staff members always have the last word.


Forum Rules

• No harassing! Your post will be deleted and your account may be suspended.
  [list:2kp41fgh] If you must flame each other, keep it strictly in the Off Topic section.
  If you are making a flame-type post in the Off Topic section, please keep the title clean.

Please post in the appropriate section.

• Most times we will correct any mistakes but do not make this a habit.
  Posts in the wrong sections risk being deleted.

Again: Advertising for other shards is not allowed.

• Doing so may result in punishment on your player as well as your forum account.

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Role-play Rules

• [list:2kp41fgh] Do not refer to real life situations.
  [list:2kp41fgh]This includes exchanging out of game personal information about yourself
  [list:2kp41fgh]You can use party or guild chat for this as well as private messages

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Using abbreviations of any sort is strictly prohibited.

• The use of "faces" falls under this rule as it is an abbreviation of emotions.

Whenever a race or trait of any kind is being role-played, the facts of the role-play must never be broken

• If a player chooses to play the role of a murderous villain who lives his life to slaughter everyone he meets, it would not make sense for him to be helping any other person. Likewise, if someone was to play the role of a holy man who lives for the good of the people, this person cannot kill for any reason.
  These situations and definitions of ones background purely depend on the story they are to follow. Clearing up any uncertainties in ones story can prevent misunderstandings and common issues that may occur. If a holy man wants to kill, it should be included in his story that he wishes to purge the world of evil.

If a guild is role-playing, the guild master will be held accountable for the actions of their members.

• [list:2kp41fgh]This rule only applies if the guild master does not require their guild members to write their own background story.
  If a guild master fails to keep their guild members from breaking character, the entire guild is subject to lose all rewards.
  Plagiarism is strictly forbidden.
  If anyone submits a story they do not have the rights to use, that person will be jailed for a minimum of one week and additionally lose all rights to ever apply for role-play rewards ever again.

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Breaking character is only allowed under the following conditions.

• Speaking privately to a staff member.
  Speaking in your own house or guild with guild members only.
  If something is too hard to express through your role-play you can type it in brackets. Do not abuse this.
  While using guild chat, party chat or private messages you do not need to speak in character.
  If an event requires you to break character you may do so only at a staff members consent. This almost never happens.

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A note on the topic of bug exploiting... if you find a bug, there are two options:

1) Exploit the bug and be punished severely if caught.
2) Report the bug immediately and receive a reward.

There is no middle ground. If you exploit a bug that lets you get infinite gold, don't be surprised to see your entire bank, gold, and houses deleted since we have no idea what was bought with exploited gold. If this seems severe, consider it the punishment for exploiting instead of reporting. If you only take away what the person gained through the exploit, it is not a punishment, and there is no reason at all not to exploit bugs or to report them.

The rules also call for a banning if a bug is being exploiting, so if you get less than that, consider it an act of mercy.

SEE HERE for a list of rewards and punishments

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Another note on the topic of multi-clienting:

It is ridiculously easy for GMs to protect and a single command will show who is multi-clienting. We can even see if two clients are runnning on the same computer or not.

We don't allow a single player to have multiple accounts for a reason, and that is fairness. There are some people who will have 10 or 20 clients all running mining macros that destroy the ingot market for the rest of the server, for example. The ways it ruins game-play are endless.

WHEN (not IF) someone has been caught multi-clienting, the usual punishment is deletion/banning of one of the accounts. Some GMs might let you pick, some will flip a coin.

Basically, don't try to cheat the system by having more than one account. If you care for this place at all, respect this rule and help us keep up some semblance of integrity.