| These rules are the framework for everyone on the server
This server is for people who are 18 years of age or older. No exceptions.
Our servers are based in the United States, and because of that we adhere to both US-Federal Law, and it's moral guidelines.
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Rule 0: Be Mature
- Don’t be a dick OOCly. Being needlessly antagonistic to other community members, generally toxic, or any other variation you could imagine won't be tolerated.
- English literacy is a must. We do not expect grammatical perfection; you should be able to speak comprehensibly out of character.
- Don’t “ride the line” with regards to the rules. Follow through on the spirit of rules, and not just their exact wording.
- If an admin has told you not to do something; do not do it.
- Don't attempt to argue in wordgames with the staff, it's their job to enforce the rules, not argue for them.
- Do not target players in bad faith.
- Do not ban-bait people.
- This includes misrepresenting a situation.
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Rule 1: Do Not Grief
Griefing is the act of deliberately annoying or angering another player maliciously. This includes EORG (End of Round Griefing)
1. Do not spam. This includes in-character conversation, the global out-of-character channel, or any other text channel used in-game.
2. Do not attack others randomly without a valid IC reason.
3. Do not exploit bugs or errors in the code to your benefit in-game.
- Report issues to the wider community in the main-dev chat channel, and on the github.
4. Do not harass a player ICly if it is unwelcome.
5. Don't touch SSD/AFK players unless you are moving them to safety/cryo (after the 30 minutes have passed).
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Rule 2: Listen to the staff team
The staff is responsible for upholding the enforcement of rules on the server. As such, they have a final say on related matters.
Take feedback about staff to a staff-report, or staff-feedback.
If you are ever considering doing something particularly drastic in terms of escalation - for example, mutinies - request permission via Admin-Help.
- Be polite, honest, and to the point when sending an admin PM.
- Time, place, the act itself, who did it, who might have seen it are all things that help staff in the moment with figuring out the situation overall.
- Do not instigate someone you are admin-helping about.
- This also means, you shouldn't start taunting them in LOOC after opening the ticket.
- An admin's word is final. If they say not to do it, do not do it.
- If you suspect an admin is in the wrong, calmly take the incident to an Staff-Report.
- Lying to the staff is a punishable offense.
- Lying in adminhelps, misrepresenting facts deliberately, or logging off when an admin has asked a question may result in a permaban, if you don't return.
- Avoid talking about rule breaks in the global OOC channel.
- If an admin tells you that something is IC, valid, and so forth, that is the final answer. Admins are not obligated to give you more information than they think is necessary during an ongoing round.
- If the situation you are admin-helping about is immediately happening to you, continue with the situation where possible, and ahelp immediately. (THIS DOES NOT APPLY TO PREFBREAK.)
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Rule 3: Stay In-Character and Meet Character Standards
Your character must fit into the lore and setting, this includes their current situation.
- Speak in a believable manner.
- Knowledge must be consistent with the character; that means they shouldn't suddenly know how to do complex surgeries when convenient, when they previously couldn't.
- Do not act silly in a way that disrupts others RP, this includes stuff like: 'saying rofl,' 'spraypainting this months meme on the floor,' etc.
- Follow the character standards: General Player Policy and Standards
- Do not impersonate other player's characters.
- If you are playing someone else's character, you are not allowed to ERP as that character without OOC permission.
- Do not copy and paste real-world people and pre-existing fictional characters.
- (This does not mean you cannot play 'Deathclaws' or 'Xenomorphs' just that you cannot literally be John-117)
- Do not commit suicide for little reason.
- For Ex: Do not kill yourself to escape in-character punishments, do not commit suicide to spite someone for something mildly rude they said, etc.
- Underaged characters are strictly prohibited.
- Your character must look like an adult. Short species like goblins, kobolds, and so forth are allowed, however, they must still be an adult.
- The hard-coded limit for character age is 18 for a reason. Do not attempt to work around this by describing your character as looking “younger than 18” in your flavor text in any form, as it will be treated as a violation of the rules.
- Equally, do not try to imply they could be anything but above age.
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Rule 4: Meet Minimum Roleplaying Standards - No LRP, Be Immersive
- Nova Sector - Solaris should be treated as a roleplay oriented server.
- This means, you should aim to be focused on the best possible roleplay you can, even at your lowest point.
- Anti-roleplay behavior is not tolerated.
- This means, despite your wants as a player, you shouldn't be acting in a manner which causes other's roleplay to be negatively impacted, for your own amusement.
- You must be able to function in a roleplaying environment.
- You must be part of immersion and ideally add to it, not detract.
- The more power your character has IC, the higher our expectation is for the quality of your roleplay. This goes especially true for bandits, keep, or guard roles.
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Rule 5: Act in Moderation
- Act in moderation, i.e. ensure that you do not do anything excessively. As a rule of thumb, if you think you're borderline, you are being excessive.
Moderation of Excessive Means.
- Lethal weaponry should generally be used in a situation that aligns with IC circumstances.
- This should only come up if the difference in escalation is excessive.
- (ex: someone tells you to fuck off, so you immediately start stabbing them.)
- Use proper and convincing escalation. Build up to your actions, don't jump right out the gate shooting!
Important: You should moderate how your character behaves and make sure it does not detract from the experience nor is a nuisance towards others.
You need to be extra careful, as you need to know when to stop or when to ease things off.
LOOC communication is your best friend when it comes to being sure you're not pushing things to far.
| Here are the three rules you should use to gauge if you're being excessive:
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| Are you affecting the round in any significant way?
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| Are you seriously annoying a person or group of people?
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| Are you doing this crime consistently enough that it becomes repetitive and annoying?
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Rule 6: Play the job you have
- Do your primary job first. Keep to your department, and do not perform other peoples' jobs unless needed too, for the overall story.
- As an antagonist, your goal is to create conflict but ultimately entertainment and story for the crew.
- this means you shouldn't be going around starting pointless fights with security, or randomly destroying parts of the station for the sake of it.
- Don’t do the job of occupied departments (this includes acting/normal Captains).
For Reference: This means you should be trying your best to fulfill the role of your job atleast to a bare minimum, like setting up the SM as engineering; this doesn't mean you're required to know how on your first round, but you should try to seek help on how to do it right.
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Rule 7: Do not metagame or metagrudge
- Metagaming is using information gotten out-of-character for in-character purposes. Including (but not limited to) direct message conversations, voice calls, streams, the global out-of-character, and other forms of out-of-game communication.
- Meta-grudging is the act of targeting a player while IC for OOC reasons.
- Attacking another player for something that happened in a previous round without mutual consent will be called meta-grudging. Rounds are canon, but escalation isn't, you have to build up too it.
- You may remember what happened to you, but not who in particular did it. They are replaced by a functionally faceless individual.
- Do not attempt to make an in-character issue out of previous shifts’ antagonism, unless you have the OOC consent of the involved party. Ever.
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Rule 8: Do not powergame
Powergaming is when you step outside your character's normal abilities just to guarantee you come out on top in every situation.
It’s especially a problem when it messes with the roleplaying environment for everyone else. The more you lean into powergaming, the more you should focus on keeping the roleplay at the forefront before and after any fights. At some point, though, it will become staff discretion based on the overall impact.
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Rule 9: Do not valid-hunt
Valid-hunting is defined as; going out of your way to target a player, based on or else-wise dependent on perceived antag status alone.
Justifiable reasons exclude you from this, such as:
- Valid IC escalation,
- A valid IC reason to go after them, (self-defense, being a threat to the station at large, otherwise escalated issues (breaking into ones department, etc)
- Risk of life to someone involved, which can be easily prevented.
- However, if you go out of your way to place yourself into situations for the sake of jumping in when they escalate; it could equally be considered powergaming, intent matters!
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Rule 10: No Self-Antagging
Self-antagging is the act of acting like an general antagonist, when you are not.
Self antagging, generally leads to a worse experience for everyone else involved.
If you are not an antag, do not do the following:
- Pretend to be a bandit, and run around attacking people.
- Murder someone without a justifiable IC reason.
- Pretend to be an established antagonist (dressing up like a lich and trying to ambush people.)
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Rule 11: 'Misc RP' / ERP
Respect people's prefs.
- OOC prefs are absolutes, if it says ask, you should ask, if it says no, it means No.
- This expands to include people you expose by second hand, that means in no uncertain terms, you shouldn't be proudly talking about how bad you want to dick someone down in the town square, unless you know everyone has consented.
- Try to limit other's unintended exposure to sexual objects in relation to their prefs.
- Do not be toxic to others. Be respectful.
- Do not grief players who are ERPing. Do not grief players about their ERP in IC or OOC channels.
- Keep extreme kink activities out of public view (Noncon, hyper, bloodplay, gore, etc.)
- Do not call out ERP over any sort of IC or OOC channels.
- Do not ERP as someone else’s character without their consent. This includes any intimate interactions such as kissing/groping.
Don’t make drama out of ERP
- Do not ERP Bait, or use ERP to bait a player into a situation with the intention to trick them.
- Do not levy accusations of sexual assault or non-consensual against other players over public channels of any kind.
You must have OOC consent from the erping parties to interrupt ERP in a private area.
- If they are in a enclosed room, use LOOC Wallpierce.
- If people are publicly ERPing, you may ask them to stop or go somewhere else in LOOC, if they do not cooperate, ahelp.
- If you are reading this and applying to the server, please type BANANA EGG, in the chat after you create your ticket to confirm you've read this document.
Non Consensual ERP should only ever be exposed to LOOC consenting parties.
- Non-Con must be kept to subtler.
- Do not broadcast or draw attention to said actions.
- Implications of non-consensual ERP against parties without prior consent is not allowed.
- If the other player repeals their consent or says they would wish to discontinue the RP, disengage immediately.
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