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Hello and welcome to Orcworm.co.uk! Before you start posting on our forum on doing... whatever it is you plan to do on our Minecraft Server I would like you to read the following rules. Failure to do so, or failure to comprehend them, _may_ result in a swift exile so be sure to read them.
Any questions or suggestions concerning these rules can be posted in this topic. Be aware that all off-topic messages will be deleted and it's poster temporarily banned in accordance with Forum Rule #5.
- Server Rules (Last revision: 14-06-2011):
1. General behaviour
- The use of glitches, bugs and exploits for material gain, to cause grief or to cause lag is ground for an immediate ban.
--- Before looting an unlocked check whether it is glitched or not. To check use "/lwc info". If it says "This air is unregistered" then it's glitched.
- Any and all topics may be discussed in the in-game chat provided that they are kept civil and are not racist or religious in nature.
- Harassing a player over extended periods of time with insults or comments about their age/sex/sexual orientation/country/race/etc is not allowed.
- Spamming the chat is not allowed.
- A player may not repeatably start multiple auctions in a short timeperiod ("Auction-spam") nor start an auction with a duration longer than 60 seconds.
2. Griefing
- Modifying another player's structure in any way without express permission is not allowed
--- Modifying the immediate area around another player's structure for the sole intent of "pissing them off" is likewise not allowed.
3. Safe Zones
- Safe Zones and Safe Zone Owners are defined as the following:
--- Safe Zone: Acknowledged Cities (see section 7) | Owner: Mayor/City Council
--- Safe Zone: 16 block radius outside of a considerable house | Owner: owner of house
--- Safe Zone: 16 block radius outside a previously announced project | Owner: current builders
- The setting of a Home-location (/home, /pw) in a safe zone requires the permission of that safe zones owner.
- Camping longer than 15 minutes at a time outside of a Safe Zone is not allowed.
- Initiating PVP Combat in a Safe Zone if you are not the Safe Zone's owner is not allowed.
4. PVP
- The use of Lava, Fire and Water in PvP-combat IS allowed provided that the party using it cleans it up afterwards.
- The use of Donator+-abilities in PvP-combat is not allowed.
5. Use of Commands, Runes, Redstone and Items
- Use of any method whatsoever to gain access to otherwise inaccessible areas (ie Locked houses) is not allowed.
- Using commands to "lock" anothers property without express permission is not allowed.
6. Use of Teleportations-abilities
- Teleport-abilities are all methods to "teleport" from one location to another.
- You may only teleport (to) someone if you have express approval of all parties involved with the teleportation.
--- Failure to do so gives the players you teleported (to) the inalienable right to immediately kill you and/or request a demotion.
--- Killing or damaging the teleporter/teleport target when approval WAS given is not allowed.
7. Cities
- City owners/Council members of _acknowledged_ cities are free to make additional rules for players in their city. These rules must be clearly viewable when entering the city and on the forums. They must also not contradict any of these rules unless when given public approval by at least two members of Staff on the forum.
- A city is acknowledged when it has a dedicated topic on the forum.
- A City owner/Council member may evict a player or demolish any structure provided that the reason for this has been posted in the dedicated topic 48 hours before hand. Whether or not the player/builder receives any reimbursement and what this reimbursement is shall be decided by Staff.
8. What to do in case of rule-breaking
If you notice someone breaking the rules then /msg Staff online. If no Staff is online, or is not capable of handling the situation at that time, then gather as much evidence and data (such as location, names, etc.) and post this on the forum. Staff will then decide whether or not the accusation is valid and will decide on the appropriate punishment.
9. Punishments
Infractions of the rules are punished in different ways according to their severity. These are:
1) A warning.
2) A temporary ban the length of which is determined by the Staff-member handling your case. This type of ban is not appealable.
3) A permanent ban. This ban is appealable. Make a post in the Ban Appeal-section if you think your ban was unjust.
4) A Demotion. Donators and Staff can be stripped of their rank and privileges if they abuse them.
10. In conclusion
- Not understanding the rules is not an excuse for breaking them.
- Using possible loopholes in the rules is not allowed.
- When in doubt: ask the Staff or post your question on the forum.
- Staff-members are free to bend or break these rules if they can give a solid, convincing, reason why doing so would be in the best interest of the server. Abuse of this WILL result in an immediate demotion to Guest.
- Staff-members may choose to ban any players regardless of whether or not they broke any rules. This requires a majority vote among the Staff-members or the consent of Orcworm.
- Forum Rules (Last revision: 11-08-2011):
1.- Write Clearly
No “1337 5p33k”, unless it's to make a point. No SHOUTING either, please. In case you're not good with English; please do your best, ask someone who knows or use a translator, since we're an international community, and therefore the official language is English. Also try to make your posts actually say something. Nobody benefits from one-word-posts nor from vaguely described ideas. So try to make your posts have at least 2 or 3 lines of text when possible. As for thread titles, don't use anything that might be offensive or mean, remember to make it meaningful as to what your thread is about. Vague titles are annoying to us and un-helpful to yourself, just like titles in “all caps”, and they will be deleted.
2.- Be Polite
Please remember that tone is hard to judge on the Internet, and that not everyone will welcome sarcasm or irony the same way. Please keep your trolling and flaming somewhere else; although we accept some slight trolling, any major troll will have his/her post deleted and his account banned. On the other hand, as a user you must be aware that we are an adult community, although many of our users are under-age, we discuss all and every topic, from religion to politics to sex. (In a civil way, of course.) If any of these topics make you uncomfortable, you should be aware to stay out of the “Off-Topic” section of the forum.
3.- Smilies and Post Formatting
If you must use smilies, use them sparingly — excessive smilies will get deleted or your whole post deleted, and posts that contain nothing but smilies are generally frowned upon. Do not use colours or large font sizes in your posts since they are reserved for the forum moderators, unless they may be essential for the purpose of conveying a message to the audience.
4.- Avatars and Signatures
Although everyone likes a good old stick-men fight, we'd rather not have something like that as your avatar, so if you really want to use a .GIF avatar, please make it colourless and easy on the eye. As for signatures, please keep them small, if you want an image go ahead, but make it small enough, specially it's height. This means that an signature may only contain either 4 lines of unspoilered text, images with a combined maximum height of 150px or 1 spoiler containing as much text/images as you want. Likewise avatars have a maximum dimension of 150x150px and size of 250kb. Forum staff is free to remove any signatures or avatars not conforming to these restrictions.
5.- No Spamming — Think and Read
Post a single idea/question/comment in only one forum. Do not double post, and instead edit your previous post if you have something new to add and no one has posted yet. Technical support requests may be bumped after a while in case they have been forgotten and sink past the first forum view page. Read the entire thread before replying to it. Nonsense may be deleted without warning, especially in a working topic. Also try not to post a subject that has already been discussed, or is currently being discussed. Finally, read the date of the last post before replying to it, necromancers will be warned and if they don't understand, banned shortly. As for quoting other posts, please only quote what you are referring to and remove images/movies from the quote to not make your post unnecessarily long. When the server's down, we know it's down. Making a new topic each time it's down is plainly spamming, and these threads will be deleted. If you think we haven't noticed at all, please send a PrivateMessage to Orcworm about it.
6.- Allow the Moderators to Do Their Job
We have selected a team of high-quality administrators for our forum, and they are all ready to handle situations. If we wanted you doing so, we'd offer you an administration rank.
7.- Punishments
Failure to follow these rules will result in a warning after the first offence. After the second offence, you will receive a one day temporary ban. Any offence from then on will result in an extended temporary ban or a permanent one.
- Ranks (Last revision: 14-06-2011):
Our server has the following ranks:
- Guest. Automatically received when you first join the server.
- Member. Received when Staff/Orcworm trusts you enough.
- Donator. Received when donating at least 10 pounds.
- [Custom Title]. Received when donating at least 15 pounds and messaging Orcworm with your desired Title.
- Staff. Handpicked when the need arises. Do not ask for this rank as this will hurt your chances
- Donator Perks (Last revision: 14-06-2011):
Total of £5:
- 100 Gil for every £ donated.
- Permanent reserved slot
- One zone for your build, maximum of 50x50 blocks. (A zoned area means it's protected, only myself
and players specified by you will be able to edit the blocks in your zone, larger zones can be requested.)
Total of £10:
- 100 Gil for every £ donated.
- Donator Rank (Default colour: Blue)
(Extra commands associated with Donator Rank: Unrestricted /tp and /tphere, /magiccarpet, Compass teleporting)
Total of £15+:
- 100 Gil for every £ donated.
- Custom title and name colour (Please send Orcworn a message on the forums)
- PrivateWarp - /pw (Basically, multiple home points)
- The ability to ride all monsters and animals, as well as other players by using a saddle.
Any questions or suggestions concerning these rules can be posted in this topic. Be aware that all off-topic messages will be deleted and it's poster temporarily banned in accordance with Forum Rule #5.
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