Rules
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Summary
Below are a list of offenses (and therefore rules) for players to abide by, as well as guidelines for their expected punishments to assist both staff and players.
If a player does something that is considered bannable that is not included on this list, staff are able to temporarily ban a player for a duration they see fit and request a new offense be added to the wiki.
Offenses
Offense | Type | Issued By | Evidence required |
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Attempting to provide suggestions or bug fixes to staff outside of a DM, ingame ticket (/ticket create) or GitHub issue. | Trivial | Mods/Admins | Yes |
Refusing to stop insulting/teasing an individual | Trivial | Mods/Admins | Yes |
Using profanity in public chat channels | Trivial | Mods/Admins | Yes |
Failure to keep public chat to an age-appropriate level | Trivial | Mods/Admins | Yes |
Spamming public text or voice channels | Trivial | Mods/Admins | Yes |
Failure to properly tune microphone whilst using Voice Activity on discord, even after being requested to do so | Trivial | Mods/Admins | Yes |
Failure to use chat channels for their intended purpose | Trivial | Mods/Admins | Yes |
Revealing personal (real-life) information via public chat channels | Trivial | Mods/Admins | Yes |
Threatening a player (in real life) via in-game or discord communications channels | Serious | Mods/Admins | Yes |
Deliberately causing server lag | Serious | Mods/Admins | Yes |
Failing to notify Mods/Admins of a specific machine/action that causes server lag | Serious | Mods/Admins | Yes |
Knowingly causing a server crash | Serious | Mods/Admins | Yes |
Transporting items, fluids, energy, messages, or entities (including players) via a method that bypasses the universal distance mechanic without reporting it to staff | Serious | Mods/Admins | Yes |
Damaging areas that are flagged as "Protected", or player claims a player does not have access to repeatedly and/or without reporting it immediately to staff. | Serious | Mods/Admins | Yes |
Naming of a Cluster, Galaxy, System, Planet or Moon that is inappropriate, does not fit with the roleplay aspect of the server or is offensive (discretion is left to staff) | Serious | Mods/Admins | Yes |
Use of an exploit, cheat or hack | Permanent Ban | Mods/Admins | Yes |
Abuse of rank or permissions (Mods/Admins only) | Permanent Ban | Mods/Admins | Yes |
Bans
Trivial Offenses
- Trivial offenses will result in a 15m temporary ban for their first offense in 7 days.
- Trivial offenses will result in a 60m temporary ban for their second offense in 7 days.
- Trivial offenses will result in a 4h temporary ban for their third offense in 7 days.
- Further trivial offenses within 7d will result in any violation of the rules for the following 30d being treated as a Serious Offense, starting with a 24h ban.
Serious Offenses
- Serious offenses will result in a 24hr temporary ban for their first offense in 30 days.
- Serious offenses will result in a 72hr temporary ban for their second offense in 30 days.
- Serious offenses will result in a 7d temporary ban for their third offense in 30 days.
- Further offenses within 30 days will result in any violation of the rules will be met with a permanent ban.
Exceptions/Appeals
- A player may appeal to the Head Admin for their ban to be uplifted if it exceeds 4 hours or they believe the Moderator or Admin that issued it was unjustified.
- All legitimate bans will be backed by screenshots taken as evidence, complete with a timestamp of when the offense occurred.
- Players may request the head admin investigate a staff member be investigated for abuse of power, provided they have evidence to back up their claim.
- Staff may submit a request to the Head Admin to have a player permanently banned, bypassing all of the above listed offenses.
- The Server Owner reserves the right to remove anyone from server, at their discretion at any time, for any duration of time.