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In an effort to avoid restricting your enjoyment of the
game, we have
endeavored to keep the number of rules to a minimum. However,
there
are some rules which must exist to make this mud enjoyable
and playable for all.
1) Exploitation of bugs
You *must* report any bugs you exploit. If you report
a bug you
have exploited, you may be allowed to keep some or all
of what you
gained through its exploitation. If you do not report
the exploitation,
and you are caught (and we can log you, snoop you, etc.),
you will be
severely punished. This is still a more liberal rule than
many muds,
which outlaw bug exploitation even if you report it. You
will not
get in trouble for exploiting a bug here, so long as you
report it;
at worst, you will end up losing what you gained through
its
exploitation.
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2) Playerkilling
Okay, as a rule of thumb, PK is not allowed. There a few
exceptions.
First, if there is an justified offense, you can PK, but
not repeatedly.
Also, if you are registered to PK, and the player you're
attacking is
registered as well, it is also legal. The third exeption
is in the PK
areas. There are areas where PKilling is allowed, even
if you're not
registered. Make sure you know which areas are, so that
you don't get in
trouble. If you PKill for the sake of PKilling outside
of this areas,
you're not registered, and the person you're PKilling
is not registered,
you'll get in serious trouble.
Please check out 'help pk' in game for a much more comprehensive
listing of PK law.
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3) Personal grudges
This is not real-life, and most people do not want it
to be.
Meaning: Do not carry RL personal grudges into the game.
Do not
post or use channels or say or tell or shout derogatory
things about
any character's "real life", as opposed to anger
with someone's
*in character* actions, which is acceptable. This includes
such things
from "Johndoe is a dweeb in real-life", to "Oppo
was a $&%?!! on Mud II,"
to "Did you know Tina is a man in real life?"
On a mud, your real-life
attributes are no more important than your real-life race
(which we
assume for most players is "human"). What you
are on this mud, is
what you are on this mud, whether that corresponds to
real-life or not.
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4) Multiple characters
Multiple characters are legal. You are limited to six
total,
just because we would not have the disk space if people
had more than
six characters-- have to leave some space for others.
Multiple
characters of the same player may not be logged in at
the same time,
and they may not share money or equipment, even if it
is done through a
"middleman".
You should treat your alternate characters as separate
characters, and
play them as such, or not at all. Multiple people sharing
the same
character and/or character trading is allowed only when
approved by Law.
Each person must wait 10 minutes between logging in different
characters.
Furthermore, to prevent conflicts of interest, players
may not own
characters in more than one clan.
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5) Sexual harassment
Don't do it. Emotes that look like rape (i.e. "emote
holds xxx
down while yyy rapes her.") will result in your character's
banishment.
Lesser forms, such as uninvited sexual actions towards
a character
(e.g. "fondling" someone whom you do not know)
will probably get you
only a warning on the first offense, unless you clearly
should
have known that your actions would be viewed as offensive;
but repeated sexual harassment of this sort will also
get you punished.
Sexual harassment on a mud is foolish anyway: Some of
the female
characters are probably male in real life, and some of
the males are
real-life women. Keep that in mind before you let your
libido take
control of you on any mud.
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6) Quest information
Even if we tried to make it illegal for you to share quest
info,
you would do it anyway. So it is not illegal to do so.
It *is* illegal
to post it, and it *is* illegal to broadcast it by shouting
or using a
channel. It must be given one-to-one or not at all. It
is illegal to
tell a player the entire solution to a quest, and especially
is also
illegal to *do* a quest for a player, as opposed to telling
a player
how to, which is legal. The player who does the quest
must at least
execute all of the actions himself, to the point that
any player may
be asked by any wizard how he completed a recent quest.
Unless the
quest was completed a while back, the player should be
able to say
how he did it. If the player cannot, we will seriously
consider the
possibility that someone else did it for him.
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7) Cheating to help other players
It is *illegal* for one player to beat up or incapacitate
a monster
so that another can kill it. The reasons for this rule
should be
obvious. Players found 'kill feeding' will be severely
punished by
Law.
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8) Causing trouble
Just so no one can claim that this is not in the rules,
if you do
anything that it intended to ruin the enjoyment of this
mud for
others, including attempts to convince people to leave,
it is illegal
and may result in the silencing, or removal of your character.
This
includes swearing or intimidating others on the newbie
channel, as
well as:
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9) Playing politics
Similarly to rule number 8, any action intended to pressure
the
Admins of this mud into making decisions you prefer, rather
than
the decisions they want to make, or any attempt to "punish"
the Admins
for decisions of which you disapprove, by intentionally
engaging in
actions that might, as just one example, drive away players,
is
strictly prohibited and can result in riddance and site
banishment.
This is even more serious if it involves lying about RoC
or about any
member of its staff.
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10) No recruiting
Please do not attempt to recruit for other muds. If someone
asks
where else you have played-- fine, tell them. But don't
go
out of your way to give out addresses. This is a place
for combat,
roleplaying, and socializing, not one to feed other muds,
and not
one for comparing how many other sites you know.
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11) No botting
Triggers are fine if used as an enhancement-- that is,
if you're
actually at the computer and you just use triggers to
autoloot
corpses and the like.
Botting, where you collect experience without actually
being
at the computer, is illegal and will be punished by severe
losses of experience, and if repeated, loss of your character.
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