Server Rule Change-Log

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With the implementation of the Server Rules into their own page on the site, this thread is to track changes made to the server rules.

 

Tracking Changes to New Rules

• In order to be made aware of relevant changes to the rules, please follow this post or check back occasionally to see updated policies and rules.
• The most recent post will be pinned to the front of this thread.

 

What this means to you.

• If you have any questions on changes in rules please contact a member of moderation.
• If a change in rule results in something you are doing now being against the rules, there will be a 1 week grace period following the updated rules, unless the situation requires immediate attention such as a safety concern.

 

Change Log Format

• Changes to the rules will be posted in the following format:

 

Original Rule:

Rewrite:

Rational:

 

That’s pretty much all,

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Rule Changes, Week of 10/11/20

 

Conflict Rules

General Combat

 

Original: Rule 12: If a combat situation/raid gets too out of hand OOCly (bickering, meta accusations, etc), a moderator reserves the ability to call PVP or void the roleplay entirely regardless of the intention from either side. A report can later be pursued if incriminatory evidence (proving powergaming, metagaming, etc) is compiled. Refer to Report Guidelines.

 

Rewrite: Disclaimer: If a conflict/CRP/raid gets too out of hand OOCly (bickering, meta accusations, etc), a moderator reserves the ability to force a course of action be it PVP, Roll combat or to void the roleplay entirely regardless of the intention from either side. A report can later be pursued by those involved if incriminatory evidence (proving powergaming, metagaming, etc) is compiled. Refer to Report Guidelines.

 

Rational: Clarification on the rules original intention.

 

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Region and Nation Rules

 

Original: Rule 6: The PRO of a nation may have permission to build on road regions that are within their nation's tiles.

 

Rewrite: Rule 6: The PRO of a nation may build on road regions that are within their nation's tiles.

 

Rational: Rewording, prior text gave the impression that PRO’s are required to obtain permission.

 

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Original: Rule 7: Only the PRO may add/remove region owners. For nations, this applies to tiles or settlements the nation leader is PRO of, not sub-regions under a nation tile.

 

Rewrite: Rule 7: Only the PRO may freely add/remove region owners. For nations, this applies to tiles or settlements; the nation leader is PRO.

 

Rational: Removal of the line: “not sub-regions under a nation tile.” as this is clarified in rule 9 below it.

 

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Original: Rule 8: A tile PRO (the nation leader) can request the creation of sub-regions within a nation tile for the purpose of new settlements under that nation, though they may not force the settlement to have them as PRO, the PRO of the sub-region should be the RP leader of that settlement.

 

Rewrite: Rule 8: A tile PRO (the nation leader) can request the creation of sub-regions within an owned tile for the purpose of new settlements under that nation. 

• The PRO for the new sub-region meeting this intent should be the RP leader of that settlement. 

• All other sub-regions not intended for settlements do not require a PRO to be set and are assumed to belong to the nation leader

 

Rational: Clarification. Restructuring for ease of use.

 

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Petty Theft

 

Under Petty Theft

 

Original: Rule 2: Unlocked non-shop chests may be taken from freely with a sufficient emote. For shops or locked chests make a /modreq and follow the rolling guidelines below.

 

Rewrite: Rule 2: Unlocked non-shop chests may be taken from freely without limitations following a sufficient emote. For shops or locked chests make a /modreq and follow the rolling guidelines below.

 

Rational: To reiterate that unlocked non-shop chests do not have the same limitations as shops or locked chests, with the exception of the requirement for a sufficient emote.

 

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Original: Upon successfully breaking into a locked chest, you may take up to one-half (rounded down) from one slot of items in the chest (a maximum of 32 for a full stack of items in a slot), given that the slot has at least two items (unique items may only be taken during a heist). 

• If the chosen item can be stacked with other identical items, they may first be condensed by the moderator before being split in half.            

 

Rewrite: Upon successfully breaking into a locked chest, you may take up to one-half (rounded down) from one slot of items in the chest (a maximum of 32 for a full stack of items in a slot), given that the slot has at least two items (unique items may only be taken during a heist). 

• If the chosen item can be stacked with other identical items, they may first be condensed by the moderator before being split in half.    

• An item may be taken from a shulker within the chest, but shulkers themselves, unless empty, may not be taken.   

 

Rational: To define how items in shulkers that are within a locked picked chest may be taken from following the same limitations of one slot, but not full shulkers themselves. This addition is to both prevent players taking entire shulker boxes during petty theft, but to also prevent players from putting all of their items in shulker boxes inside chests to prevent theft.

   

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Under limitations

 

Original: Rule 2: You may only steal from 3 chests (or shops) per 24 hours.

 

Rewrite: Rule 2: You may only steal from 3 locked chests (or shops) per 24 hours.

Rational: Clarification, this cooldown only applies to theft under the petty theft system.

   

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Roleplay Rules

 

Addition: Rule 13. You may not abuse mechanics to access areas you cannot get to in roleplay, this includes boat glitching and using horses to bypass walls higher than 3 blocks tall.

 

Rational: Inclusion of this was missed on the rewrite, it shall remain enforceable.

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Rule Changes, Week of 11/2820

 

General Rules:

 

Addition of Rule: Rule 7: You may only have a maximum of three minecraft accounts registered on the server.

 

Rational: Added this rule to prevent spamming of alt accounting and to for security purposes to prevent likelihood of alt accounts being compromised.

 

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Roleplay Rules:

 

Original: Rule 8: Your characters may not interact with each other. This includes physically being together transferring items, or otherwise contributing* to each other's abitions, goals, or stories.

- You may play your own children, though they may no physically interact in-game.

 

Addition of Sub-point: Rule 8: Your characters may not interact with each other. This includes physically being together transferring items, or otherwise contributing* to each other's ambitions, goals, or stories.

- You may play your own children, though they may no physically interact in-game.

- You may not use multiple personas to gain an advantage by circumventing Vortex limitations and concentrating the benefits with one nation/settlement/group/etc. Example, no "Vortex Alts" or RPly unaffiliated personas contributing to something that doesn't make sense for them.

 

Rational: Addition of sub-point to specify rule against Vortex abuse related to multiple personas.

 

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General Combat:

 

Original: Rule 10: Villainous activity or combat near or in Cloud Temple or travel hubs is prohibited. This includes ANY roads leading up to or from them, meaning one may not block travelers from entering or leaving the area by camping at an intersection leading to Cloud Temple or a travel hub.

 

Addition of Sub-point: Rule 10: Villainous activity or combat near or in Cloud Temple or travel hubs is prohibited. This includes ANY roads leading up to or from them, meaning one may not block travelers from entering or leaving the area by camping at an intersection leading to Cloud Temple or a travel hub.

- Must be at least 100 blocks down the road in any direction from the hub or Cloud Temple.

 

Rational: Addition of sub-point to define what is meant by road to or from Hubs. Previous wording as it stood prevented all banditry whatsoever as with the lack of roads at the start of the map, "technically" no roads were not leading to or from a hub.

Now banditry must take place at least 100 blocks down the road, from the hub.

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Rule Changes, Week of 1/4/21

 

Conflict Rules:

 

Original: Rule 5: If 12+ people become engaged in the combat, PVP may be called through a majority vote of all people involved. Spectators may not vote. To avoid any complications, you may ask a Moderator to watch. Votes may only be redone if new people join the scene or through moderation.

• Once PvP is requested, a PvP lock is initiated on whoever is present. Anyone who does not take part in the PvP or was not included in the PvP lock once the countdown is initiated is considered a spectator.

• Spectators may not interfere in any way. They may not follow along (even if they are statused) with the PvP unless approved by a moderator.

 

Update: Rule 5: If 12+ people become engaged in the combat, the combat is defaulted to PvP. This can be overridden through a majority vote of all people involved. Spectators may not vote. To avoid any complications, you may ask a Moderator to watch. Votes may only be redone if new people join the scene or through moderation, but not after PvP has been initiated.

• Once PvP is requested, a PvP lock is initiated on whoever is present. Anyone who does not take part in the PvP or was not included in the PvP lock once the countdown is initiated is considered a spectator.

• Spectators may not interfere in any way. They may not follow along (even if they are statused) with the PvP unless approved by a moderator.

 

Rational: General Clarification: The original purpose of this rule, was to cut down on instances where an attacking party sought to gather as many people into the conflict to force a PvP default. This led players who sought out CRP to be forced to PvP after being dragged into a conflict larger that they thought. While it is important to acknowledge that this is an RP server and we should strive to RP over other forms of combat, once you hit a high enough number, keeping track of emotes, movements and general CRP can become more troublesome. While the rule itself is not changing that drastically the intent is to say, once you get to 12+ people engaged in a conflict the default will go to PvP unless one side or group of the players decides to vote for CRP or Rolling CRP and a majority agree. This is to imply that although we would prefer to continue to RP, we as moderation acknowledge that oftentimes it becomes more difficult to CRP in large groups and eventually after arguments and eventual modreqs, it ends up defaulting to PvP regardless.

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Rule Changes, Week of 3/30/21

 

Raid Rules:

 

Original: Rule 3: Raid size is dependent on the raid target

• Lairs: 3 player max
• Settlements and non-capital tiles: 4 player max
• Nation capital tiles: 5 player max

Update: Rule 3: Raid size is dependent on the raid target

• Lairs: 3 player max
• Settlements and non-capital tiles: 6 player max
• Nation capital tiles: 9 player max

Rational: As initially intended, Raid Caps have been raised for raids against settlements and Nations on a trial period.

 

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Conflict Rules:

Original: Rule 5: If 12+ people become engaged in the combat, the combat is defaulted to PvP. This can be overridden through a majority vote of all people involved. Spectators may not vote. To avoid any complications, you may ask a Moderator to watch. Votes may only be redone if new people join the scene or through moderation, but not after PvP has been initiated.

• Once PvP is requested, a PvP lock is initiated on whoever is present. Anyone who does not take part in the PvP or was not included in the PvP lock once the countdown is initiated is considered a spectator.
• Spectators may not interfere in any way. They may not follow along (even if they are statused) with the PvP unless approved by a moderator.

Update: Rule 5: If 12+ people become engaged in the combat, the combat is defaulted to PvP. This can be overridden through a majority vote of all people involved. Spectators may not vote. To avoid any complications, you may ask a Moderator to watch. Votes may only be redone if new people join the scene or through moderation, but not after PvP has been initiated.

• A Majority Vote is comprised of a minimum of 3/4 of players involved in the combat to override the PvP default and change to CRP.
• Once PvP is requested, a PvP lock is initiated on whoever is present. Anyone who does not take part in the PvP or was not included in the PvP lock once the countdown is initiated is considered a spectator.
• Spectators may not interfere in any way. They may not follow along (even if they are statused) with the PvP unless approved by a moderator.

Rational: Updated rules to clarify that when 12+ people become engaged in combat, 3/4 of players involved in the combat need to agree to switch to CRP rather than a simple half majority. If this can not be achieved in a quick and orderly fashion, the default remains PvP.

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General Raid Rules:

 

Original: Rule 5: All wartime raids shall have a /modreq filed prior to the raid when using war chat negotiated raid terms.

 

Update: Rule 5: All raids must have a /modreq filed by the raiding party prior to the raid declaring the origin, target, and number of raiders involved. It is not required for the Modreq to get claimed for the raid to continue.

 

Rational: The purpose of this rule, is more of a temporary change. By having moderators be able to observe the raids from the beginning they will be able to better observe and address the issues facing conflict and raiding with more experience and knowledge on how these situations conduct themselves. For those concerned that this rule will result in possible meta-gaming, please report concerns to Moderation Management.

 

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Original: Rule 1: A raid constitutes an attack or banditry (either in peacetime or wartime) by two or more players of an outside group on a nation, settlement, or lair.

 

Update: Rule 1: A raid constitutes an attack or banditry (either in peacetime or wartime) by three or more players of an outside group on a nation, settlement, or lair.

 

Rational: Minimum number of players required to be considered a raid is now three members, while we are still working to change the definition of a raid to be more focused on an attack and not general banditry the rest of the rule will remain in effect to be worked on by whoever takes my place.

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Rule Changes, Week of 4/23/2021

 

Petty Theft Rules:

Update: An update to Petty Theft, encompassing acts of vandalism.
 

VANDALISM

You must adhere to these guidelines, for the purpose of vandalism.

 

1. You must create a /modreq before an act of vandalism.

     1.1 A member of the Moderation Team will supervise the event, and make the adequate alterations in-game.

 

2. You must request PRO or RO permission for major alterations (destruction of large structures, explosives 

 

3. You can participate in minor alterations, such as graffiti, propaganda or minor destruction (windows, doors, banners, etc.) without RO approval.

     3.1 You must describe the scene in wooden-signs, once concluded. You can request assistance in a /modreq, if unable to place down signs due to region-permissions.

 

Rational: Most of these rules were already unwritten rules to begin with. RO permission for vandalism was normally the protocol followed in all previous cases of vandalism, this simply sets it in stone. The idea of filing a /modreq before vandalism is so they can alter the blocks for you in real-time, since the idea of vandalism is to be quick, and also ensure you’re doing sufficient roleplay for the vandalizing. There is no set emote count for this. 

 

 

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Update: An update to Petty Theft, encompassing interactable roleplay target-objects.

 

INTERACTABLE ROLEPLAY OBJECTS

You must adhere to these guidelines, and petty-theft limitations outlined above.

 

[!] Interactable RP Objects encompass all individual target-objects that can be interacted with in roleplay, but cannot be looted mechanically, in regards to /lockpick.

 

[!] Interactable RP Objects include heads hanging from spikes, bodies hung outside of lair/settlement/nation(s), bodies in graves and/or tombs and theft of uniforms. 

 

1. You must create a /modreq before an act of IRO theft.

     1.1 A member of the Moderation Team will claim the ticket, either accepting or denying the request, pending discussion and valid reason.

 

2. You must describe the scene in wooden-signs, once concluded. You can request assistance in a /modreq, if unable to place down signs due to region-permissions.

 

3. You cannot loot player-heads that represent a character's child as valid kidnapping, unless in confrontational roleplay.

 

Rational: Once again, most of these rules were already unwritten rules to begin with. This is simply to have a distinct set of rules out there for players to follow whenever they wish to fulfill their grave-robbing or armory-stealing dream. Very similar to the vandalism rules, you really just need to make a modreq for it to be overseen so the moderator can leave a sign for your roleplay.

 

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LIMITATIONS

 

Original: Rule 3: Upon successfully breaking into a locked chest, you may take up to one-half (rounded down) from one slot of items in the chest (a maximum of 32 for a full stack of items in a slot), given that the slot has at least two items (unique items may only be taken during a heist). If the chosen item can be stacked with other identical items, they may first be condensed by the moderator before being split in half. An Item may be taken from a shulker within the chest, but shulkers themselves, unless empty, may not be taken.

 

Update: 

 

1. At a successful lockpick of a chest and/or shop-chest, you can loot up-to one-half (rounded down) from a single stack. You can only loot one slot, per target chest.

 

2. If the target-item can be stacked with others inside the same chest (or shop-chest), a member of the Moderation Team can condense these before splitting the full-stack.

 

3. You can loot items from a shulker-box (within a chest) but a shulker-box, unless empty, cannot be taken.

 

Rational: Clarification of the rule-set for better understanding. 

 

Original: Rule 4: You have a maximum of 3 attempts per target object, and 9 target objects total per 12 hours within any one settlement.

 

Update:

 

1. You can attempt to lockpick a target three (3) times, per target-object, with a limit of nine (9) target-objects in a lair/settlement/nation.

     1.1 A target-object encompasses an item interacted with (door, chest, etc.).

     1.2 Each target-object can be attempted by all members of the party, unless jammed.

 

Rational: Clarification of the rule-set for better understanding. 

 

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ROLLING GUIDES

 

Addition: Wooden Gate(s) - Roll 15+ (10+ w/ lockpick)

 

Rational: Wooden gates have been added to the rolling-guides list, equaling Wooden Fence Window(s) with the requirement for a lockpick.