¶ Disclaimer
These rules and policies are broadly set, and punishments listed are treated minimally. Each community on our network reserves the right to alter rules to their own preference, but larger policies listed here must at the very least be enforced to some degree.
¶ User Guidelines
DO NOT ORGANIZE, PARTICIPATE IN, OR ENCOURAGE HARASSMENT OF OTHERS.
Disagreements happen and are normal, but continuous, repetitive, or severe negative comments may cross the line into harassment and are not okay.
DO NOT ORGANIZE, PROMOTE, OR COORDINATE AROUND HATE SPEECH.
It’s unacceptable to attack a person or a community based on attributes such as their race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, or disabilities.
DO NOT MAKE THREATS OF VIOLENCE OR THREATEN TO HARM OTHERS.
This includes indirect threats, as well as sharing or threatening to share someone’s private personal information (also known as doxxing).
DO NOT EVADE USER BLOCKS OR SERVER BANS.
Do not send unwanted, repeated friend requests or messages, especially after they’ve made it clear they don’t want to talk to you anymore. Do not try to hide your identity in an attempt to contact someone who has blocked you, or otherwise circumvent the tools we have which enable users to protect themselves.
DO NOT SEND OTHERS CHEATS, HACKS, VIRUSES, OR MALWARE.
or attempt to phish others, or hack or DDoS them.
DO NOT SHARE, PARTICIPATE IN, OR ENCOURAGE IMAGES OR ACTS OF SADISTIC GORE OR SEXUALIZATION TO ANIMALS OR MINORS.
1.) This includes sharing content or links which depict minors in a pornographic, sexually suggestive, or violent manner, and includes illustrated or digitally altered pornography that depicts minors (such as lolicon, shotacon, or cub).
2.) You may not share sexually explicit content of other people without their consent, or share or promote sharing of non-consensual intimate imagery (also known as revenge porn) in an attempt to shame or degrade someone.
YOU MAY NOT SHARE CONTENT THAT GLORIFIES OR PROMOTES SUICIDE OR SELF-HARM,
including any encouragement to others to cut themselves, or embrace eating disorders such as anorexia or bulimia.
YOU MAY NOT USE DISCORD OR OUR GAMESERVERS/SERVICES FOR THE ORGANIZATION, PROMOTION, OR SUPPORT OF VIOLENT EXTREMISM.
In general, you should not promote, encourage or engage in any illegal behavior. This is very likely to get you kicked off Discord, our network, and may get you reported to law enforcement.
¶ Common Courtesy Guidelines
BE RESPECTFUL!
Players from around the world play on our servers simply to enjoy gaming, not for you to take your anger out on them.
Our community teams such as Server Staff or Contributors dedicate their time to ensure everyone's experience is perfect. Please treat them with the utmost respect, since they do it for you.
DO YOUR PART!
Help us improve our servers by keeping track of our updates and continuously strive to suggest the next best thing, or be the first to report that gamebreaking bug. We greatly appreciate the feedback, and maybe you might get rewarded for it!
Do your part in keeping our community clean by utilizing our tools given to players to help out. This comes in the form of messaging our bots on Discord, submitting player reports on our forums, and more.
PLAY IT COOL!
You are expected to remain respectful and relatively calm towards others. Every player should feel welcome to any of our servers regardless of their background. Thus, any form of discrimination or harassment is prohibited and can result in a ban from the community depending on the severity & how many times you have offended this rule.You should always follow the staff team’s instructions, even if you disagree with the decision. If you feel a staff member has made a wrong decision, the decision can be reviewed by a member of Staff Affairs on the forums.
¶ Account Policy
ACCOUNT DEFINITION
1.) An "account" is the user's registered Steam ID. Any user can only have one account on our network. Alternate accounts are prohibited.
2.) If "someone" does something on your account, we treat it as if you did this action. Your account = Your responsibility.
¶ Third Party Software Policy
THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE DEFINITION
1.) Any type of game modification or software which gives a player any type of advantage over another player is forbidden. This includes but is not limited to hacking, aimbotting, ESPs, etc.
2.) Client side modding to give an advantage is also considered a breach of the rule. Client side modding may only be done for aesthetic purposes and should never be done to change the function of anything in-game.
¶ Bug Exploitation Policy
BUG EXPLOITATION DEFINITION
Any bugs revealed by players are to be reported on the Community Discord Server or the correct section on the forums. Abusing or exploiting features in order to gain a result that is not intended by the server’s script or Garry’s Mod is considered bug abuse and can result in a permanent ban from the community. Players who are also aware of a bug but do not report witnessing abuse/exploitation may also be subject to a punishment up to a permanent ban from the community. If you think you have discovered a bug in-game and wish to test it, it may only be done under the supervision of a staff member.
BUG EXPLOITATION DEFINITION
Failing to report a bug which results in other players abusing it after will make you just as guilty as those who abuse it.
Finding a loophole in any currency or economy related factor such as crate prices or item deconstruct values then failing to report it will get you punished.
Exploiting a reported bug that allows you to duplicate assets or make an unnecessary amount of money is extremely prohibited.
¶ Real World Trading Policy
Exchanging in-game items for someone to donate on our gameservers for you is cool, anything else might not be.
REAL WORLD TRADING INFORMATION
- Paying real money to someone for in-game currencies is not allowed.
- Trading or giving items to someone in exchange for real world currencies is not allowed.
- Giving a player something of monetary value such as cryptocurrencies, stuffed animals, or etc. in exchange for something in-game is not allowed.
REAL WORLD TRADING DEFINITION
Real World Trading is defined as trading anything with value outside of the game environment for anything of value in-game. This is not allowed under any circumstances.
REAL WORLD TRADING PUNISHMENT
1ST OFFENSE
PERMANENT BAN & INVENTORY WIPE FOR BOTH PARTIES
¶ Poaching Policy
POACHING INFORMATION
- Paying real money to someone for in-game currencies is not allowed.
- Trading or giving items to someone in exchange for real world currencies is not allowed.
- Giving a player something of monetary value such as cryptocurrencies, stuffed animals, or etc. in exchange for something in-game is not allowed.
POACHING DEFINITION
Real World Trading is defined as trading anything with value outside of the game environment for anything of value in-game. This is not allowed under any circumstances.
POACHING PUNISHMENT
1ST OFFENSE
WARNING or PERMANENT BANPermanent bans dealt in extreme cases where it's clear & obvious there is no intention to play, and their only goal is to grab players or disrupt community flow.
Seek Staff Member guidance if there is any doubt.
2ND OFFENSE
3 WEEK BAN
3RD OFFENSE
PERMANENT BAN
¶ Hateful Conduct Policy
Strong language ahead.
HATEFUL CONDUCT INFORMATION
- Derogatory slurs such as
fa**ot,ret**d,ni**er, etc. used with intent to put others down or just as a joke will not be tolerated.- Variations of these words used in the same way is included.
- Attempting to loophole this rule will not be tolerated.
- Any racial slur or term is not tolerated.
- Any disrespect via sexism or racism will not be tolerated.
- Telling or encouraging others to commit suicide will definitely not be tolerated.
- Hate speech or toxic remarks directed towards individuals or groups of people will not be tolerated.
- Targeting or harassing someone based on their religion, race, gender, origin, sexual orientation, etc. is not allowed.
- Making remarks or hateful comments about someones religion, race, gender, origin, sexual orientation, etc. is not allowed.
- Any of the above done on our TeamSpeak, Forums, Discord, Gameservers, or any of our platforms or outlets will result in the following punishments.
HATEFUL CONDUCT DESCRIPTION
You are expected to remain respectful and relatively calm towards others. Every player should feel welcome to any of our servers regardless of their background. Thus, any form of discrimination or harassment is prohibited and can result in a ban from the community depending on the severity & how many times you have offended this rule.
You should always follow the staff team’s instructions, even if you disagree with the decision. If you feel a staff member has made a wrong decision, the decision can be reviewed by a member of Staff Affairs on the forums.
HATEFUL CONDUCT PUNISHMENT
1ST OFFENSE
WARNING, 1 WEEK BAN or PERMANENT BANPermanent bans dealt in extreme cases where it's clear & obvious there is no intention to play, and their only goal is to cause upset and distress.
Seek Staff Member guidance if there is any doubt.
2ND OFFENSE
2 WEEK BAN
3RD OFFENSE
1 MONTH BAN
4TH OFFENSE
PERMANENT BAN