Server Rules
From Dasaria 2
Server Rules can also be found on the forums here.
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Forum Related Rules
Registration for Minors
Unless you are 13 or older, you must get permission from your parents to participate on the Dasaria 2 Forums. Here is the link to the permission slip you must have signed and faxed.
Forum Code of Conduct
Dasaria Forums: Code of Conduct
- You may not harass another forum user or users in any language. Making a threat against another user or users in the forums is also expressly prohibited. Role-played and in-Character threats of an in-game nature, or based in part on the story-line of Dasaria, is allowed. Forum Administrators will be the final arbiters on what is role-play and what is not. If you are not sure, ask a moderator, or tone down your post or reply. This also applies to Private Messages, if a user asks you to stop contacting him or her, you must do so.
- You may not use any sexually explicit, harmful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, obscene, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive language. This includes, but is not limited to, any speech or actions dealing with cultural, political, or religious beliefs in an out-of-game or real world context. This also applies to any speech or actions dealing with sexual orientation. This applies to any language. Failure to abide by this rule is grounds for immediate and permanent account closure.
- You may not impersonate other forum users. This includes authorized personnel such as Moderators, Forum Administrators, or server patrons. Failure to abide by this rule is grounds for immediate and permanent account closure.
- You may not violate any local, state, national or international law or regulation while in the Game World or forums of Dasaria.
- You may not link to, or arrange for the exchange or transfer of any unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, obscene, vulgar, harassing, defamatory, hateful, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable content while in Dasaria or on the Dasaria Forums, or any and all Dasaria official sites.
- You will follow the instructions of authorized personnel while in Dasaria or on the Official Dasaria Forums. Failure to do so is grounds for immediate and permanent account closure. This includes forum Administrators and Moderators.
- You may not organize nor be a member of any guilds or groups within Dasaria which Dasaria officals determine, at their sole discretion, are based on, or espouse, racist, sexist, anti-religious, anti-ethnic, anti-gay, or any other hate-mongering ideology in an out-of-game or real world context. Failure to abide by this rule is grounds for immediate and permanent account closure.
- You may not give false information or intentionally hide any information when registering Dasaria forum account. Failure to abide by this rule is grounds for immediate and permanent account closure.
- You will not upload or transmit in Dasaria, or in the Official Dasaria Forums or any and all official Dasaria Web Sites, any copyrighted content that you do not own all rights to, unless you have the express written permission of the author or copyright holder. Failure to abide by this rule is grounds for immediate and permanent account closure and legal action.
- All images must relate to one of the following: Dasaria, your character, or your player Guild. Non-signature images must be linked to only, not posted. You may not use any images or links which lead to pornographic, sexually explicit, or hate group websites, that the forum staff, at our sole discretion, feel are inappropriate to the Dasaria community. . Determining this criteria is at the sole discretion of the Community Manager and authorized forum administrators or moderators.
- Excessive profanity is not allowed on the forums, and intentionally misspelling profane words to circumvent the filter is grounds for immediate and permanent account closure.
- Spam, which is defined as posts which do not fit the topic in question, excessive posting, or cross posting, are not allowed on the Dasaria forums. Moderators and Administrators, at their sole discretion will warn, and then permanently close an account which continues to post ‘spam’ on the message forums.
- Trolling, which we define as posts or threads which knowingly lead to overly strong negative and emotional responses are not allowed on the Dasaria forums. Moderators and Administrators, at their sole discretion will warn, and then permanently close an account which continues to ‘troll’ on the message forums.
- Forum accounts are non-transferable. Registered users are responsible for any actions which take place on their accounts or private messaging systems.
- The use of Dasaria resources to promote any item, website, forum, game, game server that runs contrary to the interests of Dasaria shall be prohibited. Moderators and Administrators, at their sole discretion will warn, and then permanently close an account which continues to use Dasaria resources to promote on the message forums.
Server Rules
Fundamentals
Enforcement
A DM's judgement call is the final word in game on any issue. There is to be no argument once a call has been made. If you disagree with a decision, you may email Jehannum at jehannum@dasaria.net to discuss it, but it is no longer an in-game issue.
Penalties for gross violations include:
- Loss of character(s)
- Loss of Levels
- Banning
Even if a player knows all of the rules they can pretend to be ignorant. Therefore, ignorance of these rules is not an excuse. This should not be a special burden, since the rules are simply an expression of reasonable and common-sense norms.
Account Sharing
Account Sharing is a Violation of Server Policy.
It is against the server rules to share an account or characters with other players. Dasaria is a story-based persistant world and each character is a part of that story. We consider it a compromise of the integrity of the server to allow this to go on.
Bugs and Exploits
Definition of "Bug" and "Exploit"
Bug: A characteristic that is unintentionally included in a piece of software, or is included in spite of the idealized concept of the designer. With respect to games, often (but not exclusively) used to refer to characteristics that permit a player to obtain success of game objectives in a manner that circumvents the obstacles to such objectives as set by the game designer.
Exploit:
With respect to games, the intentional use of bug(s) by a player to obtain success of game objectives.
Policy Regarding Bugs and Exploiters
If you find something that a bug, report it here in the bug reporting forum A.S.A.P. We will not make announcements of bugs we find ourselves - they'll just be fixed. If we find someone repeatedly exploting a bug without reporting it, or sharing bug exploits with other players (not counting the report here), they will be penalized.
Exploiting a bug is a severe offense. Depending on severity, you may lose levels, have your vault folder deleted, or your CD key banned. This will happen without warning or notice. Unintentional bug use is not considered an offense. Helping someone else exploit is an offense. If you see someone exploiting and report it to us, we will not disclose the reporter's identity to anyone (at which point we will investigate the reporter's claim).
Exploitation is a matter we take very seriously, and we will always treat it with high priority.
Harassment
As applied to in game harassment of a player: You may not use any sexually explicit, harmful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, obscene, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive language. This includes, but is not limited to, any speech or actions dealing with cultural, political, or religious beliefs in an out-of-game or real world context. This also applies to any speech or actions dealing with sexual orientation. This applies to any language. Failure to abide by this rule is grounds for immediate and permanent account closure.
Excessive profanity is not allowed.
Griefing of a player by PvP or pickpocketing is not allowed.
PvP Ruleset
The server is full PvP, for the RP opportunities and realism.
If you must PK, there had better be a good RP reason behind it. If you have to ask if "this case" is a good reason, it probably isn't. We do understand mistakes happen sometime however, and sparring with mutual concent is fine also. Please use some common sense with this. If you feel your paladin should take violent offense to an evil character killing innocents in the village, fine... as long as he's not some level 2 newbie while you're a level 12 veteran.
PvP Code of Honour
There is nothing wrong with a good battle, especially if it is in the context of the world we play in, however there are a few rules that need to be in place and that everyone should be aware of and adhere to.
Please do not let a pvp situation get to the point where a person is calling on a GM to enforce these rules.
- If you lose, be a good sport: honor the victor, laugh it off and keep having a good time.
- If you lose a PVP confrontation you are obliged to leave the area the fight occured in for a short period of time. As a general rule, there is to be no repeated aggression from either part for the span of 1 real-time hour after a pvp kill. If the victor leaves the area where the fight occured, or the loser refuses to leave the area upon request, or either party is abusive in language, then the mandatory time of seperation and non-aggression is void. The victor can choose whether or not to enforce this seperation as there are certain roleplaying situations where a response-retaliation is in order. If the victor says "move on" then the loser needs to oblige.
- There is to be no respawn-rushing and repeated attempts to kill either the loser or the victor by either party.
As obviously it is very lame for a melee to run from the respawn to the scene of the fight and jump on the victor before they have a chance to rest. If you plan to retailiate or respond after being defeated, the loser needs to make the intentions clear to the victor before the response-retaliation. A simple shout or tell should be adequate, and also provides a good roleplay scenario.
Pick-Pocket Rules
- If you are the victim of a theft, you are within the standard rights of the pvp code to kill the thief that stole from you. See the PvP Code of Honor if this action is taken, the same rules apply.
- If the victim kills the thief, and the thief respawns then immediately continues picking pockets, the thief is in direct violation of the ruleset and subject to disiplinary action.
- If the victim feels he cannot defeat the thief on his/her own, that victim may call on the aid of others. This DOES NOT give anyone the right to hound the thief after the thief has been killed.
Underlying Ethics of the PvP Ruleset
PvP is a fun thing, but it comes with a certain responsibility and the dire need for respect for your combatant. Remember that there is a person behind the keys on the other end who is playing for entertainment, just like you. Dont make this become a problem please.
These rules are a guideline for when things get out of hand and the players are no longer using common sense. Play clean and be respectful and these rules will not even enter the scenario.
We the DM's understand that there are griefers out there, and we are doing our best to keep them at bay. Also remember we have RL issues that demand our time, so we are not able to be on-call 24-7. We DM's have also stated how to deal with griefers if we are not around to take care of it.
In short: When in doubt, contact a DM for advice and use your best judgement.
Context Rules
OOC Chat
This is not something we are strict about, but we do ask and strongly encourage players to keep all public chat as in character as possible.
At least prefix out of character public chat with an "ooc:", "//" or "((". We won't penalize or reprimand anyone for not doing so or following this rule, but we believe the game will be more enjoyable if you can really get into your character. Private and party chat out of character is fine if no one in the group objects.
ONE EXCEPTION: l337 sPe@|< is a pet peeve. Use it in public chat and you may find yourself suddenly in the midst of an ancient red dragon or a horde of demons, at the least.
Transferring Items Between Characters
This is not against the rules of the server, but the DM's will not be replacing any items lost due to server crash or other complications during the transfer.
Character Name Guidelines
Dasaria tries to provide a good entertainment experience to all types of players. It is not a part of the server rules that you be "hard core roleplay," though roleplaying is highly encouraged. Your characters name has an effect on other players' experiences as they interact with you in the game and as such:
A characters name should not interefere with the spirit of the fantasy genre or the context of the dasarian story-line.
Once again: common sense prevails.
In-Character Laws in Relation to Server Rules
Be aware of the distinction between server rules and in-character laws. Breaking server rules can result in exp loss, gold loss, level loss, warning, or banning from the server.
Breaking In-character laws is not a violation of the server's rules.
Dasaria is a kingdom with in-character laws for its citizens. There is a place for any alignment in Dasaria, but the life of an outlaw is not necessarily the same as the life of a law abiding dasarian citizen.
Results of breaking in-character laws can result in your character being jailed for varying amounts of time or eventually being kill-on-sight by guards and other players.
Server Rule Amendments
Changing of Characters to provide a PvP Advantage
It is a violation of the server rules to engage, or once having been engaged, in a pvp confrontation and then log on a different character or account and reinitiate pvp combat with the other party involved in the confrontation.
Example of a violation:
Player A engages Player B in a pvp confrontation. Player B is defeated. Player B then logs in with a different character to reengage Player A.
Penalties for this may include, warning, loss of levels, character deletion, or banning from the server depending on the seriousness of the violation. Penalties will be determined at the staff's discretion.
