Genesis Posted July 25, 2007 Report Posted July 25, 2007 Welcome to ForsakenRO! As a standard procedure, the team has decided to have a full copy of our rules and punishments for our players to know about. If this is your first time reading the rules, please take the time to read them entirely. By downloading our patch, connecting to our server, or engaging in our community in any way signifies unconditional agreement to ALL of the areas covered by this document (as well as the logically covered areas) regardless of your ability to understand/interpret them. To view the punishments, click the "Show" button beneath the corresponding rule.Universal Rules & PoliciesLending/sharing/borrowing gear Any manner of sharing gear between players is strongly discouraged by the administration. If you choose to share your gear, you assume complete responsibility for what happens to your gear and accounts. If the person you lend your gear to is banned after the gear is lent/given, or does not return the items to you, the administration is not obligated to recover the items. If you share your gear with a player who is ban evading, you will be punished for aiding in ban evasion, whether you know if they are banned or not (more information is available in the rule regarding ban evasion).Sharing accounts Sharing accounts is strongly discouraged by the administration. If you share accounts with a player who is ban evading, all of your accounts and IP addresses will be permentantly blocked. If you share accounts with someone (or log into their accounts regularly) and he/she gets banned, you risk your accounts being banned as well; similarly, if you get banned, there is a risk that anyone you share your accounts with will be banned too.Sprite theft, unauthorized editing or distribution of sprites ForsakenRO's custom sprites are made exclusively for ForsakenRO and are not to be used on any other server or by any other individual. All of ForsakenRO's custom sprites, created by any of ForsakenRO's spriters (past or present), are not allowed to be stolen, distributed, edited, or otherwise used without permission. Absolutely no one is permitted to edit, alter, take, or in any other way modify any of ForsakenRO's custom sprites. Please note that this includes using any of these custom sprites as bases for creating "new" sprites. Anyone found supplying our sprites to people who a) do not play on the server, b) were banned from the server, or c) any other individual/group/forum/filesharing/download website will be permanently banned as well. First Offense (unless sprites are removed within 48 hours.) -Instant account ban -IP/Universal account ban -Forum account ban Nonconstructive Criticism There is a fine line between complaining and giving constructive criticism. Whether it is about the staff or the server itself, this will now be a punishable offense. Complaining and doing nothing yourself is not only unhelpful, but is detrimental to the server's reputation. If you want more events, updates, or whatever have you.. complaining is NOT the way to get them. Instead, try offering your help, or providing constructive and beneficial insights into what we could do to better serve you. The very least you can do is to be supportive and appreciative of the effort and work that the staff DOES put in. This applies to both the forums and in game. On the forums: - 10% warn per offense - Continued offense will result in a banIn game: First Offense: Warning Second Offense: 1 day jail Third Offense: 2 day jail Fourth Offense: Up to the GM's criteria Disrespecting and/or defying a member of the staff's decision The staff's decision is final. Players can seek clarification as to why they were punished, however, they may not disrespect, flame, nor be flippant to any staff because of a punishment. This will no longer be tolerated and will result in further punishment. Instead, if you believe you have been punished unfairly, make a ticket in the ticket system. On the forums: - 10% warn per offenseIn game: First Offense: Warning Second Offense: 5 hour jail Inappropriate Language Any use of language that is abusive, threatening, defamatory, vulgar, sexually explicit, obscene or racially/ethnically offensive is not allowed. This applies to both explicit and implicit language, images, and/or links to other websites. On the forums: First Offense: Verbal warning Subsequent Offenses: All offenses thereafter will warrant a 10% warn Continued Abuse will result in a ban from the forumsIn game: First Offense: 5 hour jail Second Offense: 10 hour jail Third Offense: 24 hour jail Fourth Offense: 2 day jail Subsequent Offenses: Up to the GM's discretion Harassment The harassment of or personal attacks on other players is forbidden. This includes the discussion and/or distribution of any personal or private information or pictures as well as slandering/defaming/spreading rumors about another player. Repeatedly targeting a specific player or persons will lead to more severe punishment. On the forums: First Offense: 1 day suspension from the forum Second Offense: Permanent banIn game: First Offense: 5 hour jail Second Offense: 10 hour jail Third Offense: 20 hour jail Fourth Offense: Permanent ban Disrespect (you must respect others and their rights to enjoy the forums and game play) This is an extension of the rules prohibiting harassment and certain types of language. Even if a player is not explicitly breaching any aforementioned rules, any form of disrespect to other players and staff will not be tolerated. Disrespecting and/or patronizing new players or posters is discouraged. Please note that depending on the severity of the offense, such actions may result in punishment. Continual offenses against new players will not go unpunished. On the forums: First Offense: Verbal warning Subsequent Offenses: All offenses thereafter will warrant a 10% warnIn game: First offense: Warning Continual Offenses: Up to the GM's discretion Advertising Advertising other servers, top sites, games, or channels is not acceptable. We provide a game for everyone to enjoy and forums to discuss it, not a place for free advertising. On the forums: First Offense: Verbal warning, removal of advertisement Subsequent Offenses: Up to the GM's discretionIn game: First offense: Warning Continual Offenses: Up to the GM's discretion Server RulesUnauthorized access to server (e.g. hacking): Users of ForsakenRO are only allowed to access the server via our authorized patcher and/or login windows. First offense: -Instant and permanent IP ban -All related accounts ban -Full legal action taken against the offender. (note: according to the laws which the server is held to) Botting (to use a third-party program that plays the game for you, this inlcude built-in macro keyboards to attempt farm): These kinds of programs not only ruin the experience intended for ForsakenRO, but can also negatively impact the server's economy. First offense: -Instant account ban -IP/Universal account ban Third-Party Programs (to use programs that aid/effect players' gameplay): This rule applies to any "bot" , helpers, sprite edits or programs that give any unfair advantage. First offense: -Verbal Warning Second offense: -Instant 2-week ban Third offense: -Permanent IP/Universal account ban AFK Farming (to "AFK" [Away from Keyboard] while your homunculus kills spawns): Farming while AFK gives those players an unfair advantage over those who actually take their time to farm their items. This also applies to AFKing on any class whilst using a Dark Lord card or any other card/item that automatically uses a skill to kill spawns. First offense: -DisconnectionSecond Offense: -5 hours jail.Third Offense: -10 hours jail. Bug abuse (To use a flaw of the game for your benefit): Bugs must be reported as soon as possible via @request. If a Game Master is not online to respond said request, the player must file a bug report in our Ticket System. First offense: -Account ban -IP/Universal account ban Account Theft (to steal another players account): This rule will apply to any case of account theft. Stealing items and accounts both fall under this rule. First offense: -Instant associated account ban -IP/Universal account ban Account Sell/Trade (to attempt to trade your account for one in another server or to sell if for real money): This rule applies at any detectable attempt of selling/trading an account. Things like S>PHP can be considered as selling your account on the Philippines, so watch out what you type. First offense: -Account ban -IP/Universal account ban Selling/trading/buying items for money, aka PHP Selling items is strictly prohibited under any circumstances. Anyone who buys items from another player will have all purchased items removed and also risks their account(s) being blocked. Anyone who is aware of players buying/selling items for money and doesn't report them may also receive punishment, depending on the severity of the case. This is handled on a case by case basis since no two cases are identical. First offense for selling items: -Account ban -IP/Universal account banFirst offense for buying items: -Any items suspected to be obtained from another player for money will be removed. If the player no longer has the items, they must return equivalent value of item(s) or token(s).Second offense for buying items: -All accounts will be banned Filing a chargeback/scamming us (To donate/contribute then ask for your money back): We use your donations to fund and support our servers. Once you donate and file a chargeback, we will be hit with a hefty fee which hurts our ability to maintain and continue to offer the service we do. Players who threaten to do a chargeback may also receive punishment. First offense: -Account ban -IP/Universal account ban Ban Evasion Once you are blocked from the server, you are not permitted to create new accounts or access/play the server by any means.This includes: creating new accounts, hiding items on alternate accounts/guild storages, giving other players your items/asking them to "hold" them for you, borrowing/sharing someone else's account, or any other means of ban evading. First offense: -Account ban -IP/Universal account ban Aiding in Ban Evasion This includes, but is not limited to: holding gear(s) for banned players, or receiving any gear(s) from a person who is banned or is about to be banned; lending or sharing gear with a player who is banned, whether knowingly or unknowingly; letting a player who is banned log in to or use your accounts in any way; not reporting when a banned player is ban evading to the GM team; or any other action that helps a banned player evade their ban. Since players should not lend their gear to anyone or share their accounts, if you aid a banned player, whether you know if they are banned or not doesn't matter. Your account and your items are your responsibility and you will be held accountable. First Offense: -Account ban -IP/Universal account ban Scamming (to trick another player into doing/giving something to/for you): We, as a Game Master team, want ForsakenRO to have an honest community. Failure to abide by this will result in severe punishments. --VIA misleading deal--First offense: -Instant associated account ban. -IP/Universal account ban--VIA misleading vending--First offense: -Instant associated account ban. -IP/Universal account ban Unnecessary Usage Of Skills (to constantly use skills unnecessary to the given situation): This is considered as community harassment and punished as such. First offense: -Warn.Second offense: -5 minutes muting.Third offense: -1 active hour jail.Fourth offense: -1 day jail.Fifth offense: -Will vary depending on Game Master's criteria. (note: One Week ban will be discussed.) Unnecessary Repetition of a word or sentence (Spam) (includes @request): If you want to get a message out to players, simply put up a chat room or make a broadcast. The GM team is also available via @request, but typing your message once is enough for us to notice. First offense: -5 hours jail.Second offense: -10 hours jail.Third offense: -24 hours jail.Fourth offense: -3 day jail.Fifth offense: -Will vary depending on Game Master's criteria. (note: One week ban will be discussed) Abuse of @request command @request should only be used to contact a GM for help, or unless otherwise stated by a GM. Do not use @request to spam, insult or beg. First offense: -warn.Second offense: -5 hours jail.Third offense: -10 hour jail.Fourth offense: -15 hour jail.Fifth offense: -Will vary depending on Game Master's criteria. Immoral Speech (to use excessive offensive language): When reporting someone for verbal abuse, keep in mind CONSTANT verbal abuse is punishable, this means just a simple curse word is not enough. However, this is subject to change depending on the severity and repetition of your case. First offense: -5 hour jail.Second offense: -10 hour jail.Third offense: -24 hour jail.Fourth offense: -2 day jail.Fifth offense: -1 week ban.Sixth offense: -1 month ban.--Towards another player--First offense: -5 hour ban. (note: There's no excuse, if someone insulted you, do not continue. Report them to our ticket system.)Second offense: -5 hour jail.Third offense: -10 hour jail.Fourth offense: -20 hour jail.Fifth offense: -3 day ban.Sixth offense: -1 week ban. Inappropriate/Offensive Character/Party/Guild Names Considered as community harassment and punished as such. First Offense: - If party name : Warn and leave party. - If guild name : Warn and break guild. - If character name : Warn and character deletion. (As it is against the rules, we will not compensate for the "lost" leveling time.)Second Offense: - If party name : Leave party and 5 hour jail. - If guild name : Break guild and 5 hour jail. - If Character name : Character deletion and 5 hour jail.Third Offense: - If party name : Leave party and 10 hour jail. - If guild name : Break guild and 10 hour jail. - If Character name : Character deletion and 10 hour jail. Broadcast abuse (To use the broadcaster to insult other players or annoy the community in general) Broadcast abuse is defined as using the broadcaster for the purpose of making misleading broadcasts, insulting, provoking, harassing, profaning, and/or annoying other players or the community in general, but is also definable via a Game Master's criteria. Reviewing a GM via broadcaster is instant punishment, there is no way around this. Using the broadcaster for conversation is prohibited. Foul language will not be tolerated as broadcasts are viewed by the entire server. Disguising an abuse with a B> or S>, will also result in punishment.Examples of punishable broadcasts: "PM me *insertcursewordhere*-chan." "Wow GM X is power hungry." "Jeez, GM x's legit sure sucks." " B> Apples, oh by the way X are a bunch of homosexuals who only gang." "Wow PlayerA, is that the only way you can kill me?" First offense: -5 hour jail.Second offense: -10 hours jail.Third offense: -20 hours jail.Fourth offense: -3 day ban.Fifth offense: -1 week ban.Sixth offense: -2 week ban. Intentional Spamming/Broadcast Abuse (To use the broadcaster, public, or private chat to insult other players or annoy the community in general) The use of ASCII/Other methods in order to avoid being banned/punished for broadcast abuse or spamming is strictly prohibited. First offense: -Depends on the GM's criteria, if it is blatant or repetitive it will result in an IP Ban and Global account ban. Kill stealing (only exception is naturally spawned MvPs) Also known as 'KSing'. Even though the server is on Player Kill mode, we do not allow Kill Stealing. MvPs are free for all and players are entitled to killing their competitors for the MvP. Specially summoned MvPs, such as Thanatos are of strict ownership of their summoners. Any breach of this rule will result in the retrieval of any rare item dropped by said MvP. First offense: -2 hours jail.Second offense: -10 hour jail.Third offense: -15 hour jail Failure To Co-operate With Game Masters (to not listen to a Game Masters instructions) Read carefully everything written in bright yellow letters: that's one of the Game Masters speaking. --In an event-- Hosting an event is as hard as it sounds, and people creating mass histeria doesn't help. If you don't like the event, let the others enjoy it.First offense: -Disqualification from event--Cheating in an event-- The Game Masters state the rules of the events they hold very specifically before they start, ignorance is not an excuse.First Offense: -2 hour jail--In breech of rules-- We've got all the information to enforce the rules, don't try to set new facts into the case; it won't work.First offense: -If offender denies punishment when proven guilty, intensify punishment by 1 instance for every argument, which was given by the offender, the Game Master successfully proves false.--Offending a GM intentionally-- The Game Master team is not your personal anger ventillation service. If you don't like how we do things, simply put an orderly review on our GameMaster review section, send a mail to ([email protected]), or simply file a ticket with your complaint.First offense: -Warn.Second offense: -5 minute~1 hour mute and jail depending on severity.Third offense: -Will vary on the offended Game Master's criteria. Game Master Work Prevention (to pester the Game Master and not allow them to get any work done [includes spamming @request during events]) Any offense: -Will vary on Game Master's criteria. Spreading false information about the server and/or staff This applies to excessive non-constructive criticism, slander, or anything that unjustly jeapordizes the reputation of the server and/or its staff. First Offense: - Warning* *May result in account ban on the first offense, depending on the severity of the case.Repeated Offenses: - Account ban - IP/Universal account ban Revealing a Game Master's identity This applies to not only directly stating who a Game Master is, but also implying who he/she is by any indirect means. First Offense: - Warning* *May result in account ban on the first offense, depending on the severity of the case.Repeated Offenses: - Account ban - IP/Universal account ban Extensive Begging (to continuously ask for something and annoying others around you) First offense: -5 minute muteSecond offense: -1 hour jailThird offense: -3 hour jailFourth offense: -1 day banFifth offense: -Will vary on Game Master's criteria. (note: One week ban will be discussed.) Game Master Impersonation (to have GM in front of your alias when not an actual Game Master or naming yourself in a way that you could be mistaken for the GM) Avoid having the letters 'G' and 'M' to be the first of your name. The use of the word "Admin" is also strictly forbidden for character names. Any word that may lead others reach the conclusion that you are part of ForsakenRO's staff is also forbidden. First offense: -Account BanSecond offense: -IP/Universal account ban Player Impersonation (To misrepresent yourself as someone else) This rule also includes "mocking" names similar to that of another player. First Offense -Will vary on staff criteria and severity of offense. Keeping Distance from NPCs Do not go AFK within three cells of a Non Playable Character (NPC). This not only obstructs the NPC from view, but also makes it difficult to access for other players. In addition, warping yourself right on top of an NPC is against our rules. You do not have to have a chat open to be AFK, therefore if a GM deems it necessary they may warp you to another spot on the same map. First Offense -Warn and player will be moved.Second Offense -One hour jail.Third Offense -Will vary on GM criteria.Note: players who warp directly onto an NPC will be jailed without warning. Cheating or dishonest tactics in WoE (The use of underhanded methods to hinder your opponent's performance during WoE) The following are forbidden actions in WoE and will be accountable for a punishment: Breaking Bloody Branches and/or Dead Branches on WoE maps when WoE is active. Opening chats/vends around the emperium or any other sort of method to block the targeting of the emperium. (Obstructing the targeting of the emperium with your own character does not apply for punishment) Dealing, sending friend requests, sending party invites or any other sort of method to hinder an opponent's vision during WoE. First offense: -Warn. (Leader notified)Second offense: -1 hour jail applied for next WoE (Leader warned)Third offense: -10 hour jail (Leader warned)Fourth offense: -3 day ban to player, 1 hour ban from next WoE to LeaderFifth offense: -Will vary depending on Game Master's criteria. Guild/Emblem Impersonation (To use a similar guildname and/or emblem to impersonate/mock another guild) Using another guild’s emblem/name or a modification of the emblem/name is forbidden at any time. Guild impersonation/mocking is not tolerated. All impersonations will be viewed as intentional and will be punished accordingly. First offense: -If Emblem: warn and emblem removal. -If Guild Name: warn and break guild.Second offense: -If Emblem: 10 hour jail for leader and emblem removal. -If Guild Name: 10 hour jail for leader and break guild.Third offense: -If Emblem: account banishment and emblem removal. -If Guild Name: account banishment and break guild. Advertising other servers/games (to advertise a server unrelated to ForsakenRO's network): We do not pay for bandwidth so you can advertise your server(s). It's that simple. Please note that your IP address will be delivered to the advertised server's Game Master team, so a punishment is enforced in both servers. This is, of course, in our best efforts to prevent any type of server advertising and/or misunderstanding between servers. First Offense: -IP/Universal account ban -Notification to the advertised server Potential hazard to the server (Anything that may affect ForsakenRO's server(s) or gameplay of the server(s).) Just because you don't find something stated as forbidden in this document, doesn't mean you should do it. The golden rule is to use your common sense. If your actions are deemed a hazard to the server, the Game Master team will take full action to prevent it, even if there is no statue in this document that forbids your actions. First offense: -Will vary on the staff's criteria. Alts in Battlegrounds Using an alternative account in battlegrounds to farm, or give yourself an advantage in any way. First offense: -1 week ban on all accounts logged into on the day of the incident. Second offense: -2 week ban on all accounts logged into on the day of the incident.Third offense: -Permanent ban on all accounts logged into on the day of the incident Forum RulesSpamming (to do short/incoherent/irrelevant posts) Posts containing only one word will be treated as spam, whether it is relevant to the topic or not. Keep personal one-on-one discussions out of threads - that is what the Private Messaging (PM) system is for. Please note: quoting another's post and re-posting it without any contribution or comment on the original poster's statement qualifies as spam and will be punished as such. First offense: -10% warn. -Post deletionSecond offense:--If repeated constantly-- -20% warn per spam post. -24 post restriction. -Post deletion. Flaming (to insult other player's behaviors/looks/tastes) First offense: -10% warn per flame post -All flame posts deletedSecond offense:--if repeated constantly-- -20% warn per flame post. -24 hour post restriction. -All flame posts deleted. Provoking/"Baiting" This is an amendment to the rules prohibiting flaming. Provoking verbal fights is now a punishable offense. This includes, but is not limited to: creating posts intended to cause controversy, unrest, or a negative reaction; continuous personal conflicts with other members; and 'baiting' people into breaching a rule. Continued abuse will result in a ban from the forums. First Offense: Verbal warningSubsequent Offenses: All offenses thereafter will warrant a 10% warn Pointless topics (Constantly posting topics that are, in no way, relevant to the subforum category they were posted on) First offense: -10% warn. -Closed topic.Second offense: -10% warn. -24 hour post restriction and account lock. -Closed topic. Posting false server information (Posting false information about new items/quests/modifications or any other sort of topic that regards ForsakenRO as a server.) First offense: -Account ban.Second offense: -IP/universal account ban. Signature rules Signature sizes should be short and not consist of any vulgar, pornographic or offensive pictures/words. Signatures should not advertise other servers nor promote usage of illegal programs. Allowed forum signature size: 300x300 px First offense -Signature removal / Message Warning--if advertising another server-- -IP/Universal account banSecond offense -Signature removal / Private message warningThird offense -Signature removal / account suspension for 5 hoursFourth/Final offense -Signature removal / Punishment will be discussed with the Game Masters Avatar rules Pornography, Sexual Pictures, Vulgar Language, Advertisement, Racial slurs or promotion of illegal programs will not be tolerated. First offense -Message warning--if advertising another server-- -10% warn. Message warning.Second offense -Post warning (able to be viewed by the public)--if advertising another server-- -IP/Universal account ban.Third/Final offense -Punishment will be discussed with the Game Masters Member Impersonation (To misrepresent yourself as someone else) This rule also includes "mocking" names similar to that of another member. First Offense -Will vary on staff criteria and severity of offense. ForsakenRO's End User License Agreement ForsakenRO will provide a free Ragnarok Online gaming experience under a strict line of conditions. If you are to disagree with any of them please refrain from downloading our server patch, connecting to our server, or engage in communication with our community.Legal obligations: You agree that the ForsakenRO network and its staff are not obligated to part in any legal activities or actions pressed against you, which is induced through playing with our services. You agree to not download our patch and/or connect to our servers if condemned by Gravity Corp. You agree that the ForsakenRO network may press legal charges against you upon infringement of rules and/or policies regardless of whether your country's local laws covers such actions and/or reasons.Ownership of account: Though the player is entitled to an account, characters and so on. The staff of ForsakenRO reserves the rights to cease an account with proven reason/endorsement. The safe keeping of the players' accounts are sorely the responsibility of their corresponding owners. Game Masters are not obligated to (but shall) restore any stolen items which was lost due to the player's failure to protect his/her account (eg: theft). Game Masters are also not obligated to (but shall) restore any items lost due to technical issues/bugs that has been declared by Game Masters, but failed to reach the player due to any reasons. Though the best efforts of Game Masters will be put into the safe keeping of data, Game Masters ultimately could not be held responsible if data loss is to be induced through any reason.Code of conduct: Regardless of the player's efforts to become familiarized with this statement or the server rules, he/she must unconditionally conform to them. Regardless of condition, if the player is to breech any rules, the action then there for signifies that the player is willing to accept the corresponding punishment; denial and failure to co-operate with the justice procedure will result in more severe punishments upon discovery. (Breech of a rule is defined as: on an individual focus qualifying as in breech of a rule, meaning retaliation against a rule breech on an individual scale will be treated as a regular breech)The 'no excuse' policy: As a player of ForsakenRO you agree that if you are to, in action, satisfy conditions stated in any of our official documents you automatically and unconditionally agree to the corresponding material, that this agreement is acknowledgeable as a willingly made legal declaration and that you personally hold full legal responsibility to it regardless of your ability or efforts to be familiarized with these documents.Staff: The staff of ForsakenRO will attempt all within their reach to enforce the rules and maintain order, however if an issue is not reported and not noticed by staff then it is therefore acknowledged the staff is not responsible for the lack of enforcement for that particular incident. Game Masters will at all times attempt to maintain a degree of professionalism in their actions, failure to do so is tolerated given that there are no strong player objections. Staff are bound by the staff rules as well as player rules and no exception will be given in persecution if a breech is to come to be.Donation: The server will accept all willingly made donations. Donors are to review and understand the donation policy, the completion of the donation procedure signifies the person's agreement to this policy as well as the donation policy regardless of his/her ability to interpret and/or understand either documents. If you disagree with this section, please refrain from donating.Privacy statement: ForsakenRO will not disclose any of the information provided by the players to third parties, however inter-staff usage of account information within the server is acceptable, your personal information may be given to third parties if it were to happen that the user broke a rule (See Other-Server Advertisement). The staff reserves the rights to follow players in game with undetectable methods, given the correct reasons. The staff are also entitled to logging player behavior and/or chat history with the exception of private messaging with, of course, the correct reason.Universal Punishment You are subject to punishment for any and all offenses done on an alternate account on all of your accounts. In other words, do not try to make alternate accounts to break rules. You will be punished on both. Please note all rules mentioned here serve as guidelines for punishments and may vary on a case by case basis at the GM team's discretion.Additional Considerations Please note all punishments are final you may not use the Ticket System to debate your case, you may ask (ONLY ask) why you were punished. This also applies ingame: if you were punished, do not broadcast/put chats up/talk bad about it; simply make a ticket. All rules are subject to change at any time. ForsakenRO's staff is not obliged to (but shall) notify about the change of the rules. Best regards, The ForsakenRO Game Master team. 7