Rules & Applications

Link for the applications for ranks:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSclmAoKPOFFp5cPVJKDOICX41hJ2KvqFMT-OEsEap8Zsfy-8g/viewform

Link for the admin applications:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf7K5Bby6IuUzp4CLHBH55fJ2u4lU3GximvZGEJxaKxNZaZeQ/viewform

Link for the Rares:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfMC_lfr2pNgePBDWLzmvRTXMZtrobSLk2ouiSz29rEqDT6-Q/viewform

Link for the custom rare races:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfHeEUSz-PHogFkrY6PJIAGn4xVHgS-Ol1weZZFts_XN1AUqw/viewform?usp=sf_link

Link for the Rules:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSDjQGADTgOIYcQeeaVkwfLGsxYoTP5HsKNiISk7kf6G9Y49p9xPy-_hQuuS1b2j_qHJjCVdSiEoQcJ/pub?embedded=true

General laws

 * 1) Admin Etiquette: In the interest of keeping Administrative work professional and expediting each request for help via ahelp / pm, etc, players and admins will be held accountable for their conduct in these channels. This means no flaming / screaming / being abrasive in either AHELP or admin PM. The rule of thumb here is don’t argue or otherwise incite argument in these channels and keep all conversations in them clear and concise. Avoid general chatting in these channels and avoid overuse (basically, please don’t send every idle thought you have through these channels, OOC or the Discord is for general chatter).
 * 2) Admin Law: If for any reason an Admin asks you to stop doing whatever it is you are doing, do so. Cooperate with admins when they are asking you questions, especially during any kind of investigation into a claim or bug. If you are exceedingly uncooperative with admins you may be punished appropriately.
 * 3) Naming: Your name must begin with a CAPITAL LETTER, and contain only alphanumeric characters. (A - Z, 1 - 0). Whilst not strictly enforced, you should consider the naming conventions of your chosen race if you know them, i.e. avoid “Bob” if you’re a Saiyan. In general, be creative and realistic in the scope of your RP environment when choosing a name, and you’ll likely be looked upon more favorably as a roleplayer. The character name you enter at creation should be the one you keep if possible. The structure of admin alerts and verbs makes it difficult to quickly assist “Telorath” if your original name was “CaptainNinjaHeroMan”.
 * 4) Tags: You are allowed to place a “tag” or rank after or before your name, if you got a rank (after you made your char) and want to place it in your name you are allowed to ahelp and an admin will change it for you.
 * 5) NSFW Roleplay: If whatever you want to emote could be considered exceedingly vulgar, i.e. "ERP" (erotic roleplay), it is not permitted within the game. If you want to do these things, do it someplace else. You may reference inappropriate events as if they had happened, and may post anything alluding to it, as long as whatever you are posting could be considered "PG-13". Use common sense here, folks. Do not even HINT at rape in roleplay. It is highly distasteful, makes many uncomfortable and in general is not something anyone wants on the server.
 * 6) Advertising: Absolutely no advertising other BYOND games within this one is allowed. Furthermore, you may not advertise THIS game in other BYOND games. If we find out you're doing it you will be punished as severely as if you were caught doing so here.
 * 7) Alt Interaction: Any form of direct or indirect interaction with your alt characters is not allowed. For example, sparring, mating, digging/mana gathering, or anything that would give you any sort of advantage.People playing on the same IP may be scrutinized and asked to prove they are two different people. Major ranks (EG, NE, KS, DL, CL, KoV, Space Pirate King) may not have alts. Minor ranks are only permitted to having one other alt and MUST first get it approved by the admin team via AHELP. The suggested number of alts logged in at once is two at maximum.
 * 8) EZing: Issuing commands to the game via any method that doesn't involve your active attention is not allowed. This means you may not use a program to click verbs, you may not use a paperweight to hold down a key, and you absolutely may not use any kind of script to automate an action or series of actions. If you are caught doing this, you may be punished appropriately.
 * 9) Deceptive Iconning: You may not use your ability to change the icons of any object in the game in a deceptive manner. This includes but is not limited to: Invisible charge, armor, teleporter pad, cloning tank, or sword icons, changing the icon of a door to make “hidden” doors in a series of walls, or making your own mob invisible. Common sense rule applies extra hard here and violators will be heavily punished. Race Icons: You must use an icon that follows your races general appearance “theme” (Kannasans must look like fish or have scales, yardrat must be purple,kaios and demigods must be humanoid, humans can’t have animal traits such as tails or cat ears , etc..).The exception to these rules are Alien(Only custom alien) androids and Demon which have much more freedom.
 * 10) Buildings: You must include a door or opening leading into a building and all rooms inside of it. You can not have “hidden” rooms inside your building that lack doors, you can not make it so that the only way to enter your house is by abusing solid roof toggling. If we find buildings like these we will admin delete sections of roof to allow anyone to enter. You are also not allowed to place more than one door per tile with nothing under it, due to interactions with the Hacking Console.If you are discovered to be building in a way that could be considered disruptive or obnoxious in any way, (i.e. spam building ugly tiles all over the map or blocking off public access ways) you will likely be punished and have your buildings torn down.
 * 11) OOC Placement: You are not allowed to be somewhere ‘OOCly’ without expressed admin permission for certain events. Admins are expected to be places OOCly to deal with situations, but players are not allowed to do so. If someone comes up and says that they’re OOC and not actually there in character, adminhelp and a punishment will be applied if deemed necessary.
 * 12) Portals: You can travel from one planet to another even if you were never there, the only exception is realm travel , you must step foot in the LR or AL if you want to travel from one place to another with a portal.
 * 13) Loopholing: Do not attempt to abuse loopholes in the rules. Admins have final say in situations and will watch for loopholing and rule breaking. It will not be tolerated and when spotted, you are under the discretion of the admin who caught you.
 * 14) Souls: If you are dead and with no body and die again, you will have the option to be reincarnated or stay in the FR.While in the FR you can’t leave.If you have a body , you are allowed to go to the living realm if you have any way to go back , but your energy/hp will not regen and you will come back as soon as you lost all your hp and energy.
 * 15) Accidents: If you or anyone else had an accident and your gravity machine, ship , regen tank , etc … end up broken , you have to deal with the problem ICly.Enter in RP mode and emote the destruction of the item.Admins will not refund any of your accidents but if we find out you are abusing of this rule a ban will be placed.
 * 16) Teaching: OOC teaching is not allowed, for ranks or for regular players.  All skill teaching requires.
 * 17) Roleplay: In general, you are expected to roleplay any action that would affect another character/player, whether it be positive or negative.

Chat Rules:
 * 1) Spam: Do not spam or flood IC, OOC, or LOOC. Try to get your point across with one use of the verb instead of filling multiple new lines with bits of your message. If you are asked to stop spamming and then continue to do so, you will likely be muted for a long period of time.
 * 2) SFW: Do not post NSFW content on any channel in the game. This includes pornography or anything else that could be considered exceedingly graphic. Depending on the severity you may face appropriate punishment.
 * 3) Harassment: Excessive flaming / harassment may result in an immediate mute. It's okay to sometimes get a little heated, but if you go on a minutes-long crusade to bash/shame/troll others, expect consequences. This goes double for continually hounding other community members about past events. Blatantly inflammatory remarks are especially subject to this rule.
 * 4) No IC in OOC: Don't post emotes / says or any IC information in OOC. This is can be considered disruptive at best and metagaming at worst. Don't do it. An exception may be made for your own emotes / says for the purpose of humor, etc.
 * 5) DDoS Threats: You are not allowed to make threats of hacking, cracking, DoS or DDoS against either the server or the player base, even jokingly. You -will- be punished with a ban for a minimum of a day if you’re caught doing any of this. Not appealable.

Chapter 1: RP Combat
You may not flag yourself as AFK to deliberately avoid harm. This means manually AFK tagging or going unresponsive when someone walks up to you and is obviously about to harm you.
 * 1) Any action in combat (Actively participating in combat, Fleeing, Supporting, Rescuing or otherwise interacting with a combatant) must be started with an emote, and a thirty second countdown. This emote must be at least 50 words (This rule is light in that being within a few words is alright, but being more than 5 words away, especially if done repeatedly, will render the RP invalid).
 * 2) Any hostile action that may result in injury or death or whose intentions are injury, death or robbery must include a Malicious Intent tag at the end of the emote in a bracket, including the target of the action. All combat that is not a spar or directly for training can be or become malicious.  Malicious intent covers both intent to injure and to kill an enemy. If you do not include this, the RP is not valid and must either be submitted with clear targets or omitted and ignored. If you do not declare Malicious intent, you must not use lethal and may not take hostile action against someone during the resolution phase. Example: (Malicious Intent: Luke) (You must declare Malicious Intent in order to have Lethal toggled on in combat)
 * 3) INF: Any party present may request INF or for response time in order to act in the coming scenario.  Anyone that has the typing overlay is considered to have asked for INF and must be allowed adequate time to roleplay. (Using the INF rule in order to stall or prolong a fight is considered combat avoiding. See combat avoiding.)
 * 4) You must clearly describe or communicate what your character will do during the situation.  This does not apply to speaking your intentions but just the actions that your character will perform so that anyone else present may accurately and adequately respond if they so choose. If you intend to perform a hostile action, support, heal, rescue or rob someone, you must include the target in a set of brackets at the end of your emote. If someone is fleeing, you must indicate you are pursuing them if you intend to.  If you have already posted your emote, you may do so using OOC.  If these are malicious actions(lethal, injury, robbery) they should follow the Malicious Intent tag.  Examples: (Attack Chewyy), (Give Power Chewyy), (Malicious Intent: Steal Chewyy), (Rescue Chewyy)
 * 5) In the cases of combat RP involving malicious intent, the cycle will follow three phases of combat.  Each set of three phases is referred to as an instance of combat.  Fighting will continue through new instances of combat until both parties agree to stop, a party escapes, a party succeeds with their intentions, or another IC event interrupts the combat.
 * 6) Participation: Arriving to a combat scenario will not immediately enter you into that combat.  When you first arrive, you are in a “Witness” state and you may not interact until the Resolution Phase RP is complete and the Main RP Phase begins again.  If you happen to arrive during the Main RP phase you are typically allowed to participate unless you show up when the countdown is at 10 or less.  In a group battle, if you are KO’d before the end of the battle, you must RP mode until all combatants have finished combat.
 * 7) All healing/support(Give Power, Send Energy, etc) may only be used a total of twice in a single Combat Phase. Each use counts towards the two total and is not per technique. When not engaged in combat, heal and support must still be roleplayed but do not require countdown.
 * 8) All buffs must be alluded to in your Main Phase emote.  You do not need to list them directly but must be at least referenced. If you are using an item or skill on yourself you must allude to it in the same manner. Example: Samurai Jack having cut through all the evil minions that had kept him away uses his trademark magic sword technique in an attempt to finally end the great evil that is Aku. His pupils dilated as the muscles on his arms suddenly engorged. (Malicious Intent: Aku )
 * 9) Building During Combat: You are not allowed to build roof, walls, tiles , etc in combat. You are allowed to build items (magic or tech) in the middle of the fight but you should allude to them in your emote.
 * 10) Pre-Emptive Buffs: You may not power up or use buffs directly before combat to gain an advantage. For example, you may not power up to +100%, or deliberately anger/heal yourself, then dash to the scene of combat and abuse RP mode to gain an advantage.  You may not start any combat with anger unless that anger is the result of a recent death or coming from an earlier round of the same combat.
 * 11) Mulligans: A situation where rules are broken or a bug feasibly alters the result of combat may result in an admin declaring a redo of the situation. Combatants will be restored to where they were before combat began, and the situation will resume from the beginning after a countdown.
 * 12) KO Verbs: Auto KO verbs such as stun chips, augment KOs, Soul Contract and etc are considered an act of combat and must be RPed and follow regular combat rules. You may also use one of these in place of an Injury if you win a round.
 * 13) AFK Rules: You may not harm any player that is AFK in any way. This includes attacking them, putting them in any situation where they might be coincidentally harmed, or stealing from their mob. You may not build around them to wall them off. You may only grab them if you have their OOC consent or are IC allies. If you are mid-combat and go AFK without good reason you automatically forfeit the round of combat you are in unless it is a group battle, where you will be considered knocked out immediately. You are only protected by the AFK tag itself.
 * 1) AFK Rules: You may not harm any player that is AFK in any way. This includes attacking them, putting them in any situation where they might be coincidentally harmed, or stealing from their mob. You may not build around them to wall them off. You may only grab them if you have their OOC consent or are IC allies. If you are mid-combat and go AFK without good reason you automatically forfeit the round of combat you are in unless it is a group battle, where you will be considered knocked out immediately. You are only protected by the AFK tag itself.