Rules Eclipse

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Admins apply these rules at their own discretion, and they may ignore the enforcement of specific rules if it is considered necessary.

Discord Rules

These rules apply in Discord, OOC channels, repositories and all sites under our control. IC relations are not governed by these rules, but there is one caveat. Blocking on community platforms can be carried over to the game, and vice versa.

0) Do not be a dick.

This is a game, and we all came here to enjoy it. Prolonged conflict and toxic behavior are not permitted. Try to be adequate or at least seem so.

1) Keep the channel discussions relevant to the channel's corresponding purpose.

Talking about what you had for lunch should be in #lobby or #kitten-update-channel, not #development-discussion or #staff-contact. No porn outside of #nsfw-general and contain shenanigans to #shitposting. If you are unsure, read the channel's description. Keep all conversations in SFW channels SFW. A few raunchy jokes is okay, but that's it.

2) Do not overly complain about other players or other servers.

If another player is bothering you, talk to them or the staff about it. We're not here to cause misunderstandings with other servers.

3) Do not discuss politics here

We’re here to have fun, not cause worldview conflicts and holy wars. There’s as many opinions as there are people, and oh boy, people love to protect them. Sometimes even too much.

4)No OOC in IC/No IC in OOC

Do not discuss events of the current round in any channel. No exceptions. If you need help or have a question - Ahelp it. Ahelps are relayed to staff discord channel and we will see them, even if no staff members are currently present in-game.

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Server Rules

These rules apply only in the game itself and are enforced by the administration of the game server.

0. Do not be a dick

Cannot be stated enough.

• 0.1) Do not use slurs both IC, and OOC.
• 0.2) Do not get heated or be constantly negative in OOC or deadchat with others or about situations.
• 0.3) Do not get argumentative with server staff. Make a complaint on the forum or don't talk about it in an inappropriate place, such as deadchat, OOC, discord channels, etc.
• 0.4) Do not spam OOC.
• 0.5) Do not advertise or slander other servers.
• 0.6) Do not share conversations or player information from this server externally without permission. This includes OOC, Ahelps, and any other communication. What happens on the server is to remain on the server, our discord, or our forums for the protection of everyone's privacy.
• 0.7) Any violation of the Discord TOS will not be tolerated under any circumstances. This includes but is not limited to; illegal or fraudulent conduct, violation of copyright, password phishing, libel/defamation, and promoting illegal activities.
• 0.8) Do not discuss politics here. We’re here to have fun, not cause worldview conflicts and holy wars. There’s as many opinions as there are people, and oh boy, people love to protect them. Sometimes even too much. Definitely can not be said enough.

1) Eclipse is a High Roleplay server.

• 1.1) You are expected to RP first and foremost, and to uphold the suspension of disbelief and play a character that could believably be found in a semi-realistic science fiction setting. Furry characters and odd aliens are allowed, as are humans.
• 1.2) Name your character appropriate for an HRP server. Reference names are allowed, if you're clever enough about it. If we can readily discover your reference, it wasn't clever enough and you will be forced to change it. This is not an excuse for Low RP.
• 1.3) Do not break immersion for other players.
• 1.4) You are encouraged to build cross round relationships with other characters, you are allowed to remember each other between rounds.
  • 1.4.1) Player deaths can be treated as very serious injuries in the next round. Things only become de-canonized when ALL parties agree.
  • 1.4.2) Do not OOCly meta-grudge other players, and do not escalate to lethal as a result of events from past rounds; it must have grounding in IC reasoning from the current round.

2) Abusing in-game mechanics.

• 2.1) Do not IC in OOC, do not OOC in IC.
• 2.2) Do not make use of exploits. If you find an exploit, report it immediately.
• 2.3) Do not interfere with SSD or AFK (Sudden Sleep Disorder or Away From Keyboard) players in any way unless you are an antagonist with an objective. You may move them inside the closest shelter to get them out of danger, otherwise ignore them. Do not pull hostile mobs to SSD's intentionally, and do not move them out of shelter once they are safe. You may put SSD’s into a bed.
• 2.4) Do not use your knowledge of game mechanics to intentionally ruin the enjoyment of other players indirectly.
• 2.5) Do not ghost, log out or suicide to avoid roleplay after being captured by an antagonist or by Aegis, being captured is a risk you take when playing on server, and you must be prepared to deal with it. If you do not wish to engage in roleplay with those that have captured you, you may make a request in LOOC to be executed instead.
• 2.6) Do not respawn as the same character once your character has been killed, do not respawn as any relation or friend of your dead character as an excuse to continue escalation once your character has been killed.
• 2.7) Actions that would leave a player with no way to be revived are prohibited unless you are a traitor whose objectives demand it.

3) Escalation Guidelines.

• 3.0) These escalation guidelines are here to ensure that our server can maintain the highest standard of roleplay. While they may not be appropriate to every situation or engagement, you should try to follow them where possible. Talking out encounters is always going to be more interesting than shooting them out, and gives other players a chance to get involved and take their own sides. This is doubly true for Aegis Security players.
• 3.1) Escalation of violence is recommended in all situations, regardless of faction. You are here to roleplay, not click each other horizontal. Murder should always be your last resort, not your immediate answer to any threat. In short, do not valid hunt and do not gank people.
• 3.2)Escalation isn't something that can be easily drawn down to a formula, however this guideline is here to help you best judge a situation.
  • 3.2.1) MOTIVE: Your character must have a robust, and well thought out motive to begin an engagement. If your character suffers any hostile action at the hands of another, this is considered adequate and immediate motive.
  • 3.2.2) ENGAGEMENT: Before initiating combat it is preferred that there be a scene with interaction between those involved. You may be aggressive to start off, but you may not put your target on a finite timer. Do not shoot a player for not complying immediately. You must attempt to do a /say with intention or a robust emote that illustrates that you are moving from RP to mechanics. Drawing and firing wordlessly is generally considered poor escalation and low RP.
  • 3.2.3) NEGOTIATION: Both parties may make an attempt to get what they want through use of words, coercion, intimidation, blackmail and barter. At times this will be impossible, as one party demands a price too great. However, this stage may be used as a free space to attempt to de-escalate.
  • 3.2.4) FORCE: Choose your force appropriately. There is no need to outright kill a man for passively resisting, nor is there a need to leave someone alive who has proven that they are willing to use lethal force upon you or your allies. Do not escalate to lethal intent for a low RP reason.
• 3.3) Note that if you have issued a halt order, and your target does not comply you may give chase and attempt to capture them by any means. If your target does not comply, and immediately begins assaulting you, you may kill them if reasonable.
  • 3.3.1) If you choose to run during an interaction with a hostile force at any point, you have accepted that they have escalated upon you. They may take action against you to take you down if they so choose.
• 3.4) Escalation is maintained between encounters. However, you should make it clear that you are re-engaging. You should not break away from an engagement, and re-engage wordlessly several minutes later to gain an advantage.

4) Confinement and Capturing

• 4.1) If you have captured someone, you are expected to roleplay with them or get them to an area where they can be processed accordingly (for example, the Aegis Brig, the Merc ship, etc).
  • 4.1.1) You may not leave someone confined to an area alone for an extended period of time. If you intend to force them to perform a boring, repetitive task, you must ensure that there is someone present with them to roleplay with. Failure to comply with this standard is against the spirit of the server. An exemption can be made if the party OOCly approves of being left alone or to complete repetitive tasks, if you do not gain their consent - consider letting them go or finding a more appropriate end to their story.
  • 4.1.2) If Aegis deems it necessary to permanently brig a player, permission must by obtained by an administrator to enact the sentence. If permission is not granted, execution is the alternative. A player can request in LOOC to be executed rather than be permanently brigged. Based on the administrator's judgement, a player that is permabrigged or executed can be knocked down a rank in their department, or booted from that department entirely. (A player can also choose to do this to themselves!)
  • 4.1.3) It is expected that the detainee must not break in-character immersion by engaging in bad sportsmanship or low-roleplay misbehavior. If you make it clear you have no intention to roleplay out the encounter you open yourself up to field execution depending on severity.

5) Antagonistic characters.

5.1) Antagonists should take the time to read over the Escalation Guidelines again. Player antagonists are held to the higher roleplay standards than other crew, as they are often serve as the driving force of that rounds story. The point of being an antagonist isn't necessarily to win; its to make the round more interesting for everyone involved. Make a murder mystery for security, cause random issues for Engineering, hold the ship's research data at ransom to pay for your drain economy objective. Use your imagination, and have fun. 5.2) If you are made into an antagonist during the round, suicide to escape roleplay is not permitted. Man Up, And Deal With It. Move On. If you absolutely cannot handle it, this probably isn't the right server for you.

6) Communication.

• 6.1) While this is an English speaking server, you are allowed to speak other languages in character.
• 6.2) If you are unable to communicate in English OOCly, you will be disinvited from the server.
• 6.3) If your English is not up to a basic standard, you may be ID checked on the spot.
• 6.4) You are required to make yourself understood through robust emotes during escalation when playing a non-English speaker.

7) Miscellaneous.

• 7.1) You are encouraged to Ahelp with any questions, concerns, requests, or problems.
• 7.2) If an admin redirects you to the discord, or marks your ticket as rejected, or an IC issue, do not get belligerent. There is always a good reason.
• 7.3) Do not spam adminhelp, tickets are dealt with depending on how dire the situation, and then in order. If you suspect that administration is AFK, you may ping staff on the discord.
• 7.4) Most reasonable requests are accepted, if your request is rejected then it has been deemed unreasonable.
• 7.5) Do not use adminhelp as a way to have a conversation with the server administration.
• 7.6) 'supercalifragilisticexpialidociousest'. You know what this is for, don't include the apostrophes.
• 7.7) Please be direct in your Ahelp, and ask a question pertaining to your problem other than "I need help" or "Is there anyone online?" Let us know specifically what happened and who is involved in the initial Ahelp.

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8) Consent.

• 8.1) While this server does host NSFW content, players are encouraged to ask others to opt in to scenes that might make others uncomfortable. Do not engage in a non-consensual scene without express OOC permission from the other party, either from OOC notes in their flavortext or by asking in LOOC.
• 8.2) At any time, you may choose to opt out of a scene that contains sexual or sensitive content. If a player requests to break off from a scene, do so IMMEDIATELY. Failure to comply will not be tolerated.

9) 18+ content.

• 9.0) Coming onto station expressly to disappear into a private room in maintenance to ERP is not going to be tolerated. If that's your intention, take it to Discord PMs.
• 9.1) Knowingly interrupting an ERP scene without valid IC reasoning is unacceptable. "ERP is cringe" or "this kink is gross" are not valid IC reasonings. Any interruptions to roleplay must be roleplayed in kind and have a firm in-character grounding. You may LOOC your partner to pause your scene and if time allows for it, go back to it. Remember, you can always follow up with a partner after the round via other means! Invalid reasons for interruptions may be met with a scolding, warnings and temporary bans.
  • 9.1.1) Valid IC reasoning includes but is not limited to persons participating in the scene committing dereliction of duty, or having previously been involved in escalation, the ship is on red or blue alert, or a traitor has an objective that needs to be fulfilled by interrupting that scene.
  • 9.1.2) If you are a Head of Staff, it is doubly required that you perform your job first, ERP later. Your responsibilities on station are great, but your paycheck and insurance more than makes up for a diminished sex life. You should be aware that you may be forced to drop a scene to deal with ship crises at any moment, and that failure to do so may end with a temporary job ban.
• 9.2) There are certain locations on the ship that you can go to ERP with relatively little disturbance. The Bar Private Room, head of staff bedrooms and private dorm rooms are places that are considered protected if none of the criteria of 9.1 are met.
• 9.3) Kinkshaming. As with any game or forum with adult content present players are eventually going to find material that they find personally distasteful. Players are expected to conduct themselves in a mature manner and not target others for the kinks they enjoy. Should one be found harassing another player over their preference in kinks punishments will be handed down.
  • 9.3.1) That said, any content expressly forbidden by the Discord terms of service should be brought to the immediate attention of the admin staff. Anyone attempting to hide or cover this content will be considered guilty by association.
• 9.4) The usage of the subtle verb is required for all scenes of sexually explicit content.

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Administration Rules

These can serve as the basis for complaints, or for internal proceedings.

0. Follow your own rules

The administration should not only comply with its own rules, but also be an example to follow.

Details:

• If the administrator, or a permanent member of the development (a person with the role of Staff Developer) violates the rules, the heads of the project, servers and the secretary can get together and give this person a warning. In case of accumulation of 2 or 3 of such warnings, the person will be removed from the server command, and may be additionally banned. In addition to the warning, a ban is not issued, an active member of the server team cannot be banned so that he has the ability to fulfill his responsibilities.

1. Be an adequate adult

This is perhaps the most important. You should never forget that this is just a game, people come here to have fun, and you want to help them in this.

Details:

• Do not make yourself God and lord over this game, communicate normally with the community. In general, be calm, solve problems with a cool head and ass.
• Talk to trouble makers. Never give out a ban in silence. If the player has not left the server and you are able to talk with them, then you are obligated to talk with them. Listen to his opinion, think, interrogate other players, issue a verdict. And then the most important thing: make sure that the player understands it. This will save a lot of complaints and questions in the future.
• We are not call center operators on salaries. It is obvious. Nobody forbids you to swear or tell special children what they deserve. But this is a matter of general community atmosphere. If you cover the players with obscenities, they will see enemies in the administration, actively gather in groups against the administration, weave intrigues. We should not allow this, and it is worth starting with ourselves.
• Have a sense of humor and don’t burn. In this game absolutely crazy things can happen, players can consistently insult your kin to the seventh generation, and the build can break in all places. The ability to neigh in time will save you and others, and a cold ass will allow you to endure fair bans in any situation.

2. Do not harm your own server

Do not shit inside where you live. This would seem quite obvious, but it is sometimes easy to forget in a fit of anger.

Details:

• Do not be an intriguer. Do not use admin rights to pit groups of players, administrators, against each other, and do not try to split the administration into separate groups, do not play dirty politics. If there are problems in the community, they need to be voiced and resolved, and not thrown at each other to such an extent that problems will not be resolvable.
• Do not harm the server and the community in order to prove something. In the end, if you really do not like what is happening, you can just calmly leave. No problem is worth the split or death of the community.
• If you are personally involved in a violation, it concerns your friends, or your ass just burns - pass the problem to another. Failure to do this can lead to huge problems with the community, and even to the circus and drama.
• Do not expose the community badly in the eyes of others. Do not conflict with other communities so that this can create problems for the entire server, or even involve a full-blown conflict with someone.

3. We are a server with the minimum possible admin intervention

This is one of the basics of the server. We understand that the rules are necessary to maintain an adequate community life, however we do not directly intervene in the events of the round.

Details:

• If it is reasonable, players should be banned for their violations at the end of the round, having the opportunity to play their role in the round. Interrupting a chain of murders of an outright attacker by a ban, however, is possible and necessary.
• We do not revive the players even if they were killed by a banned griefer. However, we can provide a reduction in respawn time for the victim. To do it or not is strictly on the conscience of the administrator.
• Reducing respawn time is the most organic way to return a player to the game, and if the situation is right, this can be done in large quantities. But then again, all this is at the discretion of the administration.
• Helping players who fall victim to bugs is one of the duties of the administration. The build is not stable even in its best times, in case something broke the rule of non-intervention should be forgotten.
• Events, or other ways to diversify the rounds should be coordinated with the heads of the servers.

4. N.A.P.

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Details:

• Admins have a prerogative to deal with in-game problems, and developers should not interfere with bans, notes and appeals, or try to vouch someone out of trouble.
• Development process is regulated by Maintainers in terms of quality, and by Project Leader/Head Dev in terms of balance, direction and lore. Admins don't have any privilege in this process.
• It is, however, guaranteed that admins will communicate with Head Dev before applying any sanctions to developers or contributors. It's not for covering up their violations, but to allow Dev team to adapt, civilly resolve a problem, and ensure that damage to development itself is minimal.
• As for player feedback and admin tools, it's also expected for admins to be the main source of information, and while current dev priorities are established by Head Dev, development team will listen to admins concern.

Other tips

Not the rules as such, these are recommendations for directing the administration in the right direction.

Details:

• Not everything can be brought to the public. If the administrator took off the whore, got drunk and let her administer the server, it’s definitely not worth disclosing such details of her personal life.
• Still, playerbase should be informed on the reasoning of our decisions or actions, both in administration and development.
• Ask for help if necessary. If you are in doubt about the solution, ask other administrators. If there is no one to call for help, give a kick to your head for the lack of administration.

Admin and Development Ranks

CEV Eris admin structure:

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