Allielyn
*Pony*
If you have a question about policy that is not covered in the threads already in this forum, or would like to point to a thread that should be here, this thread is here for your convenience.
It will be periodically cleaned up and condensed so players don't have to sift through pages of information to see what policies have been clarified. :toot:
Previously Clarified:
Re: Raidstalking -
Simply being in the same zone does not count as raid stalking. It's very much a question of intent. Following a raid to snipe their PVP flagged players is not raid stalking if you kill and then get out. Flagging and deflagging your toons as PvP enabled is a trivial process. If you don't want to be PvP'd while raiding, don't flag yourself PvP.
Re: # Of accounts allowed -
You may own as many accounts as you like, but you may never play two characters from the same account.
Re: Account Sharing and loss of pp/items/accounts -
The setup of this server, with free accounts for everyone, means that account sharing becomes incredibly easy. The mechanics of the raid game on a small server further serves to facilitate this sharing - but the discretion you use to share your info is still your own, as is the responsibility for that decision.
When you choose to share your info, you are trusting your character, gear, reputation, account, etc. to a person you may never have met. If they use your account to do dubious things that get your character banned - that's still your responsibility.
To Summarize: We will not reimburse anything that was stolen. Your accounts are your responsibility. We will still ban any thieves we catch.
Re: General Reimbursement of Items:
We generally reimburse players for non-trivial stuff they looted with the wrong character/destroyed/accidentally gave to their pet, but only after checking properly that they had it in the first place. This does not mean you can be totally careless, it is still up to staff's discretion to decide whether an item is worth reimbursing!
There are exceptions, e.g. some quests that are supposed to be difficult and rely on certain items you can reobtain yourself if you've deleted them in the past.
Re: Skipping Content
ANY Mobs (raid or otherwise) which are static cannot be skipped (by training away, or CoTH summoning, corpse summoning and rezzing past, or any other means) without risking a fat ban. Content which is roaming and can be avoided by waiting may be skipped. Specific instances include collecting groundspawns for MoTG, which *must* be done by killing the mobs guarding the growndspawns and cannot be done by flopping a monk around, and also Inner Prison, where none of the mobs are designed to be 'skippable' with the exception of the Farg drop-down which may bypass some content from the long way around. Exception: you may invis and run past mobs which do not see invisibility.
Re: Violating raid cap rules (18-man raids, 12-man adepts, 6-man raid rules)
Using a camped out healer to ressurrect your 18-man raid is against the raid rules. Doing so will get your raid leader and guild officers/leaders jailed and/or banned. (The same of course applies to a camped healer to resurrect your 6-man group in a zone which follows 6-man raid rules.)
Out-of-Raid looting
Rewarding loot to players who were camped out or otherwise disengaged during a fight is against the raid rules. Doing so will get your raid leader and guild officers/leaders jailed and/or banned, as well as the character who got loot. This extends to giving level 65 players looting rights from adept mobs. Note that this policy applies even if the raid is the correct size, IE an 18 man raid with one character camped out cannot give loot to the camped (or otherwise disengaged) character. If you want loot, you must be actively assisting the raid during the kill of the mob you want loot from, on the character you want loot on.
This rule applies to normal targets as well; camping your alt while you duo a named so your alt can get 'pristine' droppables or 'no drop' items will get your items revoked and your player may be banned.
**Actively helping means your character is there, with the rest of the raid, doing the raid thing with the raid target. In general, being on the target's aggro list is a fair clarification and being within the level range that allows you to loot the mob's corpse may be considered among other factors. There are some raid encounters in-game wherein the loot rewards are dropped from a lower level NPC box rather than the named mob. This does NOT mean that your level 1 Rabb the Rat alt is allowed loot from the box. The level of the raid mob itself is what is to be taken into consideration. To clarify this, Treasure Map chest higher than Simple can be looted by characters no lower than level 55.
Re: 6-man zones, 'Raid Type Rules' and claimable 'wings'
Seethis thread for a list of which raid zones are split into what wings and/or areas, and which are 6-man only zones. Note that 6-man zones follow the same 'raid type rules' which means using a 7th man in the zone for ANYTHING is a punishable offense, same as a 19th man in a raid zone.
Re: Account Usership for non-original owners
We do not keep track of your accounts. If two players who do not own an account dispute an account, it will be locked and nobody will have access until the original owner reclaims it. The Power of Attorney system is in place to help ensure that if you no longer have access to your original account email, you can set up a second, and if you have one player you want to have access, they can have valid 'legal' access.
Re: Questions about why your name was nerfed
See the Naming Policy Clarifications thread
Re: Named Mob rights for groups clearing an area
We don't recognize any camps in SoD, however we do recognize douchebaggery and we punish it. This one is as open-ended as your imagination can suggest. Don't be jerks. This includes (but is not limited to) the following behavior:
Triggering content scripts which you have no intention of attempting just to screw over other players, collecting event-necessary groundspawns which you have no intention of using (Hi MOTG), using higher level characters than the area is designed for to monopolize an unreasonable amount of mobs for the size of your group when there are others looking to hunt in the same area, excessive leapfrogging, pulling a named after another group kills its placeholder multiple times, etc
Re: Asking for ETAs on server downtime
Whenever I give an ETA (usually because it's a quick patch) something goes wrong and it always takes 10 times longer than I gave. As a result I only ever give bogus ETAs (usually on the order of days). If I don't feel like giving a bogus ETA, I'll jail you. Moral of the story: Don't ask for ETAs.
Re: Hedging your bets on the 3-boxing rule by claiming an LD character doesn't count
It does. 2 characters in the game at any time, whether LD or not. You risk banning on your two highest level characters and jailing on a third if you violate this rule. (Or, if you give out your character's info as a buffer to someone else who might violate this rule. See the rule on account sharing.)
Re: Can surnames be changed by staff?
If it is inappropriate it will be removed and replaced with an "_" meaning you can't pick another anytime ever. (List of inappropriate surname rules here. Otherwise, petition, and someone will likely remove it so you can pick a new one. If this service is abused by player it will be removed. Either that or you'll get an underscore anyways.
Selling no drop items
It is not allowed to 'sell' loot rights to any no drop item, be it a quest item, raid loot, or ancient/relic/archaic turn-in pieces. (Hint: these items are no-drop for a reason; if we wanted you to sell them they would be droppable.) This includes payment in platinum, cash, items, etc. Violators risk banning, items gained this way will be revoked.
Selling services such as leveling exp for in-game pp or paying for somebody in game pp or items to increase your set traps skill is currently allowed. If it is abused we will revoke this privilege.
Thread last updated: Aug 23, 2017
It will be periodically cleaned up and condensed so players don't have to sift through pages of information to see what policies have been clarified. :toot:
Previously Clarified:
Re: Raidstalking -
Simply being in the same zone does not count as raid stalking. It's very much a question of intent. Following a raid to snipe their PVP flagged players is not raid stalking if you kill and then get out. Flagging and deflagging your toons as PvP enabled is a trivial process. If you don't want to be PvP'd while raiding, don't flag yourself PvP.
Re: # Of accounts allowed -
You may own as many accounts as you like, but you may never play two characters from the same account.
Re: Account Sharing and loss of pp/items/accounts -
The setup of this server, with free accounts for everyone, means that account sharing becomes incredibly easy. The mechanics of the raid game on a small server further serves to facilitate this sharing - but the discretion you use to share your info is still your own, as is the responsibility for that decision.
When you choose to share your info, you are trusting your character, gear, reputation, account, etc. to a person you may never have met. If they use your account to do dubious things that get your character banned - that's still your responsibility.
To Summarize: We will not reimburse anything that was stolen. Your accounts are your responsibility. We will still ban any thieves we catch.
Re: General Reimbursement of Items:
We generally reimburse players for non-trivial stuff they looted with the wrong character/destroyed/accidentally gave to their pet, but only after checking properly that they had it in the first place. This does not mean you can be totally careless, it is still up to staff's discretion to decide whether an item is worth reimbursing!
There are exceptions, e.g. some quests that are supposed to be difficult and rely on certain items you can reobtain yourself if you've deleted them in the past.
Re: Skipping Content
ANY Mobs (raid or otherwise) which are static cannot be skipped (by training away, or CoTH summoning, corpse summoning and rezzing past, or any other means) without risking a fat ban. Content which is roaming and can be avoided by waiting may be skipped. Specific instances include collecting groundspawns for MoTG, which *must* be done by killing the mobs guarding the growndspawns and cannot be done by flopping a monk around, and also Inner Prison, where none of the mobs are designed to be 'skippable' with the exception of the Farg drop-down which may bypass some content from the long way around. Exception: you may invis and run past mobs which do not see invisibility.
Re: Violating raid cap rules (18-man raids, 12-man adepts, 6-man raid rules)
Using a camped out healer to ressurrect your 18-man raid is against the raid rules. Doing so will get your raid leader and guild officers/leaders jailed and/or banned. (The same of course applies to a camped healer to resurrect your 6-man group in a zone which follows 6-man raid rules.)
Out-of-Raid looting
Rewarding loot to players who were camped out or otherwise disengaged during a fight is against the raid rules. Doing so will get your raid leader and guild officers/leaders jailed and/or banned, as well as the character who got loot. This extends to giving level 65 players looting rights from adept mobs. Note that this policy applies even if the raid is the correct size, IE an 18 man raid with one character camped out cannot give loot to the camped (or otherwise disengaged) character. If you want loot, you must be actively assisting the raid during the kill of the mob you want loot from, on the character you want loot on.
This rule applies to normal targets as well; camping your alt while you duo a named so your alt can get 'pristine' droppables or 'no drop' items will get your items revoked and your player may be banned.
**Actively helping means your character is there, with the rest of the raid, doing the raid thing with the raid target. In general, being on the target's aggro list is a fair clarification and being within the level range that allows you to loot the mob's corpse may be considered among other factors. There are some raid encounters in-game wherein the loot rewards are dropped from a lower level NPC box rather than the named mob. This does NOT mean that your level 1 Rabb the Rat alt is allowed loot from the box. The level of the raid mob itself is what is to be taken into consideration. To clarify this, Treasure Map chest higher than Simple can be looted by characters no lower than level 55.
Re: 6-man zones, 'Raid Type Rules' and claimable 'wings'
Seethis thread for a list of which raid zones are split into what wings and/or areas, and which are 6-man only zones. Note that 6-man zones follow the same 'raid type rules' which means using a 7th man in the zone for ANYTHING is a punishable offense, same as a 19th man in a raid zone.
Re: Account Usership for non-original owners
We do not keep track of your accounts. If two players who do not own an account dispute an account, it will be locked and nobody will have access until the original owner reclaims it. The Power of Attorney system is in place to help ensure that if you no longer have access to your original account email, you can set up a second, and if you have one player you want to have access, they can have valid 'legal' access.
Re: Questions about why your name was nerfed
See the Naming Policy Clarifications thread
Re: Named Mob rights for groups clearing an area
We don't recognize any camps in SoD, however we do recognize douchebaggery and we punish it. This one is as open-ended as your imagination can suggest. Don't be jerks. This includes (but is not limited to) the following behavior:
Triggering content scripts which you have no intention of attempting just to screw over other players, collecting event-necessary groundspawns which you have no intention of using (Hi MOTG), using higher level characters than the area is designed for to monopolize an unreasonable amount of mobs for the size of your group when there are others looking to hunt in the same area, excessive leapfrogging, pulling a named after another group kills its placeholder multiple times, etc
Re: Asking for ETAs on server downtime
Whenever I give an ETA (usually because it's a quick patch) something goes wrong and it always takes 10 times longer than I gave. As a result I only ever give bogus ETAs (usually on the order of days). If I don't feel like giving a bogus ETA, I'll jail you. Moral of the story: Don't ask for ETAs.
Re: Hedging your bets on the 3-boxing rule by claiming an LD character doesn't count
It does. 2 characters in the game at any time, whether LD or not. You risk banning on your two highest level characters and jailing on a third if you violate this rule. (Or, if you give out your character's info as a buffer to someone else who might violate this rule. See the rule on account sharing.)
Re: Can surnames be changed by staff?
If it is inappropriate it will be removed and replaced with an "_" meaning you can't pick another anytime ever. (List of inappropriate surname rules here. Otherwise, petition, and someone will likely remove it so you can pick a new one. If this service is abused by player it will be removed. Either that or you'll get an underscore anyways.
Selling no drop items
It is not allowed to 'sell' loot rights to any no drop item, be it a quest item, raid loot, or ancient/relic/archaic turn-in pieces. (Hint: these items are no-drop for a reason; if we wanted you to sell them they would be droppable.) This includes payment in platinum, cash, items, etc. Violators risk banning, items gained this way will be revoked.
Selling services such as leveling exp for in-game pp or paying for somebody in game pp or items to increase your set traps skill is currently allowed. If it is abused we will revoke this privilege.
Thread last updated: Aug 23, 2017
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