PlaneShift Policies Quick Version

1) botting is not allowed ever NO exceptions
2) be courteous to others
3) do not exploit bugs, but report them here
4) talk in Main channel is for in character conversations
5) have fun!

PlaneShift Policies

Here are the current Rules for PlaneShift, meaning what we expect from players. If you follow these guidelines, you will enhance your gaming experience a lot. The term "guidelines" implies that common sense should be used to evaluate situations that are at the border of one case or another. Aplying the Rules and all the work organised to provide the players with the best possible environment, is a job undertaken by several actors: the developers, the advisors, the forum moderators and the game masters.

It has to be a good experience for everyone, and to achieve this goal any annoying behaviour will have to be dealt with. Disciplinary action may be taken against any player found breaching these rules, and this action will be decided with consideration for the gravity of the offense.

By playing PlaneShift, you agree to the following terms:

Roleplay Policy
Naming Rules
Rules of Conduct
Account Policy


All Other policies

Roleplay Policy

In Character (IC) means to act, speak and behave like your character will do, not you as a player will do - also known as roleplay. An example of IC (In-Character) speech is: "Hello traveller, did you hear any news about Hydlaa these days?"

Out Of Character (OOC) is when you are speaking with a GM, or when you speak of any real life events/matters. An example can be: "GM, my client is acting strangely, is there a patch to fix it?"

Remember to act in-character as much as possible when talking to others! We are all working towards a Roleplay atmosphere in PlaneShift. OOC should be used only in /tell with a GM, in the help channel or in petitions. All other communications have to be IC. OOC text should be designated with brackets - [ ] - as regular text comes from the mouth of your character, who knows nothing about computers, video games, the internet, or Picasso. Read the Setting for official information about the world your character belongs to - and while your character can certainly come from another "plane" outside of it, don't do something outrageous like try to bring in "roleplay" guns. Keep with the medieval fantasy atmosphere as much as you can.

The game is about roleplay, so part of the rules are to encourage or "enforce" it as smoothly as possible. The freedom of everyone has to be respected as long as it doesn't come in the way of someone else's, with a priority on the RPG style. The name policy, the content of the dialogs and the online activities are concerned with this issue.

The language in-game is English. You may use other languages in private messages like /tell, or in guild chat. This allows all the players in the game to interact with each other regardless of where they are from - and prevents the separation of the community into groups based on nationality.

Naming Rules

The first impression other players have of you will be based on your name, so it's best to start off on the right foot.

While choosing the perfect name for your character, guild, or pet is generally left to your discretion, we ask that you refrain from using certain types of names. These types of names are detailed in the categories below. If a name is found that violates these policies we will change the name and take further action if the name is inappropriate.

You may not use:

• Trademarked names of products, services, or concepts (e.g. Marlboro, Sony, Band-Aid).
• Rude, racist or ethnically offensive, defamatory or hateful, obscene, profane, or sexually explicit names, nor drug references and homonyms of these words, names that include common swear words, or refer to a part of anatomy.
• Names of religious, occult, political, or significant historic origin (e.g. Jesus, Allah, Satan, Stalin, Nosferatu).
• Non-fantasy oriented names from popular media. These names can be either fictional (e.g. Rambo, Darthvader, Flintstones) or non-fictional (e.g. Garth Brooks, Pierce Brosnan, Ronald Reagan, Michael Jordan).
• Fantasy-oriented names that are easily recognized from popular existing media (e.g. Merlin, Gandalf, Belgarath, Drizzt, Paul Atreides).
• Names containing titles within them, such as, but not limited to: The, Lord, Lady, Master, King, Queen, Knight, Sir, Father (e.g. Sirtallon, Lordeagle, Mothermaggy, Darksister).
• Common words and phrases that would not be found in the place and time setting of the game (e.g. Switchblade, Cell Phone, Phaser, Toaster, Truck, Anyone).
• Proper names from the PlaneShift world (e.g. Enkidukai, Tefusang, Yliakum, Akkaio). Guild names may use the proper names of places and creatures in Yliakum in order to faciliatate roleplay.
• Pure gibberish which consists of a string of letters that do not produce a pronounceable name (e.g. Asdfasdf, Jjxccm, Hvlldrm). In addition, letters should not be repeated more than twice in a row.
• Partial or complete sentences of multiple (generally more than 2) words strung together (i.e. Ownsyourworld, Ilikepancakes, Hellothere).
• Reverse spelling name that would be in contradiction with the Naming Rules.
• Word combinations that would result in a phonetically offensive name or that would go against the Naming Policy.
• A name chosen to harm, in any way, or impersonate another player or a member of the PlaneShift Team.

Here are some links to name generators that you may like to use:
http://rinkworks.com/namegen/
http://www.seventhsanctum.com/gens/namer.html
http://www.squid.org/tools/names/
http://hamete.org/cgi-bin/yafnagen
http://www.dwheeler.com/totro.html

Rules of Conduct

• While playing PlaneShift, you must respect the rights of others and their rights to play and enjoy the game. To this end, you may not defraud, harass, threaten, or cause distress and/or unwanted attention to other players.
• You may not enter into gameplay practices that cause disruption of gameplay for other players, or adversely affect game performance.
• You may not use any harmful, hateful, abusive, vulgar, defamatory, obscene, racial, ethnically offensive, nor sexually explicit language to any other players nor members of the PlaneShift team.
• You may not impersonate any Game Masters nor members of the PlaneShift team.
• You may not violate any Local, State, National, or International law or regulation.
• You may not organize nor be part of any guilds or groups that are based on, or espouse, any racist, sexist, anti-religious, anti-ethnic, anti-gay or other hate-mongering philosophy.
• When communicating in Planeshift using the Chat, you may not spam, flood, or make duplicate messages.
• You may not post or communicate personal information of any player in the game or the website/forum of Planeshift.
• You will not attempt to interfere with, hack into, or decipher any transmissions to or from the servers running Planeshift.
• You may not create "bots" or automation programs with the purpose of profiteering or advancing unattended.
• You will not exploit any bug in Planeshift.
• You may not market, promote, advertise, or solicit within the PlaneShift game or on the official PlaneShift website.
• You may not advertise the intent to or commit the act of buying or selling game items for real money.

Account Policy

Use of the account is strictly personal. The account should not, even temporarily be shared with or otherwise extended to another person, nor may it be used in any way that is extraneous to the proper normal use of the game. All users are fully responsible for the use of their access account, and for the use made of their account by their underage child or by any other person who has access to it.

All Other Policies

For all other policies, please read this forum thread.

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