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Contents 1 General Rules 1.1 Rule of thumb 1.2 Names 1.3 Account Sharing 1.4 Spamming 1.5 Botting / Macros / Scripts 1.6 Spawning Monsters In Towns 1.7 AFK Leveling 1.8 Bug Abuse 1.9 General Abuse 1.10 Hacking 1.11 Account Lockdown 1.12 Email Ownership 1.13 Client Editing 1.14 Battlegrounds 1.15 Guild Emblems 1.16 Summoning Monsters In Towns 2 Interaction with Others 2.1 Kill Stealing 2.2 Disrespect Towards the Staff 2.3 War of Emperium 2.4 Excessive Swearing 2.5 Harassment 2.6 GM Impersonation 2.7 Server Advertisement 2.8 Scamming 2.9 Lending 2.10 Revealing GM Legit Characters 2.11 Intentional Erroring of Other Players 2.12 Main Chat Rules 3 Selling 3.1 Real Money Trading 3.2 Account Selling 3.3 Selling Illegal Items 4 Catch All

General Rules

Rule of thumb

• Don't be an asshole.

Names

• All names, whether they belong to guilds, characters, or pets, need to be appropriate for the game. At most, they should be suitable for a pg-13 rating. If you are unsure whether or not your name is okay, then it is best not to use it.

Account Sharing

• Although not technically illegal, account sharing is heavily frowned upon. Not only does it put your account at risk, but it also puts you in danger of not getting helped. If there is any evidence of sharing, actual or circumstantial, the GM Team reserves the right to refuse to help you in various situations. The account holder is responsible for any and all things that take place when logged in, so "my brother uses my account" will not be a sufficient defense. The entire account will suffer any and all consequences, regardless of how many people use it.

Spamming

• Excessive talking in chat and/or repeating lines consecutively is punishable. People can read what you say, so there's no need to repeat it over nine thousand times. This includes but is not limited to using over 3 lines of chat at a time, or repeating your chat more often than 30 seconds AFTER it's left your screen.
• Do not spam skills or spells (heals and buffs aside) in town - it may cause lag to other players. This includes and is not limited to dueling in the middle of town.
• Refining is OK if you're only going to do it 2 or 3 times, but if you're going to do more than that, please step away from the crowd where people cant see you refining.
• Buffing is OK if you're actually buffing before going to battle or something. Don't just randomly and rapidly cast Bless, Increase Agi or Soul Links every 30 seconds.

Botting / Macros / Scripts

• Do not use ANY bot and/or third party program* under ANY circumstance.
• This Includes, but is not limited to, using scripts that can operate for an extended amount of time without any additional input. If one button makes you skip steps on clicking, then you shouldn't do it.
• Even if it is not in your computer or attached to your computer, using a ducking-bird to hit a key will enduce the same effect as any bot or script so don't complain when you get banned. GMs can't remote-access your webcam, so to us you are just like the rest of them.

Spawning Monsters In Towns

• Spawning in towns is fine as long as it doesn't bug anyone. It would be preferred if you'd spawn somewhere that isn't the center of population in town. If someone complains, kindly move away from the crowd.

AFK Leveling

• Do not train yourself while away from your computer. This includes by homunculus, reflect, autocasting, or any combination of the three. Doing so under this method will earn you jail time. If requested to respond you are expected to do so, either by GM or otherwise.

Bug Abuse

• Exploiting and doing other things deemed against the rules by a GM will result in an insta-ban. Report all bugs/exploits to the GM team via PM Immediately. (Exploiting: Abusing a bug in the game for self gain.)
• Examples are but not limited to: Shadow Jumping in the area in sandwich by the water where you can't be hit.

General Abuse

• Exploiting anything that requires multiple accounts in order to gain things that are put in place by the GM team in order to help players.

Hacking

• Hacking via a brute force method, is illegal. If you were dumb enough to share your information or trust someone's program that gives you unlimited items/credits that’s your own fault.

Account Lockdown

• If for any reason you feel your account is threatened or you need something investigated on your account you can ask for an official account lockdown. In order to do that you'll need to come to helpdesk and request a lockdown, a GM will then email you, and you will be required to respond to the email, so as such lockdowns are only granted to those that own the email associated to the account.

Email Ownership

• Whatever you do, do not give up the email attached to your account, it is your account LIFELINE. We will offer email changes if you are the sole person logging into the account going back for some time, that judgement will be made by the person handling the email change. All email changes MUST go through support (at) rebirthro (dot) com, please keep in mind these are handled manually and you must be patient.

Client Editing

• All client editing/hex editing/grf editing/etc. etc. is not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to, changing sprites, modding your act files or changing the camera's view.

Battlegrounds

• Though this is still up for discussion, certain aspects are already disapproved. Badge farming is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to AFKing from battle grounds and multiclienting will result in badge or BG equip removal(all)/jail.

Guild Emblems

• Copying another guild’s emblem without permission is not allowed.

Summoning Monsters In Towns

• People who excessively spawn monsters in town that either kill, lag or bother MANY people shall be punished

Interaction with Others

Kill Stealing

• If someone steals your kill, use the @noks feature instead of reporting to a GM.
• If he/she keeps following wherever you go and attempting to steal your kills, PM NPC:Report.

Disrespect Towards the Staff

• Kindly respect and be courteous to the GMs/ Staff members and listen to them.
• Do not ask to be a GM/Staff member.
• Try not to bother the GMs unless you are absolutely sure you cannot solve your problem on your own.
• Do not beg for any items, zeny, events, or to have commands used on you.
• If you're planning on accusing a current GM of being corrupt, SHOW HIGHER UPS PROOF. If you just call on any specific Staff member corrupt without any solid proof, you WILL BE BANNED.

War of Emperium

• Emp hugging is against the rules. If you don't know what emp hugging is, this is the act of dropping items or players around the emperium so that it is impossible to attack it. E-calling within one cell of the emp also counts as emp hugging. This also includes hiding in barricades or stones, or ecalling inside barricades or stones.
• Do not enter or participate in WOE (or any Guild PvP Event) in which you do not have a logo or your logo is, for majority, invisible.
• Do not intentionally obstruct another guilds warps by putting warp portals to other areas. Also, blocking castle entrance portals, with skills, items or chat boxes (i.e. warp portal, ice wall, etc), is just outright wrong, in general keep it clean.
• As a proper WoE guild you must have a guild emblem, copying another guilds emblem, or using no emblem at all to gain any sort of advantage will not be tolerated.

Excessive Swearing

• Constant and or repetitive swearing is illegal. There are children who play.

Harassment

• Insulting via public chat, or private messages
• MVP harassment, (before anyone complains), MVPs are FREE FOR ALL (Except for those summoned by a quest which belong to the summoning player/party), however if you try to obstruct someone else from obtaining the MVP aside from damaging the MVP yourself. (such as buffing the MVP, debuffing other players (Removing Assumpio with KE for example), or dragging/summoning monsters on top of the party) then it's considered harrassment.
• Eir Specific MVP rules are simply no targeting other players and no mob dropping. All general rules must be followed in terms of general interactions.
• Begging for items/zeny/levels/etc, any form of begging is considered harassment and is not allowed.
• Ultimately it's up to the GM to decide what is/isn't harassment.
• On Loki, any action specifically done to maliciously impede a player from fighting a monster, outside of standard competition, is illegal. This is any monster, not just MVPs, and we'll be considering it a subset of harassment, so make sure to get screenshots.

GM Impersonation

• Do NOT for any reason claim to be a GM. Unless they can prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt, don't believe anyone who claims to be a GM. Regardless of whether or not they are giving out free items or anything of the sort.

Server Advertisement

• Do not advertise another server or even another MMO. It is up to the GMs to determine what is advertising or not. Basic common sense will keep you out of trouble.
• Examples:
  • BAD:"You should consider joining xxxxRO, I could give you a whole set of +7 valk gear."
  • NEUTRAL/TOLERABLE: "I used to play xxxxRO, then I came here," or, "Yeah he quit a while ago and went to xxxxRO."

Scamming

• Twisting the truth or otherwise deceiving or misrepresenting something in order to get money, items, or accounts. (not holding up your end of the bargain)
• Disclaimer: buying something at a high price and discovering some one else was selling it much lower is not scamming (buyer beware). *Accidentally vending for too low is not scamming.
• Addendum: In cases of account sharing, the GM team takes no responsibility for items lost or not returned. Account sharing is heavily discouraged, and we warn you to be extremely cautious with lending. As a rule of thumb, lend out only what you would not mind losing, and lend only to people you trust.
• Paying for a leech is something based off on trust, and the Staff will not, in any way, help you if you decide to charge or pay for leeching services and get scammed.

Lending

• In cases of lending, where the person you lent to does not return your items, specific evidence is very helpful and important.
• 1 screenshot, including "I am lending you ____ , ____ and ____. I want it back by ___ day." In the same screenshot "I agree to borrow your stuff and have it back by ___ day" all in the background of the trade showing that stuff being lent. It's highly recommended that both parties take this screenshot, as it will back both sides up when it comes to the actual deal and prevents one person from trying to screw over the other.
• It is also HIGHLY recommended that the borrower take a screenshot of returning the items and stating "I am returning you ____ , ____ and ____." and keeping both the original borrowing screenshot, and the returning screenshot somewhere, even if it just sits in your screenshot folder.
• Lending cases will NOT be handled without this evidence. It is recommended that you take the few extra seconds of effort to protect your items.

Revealing GM Legit Characters

• If you find out the name of a GMs Legitimate character and reveal it, this is punishable.

• If it's a character that's already out in the open then there is no issue addressing that character as their GM name if that's how you usually call someone. But unless you are specifically TOLD by that character, or they are speaking about it in the open, do NOT reveal who they are. Allow GMs some form of privacy and fun in playing the game, or we get over worked and grumpy.

Intentional Erroring of Other Players

• Any means by which a player intentionally causes other players to error is against the rules.

Main Chat Rules

• Eir and Loki's main chat is English only, we do this so it can be moderated properly as all the staff can moderate English.

Loki's main chat also includes the following rules:

• No suggestions directed at the GMs.
• No Buying/Selling/Trading/Asking for or if anyone has items, or price checking.
• No using Main to get leeched, buy leeches, or sell leeches.
• No using Main for guild recruiting.
• No asking for floating rates.
• Mentioning that you are trying to start a round of BG is okay, multiple mentions are not. The same applies to Cedi, RDC or any type of party recruiting.
• Try to keep the topics clean, and be respectful, harassment won't be tolerated on main just like anywhere else.

Eir's main chat also includes the following rules:

• No suggestions directed at the GMs.
• No begging for events.
• No excessive recruiting.
• No spamming (we don't want to have to put a chat delay on main).

Selling

Real Money Trading

• Do not sell any in game item for real money, ATTEMPT to do so will result in the seller being banned, and possibly the buyer as well.
• This includes buying or selling credits to or from other players for real money or anything that involves real money and other players, for that matter.

Account Selling

• Do not sell your accounts for anything, it's against the rules and both Seller and in most cases Buyer will be punished.
• This server isn’t also the place to sell other accounts from other MMO’s, so don’t sell any other account as well.

Selling Illegal Items

• There are certain items that have absolutely no use, and are worth nothing. Don't sell them.
• This includes items that players aren't supposed to have. If you find any mysterious item, report to a GM via NPC:Report immediately.
• As well, various quest items that can be easily purchased at the npc should not be vended for more than the NPC sells them. This includes items like Silk Ribbon, being purchased for 20z, and Animal Skin purchased for 27z.
• The sale or purchase of Guaranteed Refine Tickets (As in services to refine someone else's item with the ticket, or prearrangement to get the Ticket for a cost via Cedi Loot) is prohibited.

Catch All

The GM Team reserves the right to administer any form of punishment with just cause. This is generally done through a majority consensus on the GM team, so just obey the rule of thumb and you'll be fine.