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The Rights of Englishmen (Read This First)

PostPosted: Fri Jun 06, 2014 4:48 am
by TotalyMeow
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§4 – Punishments

1. Any account violating this set of forum rules may be banned for a period of time by the moderation team depending on the severity of the infraction inflicted on the forum rules. Players may also be punished with In-Game bans or other handicaps at the Developer's discretion.

2. Creating any amount of new accounts to evade a ban is not allowed and will be punished by a ban of the account(s). Posting in the name of a banned person is considered as ban evasion and will be punished accordingly.

3. Topics and posts which violate the forum rules may be moved to the Valley of Hinnom at moderator discretion.


§5 – Complaints

1. If you have a complaint or question about a moderator's decision, the complaint may be directed to the Community Manager via forum PM or email.

2. Posting a thread / multiple threads to resolve a situation involving a complaint about another user or a crew member is against the rules. In addition, what is defined in §2.3 will apply.

Re: The Rights of Englishmen

PostPosted: Thu Jul 03, 2014 1:39 am
by TotalyMeow
This forum contains an optional Profanity Filter which can be turned off or on here:

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By default, it is turned on.

Re: The Rights of Englishmen

PostPosted: Thu Jul 10, 2014 1:28 am
by TotalyMeow
If You Wish to Make a Complaint

If you are being harassed in PMs, you may use the same report function on a PM that you use on a forum post. The rules of the forum also apply to PMs, but I cannot enforce said rules or read the offending PMs unless they are reported, so please do so.

If you are being harassed in the game or see someone being harassed or see any in-game rule being broken and wish to report it, you may do so at this time via a forum PM to TotalyMeow or JohnCarver. In a case where you have taken a screenshot for evidence and said screenshot contains profanity or racial slurs or other things not allowed on the forums, you will not be punished for PMing them to John or me. If you prefer, you may also use email. TotalyMeow: totalymeow@mortalmoments.com , JohnCarver: johncarver@mortalmoments.com .

If you have been banned from the forums, you are banned on all accounts and may not post on any of them. However, if you want to discuss or question your ban you may PM me from an unbanned account without fear of it too being banned so long as you do not use it to post while the ban is in effect. Posters should always be able to contact a moderator.

Re: The Rights of Englishmen

PostPosted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 6:38 am
by TotalyMeow
On the application of Punishment Hats

Certain types of forum behavior, while not specifically against any of the forum rules, may earn you a 'Punishment Hat'; a non-removable, unslottable, stupid-looking in-game hat which has the effect of making one of your equipment slots useless and thus nerfing your character just enough to be annoying.

The only way to earn one of these hats is to incur the wrath of John Carver. The hats will stay on your character for a finite duration of time. If you have earned yourself a hat, you may E-mail or PM to find out when your hat will expire.

You can earn a Dunce Cap, aka Claeyt Cap, by being illogical and spreading idiocy across the forums, or by insisting on a change to game mechanics when you have been told by the developers that it is not going to happen.

You can earn a Frakked Cap arguing about a system when you clearly don't know how it works or about a 'bug' you have been told is not a bug despite it being explained to you, or about a bug you straight up lied about, thus sending the developers on a wild goose chase.

You can earn an Ass Hat by being overly confrontational, inciting flame wars when you've been warned to stop, arguing about bans or other moderation and otherwise excessively violating the forum rules.