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Code of Conduct
« Thread Started on Oct 14, 2006, 1:40pm »

Out Of Character:

- You cannot argue outright with the admins. We are god, we have final say.
- You can disagree with the admins, voice your opinion and such but do it in a civilized respectful way.
- You cannot blatantly insult and disrespect other members. Respect is a virtue.
- You cannot fight or argue with others on the boards. Debates or calm civilized disagreements are fine, but no insults or arguments. Take that to pms or AIM.
- You cannot post explicit things in the boards. No porn or sex talk or anything like that.
- Do not be afraid to ask questions if you are confused. We'd rather you look clueless than to have you run off and make some crippling mistake. Our members are nice so you have nothing to fear.

In Character:

- All animal species are allowed.
- You can create as many characters as you want but try not create more characters than you can handle. Inactive characters and plots are annoying...
- You can keep them all on one account, though we'd prefer that you make separate accounts for each.
- You should try not to create the same species of character as everyone else. If you notice everyone's a fox morph, then create a wolf morph instead. That's all we ask...
- A name can be used by multiple characters but only if the name is common(like Bill or Joe or Midnight or something) and if the original player of the first character to have the name is okay with it.
- No power-playing characters. As in, you can't make your character all powerful with special magical abilities and what not. A raven morph can fly sure but she should not be able to create energy blasts and junk. A dragon morph can fly and breathe fire but can't block all attacks with his wings or make volcanoes appear or anything like that...
- You do not have to wait for your bio to be approved before you rp but we will tell you to make corrections if something is unacceptable.
- You can't create any mythical sort of creature (or mythical hybrids like wolf dragons) without permission from me directly..
- You cannot keep secrets! I can't stress this one enough. If your character has an ability, you cannot leave it out of their bio. If your wolf can leap higher than normal wolves, say it in the bio. Don't wait for a fight to come up and then suddenly say she can do it. If it's not in the bio, it doesn't exist.
- Same goes with histories. Put it all there...
- Mating/birthing is allowed between any species but be sure to do it in the special explicit boards.
- Mating/birthing must be played out. There will be no phantom pregnancies. You must play out the event, but you do not have to go into detail. "they mated" and "she gave birth" are fine enough...
- Characters cannot be created pregnant. That takes all the fun out of role-playing.
- Offspring must have bios created for them at some point in time. They don't have to be created right away but the sooner, the better.
- We expect you to re-type bios and such rather than copying and pasting post or histories. We don't really stress it as a rule but copy/pasting makes you look lazy so try to avoid it.
- Guns, weapons, drugs and such are all allowed, but try not to over do it.
- though your character can have weapons, you cannot give them a million machine guns or anything super-powerful like that. The number of weapons allowed is unlimited but be reasonable...
- Do not use images that do not belong to you. Art theft is strictly enforced here and if you break this rule, you are given one warning and one warning only. If you fail to comply, you're gone. Don't test me with this one. Use your own art or a template....
- The same implies with other types of theft, such as character theft. Don't do it...
- Your character can and probably will die at some point. Never fear though for you are allowed to "Reincarnate" them. Which means, you can bring them back in another form/character. Their memories will be erased and they will have little to no recollection of their past life but their personality can and probably will be similar.

Posting:

- This site is supposed to be rated PG-PG13. That means minimal cursing and nothing too gory.
- If you do decide to do some violent fighting or a bit of cursing (perhaps your character is overly angry), please put a warning in the thread title so our younger members know.
- No power playing or godmoding. This does not only apply to fights. If you say "she laughed as she pet the wolf, laughing louder when he licked her hand" but the player rping the wolf never said he licked her hand, that is power-playing and against the rules. Don't do it...
- Sex/birthing threads are allowed but should be kept in the explicit boards.
- Liquid time is allowed. Which means you can role-play the same character in multiple places but try to keep it to a minimum.
- There is no real post limit, though we'd like it if every reply/thread/post was at least a paragraph. It doesn't have to be though...
- You can role-play multiple characters in one thread if you wish, just to spice things up. Heck, if you wanted to, you could even role-play with yourself, but where's the fun in that?
- Do not spam threads to increase your post count. Don't reply to every OOC thread with stuff like "hiya!" or "cool". We're not three year olds here.
- Signatures are not to be taller than 400 pixels or wider than 600.
- Fighting is allowed IC but be sure to post the event in the Member Updates so a staff member may supervise.
- In a fight, you cannot dodge more than three hits consecutively. The fourth attack will be a hit regardless of its severity. Only gun fire and blade attacks can be dodged an unlimited number of times consecutively.
- Vehicles are not to be used as weapons without the consent of the other player.
- Death of a character also requires the consent of either the administrator (me) or the dying character's player. I can and will allow a character to be killed without their player's permission but only with very good reason (you dodged three times and were hit with the fourth shot, which was an undeniably fatal blow like a grenade in your mouth or something).

Rule #1: Enjoy yourself. ^^

« Last Edit: Oct 14, 2006, 1:40pm by Constantine »

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