Server rules

This is not a roleplay server. There is no character to stay in, nothing to say in or out of character, and no obligation to be friendly, dramatic or interesting. It is every survivor for themselves.

So the rules are short. They cover cheating, exploits, and treating people badly as people. Everything that happens in the world is yours to sort out in the world.

#Cheating

• No menus, injectors, aim assistance, scripts, macros that play the game for you, or anything else that changes your client.
• No modified or cracked clients, and no third-party tools that show you things the game does not.
• Selling, advertising or handing out cheats is a permanent ban, whether you used them or not.
• Your account is yours. What happens on it is yours too, including what a friend did while sitting at your keyboard.
• New accounts made to get around a ban are banned as well, and the original ban gets longer.

#Bugs and exploits

• If something is broken, report it. Do not farm it.
• Duplicating items or money, clipping through walls or into bases, reaching storage from outside a base, spawning things that should not exist: all bans.
• Quietly using a bug and saying nothing is treated the same as using it on purpose.
• Reporting a serious exploit clearly and privately never gets you punished for having found it.

#In the world: no rules

Shoot on sight. Rob the person who just saved you. Empty a base you spent all week watching. Promise an alliance and break it at the worst possible moment. None of that needs a reason and none of it is a rule break.

• Kill anyone, any time, for any reason or none.
• Raid any base you can get into, and take all of it.
• Lie, ambush, betray, hoard, extort. That is the game.
• Losing everything you own is a normal evening here. Nobody will replace it.

The only limits are the ones above: get in with a crowbar or a breach charge, not by clipping through a wall.

#Real people

Everything above is about the game. This part is not.

• No slurs, no hate, no sexual content involving minors, ever. These are instant and permanent.
• No threats, no harassment in DMs or Discord, no pile-ons aimed at driving someone off the server.
• Do not share anyone's real-life details, photos or accounts.
• No mic spam, soundboards or music down voice. Not a conduct rule, just unbearable.
• Take arguments about rules to Discord rather than global chat.

Killing someone twenty times in a row is the game. Following them into Discord to tell them what you think of them is not.

#Combat logging

• Disconnecting to escape a fight, a raid or a chase is the one in-world thing that is a rule break, because it steals a result somebody earned.
• Genuine crashes happen and staff can tell the difference. Come back and finish it.
• Logging out to dodge staff who are talking to you counts too.

#Staff, decisions and appeals

• A staff decision stands while you are in the game. If you think it is wrong, take it to Discord afterwards.
• Admins do not hand out items, money or vehicles, and do not replace gear lost to a death or a raid. Gear lost to a bug is a different matter: report it with details.
• Appeal once per punishment, in Discord, with your character name and roughly when it happened. Calm appeals get read first. Abusive ones get closed.
• Pretending to be staff, or claiming a staff member told you something they did not, is a ban.