Rules for the Realms Effective 11 January 2014

[Gardner Denver]

* * * Realm Rules * * *
Effective 11 January 2014

Non PVP Realm:

• 1 account per person/ip to start
• 1 dupe allowed once first account is level 35.  This rule applies to multiple players in the same household regardless of how many IP addresses you have.  You MUST have at least 1 lvl 35 or higher to have a dupe at all times.
• 2nd dupe allowed once first 2 accounts are lvl 50 or higher
• There will be no protected script areas.  Resolve disputes yourselves without killing each other.
• GJRs are available
• No gear will be genned by ops
• Lives will be given out.
• No deathpile raiding
• No gang house raiding.  Do not enter a house that does not belong to your gang.
• Failure to set up your megamud properly regarding auto grabbing items is your fault, not ours.
• @goto's will be put in place when the first non thief/warrior player hits level 25
• 25 for Silvermere, 35 for Rhun, 40 for Khaz, and 45
• 40 million gang exp required to buy a gang house
• 1st kill drop limited items are in place
• No scripting the cloaked figure in the easy training area
• No scripting (or playing by hand) ANY instant regen high exp monsters.
• Page/Telepath bombing is not allowed.
• No scripting quest bosses for any reason.  Automatic 24 hour suspension if caught.

Since we will have a pvp realm, griefers will be encouraged to play on that realm.
Setting your Megamud to auto grab limited items while scripting will be treated as dp raiding.  Don't do it.

DP/Gang house raiding:  1st time: 2 day suspension.  2nd time: 5 day suspension, 3rd time: Sent to the pvp realm to play, banned from the non pvp realm.  You may ask "What about the warning?"  This is it right here.

Limited Item Rules:

• No limited item hoarding!
• If it drops, and you can not use it within a reasonable period of time, leave it.

• Lvl 1 gets a lvl 50 lim item.  NOT Reasonable

• Lvl 45 gets a lvl 50 lim item.  Reasonable

• If you get a lim you can not use, that DOES count towards your 1 limited item per slot limit.  Choose wisely.
• 1 limited item per item slot max.  No exceptions. 
  If it is for your dupe, then your dupe can carry it.
• Items on the ground will be swept monthly.  This will include hidden items in gang houses.
• Accounts will be stripped after 5 days unless you work out something with Gardner in advance.

PVP Realm:

• 1 dupe allowed once first account is level 35.  This rule applies to multiple players in the same household regardless of how many IP addresses you have.  You MUST have at least 1 lvl 35 or higher to have a dupe at all times.
• 2nd dupe allowed once first 2 accounts are lvl 50 or higher
• +/- 15 level pvp
• No @goto.  Ever.
• No gold jeweled rings.
• 400 million gang exp required to buy a gang house
• No scripting the cloaked figure in the easy training area
• No scripting (or playing by hand) ANY instant regen high exp monsters.
• NO lives will be given out.
• Script killing is allowed
• Failure to set up your megamud properly is your fault, not ours.
• First kill limiteds are in place.
• Limited Drop Rates are +5%
• Page/Telepath bombing is not allowed.

Limited item rules:

• No holding accounts for limited items.  Stripped with no warning.
• Accounts will be stripped after 5 days unless you work something out in advance with one of the Sysops.
• Items on the ground will be swept monthly.  This includes Gang Houses.  Sweeps will not be announced.

Since there are no raiding rules, you'd have to do something pretty major to get banned from the pvp realm.  Like crashing the board over and over.

Exploitation of known bugs will be frowned on.  So will failure to report bugs that benefit you.  You won't might not get banned for it, but there are worse things than being banned in GreaterMUD.


Inactive and Idle Players with Limited Items
Inactive (not logged on) and/or Idle (online but not earning experience) accounts with limited items will be stripped.  If you hide somewhere and come out once a week to kill one or two monsters that will NOT be considered active and your account is still subject to being stripped.

Racial Slurs
Not allowed over gossips.  Period.  If you simply MUST use them then you will confine them to gang paths, telepaths, and broadcasts.  If the person you are talking to is offended by them then you will stop. 

Profanity (Non PVP Realm)
Honestly, the last thing we want to do is tell people they shouldn't say certain words.  However, not everyone wants to hear you drop the F word in every gossip, let alone use it in your name (hint hint Mr. Hostile ;) ).  We have a pretty very relaxed atmosphere, but let's try to keep it reasonably clean in the gossip channel or in rooms with others.  Feel free to use the broadcast channel, telepaths (with people you know won't be offended), and gangpaths if you're going to use potentially offensive words.

Flaming (Non PVP Realm)
Don't do it.  If you know the person won't be offended, that's fine.  If someone asks you to stop, uhh.... stop.

Flaming (PVP Realm)
Grow a pair.  This is pvp, it's part of the game.  This is a hardcore realm.

PVP (PVP Realm)
PVP, or Player vs. Player for the n00bs out there, is an integral part of most MUDs.  It promotes limited item turnover and more player interaction in the game.  There will be no magic forcefields that prevent you from ever being killed by another player, and we're not going to take any action against those players.  However, we will do our best to make it so the law/alignment system serves and protects you as it happens should happen in real life.  We will strive to keep things balanced, so if there's areas that are protective of "good aligned" people there will also be areas that are beneficial and protective towards "evil aligned" people as well.

Sys Powers
When sys powers are given, there's a certain amount of trust that the person will be responsible with those powers.  Summoning 100 Tyrannosaurs in a round or even 2-3 at a time is counterproductive.  Yes, we want to test the limits of the game, but if you're going to do it, do it somewhere where it will not disturb other people who might be doing other legitimate and equally important testing.  The same goes for moving people; don't move them unless they ask you.  The need to log sys power use appears to be inevitable, but rather than spending time parsing through logs to see who did what and when we want to spend the time actually making forward progress on GreaterMUD. 

Consider this a call to all people who have sys powers to use them responsibly.


These rules are being implemented to make everyone's time here more enjoyable and productive.  We will add to and modify these rules as necessary.  Offenders may be booted, suspended, and eventually banned after repeated offenses.  Please let us know if someone is blatantly disregarding these rules or if you feel new rules need to be enforced.

Thanks for everyone's cooperation!

PS. Please keep in mind this is a test realm, meant to do some initial testing/debugging on the engine.  All characters may (and probably will) be reset when the new content is implemented.  Rerolled Characters will not be restored.

These rules are subject to change as deemed necessary by the Developers in order to insure that the testing continues in a smooth and orderly fashion.

Sysops will use the new "Announce" feature to send messages to everyone in the realm or everyone on the bbs.  To enable these messages to show up on your megamud convo window, enter the following into your bbs setup:

[Gardner Denver]

Definition of "Quest Boss Scripting"

A quest boss is any boss that you must kill or interact with in some fashion to progress through a quest.  This does not mean you can not script into the room where the boss is, it means you can not automatically kill him (via loop or timed goto event) every single time the boss regens.  Making people wait 4 or 5 days or forcing them to camp for up to 24 hours to catch a quest boss will no longer be tolerated on non pvp.

Quest Boss Examples
Duergar Lord
Enigma Lord
Demoness Irikani
Kai Master
Smuggler Boss
Dread Mystic
Queen Ant
Gypsy Woman
Dreadlord of Blood
Leo The Quick
White Jelly
Kai Master
Efreeti
Gemstone Juggernaut
Metalic Monstrocity