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THE PARADISE SERVER RULES ARE HERE. THE PAGE YOU ARE ON NOW IS THE ADVANCED RULES.

About This Page: Rules versus Advanced Rules

This page (the Advanced Rules) exists to provide clarifications and precedents for the rules.

All players are expected to be familiar with the rules, including new players.

New players are not expected to be familiar with the advanced rules, however it is helpful for long term players, as well as for players playing advanced roles such as Ashwalkers, Command, Silicons, etc.

The writing style here is more informal than the standard rules, and the spirit matters more than the letter.

This page is written with more advanced players in mind, and so its terminology may be unfamiliar to newer players. It will also include some reasoning for each rule, so players can better understand the spirit of the rules, and admins can stay on the same page.

Specific Rules

Rule 0: Don’t be a dick

• Intent: This rule exists because the rules can’t possibly cover all situations - admins need the ability to rule on things that aren’t explicitly covered by the rules. SS13 has a near infinite possible situations, and the game is constantly updating and changing.

• Additionally, we don’t want a server with dicks on it. We want cool people.

• This also exists for times when people are breaking the spirit of the rules but not the letter. The rules are not a code of laws for a country, where you can get off on a technicality. The server is more akin to friends playing a tabletop game (Such as D&D) together, and if people are making the game worse for other players, we don’t want them around.

Rule 0 Clarifications

• This rule also is used to enforce “Quality Control” bans - these are for people who have taken up a lot of server staff's time with repeated minor incidents, and are also known as “high maintenance players”. These are generally people who have gotten 20+ notes.

• It also covers bans we mirror from other servers, usually due to a large degree of ban evading and grief, or OOC creepyness and harassment of users.

Rule 0 Precedents

• We may mirror bans from other servers. This is usually reserved for extreme cases like large scale grief, doxxing, illegal activities, or very creepy behaviour. These can of course be appealed, and if there’s worry that this is done in error, contact a head.

• The rules are not limited to actions on the server. We have no limit of jurisdiction. If you harass players in other games or discords, or are a member of a neo-nazi organisation IRL, we can still ban you.

• This also includes security. Security are players too, and being a dick to them for fun is not on. If you have an issue with how security are acting, there are proper channels for this - IAA, NT Rep, Captain, HoS, Magistrate, or ahelping in extreme circumstances. It is not ok to intentionally frustrate security.

• Heads of a department should manage their department. This does not mean demoting people for the slightest mistake. Where possible, teach people to do things properly in a friendly manner and in general act to improve them. Do not look for any excuse to wield your power or be an asshole to your employees. Demotions and other exercises of authority should be reserved for actual problems, not trivial mistakes. If someone is continually a problem, this should be ahelped.

• Deliberately breaking the atmos net in order to hamper antags that use it (xenos, borers, terrors, headcrabs, atmostechs, etc) counts as breaking this rule. Regardless of your job and/or antag status. This includes making the air distribution pipenet damaging to crawl through, creating "traps" in the net, obscuring the exit of pipes with objects, or unwrenching almost any pipe. The only time you can unwrench a pipe to hinder ventcrawling antags is if you see a specific ventcrawling antag, in a specific room, then you're allowed to unwrench the pipe only to that specific room, and reconnect it after the ventcrawling antag is no longer there. You must reconnect it before going on to disconnect any other pipe, anywhere. Welding vents/scrubbers is always okay once ventcrawling antags are known to be on the station, and does not fall under this rule.

Rule 1: Listen To The Admins

• Intent: Staff have limited time on the server to deal with issues, and often have to deal with multiple issues at once. This rule exists so that a staff member may make a ruling and move on with the round. This isn’t to say that staff are always right - instead the intent is that the player accept the ruling for that round and move on, and if they disagree with the ruling it’s taken up outside of the current round on the forums/etc. This also means heads and other staff can chip in on the issue, so it’s not just one staff member ruling.

• For appropriate ckeys, this is about the overall server atmosphere. We very much don’t want to be XboxLive, and having “x69FucksBitchesHard420x” talking in OOC brings down the general level of maturity we’d like to have.

Rule 1 Precedents

• Ckeys the are excessively sexual, abusive, or just immature, may be asked to be changed. People with ckeys like “KillTheJews” will just be banned and not offered the chance to change it.

• Ignoring admin PMs leaves us little choice but to ban you so we can discuss things on the forums.

• Demanding that another staff member handle your case or disrespecting a trial admin and asking for a ‘real’ admin is a fast way to get banned under this rule, as well. The staff are unpaid, so asking to “speak to the manager” will mean you have to speak to them in appeals.

• Lying to admins is a quick ticket to a ban - it’s wasting our time.

• Acting in a manner to intentionally cause frustration and anger among others fits the wikipedia definition of griefing and is disallowed.

• Salting about your ban in deadchat/discord/etc is a quick ticket to having it expanded. If you have an issue with the ban, take it up in the ban appeal forum. This is the proper channel, and only appropriate place to bring it up.