1. Common Sense
- You are not allowed to have a friend, family member or someone else answer the questions for you in the application process. Do not ask staff members to review your application — it will be handled as soon as possible, just be patient. You are not allowed to make offensive posts on the UCP guestbooks of other users.Punishments: Warning or temporary ban depending on severity.
- You are NOT allowed to share or give out registered accounts to other people. This is a very serious offense which may get you banned permanently. Sharing of character applications or stories falls under this rule as well — they must be original and made without the help of anyone.
Your IP, account and computer are your responsibility. Nobody else should be using your network, account or computer apart from you, so keep your passwords secure. If you think someone may know your account details, change them immediately. You will get no sympathy if a sibling or a friend of yours gains access to your account through your own carelessness and then gets you banned. Examples of what you should not do:
- Giving your accounts away to your friends because they don't want to waste time registering.
- You leave your password on display and your sibling logs into your account and gets banned.
Punishments: Temporary or permanent ban depending on severity.
- You are not allowed to create or use other accounts whilst having an active ban on any of your characters. Doing so will only lower the chances of the original ban being lifted and will obviously lead to your new/alternative account being banned as well.Punishments: Temporary or permanent ban depending on severity.This rule applies to all services provided by LS-RP — game server, forum, IRC, Teamspeak, etc.
- You are not allowed to sell/buy or advertise the selling/buying of any in-game money, vehicles, properties, memberships or accounts to gain real life money. You are also not allowed to sell/buy Out Of Character items for/with In Character money/goods. In other words, no mixing of any IC/OOC goods and services. Examples:
- Paying someone in-game cash in exchange for a skin mod.
- Advertising on external websites that you are selling $1,000,000 LS-RP money for $1 real life money.
- Buying donation memberships and selling them to other players for in-game cash.
- Writing applications or creating accounts for players who are willing to pay you money.
Punishments: Permanent ban for everyone involved — merchants and clients.
- You are not allowed to have celebrity names (i.e. easily recognizable in society) on your characters. The same goes for unrealistic names, gag names (e.g. Mike_Hunt, Ben_Dover, Al_Coholic, etc) and fun names that do exist in real life, but can still be considered trollish, like Gaylord.Punishments: Permanent admin-jail until you change your name — you will need to purchase a namechange.You are not allowed to use character names that have already been Character Killed (CK).
- If you would like to transfer any existing money or property from one of your characters to another, you must first acquire admin permission. You can request such permission in-game using the command /re. You will need a sufficient OOC and IC explanation as to why you would like to perform a transfer. If such permission is granted, you will need to have someone trustworthy help you transfer the goods from character to character.Punishments: Anything transferred without permission will be taken away from you and not be refunded.
- Only one of your characters can be /invited into an official faction, unless you have been granted Double Faction permission. This rule does not apply to unofficial factions. More information can be found here.Punishments: If the faction leader has been lied to, or the truth has been twisted to allow you into the faction without permission, you will be kicked from it until permitted by both sides.