Applicable Rules (Subject to amendments) May/29/2014

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<div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><b style="font-size: 10pt;">General Rules of Civil Conduct*:</b></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;">
</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><font size="2"><b>1) No Swearing, overt and/or intentionally offensive remarks on public chat channels;</b></font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><font size="1">Basically, No saying the big bad swear words or rude sexually/discriminatory&nbsp;charged things on the</font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><font size="1">public chat channel, we have people of different ages and cultures and what not. Do not try and be</font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><font size="1">clever and try to skirt the rule as closely as you can, troll...</font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><font color="#009900" face="Arial, Verdana" size="1"><b>* If you guys want to swear to each other over private messages or what have you, go nuts. as long as everyone is okay with it.</b></font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><font size="1">
</font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2"><b>2) No bullying, targeting or unjustified exclusion of any persons</b></font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2"><b>
</b></font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2"><b>3) No spamming the chat channel or others via private messaging

4) No advertising for anything for commercial gain and/or about another minecraft server.</b></font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="1" color="#009900"><b>* I.E. no linking people to a site of yours to get money from visits or any other kind of money making procedure, and no</b></font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="1" color="#009900"><b>asking people to join other minecraft servers.</b></font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="1" color="#009900"><b>
</b></font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2"><b>5) No&nbsp;griefing unowned property by use of tools, tnt, fire etc...</b></font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2"><b>
</b></font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2"><b>6) Absolutely no stealing allowed</b></font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="1" color="#009900"><b>
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</b></font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial, Verdana"><b>Rules Regarding PVP Combat:</b></font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial, Verdana"><b>
</b></font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2"><b>1) No killing players within the confines of the Spawn Town, excluding within the fighting ground of the Spawn Arena.</b></font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2"><b>
</b></font></div><div style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2"><b style="font-weight: normal;">2) I</b><b>tems dropped on the death of the player may be kept by the victor unless in an arena setting or by prior agreement between the two fighting parties (5/29/2014)</b></font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" color="#009900" size="1"><b>
</b></font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2"><b>3) No setting a "Home" warp point within 250 blocks of another person's property without reasonable grounds or without permission</b></font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2"><b>from the person in question.</b></font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="1">This rule means that a person cannot use a "Home" point to quickly travel to others lands, especially with the intent of killing them faster. The reasonable grounds clause means that</font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="1">if a persons village happens to be within 250 blocks of another persons village, then it is reasonable to expect that the respective homes of the players may be within the normal</font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="1">250 block radius. This will be&nbsp;interpreted by an Admin if there is a complaint in such a case</font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;">
</div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2"><b>4) No warping/using the "/home homehere" command when engaged or about to&nbsp;imminently&nbsp;be engaged in a PVP&nbsp;occurrence</b></font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="1">Basically, if you're fighting someone or its clearly obvious you are about to engage in a fight with someone you cannot use a warping command of any type to escape.</font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="1">
</font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2"><b>5) No excessive killing and/or repeated killing of a&nbsp;yielded opponent</b></font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="1">Essentially, If you kill someone do not go back and kill them again anytime soon unless they're either okay with it or indicate otherwise that they are a threat, looking to fight again</font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="1">or otherwise cause an imminent and direct problem to your continued and smooth play.</font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="1">
</font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2"><b>6) No mining into, breaking through, placing a block in the pursuit of or otherwise removing of a block or blocks to gain entrance into a locality in order to kill a Player.</b></font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="1">Basically, you cant mine away a wall or break through a door or in anyway break into a place to chase after or kill a person. nor can you use a stack of blocks to gain entrance</font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="1">nor can you pace a switch or lever or any other input to open a door.&nbsp;<b>BUT</b>&nbsp;if its something like a wooden door, or no door at all, or you find the owners switch to gain entrance</font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="1">to the place then you can use those methods to gain entrance.</font></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt;">
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<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="2"><b>7) No shooting arrows from within a locality that cannot be accessed without breaking rule number 6</b></font></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="1">This rule basically makes it illegal for a player to lock themselves into a building and fire arrows at people outside, and they've done it in such a way</font></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="1">that the person they're shooting at can't get in to kill them without breaking rule 6. so the guy shooting the arrows doesnt have a way in that can be accessed</font></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;"><font face="Arial, Verdana" size="1">without mining in or placing a block or what not.</font></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;"><font face="Arial, Verdana"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: x-small; white-space: pre;"> </span><b><font size="2">7.1) This rule is not enforce when the player in question is shooting from the walls of a town in defence of a foreign&nbsp;aggressor who has attacked first</font></b></font></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;"><font size="1">This means that people firing arrows from a towns battlements, and have locked the gates and ways in, are exempt from rule number 7&nbsp;<b>ON THE CONDITION</b>&nbsp;that the person they;re shooting at</font></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;"><font size="1">started the altercation by firing at the defender and or otherwise threatening or refusing reasonable demands of the defender.</font></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;"><font size="1">
</font></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><font face="Arial">Rules Regarding Land Disputes:</font></b></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial"><b>1) Land claimed by the placement of a sign or a non-substantial and contiguously occupied&nbsp;structure&nbsp;has its claim expire in 14 days if the claim in question does not meet&nbsp;</b></font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial"><b>the concept of frequent and recurrent use by the claimant</b></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="1">Essentially, if someone is going to claim lands/islands anything by building a small structure or placing a sign, their legitimate</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="1">ownership of the claim will expire after 2 weeks unless the claim is actually put to use. I,E, building a real house that is</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="1">inhabited, a fort, a mine, fields or farms etc...</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="1">
</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>2) Application for a previously occupied land claim is to be done only after an apparent</b></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>14 day lapse on said claim, and is to be pursued through a formal application on the forums</b></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>with the claim coordinates to be arbitrated by an admin at the admin's earliest&nbsp;convenience.

</b></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>2.1) An Admin may deny any application made regarding a previously occupied land claim provided:
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>a)&nbsp;the Admin has found the claim reasonably and frequently occupied</b></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>b) the Admin believes that such a claim is unreasonable on the grounds of the location</b></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>and/or distance of the claim to the parties involved</b></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>c) the Admin believes that the claim would level an unfair advantage for a given party</b></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>3) At no point can a person or party of persons modify, seize or otherwise deny access or use</b></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>to another person or party of persons of the&nbsp;latter's&nbsp;respective land and or territories unless the</b></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>territory in question has:</b></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>a) Been ruled by an admin to no longer be the property of the denied party</b></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>b) Been agreed upon by both parties regarding the rules of consensual warfare</b></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&nbsp; &nbsp; as a property at stake within the confines of the given war.</b></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="4"><b>CONTINUED IN NEXT POST</b></font></div><div></div><div></div><div></div>

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<div><font face="Arial"><b>The Rules of Warfare</b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><font size="2">1) A State of Warfare is a state of open and continued PVP conflict between two persons or party of persons which meet the following requirements:</font></b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b><font size="2"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>a) A declaration of War is posted on the forums containing the person or party of persons</font></b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b><font size="2"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>&nbsp; &nbsp; involved on both sides of the conflict</font></b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b><font size="2"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>b) All persons or party of persons consent to the declaration of war by posting in the</font></b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b><font size="2"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>&nbsp; &nbsp; affirmative on the original Declaration of War post.</font></b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b><font size="2"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>c) The declaration is not invalidated by any Admin or Moderator for any reasonably</font></b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b><font size="2"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>&nbsp; &nbsp; stated reason</font></b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b><font size="2">
</font></b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b><font size="2"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2) Persons or parties of persons within a State of War have all the rules of PVP combat as per</font></b></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; the PVP combat rules with the exception of PvP Rule number 5 as a State of War indicates</b></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>&nbsp; &nbsp; that the affected persons are not in a position of yielding</b></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>3) A State of War is concluded with regard to the persons or party of persons involved with the&nbsp;occurrence&nbsp;of any of the following conditions:
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>a) A Person or Party of Persons yields in the conflict, declaring an end to hostilities</b></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>b) Any objective of&nbsp;conclusion&nbsp;agreed upon by the Persons or Party of Persons in the</b></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&nbsp; &nbsp; conflict is reached by one of the persons or party of persons.</b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&nbsp; &nbsp; </b><b><font size="1">I.E. If two groups say, if you can kill us all from this village in a single attack you win the war or win the war</font></b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><b><font size="1"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>&nbsp; &nbsp;and gain the village. And both parties agree to that condition and then it occurs.</font></b></font></div><div><font face="Arial"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b><font size="2">C) An Admin declares a cessation of the War</font></b></font></div>