Server Rules

Rules may be stacked depending on the severity of your actions. This means the punishment will also increase varying on the amount of rules you broke.

The GM Team reserves the right to exact any form of punishment/s if they feel certain kinds of behavior/actions is abusive under the scope of the rules. The server also reserves the right to modify the rules without prior notice.

Players are advised to keep themselves informed of these rules as you play the game, and ignorance of the rules will not be entertained as an acceptable excuse for breaking them.

SERVER RULES

General Rules

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Any form of hacking, scamming, using bots, duping items, and/or modifying BraveRO in any way is considered illegal. Any form of AFK (Away From Keyboard) Farming is considered illegal. A player must be physically mentally present by their computer/device whenever their character is doing any kind of action. Such actions may refer to (but not limited to) farming/obtaining items, buffing players, attacking monsters, selling items, or mining. Furthermore, AFK Leveling and/or farming through the use of Homunculi and Mercenaries, or any automated macro script is not allowed.

• Punishment: All Offenses: Permanent Ban

Any form of buying, selling, and/or trading in-game items or currencies in BraveRO for real world currencies is considered illegal. This is infamously known as Real Money Trading (RMT). Real world currencies may include, but is not limited to electronic/crypto currency, game or phone credits/load, or for items/currencies in another server or game is illegal.

• Punishment: All Offenses: Permanent Ban (and/or related accounts)

The act of buying, selling, and/or trading BraveRO account/s for any form of in-game item/currencies is considered illegal. This includes, but is not limited to, farming services, leveling services, and ranking services. As such, you are not allowed to give your account publicly via any means (e.g. Broadcast, public chat, etc.). If you do so wish to share your account/s, do so privately.

• Punishment: All Offenses: Permanent Ban of all accounts involved

Using any character, party, guild names, and/or titles that is intended to deceive, mislead, or impersonate other players is considered illegal. As such, the use of, but not limited to, "GM", "Game Master", "Security", "Administrator" is not allowed. Furthermore, the official use of the BraveRO name without permission from the server administrator is considered illegal as well.

• Punishment: All Offenses: Permanent Ban

Any form of advertisements for other servers and/or websites apart from those officialy endorsed by BraveRO by any means via in-game or the forums is considered illegal.

• Punishment: All Offenses: Permanent Ban

The creation and use of multiple accounts for the purpose of using and abusing time-limited and/or account-bound NPCs (e.g. Wheel of Fortune, Daily Quest, Scavenger Hunts, claiming Division salary/benefits). Depending on the severity of your actions and the results of a GM's investigations, a higher form of offense may be imposed,

• Punishment: 1st Offense: 2 weeks ban - 2nd Offense: 3 month ban - 3rd Offense: Permanent Ban (All related accounts)

The abuse of any game and/or NPC bugs is considered illegal. Whenever you encounter and/or find a bug, you are responsible for reporting it at the soonest possible time. In the event that it will be proven that you were abusing it to your advantage, a higher punishment may be imposed instead.

• Punishment: 1st Offense: A week ban 2nd Offense: A month ban 3rd Offense: Permanent Ban

The intentional abuse of any and all bugs/glitches to cheat and/or gain an unfair advantage is illegal.

• Punishment: All Offenses: Permanent Ban.

The act of Dual Clienting (logging in two or more accounts in one device, or after investigation multiple devices by one player) in any PvP Area, Battleground Arenas, Automated Events, Seasonal Events, and other such cases where doing so may/will result in an unfair advantage, is considered illegal. In relation to farming Seasonal Events, players may only use one character/account for farming items at a time (be it killing event monsters, or joining parties for Raid Bosses).

• Punishment for PvP-Related Dual Clienting: 1st Offense: 24 hour Jail/2 day ban. 2nd Offense: 3 day jail/5 day ban. 3rd Offense: Permanent Ban.

• Punishment for Automated Events and Battlegrounds related Dual Clienting: 1st Offense: 2 day ban 2+ Offenses: +2 day ban per additional infraction up to a maximum of 7 days for all accounts involved.

• Punishment for Dual Clienting in Seasonal Events: All Offenses: 3 days ban

The intentional use of looting pets to loot character-bound items (e.g. Draconus Scale) in an attempt to buy, sell, or trade is considered illegal and a bug abuse.

• Punishment: All Offenses: 4 day ban.

The use of multiple accounts in order to abuse and gain more zeny via the Roulette NPC is considered illegal.

• Punishment: All Offenses: 2 day ban per account involved.

Farming points, items, tokens, coins, etc., through the repeated action of killing and resurrection of yourself and/or other players is considered illegal

• Punishment: 1st Offense: 4 day ban. 2nd Offense: 10 day ban. 3rd Offense: Permanent Ban.

Player Etiquette

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At times, warnings may be given in the form of verbally warning a player, nuke, mute, kick, or a short jail time by an online GM.

We highly encourage everyone to show a minimum form of respect for any and all players. Don't forget, the staff, which includes the Support Players (SP), Game Masters (GM), and Administrator are players as well. As such, swearing, insulting, and/or harassment, in any form, be it sexual, racial, or religious in nature is considered illegal. However, do note that due to the intensity of some PvP areas, the language that you may encounter there may not be to your liking. In this regard, we humbly ask of you to prepare a higher level of tolerance for such language before joining PvP areas.

• Punished according to the discretion of the GM and in relation to severity of charge.

The act of spamming public selling, buying, or trading chats in the main town, or any areas that it may be disruptive to the general public, is considered illegal. Furthermore, the act of spamming anything in public chat is considered illegal. Kindly have long pauses in between your public chat advertisements.

• Punishment: 1st Offense: Warn 2nd Offense: 1 hour mute / 2 hour jail time Additional Offenses: +24 hour jail time.

The act of spamming skills that ends up becoming highly disruptive to other players or the server in general is considered illegal. Do note that while testing and/or dueling in towns (except Caspen) is fine, intentionally spamming a skill, especially Area of Effect (AoE) skills (e.g. Lord of Vermillion, Meteor Storm) with the intent of causing lag or disruptions is considered illegal.

• Punishment: 1st Offense: Warn. 2nd Offense: 2 hour jailtime. 3rd Offense: 24 hour jail time.

The act of repetitively begging for Zeny, items, buffs, a staff position, to be unbanned/unjailed, or for any other information, through any means of communication (public chat, whispering, party/guild chats, etc.) is considered illegal.

• Punishment: 1st Offense: Warn. 2nd Offense: Mute for 5 minutes. 3rd Offense: Mute for 15 minutes or Jail for one hour, depending on GM's discretion.

The act of abusing the Broadcast NPC is considered illegal. Using the aforementioned NPC for anything other than its intended function (Buying, Selling, Trading, recruiting guild members, paging a player/GM) is not allowed. The broadcast functions must be used as intended. Any form of using the Broadcast NPC that is technically within the bounds of its rules, but violates the spirit of it is considered an abuse.

• Punishment: Depending on the discretion of the attending GM, Warning Points will be given. Once your Warning Points reaches ten (10), you are permanently banned form using the Broadcast NPC.

The act of kill-stealing summoned MVPs is considered illegal. However, it must be remembered that MVPs/monsters summoned via skills and/or Bloody/Dead Branches are done so at your own risk. Do remember not to use, summon, and/or spawn them in an area where it may cause disruptions. To prevent your summons from being stolen, make use of remote maps, branch summoning rooms, and do not divulge any information that you're summoning monsters. Please do remember that MVPs/monsters that spawn naturally, as well as summoned MVPs/monsters whose summoners have died, are free-for-all.

• Punished according to the discretion of the GM and in relation to severity of charge

The act of setting up a vending/buying shop anywhere outside of the designated vending area map is considered illegal.

• Punishment: 1st Offense: 12 hour jailtime 2nd Offense: 24 hour jail time Additional Offenses: +24 hour jail time

The intentional act of vending for the express purpose of trolling prices that appears via the @whosell command is considered illegal. As an example, you can be punished if you sell an item that costs 100,000 Zeny for 1 100M Zeny Bag, or selling generally useless items (e.g. Apple, Jellopy) for exorbitant prices (e.g. 1,000 1B Zeny Bags)

• Punishment: All Offenses: +12 hour jail time

The act of PvP or dueling in the server's main town, Caspen, is considered illegal.

• Punishment: All offenses: 30 minute jail if online. If you hop, you get banned for two days.

The act of using the Shadow Form skill to kill players who are not currently engaged in PvP or are not inside PvP areas is considered as a form of griefing, thus it is illegal.

• Punishment: 1st Offense: Warn. 2nd Offense: 2 hour jail time. 3rd Offense: 24 hour jail time.

The act of blocking or disrupting players from entering time-limited events (e.g. Bomb Poring, Safety Wall, Survival, and other automated or GM Hosted events that makes use of a portal) is considered illegal.

• Punishment: All Offenses: 3 hour jail time

The act of griefing other players is considered illegal. This applies to both PvE, PvP, and other social interactions.

• Punishment: All Offenses: 3 hour jail time

The act of using Dead Branches or Bloody Branches in an area of high player density or any other maps that will result in disruption is considered illegal.

• Punishment: 1st Offense: 2 day ban or 24 hour jail time. 2nd+ Offense: 4 day ban.

Do remember that Guild Logos must be clear, visible, and distinct whenever participating in War of Emperium (WoE). As such, your logo cannot be invisible or "nothing" or an image with an extremely minimal design. Your logo must be big enough that it can be clearly seen by other players from other guilds. Furthermore, you are not allowed to copy or imitate an opposing guild's logo in an attempt to confuse and/or fool them.

• Punishment: Punishment varies depending on the offending guild's actions during WoE. If a guild has been found to be violating this rule, punishments can include (but are not limited to): Loss of all guild castles, Temporary or Permanent ban of the guild leader, forced disbandment of guild, and/or ban of all guild members

The act of intentionally using Homunculi to stack on the user's cell in order to prevent other players from targeting you is considered illegal. As such, during any PvP activity, the Homunculus must be at least 2 cells away from the user's cell.

• Punishment: 1st Offense: 3 day ban. 2nd Offense: 1 week ban. 3rd Offense: Permanent Ban.

Battleground Rules

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Players are required to help their respective teams, either with killing, completing objectives, or any act that is beneficial to the team. Thus, failing to do anything for the team, just doing nothing and standing, auto-following someone, and/or going AFK for a prolonged period of time just to claim badges and other battlegrounds rewards, waiting to be killed, or until the game ends is considered illegal.

• Punishment: 1st Offense: Warning 2+ Offenses: +1 day jail or 2 day ban per additional infraction

Griefing in Battlegrounds is considered illegal. This includes, but is not limited to, aiding the enemy team through intentional feeding or just losing on purpose.

• Punishment: Punished according to the discretion of the GM and in relation to severity of charge.

The use of safe zones when carrying flags, crystals, or stones in order to protect yourself from getting killed is considered illegal.

• Punishment: 1st Offense: 2 hour jail time up to 1 day ban.

Using any pet that has the ability to loot in Triple Inferno is considered illegal.

• Punishment: 1st Offense: 2 hour jail time 2+ Offenses: +4 hour jail per additional infraction

Event Rules

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The act of entering 500 PvP Event in a party or forming a party inside the event map is considered illegal. This event is meant to be a free-for-all and that the aspect of this must be protected and respected. However, parties may only be allowed for party versus party duels if those surviving will agree to it. Remember that the winner must be decided upon by pure PvP alone. Disconnecting, be it intentional or unintentional, and/or giving away free kills is highly discoraged.

• Punishment: All Offense: 1 day temporary ban.

Forming a party when participating inside Stolen Key is considered illegal.

• A verbal warning will be issued to disband the party when a player is caught for the first time. If the warning is ignored, everyone in the party will be jailed for three (3) hours.

The act of abusing the the drop of the key in Stolen Key to let other players win, which refers to intentionally dropping it for other players or looting it using a pet, is not allowed.

• Punishment: Warning plus jail time or ban depending on the discretion of the GM.

The act of using multiple accounts to start Stolen Key is illegal and will be considered as Dual Clienting in an event.

• Dual Clienting punishments will be applied.

The act of intentionally killing players from your own division during a PvP-related division event is considered illegal.

• Punishment: 1st Offense: 2 day ban. 2nd Offense: 4 day ban. 3rd Offense: Permanent Ban.

The act of entering and joining a PvP-related division event without a party is illegal. These division events are meant to be a team event. As such, if you're going solo, you can be considered as killing your own division members. Do note that you must be in a party that clearly depicts your division and has members from your own division. In the event that parties are full or no one could invite you at the moment, you must make your own party that also depicts your division.

• Punishment: 1st Offense: 24 hour Jail/2 day ban. 2nd Offense: 3 day jail/5 day Ban 3rd Offense: 2 week Ban.

Players in a division must use @tag whenever you enter a PvP-related Division Event. Failure to do so is considered illegal since you're not part of any team and will be treated as going solo.

• Punishment: 1st Offense: Warning (any player) 2nd Offense: 2 hour jail time 3rd Offense: 1 day Ban.

Friendly Reminders

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Under no circumstance must you give your username and/or password to anyone. This includes all players, staff members, Support Players, and Game Masters. A real Game Master will not ask for your username or password. In the event that you did share your account information with someone, and that person takes items, deletes or drops items, trades/sells your items, and makes any other changes to your characters/accounts, do not ask a Game Master to replace your items or revert any changes that has been made to your character/account. Share your account at your own risk.

In the event that an account has been hacked and that the owner of the account has been found to share their account information, the GM team will take no responsibility and will be unable to take any further action once proven.

In the event that you decide to loan items, zeny, and/or equipment to someone, do so at your own risk. If the person you gave your item to decides to keep them, do not ask a GM to get them back for you.

Attempting to buy account bound items must be done so at your own risk. An example of this is buying Victory Badges. A common situation relating to this item is that players might want to buy or upgrade their battleground garment. Player A then advertises "B> 100 Victory Badges" in order to safely upgrade their garment twice. Player B, a seller, then comes and says that he has 100 Victory Badges. Player A then trades his battleground garment and/or the payment for the badges. At this point Player B may decide to keep the garment and/or payment and run away or to fully commit to their deal.

Whenever you are engaging in trades that exceed the 10-item limit per trade (e.g. Hero Quests items, large quantities of items/equipment), do so at your own risk. In the event that you have already traded your items and did not received the agreed payment within the same trade, do not ask a GM to replace or retrieve your items. However, if you wish to have a safer form of trading, use @request to request a staff member or GM (whichever is available) as the intermediary for the trade. Always remember to take screenshots of the deal.

POLICIES ON MACRO USE

Macros are command chains that can be created using a combination of keys or macro keys found on special keyboards or gaming mice. Hitting these keys executes a number of commands in a sequence that effectively saves a lot of time. Since we are all familiar with what macros are, how well does it apply in gaming? Because macros simplify information input, gamers may just push a button for a wide range of actions, which gamers refer to as macro keys. Certain 3rd party programs, a gaming mice, controllers and keyboards allow for a chain of actions to occur by hitting a single button. We do at this time allow for the use of macros, so long as the usage is within the limits of the allowed macro behavior as indicated below. In essence, we're allowing the usage of macros so long as its sole function is to assist the player. In the event that the macro is basically playing the game for you (e.g. Casting a skill and then immediately jumping afterwards; automated mining) that will be considered as stipulated in the illegal macro behaviors below. GMs or players may perform third party tests on players they suspect to be abusing macros or just plain botting. In either case, proper evidences must be acquired that clearly shows the behavior of the suspected player. Do note that automated responses will not cut it, and outright not responding to the GM or player investigating will only make things worse.

Allowed Macro Behavior

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You can use macros to:

• help you cast skills or chains of skills in PvM or PvP situations.

• help you equip items or chains of items in PvM or PvP situations.

• help you buff yourself or others in PvM or PvP situations.

• automatically open gift boxes, use potions or any other usable item in PvM or PvP situations.

Illegal Macro Behavior

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• You cannot use macros to farm loot, mine or kill monsters automatically. Even if you are monitoring the macro, that will be considered botting.

  • 1st offense punishment: Permanent account ban.

  • 2nd offense punishment: Permanent account ban + 14 days computer/device ban.

  • 3rd offense punishment: All related account ban + permanent computer/device ban.

  • There are no exceptions unless not enough proper evidence is provided to support the claim.

• You cannot use macros to spam the chat box with non skill-related messages or spam visual effects. (Skills that have a chat message are excluded, i.e. Frost joker)

  • Punished according to GM's discretion.

• You cannot use macros to spam clicks on NPC such as healers, refiners or NPCs with visual effects.

  • 1st offense Punishment: 3 days account ban & computer/device ban.

  • 2nd offense Punishment: 7 days account ban & computer/device ban.

  • 3rd offense Punishment: Permanent account ban & computer/device ban.

• You cannot share or recommend macros or 3rd party programs infected with malware, key loggers or viruses.

  • Punishment: Permanent computer ban and related account ban.