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'''Warning:''' Rules may be stacked depending on the severity of your actions, meaning the punishment will also increase varying on the amount of rules you broke.
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<p style="color:red"><big><big>'''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.'''</big></big></p><br>
   
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<big><big>'''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.'''</big></big><br><br>
== General Rules ==
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<big><big>'''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.'''</big></big>
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== <big><big>'''SERVER RULES'''</big></big> ==
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=== <big>'''General Rules'''</big> ===
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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.
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*<p style="color:red">Punishment: All Offenses: Permanent Ban
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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.
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*<p style="color:red">Punishment: All Offenses: Permanent Ban (and/or related accounts)
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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.
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*<p style="color:red">Punishment: All Offenses: Permanent Ban of all accounts involved
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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.
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*<p style="color:red">Punishment: All Offenses: Permanent Ban
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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.
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*<p style="color:red">Punishment: All Offenses: Permanent Ban
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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,
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*<p style="color:red">Punishment: 1st Offense: 2 weeks ban - 2nd Offense: 3 month ban - 3rd Offense: Permanent Ban (All related accounts)
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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.
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*<p style="color:red">Punishment: 1st Offense: A week ban 2nd Offense: A month ban 3rd Offense: Permanent Ban
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The intentional abuse of any and all bugs/glitches to cheat and/or gain an unfair advantage is illegal.
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*<p style="color:red">Punishment: All Offenses: Permanent Ban.
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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).
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*<p style="color:red">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.
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*<p style="color:red">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.
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*<p style="color:red">Punishment for Dual Clienting in Seasonal Events: All Offenses: 3 days ban
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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.
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*<p style="color:red">Punishment: All Offenses: 4 day ban.
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The use of multiple accounts in order to abuse and gain more zeny via the Roulette NPC is considered illegal.
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*<p style="color:red">Punishment: All Offenses: 2 day ban per account involved.
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Farming points, items, tokens, coins, etc., through the repeated action of killing and resurrection of yourself and/or other players is considered illegal
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*<p style="color:red">Punishment: 1st Offense: 4 day ban. 2nd Offense: 10 day ban. 3rd Offense: Permanent Ban.
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=== <big>'''Player Etiquette'''</big> ===
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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.
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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.
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*<p style="color:red">Punished according to the discretion of the GM and in relation to severity of charge.
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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.
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*<p style="color:red">Punishment: 1st Offense: Warn 2nd Offense: 1 hour mute / 2 hour jail time Additional Offenses: +24 hour jail time.
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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.
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*<p style="color:red">Punishment: 1st Offense: Warn. 2nd Offense: 2 hour jailtime. 3rd Offense: 24 hour jail time.
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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.
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*<p style="color:red">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.
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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.
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*<p style="color:red">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.
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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.
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*<p style="color:red">Punished according to the discretion of the GM and in relation to severity of charge
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The act of setting up a vending/buying shop anywhere outside of the designated vending area map is considered illegal.
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*<p style="color:red">Punishment: 1st Offense: 12 hour jailtime 2nd Offense: 24 hour jail time Additional Offenses: +24 hour jail time
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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)
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*<p style="color:red">Punishment: All Offenses: +12 hour jail time
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The act of PvP or dueling in the server's main town, Caspen, is considered illegal.
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*<p style="color:red">Punishment: All offenses: 30 minute jail if online. If you hop, you get banned for two days.
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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.
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*<p style="color:red">Punishment: 1st Offense: Warn. 2nd Offense: 2 hour jail time. 3rd Offense: 24 hour jail time.
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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.
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*<p style="color:red">Punishment: All Offenses: 3 hour jail time
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The act of griefing other players is considered illegal. This applies to both PvE, PvP, and other social interactions.
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*<p style="color:red">Punishment: All Offenses: 3 hour jail time
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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.
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*<p style="color:red">Punishment: 1st Offense: 2 day ban or 24 hour jail time. 2nd+ Offense: 4 day ban.
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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.
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*<p style="color:red">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
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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.
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*<p style="color:red">Punishment: 1st Offense: 3 day ban. 2nd Offense: 1 week ban. 3rd Offense: Permanent Ban.
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=== <big>'''Battleground Rules'''</big> ===
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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.
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*<p style="color:red">Punishment: 1st Offense: Warning 2+ Offenses: +1 day jail or 2 day ban per additional infraction
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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.
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*<p style="color:red">Punishment: Punished according to the discretion of the GM and in relation to severity of charge.
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The use of safe zones when carrying flags, crystals, or stones in order to protect yourself from getting killed is considered illegal.
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*<p style="color:red">Punishment: 1st Offense: 2 hour jail time up to 1 day ban.
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Using any pet that has the ability to loot in Triple Inferno is considered illegal.
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*<p style="color:red">Punishment: 1st Offense: 2 hour jail time 2+ Offenses: +4 hour jail per additional infraction
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=== <big>'''Event Rules'''</big> ===
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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.
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*<p style="color:red">Punishment: All Offense: 1 day temporary ban.
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Forming a party when participating inside Stolen Key is considered illegal.
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*<p style="color:red">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.
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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.
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*<p style="color:red">Punishment: Warning plus jail time or ban depending on the discretion of the GM.
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The act of using multiple accounts to start Stolen Key is illegal and will be considered as Dual Clienting in an event.
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*<p style="color:red">Dual Clienting punishments will be applied.
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The act of intentionally killing players from your own division during a PvP-related division event is considered illegal.
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*<p style="color:red">Punishment: 1st Offense: 2 day ban. 2nd Offense: 4 day ban. 3rd Offense: Permanent Ban.
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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.
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*<p style="color:red">Punishment: 1st Offense: 24 hour Jail/2 day ban. 2nd Offense: 3 day jail/5 day Ban 3rd Offense: 2 week Ban.
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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.
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*<p style="color:red">Punishment: 1st Offense: Warning (any player) 2nd Offense: 2 hour jail time 3rd Offense: 1 day Ban.
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=== '''<big>Friendly Reminders</big>''' ===
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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== <big><big>'''POLICIES ON MACRO USE'''</big></big> ==
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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.
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=== <p style="color:green"><big>'''Allowed Macro Behavior'''</big> </p> ===
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You can use macros to:
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* <p style="color:green">help you cast skills or chains of skills in PvM or PvP situations.
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* <p style="color:green">help you equip items or chains of items in PvM or PvP situations.
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* <p style="color:green">help you buff yourself or others in PvM or PvP situations.
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* <p style="color:green">automatically open gift boxes, use potions or any other usable item in PvM or PvP situations.
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=== <p style="color:red"><big>'''Illegal Macro Behavior'''</big> </p> ===
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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.
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**<p style="color:red">1st offense punishment: Permanent account ban.
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**<p style="color:red">2nd offense punishment: Permanent account ban + 14 days computer/device ban.
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**<p style="color:red">3rd offense punishment: All related account ban + permanent computer/device ban.
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**There are no exceptions unless not enough proper evidence is provided to support the claim.
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1. Hacking, duping, scamming, botting, and/or tampering with BraveRO in any way, shape, or form (including 0 delay) is illegal.
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*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)
All Offenses: Permanent Ban
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**<p style="color:red">Punished according to GM's discretion.
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*You cannot use macros to spam clicks on NPC such as healers, refiners or NPCs with visual effects.
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**<p style="color:red">1st offense Punishment: 3 days account ban & computer/device ban.
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**<p style="color:red">2nd offense Punishment: 7 days account ban & computer/device ban.
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**<p style="color:red">3rd offense Punishment: Permanent account ban & computer/device ban.
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1a. AFK Farming in general is illegal. This includes afk leveling/farming through Homunculus and Mercenary AI or automated macro script. Players must be present at their computer when any actions are being performed by their characters, particularly with regards to (but in no way limited to) obtaining items, adding buffs to other players, automatically attacking mobs, selling items, or farming specific nodes. We allow the use of macros, as long as the player is actually present, and can pass any third party program test performed by a GM or another player in the game.
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*You cannot share or recommend macros or 3rd party programs infected with malware, key loggers or viruses.
 
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2. Abuse of gameplay/NPC bugs is illegal. If you find a bug, it is in yours as well as the servers' best interest to report it. If you fail to do so and we find out that you have been abusing it, we may invoke 2nd or 3rd offense charges depending on the severity of your actions.
 
1st Offense: A week ban 2nd Offense: A month ban 3rd Offense: Permanent Ban
 
 
 
 
2a. Intentional abuse of any and all bugs/glitches to cheat and/or gain an unfair advantage is illegal, without exception, in any and all cases.
 
All Offenses: Permanent Ban.
 
 
 
 
2b. The use of looting pets to loot character bound items (e.g. Draconus scale, Fragments) is classified as known-bug abuse, and an attempt to buy/sell/trade said items are illegal.
 
All Offenses: 4 day ban.
 
 
 
 
2c. Using multiple accounts to abuse the amount of zeny you can win through Roulette NPC is illegal.
 
All Offenses: 2 day ban per account involved.
 
 
 
 
3. Buying, selling, and/or trading of items/zeny in BraveRO for real money, be it in the form of electronic-currency, game or phone credits, or for items/zeny in any another server via any means of communication, be it in-game, forums, or social media (ie: Facebook, Twitter, etc.), is illegal.  (Codename: RMT, Real Money Trading)
 
All Offenses: Permanent Ban (and/or related accounts)
 
 
 
 
3a. Buying, selling, and/or trading of BraveRO account(s) for any and all forms of currency (inclusive of in-game zeny) is illegal. This includes "ranking services". You are not allowed to give your account publicly through broadcaster etc. If you want to share or give your account for free do it privately.
 
All Offenses: Permanent Ban of all accounts involved
 
 
 
 
4. The use of any character, party, guild names or titles intended to mislead/impersonate others is illegal. This includes but is not limited to "GM", "Game Master", "Security", "Admin", or "Administrator". In addition, the official use of the BraveRO name is illegal without explicit permission from the server administrator.
 
All Offenses: Permanent Ban
 
 
 
 
5. Advertisement of other servers/webpages apart from those endorsed by DBraveRO by any means within BraveRO and its forums is illegal.
 
All Offenses: Permanent Ban
 
 
 
 
6. Creation and use of excessive multiple accounts for the purpose of using time-limited NPCs (Wheel of Fortune, Endless Tower, etc.) is illegal. The definition of "excessive" varies from case to case, and is dependent on the GM's discretion when investigating. We may invoke 2nd or 3rd offense charges depending on the severity of your actions.
 
1st Offense: 2 weeks ban - 2nd Offense: 3 month ban - 3rd Offense: Permanent Ban (All related accounts)
 
 
 
 
7. Farming through the repeated resurrection/killing of yourself and/or other players for the purpose of gaining points DM and/or Hero Points is illegal.
 
Punishment: 1st Offense: 4 day ban. 2nd Offense: 10 day ban. 3rd Offense: Permanent Ban.
 
 
 
 
7a. Dual clienting in any DM/PVP arenas under any circumstance is illegal.
 
Punishment: 1st Offense: 24 hour Jail/2 day ban. 2nd Offense: 3 day jail/5 day ban. 3rd Offense: Permanent Ban.
 
 
 
 
 
== Player Etiquette ==
 
'''Note:''' Warnings may be given in the form of: a verbal warning by any player, or a nuke, mute, kick, or short jailtime by an online GM.
 
 
 
8. Show a minimum form of respect for all players. The staff, be it support players, GMs, or the adminstrator, are players too. All individuals have the right to be respected by others until they prove otherwise. We do not demand that you love everyone, but not awarding basic forms of respect, examples of, but not limited to the following such as swearing, insulting, harassment, be it sexual, racial, or religious nature is illegal and will not be tolerated. ***A special note that it is understood that language in PVP areas may be far from pretty due to the adrenaline rush of winning/losing and we advise higher levels of tolerance before entry.
 
Punished according to the discretion of the GM and in relation to severity of charge (Remove warning)
 
 
 
 
9. Kill stealing summoned MVPs is illegal. Players are warned that MVPs summoned using your skills or Bloody Branches are done so at your own risk. Please be sure to not spawn/summon in a common area if you wish to practice this. Use of remote locations, available branch rooms and limitation of summoning information is highly recommended. MVPs that spawn naturally, as well as summoned MVPs whose summoners have died, are free-for-all.
 
Punished according to the discretion of the GM and in relation to severity of charge (Remove warning)
 
 
 
 
 
10. Spamming of selling, buying or trading chats in the main town disrupts and inhibits towntalking and is illegal. In addition, spamming in general is highly discouraged. Players are encouraged to pause in-between advertising for their wares, even in the designated trading areas.
 
1st Offense: Warn 2nd Offense: 1 hour mute / 2 hour jailtime Additional Offenses: +24 hour jailtime.
 
 
 
 
11. Vending anywhere outside of the designated vending area map is illegal.
 
1st Offense: 12 hour jailtime 2nd Offense: 24 hour jailtime Additional Offenses: +24 hour jailtime
 
 
 
 
11a. Vending for the sake of trolling the prices through the new vending method is illegal. i.e Selling a 100K worth item for 1x 100M Zeny bag to ruin the @whosell results.
 
All Offense: +12 hour jailtime
 
 
 
 
12. Disruptive skill spamming, the use of skills repetitively to lag other players or the server, is illegal in areas of high player density. Testing something in a town is fine, but AoE skill spamming, or lag causing skill use over a prolonged time can invoke an offense.
 
1st Offense: Warn. 2nd Offense: 2 hour jailtime. 3rd Offense: 24 hour jailtime.
 
 
 
 
12a. PvPing in the main town (Caspen) is illegal. Should you feel the need to do so, kindly head to another map.
 
All offenses: 30 minute jail if online. If you hop, you get banned for two days.
 
 
 
 
12b. The use of the skill Shadow Form to slaughter players who are not engaged in PvP or not present in a PvP map is considered grief and is illegal.
 
1st Offense: Warn. 2nd Offense: 2 hour jailtime. 3rd Offense: 24 hour jailtime.
 
 
 
 
12c. Blocking the entrance to time-limited events such as Bomb Poring/ Safety Wall/etc. is illegal.
 
All Offense: 3 hour jailtime
 
 
 
 
 
12d. Do not grief other players. This applies to PvM, PvP and social interactions.
 
All Offense: 3 hour jailtime
 
 
 
 
 
13. Repetitive begging of any kind, including but not limited to zeny, buffs, items, being a GM, asking to be unbanned if you were banned, or asking for real information through any means of communication will not be tolerated.
 
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.
 
 
 
 
14. The use of dead branches or bloody branches in any area of high player density that results in disruption of order or annoyance is illegal. That is what the branch room is for.
 
1st Offense: 2 day ban or 24 hour jailtime. 2nd+ Offense: 4 day ban.
 
 
 
 
15. Abuse of the broadcast NPC is strictly forbidden. Abuse here is defined as "using it for anything other than its intended function (buying/selling/trading/rgm/paging player or gm)". All broadcast functions are to be used as exactly. Any attempt to use the broadcaster in a way that is technically within the bounds of the broadcaster's rules but violates the spirit of it will be considered as abuse.
 
All offenses: 90 minute jail if online. If you hop, you get banned for four days. ***In addition, if the GM is unable to jail your character through limitations such as symbol-ed names, the temporary ban will be imposed.***
 
 
 
 
19. You may only donate to your main account. Donating to alternate accounts other than your main is a serious offense which will result in a permanent ban of all accounts & your donation being refunded. Contact the administrator via support ticket if you need to donate to a new account.
 
 
 
 
20. Guild emblems must be visible and distinct when participating in War of Emperium. This means that your emblem cannot be "nothing" or an image with only two small letters on it; it has to be something that's big enough to be seen by other guilds. This also means you cannot copy opposing guild emblems in an attempt to fool them.
 
Punishment: Punishment varies depending on the infracted 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 guild leader
 
Forced disbandment of guild
 
Ban of all guild members
 
 
 
20b. Dual clienting is not allowed inside castle maps.
 
Punishment: 3 days ban
 
 
 
 
21. Intentional use of a homunculus AI to stack on the user's cell to prevent other players from targeting you (ie: same-cell homunculus) is illegal. **During PvP Events it is expected that an Homunculus will be at least 2 cells away from the user cell**
 
Punishment: 1st Offense: 3 day ban. 2nd Offense: 1 week ban. 3rd Offense: Permanent Ban.
 
 
 
 
 
== Battleground Rules ==
 
22. Dual clienting is illegal and general event rules will apply.
 
 
 
 
23. You are supposed to be helping your team win either with kills or completing objectives. Not doing anything to help the team and simply claiming badges for nothing is illegal.
 
1st Offense: Warning 2+ Offenses: +1 day jail or 2 day ban per additional infraction
 
 
 
 
 
23b. Do not grief in Battlegrounds, such as aiding the enemy team though intentional feeding or simply losing matches on purpose.
 
Punishment: Punished according to the discretion of the GM and in relation to severity of charge.
 
 
 
 
 
24. AFKing and/or repetitive spammage of the same skills/sitting, using auto follow and standing over a prolonged period of time in the same area within the Battlegrounds map is illegal. You are supposed to participate in the game not simply cloak and hide and wait until someone kill you or the game ends.
 
1st Offense: Warning 2+ Offenses: +1 day jail or 2 day ban per additional infraction
 
 
 
 
 
24B. Do not use safe zones when carrying flags, crystals, or stones to protect yourself from getting killed.
 
1st Offense: 2 hour jailtime upto 1 day ban.
 
 
 
 
 
25. The use of looting pets in Triple Inferno is illegal.
 
1st Offense: 2 hour jailtime 2+ Offenses: +4 hour jail per additional infraction
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
== Event Rules ==
 
26. Dual clienting in any and all events is illegal.
 
1st Offense: 2 day ban 2+ Offenses: +2 day ban per additional infraction up to a maximum of 7 days for all accounts involved.
 
 
 
 
 
26B. Dual clienting is allowed in Seasonal Event provided that the other character is not being use to farm simultaneously with your other character.
 
Punishment: 3 days ban
 
 
 
 
 
27. Partying within stolen key is illegal. There will be a verbal warning to break the party the first time a player is caught. If ignored, the characters in the party will be jailed for three hours.
 
 
 
 
 
28. Abusing the drop of the key to let other players win, defined as intentionally dropping it for other players or hiding it in a pet, is forbidden and grounds for a warning plus a jailtime or ban depending on the discretion of the GM.
 
 
 
 
29. Using multiple accounts to start Stolen Key is illegal and will be considered as using multiple accounts for an event.
 
 
 
 
 
30. Entering the 500 PvP Event as a party is illegal, creating a party inside is also illegal. The event is meant to be a free-for-all event and the aspect of free-for-all at the beginning of the event must be protected. Parties will only be allowed for party versus party duels if those surviving agree to it, but the winner MUST be decided by bloodshed. No disconnection, intentional or unintentional, or free kills is allowed to decide the winner.
 
All Offense: 1 day temporary ban.
 
 
 
 
 
31. Creation and use of multiple accounts to claim the salary during the Division events is illegal. We may invoke 2nd or 3rd offense charges depending on the severity of your actions..
 
1st Offense: 1 week ban - 2nd Offense: 3 weeks ban - 3rd Offense: Permanent Ban (All related accounts)
 
 
 
 
32. Purposefully killing your own division members during division events is illegal. It is understandable that one party may not hold all the division members at once however this does not give you free reign to kill your own division members.
 
Punishment: 1st Offense: 2 day ban. 2nd Offense: 4 day ban. 3rd Offense: Permanent Ban.
 
 
 
 
33. Entering the division event without a party is illegal. The division events are meant to be a team event and the aspect of the freelancer could be considered as gaining kills with your own division members. *Note: You must be inside a party depicting your Division, if you're an Alpha inside a Beta party you're breaking this rule. If the main party is full, you're expected to create your own party based on the same rules**
 
1st Offense: 24 hour Jail/2 day ban. 2nd Offense: 3 day jail/5 day Ban 3rd Offense: 2 week Ban.
 
 
 
 
34. You're expected to use @tag as soon as you enter the Division Field, not doing so will invoke the following offenses as you're not part of any team and will be treated as a freelancer.
 
1st Offense: Warning (any player) 2nd Offense: 2 hour jailtime 3rd Offense: 1 day Ban.
 
 
 
 
 
== Recommendations by the staff ==
 
1. Do NOT give out your ID or password to anyone, this includes GMs. A GM will not ask for your ID or password, so use caution with this. If you share your account information, and someone takes items off of your account, do NOT ask a GM to replace your items.
 
 
 
 
2. The GM team takes no responsibility in the event an account has been hacked and the account owner has been found to share their account info. Furthermore, they will be unable to take any further action in regards to cases once this fact is brought to light. SHARE YOUR ACCOUNT INFO AT YOUR OWN RISK.
 
 
 
 
3, If you loan out items or equips, you do so at your own risk. If you loan out items to someone and they keep the items, do NOT ask a GM to get them back for you.
 
 
 
 
4. If you engage in trades that exceed the 10 item per trade limitation (e.g. Hero Quest items, Large quantities of equipment such as Valkyrie shields), you do so at your own risk. In the event you trade the items to someone else and do not receive your suggested payment for it WITHIN THE SAME TRADE, Rule 17 on the loan of items or equipments will apply. **If you wish to have a "safe trade" use @request to use one of the Staff Members as an intermediary for the trade, remember to take screenshots of the deal**
 
 
 
 
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The GM Team reserves the right to exact punishment if they feel certain kinds of behavior is abusive under the scope of the rules. The server owner 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. Should you keep yourself aware, we believe that your time here at our server will remain enjoyable and we hope to see you in game!
 

Latest revision as of 13:39, 31 May 2022

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


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


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


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


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


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


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


  • 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.