THE RULES
General Rules
1. Anyone selling or auctioning items, characters or accounts for the purpose of monetary gain will be banned and your characters deleted.
2. Also anyone found to have purchased items, characters or accounts through monetary transfer will have their accounts and the acquired items, characters or accounts banned and deleted.
3. Anyone found duplicating items will be banned and characters deleted.
4. Anyone found accepting duplicated items will be dealt with on a individual basis, the items will be deleted from your account. This can result up to a ban from the server. We do research to determine if you knew that the item you received was legitimate or not. And if you lose an item because it was duped, it will not be reimbursed, regardless if you knew the items origin.
5. This server and staff do not benefit from any type of monetary gain nor will the players of this server under any circumstances. These rules have been put in place to protect the staff, server and players.
6. You, the player, are responsible for your own corpse recovery. CRs are one of the many challenges that you will encounter within the world that is EverQuest. If you let your corpse rot/decay, the staff will NOT restore your corpse for you.
7. It is MANDATORY that anyone who plays on this VZ/TZ Server needs to update their spells_us.txt with the file provided on these boards. You must download the new spell file PERIODICALLY for any spell updates or changes. If you do not download this spell file you will be treated the same way as if you are caught hacking or using MQ and similar punishments will be dealt out.
8. The Staff will not change your name, race, or class after you have created your character, so do not ask. Whichever name you choose will be the name you keep until the end of days, so please choose wisely.
9. You are only allowed to 2-box (meaning you can only run 2 accounts at the same time). 3-boxing and 4-boxing and so on, are not permitted. you can have as many accounts as you want to create, but are only allowed to play on two accounts at the same time. Violating this rule will get you banned .
10. Guides and GMs are NOT required to respond to a /tell from a player. sometimes they are working on out of game stuff, or are simply AFK. if you need staff assistance, use /petition (if you log off, make sure to re-petition when you log back in, just in case a staff member tried to reach you while you were offline).
Item Reimbursement
• Items that have been deleted on accident will not be reimbursed.
• Items that were deleted due to insufficient space in inventory will not be reimbursed. Only you are responsible to make sure you have enough space for the items you are about to receive, not the GM's.
• Quests that are not marked completed will not be given item reimbursement if the NPC eats your item on hand in. Quest hand in's that are not verified are "at your own risk". You can ask a GM, or check the message board to see if a Quest is completed and verified.
• Items that were deleted due to server side error will be reimbursed after an investigation by the staff to ensure no fraudulent claims are granted. Please note, it’s not a fast or easy process to review logs for items, and if The Staff learns a player has made a false claim, or that a player has lied about lost items, that player will be banned, end of story.
Guilds
• New guilds can be created by using /petition and requesting a guild be created.
• Guild leaders are held responsible for the actions of their members and officers. Do not recruit players that you cannot control, or that you know are cheating/hacking/exploiting, because if caught, the entire guild can be punished depending on the incident.
Hacking/Exploiting
Hacking:
Users from this point forward will be banned permanently if being found using 3rd party programs such as MQ or other software to gain abilities or undesirable effects to the server. There is a ZERO TOLERANCE policy in effect on this.
Exploiting:
• Do not attack mobs through walls.
• Do not exploit AE/rain spell targeting, do not rain zonelines.
• Do not crash zones intentionally. we now have ways to log what causes zone crashes. if any players are found intentionally crashing zones they will be banned.
• If you think what you are doing or someone else is doing may be considered an exploit report it right away in a petition.
• Attacking mobs that do not attack back is considered an exploit and can warrant a ban.
• Failure to stop and report exploits can result in account banning and/or deletion.
• If you find a bug/exploit, report it right away. Exploiting something over and over and then deciding to report it later is another offense that can warrant a ban.
PVP Rules
Causing XP Loss:
The Staff strongly supports and encourages the use of PvP by guilds to enact their wishes throughout the world, but only PvP that is within the rule-set of this server. Intentionally causing experience (or a PvE) death to a player, or utilizing and/or manipulating NPCs/Mobs to cause intentional damage and/or death to a player is AGAINST the rules. All players need to know that attacking a raid party while they are engaged on a raid mob is NOT against the rules, however, as soon as a player brings NPCs/Mobs into that PvP encounter they are breaking the rules, and can be banned for such actions.
Exploitation:
Using a bug/exploit or a "loophole" to gain an advantage is considered exploiting. Exploitation in any form is against our rules, but exploitation with the intent to gain a PvP/PvE advantage (including but not limited to Zone Crashing) is something we have very little mercy for. If you think that something you are doing could be considered an exploit, just ask (before you do it).
No Character Crashing/Raining or AEing Zone Lines:
Don't crash other peoples clients, simple as that. Do NOT AE/Rain the zonelines. If you do this intentionally, you will most definitely be banned.
(To clarify; this does not mean zone lines are "safe" areas, there are no safe areas here. for example; you are not allowed to camp a zoneline and just rain the first random person to pop. Or if your sitting in a place like Plane of Fear camping the zone in spot, and an enemy zones in, you are not allowed to instantly rain him, because crashing clients while they're loading causes much bigger issues than you having to wait a couple seconds to nuke someone, and you will receive a more harsh penalty. We also understand that things can get wild in the heat of the moment; so lets say that two groups are about to PvP, groupA is in DreadLands at the karnor zone in, and groupB is in Karnor at entrance. GroupA zones in, legit PvP begins, and during the fight a couple of groupA start zoning back to DL. Obviously the PvP will continue in DreadLands, and while this is still considered AE/Raining a zone line if your using AE/Rains in the PvP, you will not be punished as severely if the staff rules that it wasn't intentional. Note* Spells like Stun, Mez, and Blind are all acceptable at zonelines because they can not kill a player and crash that player's client while its loading. If you don't understand something feel free to ask a staff member to clarify it, ignorance is not a valid excuse to avoid following these rules.
Re: Bind Camping:
Bind Camping is illegal for ANY reason within any of the City Zones within the world. if you happen to kill a character in a city zone which he happens to be bound in, you may not camp him, or request that he camp and/or leave the zone. You can loot his coin but then you must move on. We do not care how badly you wish to “lock down” Grobb, Neriak, or any other city.
Bind Camping is legal in any zone that is NOT a City zone. If you happen to kill a player in a non-City Zone which he happens to be bound in, you may camp him. You can offer LnS if you wish, but you are also free to bind camp the player.
Bind Camping in City Zones can and will get you banned from the server, so if you're unsure about something simply ask a Staff member, because we are here to help you, the player, have an enjoyable time while playing on this server.
(To clarify some things, you must be killed more than once for it to be considered CAMPING your bind point. Also, being killed at your bind does NOT mean you are now safe from PvP, it just means that same person cannot kill you repeatedly, but other people may stumble upon you. If guilds and/or groups abuse this to try and Bind Camp in a City Zone, everyone involved will receive a minimum 3 day Ban from the server, there will be no more warnings for Bind Camping within City Zones. However on the other side, if a player chooses to Bind himself outside of a City Zone, he is “flagging” himself for Bind Camping, and that player can then be Bind Camped.)
City Zones:
Oggok
Grobb
Neriak
Freeport
Paineel (only within the actual City!)
Erudin
Qeynos
Halas
Rivervale
Kaladim
Kelethin
Felwithe
Ak’Anon
Cabilis
Surefall Glade
Accountability:
Our server is a Guild vs. Guild server, and as such a Guild (or alliance of guilds) can be punished for the actions of its members. The basic message here is for guild leaders to keep a leash on some of the more colorful members. We understand that some times a guild leader will honestly not be aware of the situation, and we have tools at our disposal to determine if that's the issue. Lying to a staff member will result in an account ban. Our staff is here to help the community enjoy their time here, please don't waste our time with false claims, or blatant lies.
The General Rule:
Our staff is here to protect the growth of the server. If a staff member tells you to do something, just do it. You have the right to give your perception and opinion of events, but you are not allowed to be disrespectful to our staff. If you have a problem with a member of our staff don’t take it up with them, send me a PM and I will handle it.
If you make a mistake, try and make it right. If you need Staff assistance to help make the situation right, let us know because we are here to help. Remember, taking advantage of a bad situation that you have caused (even if on accident) is just as bad as doing it on purpose in the first place and will be treated as such.
Respect (Re... spect.... walk.... are you talking to me?!)
Respect to the staff is mandatory for anyone who plays on the server. Players must realize that staff members are normal people like yourselves with actual jobs/lives, and not paid Customer Service Representatives. We are not your therapists or babysitters. We do not want to hear how unfair something is, or how biased/tyrannical/terrible we are. We do not want to hear your armchair dictating of "what needs to be changed next" when you're clueless about our source code. You are always welcome to provide feedback or state your opinion, but must do so in a reasonable and respectful manner. If you disrespect the staff or act like a pain in the ass, you will be banned.