RULES

• Keep global chat mature and in English only. 
• Be kinder to others than you are to yourself. 
• Use appropriate names (see Naming Guidelines). 
• Be respectful to the community, team and those you around you and the decisions that have been made. 
• Remember that the server team is run by volunteers who have full-time jobs and may not be available 24x7. 
• Constructively discuss topics and any proposals for changes should include: + Positive and - Negative effects for any change being proposed. 
• Ask others first how things work, before escalating to a member of the team (e.g. Admins, Team members) for help. 

• NSFW Content of any kind (Images, Names, Videos, Audio, Links - etc). 
• Xenophobic, Racist, Sexist and Homophobic behaviour. 
• Language which is unlawful, harmful, abusive, harassing, defamatory, hateful, sexually explicit, racially, ethnically or deemed offensive. 
• Griefing (see Griefing).
• Exploits, Cheating, Bug Abuse or Hacking (see Exploits).
• Promoting: Other Ark Servers, Twitch Stream and other discord servers in public chat channels - unless previously authorised). 
• Posting of personal information about yourself or others that can identify someone (includes: real names, phone numbers, email addresses, workplaces, financial information).
• Spamming, abusive shouting (e.g. caps lock chat), advertisements, ghost-pings to : @team-members / @team-roles in chat, excessive @mentions to anyone. 
• Impersonating others or someone from the team. 

• Refund losses causes by Gameplay, Crashes, In-Game character Deaths or Bugs.
• Refund points spent on items in-game on accidental purchases. 
• Get involved in multiple tribe/player issues of 'sharing the loot' from a co-ordinated boss or an event which occurs and this will not be considered as 'gifting'.

• Investigate issues where real-life money has been used to gain points or items that have not been given in-game. 
• Process Reported issues (see Reports [in Discord]) for rule breaking for: Lost-dinos, Land-Disputes, Bases built in banned areas, Breeding, Tribes, Trades. 
• Process support tickets (see Support [in Discord]) - in order of severity and priority order.  Use this to report - Griefing, Exploits, Naming Issues.
• Reserve the right to - Warn, Ban, Deduct points (or trading currency) in the event of not following all of these rules. 
• Change these rules as needed to ensure a healthy, vibrant, happy ARK community. 

• Always name your new character, no use of the name 'Human'. 
• Use characters which contain common ASCII Characters and QWERTY Keyboard values (excluding the following characters: / \ > < @ ). 

• Offensive player, tribe or dino names- that do not comply with the General Rules. 
• Names are created to impersonate others (e.g. a member of the team, famous people - to avoid copyright issues). 
• Names such as : "Survivor","123","Player","Human","□□□","I am God","Owners","Admin" etc.

• Change player names, tribe names, alliance, labelled object names for 0 in-game points - there is a in-game point cost for changes. 

• Randomly rename offensive dino, tribe or player names - some renamed items can only be changed for in-game points using a support ticket. 
• Investigate offensive names reported using a support ticket. 

• Provide an escape route by foot if you build on a player spawn zone. 
• Consume unused eggs collected from nests. 
• Ask player if they want help before helping them, if they do not respond do not help them. 
• Report any issues in discord (see Reports [in Discord]). 
• Ask people before joining a tribe voice channel that has people in it you do not know - do not assume it is okay to just join a tribe channel that people are already in. 

• Blocking of any "Deep Sea Loot Crate" (Desert, Ocean or Land), Glitches, Explorer Notes - they have to be easily accessible by a flyer.
• Intentionally having a negative impact on our Community, Servers or members.
• Lost Dinos: Any dinos left outside of your base for more than 24 hrs will be considered 'lost'. 
• Auto-Farming Dinos: Must be using a dino-leash and cannot be outside your base for more than 24 hours. 
• Entrapment: Bases designed to trap other players. 
• Non-consensual player PvP (picking up, stealing, drowning, kiting other creatures to a another survivor, dinos or structures) that is intended to harm others.
• Collected wild fertilised eggs to be dropped on the map - as this prevents new wild fertilised eggs spawning. 
• Stealing of another players items (Gacha crystals, poop, fertilised or unfertilised eggs) or breeding another players breeding lines. 
• Insiding: All tribe structures, items, and creatures belong to the tribe owner. Do not join a tribe with the intent to grief / inside a tribe. 
• Rule Manipulation: Manipulating the rules as a means to get other community members punished. 
• Leaving unattended tamed creatures at Obelisks, mission areas, titan areas, orbital supply drops, or element veins is not allowed. Your dinos may be moved or destroyed without warning. 
• Malicious intent on the community, servers, and/or content of other players. 

• Punish individuals without evidence such as (Videos, Screenshots) - submit this in a support ticket (see Support [in Discord]).

• Auto-destroy beaver dams once accessed after a short time period using an automated plugin.
• Actively punish players who are found to be drop fertilised wild eggs (instead of eating or destroying them). 

• Destroy any items that were created through exploits. 
• Report all exploits discovered in a support ticket ( see Support [in Discord] ). 
• Not crash our servers on purpose (DDOS or in-game crashing using items). 
• Not bypass structure or creature limits that are put in place - if you are above the agreed limit, you will need to remove items that exceed that limit within 24 hours. 

• Publishing or sharing of exploits, cheating, bug abuse or hacking with others either in-game or in discord.
• Duplication of tamed creatures, items or your character. 
• Creation of offline characters (one character per SteamID across the cluster). 
• Sharing of accounts with multiple individuals (including steam-family sharing). 

• Publish the details of the exploit in public channels or how to take advantage of an discovered exploit.

• Punish or ban individuals who have been found taking advantage of exploits. 
• Publish a notification in discord if any structures need to be destroyed, dinos or items that have exploits. 
• Destroy structures, dinos or items that may have exploits with a minimum of 24 hours warning and what you can do to minimise item loss - we understand that this may in extreme cases result in some loss of resources, items, dinos if the instructions are not followed.   This is necessary for us to protect the balance of the server, players and the community. 

• Have one main base (maximum) per map [Maximum size: 100x100 Foundations and 100 walls high (1 regular vanilla wall). 
• Follow any map-specific rules for your bases. 
• Build at minimum 50 foundations away from other bases unless prior agreement is made with that tribe. 
• Build at least 25 foundations away from Artifact Caves. 
• Destroy or Pick-up any traps, rafts once you have finished with them - these can be build in map banned areas for temporary use. 
• Gas collectors, Oil Pumps must be unlocked and available for public use. 
• Make efforts to resolve any land-disputes with other nearby bases with that tribe before generating a report. 
• Report any items that break these rules (see Reports [in Discord]). 

• Blocking of cave entrances.
• Outposts - You have 1 base per map and can use /suicide to use a spawn point to travel quickly around the map (you keep your items) and/or use a flyer to get somewhere.
• Building in or around obelisks, artifact caves (including near entrances), ruins and bridges (minimum 20 foundations away).  Check the wiki for the map you will be building on for any named ruins or exceptions on the map building rules.
• Preventing re-spawns or building in resource rich areas for: Crystal, Obsidian, Rich Metal (>5 nodes within 5 foundations) or other Rare Materials (Black Pearls, Element Dust, Element Ore) - Use the following wiki  to determine if you are going to build in a resource rich area. 
• No blocking access to high traffic rivers and oceans (rivers you can get a raft in and out). 
• No reserving space through pillar, foundation or platform spamming to secure an area. 
• No building in or around wyvern, drake or griffin trenches. 
• No long water pipes connecting outside your base range or to the ocean - we have enabled placement of the S+ water intakes to get water from anywhere. 
• Preventing beaver dams or wild dino nests from spawning in a given area. 

•   Restore destroyed bases, structures, items or lost resources. 

• Consider all non-subscriber bases inactive after 21 days (3 weeks) when a player has not logged in from that tribe on that map and destroy them to ensure that all new players have spots to build in without warning.
• Allow Patron Subscriptions to be purchased from the Tebex Store protecting your bases for up to 90 days.
• The server team are the last resort in resolving land disputes between tribes - you may not like what we decide as the final decision. 
• Ask tribes to relocate if they are found to have build in a resource rich area.  If you refuse to move, or we are unable to contact you, the obstructing pieces of your base (or entire base) will be destroyed without warning.  
• Destroy daily - sleeping bags, soul terminals that are left out randomly on the map away from your main base (<10 foundations).

• Soul ball baby dinos once grown up into adults that are meshed into each other (within 24 hours of reaching adulthood). 
• Not breed any other players dinos that were purchased above level 300 or have any stat > 50. 
• Claim or use live birth capture (dino storage) to minimise unclaimed baby dinos. 
• Take reasonable pre-cautions to protect your breeding lines (e.g. Tek Shields, Enclosed Breeding Areas, Egg Collectors). 
• Hatch a reasonable number of eggs at once (Maximum: 300 eggs at once). 
• Report bases that have many unclaimed dinos, fertilised eggs left in the open that can be picked up. 

• Baby's grown into adults (excessive meshing) and enabled to breed - as this can cause major fps or lag issues. (e.g. multiple Gigas in a 1x1 foundation area) 
• Excessive offline breeding to ensure that fertilised eggs and live birth unclaimed dinos are not left in bases that can be used to steal a breeding line. 
• Actions that have a detrimental effect on server performance (e.g. hatching 1000 eggs at the same time).  

•    Return any dinos that are confiscated for breaking these rules. 

• Publish a notification in discord if any items need to be resolved by a tribe with a minimum of 24 hrs warning. 
• Destroy dinos that are exploiting breeding rules (and in extreme cases full breeding lines of that dino). 

• Utilise the in-game cluster wide trading system (CCMI) using the NPC Traders for all trades - this is to protect you from scams, exploits and ensure all trades can be tracked. 
• As Seller: Neuter all dinos that are sold which are: above Level 300 or >50 in any single stat line - this is to create a vibrant economy. 
• As Buyer: Neuter any dinos that you purchase which are: above Level 300 or > 50 in any single stat line 
• Report any trades that do not meet these rules using the Reports system ( see Reports [in Discord]). 
• Not spam in-game chat, discord with trade (buy or sales) requests (max 1 post / person per day).

• Flooding the market with low prices of items (such as high level dinos, max stat items). 
• Breeding of other players dinos (Level > 300) or (>50 in any single stat) from a purchase. 
• Giving away bases, items or dinos to other players - unless covered by the 'gifting' rules.
• Selling of Fertilised Eggs - as the CCMI trading system does not list the information for players. 
• Creating a tribe to exclusively swap dinos between individuals to take back to another map to a different tribe with different members is not recommended (e.g. The Island - Tribe "Island" [player a] -> The Center - Tribe "Duo" [player a, b] -> Ragnarok - Tribe "Raggers" [player b]) - this may be considered 'giving' away dinos or any other method that you may create to break the spirit of the rules that have been put in place.

• Resolve trades have been conducted outside the in-game CCMI trading system 
• Investigate trades without evidence (e.g. un-neutered dino sales). 
• Accept responsibility for trades gone bad, double check everything. 

• Track trades - we have logs of the buyer, seller, date, item and amount spent. 
• Investigate all reports of trading rule breaking. 
• Limit the amount of trades a individual can have on the market - to prevent monopolistic behaviours. 
• Limit the length of time a trade can be placed in the market. 
• Block items to be traded on the market as-needed to protect the economy, griefing, exploiting players as needed. 
• Ensure that there are fees to trade (instant delivery, minimum listing fees etc). 
• Take action to remove trade listings, adjust prices or set minimum / maximum values for items on a periodic basis. 
• In extreme cases we reserve the right to remove all dinos of that type from you that broke the rules or ban you from the server. 

Gift once per 24 Hours to a person, in-person trade only (no unlocked chests left around) to solve in-combat/out of base issues, in case someone forgot something with the following limits on items:

• 10 Element,
• 1K Resources (Raw Material Resources: e.g. Metal, Wood etc ) - Non-refined materials.
• 250 Item Limit for Consumable Items (e.g. Ammo, Medical Brews, Narcotics)
• Human Dermis - you can gift these to people outside your tribe so they can use it for the harvester.

• Gifting of refined materials, items, bases, weapons, saddles or dinos.
• Begging or harassing players for resources.

• Accept responsibility for "gifting" to others gone bad, double check everything. 

• Investigate all reports of gifting rule breaking and take appropriate action where necessary.