Rules according to moi that everyone should agree with because I am the most intelligence and benevo

[Soeht]

WIP on the details depending on how you guys like the rule and how you would want to execute it.

Universal Rules

1) There shall be no spamming. This would be defined as posting nonconstructive (or non-purposeful) posts/threads in mass in one thread or multiple. There is a forum for padding post count, so posting a reply with absolutely no substance in an otherwise serious, topical discussion is liable to be flagged as spam and deleted.

2) Advertising sites is allowed only in the designated forum/thread. One may have a link on their profile page and/or an nonobstructive link in their signature. The site advertised must not violate vBullitin's Terms on Content. Violators will have their thread deleted and subject to further reprimanding.

3) Harassment and abusive behavior is not allowed. This includes outright flaming members and racial, sexist, religious, ethnic, sexual or political remarks that can be considered derogatory. Swearing in general is discouraged. Excessive and unnecessary swearing is not allowed. Any posts with swear words are liable to be edited to remove the swear word. First time offenders will have their post deleted and be temporarily banned. Repeat offenders will be permanently banned and a complaint forwarded to vBulletin.

vBulletin has defined this has strong, vulgar, obscene or otherwise harmful language, racially, ethnically or otherwise, objectionable language, harassing, intimidating, stalking or threatening other community members, libelous, defamatory or otherwise tortuous language, and online vandalism. It is all against their Terms & Conditions. Therefore, offenders will be handled with the utmost swiftness and urgency.

4) One may not post, distribute, transmit, or promote illegal content. One may not encourage illegal behavior. This is against vBulletin's Terms & Conditions, therefore any offenders are liable to be banned.

5) There shall be no one that impersonates another person in earnest. Impersonators are against vBulletin's Terms & Conditions, and therefore liable to extreme punishment.

6) No one may use "sockpuppets". This is defined by using a second or more accounts under one person's control to support the opinion of the first account in some manner in an out-of-character discussion.

5) NO political, religious or social debates on real-life topics on the board. There is a /pol/ forum for that with its own rules regarding political debates.

6) Bumping topics over 2 weeks old must require the necroing post to contain sufficient new content.

7) Do not create threads about what is perceived to be a lack of activity in roleplaying. Create a new, open roleplay instead.

8) Rulings by the staff may be officially appealed without further punishment if the user does not infringe upon any more rules during the appellate process. Warnings may not be appealed. Restrictions or a banning may be. Send a private message to Artemis Obauldi outlining the reasons for having the decision being appealed, who will then forward the message the staff forum. The appropriate staff members will make a judgment. If the judgement has not been made by the time the restriction or banning has expired, then the appeal will be rescinded and the restriction/ban will be lifted as scheduled before.
/pol/ Rules

1) All Universal Rules except the fifth apply.

2) Be topical.

3) Debate the idea and do not resort to insulting members with other opinions.

4) If one wants to share an article, it must be linked. Do not copy and paste an entire article into a post.

5) If frustrated by another member for reasons no covered by the Universal Rules or the rules above, leave the thread or ignore the user.
Violations have a clear punishment system:
First Offense: Warning
Second Offense: Warning
Third Offense: Banned from debates for one week
Fourth Office: Banned from debates for two weeks
Fifth Offense: Banned from debates for one month
Sixth Offense: Banned from debates for six months
Seventh Offense: Banned from debates forever
Role-playing Rules

Section I - Universal Role-Playing rules

A. The universe of the role-playing activities of this site is that from Star Wars.
1) All canon works contribute to this universe.
2) There may be no crossover elements in role-plays.
a) Original content is acceptable when it does not conflict with the established Star Wars universe.
3) Wookieepedia is this site's source for canon information when one does not have access to a copy of relevant Star Wars works.
a) The site is susceptible to having incomplete or fraudulent information, be cautious when using the site as a reference.
B. Refrain from writing OOC messages in role-play posts. Both private messages and the OOC Discussion forum can accomplish that goal.

C. Profane or vulgar language is not allowed in a role-play post. Swear words from Star Wars works and fantastic expletives are allowed.

D. The acceptable level of questionable content is at the same level as mainstream Star Wars canon. Suggestive content (defined as implications rather than explications of sex or graphic content otherwise not allowed), fantastic violence, and fantastic drug use are allowed. Graphic and explicit content unbecoming of Star Wars is not allowed, though. Use Revenge of the Sith as the conservative standard of some of the most graphic content allowed.

E. The lead post of a role-play thread must always clearly establish the setting of the role-play.

F. Damage to a character is defined only by its writer.

Section II - Character Creation

A. Creating a Mary Sue or godlike character is not allowed.

B. Create a clear, concise biography with all necessary information through as a Blog.
1) The profile must include:
a) NAME others call the character as
b) APPEARANCE of the character
c) HISTORY of the character, brief and sufficient at the least
d) PERSONALITY of the character, whether the true character's self or what others would perceive
e) FACTION of the character
f) Other information one would deem necessary, such as age, weapons used, and more.
C. The character may not be a canon character. It may have canon names, though.

D. Selecting an avatar is recommended. Avatars must represent the physical appearance of the character one wishes to convey to writers. There is no avatar reservation system on this site.

E. Playing multiple characters is allowed.

F. New characters start as Tier 1 Rank.

Section III - Fighting/Dueling

A. Character deaths are only enforced in the thread they have died in barring logical in-character events that would justify them continuing to live in the thread.

B. All actions, on another character, the environment, or a non-player character, must be able to be countered unless both parties agree to waive this rule for certain instances.
1) Prompting an action and writing that it affects another character without waiting for a response from the character is an instance of god-modding and not allowed.
C. A character's innate power and ability is defined by their rank. The higher tier rank a character is, the more inherent strength they would have in direct confrontation with other characters. Logic dictates that in single-man fights, the higher tier character would win in normal circumstances. Keep this in mind during duels.

D. Hits may be automatically called if an opponent completely ignores an attack in their counter reply. If the opponent has responded to the attack in any way, one may not call an automatic hit on their previous character's action.

E. In multi-character battles, if a character that has been attacked does not reply in 3 days, that character's battle is counted as a loss and the attack hits. The character that attacked may not continue to interact with the character that left. One may abandon an AWOL character before the 3 day mark, yet their attack is not counted as a hit and their duel is considered to be a draw.

Section IV - The Force

A. A character's power in the Force is defined by their rank.

B. Only canon Force powers are allowed.

C. Do not use a Force power described as being used only by the most powerful of Force users unless when at Master rank.

D. Do not use Force powers outside of a character's Force alignment without consequence.
Example: Jedi do not use Force lightning without tapping the dark side by a tremendous amount, and thus, most likely falling to the dark side.
E. Original Force powers are not allowed. Unique uses of established Force powers are.

Section V - Ranks & Titles

A. Ranks define the inherent strength of a character in almost any activity.
1) For Force users, it defines how much they have been trained in the Force and combat. The higher tiered, the more powerful their Force and combat attacks.
2) For non Force users, it defines their experience with weapons and gadgets. The higher tiered, the more efficient they are with weapons and gadgets.
3) The Force and lightsabers do not allow lower tier Force users to trump higher tier Neutrals. Same for gear and gadgets for Neutrals when attempting to trump higher tier Force users.
B. There are three ranks:
1) Tier 1 - Apprentice, Padawan, Trainee
2) Tier 2 - Knight, Knight, Adept
3) Tier 3 - Master, Master, Elite
C. Titles define a character's occupation within a faction.
For example, the Emperor of the Galactic Empire may have "Emperor" as their title. A Petty Officer of the Galactic Empire may have "Petty Officer" as their title.

D. Anyone of any rank may have any title acceptable for their faction's standards.

E. Titles do not define a character's inherent strength in their activities.
For example, a Tier 1 Emperor would be similar to an inexperienced and inefficient Emperor. A Tier 3 Emperor is a strong and experienced one.

F. Titles and ranks do not have OOC authority.

Section VI - Fleets and Militaries and Non-player Characters

A. The strength and efficiency of fleets and militaries is proportional to a character's rank.
1) This means a Tier 3 starfighter pilot with a supporting squadron can easily take a Tier 1 admiral with a fleet in straight forward combat.

B. The strength and efficiency of fleets and militaries increases with each additional character writing with it.

C. Star Wars is a fight between champions, though. The deciding factors of any fleet and military battle is defined by how player characters fare against each other. Personal battles drive combat roleplay.

D. Non-player character may not be used to trump characters in combat - especially against higher rank characters.

E. Keep fleet composition and size reasonable since their strength is not dependent on having exotic ships and massive numbers.

Section VII - Factions

A. Factions are defined as in-character elements that have an established organization and structure.

B. Characters within a faction must maintain the appearance of conforming to the faction's standards unless when wishing to role-play the consequences of doing so.

C. Joining a faction is not a requirement.

D. Faction staff is appointed and their purpose is to maintain both the public and private forums of the faction, be it stickying threads and making announcement to the faction.

E. A faction may make its own standards and rules with the general consent of all members at the time the decision is made.

 

[Carbon]

>most intelligenceI stopped there

 

[Samara Galloway]

3) Harassment and abusive behavior is not allowed. This includes outright flaming members and racial, sexist, religious, ethnic, sexual or political remarks that can be considered derogatory. Swearing in general is discouraged. Excessive and unnecessary swearing is not allowed. Any posts with swear words are liable to be edited to remove the swear word. First time offenders will have their post deleted and be temporarily banned. Repeat offenders will be permanently banned and a complaint forwarded to vBulletin.
That has my seal of approval.

 

[Carbon]

I'm so fucked by that rule.

 

[Ket Van-Derveld]

I... actually agree with this.

 

[Samara Galloway]

I could care less about the swearing part. Its the derogatory comment part that has my approval. If it is alright to be punished for making a derogatory comment about gays(not that I ever would) then the same should be done towards someone that would make such a comment about my religion or any other religion at that.

 

[Carbon]

The real problem would lie in the enforcement of it. But I can see why you'd like it.

 

[Solariel Eldara]

I agree with some. Not others. I am dissecting the post and replying now with detail.

 

[Solariel Eldara]

3) Harassment and abusive behavior is not allowed. This includes outright flaming members and racial, sexist, religious, ethnic, sexual or political remarks that can be considered derogatory. Swearing in general is discouraged. Excessive and unnecessary swearing is not allowed. Any posts with swear words are liable to be edited to remove the swear word. First time offenders will have their post deleted and be temporarily banned. Repeat offenders will be permanently banned and a complaint forwarded to vBulletin.

Swearing should be kept to a PG-13 rating would be more suitable to my taste. Some of the role plays I write have adult language, and I fully intend to say ass, and shit. When it becomes excessive or out of hand, an Admin/Mod should give them a little poke... "Hey guys, let's tone it down a bit" to remind them that it's on the borderline. If it continues or gets worse beyond that point, edited, closed/temporarily closed and unofficially warned. If it continues beyond that, an official warning sent to them privately via inbox. If it continues beyond that, 24 hour ban (letting them know that they have been warned three times and that this is a temporarily cool down). If it continues beyond that, I'd say it's staff discretion on punishment depending on severity. But, we're all adults here and I don't foresee this being a problem. Permanently banned for swearing and taking it to another level is excessive in my opinion.

4) One may not post, distribute, transmit, or promote illegal content. One may not encourage illegal behavior. This is against vBulletin's Terms & Conditions, therefore any offenders are liable to be banned.

5) There shall be no one that impersonates another person in earnest. Impersonators are against vBulletin's Terms & Conditions, and therefore liable to extreme punishment.


We can cut a lot of these smaller rules out by simply saying "all members including staff members are required to adhere to vBulletin's Terms & Conditions in addition to standardized community rules.

6) No one may use "sockpuppets". This is defined by using a second or more accounts under one person's control to support the opinion of the first account in some manner in an out-of-character discussion.

I think we should leave this one on the back-burner for now, as we were discussing a system for community votes that would require them to cast one vote per player (I.P) on proposals approved that are put to a community vote for implementation. We can add a definition of god-moding to be using multiple alternative accounts for an IC advantage.

5) NO political, religious or social debates on real-life topics on the board. There is a /pol/ forum for that with its own rules regarding political debates.

We actually don't have a political forum and right now I don't see a need for one. No quicker way to divide a community than to get them talking about religion and politics.

E. The lead post of a role-play thread must always clearly establish the setting of the role-play.

.... IF it's Public/Open.

B. Create a clear, concise biography with all necessary information through as a Blog.
1) The profile must include:

a) NAME others call the character as
b) APPEARANCE of the character
c) HISTORY of the character, brief and sufficient at the least
d) PERSONALITY of the character, whether the true character's self or what others would perceive
e) FACTION of the character
f) Other information one would deem necessary, such as age, weapons used, and more.

Character biographies should be highly recommend and posted on the integrated Wiki when it becomes active tomorrow. But they should not be required. This should be done at the writers personal preference/discretion. However, it should be noted that the Wiki is like a history book, and the only way you're going to leave your mark in history is to document it.

D. Selecting an avatar is recommended. Avatars must represent the physical appearance of the character one wishes to convey to writers. There is no avatar reservation system on this site.

This is just me personally, but I'd like to see a personae reservation system. One of the most frustrating things about TGC was the fact that there were 5-6 Christian Bales, 3-4 Hayden Christianson's, etc.

F. New characters start as Tier 1 Rank.


I'm firmly against an "OOC" ranking system. IC ranks should be decided by the creator of a character and his faction. Force users should adhere to the typical Apprentice/Padawan - Knight - Master format, and be trained accordingly with no set time on completion aside from role playing dialogue and story line. Force users should only be promoted when they as well as their trainer are comfortable with promoting them. This should not be taken lightly, and abuses of this promotion freedom should be considered god-moding and met with typical outlined disciplinary action. I call this "free form." You develop at your own pace, may it be a month or a year. But it will raise a great deal of suspicion if you are promoted before you have ICLY earned it, and the community may decide to overturn your promotion by majority vote as well as your trainers. The community keeps each other in check, not the staff. This applies to all future references to Tier Ranks.

C. A character's innate power and ability is defined by their rank. The higher tier rank a character is, the more inherent strength they would have in direct confrontation with other characters. Logic dictates that in single-man fights, the higher tier character would win in normal circumstances. Keep this in mind during duels.

How you play your character should determine the outcome of a fight. Not how you're ranked. It shouldn't become an issue if both players are playing realistically as mature adults. If, however, it does a Gamemaster will read the thread and make a decision without argument.

D. Hits may be automatically called if an opponent completely ignores an attack in their counter reply. If the opponent has responded to the attack in any way, one may not call an automatic hit on their previous character's action.


This may be difficult to enforce if we have high volume posts that could be missed, however those edits should be worked out between the parties involved. Taking hits should flow as easily and come as often as dealing them.

E. In multi-character battles, if a character that has been attacked does not reply in 3 days, that character's battle is counted as a loss and the attack hits. The character that attacked may not continue to interact with the character that left. One may abandon an AWOL character before the 3 day mark, yet their attack is not counted as a hit and their duel is considered to be a draw.

I'd say 7 days until we are more active with the understanding that people cannot attack characters that are on vacation or LoA until they are assigned to return. Those threads should be put on hold or resolved through mutual understanding between the parties involved before one side leaves for extended LoA. If a mutual agreement is met, the remaining party should write out the character with grace and respect or allow a Gamemaster to do so as quickly as possible as was agreed by the two parties. This agrement must take place in a public OOC RP discussion form.

A. Ranks define the inherent strength of a character in almost any activity.

1) For Force users, it defines how much they have been trained in the Force and combat. The higher tiered, the more powerful their Force and combat attacks.
2) For non Force users, it defines their experience with weapons and gadgets. The higher tiered, the more efficient they are with weapons and gadgets.
3) The Force and lightsabers do not allow lower tier Force users to trump higher tier Neutrals. Same for gear and gadgets for Neutrals when attempting to trump higher tier Force users.

I'm against anyone other than a Force user being measured by their rank. Even then, the IC development and writing ability of the character should be the primary deciding faction. You don't automatically win because you are a Sith Master. Likewise, you don't automatically lose if you are a Padawan. It IS possible for a Padawan to defeat a Sith Master if it is role played well enough and within reason, maintaining that the Padawan does not god mode and instead relies on wit, technology, element-of-surprise, etc. The bottom line; your story line and dialogue should be what matter, now what rank you hold OOC. Padawans should bare in mind that Masters have gone through rigorous training and development to achieve said title. Likewise, Masters should recognize that they may be powerful, but are not invulnerable or undefeatable by even a non-force user.

Again, I disagree with anyone other than Force Characters being "ranked."

E. Titles do not define a character's inherent strength in their activities.
For example, a Tier 1 Emperor would be similar to an inexperienced and inefficient Emperor. A Tier 3 Emperor is a strong and experienced one.

Strongly disagree with this statement. Reasons are clearly stated above.

A. The strength and efficiency of fleets and militaries is proportional to a character's rank.

Strongly disagree with this as well. The strength should be kept in proportion to what is phesable for a faction to muster with their current holdings and a persons IC ability to role play it adequately. Not what rank they are.

1) This means a Tier 3 starfighter pilot with a supporting squadron can easily take a Tier 1 admiral with a fleet in straight forward combat.


I will never agree to this and in all honesty, would ignore if if it was implemented. When I am head-to-head with someone, I am up against their cunning, intelligence, and role playing ability. Not their rank.

That being said, Fleeting has not been discussed yet and is still on the back burner.

E. Keep fleet composition and size reasonable since their strength is not dependent on having exotic ships and massive numbers.


I personally believe a single ISD should be a force to be reckoned with, as it is well documented that one ISD alone has the power to raze an entire planet. However, as stated prior, Fleeting is not yet being discussed and when it is I will outline my ideas for fleeting then.

D. Faction staff is appointed and their purpose is to maintain both the public and private forums of the faction, be it stickying threads and making announcement to the faction.


I think we agreed that anyone may create a faction, but it is up to them to maintain it and drive it's activity. Meaning we can have one person factions (for example, Seinar Fleet Systems) if a person creates it and actively role plays the part of an Employee or President, etc. However, if the faction goes inactive it will be purged and it's rights are open for a new creator (with the understanding that previous established history is to be taken into account and documented/recorded).

That's my input. Just want to keep the rules as simple as possible. One simple rule that can be followed to make all others null-and-void: Role play realistically.​

 

[Delila Castillon]

......Are you sure you're not Ceel in disguise Apparatus? TGC-lite rules IMO.I agree with some of them but for the most part it is hit and miss. Especially needing to create a bio. I don't see the purpose.

 

[Ket Van-Derveld]

Well, sometimes, a bio IS a nice resource to have available, in case you want to know about a character, and don't want to pester the hell out of the writer. I'm for bios, but I'm not saying they need to be massive literary works, just something general that gives you an idea of "Who is this character?"

 

[Louise]

Biographies frighten me.

 

[Solariel Eldara]

I will only write a Biography if I feel like it. Honestly, the ONLY thing keeping me from playing at Tales/Epics is the REQUIREMENT to have an APPROVED BIO before playing.