Fan-made Tribes Discord Server

The **Polytopia FMTs Discord server** is the place for FMT creators to talk, develop their tribes, and make suggestions. Join now here!

## Server Rules

### Basic Rules

These are rules that you need to follow, or you will be punished.

1. Follow the Discord Terms of Service
2. No advertisement of any sort in channels besides #memes (unless given permission)
3. Be nice to others, and don't insult them. Anyone caught breaking this rule will be mildly punished, no matter who started it.
4. No discrimination by gender, sexuality, race, culture, age, or anything else really
5. Don't steal the work of other server members
6. If a concept artist requests payment for their work, follow through with the transaction as long as the payment was mentioned before the art is made
7. No NSFW (not safe for work), *especially* not without permission (having permission would also be questionable, actually)
8. Save political debates and rants for elsewhere

If you obey all of these rules, you should be fine. And if you are unsure about whether something you want to post or say obeys all of these, you probably shouldn't post it.

### Fun/Miscellaneous Channel Rules

Everything above applies to every part of this server or related servers, but miscellaneous channels have some other additional rules. #misc-commands is for bot commands, memes for memes and videos (not your own videos), you get the idea. These are meant to be loosely followed. As of the writing of this, the only miscellaneous channel with specific guidelines is #counting. In #counting, you take turns saying numbers with other people, with added rules. The numbers need to follow an order of +1 increases, like 36, 37, 38, 39. Each number needs its own message, there cannot be any text on message besides the number, and you cannot say two messages in a row.

### Tribe-Making Guide

This server is designed for brainstorming, creating and storing ideas for potential tribes for *The Battle of Polytopia*. Nothing made here is official, but it might be a source of inspiration for the developers or recreated in a mod (if support is added) if you are lucky (don't count on it though, it's mostly just for fun). To create tribes on this server, you need to follow this process:

1. Create a simple backstory, a name and a basic description of your tribe and one of its abilities after you come up with an idea. You can plan it out and get some help with this step in #brainstorm. After doing so, post the information in new-tribe-suggestions.
2. After you have the information posted, ping an online Moderator (ONLY if none are online, ping @Moderator) and have them look over the concept to see if it meets the requirements. For it to be approved, it must seem balanced, have original concepts/mechanics that are not part of other tribes on this server, and if it is based off of or includes technology from a real time period it must be Renaissance or earlier. Also, please try and refrain from making tribes from overused ideas. We have enough water-native, bug, elemental, mountain, fire, and "revised navy" tribes, so try and think more outside the box even if it takes you longer. If the Mod approves your request, they will create a discussion and an official channel for your tribe and give you the corresponding tribe creator role.
3. You will work on your tribe over time in your discussion channel and ask for feedback if you are stuck by pinging @Moderator or @deleted-role. After you complete parts of your tribe, you will add them to the official channel for your tribe to organize them into a finished product.
4. Once you have compiled all of the information and features of your tribe, it's time to create some concept art. While you may do this on your own, you can also have a Concept Artist do it for you. If you want to keep it in the server, we have a small team of artists that will make art for your tribe if you request it in art-requests (read more about the process in #official-concept-artist-info and #concept-artist-hall-of-fame).

#### Completion

If you have all of the official information and ≤1 pieces of art, then ping a Moderator saying your tribe is done. They will archive it, finishing the process. The tribe discussion channel will be deleted, so make sure that everything you need is off of it. If you fail to contact them upon completion, they will eventually message you asking if it is done so it's best to do it right away. Incomplete, inactive tribes will be stored away or taken control of by moderators.

### Server-hopping Rules

If you join and leave within a 24hr time period without notifying any member we will consider this as server-hopping. This is an issue that has been brought to attention by some of our members and to avoid spam in the #welcome channel we have to enforce this rule. If you need to leave the server or want to come back some time later, just message a mod and we will ensure you aren't banned for server-hopping. If you have any issues, feel free to contact a moderator.