Rules & Code of Conduct

FOnline the Long Journey is a free play sandbox environment. However as it is still a game to be played for everyone's enjoyment there are certain rules the community must follow to ensure fair gameplay. Rules for FOnline the Long Journey are divided into two categories. Game rules and discord/forum rules.

## Game Rules

#### **Non-Character Information / Out-of-Character (OOC) / Metagaming**

Any kind of behavior or actions that stand out from the general roleplay and game's atmosphere is strongly prohibited. Remember, you are playing a roleplay project and you are expected to roleplay your character.

##### 1.1 - Character’s role violation

* Any action that may be considered impossible or illogical for your character RP are prohibited. For example, if your character, by your own log, hates dogs, then it can’t have a dog as a pet.

##### 1.2. - Logic violation

* Any actions that consider being illogical from the point of char RP and world settings are prohibited. For example, if your char used to live in some Vault for its entire life, it’d be weird to see it being chill and calm about walking out of the Vault for the first time.

##### 1.3. - Lore/Common Sense violation

* Before you activate your character you shall carefully examine the lore and setting of the session. It would be strange to see a character talking about the fall of the Master's Army in the times before the Master’s reign. Another example of the violation - a player, who is roleplaying a barbarian, is talking about Enclave, which, based on his own RP logs, his character doesn’t know about.

##### 1.4. - “Player’s perspective” violation

* The most common mistake is when a player starts acting from the point of his own persona, rather than thinking over the behavior of his character. Be aware that you are roleplaying a specific character, not yourself. And always keep in mind the fact that if your character dies – it’s permanent.

##### 1.5. - Basic psychology violation

* Your character is a living being with its own desires and fears. Acting like a fearless maniac is against all sorts of logic. Your character must follow certain psychology rules all people follow IRL. That means that your character shall express fear, feel emotions, have desires and reactions to events happening around it.

##### 1.6 - Out-of-Character Chat (OOC)

* Remember, the game's chat is a tool for communication and roleplay. Using it for OOC information is strongly prohibited. For all your questions about game mechanics/other offtopic talks - use Discord.

##### 1.7 - Failed Roleplay

* This rule extends the 1.1. Any actions that don't suit your own character's RP log are considered being FailRP. Additionally, this rule covers the RP situations failures. For example, it is strongly prohibited to go afk in order to escape RP situations, etc.

##### 1.8 - "Scene escape” violation

* Logging out during a roleplay ‘scene’/situation in order to keep your character safe, avoid repercussions, or to simply escape a situation is prohibited. If you cannot finish a scene due to IRL circumstances, you must contact the other parties and arrange. You must deal with the consequences of the scene on your next log-in.

##### 1.9 - Metagaming

* The use of knowledge and means obtained outside the game. For example, the use of knowledge in the game, which the character itself does not possess, but the player does.
* Example of the rule violation: From Discord discussions you find out that Johnny is a pimp, however your character doesn't know about it in the game. Yet it doesn't stop you from naming Johnny a pimp every time your character meets him in the game.

##### 2 - Multiloging

* It is strictly prohibited to have more than 1 character at the same time. You play your character till its death/deactivation and only then you are allowed to make a new one.

##### 3 - Powergaming

* Unrealistic behavior of the character, ignoring basing rules of lore and logic, forced promotion of the own view of the plot. A player can be described as a powergamer if he or she declares that his or her own action against another player character have been successful without giving the other player character the freedom to act on its own prerogative. It may also be a player who tries to force others to participate in the RP those  others may not want to engage in. Powergaming is strictly prohibited. The main criteria of Powergaming - using some self-made illogical RP reasons in order to get a benefit in some certain situations. As an example your character certainly can't suddenly evolve into a dragon and fly away or achieve superpowers in a fight or survive a fall from a big mountain. Your character also can’t just come to somebody, grab them and throw them to the other dimension giving the other player no choice to resist or coop.

##### 4 - Random Death or Violence

* It is strongly prohibited to kill people around you just because you can. Behind every murder there shall stand a strict reason either formed during RP situations or explained in the character's RP log.

##### 5 - Erotic Roleplay

* In-game depictions of the sexual organs usage, explicit foreplay, non-direct suggestions about sexual act parts are prohibited. Only way to roleplay the intimate scenes is through the game mechanics and softcore roleplay ( kisses, hugs, getting undressed ).
* We can't restrict private chats or Discord workaround, but we strongly discourage such gameplay. If the players are found engaging in the activity described above, they will become a subject to this rule.
* Text messages in the chat, holodisks, diaries and other mechanics to store the text.
* - Violation of this rule is a bannable offence.

##### 6 - Other Spoken Languages

* The official game language is English. It is prohibited to express character emotes or any kind of narrative text using language other than English.

##### 7 - Inappropriate Nicknames

* Your registration login should not be something offensive.

##### 8 - Intentional Sabotage

* Any direct aimed attempts to ruin somebody’s experience are strictly prohibited. For example, mass lockpicking with looting everything and leaving no RP notes or hotspots, mass arson with no direct reason, throwing goo and wastes in the door hexes and just around everywhere for no reason, attempts to mess up with GMs work, etc.

##### 9 - Character Disclosure

* You are prohibited to disclose character owners ( aka “pilots” ) unless the owner gave their permission to do that.

## Discord Rules ( Applies to any forums or discussion boards.)

##### 1 - Be Respectful

* You must respect all users, regardless of your liking towards them. Treat others the way you want to be treated.

##### 2 - No Spamming

* Don't send a lot of small messages right after each other. Do not disrupt chat by spamming.

##### 3 - No Adults Only Content

* No pornographic/adult/other NSFW material. This is a community server and not meant to share this kind of material.

##### 4 - No Advertisements

* No advertisements without permission. We do not tolerate any kind of advertisements, whether it be for other communities or streams that just go without a direct permission from the administration.

##### 5 - No Offensive Profiles

* No offensive names or profiles pictures. You will be asked to change your name or picture if the staff deems them inappropriate.

##### 6 - Threats

* Threats to other users of DDoS, Death, DoX, abuse, and other malicious threats are absolutely prohibited and disallowed.

##### 7 - Derogatory Speech

* It is absolutely prohibited to discuss prohibited worldwide figures, symbols, organisations or events, use racial slur or discriminate others nationality in this Discord server.

##### 8 - Public Arguments

* Decisions made by moderators or admins are final. Do not try to argue with the server staff.

##### 9 - Dedicated Channels

* For example discuss offtopic stuff in the #offtopic section, report bugs in #bugs and so on.

##### 10 - Posting Private Information

* Do not post any personal information of other users or non-users without direct permition from the owner.

##### 11 - Appropriate Posting

* Do not post pictures or gifs outside of the channels dedicated for them.