Rules

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Discord & Community Rules

  • Administrator rulings are final, given they are made in good faith and in accordance with other rules and policies. If you have a problem with said rulings you may appeal to have said ruling reversed, clarified or amended by higher ranking administrators or project leads if no higher ranking administrator is available. If this rule is invoked to exact punishment on someone, the banning admin will be expected to have a strong reasoning for the ban, and the ban itself must be deemed for the better health of the server by a majority of the admin team AND the tribune of the plebs. I will elaborate more further below.
  • Administrators will be held responsible for their actions and will be punished if the offense is severe enough or the admin has a history of similar offenses.
  • Repeated line-toeing of an offense will be treated as an actual offense. Self-explanatory, if you repeatedly toe the line of any of the rules below it will be treated as if the rule was actually broken and a proportionate punishment will be exacted.
  • Children will be removed on sight. Anyone under the age of 13 will be banned instantly per Discord ToS. Anyone under the age of 16 will be removed normally.
  • No NSFW content. This is not an ERP server, please take that somewhere else. Discussion is allowed to an extent, err on the side of caution.
  • Don’t be a douchebag. We’re all here to test ships, do your best to not actively make the environment of the discord terrible for others. This includes not shit-talking other servers here. We won’t ban for first-time offenses or off-hand comments but they will still be removed regardless.
    • No Bigotry. Period. Slurs (including thinly veiled real-life slurs directed at fictional groups [i.e. the N word but with a single letter replaced]), common dogwhistles, and “jokes” are not tolerated here. For the case of dogwhistles and slurs which one may not find offensive, we will not exact a real punishment but instead warn the offender.
  • Keep discussions on-topic. We will not interrupt the natural flow of conversation unless it veers too far out, but please put discussions in their proper channels.
    • No Politics. Politics, especially of the recent events variety, is not allowed here, period. There will be no containment channel made for it, that’s called DMs.
    • Keep personal affairs out of Shiptest. This is not your friend group, this is an SS13 server. Please vent to people you actually know.
  • No IC in OOC. This kind of goes without saying but it’s useful to have it codified anyways. Ick ock on the discord will net punishments on both the discord and game server.

Roleplaying Rules

Translated into boring-speak by MkSb (thanks marg you are greate)


The Rules

Note: These rules were made in order to enhance to experience of players, not restrict them for the sake of it. These rules are subject to change as our community grows, evolves, and changes.

  • Try to act in-character as a believable character. (See What’s a character? below)
  • Do not be excessively malicious without extremely good reasoning, EVEN IF YOUR CHARACTER’S PERSONALITY ALLOWS FOR IT.
  • Try to keep a similar roleplaying standard as the people you interact with most (e.g. fellow crewmembers).
  • Refrain from content that may make other players uncomfortable in any way (ALL sexual content, excessively gross content, etcetera)
  • Using lore, while greatly encouraged, is not required. However, try to work with anyone who is using it if possible.
  • Don't abuse RP features for the sake of gameplay advantage. This means nothing like leaving your typing indicator up to bait people into having their guard down.
  • This is in the Discord and community rules, but bears repeating- communication of in-round information in OOC channels is bannable.

Additional Explanations

What’s a character?

According to Webster, a character is defined as being “one of the persons of a drama or novel,” “the personality or part which an actor recreates,” “a person marked by notable or conspicuous traits,” and other similar definitions.

…okay, and what does that have to do with anything?

Well, your “character” in SS13 reflects all of these definitions. It’s a personality that you, the actor, recreates. It’s a person in the drama that is a round of Space Station 13. It’s a person with notable/conspicuous traits as if everyone acted the same, rounds would be much more dull.

So, what does in-character mean?

In-character mostly means you act like the character you’re trying to recreate would. Not that there’s really a for sure way to tell what they would do, as they don’t exist, but as you are their creator, you should be able to infer from the personality you construct for them what they would do.

Does that mean I just have to do exactly what I’m told without question, like what I’ve heard the stereotypical HRP server requires?

Well, you can, but generally people don’t always do exactly what they’re told no matter what the circumstances. A good character has to be believable, so if they just follow orders blindly (unless this is the personality you’re going for), it may not be believable as a character that sometimes questions or even refuses doing morally questionable things.

So can I not do stupid stuff?

You can totally do stupid stuff. Last I checked, most people had a sense of humour mixed with some amount of curiosity. HOWEVER, this doesn’t mean you can be stupid at the great expense of others. Most people are generally smart enough to know when something obviously is going to go wrong and have the morality to not do things they know will hurt others unless they have a really good reason for doing so.

So what kind of RP level is this again? I forgot.

What’s an RP level?