Editing Rules

# Horizon’s End Rules

Rules are subject to change at any time. We will do our best to inform the community of each instance. Ultimately, it is the players responsibility to stay up-to-date with the rules. We may decide to deviate from these rules when there is cause to do so, however doing so should be rare, and in such cases changes to this document should be made to reflect this.

This community also enforces the Discord Community Guidelines and Terms of Service. You may be reported to Discord and promptly removed from the server should you violate them.

Any attempt to violate these rules via loopholes may be addressed with punishment. Please submit a ticket should you find such a loophole. Additionally, evidence is favored when reporting a player, we will not take you at your word, or punish based on your opinion alone.

## Recent Changes
Updated: 2023-05-07

Most recent additions:
- Moved from original Google Doc to Wiki - 2023-05-07.
- Edited Rule 1 to span more disrespectful actions.
- Added ‘protection bypassing’ to Bug Abuse.
- Added rule 7 against stealing designs.
- Added rule 2 and folded rule 15 (Spam Killing) into it. 
- Broadened theft protections to new players.
- Added rule 16 against lying about rules.
- Added rule 17 against planet destruction and adjusted rule 3 to cover non-english messages.

## 1. Respect All Players
Hate speech, homophobia, transphobia, racism, sexism, ableism, defamation, and other forms of harassment will not be tolerated. This includes the use of racial, ethnic, or homophobic slurs. Constant petty insults that create a toxic atmosphere will also not be allowed.
Punishments will be situational, but we reserve the right to ban a user should we judge the incident to be severe.
Server staff may not be aware that something is considered hate speech, in this instance please open a report. (See: Note 3)
We take our players’ privacy and safety very seriously. Any threat of malicious actions such as harm, exposure of personal information, or DDOS attacks will be met with an immediate permanent ban. Any violation of Discord’s policies will be reported directly to Discord.


## 2. No Harassment
Actions aimed at making the server unplayable, or a significantly worse experience, for another player will not be tolerated. 
These actions include, but are not limited to, placing automatic defenses near another player’s base, building obstructions around someone’s settlement, or repeatedly killing them once all value from doing so has evaporated. 
Punishments will be situational, but we reserve the right to ban a user should we judge the incident to be severe.

## 3. No Spamming
Refrain from posting repeat messages, excessive capitalization, excessive emotes, excessive arguments, and tagging people unnecessarily. Memes channels are an appropriate place for some spam, such as copy-pastas or other such obnoxious posts. 
Make a reasonable effort to use channels for their respective purposes. If you aren’t sure of a channel's topic, check its description.
Additionally, English is the only language to be used in public channels. Most players here only understand English, as do the moderators. Please keep it to private messages with others who may understand.

## 4. No Sexual/Adult Content
We do not allow any Sexual/Adult content of a provocative nature, we have no channels in which such content would be appropriate or allowed.
Sexual/Adult content includes nudity, porn, hentai, gore, smut, Nazi-related content, genitalia. If you are unsure if it is considered NSFW/suggestive, it would be best to keep it to yourself.
We do not allow the discussion/reference of illegal drugs, such as cocaine, meth, and other such hard drugs. Drugs such as weed and similar are accepted.

## 5. No Advertising
This is not the place for you to promote your server. There are plenty of listing sites for that. This does not mean talking about other servers is outright banned. However, if you are slandering or found to be subtly attempting advertisement, moderators will take action. Also, do not raid another server with the Horizon’s End information. 

## 6. Do Not Bypass Punishments
Do not attempt to bypass any punishment using glitches, alternate accounts or client modifications.

## 7. Do Not Exploit Bugs or Glitches or Mechanics
Do not attempt to abuse a bug or glitch, known or unknown. If you discover such a feature, promptly report it to the submit a ticket detailing the issue and avoid touching it further. A bug or glitch is any feature that gives you an unfair advantage over other players. 
Please also see [this document](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VABkvqFaZ9mX32VNnM5CocIk5HU-YPexdu7FHhg6eK0/edit) for a list of known methods of bug abuse.

## 8. Do Not Steal Designs
Do not attempt to steal another player’s design, including ships / buildings / BDPs, to use for your own purposes. Additionally, if you are granted blueprint rights to a ship, the main contributor of the build is able to revoke your rights at any time for the printing of said ship. If anyone disagrees, staff action will be taken.

## 9. No Hacked Clients or Unfair Mods
The use of any hacked clients or mods/resource packs that give an unfair advantage over players is forbidden. This includes fly hacks, kill auras, speed hacks, aint-knockback, player highlighters, and x-ray to name a few. Use of hacks or unfair mods will be met with an extensive ban.

## 10. Do Not Grief or Steal From Claimed Land or New Players
Do not grief or steal from another player's claimed land, regardless of access. This includes all containers, builds, and ships within. Additionally, it is recommended you get permission before taking another player’s ship from claimed land. 
Ship ownership overrides that of the territory, this includes the ability to remove the ship from the claim. However the owner of the territory holds the right to take ownership of that ship, regardless of if it is locked.
Stealing crates or activating pistons to push crates also falls under this category, when the ship is in claimed land or a trade city.
Stealing and griefing the possessions of players with new player protection is not allowed, regardless of the land those contents were left in. Exceptions can be made for abandoned property.

## 11. Alternate Accounts Are Not Allowed
We do not allow alts on the main survival server. If you have a roommate/sibling on the same IP, be sure to clear it up with staff prior to them logging on.

## 12. Do Not Kill New Players Unprovoked
Newer players will have a grace period where they may play without fear of being attacked. If a new player provokes another through combat, they will lose this protection and you may attack them.  If a player has a star beside their name in chat, they are considered a new player and you must not provoke them.

## 13. No Combat Logging/Releasing
Combat releasing is the act of releasing a ship to prevent it from getting sunk in a battle. This will not be allowed. Combat releasing within a distance of 1000 blocks is not allowed, beyond this range you are allowed to release your ship, if you are in an ost you are also allowed to release your ship at any time. Combat logging is similar, whereas the player logs out to avoid combat.
In the event a player is found guilty of combat logging staff will assume that the player would have lost the fight, and in turn hand over the players ship and inventory over to the would be victor. The guilty player will not be banned.
If a player logs back in within 5 minutes then it is not considered combat logging. However if your ship is destroyed during that 5 minutes, so be it.
The reason for combat logging is not relevant, as staff are not able to verify the legitimacy of the reason. This includes issues such as computer crashes.

## 14. No Boosting
Boosting is the act of giving a player a substantial amount of credits for free in order to help them level up. This system was built with the idea of players working to level themselves. Any offense will be investigated and determined on a case-by-case basis, and we as a team will be determining whether a loophole was used or not

## 15. Ship design restrictions
To keep within the spirit of Ship vs Ship combat, purposefully awkward ships that are designed only to break the meta will not be allowed. This may include spindly ships that are impossible to hit, abusing the small minimum block counts of shuttles, or anything designed to give an overwhelming advantage at the cost of immersion. This does not apply to immobile ships.  Staff discretion is used to determine what is in violation of this rule.

## 16. Do not misrepresent rules
Players must not purposely fabricate, misrepresent, or otherwise give other players a false impression of the server rules. A player who received punishment for a violation that they were unfairly manipulated into via intentional misrepresentation on the part of another player shall have their punishments reversed unless there is compelling reasoning not to do so. A player who intentionally violates this rule (as in, willfully misrepresents the rules to gain an advantage) will be punished and will be forced to reimburse the victim for any and all material losses captured as a result of the violation."

## 17. No wanton destruction of planets. 
Players should avoid actions that destroy the natural beauty of planets. Actions that may be covered under this rule maybe include: Large walls, and large scale surface mining.