Subsistence PvE Server Rules

All rules found here will pertain to all of our current and future Subsistence Servers. Please read and familiarize yourself with them. UPDATED 11/01/2022

(https://discord.gg/RJVVraV)(https://discord.gg/RJVVraV)(https://discord.gg/RJVVraV)1. COMMON SENSE Guidelines

• The PACK Gaming has several different game platforms and servers. These come as a free service to all our players but come with certain rules and strict enforcement. We are unable to provide any refunds to persons or clans for loss of items, resources, in-game properties and so on, regardless of the reason.

• These rules are available in each of The Pack server’s Global posts most of the time. Ignorance of the rules will not be considered during intervention and does not give grounds for an appeal.

• These rules are not comprehensive and use of loopholes to violate the spirit of these rules is subject to enforcement. Failure to follow these rules will result in being removed from the community! Please follow all of the RULES found here!

• We reserve the right to modify these rules in any way we deem necessary and at any moment, at our own discretion, it is your responsibility to check for them. We will put a note in the Message of the Day on Specific servers when there are significant updates.

2. Personal Responsibility & Tribal/Clan Membership

• ❝Your presence in this server implies accepting these rules, including all further changes. We reserve the right to modify these rules in any way we deem necessary and at any moment, at our own discretion, it is your responsibility to check for them. ❞

• Please read through and consider the spirit of the rules, not just the specific wording. And make sure your clanmates are also aware of them as their actions can affect you. Any infraction by a player will most likely have repercussions for the entire clan. If you’re not sure your clanmates will abide by the rules you might want to reconsider your membership in that tribe/clan. And if you do not plan on playing on a specific server any more it is often best to also leave your tribe/clan there.

• Admin Involvement in Tribal Affairs - Admins rarely get involved in intra-tribal(things going on inside a tribe) issues and or inter-tribal(things between two tribes) issues. UNLESS the altercations escalate to the stage of griefing or harassment.

3. Infractions

3A. We work on a "3 Strikes Method"

• Strike One: You and your Tribe/Clan get a warning. This can be Slept tames to Us removing the offending objects or tames. And a Sign informing you of the offense.

• Strike Two: We have to talk to you about a new rule or you broke the same one again. You can have creatures or buildings removed up to a Temp BAN. Temp Bans are 3 to 5 days without access to the servers.

• Strike Three: We are done, and you are Perm Banned.

Furthermore, If someone is a participant of our Discord, and/or a Player on our Servers, A ban on Discord may also be pursued on the Server Cluster. We do not issue warnings ahead of Admin intervention. Hacking, or using Exploits and other situations deemed as extreme will be met with a permanent ban on the first offense.

3B. Reporting Infractions

To report players, clans, or specific exploits on any of our servers

• Please contact us through our Discord(https://discord.gg/RJVVraV), and fill out a ticket in our Discord (#Support-Tickets)

• Our team will get back to you using the private thread provided. Please make sure you provide the best information you can at the time of your report. This means relaying as much information as you can to help our team investigate. This includes, but is not limited to, screenshots, videos, timestamps, names of characters and guilds, and a good description of the issue.

• We won’t be able to refund or return any loss of property caused by an infraction.

4. Harassment and inappropriate content:

Please stick to a general set of guidelines of basic decency. Treat others as you would like to be treated. If you experience harassment or observe inappropriate content in-game, please be aware that there are tools in some games to help you improve your experience such as muting. If your game does not have Muting, Please contact us through our Discord, and fill out a ticket in our Discord (#Support-Tickets)

• We Allow coarse humor, rough language, and or content. If this is not for you, Thank you for your interest, but we may not be the BEST FIT for you.

• There are some offensive and defamatory chat and user-created content of racial, overtly sexual, hateful, illicit, Terrorist and criminal glorification, or of other nature DEEMED NOT PERMITED. This extends to character names, guild names, in-game signs, any other type of communication in Server.

• Personal threats, doxing, stalking. Please also make sure to get in touch with the local authorities in such similar cases.

• Do not trespass into a base not your own, unless by accident. Nor visiting or hanging around in a base NOT yours. If someone asks you to leave, DO SO. Do not, in any form, harm or kill another P. Character. (Dragging and drownings, Feeding a player to the wildlife, or other forms of killing P. Characters.) Unless specifically told to do so by one of The PACK Staff.

• Do not shoot or take any creature kill, or interfere in a Hunter Base Raid, that someone else is in the process OF killing, or doing , or One they point out that they are about to kill.

• Do NOT Kill other Player Characters unless you have a Mutual Aggression Pact on file!!! Please see #MUTUAL AGGRESSION Section below Do not take body bags not your own! If you are working in co-op with another player you may pick the items up for safekeeping, but give them back immediately upon the other players return to the area.

• Our admin team considers all the above action types of Griefing or Harassment. If reported to admins you can be temporarily suspended for 5 days. Continued Griefing of this type will lead to a The PACK Gaming Server wide Ban.

5. Hacks & Exploits

Hacks and exploits are not tolerated. This is a BAN first, ask questions later mater.

Real-Money Trading (RMT) - GAME items, creatures, or services must only be exchanged for other items, creatures, or services within the game. Trading for real-world currency (real money) is not an accepted form of trading and is forthwith prohibited on our cluster.

Hacks are uses of third-party programs that inject code and modify aspects of the game to provide unfair advantage against other players. Utilizing such will lead to action taken against your access to our servers and flags added to your Steam ID.

Exploits are uses and abuses of game mechanics to obtain an unfair advantage over other players including creating a detrimental play experience through reduced server or game performance.

6. Decay Timers:

• It is the responsibility of the Player to make sure they refresh all timers on the servers they play on. Anything that is claimable/demo-able can and will be cleared up by the other residents of the Servers.

• Land Claims last for 30 days.

• DO NOT destroy/or remove parts or tames of ANY ADMINS, OWNERS, or Community Buildings, EVEN IF DECAYED! You will be banned. DO NOT DEMO -CLAIM A BASE NAMED any of the following variations: <name> (ADMIN); <name> (OWNER); <name> {Owner/Admin}; The PACK {Community Building}; Traders Village {Community Building}; The Events Team {Community Building}

7. Server Building Restrictions:

Please remember that there are other players sharing the server with you. Restricting others’ access to content is not allowed beyond of course grabbing a spot for your base. If you wish to reign supreme on the map and hog all the resources and enemies, please consider single player. Some specific cases where we will act when made aware:

7A. General Building Do's & Don'ts

1. No Blocking of content in the game, such as caves, dungeons, resources and other areas of the game such as lock boxes.

2. No Abuse of the claim system where blocks are placed for no other purpose than to prevent other players’ access to resources and building spots.

3. No building within RENDER range of another players build. All claims must be at least 50 blocks apart unless players are in Alliance with another clan.

4. No Massive constructions or over-use of memory intensive items leading to loss of performance both on client and server-side.

7B: Specifics Allowed:

1. One Land Claim of no more than 20 x 20 foundations. And no taller than 5 stories. (stories allowed are up to 1 + 1/2 wall high. In the case of using an elevator to reach a spire top or Cliff base Do not go over 10 stories and NO MORE than one Land Claim with such a structure per Tribe permitted. If you don't need the full 20 x 20 tiles please make it smaller.

2. ONE OUTPOST Claim of an area of 10 x 10 Foundations will be allowed. Please limit these to 5 stories.

3. Easements can be given for unusually shaped bases on our server. Please see an Admin concerning Easements.

Time will not be spent to carefully remove only offending pieces. All constructions belonging to the owner (player or clan) will be destroyed. There will be no refunds of materials or inventories.

8. MUTUAL AGGRESSION PACT

Mutual Aggression is where two or more clans have officially agreed to Acts of AGGRESSION. HOW WE ARE DOING THIS: IF Two or more Players, tribes agree to Mutual Aggression, they will make a written agreement in the Global or Discord channel. If in Global they need to SCREENSHOT the agreement and post in the DISCORD #subsistence-chat-🥫 Channel.

• YOU MUST SCREENSHOT OR PASTE THIS INTO THE #subsistence-chat-🥫 Channel in our Discord. Player ONE, Player TWO, Agree to Mutual Aggression in Subsistence. Month, Date, Time frame. Both react with yes or emoji if in Discord.

• Your clans are allowed up to 24hours for war.

• Clans will receive a 24 hour period of ORP where NO other Clan can propose war with you.