OG:Network - Official Rules

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Note: Unless otherwise specified, all gameplay and chat rules apply to every OG Network-related platform.

Jump to Specific Sections
1. Gameplay Rules
2. Chat Rules
3. Discord Rules
4. Survival Rules
5. Forums Rules
6. RPG SMP Rules



1 - Gameplay Rules


1.1 - Inappropriate Usernames, Skins and Capes
Do not use any inappropriate usernames, skins or capes on our server. Any player who does will be banned until the inappropriate name, skin or cape is changed. Any usernames, skins, or capes with sexual content or offensive behaviour are not allowed.

1.2 - Cheating / Blacklisted Mods
Do not use any client or modification that provides an unfair advantage over other players. Modifications similar to kill aura, flight, x-ray, auto-clickers, and chest-esp are a few examples of blacklisted modifications. Go to the "Modifications" section for a list of allowed modifications.

1.3 - Clicking Methods

We recommend not using clicking methods, such as "butterfly clicking" or "drag clicking," as there is a possibility of being banned by our anti-cheat. Additionally, macros or any software/hardware that modifies how your mouse click function works and any method that clicks for you or modifies the number of clicks you are clicking is considered cheating and will result in a punishment.

1.4 - Bug Abuse

Do not attempt or use any bugs or exploits to gain unfair advantages. If you find any bug and do not report it and decide to use it or share it, it could also result in a punishment. Ask a staff member if you are not sure if one thing is a bug/exploit.

1.5 - Use of Alternate Accounts

Do not use multiple accounts to gain an advantage in-game or boost stats, such as using alternate accounts to fill games or to boost your stats.

1.6 - Sending False Reports or Evidence
Do not send false information in a report or when providing evidence, such as spamming staff with false reports or providing fake evidence to get a player falsely punished.

1.7 Stream Sniping
Do not attempt to stream snipe or purposely ruin games for streamers by targeting, following or giving items to streamers. This is only allowed if the streamer specifies that they would like to be targeted.

1.8 - Punishment Evasion
Do not attempt to evade a ban or mute, as this will result in a permanent punishment.

1.9 - Teaming (Survival Games)
The maximum amount of players in a team is 2. If more than two people are teaming or helping each other during a game, all players involved will be punished.

NOTE: Teaming in deathmatch is not allowed at all.

1.10 - Account Sharing
Do not share accounts with other players under any circumstances. One player should only use an account.


2 - Chat Rules

Server chat rules apply to ALL server chats, including private messages.
2.1 - Hate Speech
Do not send any message that offends a player or group of players based on their religion, race, sexual orientation, gender, etc. This can be done intentionally or accidentally. Furthermore, bypassing any chat filter by using symbols such as *, #, ! or numbers to send blocked messages is not permitted.

2.2 - Threats
Do not make any threats or wishes of harm towards any player or staff member, regardless if it is a joke.

2.3 - Spamming
Do not spam chat by doing things such as sending the same (or similar) messages repeatedly in a short amount of time, sending multiple messages in a short amount of time, etc. Promoting spam also goes under this rule.

2.4 - Insults
Do not insult or treat other players or staff members with disrespect or insensitivity.

2.5 - Sexual / Inappropriate Language
Do not use language that is inappropriate, vulgar, obscene. Any language deemed to be NSFW (Not safe for work) is also not allowed.

2.6 - Speaking Languages other than English.
We only allow our player base to speak English in public discussions to better moderate chats.

2.7 - Impersonation
Do not make any attempt to trick any other player into believing that you (or any other player) are a member of staff, a YouTuber/streamer, or any player they are not.

2.8 - Advertising
Do not advertise other servers, server IPs, server websites, server stores, etc. Furthermore, promoting social media accounts, discord servers, youtube videos, streams, goods or services, etc., are also not allowed. Users with the Media rank are allowed to advertise their channel, social media accounts, videos & streams that are related to OG-Network on the server.

2.9 - Doxxing

Do not attempt to leak any player's personal information (or anyone) without their consent, as this will result in a permanent IP Blacklist from the network. If this happens to you, please contact one of our staff members to help you further.


3 - Discord Rules

All of our server chat rules also apply to our Discord server.

3.1 - Hate Speech/Explicit Language and Media
Do not post any explicit language, media (Adult content) or messages that could offend a player or group based on their religion, race, sexual orientation, gender, etc. This could be done intentionally or accidentally.

3.2 - Spamming
Do not spam, send wall texts or flood chat on our Discord server, like sending random messages to flood channels or sending big copy-paste messages. This rule also includes any media.

3.3 - Threats
Do not make any threats or wishes of harm towards any player or staff member, regardless if it is a joke. This rule also applies to private messages.

3.4 - Phishing, Scamming and Doxxing
Do not attempt to trick other members into revealing personal information such as their password, financial information, address, accounts, etc. Furthermore, leaking anyone's private or personal information without their consent can result in a blacklist from the entire network. If this happens, please contact a staff member.

3.5 - Impersonation
Do not pretend to be a staff member, content creator, or any other player. This ensures our player's safety and that players receive official information to prevent problems for them and us in the future.

3.6 - Advertising
Do not advertise other servers, server IPs, server websites, server stores, etc. Furthermore, promoting social media accounts, discord servers, youtube videos, streams, goods or services, etc., are also not allowed. Users with the Media rank are allowed to advertise their channel, social media accounts, videos & streams that are related to OG-Network. Other users are allowed to advertise the same content in #clips-and-videos on Discord.

3.7 - Controversial Discussions

Do not have conversations regarding politics, religion, or other sensitive topics on our Discord server. Any intention of creating drama is not allowed either. Arguing with staff members about their punishment decisions also goes under this offence.

3.8 - Inappropriate Names, Profile Pictures, and Statuses
Do not use any inappropriate names, profile pictures or statuses.

3.9 - Irritating Voice Chat and Chat Behaviour
Do not bother players in voice channels by doing things such as using voice modifiers/changers, screaming, channel hopping, playing music to annoy other players, etc. Furthermore, do not purposely misuse chat channels, such as chatting in #bug-reports. Please read the descriptions, pins, and names of these channels. If you are not sure about a channel's use, please ask a staff member.

3.10 - Bypassing Punishments
Do not attempt to evade a ban, mute, or timeout, as this will result in a permanent punishment.

3.11 - Follow Discord's Terms of Service
We require all members to follow Discord's Terms of Service (TOS). You can find Discord's Terms of Service here: https://discord.com/terms.


4 - Survival Rules

All other server rules still apply.
4.1 - Duping
Do not intentionally or unintentionally duplicate items, entities or others. If you happen to duplicate anything unintentionally, contact a staff member to prevent punishment. Duplication machines such as TNT Dupers and Carpet Dupers also go under this rule.

4.2 - Lag Machines
Do not use or create any building/machine to lag out the server, crash or make the game unplayable for other players.

4.3 - Chunk Loaders
Do not use any machine/method to load chunks while a player is not in them, as this causes an unnecessary amount of lag.

4.4 - Using Bugs and Exploits
Do not attempt or use any bugs or exploits to gain unfair advantages, such as using composters to "x-ray" and more. Redstone bugs and 0-tick pistons/farms are not allowed. Ask a staff member if you are unsure if something is a bug/exploit.

4.5 - IRL Trading
Do not trade in-game items, coordinates, features and such for real money or items, perks, etc., outside the server. This rule also includes store ranks. Examples would be selling guild/group invites for ranks/perks at other places, selling coordinates for ranks, and buying ranks with in-game money.

4.6 - Use of Reputation System
Do not rep players for inappropriate reasons. All chat rules apply to custom reputation reasons.

4.7 - Sexual / Inappropriate Builds
Do not build or create any sexual, inappropriate or discriminatory builds, signs, map art or books. If you are unsure what goes under this rule, ask a staff member.

4.8 - Baritone / Automation Mods
The use of Baritone, auto clickers and other game modifications/software that allows you to automate your actions in-game is prohibited. Automation within the game (ex. minecarts) is permitted. However, any modifications/software made that can not be done in vanilla Minecraft is not allowed.

Bot mods, such as MineBot, are only allowed under specific circumstances. A bot can interact with private chat (/msg, /guild chat, /party chat). However, you may not have your bot send any messages in public chat. Furthermore, you cannot use a bot mod to move your player, interact with your inventory, right/left click or interact with the world in any way. Such accounts using these modifications will be banned without warning.

4.9 - Boosting
Do not boost your own or someone else's stats on the server. Using alternative accounts, allowing players to repeatedly kill you, selling kills/deaths for money or other items, etc., goes under stats boosting.

4.10 - Alternative Account Use
We allow alternative accounts (alts) on the server to an extent. Using alts to gain an advantage is not allowed on the server. This includes but is not limited to renting stalls on alts, claiming daily/vote rewards on alts, using alts to gain more homes (Through setting homes on alts or allowing yourself to tp to the alts), and using alts to avoid impacting the reputation on your main account. If you are unsure if you can do something with alts, ask a staff member.

4.11 - Stall Use
We offer players a safe place to sell and buy items from other players; however, abusing/exploiting this feature is not allowed. Do not store items that you are not currently selling and do not use your stall as a base/storage/casino, or keep it empty.

Disclaimer: You cannot store shulkers/other items in your sell chests. For example, you can't put diamonds in your wood-selling chest. --- Around 90-100% of your stall must be selling things.

4.12 - Seed Use
Do not use the seed to find ores or caves. This rule aims to keep the gameplay fair, OG, and help with x-ray bans.



5.1 - Swearing, Harassing and Bullying
Do not make posts or profile statuses that contain insults that aim to harass or bully. Making threads arguing with staff members' decisions on punishments and appeals also falls under this rule.

5.2 - Spamming and Non-English Posts
Do not make unwanted or unnecessary posts repeatedly in a short period. Asking for free things, accounts, ranks, or other goods and services; or continuously asking for punishments to be removed when an appeal has already been denied all go under this offence. Furthermore, please only send messages and posts in English to better moderate chats.

5.3 - Threats
Do not make any threats or wishes of harm towards any player or staff member, regardless if it is a joke. This rule also applies to private messages.

5.4 - Phishing, Scamming and Doxxing
Do not attempt to trick other members into revealing personal information such as their password, financial information, address, accounts, etc. Furthermore, leaking anyone's personal information without their consent can result in a blacklist from the entire network. If this happens, please contact a staff member.

5.5 - Impersonation
Do not pretend to be a staff member, content creator, or any other player. This ensures our player's safety and that players receive official information to prevent problems for them and us in the future.

5.6 - Advertising
Do not advertise other Minecraft servers, streams, videos, and social media. Sharing video clips from other servers also goes under this rule (This rule does not count if the video comes with a suggestion). We allow our members to send short clips on the server to showcase a feature or show a moment but not to advertise.

5.7 - Stats Farming
Do not ask for likes or farm messages to increase your forum stats. If a question has been answered already and you have nothing else to add to the previous questions, don't answer it.

5.8 - Pointless or Controversial Discussions.
Please respect the original reason for a thread or post. Avoid having off-topic discussions and keep off-topic discussions to other threads. Additionally, controversial discussions are not allowed to be made in posts or profile statuses.

5.9 - Inappropriate Profiles
Please keep your profile appropriate. This includes your profile name, profile picture, and signature.



Please note that all general rules from Section 4 - Survival Rules apply except for stall, rep, and seed-related rules.

6.1 - Spawning Withers Near Claims
Spawning withers near another player's claim in an attempt to annoy or kill the player is considered griefing and is a bannable offence.

6.2 - Land Claiming
Intentionally claiming land in an area where another player is building or claiming part of another player's active build is also considered griefing and is a bannable offence.
 
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