Post by High Priest Thomas Ravenfall on Mar 1, 2010 0:44:34 GMT -7
1) No God Modding. We know, you're character is the definition of awesome, and no one should be able to touch him/her. Unfortunately, this doesn't make it fun for people to go up against your character. Even Nation Leaders MUST be played fairly. What does this mean in plain terms? Well, for starters, your character doesn't land any hit. Auto-Hitting is NOT enjoyed by other players. On the opposite of that, no, your character can not dodge every attack ever. In fact, we're pretty sure we just said that, did we not? Of course, no character can be killed (unless permission is given by that characters RPer) so, that's something you never have to worry about.
2) These rules were written, and agreed upon, by your staff. This means that all rules are upheld by your staff. Please, respect us as the staff, as we seek only to offer you an enjoyable place to create awesome stories. Along with this, please don't act as staff. If someone's breaking rules, tell a staff member, one should be around most of the time, anyways, and, we'll be more than glad to help solve any problems! There is simply no reason to act superior to other members, just because they broke a rule. If you feel staff has handled something inadequately, or has handled something too harshly, PM another staff member. Any and all issues WILL be resolved, peacefully at that.
3) Do you like spamming? Like posting EVERYWHERE, ALL THE TIME, even when you have NOTHING to say? Well... We don't. Please don't do that, it'll upset the staff we just asked you to respect. This also applies to the C-Boxes. C-Boxes are for conversing with one another, not posting the same message numerous times, and NOT for advertising your boards. We have an area for that. So, feel free to advertise there, in fact, we'd LOVE for you to advertise there!
4) Look, we aren't going to put a strict post limit on you. We understand, sometimes a thread's gone on for 10 pages of your character discussing what they ate for dinner the other night with another character, and it's hard to keep that up with big posts. If a thread is feeling as though there's nothing left to happen in it, go ahead and call it done. For the most part, we're going to want to see somewhere between 2-3 paragraphs a post. And, on that note, please, write in English. We're an English forum, as you should be able to tell by reading this, and most of us ONLY know how to read English... How can you RP with someone, if you can't read anything they post? (And, by English, we mean the English you are currently reading, not l337, not txt spk, and certainly not Klingon.)
5) Yes, there is a character application. Yes, you do have to fill it out. No, it isn't ungodly long. Just try and remember, the purpose of that? It's meant to give you a chance to introduce everyone to your character... Treat it with pride, it's our introduction to who you are, not just making sure you know English, but letting us see the character YOU spent time creating. And, yes, that means NO canons, from ANY universe. Every character here is certified made by the person who posted the app, the only thing they probably didn't make, is the celebrity they choose as their playby. And, we promise, staff will accept your app rather quickly, after all, we want you RPing as bad as you want to RP!
6) Wanna go ahead and make your character now? The password is 'FrankensteinLives'.
7) If you'd like to chat it up with everyone, head on over to one of the C-Boxes, at the left and bottom of the page! They're a great way to talk and get to know your peers on the site, something that we're sure you'd like to do, and, something we highly encourage! The one you see to your left, is for OOC discussions, just to talk to everyone while you're posting or waiting on posts, about whatever you'd like! The one at the bottom of the page is for IC discussions, working out plots or having IC mini-stories! (Yes, the bottom one is Chatango, meaning you can sign up for a username, you don't have to, but, if you do, you'll be able to use that same username and any setting you make on any Chatango C-Box you may come across!)
8) Make sure you have a link to your character profile in your sig. If you get accepted, and find that what you seek is NOT there, go ahead and PM ANY staff member, and they WILL be able to fix it for you.
9) So, you're character is about to get down with another character, make some sweet, sweet funky music? I' afraid not. We allow violence without issue. We allow *moderate* cussing (by that, we mean we won't get upset seeing it, but we don't want characters that, all they do, is scream obscenities.) But, there will be zero sex posts on this site. If it's going to happen, fine, romance is fine, but, when it comes time for the deed... Well, simple, don't describe it, pull a Planet Terror 'Ooh baby, we gon' get it on' *WE ARE EXPERIENCING TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES 'Oh God... Everything's on fire!! Oh God!'. (Yes, we know, that isn't exactly what happened. But, you get whats being said. Also, there will be a ZERO tolerance policy on racial/ethnic/sexual/religious slurs. All people are equal here, and we won't hear otherwise.
10) We encourage you to use avatars and signatures, but, let's be fair here. Not everyone wants massive images every time they log into a site. We'll allow an avatar up to 125 x 125, and, we'll allow multiple sigs, depending on size (the larger the banner, the less alternate banners you can display) up to three at any given time. You'll receive a PM if you've reached your limit of banner space in your sig. And, if it's extraordinarily large, we will be forced to ask you to either resize it, or remove it. This is in the interest of all involved in the site, we assure you.
11) Turns out we're liars, the word you're looking for to access the character creation section is actually 'hewholiesawake'. Forgive us for slipping.
12) HAVE FUN. Lot's of it, please... Fun is what will keep this place alive, and, it's our entire goal in creating this site!
2) These rules were written, and agreed upon, by your staff. This means that all rules are upheld by your staff. Please, respect us as the staff, as we seek only to offer you an enjoyable place to create awesome stories. Along with this, please don't act as staff. If someone's breaking rules, tell a staff member, one should be around most of the time, anyways, and, we'll be more than glad to help solve any problems! There is simply no reason to act superior to other members, just because they broke a rule. If you feel staff has handled something inadequately, or has handled something too harshly, PM another staff member. Any and all issues WILL be resolved, peacefully at that.
3) Do you like spamming? Like posting EVERYWHERE, ALL THE TIME, even when you have NOTHING to say? Well... We don't. Please don't do that, it'll upset the staff we just asked you to respect. This also applies to the C-Boxes. C-Boxes are for conversing with one another, not posting the same message numerous times, and NOT for advertising your boards. We have an area for that. So, feel free to advertise there, in fact, we'd LOVE for you to advertise there!
4) Look, we aren't going to put a strict post limit on you. We understand, sometimes a thread's gone on for 10 pages of your character discussing what they ate for dinner the other night with another character, and it's hard to keep that up with big posts. If a thread is feeling as though there's nothing left to happen in it, go ahead and call it done. For the most part, we're going to want to see somewhere between 2-3 paragraphs a post. And, on that note, please, write in English. We're an English forum, as you should be able to tell by reading this, and most of us ONLY know how to read English... How can you RP with someone, if you can't read anything they post? (And, by English, we mean the English you are currently reading, not l337, not txt spk, and certainly not Klingon.)
5) Yes, there is a character application. Yes, you do have to fill it out. No, it isn't ungodly long. Just try and remember, the purpose of that? It's meant to give you a chance to introduce everyone to your character... Treat it with pride, it's our introduction to who you are, not just making sure you know English, but letting us see the character YOU spent time creating. And, yes, that means NO canons, from ANY universe. Every character here is certified made by the person who posted the app, the only thing they probably didn't make, is the celebrity they choose as their playby. And, we promise, staff will accept your app rather quickly, after all, we want you RPing as bad as you want to RP!
6) Wanna go ahead and make your character now? The password is 'FrankensteinLives'.
7) If you'd like to chat it up with everyone, head on over to one of the C-Boxes, at the left and bottom of the page! They're a great way to talk and get to know your peers on the site, something that we're sure you'd like to do, and, something we highly encourage! The one you see to your left, is for OOC discussions, just to talk to everyone while you're posting or waiting on posts, about whatever you'd like! The one at the bottom of the page is for IC discussions, working out plots or having IC mini-stories! (Yes, the bottom one is Chatango, meaning you can sign up for a username, you don't have to, but, if you do, you'll be able to use that same username and any setting you make on any Chatango C-Box you may come across!)
8) Make sure you have a link to your character profile in your sig. If you get accepted, and find that what you seek is NOT there, go ahead and PM ANY staff member, and they WILL be able to fix it for you.
9) So, you're character is about to get down with another character, make some sweet, sweet funky music? I' afraid not. We allow violence without issue. We allow *moderate* cussing (by that, we mean we won't get upset seeing it, but we don't want characters that, all they do, is scream obscenities.) But, there will be zero sex posts on this site. If it's going to happen, fine, romance is fine, but, when it comes time for the deed... Well, simple, don't describe it, pull a Planet Terror 'Ooh baby, we gon' get it on' *WE ARE EXPERIENCING TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES 'Oh God... Everything's on fire!! Oh God!'. (Yes, we know, that isn't exactly what happened. But, you get whats being said. Also, there will be a ZERO tolerance policy on racial/ethnic/sexual/religious slurs. All people are equal here, and we won't hear otherwise.
10) We encourage you to use avatars and signatures, but, let's be fair here. Not everyone wants massive images every time they log into a site. We'll allow an avatar up to 125 x 125, and, we'll allow multiple sigs, depending on size (the larger the banner, the less alternate banners you can display) up to three at any given time. You'll receive a PM if you've reached your limit of banner space in your sig. And, if it's extraordinarily large, we will be forced to ask you to either resize it, or remove it. This is in the interest of all involved in the site, we assure you.
11) Turns out we're liars, the word you're looking for to access the character creation section is actually 'hewholiesawake'. Forgive us for slipping.
12) HAVE FUN. Lot's of it, please... Fun is what will keep this place alive, and, it's our entire goal in creating this site!