[Mandatory] Official Roat Pkz In-Game Rules

[Gretar]

Please read and make sure you understand the rules here at Roat Pkz. Rules breakers will not be tolerated and will be dealt with according to their offence immediately. Excessively breaking the rules may result in a permanent in-game or forum ban. Please abide by the rules, which can be read as follows:

*Note: Minor offensive language (flaming) is allowed when pking, but please keep it to a minimum as you can still be punished if seen necessary. Pking is very competitive so minor flaming is, of course, very common. All other rules still apply, please take note of them below.

Rules of Roat Pkz

Rule #1: Impersonation of Others
Players of the Roat Pkz community are not allowed to impersonate other members of the community, especially staff members. Impersonation of a staff member may lead to an automatic ban. In addition, those who impersonate others in attempts to get another player punished will be severely punished.

Rule #2: Use of Cheat Clients or 3rd Party Software
Player of the Roat Pkz community are not allowed to use any software that will render in a disadvantage to other players. This includes items such as DDoS Tools/Websites, Cheat Clients allowing personal advantages over other players, etc. Auto-clickers/macroing programs to bot actions on Roat Pkz (skilling, PvM, etc) are not allowed to be used either. This does also include the usage of programs/scripts like AHK.

Rule #3: PKP Cheat or PKP Farming
Players of the Roat Pkz community are not allowed to engage in any actions that will result in the unfair gain of PKP items and/or points. This includes actions such as farming or boosting, (player intentionally allows another player to kill them repeatedly for PKP and/or killstreak) and cheating of any kind that allows an unfair advantage towards gaining or obtaining PKP, as well as abusing voting and minigame exploits/mechanics.

Rule #4: Offensive Language, Flaming, or Disrespect
Players of the Roat Pkz community are not allowed to use language that may be considered offensive or obscene to other players in the community. This includes things such as excessive swearing, spamming, or harassment of any kind. Use of such language over yell is also highly problematic and players doing so will be punished accordingly (Use FFA yell to flame instead).

Rule #4b: Discrimination
Players of the Roat Pkz community are not allowed to discriminate against other players due to race, religious beliefs, gender expression, age, etc, that may make another player feel uncomfortable, isolated, or unwanted on Roat Pkz. This is seen as unjust or prejudice treatment and is considered highly offensive.

#5 Account Hacking/Stealing.
Players of the Roat Pkz community are not allowed to access and/or tampering with another player account(s) without consent, etc.

#5b Item Scamming
Scamming & Hacking. Scamming other players on Roat Pkz is not allowed. This does not include the likes of switching items in trade screens and switching rules whilst at the Duel Arena. But things like 'doubling pkp', luring or stealing items (trust trades, etc) is not allowed. In almost all cases you will not be refunded, however the player who scammed you will be punished. Punishments will range from black marks, account bans, and in some cases permanent account bans.

Although scamming is sometimes allowed in relation to switching items in trade screens or switching rules at the Duel Arena, one can still be punished under certain circumstances (such as but not limited to, large amounts or reported frequently). If that happens to be the case, Staff may punish the player(s) involved. Staff may only proceed to take action once the player(s) involved have been warned and they continue to carry out the scam they were warned about, or any other scam. 

Rule #6: Deleterious Bug Abuse or Exploitation
Player of the Roat Pkz community are not allowed to abuse or exploit any bugs or glitches that may cause an unfair advantage against other players, if you find any bugs please report them immediately. This includes but is not limited to actions such as noclipping in PvP or PvM areas whereas others cannot reach you during fights, using glitched items to become invisible during combat and/or duels, etc.

Rule #7: Account Trading, Selling, or Sharing
Players of the Roat Pkz community are not allowed to trade or sell any accounts. This includes but is not limited to any transactions regarding accounts within the Duel Arena. Trading or selling accounts will result in an immediate ban or permanent mute on your account. Account sharing is not recommended, but if you insist, any issues regarding sharing of accounts will not be dealt by the Roat Pkz Staff Team - this includes any form of rule-breaking the person you're sharing the account with might've effectuated.

Rule #8: RuneScape Wealth/Account Transactions
Players of the Roat Pkz community are not allowed to sell, buy, give, or trade Roat Pkz items for any other currency or items non-related to Roat Pkz, that includes but is not limited to RuneScape Gold or RuneScape accounts. Players attempting/initiating to RWT is also punishable and it is highly recommended against. Scams resulting from breaking this rule is your own fault and will not be dealt by the Roat Pkz Staff Team. We do accept OSGP donations, please use the command ::OSGP in-game for more information.

Rule #9: Advertising
Players of the Roat Pkz community are not allowed to advertise for another server or website. Advertised sites may be malicious software and is highly recommended against visiting. Advertising will not be tolerated in-game, and will result in an immediate IpMute or IpBan. This rule also applies to non-verified Discord Servers in Public or Yell-chat as of 21. Jan 2023. Contact Gretar#0001 to verify your Discord Server.

Rule #10 Privacy Rights
Players of the Roat Pkz community are not allowed to release the personal information of another player without their explicit permission. This includes but is not limited to contact information (such as Skype, Facebook, Email, etc.), personal pictures, and other forms of real-life communication.

Rule #11: Griefing
Players of the Roat Pkz community are not allowed to grief/troll Castle Wars or any other action in-game. This includes but is not limited to going AFK inside of the mini-game, destroying barricades to allow the enemy past, or purposely allowing the other team to win due to your actions. This also applies to boxing in mini-games such as LMS. This also applies to attacking bosses in-game and intentionally raising their HP to make it harder for others to kil.

Rule #12: Multi-logging in Wilderness
Players of Roat Pkz community are allowed to have multiple accounts in the wilderness as long as they're not used for any type of PVP advantage against other players. Example given; Getting attacked on your main account and bringing an alternative account to fend off the player attacking your main account may result in a temporary user-ban.

Rule #13: Ragging/Rushing
Players of Roat Pkz community are not to rag or rush at Meth, Easts, Wests, Risk, Graves or Brid/Edgepvp. Punishments will be handed out on sight by staff if you're caught by them. Ragging and rushing at edge is OK until it becomes unbearable for players. Ragging and rushing includes but is not limited to, Excessively attacking another player that is not interested in fighting with you, repeatedly pjing a certain player, repeatedly fighting with overheads when the player asks not to use overheads & attacking then teleporting continuously, repeatedly teleblocking players and teleporting away.

To report ragging or rushing at edge, video evidence of at least 10+ minutes of continuous ragging is needed. A 3 minute video is needed for else where.

Rule #14: Spamming
Players of the Roat Pkz community are not allowed to continuously spam yell or normal chat box. Players may do 1 buying or selling yell per minute. However, every 3 seconds in normal chat at home is permitted (use our autochat feature). This rule also applies for yells and auto-chats such as clan recruitment, which also must be once per minute, per clan or 1 person per teleport spot - so if another clan member has just advertised, all members of that clan must wait at least a minute before yelling to recruit again.

Rule #15: Punishment Evasion
Players of the Roat Pkz community are not allowed to evade any punishment that has been handed out to them by staff. This includes mac ban,ban,mute,jail,ipmute,ipban,etc. This will only lead to you being punished further and more severely. 

Rule #16: Bounty Hunter Farming / Emblem selling
Players of the Roat Pkz community are not allowed to 'farm emblems' or sell emblem kills, farming emblems is when you set up so you always receive yourself or a partners account up with yours so you can easily gather emblems without a fight.

Rule #17: Common Sense
There are some things that you can be punished for, even if it isn't specified in the rules above. Most of the time whenever you find a "loophole" in one of the rules above, it will fall under this one, you will most likely know yourself when you're pushing those limits.

Failure to follow the rules stated above may result in severe and/or permanent punishment.

Edited October 25 by Sinister

[Gretar]

Rule #5 re-written. (removes confusion about 'deceiving')

#5 Account Hacking/Stealing.
Players of the Roat Pkz community are not allowed to access and/or tampering with another player account(s) without consent, etc.

#5b Item Scamming
Scamming & Hacking. Scamming other players on Roat Pkz is not allowed. This does not include the likes of switching items in trade screens and switching rules whilst at the Duel Arena. But things like 'doubling pkp', luring or stealing items (trust trades, etc) along-with scamming at ::risk is not allowed. In almost all cases you will not be refunded, however the player who scammed you will be punished. Punishments will range from black marks, account bans, and in some cases permanent account bans.

[JBLIND]

#5c Item Scamming

Although scamming is allowed in relation to switching items in trade screens or switching rules at the Duel Arena, one can still be punished if a certain player or a group of individuals are known to be doing this to an excessive amount. If that happens to be the case, Staff may punish the player(s) involved. Staff may only proceed to take action once the player(s) involved have been warned and they continue to carry out the scam they were warned about or any other scam. 

[PK Guy]

Edited some rules to clarify things (these aren't exactly 'new' rules, just making it clearer given that these types of offences are on the increase.)

Rule #2: Use of Cheat Clients or 3rd Party Software

Botting falls under this category since autoclickers are 3rd party software...

Rule #13: Spamming

Very obvious, but you will be muted if you (or your clan) spam your clan recruitment yells multiple times in less than one minute intervals. There's really no need to do it that often.