Server Rules & Etiquette for Gloomwood
This server has rules and etiquette, please see below. If it isn't on the list, then there are no rules/etiquette around it. Rules/etiquette can be updated at any time for any reason, however most times they are updated, it is because we came across a new situation. I (Volcano) as a server owner do not like making rules, I would prefer to keep everything as natural as it can be, however due to certain situations / circumstances, these rules have to be applied in the world of Gloomwood to make sure everyone has a similar and fair playing field.
General Game Etiquette (rules):
1. Have fun, enjoy yourself on Gloomwood. If you are playing normally and not causing problems or trying to cheat, there will be no issues.
2. Wurm Unlimited is not perfect, it has bugs and not everything is fully functional. GMs and Server Manager will not spend time fixing / adjusting any of these inherited bugs that are just there from Vanilla.
3. GMs and Server Manager will not fix / replace any items, skills, enchants, or affinities (or alike) due to game, internet, or server latency / lag. Everyone is on the same playing field and lag / latency is out of the control of a GM. If something is accidently destroyed, lost, or damaged because of lag / latency, it is what it is. This is to avoid gray areas, and lag/latency happens to everyone.
4. As of now, there are three GMs (Volcano, Sphinx, and Holex). We still have real lives, families, jobs, and cannot beckon to every single request around the clock. We can't fix and review everything, the world is simply too big. If you are needing assistance, please make sure it is reasonable. We are aware of what the average request load is per player, and if a player or players are asking for too much, too often, you will be informed as such.
Not Allowed:
0. Finding ways by any means including vanilla bugs / mods / bots to exploit skill gain, item quality, item weight, item quantity, karma, player navigation, and money is not allowed. Its pretty easy to know where the fine line is on exploiting. You will be warned once on first offense.
1. Verbally and/or Abusively targeting an individual who plays on this server. If the player who is being harassed asks for it to stop, please stop.
2. Griefing another player is not allowed. Griefing is a toxic behavior in multiplayer video games where players intentionally annoy, irritate, or troll other players. The goal is to disrupt the other players' enjoyment of the game, or to take away their immersion in the gameplay. Griefing can involve but not limited to killing, stealing, destroying property of same kingdom players (if you want to do this, you need to be their natural enemy or on another kingdom), you may not do this to the members in your own kingdom as game mechanics such as guards will not activate. Griefing also includes not letting a player come up for air or giving a break during PVP assaults'. As an example, its fine to raid a deed or kill a player, but repetitive killing in a short window because of the circumstances, or completely blocking a player in their own deed for days or weeks or months is not fun. Its fine to attack and kill, but you must give the defender a break from time to time to recover. GM review may be required for these situations.
3. Intentionally performing any known action / command that would trigger a code / server vulnarability which would crash and/or corrupt the server database. Any intention to destroy or disrupt the server is not allowed.
4. Excessive swearing or talking about explicit material in a public chat window. If you are asked to stop, please stop.
5. Cheating is not allowed. If you are within the game mechanics, mods, and server settings and play the game in a normal way without abusing game exploits, you are fine, but if you are finding a way to perform 1000 actions in 1 second, walking over terrain / objects that are not normally accessible, or find a way to cheat / glitch / exploit / duplicate using a known bug and it is clearly not fair, this will not be tolerated. Examples of cheating are abusing game glitches / exploits to duplicate and increase items / quality / skills in a very short window by means of abusing a software bug (or exploit) to gain an extreme advantage of other players, or abusing mechanics to navigate terrain that should not be navigable (i.e. walking / riding up mountain sides). If you find something looks out of line or provides an unfair advantage, please report it to us.
6. No blocking or camping the starter deeds so new players can't make their way out into the wild. Blocking means putting objects, towers, walls, deeds, or any other similar item / system / mechanic, in place that would otherwise stop a new player from being able to leave the starter areas to start their adventure, this includes sitting outside the starter deed perimeters killing new players, that's not fun and doesn't have any challenge in killing a new account with new skills. We need to promote players sticking around and playing, and blocking them in or killing any new player leaving the starting deed would make most leave. GM review may be required in certain cases, but if it looks like you are blocking or camping any one of the starter deeds in the corners of the map, those structures will be removed and/or you will be asked to not camp them. If you are shooting fish out of a barrel, you are breaking this rule.
7. Using BOTs to navigate terrain that should not be navigable is not allowed. Using any bot or bot command to climb steep slopes or cross water is banned on this server. First offense is a warning to make sure you didn't miss the rule, 2nd offense is removal from server.
Allowed:
1. Using Macros / Live Map / ESP in the game. I don't mind macros and bots and everyone is free to use them as they please as long as it is not griefing any other player and are within the game mechanics.
2. Using alternate characters. This game is fun, feel free to use alts to split up the work / skills and make your settlement full of them.
3. Using any client mod as long as it doesn't cause server problems or it will be put on the not allowed list.
4. Using bots to perform in game actions (i.e cutting, terraforming, digging, farming, mining, and similar) only is allowed. The bot must be performing work with it. Using Bots to transverse unnavigable terrain / steep terrain such as mountains or crossing water is not allowed though and one warning will be given before being removed from the server