If you just come to Chaos to play, have fun, make friends and talk about interesting things, then you don't need to waste your time reading this. These rules are mainly for those who can't play nice with others or wish to play with an unfair advantage. If you choose to venture into the gray areas of the rules, don't be surprised when consequences are applied. If you have crossed the line before, don't be surprised when consequences are more quickly applied to you.

Note: If you are given an official warning by a staff member (text will appear in red) or even a polite personal message warning you should follow directions immediately. Choosing to ignore or argue will lead to stiffer penalties. If you have a problem with the staff member's ruling or if you do not know if this person is a legitamate staff member please ?logbuffer (if you aren't already logging) the event and forward the pertinent info to sysop@subspacechaos.com for further review.

Bannable Offenses:

A1: Detrimental Behavior - These rules are reviewed on a case-by-case basis and are not limited to these explicit rules. Behavior deemed detrimental to the zone by the staff will be dealt with accordingly.

1: Cheating - This is a Zero Tolerance Zone. Minimum ban is one year. If you see a cheater, use ?cheater (cheatername) (what they are doing). DO NOT say they are cheating in pub. This alerts cheaters often allowing them escape.

2: Impersonating zone staff - Usually warned first.

3: Excessively obscene nicks or squadnames - Usually results in a warning and/or a nick-only ban. Repeat offenders may be zone banned.

4: Bug abuse - From time to time bugs are discovered and must be moderated.

5: Use of two Machines - Using two machines in the zone to gain an unfair advantage by speccing your opponent will result in one or possibly both machines getting banned.

Other Offenses:

These offenses may result in a warning, temporary kick , silencing , speclock (length determined on past infractions).

1. Racial/discriminatory remarks.

2. Public spamming (especially offensive or chronic spamming). This includes abusing ?cheater or ?help.

3. Excessive gratuitous profanity is not allowed. Cursing someone out for being a lamer and most exchanges of insults is fine. Just don't get too carried away.

4. "Extreme suiciding" is detrimental. If a pilot dies a few times in a row carelessly, that's ok. If the pilot neg rockets turrets/bty and tries to kill them, it's ok. If the pilot is not greening, running their energy down, diving into mines/bombs while red...the intent is clear. You will not be banned but a speclock may be imposed.

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5. Acts of lameness such as gifting, ship changing to avoid death, and esc+q to avoid death are contrary to the spirit of the game. Abusers of this rule may also find themselves ?scorereset without notice.