DoF Rules

Daedalus of Freedom is dedicated towards providing a grief-free environment focused on primarily extended role-play rounds. The longer rounds will provide opportunities to build onto the station, conduct research and play station roles in a professional fashion. Remember that this is a free game for you to play and we are the ones working hard to keep it going. We will temp and perma ban fairly easily here (<-- This part subject to editing as you see fit). However, we are reasonable and fair as much as we can be.

Respect other people’s enjoyment. This is a game, and only a game. It’s one you can take seriously though and it’s one everyone playing should get to enjoy. That includes you and it also includes everyone else. If you can only have fun by ruining someone else’s experience then this server’s not for you.

Maintain a friendly and welcoming environment. Hatespeech, bigoted language, discrimination or harassment will not be tolerated at all and may at admin's discretion be considered grounds for immediate banning.

Profanity should be kept to a minimum and must be stopped if directed to do so by a member of staff, or if it appears that it is upsetting other players.

Some people are going to be new to the game. If you teach them and make them feel welcome, then you’ll still have other people to game with down the line.

Do not engage in sexually explicit activity or erotic roleplay on the server. Romance is okay, and while it's a well known fact that we all have weewees and chachas, admins have to read everything that is said on the server. Every sentence, every emote. So please do us a favor and keep your kinky sex life to the privacy of a Skype chat, where only the NSA will have to be grossed out and/or intrigued.

Play the Role you’ve chosen. Choose the role based on what you want to spend the round doing, not in order to obtain access and equipment or to impress people with a prestigious title. If you take a role, other players will be expecting - and may rely on you to do it. This does not apply for assistants, clowns and mimes, of course. If you're playing a crucial role, notify the admins via adminhelp and your co-workers via radio if you need to log off for an extended period. Not following this may result in a job ban.

Avoid Excessive Violence When provoked into extreme anger a punch or two may be realistic but Nanotrasen doesn’t hire people who bludgeon someone to death with a crowbar when angry or bored. Self-defense only justifies a proportional use of force and only what’s required to save your life. Lethal force should always be a last resort, even for security. Remember as well that what the admins will permit and what security will arrest you for a two completely different things. Saying your character is CRAZY LOL is not an excuse for this - that's just bad roleplay.

Keep the station intact for everyone else to use The air is for everyone to breathe, the singularity is contained so it doesn’t eat the station and the power keeps the lights on for everyone. Don’t take these things away from the other players for your own enjoyment.

Don’t take advantage of factors outside the game Don’t log in with multiple accounts - if a friend is on the same IP, just adminhelp to tell us. Don’t use SSD characters as your victims, PERIOD. It’s too easy. Don’t exploit glitches, OOC knowledge or knowledge of the game system to give your character advantages that they would not possess. These are all grounds for banning.

Character names can both help or break immersion As such, famous names, highly offensive names, or simply mashing your hand violently across your keyboard are not viable options of character naming. If you do any of these things, expect that an admin will most likely change your name for you. And we admins like names such as Gertrude, Mildred, Englebert, and Anthony (sorry if you are actually named any of these IRL).

Communicate openly and respectfully If there’s a problem, let the staff know in a reasonable and mature fashion. There is no need to complain in OOC chat, spread rumours, start politics or otherwise degenerate the situation.

If you want to do something but are unsure of whether it will inconvenience other people or go against these guidelines, asking first goes a long way towards avoiding misunderstandings, and may even net you some admin assistance.

Don’t use the server for advertising or other commercial interests.

Don’t insult or denigrate other servers or play-styles. You can enjoy gaming on a particular server without invalidating the hard work and fun that’s involved on another site.

Do not shuttle grief, even while the shuttle is in transit or already docked at Centcomm. Similarly, don't spawn grief at arrivals. It's pathetic, and we don't like it.

Clown/Mime - these roles are not an exception to server rules. Remember they are hired by NT to provide entertainment for the crew, not to attack other people. A banana peel in a corridor is acceptable. Space lube causing people to fall out an airlock is not. Killing someone because they are the clown/mime is also not acceptable.

Admins are not only allowed to run events or otherwise influence the course of rounds, they are encouraged to. They are as much GMs as they are enforcers of the rules, perhaps even moreso.

Just like in Asimov's works, law order determines law priority. In the case of two laws contradicting, the one with the lesser law number wins. AIs are not required to do what players who threaten self-harm demand, unless they personally decide to interpret law 1 to include that. Playing AI and changing your laws yourself (outside of an AI malf round) or not abiding by your laws will see you jobbanned from AI. If you suspect a change to your laws by another may be grief - adminhelp and we'll tell you if it's legit.

Security must RP properly. Read the Space Laws. Understand that this isn't the middle ages and starting off with lethal force against those posing a non-lethal threat is murder. Permabrigging (the official one or a makeshift one) is also functionally the same as murder. Don't do it unless they can/should also be executed. Buckle cuffing, which is when you tie someone to a chair or bed after already they are already handcuffed, is only to be done for exceptionally violent prisoners.

Don't Metagame. Keep IC out of OOC and OOC out of IC. This means do not talk about ingame events for the round in OOC, and don't use smileys, netspeak, etc, in IC chat. Additionally, your characters knowledge should be limited to what your character would know. While this is quite vague and may vary from char to char, in general you should play in a way that makes in fun, and not powergame.