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Player's Bill of Rights
Section: 1 Code of Conduct Rules
1.Treat your opponent with the
same amount of honor as you treat your friend.
2. Rules are designed for the pleasure of players and
leaders alike. The league reserves the right to reverse any action performed by
any leader that interferes with the spirit at which a rule was written. The
league exists for the purpose of league play of Mechwarrior 4 and it's further
squeals not for a selected few to play the league.
2a. The League will not tolerate any bending and/or making up of rules, for the purpose of trying to force these on another unit or person, by refusal to continue a drop or battle, by lying and trying to pass these off as actual rules ect…
3. When at a battle each
member represents its unit and leader. Your action at these battles will reflect
on your unit. While you are not at an organized league function you will
personally be responsible for your action, such as normal chat. We know leaders
cannot be on all the time so members have to take the responsibility for their
action. Leaders, because you set the example, will always be held with standards
of conducts above your members. What you do will always reflect on your
unit.
3a. Foul language of any kind directed
at any other Mechreg member in a slanderous or derogatory way is prohibited,
this includes any foul language, or slang of various cuss words and ect… but
does not include various Clan and IS terms for each other such as free birth as
this would interfere with role-play in the league.
3b. Any member found to have knowingly
interfered with an Admins investigation of an issue, by lying, falsifying screen
shots ect…especially to the purpose of trying to hide your own or someone else’s
wrong doings and/or cause further issues and problems in the league, shall be
subject to up to and not excluding 5th violation penalties depending
on the severity of the violation. This is a VERY serious violation and will not
be tolerated any more then section 1:4 of these documents.
4. Cheaters
will not be allowed. Cheating is but not limited to dropping packets purposely,
knowingly using any Mechwarrior 4 bug to your advantage (the Mechreg Rules have
many of these listed), illegally configured or hacked mechs. Any person or unit
caught willingly using any cheat shall be subject to up to and not excluding
5th violation penalties depending on the severity of the violation.
This is a VERY serious violation and will not be tolerated any more then section
1:3b of these documents.
5. You also are held accountable for any
federal, state, or community laws of your area. The Registry will not support
any criminal activities such as but not limited to nuking, hacking computers,
computer viruses, or mail bombing. If it is brought to the league attention that
someone is participating in any of these acts that person will be banned for
life, the unit could be fined, and may seek legal action. Please think before
you ask the League to take action on matters of this nature because of the
severity of the results. The League does not wish to be part of a
misunderstanding of this degree.
6. Spies are not desirable for this
league or any other league. This league is for players so the less the league
has its hand in unit dealings the more players can play. Spies will not be
regulated and is up to the leaders of the units to find ways to avoid critical
information from ending up in their opponent hands.
7. Spam is a better
food than an action. The use of emails of the Registry, and its other forums is
for official reason. They can be used for reason such as initiating talks
between units or for the league to send out mail about changes in the league.
People spamming leaders and/or units by league means, will receive fines for the
mass spamming. There are plenty of ways for Leaders or member to spread a
message.
8. Leaders are responsible for fair and proper rotation of
personnel through out a battle. A leader suspect of this unfair practice is not
keeping with the spirit of the game and may cause the league to fine the unit or
default the battle to the other
unit.
9.If
any player has Personal issues with any player in the league and does not wish
to play against that player in the league this should be made known to the
co-ordinators,so that the drops can still be run in the best manner
available,any refusal once the drop has been set will be a COC violation
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Section:
2 Suggestions and Dishonorable
1. Remember to always communicate your
intention. These are chat rooms and cut out about 50-75% of what people use to
communicate. We also have few ways to filter out how we say something and whom
it is directed to. Ways to prevent misunderstanding here could be applying ASCII
facial statement. : ) smiley face, ; ) wink face, : ( sad face. Also to display
sarcasm you should place (J/K) which stands for Just Kidding. Little stuffs like
this make some big difference.
2. Try to never insult a person's honor.
Many people take this very serious and if you insult this you may inadvertently
cause some real problems. Though it is not suggested but if you feel the need to
insult that person honor remember to state you are just role-playing. In essence
if you do not know the person and how they will take it, it would be best to
treat them as you would your own mother.
3. Droping out of and forfeiting a
drop, while being your free choice is considered a very dishonorable act to many
people, due to that and the problems it causes for any Admins to try to resolve
issues about that drop it should ONLY be done under the most extreme of
circumstances.
4. Legging, while not banned, is
considered dishonorable by many people and as such beware of the personal
issues that may arise from
it.
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Section: 3 Penalty for violation of CoC Rules
First violation:
50,000 RP fine placed on the Unit and Suspension from league activities
for 5 battles for the player.(player must report ready for battle
to the admin for it to be counted)
Second violation:
100,000 RP fine placed on the Unit and member suspended from league activities for
10 battles.(any player from the first players team
,not the nessessarily the same player
Third violation:
500,000k RP fine placed on Unit,the loss of one
planet(of the players councils choice) and the player suspended
.(any player from the first players
team ,not nessessarily the same player)
Fourth violation:
Unit put under review for 30 days pending removal from the league,loss of five planets and member ejected from the league..(any player from the first players team
,not the nessessarily the same player)
Fifth violation:
removal of team
All
violation penalties commence from the date of the ruling by the Admin
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The
league has a no-tolerance policy. As such the League has a 30 day step down policy, this means
that if the unit or member receives a warning they may receive a warning again
after 30 days, it also means that if a unit or member reaches third violation
that after 30 days they will step down to violation level 2 as the chart below.
Basically each violation level corresponds to 1st 2nd
ect.. Violation and it is a guideline for how a unit or member will be penalized
after time elapsing, and another violation of
rules.
Violation level 0 (default no current
violations)
VL1
VL2
VL3
VL4
VL5
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As with all things there are extreme cases and circumstances and league Admins may choose to waive using the proper penalty set for an action and violation level, but for such penalties or no penalties to take effect at least 2/3 of league Admins must agree on them.
