FuriousFox said:
Well, we were supposed to be getting a section on the website for this, but since it's nonexistant right now, I figure I'll just use this.
1. No chat, roleplay, hangout/chilling/party/etc. servers. The Master Server is for netgames where people are actually playing the game the way it is intended to be played. If you want to chat, roleplay, or hangout, either use a chatroom or host without advertising on the Master Server.
2. No advertising websites, messages boards, etc. The Master Server is not your own personal free ad space.
3. No hacking. Using the in-game cheats is fine, but using external programs to modify your score, change the color of your name, gain access to content you shouldn't be able to access, or any other such action will result in an immediate ban.
4. Do not reapeatedly refresh the server list. Alam and Logan run the Master Server off of their own home internet connection, with one of their own computers. Every time you refresh the server list, you're using up a small portion of their connection. This may not seem like much of a problem, but keep in mind that there are many other people doing the same thing at the same time, and it really adds up. Generally speaking, try not to refresh the list more than 10-15 times per minute.
5. No sex, porn, or cybering. Remember, there are younger audiences playing SRB2 online, some as young as 8 years old. They do not need to be exposed to this sort of stuff, and personally, I don't think many of the older audiences will like it either. Try to at least keep your netgames rated PG-13.
6. No foul language in server names. Basically, if the word is banned on the Message Board, it's also banned from server names.
7. Use the correct gametype for what you are doing. If you're in coop, you should be completing the levels. If you're in Match, you should be shooting each other. Do not use coop mode in maps that do not support coop mode. Do not use coop mode when you are actually fighting each other. If you are fighting each other, use match. The Master Server shows which gametype the servers are currently playing in, so make sure that the gametype is actually accurate to what you are doing, so that people will not come in expecting to do one thing when you're really doing something else.
* Hide and Seek is allowed in SRB2 as long as you use Tag mode.
8. The host of the netgame is responsible for making sure his or her netgame follows these rules. If a netgame is found to be in violation of a rule, the host will be held responsible.
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For those of you who think you can weasel your way around the rules and think you will never get caught, just remember that I do patrols through netgames DAILY under fake identities. Many people have been banned for not following the small, simple list of rules on the Master Server website.
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Master Server website:
http://srb2.servegame.org/
For a more explanation, I can explain each rule of breaking and not breaking.
1.Making a Netgame without advertising on the Master Server and asking people to join your netgame by IP in other people netgames. Right, you are making a netgame to play, and without breaking the rules.
1. Making a netgame advertised on the internet, roleplaying, hangout wads all added and doing all of that. Breaking a rule, making a fool of yourself, banned.
2.Advetising a normal Server. Right, never advertised a website, messageboard, etc.
2. Advertised a website or messageboard on the Master Server. Wrong. Advertised a website or Messageboard on the Master Server which is unallowed.
3.Using the in-game cheats, having fun playing in a server. Right, remember, using in-game cheats is fine, but hacking to give yourself a advantage in every game type, going to far.
3. Hacked the game, have colored text, have god mode, noclip in a netgame using Hacks. Wrong, you hacked the game, which is unallowed to people in the Master Server.
4.Just refreshed the Master Server not, 4901 times in one hour. Right, you refreshed the Master Server a few times, but not a lot of times.
Remember, Alam and Logan run the Master Server off of their own home internet connection, with one of their own computers. Every time you refresh the server list, you're using up a small portion of their connection.
4. Refreshing the Master Server repedately, causing a total time of refreshed: 91051 in 20 hours. Wrong, by that time, the Master Server might be down.
5. Just a normal netgame, having a good time. Right, no cybering, no sex, and no porn. Young audiences such as me, don't want to see that stuff and can't see that stuff.
5. You have all sex, porn, and you are cybering. Wrong, you don't even know that a young kid, playing a netgame on your server, seeing sex and porn. Their Parents maybe won't let that kid play it anymore.
6. Netgame name: "Come Join!" Using a regular netgame name.
6. Netgame name: *Censored* Have foul language or as I say it, cursing words in it.
7. Co-op, beating the levels. Using the correct gametype for what you are using.
7. CTF, beating everyone heads in, not capturing the flag. Not using a correct gametype, basically
SUPPOSED to use the Match or Team Match gametype.
8. No explanation of good or bad. Using a regular explanation...
8. You made a netgame, you made a bad person admin. He breaks the rules, FuriousFox comes in, you will be held responsible, not the Admin you made, but You. Don't make excuses, because that will not work with FuriousFox. Don't even think of quitting the server, because he can track your IP Address.