Listed below you will find the rules for the Renaissance server. General IRC/Forum Conduct Treat the staff with respect, they are only volunteers. Treat other players in game and on the forums with respect. Keep the trash talk in the trash talk forum. Harassment We will not tolerate insults, attacks, threats, and/or denigration from any member on another member at any time. We have zero tolerance for taking an argument about any topic to a personal level. Name calling, repeated critical and sharply negative posts toward a member, flaming, or slanderous posts are not acceptable. Obscenity As a community with are a diverse group consisting of various age groups and gender, we ask that our members post without using vulgarity. Vulgarity not only includes vulgar language and pictures but also sexist, racist, anti-religious and homophobic language which may offend other members. Scamming Players may not use the public communities to advertise a scam, dishonest trade, or trap ingame. Players found to have been advertising these activities can lose their access to IRC or the Forums. Not complying with these rules can result in the loss of IRC Privileges, and in extreme situations access to the game server. General Discussion / Era Discussion Conduct General Rules If you do not agree with someones opinion, ideas or suggestions and wish to respond. Make the response constructive. Should you have a suggestion, idea or opinion be detailed. Support or lack thereof have no bearing on the development road map for UO:Renaissance. Posts will be judged on their own merit, quality, research and application to our era and vision. Not the volume of positive or negative posts in the topic. So if you have an idea, comment, suggestion feel free to post it regardless of what other players may think. Trade Forum Conduct General Rules This forum is for trade related posts only (such as buying, selling, price checks, etc.) Using this forum or the #uor IRC channel with intention of scamming or ambushing other players is not permitted. Doing so can result in the loss of your trade forum and/or IRC privileges. However, this is not a guarantee that everything posted here is legitimate. Limit bumping threads to once a day. Do not use trade forum posts to air your grievances with other players. Be civil. Do not use additional forum accounts to cause derision or deceit in the trade forums. General Suggestions Do Include screenshots and detailed descriptions when possible for sales posts. (Guide to making screenshots) Is there a minimum bid? Is there a buyout? Is there a minimum bid increment? Will private offers be accepted? How long will the sale run? Do Not Place bids for other players, If you wish to buy / bid on behalf of a friend then you bid / buy Undercut the original post. If you have a similar item that you're willing to sell for less, please make your own thread. Derail the thread with off-topic issues. Trade Forum Rules Guild Forum Conduct The guild forums are a place for the following Post information about what kind of players your guild is looking for Describe your guild and its activities Alert guild members to various happenings and news related to the guild. And any other general chit chat. The guild master has the final say in which posts are deems acceptable in their respective guild forum. If a post is made in your guilds forums that is inappropriate make sure to do the following. Do not respond with equally aggressive, insulting or inflammatory posts. Do report the thread for the moderators to review. Do not report threads that are not in your guilds forum for review as these will be ignored. Do be very clear about the reason for the report, and direct the guildmaster to contact the moderator as well. Note: To see how to report a forum posts see instructions below. Guild Forum Rules Trash Talk / Other Forum Conduct General Rules No racial slurs or real life accusations will be tolerated. This forum is for UO related trash talk only. Heated and controversial topics are permitted. This includes hot topics such as PVP Tactics, cheating, etc. Criticism of individuals (ingame), and the game itself is permitted within reason. This has to remain more constructive than just "OMG, XXX sucks!!" and please try to have your arguments in order. Refrain from excessive vulgar language. We will not tolerate insults, attacks, threats, and/or denigration from any member on another member at any time. Refrain from pulling other shards into trash or any other part of the forums & please keep the discussion of other servers on their respective forums Trash Talk Forum Rules Signature & Avatar Guidelines Do Include 1 image in your signature no larger than 800x200. Use your signature and avatar to represent your online presence, not your opinion of someone else. Use up to 5 links in your signature. Signatures must be made in good taste, offensive images and statements will be moderated. Do Not You may not include anything that would be considered trash talk or in violation of any of the above stated rules. You may not include images or avatars that could be considered harassment. General Ingame Rules Conduct As a felucca server without trammel most everything goes in the game world with some specific examples. Racial, Homophobic and other derogatory slurs are discouraged in the game world. Note: Occasional outbursts will result in a warning, while patterns of behavior can warrant more specific punishment. Discouraging Gameplay Just because this is a felucca world does not give players the permission to harass and discourage other players in ways that exceed the boundaries of common sense. If your conduct is judged to be primarily focused on activities that will result in players no longer enjoying playing on Renaissance this conduct will be addressed. Examples of understood felucca game play: Killing a player in a dungeon, looting their items Stealing from players Looting other players houses. Examples of discouraging game play: Telling them to get good or gtfo off the server Excessive verbal harassment Trapping players in locations that force them to use the help stuck system to escape Using ghost scouts to track players locations in dungeons and at champion spawns Excessive attempts to scam other players. Spreading false narratives regarding the development and direction of the server. (aka fear mongering) Note: When in doubt, if you think a certain behavior is discouraging to other players, then do not do it. It is not our job to provide an environment where players can prey on other players outside the expected world mechanics. If the staff notices a pattern of behavior that indicate to us that a player does not appreciate their access to the Renaissance server and exist here only to torture others for their own amusement you will be removed from the community. Account Limitations There will be a 3 account limit on Renaissance per player. We are concerned with a balanced environment for our players, not with our online player count. You may request additional accounts for family members, provided some additional rules are followed. Sharing access to your accounts with others is expressly forbidden and can result in losing access to the shared accounts. Exclusions to this policy will be made should multiple players share the same internet access. Multiple accounts per household will be required registered and linked together. Conduct of one player in a household will affect all players in that household. No exceptions. Please choose unoffensive and non obscene character names. Should your character name be deemed inappropriate it will be changed, this is a family game. Accounts will never be deleted due to inactivity. Housing & Boats All characters on Renaissance will be able to own a single house. Houses decay in approximately 14 days. Houses will enter a condemned status if the account is inactive for 90 days. Boats decay in approximately 14 days. Soliciting Transactions for any Real Currency Buying or Selling items for any form of currency outside the game world, virtual or tangible is not allowed. Should you be caught buying or selling items in this manner the items in question could be subject to deletion. Unattended Macroing Unattended macroing using razor is allowed with the following conditions No other software may be used for repetitive tasks You may not gather items and resources unattended. This includes, but is not limited to, mining, lumberjacking, fishing, lockpicking chests in dungeons and town, sheep shearing and cotton harvesting You may not sell items to NPC's unattended. You may not place houses unattended. You may not collect items in any manner unattended. Regardless if it is farming, rare hunting, using the scavenger agent. Please do it attended. Permitted Third Party Applications Allowed Razor UOAM UO Rudder Explicitly Not Allowed Easy UO (EUO) Steam UO Assist UO Non Electronic Arts(EA) or Origin Systems (OSI) Clients This is just a basic list of the rules, please use common sense when playing. The staff will do their best to leave the players alone and will rarely interfere. Renaissance staff members will not play.
Re: Shard Rules Update - 6/30/12 thanks, you made what is not allowed with unattended macroing. Nice not to have grey areas. :}
Re: Shard Rules Update - 6/30/12 Surely account deletion and IP banning make for appropriate punishment.
Re: Shard Rules Update - 6/30/12 Houses decay in approximately 14 days. Houses will enter a condemned status if the account is inactive for 90 days. o.k. this confuses me some. If decay in 14 days, doesn't that mean goes into condemned status at that time? Thanks for the clear cut rules. Appears to be totally fair, both to players who can use programs like razor to macro and players who can't. LOL We all grab resources on same level. Appreciate all your folks hard work "}
Re: Shard Rules Update - 6/30/12 A home decaying and being condemned are two totally different things. When a home decays in 14 days it simply falls to the ground and is no more. A condemned home is where a home is being refreshed by players who are not the owner, but are on the friends list. If the house owner does not log into his accounts for 90 days (he/she has obviously quit) the home will enter into a "condemned" state. This means that anybody on the friends list can no longer refresh the home and it will fall in 14 days unless the owner logs in to refresh the house.
Re: Shard Rules Update - 6/30/12 So after 90 days the house becomes condemned but it will take another 14 days to fall unless the owner returns? So technically there are over 100 days for the owner to refresh as long as his friends do it in between? Not important just wondering
Re: Shard Rules Update - 6/30/12 That's correct. In order for a house that is condemned to fall, the account of the home owner must first become inactive (90 days no login), at which time the house status will also become condemned. A condemned house does not automatically get refreshed to "like new", it simply continues at its current decay level. So yes, if an instance were to happen where a friend was refreshing a house, and then it became condemned, from "like new" until the house itself actually falls, could be just over 100 days for the entire process to complete.
Re: Renaissance Shard Rules - Updated 6/30/12 Uoassist should be highlighted to as Explicitly Not Allowed as it is a replacement for uorazor and has an auto loot function. Which could be abused and some people think because it has the same functions as razor which is fine the auto loot part makes it unfair.
Re: Shard Rules Update - 6/30/12 Howdy, Does the house owner have to refresh the house every 90 days to stay out of the condemned state or is it good enough for any one of the characters on the owner's account to log in to the game (refreshing no houses) at least once every 90 days? Thanks, Wil
Howdy, This verbiage is a a little confusing to me... Do you mean that a single household (IP address) can have 15 characters but only 10 of the 15 characters can have a house? Regards, Wil
Its specific to the instance of multiple account-holders on a single IP. All users on a single IP can have 15 chars/3 accounts, but each user will only be allowed 10 houses on their three accounts.
This is a planned function long long down the road. We stated it in the rules for now, as at some point when we implement the household system we will design it so one player, from one IP address can own up to 10 houses. So if a family players from a single IP, they could use 6 accounts, however they would still face the limit of 10 houses. Other things as well, like collecting BOD's, or working off murder counts.
There has been some discussion in IRC about using the Orion client but I assume this is covered by "Non Electronic Arts(EA) or Origin Systems (OSI) Clients" as "Explicitly not allowed"?
"As a felucca server without trammel most everything goes in the game world with some specific examples." Perhaps you meant "exceptions"?
