Important Information
OBLIVION SHARD RULES OF CONDUCT
While you are a member of the shard, you must abide by the following rules. If you break any of these rules an administrator may terminate your account immediately. In general, if you have to think about whether or not a certain action is legal, then it probably isn’t.
Page a staff member with specific questions if you're not sure.
1. This is a game. HAVE FUN!
2. Staff has the final say - If a staff member requests that you refrain from doing something that is not explicitly outlined on this page do it. Staff cannot and will not overrule another staffer's decision on an issue. Only Shard Admin may overrule a GM/Seer Staff decision. If you feel you must contact an Admin regarding an issue do so via email. Oblivion shard Admin email addresses may be found on this website. Failure to comply with a staff member WILL result in jail time and/or being banned.
3. This is a family oriented shard. As such, please do not use language that is sexually explicit or may be considered offensive in public or over world chat (WC). This includes, but is not limited to unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, anatomically descriptive, sexually descriptive, hateful, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable language. This includes any form of swear of cuss word, including other languages. "Creative spelling" or the replacing of letters with symbols in such words is also forbidden.
If you would not use that language at a job interview, around all your family at holidays, meeting your date's Mom and Dad for the first time or at a social function where you didn't know everyone, then it is probably not suitable for Oblivion. Not all players appreciate hearing such language and do not wish to be privy to your personal business.
4. You may not harass, threaten, embarrass or cause distress, unwanted attention or discomfort to another player or staff member. If you have a personal issue with another member of this shard, please keep it out of the game and off the shard website environment. This includes sharing the identity of Staff Members player characters with other players; if you do not have express permission from the Staff Member in question, revealing the identity of their toon to another player is a bannable offense whether done in the Oblivion environments or elsewhere.
5. You may not use any unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, hateful, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable language toward any other player or staff member. This includes cussing in any form, including other languages, and includes "creative spelling" or the replacing of letters with symbols.
6. You may not organize any guilds or groups that are based on any racist, sexist, anti-religious, anti-ethnic, anti-gay, or other hate-mongering philosophy.
7. PK'ing is allowed in Felucca ONLY. PKing anywhere other than Felucca is intolerable and WILL NOT BE PERMITTED! There is no exception to this. Killing ANY PLAYER, inlcuding guildmates, outside of Felucca is not permitted. Calling the Guards in town will be considered a form of pk'ing, as is luring animals and monsters to players that are doing unattended macros.
It is also against the rules to trick, lure, or otherwise deceive another player into going to Felucca for the purposes of PKing them. While the system is set-up to help prevent this from happening, attempts to circumvent a players choice to go to Felucca will be dealt with severely.
**Added for the benefit of those players who have NO common sense….. Do not attack staff unless specifically invited to do so. If by some off chance you attack and kill staff (including smurfs) I will personally have fun with your account. Admin Kami.
8. Stealing allowed in Felucca only - Stealing from players anywhere other than Felucca or stealing from another player's house or their vendor is illegal and will NOT be tolerated. If you are caught performing any of these you will be banned. Stealing from non-player vendors is legal. Snooping players anywhere other than Felucca who do not give you permission to do so is also illegal. Killing of player vendors is not permissible. Killing NPC vendors in any of the towns is illegal.
9. Looting of players is allowed in Felucca only - Looting of players anywhere other than Felucca is illegal unless you have the express permission from the dead player to do so in an effort to rescue their items for them or if it is allowed within the context of an event. Looting without this permission or outside the context of an event or Felucca will result in you being jailed and/or banned.
10. New players will be given general newbie items in a Welcome pack, (one per account, not per character) and that is all. When you log-in for the first time on the Shard, your New Player Pack will be placed in your bank box. So, please don't ask for anything else other than help or advice!
In your race bag you will receive several blessed clothing items. The bag is newbiefied and holds a limit of 30 items. Anything in it cannot be lost in the event of your death. Due to this, each character will be allowed to have ONLY ONE race bag on them. If staff notices that you have more than one on a character, the staff member will DELETE all race bags and their contents.
11. You are allowed two houses per account.
12. "UO Extreme" is illegal - if you are caught using this program, or any other program which allows you to gain unfair advantage over other players or the system you will be banned immediately and irrevocably. If someone else is using this program on your account, no questions asked your account will be banned. Razor is allowed.
13. Unattended macroing is allowed on the Shard except from the hours of 8 am to 6 pm EST Monday to Friday. Please do not do it in public areas. i.e.: near the bank, off of town vendors. Etc. All macros , attended or unattended, must have at least a 3 second delay between actions (i.e. no "button mashing" or "hold the key down" macros at all). Staff will disconnect anyone using a macro program that "spams" the server.
Attended macroing is permitted at all times; however, if a GM pops in to speak to you about some aspect of your macro and you do not respond in a timely manner, it will be assumed that your macro is unattended.
14. You may not post or communicate any player's real life personal information within The Oblivion shard or through The Oblivion Shard web site's message boards.
15. Do not use any spell or object that could cause health loss or hinder another player or player's pets in town or around player's yards/houses. These include but are not limited to field spells and explosion potions. Do not trap, block or restrict the flow of players or monsters by use of an object.
16. Players are allowed 5 characters on one account that has been properly acquired through the administration of the shard. Giving accounts or receiving an account from another player is illegal and the account in question will be deleted. Anyone that is found with more than one account will have all accounts in question banned and deleted.
17. Virtue Stones are not to be sold or traded. Virtue Stones are given to a person in recognition for completing a quest or special event, so unless you are there you don't get the reward. As well, the sale or public display of any runes or rune books to quest locations is strictly prohibited.
Virtue Stone Rewards may be sold or traded, unless the particular reward states otherwise.
18. It is illegal to sell/trade or give Veteran awards. These are meant to you as a gift from us for the amount of time played. If a player is found wearing or riding such awards and they have not been on the shard for the amount of time needed for them, they will be deleted immediately.
19. Gatehopping is strictly forbidden. Unless you are invited through a gate do not run through to see where it leads. This is a jailable offense and could lead to possible banning.
20. You may not give false information or intentionally hide any information that is required at the time you register with The Oblivion shard, or that is required of you by staff during the normal operation of the Shard and related to actual gameplay (i.e. you are not required to reveal personal real-life information, but if staff asks what you know of an in-game situation or incident, lying or withholding needed information is prohibited).
21. Please remember when paging a staff member to be as specific as possible regarding your problem. Pages that just say "help me", may not be answered in a timely manner or at all as they will not be a priority. Pages asking if certain players or staff are on, if you can have a certain item or so on and so forth will be ignored. Pages are for in game problems; and we will be better able to serve you if we have a better idea of what your problem is. Abuse of the paging system will result in jail time.
22. Staff members will not taxi you about the realm, resurrect you (unless the circumstances deem it, i.e.: A shard run event) or give away items and/or adjust stats and skills without the specific prior approval of shard administration. Do not page staff for this.
23. Personal spawns of any kind including but not limited to Town Vendors, Bankers, sheep, animals, plants and etc. are NOT purchasable. So please do not ask.
24. You will not exploit any bug of RunUO while using The Oblivion Shard to gain unfair advantage in the game; all bugs must be reported as soon as discovered to shard staff either in game, via ICQ, or through an email. Not reporting the issue and being caught using it is a bannable offense. Cheating and exploiting makes the game difficult for all.
25. You may not arrange for the exchange or transfer of any pirated software or other contraband while you are on The Oblivion shard or its web site nor may you use The Oblivion Shard or its Web Site for any other illegal purpose.
26. You may not violate any local, state, national or international law or regulation. (Oblivion will not be held liable for it's player's actions, and will cooperate fully with any investigation by any law enforcement agency. In fact we will be VERY helpful, so don't do anything illegal.)
27. You may not use The Oblivion Shard or The Oblivion Shard message boards for any activities other than activities that are permitted within the game world. Examples include but are not limited to: You may not market, promote or advertise anything, or make any other form of solicitation (including pyramid schemes, chain letters and other shards) with the exception of Oblivion in game items, on Oblivion or through the Oblivion2 Web site. Player message boards follow the same rules as the shard when it comes to profanity along with websites that contain sexually explicit material.
28. You will not attempt to interfere with, hack into, or decipher any messages to or from the server running the Oblivion shard. All access to the servers is logged. All hack attempts will be investigated and reported to the authorities.
THESE RULES WILL APPLY TO ANYONE THAT YOU ALLOW TO USE YOUR ACCOUNT, YOU ARE PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONSEQUENCES (INCLUDING BANNING OF YOUR ACCOUNT) THAT MAY RESULT IF ANY SUCH PERSON BREAKS THESE RULES.
STAFF HAS THE FINAL SAY ON THE INTERPRETATION OF THESE RULES. IF YOU DON'T LIKE A GM'S DECISION, TAKE IT UP WITH THE ADMIN.
PUNISHMENTS FOR BREAKING ANY OF THESE RULES MAY RESULT IN LOSS OF GAME TIME BY JAILING OR PERMANENT BANNING FROM THE SHARD.
