Rules

Sharing Characters

Sharing characters on Age of Dragons is illegal. Sharing characters is defined as anyone besides the original player using the character to play the game. First offense may be a verbal warning, or it may be jail, depending on the situation. A further incident beyond jail will involve purging and being stripped of equipment.

See also Policies

Character Seperation

Character separation is highly frowned upon on Age of Dragons. This policy means that your characters do not share equipment, money, or anything else. It is acceptable to have your alternate character know the same people your primary character might know, but it has to role played, and it cannot result in power-levelling or power-equipping. If you choose not to separate your characters you risk punishment, possibly jail, possibly stripping of eq.

See also Policies

Multi-Playing

Multi-playing on Age of Dragons is illegal. Multi-playing is defined as having more than one character on the mud at any time. That includes linkless characters and any character at the login screen. If there is a problem where the player feels multi-playing might be necessary, they are to consult an imm. First offense is a warning. Second offense is 2 ( or more) days in jail. Third offense might be extended periods in jail, character death and/or stripping or nuking. Depending on the character and the situation.

See also Policies

Killing Other Characters

Pkilling is not illegal on Age of Dragons, but neither is it promoted. Pkilling is defined as attacking a character for the purpose of killing him. On Age of Dragons we strongly prefer that all pkilling related deaths are the result of a roleplaying-oriented matter. Personal vendettas are discouraged and for experience or equipment is heavily frowned upon. With this in mind, immortals will not to interfere in the affairs of the mortals provided the balance of the mud is not at stake, and the policies, for clarity, are stated in later posts. Please do not bring your problem to an immortal unless you feel a policy is broken. It is up to the mortals to define the laws of the land and to enforce them (aside from these policies of course).

There are many points to cover for the policy on pkilling, thus please refer to these mores specific policies on the matter:

POLICY 15 MINUTE RULE - Policy regarding norent flag. POLICY GROUP KILLING - Policy regarding pkilling in groups. POLICY MULTI-KILLING - Policy on killing a person multiple times. POLICY PKILL CHARACTERS - Policy on player pkiller characters. POLICY KILLING FOR EXP - Policy on pkilling for exp. POLICY DEATHTRAPS - Policy regarding deathtraps. POLICY KILLING NEWBIES - Policy regarding killing newbies. POLICY NORENT ITEMS - Policy regarding norent items. POLICY DROPPING LINK - Policy regarding dropping link and board rooms.

See also Subdue, Policies, Policy Pstealing

15 Minute NoRent Rule

After attempting a pkill, you must wait 15 minutes before renting or dropping link. This includes renting to change recall locations. Unstable servers will be dealt with on an individual basis. There is currently a flag that prevents you from renting, however it obviously cannot prevent a player from dropping link, thus the statement of this policy.

Repeated offense of killing for experience points will be dealt with using jail time or more extreme measures. A repeat offense is more then once.

See also Policies, Policy Dropping Link, Policy Pkilling

Pkilling in Groups

Groups of pkillers are also frowned upon on both sides of the law. It is more heavily frowned upon is done by the instigating party. Those claiming vengeance or justice are given more leniency on this rule. This is due to the fact that pkillers are often extremely difficult to deal with. The immortals will try to leave this issue up to the mortals to handle, but we stress the importance of roleplaying. If the mud balance appears to be at stake, the immortals will step in. Be warned that when we do take measures, they will be swift.

See also Policies, Policy Pkilling

Killing a Character Multiple Times

Repeated killing of a single character is illegal on Age of Dragons and could result in jailing. A pkilled victim may not be killed again until they leave the inn they are residing in. Once they live the inn they are fair game. Breaking this rule is as severe as breaking the 15 minutes rule and will result in both death, heavy jailing, or possible character deletion. For Any Inn this means the inn structure itself, not just the guestcheck but the board rooms also. In Solace this does not include the staircase or the rope. If the player leaves the inn he/she is fair game and can be killed once again, even if they return to the inn.

Fating a character, if implemented, will not be tolerated, unless the character has been a menace to the mud in general. For example, a pkill character would be allowed to be hunted to fate. Personal vendattas will will not be tolerated in this fashion, whether from law makers or law breakers.

One possible exception is a long time, roleplayed, rivalry. Two characters who have been enemies for a long time would possibly be exempt from this rule.

See also Policies, Policy Pkilling

Dropping Link and Abusing Board Rooms

Pstealing from, pkilling, charming, or blinding a character that is linkless is illegal on Age of Dragons. The penalty is jail and possible death. Several offenses could result in deletion.

Furthermore, a character who is writing should be considered linkless for this rule.

A strong aspect of this rule is that players may not drop link or begin a post to avoid these restrictions. In this case, the immortals will not intervene to stop the killing/theft/etc, and will punish the character that dropped link/started a post.

We are aware that sometimes links drop without being detected by the mud. We will handle these cases on an individual basis.

See also Policies, Policy Pkilling

Playing a Pkiller

Because of the stress on roleplaying, pkillers whose characters only log in to pkill and then leave when their 15 minutes are up are also frowned upon. If this occurs repeatedly, penalties such as jail, death, or even deletion will follow. Pkillers should spend as much time not killing as they do killing.

See also Policies, Policy Pkilling

Killing Other Characters for Experience

It is illegal to kill character for experience points. You may not have a friend bring on a character so you can kill him for exp. This breaks both the sharing character laws and the pkilling for experience law. You may not bring on one of your other characters to kill one for experience points, since this breaks the pkilling for exp law, and the multi-playing law. Finally, you may not let another character kill your character for experience points. All these offenses are punished by the deletion of both characters. The harshness of this penalty is due to the fact that if this policy is broken, several policies are broken.

See also Policies, Policy Pkilling

Using Deathtraps

You may not use a deathtrap in any way to kill a mob or a player. You also may not use one to hide in if you are being hunted, and/or if you have a norent flag.

See also Policies, Policy Pkilling

Killing Newbies

Pkilling newbies is heavily frowned upon on Age of Dragons and always has been. Roleplaying is encouraged but if your only resort in roleplaying is pkilling, then another mud may be for you.

A character who creates a newbie to specifically insult another is not free to do as he wants without repercussions however. A character such as this is a nuisance character, and will be dealt with following the rules posted in POLICY NUISANCE CHARACTERS.

More then one offense in a reasonable period of time may result in multiple deaths, nuking, or a site ban. It is not easy to get started here sometimes without friends, and when players leave because they tried to rp and got killed, that is not acceptable.

See also Policies, Policy Pkilling, Policy Nuisance Characters

Using Norent Items to Pkill

Giving !rent objects to victims before attempting to kill them is illegal. You may not prevent a players ability to rent in any way, whether it be by blinding the innkeeper or giving the person a norent item. The exception here is blinding the player and similar fair tactics. If you have a question on a specific tactic please contact an immortal or post the question on the policy board.

See also Policies, Policy Pkilling

Stealing Objects or Coins from Other Characters

Pstealing is defined as any attempted theft from another player on Age of Dragons. It is handled in a similar fashion to pkilling, though not as severely. The 15 minute rule applies to pstealing. Breaking this rule results in jail, death, or deletion. This is dependent on the situation.

As with pkilling, most cases are left for the mortals to deal with. Only if the balance of the mud becomes as issue, or the policies are broken will the immortals interfere. The exception are nuisance characters which are described under POLICY NUISANCE CHARACTERS.

See also Policies, Policy Nuisance Characters

Acting Against Linkless Characters

Please see POLICY DROPPING LINK

See also Policies, Policy Dropping Link

Acting Against Writing Characters

Please see POLICY DROPPING LINK

See also Policies, Policy Dropping Link

Abusing Bugs

Knowing and abusing a bug is illegal and will result in heavy penalties. If you know of a bug, report it to the imms and leave it alone. This includes crashing the mud on purpose. If you aren't sure something is a bug, ask an immortal. If there isn't an immortal around, then if it doesn't make sense it is probably a bug. Breaking this rule will result in a punishment anywhere from death and equipment stripping to nuking, and even as far as site banning, all depending on the nature of the bug.

See also Policies

Dealing With Nuisance Characters

Nuisance characters are jailed upon the first incident. They are killed upon the second, and nuked upon the third.

This penalty is given to the highest character of the player of the nuisance character because penalizing a character the person does not care about is not a real penalty. Progressive problems will result in site banning. People who have a character to be a nuisance and a character to mud normally will find themselves with no characters. Repeatedly killing of newbies is considered a nuisance character offense.

Defining a nuisance character in a strict sense is difficult. If a player feels a character is being a nuisance character, they should report him or her to an immortal. We will deal with it.

See also Policies

Requesting a Reimbursement

Reimbursements will only be given in the case of a game problem or a bug. Special items and quest items will be reimbursed on a case by case basis. They will usually be returned if they are proper for the player's level that is receiving them.

Lag is not a reimbursable problem unless it is mud lag. In this case, a reimbursement will only be given if there is an immortal on at the time of the lag, it is truly deemed mud lag, and it is confirmed that the player died during the lag.

When posting a request for a reimbursement, use the following format:

• State the reason the equipment was lost and all the circumstances around it.
• List the equipment, with one piece of equipment on one line.

For example,

a heavy sword
chainmail hose (x2)
a tiny black potion (x3)
etc.

Exp and money are not reimbursed. Please save often.

It is very important that you save as often as possible. If you find or are given an item, and do not save, you will not be reimbursed if the mud crashes. For those of you who use mud clients I highly recommend the following trigger:

Using Triggers

The use of triggers on AoD is definitely allowed. However, there are limits as to what we allow with triggers. You cannot use triggers that make your character operate without you being at the keyboard.

This is a rather controversial subject, but there are to be no "Bots" used on Age of Dragons. Using a "bot" will result in jail time and possibly death and stripping of equipment, depending on the severity and situation.

A bot is defined as any group of triggers that allows your character to operate while away from the keyboard. You may use "bot-like" triggers, such as ones that force you to stand & sit, eat food, etc... but you must be at the keyboard. We realize some people have slower connections, and when in large groups, "bot-like" triggers such as these make things much easier. However, it must be kept within reason, and the player must show evidence of being at the keyboard. In any case, it is your risk. If we feel that "botting" is occurring we will take action.

See also Policies

Giving Keys to Innkeepers

Keys should be accessible in the game because mostly they only load once or twice. This should be an obvious thing. Giving keys to a mob so they cannot be gotten by the general public will result in the punishment of death.

See also Policies

Spamming Rooms

Please do not drop large quantities of items such as bread and balls of light in rooms to the point where it spams out those walking into rooms. Repeated offenses will be dealt with. This also loosely ties to spamming a room with text without proper reason.

See also Policies

Hoarding Equipment

At the current time, holding 4 or 5 of an item to max it and keep it from loading for others is frowned upon. In other words, If you are asked to get rid of a few items you should do it, else it might be done for you.

See also Policies

Shopkeepers, Innkeepers, Couriers and Bankers

Shopkeepers, Inn Keepers, Couriers, and the other NPCs which serve a purpose in this land are not to be slain. They serve a vital purpose, and disallowing other players the chance to rent, receive mail, shop, deposit money, etc. Is not permitted. This is a matter of convenience for other players, and in the future, shopkeepers will be made so that they are unable to be attacked to avoid this problem. But until then, just don't kill them.

See also Policies