Post by Eventide on Oct 30, 2011 15:49:27 GMT -5
Proboards rules
Please regard that our host has its own set of rules against what is allowed on a ProBoards site.
You can read them here. It could be worth your wile to look up number 18 and 19, since breaking these will have you banned from Eventide permanently without a beforehand warning.
Eventide rules
1. You are by no means allowed to impersonate a staff member. You are not to go around “mini-modding”, meaning play or pretend that you have authority over another member. You are not to tell anyone what they can and can’t do. You are not going to do the moderators’ jobs.
This said, we don’t mind a little help. You may point fellow members in the right direction or throw them suggestions as long as it as kept at a reasonable level and is done in a friendly manner. There is no rule against offering someone aid.
The administrator account is mainly used to manage the forum, so you are not granted a reply if you PM Eventide the admin. The admin account is run by the moderators.
Users that have been granted control over some part(s) of the board are titled managers, but are not actual members of the staff crew.
If you have any problems with anything on the site, please contact any of the mods by PM or post it in questions and suggestions, alternatively conflicts and issues.
2. Be kind. This is a big one. Love and tolerate (okay, we can’t demand you to love) your fellow players. If you have any problems with what someone is doing and you can’t solve it amongst yourselves, contact a moderator.
If you cause drama on the site, you get three strikes and then you are out. No ifs, ands or buts. I’ve seen unnecessary drama kill far too many good RPGs.
3. Play nice. It is important to be fair in a role playing game. This rule forbids you from god-moding and auto-hitting, two big no-nos. Every character has strengths as well as flaws!
God-moding means that you take control over another character. If you don’t play as Seashells, you can’t decide how the character will act or react. Example:
Bubbles was sneaking up on Seashells, giggling uncontrollably as she did so, but Seashells couldn't hear her. Just as the lavender pony passed the thickest part of the bushes, Bubbles leapt out and yelled: “Boo!” Seashells thought her heart would stop, gasping with fright. “You really scared me there!”
Auto-hitting is when you don’t give the other player a chance to dodge your attack.
Rarity grew even more irritated. She picked up a small round pebble from the ground and hurled it towards Apple Jack, whacking her with a soft “thud” at the back of her head.
To avoid this, remember to have your characters try to scare the other character, or try to hit another character. You may also write what your character does depending on the outcome.
Bubbles spotted Seashells from her hiding place as the lavender earthling strolled by. Bubbles had gotten the brilliant idea to give the arrogant pony a good scare, and the mere thought of her frightened face threw Bubbles into a fit of giggles. Creeping closer through the greenery, she hoped that her snorting had not alerted her victim. Bubbles lay in wait. Three … two … NOW! The yellow pony leapt out of the shrubbery, screeching as ominously as she could manage through her smiling; “Boo!”
Rarity could not stand it. She tapped her hoof irritably against the ground, feeling a pebble underneath her. At a whim, she picked it up and hurled it aimlessly towards Apple Jack without much thought behind her action. Quickly realizing her deed, the unicorn’s eyes widened. If she hit her friend, she would stay frozen on her spot, desperately eyeing the pony for any signs of harm done. If not, Rarity would merrily whistle the Winter Wrap Up tune, obviously guilty.
4. Make sense. Weird rule perhaps, but important none the less. Your style of roleplay matters little on here, so you are not to discriminate a player because of lack of experience – but do not blame another member that can’t understand your posts if they are not comprehensible.
On this site, we speak English. Not Portuguese, not Mandarin, l33t, or Engrish. Of course you are excused if you make a typo or some grammatical error, especially if English is not your first language, but please do your best.
Please do not ignore other people’s posts – if you can’t read it, tell them so.
5. This is a PG+13 site, mainly for violence and occasional cussing. Nothing too explicit is allowed on Eventide, including but not limited to descriptive, gory scenes, and anything other than hinting towards intimate relationships. Also choose your words wisely. We don’t want to read any racial slurs, the f-word or any names or genital organs in any situation.
6. Do not spam. Do not advertise all over the site – stick to the Chatterbox. Do not intentionally make a nuisance of yourself.
7. No plagiarism. The work, including pictures and texts, that you post on this site should be your work. If you pick up a dropped character, don’t copy-paste their old application. If you post a picture, make sure you have the rights to use it. If you need a picture of your pony OC, go here.
8. We allow one account per player. We urge you to list the characters that you are playing in either your signature or personal text (you can modify these on your profile page).
The only ones excused from this rule are members of the staff, who share the administrator account.
9. Your signature may be no taller than 200px or 7 lines of text. No image may stretch the site.
In Character etiquette[/u]
Congratulations on getting this far. Here follows some guidelines on how to behave while IC.
* Please keep OOC comments to a minimum while on the IC section of the forum. If you need to address someone or put down a note, put your comment within brackets: [ ]. Otherwise, direct them to a different board from the relevant thread so that you can discuss the matter on either the In-game discussion board or the Conflicts and issues board.
* While we do not enforce rules on post length, keep in mind when posting In Character, to try to give your fellow players something to work with. What is your character doing, thinking and feeling?
* You may freely create new threads on the board, OOC or IC. Please refrain from cluttering up the IC section with threads, though. If there are any active threads that your character may fit in, you may put them in there. Alternatively, if it is too crowded or you have planned something especially for your character, you may create a new thread to stick him/her in.
All threads need to be marked with an IC date and time.
* When you engage in an established session of roleplay or events that have been planned beforehand, regard the possibility that you may be interfering with something against the players’ wills. You may improvise and be creative, but do not interfere with planned IC events! Your character is not to prevent a character that is for example meant to get injured from getting injured, unless you have been given permission. Either stay out of it, or, if your character is present at the time – unable him to interfere. Have him trip on his toes or something.
* Everyone is welcome anywhere on the IC board, unless the thread creator asks otherwise. Please do not join a thread before the thread creator declares it open. Try not jump into people’s IC conversations and clutter up the thread. Try to help the flow of the story rather than stalling it.
It is not polite to make yourself the hero in every situation.
* Whenever posting IC, keep in mind the timeline. A character that runs into the forest to participate in a fight in one thread can not engage in a game with his friends that takes place at the same time elsewhere. Also, if your character gets badly injured in the first thread, how can he play soccer the morning after?
To avoid problems, consider playing through one thread at a time. We can not afford to rush too quickly forward in the in-game dates. Also when you make a new thread, regard any official in-game events that may interfere with your plans. It is not reasonable that you have ice cream in one thread while the bad guy is rampaging through the streets in another, if things are not taking place at different times (or places). Otherwise, your characters should be affected and react to the noise. Are they fleeing into a new thread or do they jump into the other thread, confronting the danger?
* If your character leaves a thread and the story continues elsewhere, please write so at the bottom of your post. Even if you write ICly where your character is going, make it extra clear with a note within brackets. If your character is simply leaving the scene, just state that he/she is not present anymore.
* IC drama should never be taken OOC. Anything including another player’s character requires his or her agreement (except opinions. You can’t prevent someone’s character from hating yours). Likewise, if you happen to dislike a player, your characters must not start hating each other for no apparent reason.
So no flaming each other. No insisting upon pairings that both parts do not agree on.
* Waiting for other players. We don’t have a rule of posting in order, but it is customary on Eventide to make sure that you don’t post pages ahead of another player.
* You may loose characters that you no longer desire playing. That said, you can not go around dropping and claiming characters all the time because you loose your muse. A dropped character will become playable for other players again, and because of this we would rather you not kill off any of the main characters.
Please regard that our host has its own set of rules against what is allowed on a ProBoards site.
You can read them here. It could be worth your wile to look up number 18 and 19, since breaking these will have you banned from Eventide permanently without a beforehand warning.
Eventide rules
1. You are by no means allowed to impersonate a staff member. You are not to go around “mini-modding”, meaning play or pretend that you have authority over another member. You are not to tell anyone what they can and can’t do. You are not going to do the moderators’ jobs.
This said, we don’t mind a little help. You may point fellow members in the right direction or throw them suggestions as long as it as kept at a reasonable level and is done in a friendly manner. There is no rule against offering someone aid.
The administrator account is mainly used to manage the forum, so you are not granted a reply if you PM Eventide the admin. The admin account is run by the moderators.
Users that have been granted control over some part(s) of the board are titled managers, but are not actual members of the staff crew.
If you have any problems with anything on the site, please contact any of the mods by PM or post it in questions and suggestions, alternatively conflicts and issues.
2. Be kind. This is a big one. Love and tolerate (okay, we can’t demand you to love) your fellow players. If you have any problems with what someone is doing and you can’t solve it amongst yourselves, contact a moderator.
If you cause drama on the site, you get three strikes and then you are out. No ifs, ands or buts. I’ve seen unnecessary drama kill far too many good RPGs.
3. Play nice. It is important to be fair in a role playing game. This rule forbids you from god-moding and auto-hitting, two big no-nos. Every character has strengths as well as flaws!
God-moding means that you take control over another character. If you don’t play as Seashells, you can’t decide how the character will act or react. Example:
Bubbles was sneaking up on Seashells, giggling uncontrollably as she did so, but Seashells couldn't hear her. Just as the lavender pony passed the thickest part of the bushes, Bubbles leapt out and yelled: “Boo!” Seashells thought her heart would stop, gasping with fright. “You really scared me there!”
Auto-hitting is when you don’t give the other player a chance to dodge your attack.
Rarity grew even more irritated. She picked up a small round pebble from the ground and hurled it towards Apple Jack, whacking her with a soft “thud” at the back of her head.
To avoid this, remember to have your characters try to scare the other character, or try to hit another character. You may also write what your character does depending on the outcome.
Bubbles spotted Seashells from her hiding place as the lavender earthling strolled by. Bubbles had gotten the brilliant idea to give the arrogant pony a good scare, and the mere thought of her frightened face threw Bubbles into a fit of giggles. Creeping closer through the greenery, she hoped that her snorting had not alerted her victim. Bubbles lay in wait. Three … two … NOW! The yellow pony leapt out of the shrubbery, screeching as ominously as she could manage through her smiling; “Boo!”
Rarity could not stand it. She tapped her hoof irritably against the ground, feeling a pebble underneath her. At a whim, she picked it up and hurled it aimlessly towards Apple Jack without much thought behind her action. Quickly realizing her deed, the unicorn’s eyes widened. If she hit her friend, she would stay frozen on her spot, desperately eyeing the pony for any signs of harm done. If not, Rarity would merrily whistle the Winter Wrap Up tune, obviously guilty.
4. Make sense. Weird rule perhaps, but important none the less. Your style of roleplay matters little on here, so you are not to discriminate a player because of lack of experience – but do not blame another member that can’t understand your posts if they are not comprehensible.
On this site, we speak English. Not Portuguese, not Mandarin, l33t, or Engrish. Of course you are excused if you make a typo or some grammatical error, especially if English is not your first language, but please do your best.
Please do not ignore other people’s posts – if you can’t read it, tell them so.
5. This is a PG+13 site, mainly for violence and occasional cussing. Nothing too explicit is allowed on Eventide, including but not limited to descriptive, gory scenes, and anything other than hinting towards intimate relationships. Also choose your words wisely. We don’t want to read any racial slurs, the f-word or any names or genital organs in any situation.
6. Do not spam. Do not advertise all over the site – stick to the Chatterbox. Do not intentionally make a nuisance of yourself.
7. No plagiarism. The work, including pictures and texts, that you post on this site should be your work. If you pick up a dropped character, don’t copy-paste their old application. If you post a picture, make sure you have the rights to use it. If you need a picture of your pony OC, go here.
8. We allow one account per player. We urge you to list the characters that you are playing in either your signature or personal text (you can modify these on your profile page).
The only ones excused from this rule are members of the staff, who share the administrator account.
9. Your signature may be no taller than 200px or 7 lines of text. No image may stretch the site.
In Character etiquette[/u]
Congratulations on getting this far. Here follows some guidelines on how to behave while IC.
* Please keep OOC comments to a minimum while on the IC section of the forum. If you need to address someone or put down a note, put your comment within brackets: [ ]. Otherwise, direct them to a different board from the relevant thread so that you can discuss the matter on either the In-game discussion board or the Conflicts and issues board.
* While we do not enforce rules on post length, keep in mind when posting In Character, to try to give your fellow players something to work with. What is your character doing, thinking and feeling?
* You may freely create new threads on the board, OOC or IC. Please refrain from cluttering up the IC section with threads, though. If there are any active threads that your character may fit in, you may put them in there. Alternatively, if it is too crowded or you have planned something especially for your character, you may create a new thread to stick him/her in.
All threads need to be marked with an IC date and time.
* When you engage in an established session of roleplay or events that have been planned beforehand, regard the possibility that you may be interfering with something against the players’ wills. You may improvise and be creative, but do not interfere with planned IC events! Your character is not to prevent a character that is for example meant to get injured from getting injured, unless you have been given permission. Either stay out of it, or, if your character is present at the time – unable him to interfere. Have him trip on his toes or something.
* Everyone is welcome anywhere on the IC board, unless the thread creator asks otherwise. Please do not join a thread before the thread creator declares it open. Try not jump into people’s IC conversations and clutter up the thread. Try to help the flow of the story rather than stalling it.
It is not polite to make yourself the hero in every situation.
* Whenever posting IC, keep in mind the timeline. A character that runs into the forest to participate in a fight in one thread can not engage in a game with his friends that takes place at the same time elsewhere. Also, if your character gets badly injured in the first thread, how can he play soccer the morning after?
To avoid problems, consider playing through one thread at a time. We can not afford to rush too quickly forward in the in-game dates. Also when you make a new thread, regard any official in-game events that may interfere with your plans. It is not reasonable that you have ice cream in one thread while the bad guy is rampaging through the streets in another, if things are not taking place at different times (or places). Otherwise, your characters should be affected and react to the noise. Are they fleeing into a new thread or do they jump into the other thread, confronting the danger?
* If your character leaves a thread and the story continues elsewhere, please write so at the bottom of your post. Even if you write ICly where your character is going, make it extra clear with a note within brackets. If your character is simply leaving the scene, just state that he/she is not present anymore.
* IC drama should never be taken OOC. Anything including another player’s character requires his or her agreement (except opinions. You can’t prevent someone’s character from hating yours). Likewise, if you happen to dislike a player, your characters must not start hating each other for no apparent reason.
So no flaming each other. No insisting upon pairings that both parts do not agree on.
* Waiting for other players. We don’t have a rule of posting in order, but it is customary on Eventide to make sure that you don’t post pages ahead of another player.
* You may loose characters that you no longer desire playing. That said, you can not go around dropping and claiming characters all the time because you loose your muse. A dropped character will become playable for other players again, and because of this we would rather you not kill off any of the main characters.