Server Rules

Channel Specific Rules

• Certain chats have specific rules you must follow while using them. You are required to be speaking English at all times in all of the channels specifically listed below:

[G] Global Chat:

• This is our general chat for EcoCityCraft ingame. Everyone on the Network can see this chat.

[VIP] VIP Chat:

• This is a chat for donors only. Civil discussion of politics, irl betting/gambling and religion is allowed here at the discretion of staff.

[Tr] Trade Chat:

• You may advertise for the purposes of conducting in-game business within our trade channel, however you may not use more than one message every 5 minutes. It is also not allowed to use alt-accounts to post advertisements for yourself or other users.

[Auc] Auction Chat:

• All Auctions must be through the automated auction system - You can see related commands via /auc. Auction chat is specifically for discussing Auctions. Manual Auctions are not allowed.

[Trv] Trivia Chat:

• This channel is only for hosting trivia competitions. Only one person may host a trivia competition at a time. Trivia chat is not to be used to encourage spam.

Any chat channels not specifically listed above are privately owned, player-run channels. Rules for such chat channels are more relaxed and mostly at the sole discretion of the chat owner. Staff will not act upon most report of misbehavior that occur within these chat channels. Only in limited circumstances, such as severe harassment/toxic behavior or illicit activity shall administrators investigate what was said in those channels.

These rules apply to our Main Servers and Main Servers only. Please refer to the rules above if you would like to see our network-wide rules.

Town Owner Rules, Evictions & Seizures
Town owners have the right to form any laws, living or building rules within towns, so long as they do not interfere with our universal server rules.

• Rules must be posted clearly in the town with locked signs, or agreed to via contract in order to be enforced by staff.
• In the event the town rules are posted via signs, the mayor must provide screenshots of the member agreeing to the town rules when filing a complaint.
• Town owners are expected to have respect towards their town’s residents.
• Scamming and taking advantage of your town’s residents is strictly prohibited.
• If you are the victim of a Mayor/President town scam, you may submit proper evidence of such to our Complaints forum.

Mayors are allowed to add any members to their town as they see fit. However, we have rules on how they can go about removing/evicting members. A mayor cannot remove a member from their town unless one of the following criteria is met:

• The user being removed was given a 3 days advance notice via in-game mail or forum PM/post.
• The user being removed was punished by staff for griefing the town.
• The user being removed has been offline ingame for 7+ days.

In the event that such an eviction occurs, town owners may also request staff remove the LWC Protections or Chestshops of the player(s) in question. All requests are subject to our Protection Removal Guidelines

LWC Protection Removal Guidelines
You must follow all of the following rules to ensure your protections will be removed as requested:

• You need to be a listed owner on the town to file an LWC or Chest Shop Removal Request
• The protection owner must NOT be the current official owner of the town.
• These locks must be in a protected town. Locks in the wild will not be removed.
• These protections must be unobstructed and the owner must be able to access them. This includes having the player added to your town if you have the chest-access or entry town flag set to deny.

Protections may only be removed if one of the following are true:
(If using anything but the first you must provide evidence of this.)

• The protection owner is offline over 7 days.
• The protection owner has been given proper notice and request to remove their locks.
• The protection owner has been banned from the server for Moderate+ grief of your town.

Please refer to this thread for a complete guide on LWC Requests: [Instructions] LWC/Chest Shop Removals
You can file requests to remove LWC's here: LWC Removal Request Form

Item Ownership
You may designate an item as yours via the /own command.

• Items that have a designated ownership belong to that player no matter how they have been obtained after the ownership has been set. In practice, this means that staff will return any owned item to its designated owner regardless of who is currently in possession if requested.
• We still allow the trading/sale of items where the seller isn't the designated owner. The seller, however, needs to inform the buyer of this and the fact that the designated owner may still reclaim the item from them at any time.
• Owning your item allows it to be tracked by Staff or via users with the ToolHunter feature. It does not mean that tools can be replaced when they are lost due to normal player error or game mechanics.
• Staff will generally not interfere in the transfer of ownership on tools. If you need ownership transferred then the tool owner must do it.

Multiple Accounts

• While we allow the use of multiple accounts, we strictly ban any transactions that may be used to benefit your "main" account. This means that other accounts may not give money or items to your main under any circumstances. Your other accounts are also not allowed to rank up past Resident.

Lag-Inducing Structures

• Users are not allowed to build structures that can cause lots of lag. These include, but are not limited to, chunks with more than 20 decorative heads or 5 campfires.

Who owns a town?(top)

We divide ownership into two different categories. Each designation comes with their own set of legal rights/responsibilities. They are as follows:
Official Owner

• This is the player who's name is on the town application. This is the only player staff will consider as the owner of the town.

Co-Owner

• Added to the town but not official owner. Powers are defined by the owner of a town.

The Official Owner may sell their town, however the new owner is not treated as an "Official Owner" until they transfer the town to themselves. Until then, they are a Co-Owner with their rights expressed in the sales contract, and the Official Owner maintains the right to totally reclaim the town after 5 days if not transferred.

Town Ownership Rules(top)

What are town transfers or claims?(top)

There are currently two ways of changing the official owner of a town. A Town Transfer may be used, or a Tycoon+ may use an available Town Claim under any of the following circumstances:

Town Claim Only:

• The owners of the town are offline for a minimum of 6 months.
• The owners of the town are permanently banned from the server, and a period of 7 days has passed since the ban was issued.

Town Transfer or Town Claim:

• The owners of the town have signed and consented to the sale/transfer of a town officially.
• When a user transfers or claims a town, the former Official Owner loses all rights to the town and its ownership. The applicant becomes the Official Owner, and may apply for town features and have all the other benefits associated with being the Official Owner. This will not be reversed under any circumstances.
• As stated above, if you recieve another user’s town without a Town Claim or Town Transfer, be wary that the Official Owner may contact a GameAdmin+ after 5 days of you recieving the town to have the town returned to them.
• You can read more on our respective pages for the Town Claim Application and the Town Transfer Application.

Spawn Towns: Rules and Regulations(top)

• Spawn towns are defined as a front-row and second-row, 227x227 towns that directly face/border spawn (defined by the region named "spawn").

Any of the green squares are a Spawn town.
These are subject to their own set of rules and regulations, in addition to the above mentioned ones. These towns can risk being seized by the administration if found in violation. These rules are as follows:

Spawntown Rules:(top)

• There must be a good faith effort to actually build or do something with the town - Your town must basically not be a totally flat wasteland or totally unbuilt whatsoever.
• Spawn town owners have around two months or so to show a good faith attempt to utilize the town in a productive and aesthetic manner.
• Spawntown owners that are found to be inactive and or not developing/using their town risk their town being seized by Administration to be auctioned.

Spawntown Reviews(top)

• Reviews will likely happen around the end of each month.
• Reviews will be handled by Administration and each town will be examined on a case-by-case basis.

After Month 1:

• If no significant progress has been made
• The town owner(s) will be issued a notice via forum PM, they will then have another month to make appropriate progress on their spawntown.

If significant progress was made:

• The town is left alone and will be reviewed again in a month.

After Month 2:

• If no significant progress has been made:
• Administration will seize the town and auction it off.

Significant progress was made:

• The town is left alone, and will be reviewed again in a month.

Ownership Change:(top)

• Should a spawntown change official ownership the new owner will be given 2 months to make appropriate use of the town. This will begin from the next review period.
• The town must be transferred to you via official means; such as a Town Claim, Town Transfer, or Administration auction.
• If the town changes ownership in-between reviews, the town will not be reviewed until ample time as passed.
• Example: If the town is sold and officially transferred on the 16th of Feb, it will not be reviewed for progress until the end of March instead of being immediately up for review at the end of Feb.

PermaBanned Owners:(top)

• If the official owner is PermaBanned and the town lacks progression and goes un-used due to this, Administration may seize the town to auction it off. This will be handled on a case-by-case basis.

General Guidelines/Information:(top)

• Continuous progress and activity on your spawn town will ensure you keep your town.
• A spawn town that is nearly complete or fully complete then it is no longer subject to the restrictions and will not be examined on a monthly basis. However you still must maintain activity to keep your Spawntown.
• Spawntowns CAN NOT be claimed with a Town Claim Application via inactivity standards. If/when a town reaches this inactivity status then Administration will seize and auction the town to determine the next owner.