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Section 1 - General Gameplay
Clause 1 - Universal Living

• It is up to each individual user to survive in the best way they can. A large majority of the world and the mining world is unprotected, and grief can and will happen in those areas.
• If you wish to reduce the possibility of grief, it’s encouraged that you seek out a mayor or president who has a town with plots for sale and speak with them about obtaining a plot. For more information about obtaining plots in protected towns, and the rights of the mayors and presidents of a protected town, please see Section 5 of the rules.

Clause 2 - Building Rules
Clause 2.1 Disallowed Structures
There are several disallowed structures on this server, which are prohibited even in the wild:

• Blocks spelling out inappropriate language.
• Signs with defamatory and/or vulgar language.
• Cactus farms.
• Player traps in non-PvP worlds.
• Continuous redstone clocks are not allowed.
  • Temporary, small redstone clocks are fine so long as they are only used for a short period at a time.
• Farms that operate by means of Redstone Lamps or turning off the lights in order to break crops (aka. "Light farming")
• Large passive mob farms or any large collection of passive mobs are strictly forbidden.
  • Small farms (roughly 50 mobs or less) are allowed so long as they do not cause any server lag.
• Any buildings deemed inappropriate by staff.

Clause 2.2 Spawn Shops

• Spawn Shops are server-owned shop plots that have their own portal leading from spawn directly to the shopping area. You must be a resident or higher rank to rent one of these.
• A minimum of 8-10 trade signs must be in your store area. Not following this rule risks getting evicted. This is not your personal private plot; this is your commercial store plot.
  • If after 2 weeks of rental you have not placed the minimum trade signs then you risk losing the shop.
• There are a few materials that cannot be placed in spawn shops, having any of the following in your shop may result in you forfeiting the shop without refund:
  • No lava, fire, water, horses, natural trees, or vines.
  • No item frames.
  • No redstone lamps or working redstone.
    • Decorative redstone, such as redstone blocks, is allowed so long as there's nothing in adjacent blocks for it to power (ie. It can't work at all, it can only be pretty.)
  • No active music notes.

Clause 2.3 Locks and Protection

• You cannot build a house out of or protect a house with anything that is considered a tile entity, or otherwise have a massive number of any of these items in an area for purposes other than their general intended purpose within Minecraft game play.

• It does not matter if these blocks are locked by LWC or not.

• Tile entities include (but may not be limited to based on future Minecraft updates): Furnaces, Signs, Enchanting Tables, Brewing Stands, Chests, and Noteblocks.
• You are still allowed to use these blocks for their general purpose.
• Having buildings built almost or completely out of any of these blocks may warrant them being world edited out.
• If you need to protect a building in any of the methods that using any of these blocks used to be used for, you are now able to lock Obsidian in replacement for these tile entities. Please note that this is still limited to the number of LWCs you have available.

Clause 3 - Player vs. Player (PvP)

• When you enter a PvP zone, you do so at your own risk. You can die at any point and anyone can pick up your items if you do. They are not and will never be required to give them back.
• Staff will not take any action or refund any items in any case of you dying in a PvP area, unless feature abuse was involved. Please see Section 8 for what can constitute as feature abuse in PvP. Staff will still not refund anything lost in these scenarios.
• These rules apply to Legacy/Rising PvP arenas, the Nether and the PvP World.

Clause 4 - Theft and Safety

• Items left in unlocked chests or on the ground are fair game, no matter their location.
• It is your responsibility to use our LWC lock system to keep your stuff safe and to yourself.
• If you modify someone else to allow them access to a chest, they are allowed to take any of the contents unless it is part of an agreement or contract. Please use our system with extreme caution.

Clause 5 - Inappropriate Usernames and Skins

• Any skin deemed offensive or vulgar is not allowed. This can include anything from Hitler skins to nude skins and this is moderated solely at staff discretion. Offending users will be asked to change their skin, and failure to do so may result in removal from the server.
• Inappropriate usernames are not allowed on the server, and may be removed once brought to the attention of the staff team.
• The most common inappropriate username offences are those with vulgar language and/or racial slurs within them. However, other types of inappropriate usernames may be locked if the staff team deems them not suitable for our playerbase.
• Users who are normally law-abiding members of the community but get banned for an inappropriate username may appeal by following the steps below:

1. Change your Minecraft username (You may do this at www.minecraft.net by purchasing a new minecraft account)
2. Make a Ban appeal through your old forum account at our Ban Appeal Section
3. Have 2-3 users from our community vouch for your character.
4. Once approved, we will transfer your entire account over to your new username.
You keep:
All balance, homes, mail, and basically everything in your essentials userdata file.
You will also keep ownership/membership of any towns you are part of.
Your McMMO levels will be transferred over for you.
Your old forum account will get a username change and will keep all posts, threads, and everything else associated with it including password, pms, etc.
You lose:
Any exp you currently have on you.
Your inventory currently on your user.
Anything in your enderchest.
We suggest storing these items in a chest somewhere before the account lock-out is final as well storing the exp in a trade sign somewhere.
You will lose your current Survival Game stats located at http://www.ecocitycraft.com/sgstats.
You need to:
Transfer over any LWCs you have yourself. We suggest logging in from both accounts simultaneously and doing this transfer yourself with our LWC commands.
Once all of the above is done please contact our staff to permanently lock your old account out.
5. We may offer you a $25 ECC coupon code which will be pmed to you via our forums. You will be able to redeem this in the EcoCityCraft Shop after approval of your new name.
Section 2 - Griefing, Trolling and Harassment
Clause 1 - Griefing

• Grief is defined as breaking or destroying things that do not belong to you, including breaking and replacing things to get to places that otherwise you shouldn't be going (for example, breaking into someone's house.) This can also extend to building things in areas that do not belong to you.
  • Grief is not allowed in protected towns, unless the town owner has decided otherwise. In the event a grief occurs in a non-grief town then a grief report can be filed here: Grief Report and Rollback Request
    • If a town allows grief then all residents must be informed before joining the town.
• When a grief report is filed, grief is graded on a sliding scale of minor/moderate/major based on the amount and severity of damage done, and is determined based on staff guidelines by the staff member investigating the situation. It is also determined at that time whether the grief is bad enough to warrant a rollback.
• Grief in the wild is frowned upon, but allowed. Staff will not take any action in the case of wild grief.
• Please see Section 7 for rules regarding grief in the Aether, Nether and Mining World.

Clause 2 - Trolling

• This rule is super simple. Don’t be a troll, and especially don’t troll others away from the server. Please look up “Troll (Internet)” for a more comprehensive definition.
• This includes flaming or attempts to start any form of chaos and discord within the server.

Clause 3 - Harassment

• Harassment constitutes as any form of action (chat or game play wise) that makes another player feel threatened or otherwise ruins their game play.
  • Griefing in the wild does not constitute harassment. Harassment in the wild is strictly chat/command based.
• This includes, but is not limited to; blackmail, bullying or any other form of harassment that occurs through our chat system.
• Attempting to kill other players in any non-PvP zone also constitutes as harassment, and succeeding in killing other players in non-PvP areas is a very severe offence that will result in a ban.

Clause 3.1 - Trespassing

• If a town owner asks you to leave their region for any reason and you are not a member of the region, you must comply with their request. You may not return to this region unless the applicant owner or the owner who has asked you to leave permits you to do so, by any means, including setting homes in the region (please see Section 8 Clause 4.)

Clause 4 - Common Sense and Bending the Rules

• While this is a gaming environment, EcoCityCraft is also a very large community. As such, we expect that all players use their common sense. Be a good sport and a friendly community member.
• Common sense extends to not bending the rules. Bending the rules constitutes as very severe trolling, and is not tolerated in any form.
• Encouraging others to break the rules is not using your common sense.
• Finding ways around the rules is punishable at administration’s discretion, from warnings all the way up to bans. Please see EcoCityCraft's General Disclaimer for more information.
• If you feel like a rule has a loophole or a way that it could be used to be trolly, we encourage use of our suggestions forum or contacting the administration directly in order to take a look at the rules that may need to be changed.

Section 3 - Economy and Transactions
Clause 1 - Safety and Responsibility

• When it comes to trades, whether it be an item for item trade, an item for money trade, a money for server features trade, or any sort of trade, there is a responsibility all parties take in participating in these trades to collect appropriate evidence in case something goes awry.
• The main types of evidence needed to prove that a trade has gone wrong are: Proof of agreement (where the trade is stated and agreed upon by both parties) and the payment (where the payment is sent or received by one party.)
• Contracts can act as proof of agreement, but in all cases, proof of payment is also required.
• There is a forum thread, and a wiki tutorial on what proof is needed for screenshot evidence.
  • Under no circumstances is evidence from Skype or any other type of communication outside of the main server or forums admissible.
• All parties involved in the trade understand that it is not the staff’s responsibility to return their money should they be scammed, and that in most situations, any money scammed will be lost. Users participate in trading at their own risk.
• Always proceed with caution. If you do not think a user is trustworthy, or believe he has reason not to be, check the ban appeals and complaints section by searching their name.

Clause 2 - Scamming

• A general definition of a scam in the context of EcoCityCraft is a transaction in which a user pays for goods or services from another user, and does not receive those goods/services in the agreed upon timeframe.
• Failing to uphold your end of the deal is scamming, and is punishable by a ban. Your continuance on the server may rely on you following through with your end of the deal, or refunding what you scammed, solely at the staff’s discretion.

Clause 2.1 - Renaming items

• Users cannot rename items for the purpose of making them misleading (for example, taking a cookie and renaming it “Diamond Sword”, and then attempting to auction or trade it without specifying that the item is a cookie is against the rules)
• If you are auctioning or trading an item that has been renamed, you MUST specify what the item was before it was renamed.
• All renamed items must follow the language and content rules for chat on the server. If it would not be appropriate in global, it is not an appropriate item name.
  • Making or distributing items that are inappropriately named are both punishable to the same extent. If you find or receive an item that has been inappropriately named, please inform a staff member immediately, so that they may investigate and act appropriately.

Clause 2.2 - Attempted Scamming

• Users cannot attempt to scam other users. If enough evidence is provided and the staff believe a scam was intended, this will result in a temporary ban against the offending user.
  • Attempted scamming includes misleading sales or auctions. For example an auction for 'a melon,sword'.

Clause 2.3 - Player Run Lotteries

• Any player run lottery is disallowed and will be treated as attempted scams or actual scamming depending on the situation.
  • This includes any type of raffle or lottery that requires a buy in.

Clause 3 - Contracts

• All contracts signed and approved in the contracts forum serve as proof of agreement, and must be followed through by all parties involved.
• For a full and current list of contract forum rules and regulations, please see our contracts forum sticky post about getting started on contracts.

Clause 4 - User to User EcoDollar-to-Real Life Currency Transfers

• Real life money/items being given for in-game items, EcoDollars, or anything else within EcoCityCraft is not allowed. If an investigation ensues and concludes such a transaction took place, or may take place, all users involved will be severely punished.
• EcoDollars also may not be used for real-life transactions, including real life tangible items and minecraft-related items away from the server. All EcoDollar transactions must be EcoCityCraft related.
• Trading EcoDollars for EcoCityCraft Server Features (ie. people purchasing features from the server on your behalf) is allowed because all parts of the transaction have to do directly with EcoCityCraft. However, these transactions are not encouraged due to the high risk of getting scammed and things going wrong. Please see our supporting the Server wiki article for more information on the risks of these types of transactions before participating in one.

Section 4 - Chat, Channels and Discussions
Clause 1 - General Chat Rules
All chat is to go into the appropriate channel at all times. Any user who is consistently not using the correct channel, especially in a way that may disturb those attempting to use certain channels, may be removed from the channel and/or punished. For information about channels and chat commands, please visit our Server Commands page.

Clause 1.1 - CAPS and Spam

• Bypassing our CAPS filter and/or typing in all caps is not allowed.
• Spam is not allowed. Repetitive words, letters, symbols that aren’t used in their correct context, or many messages sent quickly are considered spam.

Clause 1.2 - Advertising

• Advertising is strictly prohibited in our chat system for any kind of external product, Minecraft server, or anything else non-EcoCityCraft related.
  • External products may be mentioned, so long as they are not being advertised. Other Minecraft servers may not be mentioned under any circumstance.
• Any advertisement that is allowed on the server in any form (including, but not limited to, in-game related items/trades, store advertisements, or personal livestreams that are completely and only EcoCityCraft related) must go into our Trade Channel, and must always abide by our trade channel rules for length and repetition.

Clause 1.3 - Shouts and Lottery
For Shouts:

• No advertisement, touchy subject/discussions, special characters, languages other than English.
• Only numbers, letters, basic symbols found on a standard keyboard may be used.
• Shouts with the intent of causing other users to spam or spam another user in any way, such as requesting others to private message them, are not allowed.
• Shouts disguised to look like server messages, private messages, balance payments, etc. are not allowed.
• All types of chat formatting are available for shouts. CAPS, in-game advertisements, colors, and font styles (Italics, bold, underline, strikes) are completely allowed.

For both Shouts and Lottery:

• Spamming either shouts or lottery is allowed to an extent. Excessive use of either command which results in chat being hard to read may result in a warning or a kick from the Staff.

Clause 2 - Vulgarity

• Inappropriate and vulgar language is not allowed. This includes anything put on signs, said in chat, written in books, renamed to on items (see Section 3 Clause 2.1), spelt out in blocks, or any other way of communicating.
  • Occasional mild to moderate vulgarities that are not directed at anyone (such as "slip-ups" or saying them in the incorrect chat by accident), self-censorship of a swear word or abbreviations that may imply a swear word (ie. WTF?) are allowed unless it is directed at another user.
• Repeated or excessive swearing, and especially vulgar language directed at anyone, is not tolerated under any circumstance.
• Racist language or prejudicial language of any sort falls under the vulgarity rule, and is considered a very serious offence, punishment of which may not warrant a warning before being given.

Clause 3 - Inappropriate/Touchy Subjects and Discussions

• EcoCityCraft is a server community consisting of many age groups, religious groups, and political backgrounds. As such, there are many touchy subjects that we do not allow in our public channels in order to keep the peace and prevent arguments and flame wars from occurring.
• All chat must be kept appropriate and clean at all times. There is to be no discussion of anything deemed inappropriate for a workplace, including, but not limited to, sexuality, excessive violence, alcohol/drugs and inappropriate or dark humor.
• This rule extends into subjects about illegal substances or actions, including drugs.
• Politics, religion and suicide are common “touchy subjects”, however they are not the only ones. Should a staff member ask you to change a subject they feel is touchy and/or is causing the direction of chat to deviate towards an argument or flame war, you must drop the subject immediately.
• Discussing a banned user's ban reason and why they were banned is not allowed, however simply mentioning a banned player's username is allowed.

Clause 4 - Trade Channel

• All permitted in-game advertising must be in this channel.
• Messages in this channel must:
  • Be no longer than 2 unique messages at a time.
  • Must be no more often than once per 3 minutes.
    • During off-peak and other periods where normal chat may be slow, it is solely at the online staff’s discretion how often your messages can be repeated.
• All spam rules and general chat rules are in effect for this channel.
• You may not hold auctions in this channel. Please use the auction channel and follow its applicable rules for holding auctions.
  • You are able to announce an auction in this channel, and afterwards take it to the auction channel to proceed with your auction.
• All items sold in trade must be EcoCityCraft related.

Clause 5 - Auction Channel

• Only auctions and questions pertaining directly to an auction are permitted in this channel.
• By starting an auction, you are committed to sell that item.
  • You may not cancel an auction after you have heard the first bid.
  • Make sure that you start the auction at a reasonable price, as even if you are unhappy with the final bid, you must sell the item.
• You are allowed to ignore bids from certain players at your discretion, however, you must do so inclusively. Once you have heard a bid from a player, you may not ignore that player’s bids for any reason for the duration of that auction.
• False bidding is not allowed. If you are caught bidding something that you cannot pay, you will face punishment.
  • Please make sure you have the money in your balance and/or items in your inventory at the time of bidding.
• Auctions must use the same currency for all bids.
  • You are allowed to use netherstars or any other form of currency you choose, so long as it is EcoCityCraft related, as long as the auction remains in that currency for the duration of it.
  • If not specified, it is to be assumed that all auctions are to be bid on with EcoDollars.
• Bids can only be accepted in the auction channel, and auctioneers may not accept bids from other channels or via Private Message.
• Do not extend your auction because you are not happy with the results. Long auctions should be taken to the forums.
• There is to be no “mystery auctions” - all items in auction must be specified exactly as they are, and must follow the rules for renamed items and any other trading rule regarding how to be specific about what your item is.
  • On the same token, it is the responsibility of all bidders to be 100% sure of what they are bidding on before they bid on it. If you are not sure, ask the auctioneer to specify what exactly is being auctioned, or any other questions you may have pertaining to what is up for bid.

Clause 6 - Private Chat and Town Chat Channels

• There is to be no abuse of other users via Private Messages or Town Chat Channels. All chat must be kept appropriate within the General Chat Rules.
• A Town Chat Channel without a password is considered to be a global channel, and all global rules apply.
• If you have a Town Chat Channel with a password, it is solely your discretion as to who may enter your channel. However, be wary who you give the password to, as an unfavorable person may give it away to other users.
  • Passworded chat channels may allow vulgar language within reason and with the exception of racism or prejudicial language. Regardless, if a complaint is filed, it may be handled as any other complaint with vulgar language so please keep this in mind when speaking in a private channel.
• With the permission of the channel owner, you may speak other languages in a Town Chat Channel, provided it remains appropriate.

Clause 7 - Languages

• EcoCityCraft is an English speaking server.
• You are required to speak English in all global chat channels, and whilst in the vicinity of spawn.
  • This includes areas that are anywhere within 400 blocks of spawn, as that is the range of local chat.
• If you wish to play with a friend and speak other languages, that is fine in private chat channels, or in local chat that is not spawn. However, it must stay out of global chats.

Clause 8 - "Mini-Modding"

• ECC is a community where users should be helpful to one another.
• Informing others of the rules is allowed and encouraged.
• Telling or threatening others with the consequences of breaking the rules is considered mini-modding.
• Please be wary about how you inform others of breaking the rules. Being demeaning, condescending or rude could come off as mild mini-modding as opposed to being helpful.
• If the consequences need to be spelled out, please leave that to the staff online. As we deal with things on a case-by-case basis, it's impossible to know exactly what a staff member would actually do to a member breaking the rules, even if you can give a good guess.

Clause 9 - Getting Help
If you need ANY sort of help, not pertaining to minecraft, quit the game and contact:

• 911 (or your local equivalent)
• http://www.kidshelpphone.ca
• http://www.crimestoppersusa.com/
• http://www.crimestoppers.ca/

Your issues will not be dealt with on this server.

Section 5 - Towns, Nations and Property
Clause 1 - Town Ownership and Town Residency

• Town owners have the right to form any laws, living or building rules within in 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 may remove anyone from their towns for any reason, as outlined in Clause 3 - Seizure of Property.

Clause 2 - Claiming and Zoning Laws

• There is no unofficial land claiming. The only way to claim land is to apply for a protected town/nation by applying for a town with a Mayor, President or Additional Town application, dependent on your rank.
• When placing a town, you must be at least 15 blocks away from any other town on all sides of your town
  • The exception to this is if you receive a neighbouring town owner’s permission by means of them posting in your application thread, in which case you may place your towns within 15 blocks of their town. You must receive permission from every town owner that you are within 15 blocks of.
  • The town owner giving permission must be the applicant owner of the town.
• Failure to abide by the zoning laws will result in your application being denied, as well as the possibility of you being fined.

Clause 3 - Seizure of Property & 3 Day Eviction Notices

• By owning the town, a town Mayor has the right to remove you from the town at any time, for any reason, so long as the Mayor gives the user a 3 day eviction notice.
  • An eviction notice may be given by in-game (either by PM or /mail) or by tagging evicted users in a thread in the Town Evicitions sub-forum within the Towns Discussion forum. It is not required to post a thread for any eviction, although it may be easier if you are evicting multiple users.
  • The eviction notice must contain the name of the town. Be sure to collect evidence of this for LWC Removal Requests and/or proof should it be required at a later date. It is crucial that the screenshot has a timestamp (double tap f2).
  • If the user being evicted has LWCs in the town and the Mayor intends to file an LWC Request to have them removed, the eviction notice must include a specific request that the user removes their locks within the 3 days.
  • The evicted user must have had the opportunity to view the eviction notice. If the user has not been online, in-game or on the forums depending on how the eviction notice was issued, during the 3 day period then the eviction is not valid. The mayor or co-mayor must wait until the user is inactive (at least 7 days offline) or has been online to view to the notice before removing the user from the town or filing an LWC Removal Request.
• However, under the following circumstances, the 3 day eviction criteria need not be met and the user may be removed from the town:
  • A user is inactive (by staff standards, this means at least 7 days offline.)
  • A user who has been banned for griefing in the town.

Clause 4 - LWC Removal Requests

• LWCs in towns may only be removed with a request in the Staff Requests forum by the mayor or co-mayor of the town under the following circumstances:
  • A user is inactive (by staff standards, this means at least 7 days offline.)
  • A user has been issued a 3 day eviction notice that complies with the requirements above in Clause 3. Proof of the eviction notice must be provided.
  • A user has been banned for Moderate+ grief in the town.
  • A user has been requested to remove their locks via an eviction notice and has outrightly declined to do so (timestamped proof of declination to remove locks must be provided with the request.)
• Any other request that does not follow these guidelines is considered attempted theft, and in serious cases, you may be punished for attempting to illegally remove locks. Locks in the wild and locks belonging to the applicant owner of the town may not be removed.
• Locks in the wild and locks belonging to the applicant owner of the town may not be removed.
• You may not block access to any locked belongings of the evicted user at any time. Staff will deny all requests in which the LWCs have been blocked in an attempt to protect items.
  • If your request has been locked for this reason, you must re-issue the 3 day eviction notice and may only file a new LWC removal request once the 3 day eviction period has expired.
  • If the player was not issued an eviction notice as they had been offline for 7+ days, then you must still wait 3 days before re-filing the request.

Clause 5 - Town Claims

• With the addition of the Town Claiming feature for Tycoons+, town transfers are possible by means of attaining a rank and claiming it under any of the following criteria:
  • 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.
  • The owners of the town have signed and consented to the sale/transfer of a town officially, to be completed in full via the Town Claim application.
• When a user claims a town, the former applicant owner loses all rights to the town and its ownership. The user who has claimed the town becomes the official applicant owner, and may apply for town features and have all the other benefits of having a town in which they are the applicant owner. There is nothing that can be done about this and will not be reversed under any circumstance.
• If you purchase another user’s town not via a Town Claim, be wary that the applicant owner may contact a GameAdmin+ at any time to request the town be returned to them, the request of which will be filled at the administration’s discretion.

Clause 6 - Town Transfers

• Town transfer applications allow you to transfer a town via contract for $250,000. When doing this make sure the contract specifies you are now the legal owner of the town.
• Please note that until a town transfer or town claim application has been filed the town may be reclaimed at any point by the original owner at the discretion of the administration.
• When a user transfers a town, the former applicant owner loses all rights to the town and ownership. The user who has claimed the town becomes the official applicant owner, and may apply for town features and have all the other benefits of having a town in which they are the applicant owner.

Section 6 - Hacking, Exploits and Unfair Play
Clause 1 - Hacking and Hacked Clients

• Fly, speed, air build, teleport hacking, or any other types of hacks, are not tolerated. This includes x-ray hacking and x-ray texture packs. Using any unfair means (including glitches, bugs, and exploits) to get into server buildings is also not allowed and is unfair to other users.
• Using any clients, specifically hacked clients, which may allow you to gain unfair advantages as deemed by ECC staff is strictly prohibited.
• Users caught using any client deemed to be a "hacked client", as defined by and at the discretion of the staff, will be banned. There is no excuse for using a hacked client on EcoCityCraft whatsoever.
• Discussion of hacked clients is not allowed - we do not allow them, and therefore we do not discuss them.

Clause 2 - Multiple Accounts

• Multiple accounts used by different people on the same internet connection/IP are allowed.
• An individual person playing on multiple accounts is allowed so long as no financial benefits arise from doing so. There must be absolutely no financial interaction between multiple accounts that you own.
• If there are multiple accounts on the same internet connection/IP, either used by you or others, you must contact a member of staff immediately to inform them.
• Users may be questioned for being on the same internet connection, or, in cases of suspicious activity and bans, immediately banned regardless of the reason for the same connection, to be appealed with an explanation.

Clause 3 - Exploits

• Abuse of any exploits, bugs, or glitches can result in a punishment based on the severity of abuse. Those are unfair "advantages" that can cause major issues for everyone on the server.
• When exploits are found, they need reported to the server owner immediately.
• Being a good sport and reporting issues (mainly severe exploits) could benefit you more than abusing them would. Game play is to be kept fair for everyone.

Clause 3.1 - Server Exploits

• Any user caught exploiting any feature or a part of the server without reporting it will be severely punished.
• As well, hacking into the server through any sort of illegal method will have your information forwarded to your local Police Department after your ISP (Internet Service Provider) is contacted.

Clause 3.2 - Economy Exploits

• Any user caught severely exploiting the economy in any way without reporting the glitch or bug will be severely punished.
• Exploiting the economy is any action that results in an unfair economical advantage to a single user or group of users, by means of a glitch, exploit or bug.
  • This also means that exploiting exploits that are known is against the rules. If you believe a bug, glitch or exploit has been reported and has not been fully fixed, please report this to the administrator.
• There will be absolutely no chance of appeal for this sort of action.

Clause 4 - Third Party Programs, Auto-Clicking, Auto-Farming, etc.

• The use of third party programs that create any form of advantage that does not require you to do work while playing Minecraft is strictly prohibited, and can result in a ban.
• EcoCityCraft staff have measures in place to test for users auto-clicking and using third party programs. Users caught auto-clicking, auto-fishing, using an aimbot, or any other distinct advantage to exploit game play will be punished appropriately.
• Any form of auto money generation, including, but not limited to, auto-farming and auto-fishing, is completely prohibited by any means.
• If you are caught using macros or clients to generate money without having to do any work, you will be punished, up to and including the extent of being permanently banned and having everything you own wiped off the server.
• Be warned that we take this very seriously, and processes that result in auto money generation are a serious risk to our economy's stability.

Clause 5 - Minimaps

• The only minimap which is allowed to be used is the Official ECC Minimap. Instructions for downloading and installing the minimap can be found here.

Section 7 - World-Specific Rules
Clause 1 - Aether

• The Aether is a world where people are supposed to work together to build in a grief free environment.
• There is to be absolutely no grief whatsoever in the Aether. Any users who grief the Aether will be immediately banned, rolled back and can lose their Aether access.
• To build in the Aether, you must use your common sense.
• There is no land claiming or framing of land - if you wish to build something, build it, and if you see something that is not yours, do not touch it. Framing includes walls that serve to block things off.
• Building anything pointless may result in everything you've built in the Aether being rolled back.
• Additionally, landscape grief and mining the Aether will also result in a rollback.
• Though the Aether is free-build and a place for you to show off your amazing creations, farms are disallowed in the Aether.
  • Any farms found in the Aether will be world-edited out by EcoCityCraft staff. No notice will be given and in addition a possible fine may be placed on the user
  • Regular crops for decoration are still allowed; however, the size limit is 15x15x1.

Clause 2 - Mining World

• Using any means (including water and fire/lava) to grief any protected area in the mining world (which can include protected warps and the main Mining World spawn) is not allowed.
• Legacy/Rising rules apply to all areas of the mining world, including trolling rules.
  • As the mining world is not PvP enabled, this 100% includes rules about attempts to kill players in this world, no matter what the reason.
• Please keep in mind that the mining world does not allow LWC locks, and therefore anything you leave in chests in that world is free for all.

Clause 3 - Nether

• The only rule regarding grief in the nether is to leave spawn intact.
• Although all users can use TNT in the Nether, doing so in a location which will affect spawn can and will result in the loss of Nether access.

Clause 4 - Survival Games

• All normal server rules that can apply to Survival Games carry over into this world. The most important of these are the Universal Chat Rules, which carry over into all SG chat channels including the local chat of Survival Games.
• Users caught abusing exploits will be punished appropriately, most often with a fairly severe ban.
• We ask that you properly report any and all exploits either in the Bug Report forum, or report major bugs directly to an administrator. We thank you in advance for doing so.
• There may be times when you get stuck, or glitched out of the world. If you become stuck to the point where you are no longer in the game, you must get yourself out of the game using one of the following methods:
  • /sg leave and /sg join (depending on the type of glitch that got you stuck) will always take you back to the Survival Games boards in spawn.
  • If those fail, log out and then back into the server, and it will remove you from the Survival Games world.
• Any action that disrupts the flow of SG matches will result in a kick from the game. This includes, but is not limited to:
  • Being afk in such a way that the game cannot end
  • Exploiting glitches in such a manner that it ruins the game for other players.
• Getting kicked from the game will kick you from your SG game, and, multiple offences of needing to be kicked for these reasons may result in a ban.

Section 8 - Supporter Rules
Clause 1: Teleport and Teleport Plus

• There is to be no abuse of our teleport feature.
• If someone denied your request, do not spam them with further requests.
• Do not teleport someone into a PvP area without previously informing them that the area is enabled as such.
• There is to be no abuse of our teleport compass feature. If someone asks you to stay out of a specific area, such as their town, you are to obey their request.

Clause 2: Water and Pyro

• Supporters who have the water and pyro features are not allowed to grief with those items in protected zones, including any and all spawn areas.
• This includes attempts to kill people with these perks in non-PvP areas.
• If caught you will immediately have those features removed from you and will face punishment on our server. This can include a rollback of your actions and a possible ban.

Clause 3: Stealth

• If you are asked by a staff member to undisguise momentarily you must obey the order. They will only ask you if deemed necessary.
• Griefing while mob disguised will earn you a ban. Our anti-grief tools will still detect this and you will still be logged.
• Engaging in harassment or excessive stalking while mob disguised is against our rules. We have commands in place to detect this. If you are caught doing so you will be warned and punished as necessary.
• You may not use mob disguise in order to PvP unless previously agreed upon by both parties.
  • Bypassing our rules against PvP in disguise by using potions is not allowed.

Clause 4: Multihomes and /back

• Do not abuse your ability to set your homes or back command in order to enter an area that you are not welcomed in to.
• This includes, but is not limited to, protected towns, harassing other users, etc.
• Any user caught abusing said commands to harass/stalk or cause any sort of grief for another player may face severe consequences.

Clause 5: Extended Creations

• Any user caught abusing bridges/doors/gates in anyway, such as killing unaware users in peaceful areas to steal items/harass players, will face punishment and have the feature immediately removed with no refund.
• In addition anyone attempting to lag the server by constantly toggling bridges/doors/gates will face the same consequences with a most certain immediate ban.

Clause 6: Extended Commands

• Any user caught abusing the powertool feature that is a part of this feature in any way, such as spamming "/powertool pay bob 1" constantly, will face punishment and have the feature immediately removed with no refund.
• As well there is to be no command spamming, such as binding the repair hand command to a shovel and using it. You are constantly executing the command by doing this thus spamming the console/log files. Bind your command, use it when needed, and clear it or use a different tool.

Clause 7: Investigator

• The staff/admins will never act upon any user's investigation. This is for your own personal needs as town owners; etc.
• Submitting any of your own investigative information into any complaint/grief report will cause it to immediately be locked/ignored.
• Any user caught trolling in any way using the investigator feature will have it removed from them immediately and may face a serious ban from the server. Staff can see vanished users and will act upon any trolling.

Clause 8: Unlimited LWCs

• This feature is for players who have more locks/items than their rank allows. Using your LWC locks on items that are not yours for the intent of trolling is against the rules, and doing so excessively will earn you a ban.

Clause 9: Fly+

• Using Fly+ to PvP or to interrupt an ongoing PvP fight in the nether is against the rules and is an abuse of your feature; you may use it to flee from PvP. The purpose of this feature is to allow you to fly over the lava, get to high places and get places faster in the nether. Using it to harass other players isn't allowed and is not the intent of this feature.

Section 9 - Ban Information and Policies
Clause 1 - Punishments and Tempbans

• All tempbans, regardless of length, may not be appealed. They will be automatically lifted when time has expired.

Clause 2 - Ban Requests

• If there is an absolute need for your account to not have access to the EcoCityCraft server, you may request a ban in the Ban Appeals/Complaints forum.
• This ban is automatically a 3 day tempban, not to be appealed sooner, and will not be extended for any length longer.
• Ban requests are only to be used in times of absolute necessity. ECC staff do not issue permanent bans on request, only 3 day temporary bans.
• EcoCityCraft staff are not responsible for things happening outside the server, and cannot be expected to moderate your life. If you need help outside the game, please visit the Getting Help section.
• Staff will not deny a Ban Request, however, using Ban Requests often for trivial reasons may result in you being unable to request bans for a period of time.

Section 10 - General Forum Rules
Usage of the EcoCityCraft forums at ecocitycraft.com constitutes an agreement to these rules.

• There is to be no flaming, raging, insulting, or disrespecting of other members. This includes attempting to prod a user into starting an argument with you or others, as well as just plainly attacking them.
  • Threads made for the sole purpose of raging/flaming another user or at the server in general are against the rules. The punishment for this is the thread immediately being deleted and a forum warning applied to your forum account.
  • Posts made for the sole purpose of raging/flaming another user or at the server in general are against the rules. The punishment for making a flame/rage post is for the post to be deleted and a forum warning applied. Multiple flame posts in a single thread will result in a thread ban of at least 3 days and up to a permanent thread ban.
• There is to be no trolling, harassing, or attempts at annoying / prodding another user into breaking the rules or to a point where they feel uncomfortable/necessary to get staff involved. Should staff deem your post trolling or harassment, you will immediately receive a forum warning and possibly a forum tempban.
• There is to be no abusing of any forum features
• There is to be no threads created solely to ask for ratings. ('Give me ratings for x' or 'Rate me to enter this contest') Any threads created for that purpose will be deleted.
• There is to be absolutely no posting of personally identifiable information (Name, Address, Email, Phone Number, etc.)
• There is to be no re-creation of locked threads.
• There is to be no posting of any sort of phishing, inappropriate websites.
• There is to be no spam. This includes posting threads in all CAPS.
• There is to be no account sharing. Multiple accounts are not allowed. If you would like to change your username to match your minecraft username, contact a gameadmin+.
• There is to be no sharing of private messages without the expressed permissions of the sender. (Unless it is exposed to staff due to an inappropriate private message.)
• There is to be no posting of pornography, gross stuff, or anything else which is not safe for work.
• There is to be no discussion of Piracy, Warez, Leaked content, Cracked minecraft accounts, etc. Keep it legal.
• There is to be no discussion of hacked clients, hacks, or other programs that are illegal in game (Nodus, autofarming, etc.).
• There is to be no soliciting, auctioning, selling, advertising, referrals. (Unless related to EcoCityCraft in our advertising section).
• There is to be no racism, discrimination, drugs, alcohol, religious, political and other topics which are highly prone to flaming/debatable and most of all highly arguable discussions.
• There is to be no threads/posts made which focus purely on "raging".
• There is to be no back-seat moderating, or “minimodding". Let moderators do their jobs.
• We do not deal with goodbye threads. If you are going to leave please don't tell the world in public, and if you do, don't expect the conversation to be dragged on. We hope to see you soon and we enjoyed playing with you! =)
• We do not deal with "Why did <username> receive <punishment>. Use the search function. If you can’t find why a user was tempbanned/banned for example, then that’s that. Do not make threads about it. It causes unnecessary arguments.
• There is to be no [youtube] BBCode within signatures. Doing so will earn you a temp forum ban.
• There is to be no spamming with @ tags in posts. Only tag/mention someone using the @ tag if they are seriously needed in the thread.
• There is to be no "necroing" of threads, which includes the following criteria:
  • Bumping a thread that has not been posted on in over 2 weeks, unless the content of the thread has become relevant to be opened for discussion again.
  • Bumping a thread that has not been posted on in over a week in order to flame, troll, or cause a problem.

Section 11 - General Teamspeak Rules
Usage of the EcoCityCraft Teamspeak server at ts.ecocitycraft.com:9675 constitutes an agreement to these rules.

• Remember that teamspeak and minecraft are composed of many different age groups. Talking about inappropriate subjects in any way around minors is prohibited. Use your common sense. If you see that there are children in the global channels and your topic is inappropriate, stop. In addition, ask those who may be engaging in these discussions to stop as well. It is your responsibility as a community member to step up.
• Avoid constantly cursing for no reason in our non-password channels (As well as all channels if the age group is young). Yes, this is a voice server and rules are hard to enforce, but think about others and the way they may feel about it before you belt out a string of foul language into your microphone. This will be taken as spam and you will be acted upon.
• Explicit topics related to anything abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, sexually-orientated, drug related, religious, political material including any other material that may violate any laws be they of your country, the country where the EcoCityCraft Server is hosted or any International Laws are prohibited.
• There is to be no discussion of Piracy, Warez, Leaked content, Cracked Minecraft accounts, etc. Keep it legal.
• There is to be no abuse of any Teamspeak members in any way including harassing/provoking others.
• Do not log in and out of Teamspeak rapidly. This is spam.
• All users must use their full in game minecraft username at all times.
• No user may use a voice changer on TeamSpeak for any reason.
• If you plan on changing channels a lot, for some strange reason, tell a Moderator. Otherwise, it’s viewed maliciously.
• Do not post comment links that are inappropriate. You should have a fair idea of what is allowed and what isn’t. If it is offensive in any way, avoid placing the link in your comment.
• The ECC Teamspeak is for playing the ECC server only. Other Games channels are to be used exclusively for other games. Playing other minecraft servers (including other games like Tekkit that are based on minecraft) using our Teamspeak is against the rules, except in cases of major ECC server downtime (6+ hours.)
• It is strongly recommended that members avoid posting personal pictures or links to personal profiles on Teamspeak. If you do, be aware of the consequences.
• Do not, under any circumstances give out personal information. This includes, but is not limited to, addresses, phone numbers, or anything that could be used to inflict harm outside of the Teamspeak server. If you do this, you are doing so at your own risk.
• Never give away any passwords, credit card numbers, etc on Teamspeak. EcoCityCraft administration will never ask you for this information.
• All comments and public text chat are to follow all the chat and Teamspeak rules. This includes staff impersonation; you cannot set your comment to (mod) or other staff tags to pretend you are a staff member on Teamspeak.
• Moderators reserve the rights to insta-ban people if they see suitable, not all offenses deserve a warning. If you have been banned you must appeal in our appeal section on www.ecocitycraft.com.
• Staff members will act immediately upon breaking any of these rules. Our Teamspeak is a very strict user friendly area to communicate and hang out. Be sure to do so in a welcoming, rule-abiding manner.