Talk:Server rules

English

To play this server everyone must be able to understand and write comprehensible English. If a GM addresses you, you must be able to understand them, answer appropriately and comply to their requests. Those whose have problems using English should make their best attempts; we're obviously not asking for absolute fluency, but instead enough to allow basic communication.

Be respectful to everyone

Insulting other players or staff via swearing, general discrimination, racism, sexism or other offending ways may result in punishment. This applies to absolutely everyone, including those using the Main chat channel in-game. Do not deliberately interfere with other players' gameplay outside of PvP/GvG maps in a negative manner, such as healing/buffing/protecting monsters, killstealing, etc, unless explicitly requested to by the player in question. Adhere to the MVP Domination rules when dealing with MVPs.

Use English on Main

You must use English on the Main chat channel. Outside of main, you may use any languages, such as through party or guild chat.

Do Not Spoil Custom Quests in Public

Details/Locations on any heRO custom additions or quests are not to be mentioned using @main or public forums. However, players are allowed to ask questions regarding these heRO custom quests in public, but answers must be given through other communication mediums, such as Pms or in private guild forums.

Restriction in Naming Conventions

Below is the list of letters/numbers/symbols allowed in creation of a character's name. Make sure to also choose a name that is appropriate (aka no slander, profanity, insult, etc!). Player names who do not respect this rule will be sent to jail until a new name is chosen, the character can also be deleted if the name is too offensive. Using similar name as an existing player to carry out malicious act or to purposely ruin the player's reputation is also a punished offense.

Allowed characters:
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890_-~^().:!?@$%&+='

You cannot make character whose name starts with "GM-", "GM", "Event-" or "Event" (or similar variations, such as capitalization). These are reserved for GM use.

The "appropriate" rule also goes for anything else a player has to choose a name for, such as party name, guild name, guild title, pet/homunculus name, shop name, chat room name, etc.

Kill Steal (KS) for Non-MvP Monsters

Do not hit a monsters that "belongs" to another players. Any monster that is attacking/chasing the player, or if the player is also attacking the target in question, counts as "belonging" to that player. KS rules do not apply in any public DB room or any GM hosted events unless stated otherwise by the GMs.

MvP Domination Rule

All of the MVPs are free to be attacked by any player, included MVPs summoned by Quest. However, the first one/first party present at a MvP will be considered the "dominating party." To elaborate, this means engaging the MvP so that either the player/party are attacking the MvP, or the MvP is attacking (or clearly chasing) that player/party.

Participation in MVP battles must not interfere in the strategy that the dominating player/party is using and must try to adhere to it.

Based on the above, the following are disallowed:

• Your presence in killing the MVP interferes with the strategy of the dominating player/party
• Your attacks on the MVP repeatedly cause the use of "Teleport" beyond the frequency of accidental human error.
• Your interference causes the death of the others competing for the MVP if you bring alien mobs to the MVP or don’t know how to control the slaves of the MVP.
• Your attack causes no effect or real damage to the MVP aside from causing it to change target.
• You pretend ignorance regarding a strategy, MVP's slave control or other MVP related knowledge. You are held responsible in that if you decide to MVP, you understand all aspects of the MVP's behavior. Ignorance will not be accepted as a reason to violate MVP Domination rule *EXCEPT* for newly released MVPs, where there will be a 2 week grace period starting from time of release for all players to learn and figure out aspects of new MVPs.

“Strategic MVP Support” may be use to eliminate the MVP, as long as the strategy is justified and does not solely intended to prevent others to come and kill it. This includes using Safety Wall to prevent the MvP's Pneuma (and vice versa), or land protector, but is not limited to only these spells.

Any spells that can boost a MVP's offensive power or restore their Hit Points cannot be used on the MVP by anyone except members of the dominating party.

A dominating party loses its status when the party dies or no longer engages the MVP (that is, no longer attacking the MVP and/or no longer being attacked by the MVP.) Even if the previous party returns, they do not regain their dominating status. Should the MVP be the one who teleports away, then domination status is reset, and whoever engages the MVP first becomes the new dominating party.

These rules do not apply to a MVP's slaves, any MVP in GM events or MVPs public DB room unless stated otherwise by a GM.

Does anyone even bother with changing official pages anymore? Iirc this was changed ages ago.

Do Not Beg

Players on the server earned their items and zenny via practical work and intelligence. Follow suit, and don't go around begging people for items or money.

Do Not Bot/Macro

Botting will result in a permanent ban of all accounts and any type of macro will result in a permanent account ban, no exceptions. Failure to pass the botting/macro test from GMs, regardless of "actual reasons," will be treated as using bots or macro programs.

No AFK Leveling/Hunting

No one is allowed in anyway or form to level/hunt AFK with the means of any pet, homunculus, @autotrade, item, skill or card.

Do Not Loot Steal

Do not steal the loots of other people, be it from monsters or when a player is unloading pets. Items on the ground, especially if unloaded from the pet, still count as the player's property.

Vending Shops and Chatrooms

Do no set vending shops or chat within a 7x7 area (3 cell radius) of any NPC, including warps. Only one vender can occupy one cell. In Prontera, shops and chat boxes can only be set up on the side walks. Vending Shops can only be put up in a town (except for Niflheim) or maps without *any* monsters.

Do Not Cheat

If you find a bug or exploit, report it immediately to the GM Team via PM on the forum or ticket support system. Failure to report a bug or abuse is considered a violation of this rule and the offenders will be seriously punished.

Do Not Advertise Any Other Server/Website/Game

Do not advertise any other server/website/game. Mentioning another server by name can be considered advertising. Mentioning official server names are allowed.

Do Not Break DB/BB Randomly Anywhere/Everywhere

Do not break DB/BB outside of DB Rooms. Take care of your accidental DB/BB, or transformed monsters due to equipment effects. Ask for help immediately on @main if the monster(s)in question are too strong for you to handle alone (including if it is in a town or no-exp loss map).

Do Not Block Castles' Entrances

During WoE it is forbidden to cast Ice Wall, or any other skill or item that would prevent players from entering a castle. /notrade is available to all players.

Double-clienting is Forbidden

That is: you're only allowed to ever have 1 RO client open per real, physical, actual person. You are not allowed to log more than 1 RO client be it on the same computer or on two separate computers. (2 separate real people playing in the same house is fine however.)

Mushroom/Plant Limit

When using the creator skill to create mushrooms or plants you must not go over 200 total at the same time. 200 mushrooms=ok, 201 mushrooms= not ok, 100 mushrooms+100 plants=ok 101 mushrooms+100 plants= not ok because it makes a total of 201.

No Trans/Extended Classes in Aldebaran Castle

No Trans (Reborn) or Extended classes (Ninja, Gunslinger, Taekwon treee) are allowed in Aldebaran Castle. If a such a class ends up in it due to the Guild Recall skill, then they must leave immediately, by using a butterfly wing or logging out. Merely walking out is not an option to leave the castle, and attacking players is cpnsidered a punishable offense.

Regarding Alchemist/Creator's Homunculus

The heRO AI is designed to comply with our specific rules regarding homunculus, and it is recommended to use it.
http://www.pandoraonline.net/AI.zip
Players are also free to use their own written AI, as long as they follow the server rules

- No Killstealing!
The homunculus is bound by the same rules as its owner, and must not attack a monster that belongs to another player.
- No auto-Alchemist skills.
The AI is meant to control the homunculus only, you are not allowed to use it to control your alchemist/creator character.
- No AFK leveling.
AFK leveling will be treat the same as botting, if you must go away from your computer, do so in a monsterless map or send your homunculus to sleep.

Regarding Shared Accounts

Account sharing is not our responsibility and is not encouraged by the GM team. The GM team will not consider movement of items due to account sharing as an act of stealing. The selling/trading of an entire account counts as a form of account sharing.

Regarding Stolen Items Outside of Shared Accounts

If you have an unmodified screenshot of an item(s) being lended and yet failed to get the item back, this is considered stealing and the items will be returned back to the owner. The report needs to be as clear as possible with a precice time frame. Item retrieval does NOT apply if the other person is banned - any items regardless of origin are always permanently locked with the banned account (unless the account is banned precisely due to stealing in the first place.)

Do Not Tolerate/Assist in Rule-breaking Activities

Inaction to cover up a rule-breaking act committed by someone else, such as not reporting a bot due to being in the same guild/friends, not reporting fully banned member returning to heRO*, can also count as an offense. You should report on rule breakers as soon as possible.

*Note: Normally when a player is banned, they are allowed to start totally fresh. However, there are completely banned players who are not welcome in heRO and are not allowed to play even if they are willing to start fresh:

List of completely banned players:

• "Silvanel"
• "Ryan/Rain"
• "Amil Gaul/Makachuk"
• "Mane"
• "Kohaku"
• "Zeel"

Final Rule

Lastly, if by your action(s) or inaction(s) you cause harm or seriously hinder another player's game & community experience, punishments may be given according to the severity of the action(s) or inaction(s).