Server rules

• English

To play this server everyone must understand and be able to write a comprehensible English. If a GM addresses you, you must be able to understand, answer and comply. Those who have problems which English should do efforts, but obviously we don't ask for perfection, simply a level high enough to allow communication. We won't go overboard with this but the no speak english excuse doesn't work here.

• Use English on Main

The Main channel must be used in English only. You can write any languages in other chats though but main stays English. Mute or/and jail can be used if this rule is not respected after a warning.

• 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 chats, PMs or in private 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 the small caps of them). These are reserved for GM usages. 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.

• Be respectful to everyone

Insulting, the use of swears, discrimination, racism, sexism or any other offending comments may result in jail or ban. That goes for everywhere, especially on the Main Chat for everyone to see, keep it clean and insult-free! There is a person behind every character and he/she deserves proper respect just like you.

• Do Not Beg

Players used work or wits to gain their items/zeny. Do the same, don't go around begging for items or money.

• Do Not harass the GMs

If you have a question relation to RO, ask other players over main instead of asking GMs for information that other players have or that can be found easily on the internet. If you have a question that requires answer from a GM please ask politely, don't spam them with pms or main. If no GM is on and it's a matter that cannot wait, send a PM to one of the GM via the forums. Be patient and we will attend to your needs. Be impatient and spam in-game or forum and you will be punished.

• Do Not Bot/Macro

Botting and any type of macro can result in a permanent account ban will result in a permanent 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 to level/hunt AFK with 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. heRO Server already supply @autoloot as an automatically activated command. Items on the floor dropped by a player OR from a player's pet still counts as a player's property.

• Do Not Kill Steal

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 that monster, counts as "belonging" to that player. MVP are FFA except for quest MvPs which are not FFA. Boss monsters that are not MVP are not FFA (this includes Valkyrie). KS rules do not apply in any public DB room or any GM hosted events unless stated otherwise by the GMs. (Currently the quest mvps are: Memory of Thanatos, Hollow Poring, Levia Lusca, Ktullanux.)

• *Do not interfere with someone else's monster

It is forbidden to use any skill what so ever to block, kill, make another player lose his aggro or steal a monster. This is unless the person asked for help. To pneuma, heal or buff someone else's monster is therefore forbidden.

• Do Not Cheat

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

• Sidewalk Vending and Chat in Prontera

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.

• No advertising for any server/website/game

Do not advertise any other server/website/game. Mentioning another server can be considered advertising.

• Do not break DB/BB outside of DB/BB room

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

• No Blockage of Castles' Entrances

During WOE it is forbidden to cast ICE WALL, use any skill or items that would prevent players from entering a castle.

• 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. If you lost count or aren't sure of how many you summoned, then stop summoning them until you cleared them all. Best way is to only carry 200 spores or stems or mix of both and repeat.

• No trans/new jobs in alde castle

No trans (reborn) or new job (ninja, gunner, taekwon) is allowed in aldebaran castle. If a such a job ends up in it with the Guild Recall skill, then they have to leave immediately, by using a butterfly wing or logging out. Walking is not an option to leave the castle.

• Regarding Alchemist/Creator's Homunculus

The heRO AI is sure to comply with our specific rules regarding homunculus, using it is recommended. http://www.pandoraonline.net/AI.zip
Players are also free to use their own written ai, as long as they follow 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 considered the same as botting, if you must go away from keyboard 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.

• Regarding stolen items not from a shared account

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 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 because of 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 fully banned players who are not welcomed in heRO and are not allowed to play even if they are willing to start fresh:

List of fully banned players:
"Silvanel"
"Ryan/Rain"
"Amil Gaul/Makachuk"
"Mane"

• Final rule

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