Plate VI - the law of the sea
Eight rules, kept since the old days. Ignorance is no excuse - but to err is human, so Stonia counts crime points instead of striking at once.
In the game: type rules or help.
To keep this game fun for everyone, we have a couple of rules. It's probably a good idea to know them, because we won't take ignorance as an excuse. But as 'errare humanum est', Stonia has crime points - they affect nothing until you have 30 - then you will receive realdeath.
Crime points
Crime points do nothing at all while you collect them. They only add up - and on the thirtieth the character dies for real: realdeath, gone for good, with everything it carried.
Most broken rules cost 9 points and 30 days in jail, so a fourth offence is the end. Giving your password away is 30 points at once. Reporting a real bug can lower your points again.
Swearing or channel spam · 30 days of silence
Multiplaying, spying, anti-roleplay, equipment sharing, own-skin killing · 30 days of jail
A robot playing for you · 30 days of freeze
Bug abuse · 30 days of freeze
A shared password · realdeath
The eight
Each with its punishment as the old rules gave it. Open "The original wording" for Stonia's own text.
Never two or more of your characters in the game at the same moment - same skin or different, linkless or not.
Multiplaying is having two or more characters logged on at any moment of time. It doesn't matter if they are of the same skin color, or different, linkless or not.Never tell players of another skin who is on or who is where. Before logging in a character of another skin, wait at least 3 minutes.
Giving information to players of the other skin (like who is on and who is where) is called spying. To log in a player of another skin color, wait at least 3 minutes before doing so.One character, one owner. You may not give a character away, not even "just once". If you want to stop playing, simply stop logging in.
One character has one owner. Period. You may not give your character away. Even not for "only once". If you wish to stop playing, just do not log in.Find a bug and use it for gain, and the punishment is severe - this is the one rule where you can lose all your characters.
Report it instead: a working crash bug you can demonstrate, and that the immortals didn't know, earns +1 level or a piece of equipment of your choice (with some exceptions).
If you find a bug and abuse it you'll be punished severely. Note: this is an exception: you could also lose all your characters.
If you find a working bug that crashes Stonia and can demonstrate to us that it is really working (and we do not already know it), you will get +1 level or a piece of equipment by your own choice (with some exceptions). Lowering your crime points by reporting a bug can also be possible.Whities never co-operate with ghosts or blackies, nor they with whities. Ghosts help no other skin. Brownies may help anyone but ghosts. No tormenting your own skinmates (blackies excepted), and never torment a peaceful player.
Whiteskins are not allowed to co-operate with ghosts or blackskins and vice versa. Ghosts are not allowed to help any other skin color. Brownskins are allowed to help anyone but ghosts. No skinmate tormenting (except blacks) and no peaceful player tormenting under any circumstances.No killing the same someone over and over for experience or trophies. No flooding socials, tells, group talk or channels, and no swearing on public channels. No scripts playing your character while you are away from the keyboard.
No spam killing someone to get experience/trophies/etc.
- Punishment: up to 30 days of deny for the person killing, deletion of the person being killed.
No spamming socials, tell, group, channels etc. No swearing or public channels.
- Punishment: nochan/notell/silence or 30 days of silence and 1 crime point. (language)
No using of scriptlanguage to control your characters actions when you are away from keyboard.
- Punishment: 30 days of freeze and 9 crime points. (robot)Nothing passes from one of your characters to another in any way - not equipment, not coins, nothing.
You may not transfer your equipment(including coins, etc) between your characters in ANY way.Killing someone of your own skin is not illegal if you have a good reason - but killing the same one more than once is. Whities may only kill or torment skinmates who carry the guilty flag.
Repeated same skin color killing is not allowed. Though it is not illegal to PK someone of your own skin (whities may only kill/torment players that have guilty flag) if you have a good reason for it, it IS illegal to kill someone more than once.And one note from the old rules: you only get anything reimbursed if an immortal can verify that it really happened.
Diplomacy
Read across: the skin on the left helping the skin above. Helping means grouping, healing, spelling up, giving - any co-operation at all.
| Helper \ helped | Whities | Blackies | Brownies | Misties (ghosts) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whities | own skin | may not help | may help | may not help |
| Blackies | may not help | own skin | may help | may not help |
| Brownies | may help | may help | own skin | may not help |
| Misties (ghosts) | may not help | may not help | may not help | own skin |
The rules forbid whities and blackies to co-operate with each other and with ghosts, and ghosts to help anyone; they say nothing against whities or blackies helping brownies, and brownies may help both - so those squares are open.
Player killing
Player killing between different skins is allowed - the old news put it as "ALLOWED (suggested :) )". A whitie meeting a blackie on the road is a fight, not a chat.
Found a bug?
The difference between rule IV's punishment and its reward is whether you told someone.
Whatever it gave you, don't go back for more. Abusing a bug is 20 crime points and 30 days of freeze - and can cost every character you have.
Where you were, what you typed, what happened. A log of the moment is the best proof - you can upload it to LogStation.
LogStation →Ideas and bug reports go to the tickets. A crash bug you can demonstrate, that wasn't already known, has always been worth +1 level or a piece of equipment.
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