General Rules
Earth SMP
Policy Rationale
In order to maintain a safe environment and empower free expression, we restrict or remove accounts that are harmful to the community. We have built a combination of automated and manual systems to restrict and remove accounts that are used to egregiously or persistently violate our policies across any of our products.
Because account removal is a serious action, whenever possible, we aim to give our community opportunities to learn our rules and follow our Community Standards. For example, a notification is issued each time we remove content, and in most cases we also provide people with information about the nature of the violation and any restrictions that are applied. Our enforcement actions are designed to be proportional to the severity of the violation, the history of violations on the account, and the risk or harm posed to the community. Continued violations, despite repeated warnings and restrictions, or violations that pose severe safety risks will lead to an account being banned.
Sportsmanship:
G1: Builds that display NSFW/offensive content are prohibited. This includes signs and books.
G2: Your Minecraft skin must not be offensive, nor contain NSFW or PG-13 content.
G3: Impersonating staff members, whether it be through skins or messages in chat, is prohibited. This includes mini-modding.
G4: Glitch abuse is a very serious offense. The decision of whether or not something is abuse of a glitch will be decided by the moderators. If you find a glitch, please report it immediately. Do not share glitches with other people, and do not use it to your advantage. Any sort of glitching (including, but not limited to, enderpearl/vehicle/boat/ entity glitching) that allows you to get through a previously blocked wall will be counted as abusing a bug/glitch.
G5: Respect decisions made by all staff. If you have any concerns regarding staff and their decisions, please DM either an admin or a manager. Please do not argue with or harass staff members in public chats, preferably with someone other than the staff member who punished you.
G6: We allow the usage of three accounts per IP address. If more are logged into the network at any time we may take action depending on severity. If you have siblings who also play on our server, and are inappropriately punished, please contact us via a ban appeal.
G7: Any use of lag machines/farms/builds that cause server/client lag will be punishable depending on the severity.
G8: Players who are complicit in rule-breaking will be held as accountable for the rule being broken as the player violating the rule.
G9: Exploiting our rule system to benefit yourself in any way is a punishable offense. Any action that attempts to bypass a rule in some way, such that the action would not fit the definition of the rule that is being bypassed, is still punishable.
G10: The use of proxies or VPNs are strictly prohibited unless pre-authorized by the leadership team.
Towns and Nations:
T1: Only players in nations at war are permitted to PvP in the wilderness. Any attempt to bypass anti-PvP may be punished. Claiming a chunk in wilderness with pvp on to kill a peaceful player is also not allowed.
T2: Claimblocking is not allowed and will be reverted without warning or your money back. Claimblocking is the act of claiming towns or townblocks to prevent other towns to expand.
T3: Griefing of any type in a claim is prohibited, and we will revert/punish depending on the situation. However, if your build is in an unclaimed area we are not responsible for any damage done to your property, including loss of mobs. Major griefing in the wilderness is also not allowed. Additionally, any overt act that prohibits the travel of others by any standard means (namely; boats and icerails) is not allowed.
T4: Insiding is not allowed. Insiding is defined as stealing items maliciously and/or betraying your town during times of war.
T5: Trapping of any kind is prohibited and is a bannable offense. (this includes spawn killing and tp-trapping). Trapping is defined as something that restrains the player’s movement and/or ability to fight Back. Having someone teleport to you and instantly killing them is also not allowed.
T6: Scamming other players is a serious offense. Make sure that you put precautions in place to make sure that you have evidence of all parts of a trade in-case a player is scamming you. Please note, however, that you trade with players at your own risk – we do not take the liability for it, and are not responsible for returning anything lost.
Severe Rules:
S1: In the event that you are punished by server staff for breaking any rules, attempts to evade the punishment through the use of alternate accounts or commands will result in an extension of the existing punishment.
S2: Client modifications that give any competitive advantage over players are strictly forbidden.
S3: Chargebacks on store purchases are strictly prohibited.
S4: Please do not share other people’s personal information such as real names, addresses, other social media accounts, etc. without their permission. Sharing this with malicious intent may be construed as doxxing, which will result in an instant ban.
S5: Any scams that include real life objects, possessions, or money will be considered bannable and will come with a much heavier punishment.
S6: RMT (Real Money Trade) is forbidden. RMT is the act of buying ingame items, towns, nations etc. with real money.