NorthlandsRP Rules and Expectations for Conan Exiles

•  You must be 18 years of age to join our community.

• Don't be a dick.  This is pretty self explanatory.   If you don't understand this, or can't manage this, then this community is not for you, and your dickish behavior will be met with my ban hammer. :) 

• We ARE an RP server. Meaning you are expected to have a character, with a bit of a backstory, but we aren’t looking for 100% seriousness 100% of the time.  Breaking character is fine. Being silly, goofy and having fun is what it's all about! You don't have to change your voice, put on an accent or be a serious warrior.  No one will be banned for not being in character 100% of the time.

• Meta-Gaming: Ew. No. Don’t. 
  • Metagaming is a term used in role-playing games, which describes a player's use of real-life knowledge concerning the state of the game to determine their character's actions, when said character has no relevant knowledge or awareness under the circumstances.

• Stream Sniping: Big no-no. Hanging out and lurking in streams is cool, being on the server and chatting about things that are happening on the server, in Twitch chat is NOT cool. Watching a stream and then finding that person in game, is a no-no. First time receives a warning, second time receives a 3 day ban. If you have to be talked to about it a 3rd time, it is a perma ban. :) 

• You have 48 hours from the time you join the Discord, to submit an application. If you do not submit an app within those 48 hours, you will be kicked from the Discord. (Not banned, you may re-join) If you continue to join but not apply, you will be banned from the Discord. If you join Discord, apply, then leave Discord, your app will go unapproved. If you get approved, then leave Discord, you will be unwhitelisted from the server and all your buildings will be removed. We take that as a “I no longer want to play” and act accordingly. 

•  We use Discord for all communication. This includes, but is not limited to, Rule Changes, Event Announcements, server restarts and scheduled downtime. If you choose to mute the channel, it is on you if you miss important announcements. Admins and Mods do not have the time to DM individuals. If you are pinged in the Discord and fail to respond, an Admin will go ahead with whatever action needed to be taken. (This could be a building deletion, character deletion...etc. It’s important that you respond!) 

• If you allow someone to put you down as a “Vouch” on the application, you are saying that you are familiar enough with that person and know they will be a good addition to the community. If the person(s) you vouch for break rules and get removed, future vouches from you will not be considered for a period of time.

• No excessive use of foundation blocks when building.  Using these in excess causes lag for the server, and especially in the area where they are being used.  Try making the foundations of your home hollow, using pillars and ceiling tiles, instead of a solid mass of foundations.  If you are ever concerned about a building, come to an Admin or a Mod.  They will check it out and give a thumbs up or a thumbs down .

   

  • You are limited to ONE (1) Main Base, and ONE (1) outpost. 
    • An outpost is considered a SMALL (2x2, 3x3) building for a bedroll, a campfire and a chest. Any extra buildings will be deleted by an Admin without warning. 

• Do not block things with your build. This includes, but is not limited to; Ghost spawns, Journals/Emotes, resources, caves..ect.

• Do not build close to NPC spawns. This can mess up the spawns and cause lag for the server. 

• One Temple per God, per region. It is a “first come, first served” basis. (except for “Oola” aka Madmoiselle, she always gets the Derketo temple in the desert area.) The temple must be open and available to anyone that wants to use it. It cannot be locked or hidden behind locked doors. If your RP requires you to have a private, personal temple, come to me (Everleigh) and we can work something out. There is a map pinned in one of the Discord channels that outlines the “regions”. 

• With the addition of Age of Calamitous, there is a feat called "Prospect of Wealth".  This allows you to build giant resource mines. THESE ARE NOT ALLOWED ON THE SERVER.  They are big, ugly and quite frankly I just don't want to see them on the map.  They generate resources over time, and I feel that takes away from the adventure of going out and finding what you need.  This is the only warning people will receive about these.  If I find them placed on the map, I will delete them without warning.  If the same person does it again, they get a meeting with my ban hammer. 

• No resource over time objects, unless it makes sense for your character/profession. An armorsmith wouldn’t have animal pens, or “farms”.  A builder WOULD have a Lumber Mill, so they can produce the materials needed for building. Etc. 

• The decay timer will be turned on, the last week of each month. This means, if you, or someone in your clan, does not log in, in those 7 days, your buildings and placeables will disappear. This is irreversible. This is an effort to keep the server clean of abandoned buildings, without Admins having to go around cleaning up after people. 

• You must make a clan! Even if you are solo. This is so Admins can help you better, and to help keep the map clean of “garbage” (forgotten campfires, torches, bedrolls...ect.) With Pippi there is a Heatmap that we can use to see everything placed on the map. This allows us to find your base easily, to find lost animals and random things that have been placed on the map. 

• Personal Merchants and Dancers (Entertainers) are not allowed. There are public places on the map, where all of the merchants and entertainers will be made available for everyone to use! The large Port City (Khas Khemi River City), has all of the AoC merchants, as well as dancers. The Oasis will provide dancers for corruption removal. Faction specific merchants are available at the Faction Hall.  Bobby and Sir Lanis are wandering merchants. Each week a Warp will be placed in a new location. When taken, the warp will zip you over to them! 

• No personal maprooms.  The only maprooms that are allowed on the map are at the Arenas (West of The Unnamed City, and in the North at Lorkan’s Wonder (Wayward’s castle)  

• Faction specific items do NOT fall under “professional knowledge” rules. Example: You are Elven, but a farmer. You can still craft the Elven armor and weapons. You may need to trade for the materials, but you can craft them yourself. 

• Trade Chat: Posts to TC need to be “left” while at a store. (One in desert, one in the North, one at the river city Khas Khemi, along Noob River) Format: “{Name} leaves a list of items with the Shopkeep at {insert store here}. I am in need of : {items} I have {items} for trade. I can be found at {rough location of home}. No “back and forth” in TC. You MUST BE at a STORE to post. 

• Self sufficiency is a no-no. You need to pick a profession for your character and stick to it. If you want to be an armorsmith, there is no reason for you to have animal taming pens and thrall wheels. If you are an alchemist, there is no reason to have four top tier furnaces, armor benches, blacksmith benches, all with Named Thralls working them…..ect. (With the way crafting works, you will probably end up needing 1 of each crafting bench, no matter what profession you choose. This is fine. Clans of 2 or more to tend to be a bit self sufficient. This is to be expected. 

• Hoarding pets/animals/thralls are not allowed. Keeping them in boxes, is not allowed. If you are a Thrall taker or an animal tamer, you cannot have thralls/animals “on hand”. If someone comes to you for one of these, you need to roleplay it out. Have a conversation. “Yes, I can get that for you but it will take a few days….” You get TWICE the RP out of that, rather than “Oh yeah I have it right here.” Not only is keeping them in boxes unrealistic, it affects server performance.
  • Clans are limited to ONE (1) Animal Pen and ONE (1) Thrall Wheel. Placing multiples of these will result in them being removed by an Admin without warning. 
  • There is a hard cap of TEN (10) animals/thralls for a clan of one member. This number increases by three (3), for EACH additional clan member. Example: A clan of three members, could have a total of 16 pets/thralls. *This number does not include Thralls in benches, thralls in the thrall wheel, or animals in pens*
    • The server will auto-clean up any extras at regular intervals. These will not be given back. 

• If you choose to be a pet tamer, you may not be a Thrall Taker.  If you chose to be a Thrall taker, you may not be a pet tamer. This is an attempt to divide up RP a little bit. 

•  Clean up after yourselves! If you are in a clan, you have the command /heatmap. It will show you where EVERYTHING you have placed is. Thralls, Pets and building pieces.

•  Do NOT place items like torches, bridges, decorations...ect. Around the map, away from your base. Yes, it gets dark, but carry a torch with you. Yes, some places are difficult to get to, but you can literally climb almost everything in Conan. It litters the map with items and causes performance issues. EVERY item you place has a land claim radius. This makes it so others cannot build in the area.  

• Server Shenanigans: 

If you log out in the open, outside, not in your own home, or if your home is open and easily accessible (You haven't put a roof on yet...etc) someone MAY come along and remove your armor, dye it funny colors or leave random things in your inventory.  People are NOT allowed to TAKE things off your body. Everything must remain in the unconscious person's inventory. (This does NOT apply to corpses. If you die, and someone comes across your body before you get back to it, that is fair game)

It's just a fun/funny little thing we have always done, and I wanted to let everyone know!

• PvP is always enabled on the server. Building damage is not. 
• Some reasons for conflict:
  Religion - It is a big deal in the Lore/Hyboria
  Territory
  Different factions
  You don’t agree with Thrall taking (or how they do it)
  (These are just some suggestions, but you get the idea)
   

Be creative with your attacks. Start small, maybe small aggravations, and build up to bigger, more aggressive attacks.

The “attack” or “strike” needs to try and match the “offense”. You wouldn’t blow up someones building, just cause they wore an offensive outfit, or because they called you a name. (But those ARE good enough reasons for you to be hostile towards someone, or to not like them) 

• You will need to grab the “Flag” kit once your clan is established. These can be customized with an image of your choice, to represent your clan.
  There are rules:
• Images must follow Twitch TOS
• ~No nudity
• ~No offensive words/images. 
• ~Nothing racist/sexist/or otherwise hateful. 

• Flags that violate these rules, will be deleted and the owner will get a warning. If they have to be talked to again, 3 day ban. A third time is a perma ban. 

• No KoS (kill on sight). No claiming “It’s my character”, to justify KoS. This is a bannable offense. It is boring and uncreative. There needs to be SOME kind of engagement. Your character can be hostile, mean, etc. But you can’t just Kill people with no warning. Tell them to get away, to back off, etc…..do not just kill with no engagement.  There are Voip issues occasionally, keep this in mind (both sides) when attempting to interact. The Local Text chat is available for those times. Be creative with it though...act like you are writing a note(3rd person commands are now enabled in LOCAL chat tab).

• You may only attack when players are online. No offline attacks. People have a right to attempt to defend themselves.

• You are only allowed 1 pet per person, when attacking. 

• Building Damage will only be enabled on the weekends, but not EVERY weekend.  (Friday-Sunday)

• Full scale, large attacks that include building damage, are only to be enacted as a “last resort”. There needs to be A LOT of RP build up for these to be executed. “War” is NOT to be taken lightly. 

• If a declaration of War is to be made, it needs to be posted in the Discord channel #war-cries. There needs to be some OOC planning, so both parties are properly prepared. 

• Summoning Avatars will NOT be enabled at anytime. After testing, they are too powerful. They knock AoC T4 buildings down easily.

• Weapons such as the Plague Barrage (used in a trebuchet) and Plague Barrels (AoC stuff) are off limits for “normal” attacks. IF BOTH parties involved, AGREE to excessive building damage as part of their battle, then by all means….go for it. No other weapons (other than Avatars) are “off limits” during battles, but DO keep in mind, if you manage to “one shot” an opponent, or wipe them out easily, it doesn’t leave a lot of room for escalation (We tend to like the Slow Burn RP around here).

• Group numbers should be close to evenly matched. 4v1 isn’t very fun. 

• Being a bully, or picking on “newbies” is not cool. It will get you a talking to in The Room Of Shame, AND time in BSJ (Baby Shark Jail). If that isn’t enough to set you right, a meeting with my Ban Hammer is in your future.

• In the event you DO get sent to BSJ(Baby Shark Jail), and you pull your bracelet to get out, not only will you lose all the items you had on you (no, I won’t give them back), you will get a 3 day ban for not taking your punishment like an adult. Bracelet pulling is a no-no.
   

 Rules are subject to change at anytime. You will be notified in the Discord when changes or additions are made. 

• RP in ARK is a little difficult, due to the size of the maps and the fact that it is difficult to travel until you get established. While we are an RP community, the RP in ARK isn’t going to be the main focus, or enforced as heavily.
  
  
•  There will be a small “Starter” Village built at the Tropical Island South spawn point, to provide shelter and a few amenities for the new characters.  You may stay here until you are a bit stronger and more able to handle being out in the wild.  
  • We suggest that once you do get established and move away from the Starter Village, that you come by once in awhile, to see if there are new players that you could meet. (but you do not HAVE to)
• No physical PvP at the Starter Village. Verbal PvP is fine.
• Player XP gain is at x5.
• We are running TWO servers, on a cluster. Maps are The Center (Main map) and Valguero (Secondary map). 
  • Your main home/base/residence MUST be on The Center map. (This is to try and encourage RP, which is difficult to do if everyone is spread out across 2 maps. If you build a base on Valguero, you will be removed for not following the rules.)
  • You may put up “Taming Pens” on Valgeuro, but must take them down when finished. 
  • There will be Tek Teleporters set in specific locations, to make going back and forth a little easier.
  • You will be given the Tek Teleporter engram soon after joining the server, so you may use the Teleporters as soon as possible. 
  • You are allowed to upload and download Dinos, tributes and items to and from each map in our cluster. You are not allowed to do the same with maps not in our cluster. You are not allowed to bring Tributes or Dinos you have saved from Solo Player.
  • While items in your character’s inventory will come with you when you transfer, items in your animals inventories will NOT. Keep this in mind when bopping back and forth! 

• Once you have decided what types you want to breed, please make a post in the #breeders channel in Discord, with your character name and what types you have chosen. 
• There is a hard cap of 40 Tames, per clan. This might be adjusted, based on player base and average clan size.
  • If you bug me about changing it, and your clan size doesn’t warrant it, I will feed you to Kyith’s T-Rex zoo. :) 
• You may unlock whatever Engrams you want, you do not have to have your character “specialize” in anything specific, other than what Dinos you breed. 
  • If you are in a clan, and you WANT to divide up “jobs” (One person is a farmer, one makes/repairs all the tools, one builds and maintains the base...etc) by all means, please do so! But it’s not required and will not be enforced. 

• Limit the use of foundations in your buildings. Excessive foundations cause server lag.  
• No “Pillaring”. Pillaring is when you put building pieces in random places on the map, to claim the land around it. 
• No blocking caves.
• No blocking resources. 
• No blocking off water ways. If a boat cannot easily get around your base, you will be asked to make adjustments. 
• Build to suit your needs. Example: A Tribe of ONE person, doesn’t need a gigantic base that is 3 stories high and 35 foundations wide. 
• Please avoid building giant “barns” for your dinos. Does a full grown T-rex or Bronto REALLY need a house? I don’t think so. 
• Walls/fences are permitted around your base. Please avoid fencing off areas where Drop Pods land, if you can help it. 
• No building on/blocking “note” spawns.
• Boat bases ARE allowed, so long as your name isn’t Snow. :) 
  • If you are going to build a mobile boat base, I had better see some creative ass shit. A gigantic floating box isn’t gonna cut it. Don’t be lazy! 

• No hogging resources. If you know a resource is limited, do not keep it all to yourself. 
• Do not place multiple Oil Rigs in the same spot. If you come across a place that has multiple Oil “spouts”, you are allowed ONE (1) Oil Rig per area, per Tribe. 
• Do not place multiple Gas Collectors in the same spot. If you come across a place that has multiple Gas “spouts”, you are allowed ONE (1) Gas Collector per area, per Tribe.   
• No cloning dinos. No sex changes for dinos. (This Engram has been hidden to prevent this).
• Using the Global text chat for chatter is not allowed. Use this only if you need help. 
• Both servers are set to auto-restart at 3amPST, daily. This is when new members will get Whitelisted. (Adding to the list requires a restart)

• Admins reserve the right to go in and out of bases as we please, to make sure rules are followed. Admins are NOT allowed to remove things or Animals, without first warning the player. 

These rules are subject to change at any time. Any rule changes WILL be posted in the Discord, so you will be notified.