Template:General Rules

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This section is the most important section, and pertains to your general conduct while in-game. These rules have precedence over all of your actions while playing on SPLURT.

At minimum, you should be familiar with these rules. If you are confused about these rules, please ask a staff member in #staff-questions, or make a discord ticket.

0. Server safety

SPLURT is an 18+ server, and is restricted to adults. We do not allow any illegal content, or persons under the age of 18.

SPLURT is an agegated community as of January 2026. If you are suspected to have falsified your age verification, or we suspect that you have lied at any point during the age verification process, you be removed from the community, asked to re-verify your age, or barred entry.

0.1. Violating either Discords terms of service (ToS) or BYONDs ToS is prohibited.

0.2. Underage characters, or playing non-sentient feral characters is not allowed under any circumstance.

0.3. Playing real-life animals (such as Ian) for sexual purposes is also not permitted.

0.3.1. Interacting with creatures that are of fantasy nature or animals that are different enough from real life animals are okay to ERP with. (Ian is off-limits, but ash drakes are allowed.)

0.4. Using slurs through IC chat or L/OOC is not allowed, especially if it is used as an insult towards another user.

0.4.1. Using slurs (such as the f-slur) within a private area between consenting parties is allowed, so long as this is kept to subtler anti-ghost and is used solely in a non-offensive manner.

0.5. Spreading hate speech toward any group or bigotry is not allowed here, we host a diverse range of people from all backgrounds, even if you dislike a group of people, keep it to yourself.

1. Malicious behavior

Malicious behavior may be defined as any action taken to diminish the experience of another player, or actions taken with the intent to harm or ruin the experience of other players. This includes metagrudging, and intentional negative acts that diminish the experience of other players on the server.

Players are expected to behave maturely while playing on SPLURT, and this includes being open to discussing your reasoning for any actions you take, being courteous within Adminhelps toward members of staff, and generally conducting yourself respectfully within our community. Characters are entitled to be rude and offensive, but this should reasonably stop when OOC discomfort is expressed.

1.1. Harassing someone over their character, kinks, grammar or preferred roleplaying style

1.2. Meta-grudging a player or their character for their past actions against you, by either killing them, griefing them, being problematic in L/OOC, or through taking intentional malicious actions against them IC (such as demoting them for no reason).

1.3. Revealing someone's CKey, Discord account, or list of characters they play for the purpose of other players to retaliate towards them.

1.4. Lying to staff about what another player did with malicious intent in order to get them in trouble.

1.5. Preventing a player from engaging with the round without a valid reason, such as barring them from your department as a head of staff for no reason.

1.6. Abusing bugs, quirks or exploits in a disruptive manner to get the upper-hand against another player.

1.7. Baiting someone into typing before attacking them, also called Type Baiting.

1.8. Using size changing quirks or gear to make your character smaller for mechanical advantage against a player

1.8.1. The current minimum size for Command, Security, and Antagonists is 0.8 or 80%.

1.8.2. Characters naturally smaller than 80% (0.8) cannot play as a role expected to end up in combat, this includes command, security and antagonist roles.

1.9. Disrespecting staff. While we allow players to voice their disagreements with staff members, or voice their opinions on rulings a staff member has made, making fun of, or harassing staff is prohibited. Staff are both players and volunteers; if you have a genuine issue with a staff member, speak to a headmin.

1.10. Do not touch, loot or otherwise harm players who are SSD (when a player has the small, green three 'ZZZ' icon beside their model). These players are protected under the rules, and you should Adminhelp before touching them.

1.10.1. You may strip a player of important or unique assets who has been SSD for more than 30 minutes (this can be checked through examining them), only if you are then placing the player into cryo storage. Important or unique assets include irreplaceable head items, job-specific items that would be hard to replace, etc. You must not strip any personal, disposable (such as medication, etc.) or antagonist items while doing this, and should disregard any antagonist evidence you may or may not find while doing this - just cryo the player.

1.10.2. Players who go SSD mid-fight are not instantly protected, but it is reasonably required that any attempts to kill the player are ceased, as they are now able to be non-lethally detained.

1.10.3. Players who do not have the SSD icon, but are visibly AFK (not moving, not responding) are only protected from directly malicious actions.

2. Impactful behaviour

Activities that impact the server or its player base in a negative way, or actions that intentionally go beyond an expected level of impact through your role (such as completing your supermatter sliver objective through delaminating the supermatter). You are allowed to roleplay, within reason, but if your actions start to impact the server or its players in a negative way instead of improving it, or start to impact/disrupt a large number of players, then you may be violating this rule.

Most cases can be solved through IC actions or through the use of L/OOC with the offending player if they are ruining your experience, if communicating fails, contact staff. On this server you are allowed to roleplay in a vast range and most things are allowed so long as they do not prove to be a detriment, avoid ruining the experience for everyone else.

Examples:

2.1. Griefing the station without a valid reason.

2.1.1. End of round grief (EORG) before the shuttle has landed, or on/in impermissible areas.

2.1.2. Permitted areas include the entire Central Command Z-level (which is the area the round end shuttle docks at) and the evacuation shuttle once the credits have rolled. You may not grief the pod shuttle.

2.2. Creating server lag through the use of spawning mass mobs, items, liquid or gas.

2.3. Bringing IC information into OOC chat either to disseminate this information, or to escalate an IC issue into OOC. This is termed as "mixing".

2.4. Powergaming (a player making themselves un-killable, highly resistant to all forms of damage, or making themselves absurdly powerful compared to other players. Always constitutes violating our "play to win" rules, as well.)