- Age Requirement: You must be 18+ in order to play on Ethos, there is no exceptions to this rule.
- You must have a decent working Microphone. This means that background noise should be kept to a minimum and your voice should not “peak” or distort.
- You cannot copy-paste the name of any famous celebrities (including famous RP characters). Try to be original with your characters, naming your character something offensive will lead to a ban.
- You can play a “version” of a famous celebrity and base your character on them, but not a carbon copy, be original and add some spice to your character.
- You must abide by the Twitch Terms of Service at all times while playing on the server: (https://www.twitch.tv/p/en/legal/terms-of-service/ and https://safety.twitch.tv/s/article/Community-Guidelines?language=en_US)
- This means you must not play any copyrighted music at all on the server, this will result in a kick or a ban.
- Please respect our streamers at all times, they are here to provide content and advertise our server via Twitch.
- If you wish to stream on our server, you must set the example to the server, as you are being directly displayed to the entirety of our community.
- We won’t be supporting streamers with our live role if they allow people to be toxic towards other individuals in the community or the community in general. If this is seen we will just remove your role, regardless of who you are.
- Any behavior that is deemed disruptive by Staff may result in a Kick/Ban from the server, examples include, but are not limited to:
- Breeding toxicity directed towards any member of the community or generally the community itself, either in character or out of character.
- Spamming music, soundboards, and/or making loud noises into your microphone in order to annoy other players or be obnoxious.
- Directly or indirectly threatening other players with a possible player report or admin action with the intent to intimidate them.
- Ban Evasion: Attempting to circumvent a ban in any way other than appealing the ban via Forums is against the rules and will result in a permanent ban with 0 chance to ever return..
- Under no circumstances are you to speak about real world politics or religion at all in our community, in or out of the city. Ethos is for all cultures and religions but you are not to speak about them either in-game or in discord – discussion about these topics can cause drama and can be an upsetting topic for some.
- This also includes any real world religion or politics being a part of your character’s RP, if you’d like to go with something religion based, make something up, do not use anything from the real world.
- We have a 0 tolerance policy for any form of harassment, discrimination, prejudice. This is in character and in discord/dms etc.
- Racism
- Sexism
- Sexual Orientation
- Personal Disability
- Gender Identity
- ANY derogatory language associated with the above, but not limited to just these.
- This includes the “N” word, regardless of how it is said it will be treated as if you said the “hard R” version, this type of language is not allowed on the server whatsoever and you will be punished accordingly.
- I.E. Don’t be an asshole. Unless it’s someone you are comfortable with and you are sure they won’t be offended by your words, just don’t say it.
- Erotic Roleplay or ‘ERP’ and Terror Roleplay is strictly prohibited.
- Suicide RP or jokes about suicide is strictly prohibited.
- Any form of Rape roleplay Will get you removed from the community with no chance of appeal.
- We have active staff members who Roleplay in the city. DO NOT disturb them with anything server-related while they are in character. They like to RP too.
- This includes asking developers about any work they are doing for the server, their character is not the staff member.
- Any obvious signs you are here to shoot at people and not roleplay will lead to you being watched by admins 24/7 for any rule breaks and not gain any leeway to punishments for rule breaks, this is a roleplaying server, not GTA:O/deathmatch server.
- “Here to shoot at people†examples:
- Instantly getting into shootouts/conflict with no build up within hours of being on the server.
- Constantly trying to start things with existing groups or gangs, with absolutely no RP reason other than to shoot.
- Speed running RP to get into gunfights, skipping corners and taking shortcuts to get guns etc., to shoot.
- “Here to shoot at people†examples:
- When giving us anything to put in the server it falls under the MIT license unless otherwise specified in the files, and we will no longer be accepting any assets that don’t fall under that license.
- Just because you pay for something to be put in the server doesn’t mean you can ask for it to be removed just because you leave the server or are mad at someone.
- Only exception to this rule is if you are the one who made the asset.