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		<h1 class="ui text header left">Stratus Network Rules</h1>
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			<h3 class="ui text header left">Updated Feburary 21, 2017</h3>
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		<h2 class="ui medium header">A. General Composure</h2>
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			<li>Maintain a pleasant and casual atmosphere. Be respectful and use common sense. Excessive swearing, rudeness and harassment is not tolerated.</li>
			<li>Do not spam. This includes sending multiple or the same messages in a short time, or one or more long messages.</li>
			<li>Do not link to any of the following:
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						Objectionable material, which includes but is not limited to pornography, viruses, phishing sites and hate groups.
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						Personal identifying information of other users.
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			<li>Do not impersonate any member of the Stratus Network staff, or claim to be a staff member.</li>
			<li>Follow any directions given by Stratus staff members. If you believe a staff member has directed you wrongly, please contact an admin.</li>
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		<p><span class="ui blue horizontal label">Note:</span><i>If you are concerned about links that may constitute as advertising, please clarify with a staff member before posting.</i></p>
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			<li>Do not send messages that encourage other players into leaving a team or disconnecting from the server.</li>
			<li>Unless you are explaining the report process, you may not encourage others to report a specific player.</li>
			<li>Please do not publicly accuse any players of hacking. If you believe a player is hacking or breaking any rules, report them using the /report command.</li>
			<li>You may not use any form of in game chat to solicit. Any account that is determined to be for the sole use of soliciting will be permanently banned without warning.</li>
			<li>You may not link to, or solicit players to join, any server public or private that is not part of Stratus Network in public chat. (You may use the /msg command to inform players that request it).</li>
			<li>Your username and skin must be appropriate, and you may be asked to change your name/skin if your username or skin is found to be inappropriate.</li>
			<li>Do not abuse glitches. This includes, but is not limited to, placing blocks in areas restricted by the plugin to walk in, creating an "x-ray" effect, and causing yourself to be invincible.</li>
			<li>Players may not spawn camp, which is defined as any of the following:
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						Killing more than 5 unarmed players directly out of their spawns within a three minute time period.
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						Directly attacking the enemy spawn, that includes but isn’t limited to the use of TNT, lava, or any harmful material.
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			<li>Observers may never give tactical information to players or intentionally disrupt gameplay. Tactical information includes, but is not limited to:
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						Revealing the locations of players
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						Revealing the ownership of wool in a Capture the Wool map
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		<p><span class="ui blue horizontal label">Note:</span> <i>All chat messages and commands are logged.</i></p>
		<p><span class="ui blue horizontal label">Note:</span> <i>You may link to your Stratus Network related livestream, so long as you don’t spam it.</i></p>
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			<li>Any client modifications that give an unfair advantage over vanilla Minecraft users are illegal while playing.</li>
			<li>Any external tools that modify gameplay to give an unfair advantage over users not using the tool are illegal while playing.</li>
			<li>The following modifications are explicitly <b>permitted</b> during gameplay:
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						Optifine
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						ArmorStatusHUD / StatusEffectHUD
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						LabyMod (v2.6 and above)
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						Minimaps except as specified below
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			<li>The following modifications are explicitly <b>prohibited</b> during gameplay:
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						Inventory Sorters
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						Mods that expose or enlarge the name-tags of players
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						Automatic tool selectors
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						Minimaps that show entity positions, or show caves/underground.
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						X-rays
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						Aimbots
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						Fly mods
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						Damage/Health Indicator
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						SmartMoving, speed or jump hacks
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						Better Sprinting
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			<li>Any form of autoclicking is strictly prohibited. This includes but is not limited to:
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						Forcefield/Killaura Hacked Clients
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						Using a form of autoclicking software
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						Binding multiple keys to a single game function
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						Using multiple mice, or clicking with multiple fingers on one mouse button
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						<b>The general rule is one button, one finger, one click</b>
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			<li>For any other mods, contact an admin for confirmation before using it.</li>
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		<p><span class="ui blue horizontal label">Note:</span><i>Unless explicitly permitted, additional mods which can be installed through LabyMod are not allowed.</i></p>
		<p><span class="ui blue horizontal label">Note:</span> <i>Observers are not bound to these restrictions unless they become a disturbance to other players.</i></p>
		<p><span class="ui blue horizontal label">Note:</span> <i>These restrictions apply to all players in lobbies at all times.</i></p>
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			<li>Team griefing is prohibited and is defined as any reckless or intentional action that harms your own team.</li>
			<li>The following are explicitly team griefing:
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						Placing and/or setting off TNT near teammates or near key team infrastructure (eg. chests, defences or armor supplies) within one's own base
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						Destroying one's own team's chests or workbenches
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						Teamkilling (including removing blocks from beneath a person to cause them to fall, or pushing teammates off the world)
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						Using/modifying a TNT cannon built by another player without explicit permission
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						Aiding or working together with a member of the other team
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			<li>The following are considered reckless and strongly discouraged (You may be warned for breaking the following rules):
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						Placing TNT in one's own base, especially building TNT towers in one's own base
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						Building unprotected TNT near teammates or objectives
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						Taking all or almost all of the wool in a Capture the Wool map out of a wool room, unless there is only one wool left in that wool room
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						Placing blocks beneath you while running on your own team’s side
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			<li>Any actions that are not listed here that hinder your team’s progress towards winning the match, deliberate or not, still fall under "team griefing" and may be dealt with as such.</li>
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		<p><span class="ui blue horizontal label">Note:</span> <i>Players are <b>NEVER</b> permitted to team grief, even in retaliation to another team griefer.</i></p>
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			<li>Players may receive an in game warning or an infraction for breaking any of the rules above, depending on the severity of the violation.</li>
			<li>The severity of the infraction is usually based on the player’s previous infractions.</li>
			<li>In particularly serious or blatant cases of rules violation, including but not limited to using a hacking client on the servers, or consistently team griefing despite moderator intervention, will result in an immediate permanent ban, without warning.</li>
			<li>Ban evasion is not permitted and will result in a permanent ban for all alternate accounts associated with the evading player. The alternate accounts will not be unbanned once the original ban expired, and the original ban may be extended up to thrice the length of the original ban. (e.g. 1 week ban becomes up to a 3 week ban).</li>
			<li>Persistent ban evasion will result in a permanent ban for all accounts.</li>
			<li>Players violating any forum rules may be banned from posting to the forums.</li>
			<li>Players violating any Discord rules may be kicked or banned from the Discord server.</li>
			<li>Players violating the rules on any Stratus Network service, including the game servers, the forums, and Discord, may be banned from any or all of the services.</li>
			<li>All infractions may be appealed by filing an appeal.</li>
			<li><b>Any player that knowingly gives false information in his or her appeal may be permanently banned.</b></li>
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		<p><span class="ui blue horizontal label">Note:</span><i>All infractions are subject to staff discretion.</i></p>
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			<li>These rules are subject to change with notice.</li>
			<li>Players are responsible for keeping up with rule changes.</li>
			<li>There is a one week grace period for rule changes.</li>
			<li>Severe rule violations may result in total account termination.</li>
			<li>The Stratus Network Administration reserves the right to ban or unban any player from any Stratus Network services for any reason without notice.</li>
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