RetroMC Punishment Manual

The RetroMC Punishment Manual (RPM) is designed to outline the punishments issued to players for different offences. This document is currently in draft and thus, only staff can edit this. To staff: If you wish to edit this in any way, contact @cruxell (  CruxyMC in-game).

Advertising

Advertising can be broken up between malicious and non-malicious advertising, and thus, various cases should be handled differently. It should be noted that mentioning the names of other servers or other off-topic activities and discussing them is not necessarily a punishable offence; however, the issue lies in the direct advertising and distribution of other server IPs/links.

Malicious advertising

An example for what can be considered malicious advertising: https://bans.johnymuffin.com/b/e476cE As you can see, this user is directly inviting people to an alternative server and asking them to play there, which is a direct conflict of interest for the server.
From the context given, this player seems to be at best unaware of how this could cause harm to the server, or at worst, just doesn't care and thus, was promptly banned.
Players like these can make appeals, but will have a permanent record on their ban history.

Non-malicious advertising

An example for what can be considered non-malicious advertising: https://bans.johnymuffin.com/b/465d4E
As you can see, this user had posted a link to another server in response to another player asking if there were any legacy anarchy servers.
While this user did post a domain name/IP address to another server (which is a conflict of interest and does harm the server), it is clear that it was not their intention to directly harm the server.
Players like these should promptly be met with a warn, a mute then a ban for this behavior if the offense is repeated.

AFKing/idling and alternate accounts

RetroMC has a feature wherein AFK players will be auto-kicked if they're idling for longer than 30 minutes; however, this feature can be bypassed via AFK pools and other various methods. For a while now players haven't really been punished for bypassing the autokick, Until just now there has never been an issue with people using the afk pool. Lately some players are using one or multiple accounts to afk while not being at the computer playing the game for long stretches of time, this results in players who are not being particularly active having immense gain for very little all while bypassing a intended auto kick feature. This is against the best interest of the server and will result in the following punishment on a case by case violation.

• 1st violation is a warning
• 2nd violation is a 1 week temp ban and freeze of farm.
• 3rd violation is a perma ban and removal of farm.
• Freezing/Removal of farm only occurs if the farm that's being abused is owned by the player abusing it. If its the other case, the player will be banned from using the farm and would be permanently banned if caught using it again.

Acceptable Use of the Afk pool

The following list are acceptable ways to use the afk pool.

• Using an alt account to load chunks for mob farms while your other accounts are Actively at the keyboard and playing the game
• Using an account to to wait for crops to grow.
• Idling and doing nothing of value.

Non Acceptable Use of the Afk pool

The following list are Non acceptable ways to use the afk pool.

• Using one or multiple accounts to afk at a farm that collects drops while you are not actively at your keyboard.

Changelog

All changes to the RPM are to be documented accordingly.

Date DD/MM/YY	Change	Author
21/12/23	Inception of RPM	JohnyMuffin
21/12/23	Added Proposed Policy For advertising.	CruxyMC
21/12/23	Minor formatting fixes.	Noggisoggi
6/1/24	Added Proposed Policy For Alt-accounts (afk).	CruxyMC
17/1/24	Formatting fixes.	Noggisoggi
17/1/24	Approval of Advertising rules & Temporary Approval of afk-pool rules by ork.	CruxyMC
18/1/24	Edited Punishments on Afk-pools	CruxyMC

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