Server rules

• A team can have at most 6 players. The game enforces the cap on in-game groups. Steam clan groups and Steam lobby groups are switched off on this server, so every team uses the in-game group system.
• You can be in one team at a time.
• No allies and no teaming outside your group. That covers alliances, truces, non-aggression pacts, shared bases, shared vehicles, shared defense, and fighting or raiding together with players who are not in your group. Talking to other teams is fine. Coordinating with them is not.
• Do not split into several groups of the same people to get around the cap, and do not swap members in and out of groups to bypass it.
• Running more than one account to put extra players on your team counts as teaming.

• Offline raiding is allowed. Any base can be raided at any time, whether or not its owners are online.
• Staff do not restore raided bases, refund lost items, or replace stolen vehicles.
• Raiding methods that rely on a bug, such as getting into a base through terrain or objects the game does not intend you to pass, are exploits (see section 4).

• No building in or near protected areas. A protected area is a monument, a safezone, a vehicle shop, or any player or vehicle spawn. "Near" means within 50 metres.
• No blocking. Do not use barricades, structures or vehicles to stop players from spawning, from reaching a vehicle shop, or from using or entering a monument.
• Staff may remove anything that breaks this section without notice or compensation.

These are permanent bans, with no warning first.

• Cheating is using any software or hardware that gives an unfair advantage. That includes aimbots, wallhacks and ESP, no-recoil, speed or fly hacks, lag switching, and macros that automate combat.
• Glitching under the map is getting under or outside the map boundary through a terrain or object bug, then hiding, looting, building, or attacking from there.
• Exploits are knowingly using a bug or oversight for advantage. Examples are duplicating items, building in places no one can reach, and launching vehicles to cross the map.

If you find a bug, report it to staff. Reporting a bug is never punished. Using it is.

If you fall under the map by accident, tell staff right away and stop playing until they help you. You will not be punished if you did not gain anything from it.

Permanent bans for cheating, glitching and exploits can be appealed. See how to appeal.

• No hate speech, harassment, threats, or sharing other people's personal information.
• No advertising other servers or selling cheats.
• Private messages are not private from staff. The server's log records every chat command, including its full text, and /pm and /reply are chat commands. Staff read the log only to look into a report that involves them. Harassing someone by private message is harassment like any other; /block <player> stops a player from messaging you or sending you teleport requests, /block last blocks whoever sent you the last private message (also when you cannot type their name), and you can report it to staff with a screenshot. The game's own "Mute text chat" in the player list, and turning chat text off in the options, do not hide private messages; /block does.
• No pretending to be staff. That includes a character name, group nickname or Steam profile name (other players see it in the player list and on the death screen) that shows a staff rank anywhere in it, in any brackets or spelling (for example "[Owner] ...", "... [Mod]" or "[Cloud] [Admin] ..."); the server turns such a name away when you join and tells you to change it. Staff may show their own rank in their Steam profile name and their group nickname, written as their group's prefix or as the rank's word. A new character's nickname is the Steam profile name until you change it, so a name refused there has to change in both places.
• No trading items or accounts for real money.
• Evading a ban with another account is a permanent ban, and the original ban can no longer be appealed.

Staff pick the penalty that fits. They can skip steps for serious cases.

Every ban is recorded with a ban ID and the evidence behind it.

• The map wipes every second Saturday at 06:00 UK time.
• It is announced in game chat a day ahead, and again 6 hours, 2 hours, 30 minutes, 15 minutes, 5 minutes and 1 minute before. The server list shows the date of the next wipe.
• A wipe resets bases, items, vehicles, character skills and in-game money. Bans and staff are kept.
• The server also restarts every day at 05:00 UK time, so on a wipe Saturday there is a restart an hour before the wipe. The 2 hour notice comes before that restart and the 30 minute notice after it.