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Rules must be followed by both players and admins.
Actions from UGC administrators are final and not subject to appeal.
Ignorance does not relieve responsibility!
- Any form of cheating is prohibited.
• Includes (but not limited to): Aimbot, ESP, sv_cheats exploits, fake lag, crit bucket.
- Supporting a cheater is prohibited. (Ex. healing)
• Healing, defending blatant cheaters/silencing people by calling them out in chat.
- Do not abuse the calladmin system by making false accusations or misusing it.
• Intentionally misreporting players who haven't broken rules (Reporting players who killed friendlies for toxicity), ditching reports (leaving immediately afterwards or when questioned by staff), misreporting staff spamming malicious reports.
- Griefing behaviours, such as obstructing sniper scopes or faking cheating, are prohibited.
• Faking spinbot/cheating, obstructing sniper scopes, using votemenu maliciously, lagging servers via internal means, using taunt audio bugs that disrupt the lobby, refusing to end duels- Duels are assumed to end at the first to 20 kills, unless a different winlimit is agreed upon by both duelists.
- Exploiting
• Includes (but is not limited to): Exiting intended map boundaries, using map or plugin bugs to gain advantages over others such as: damaging others through certain walls/doors, manipulating character models to confuse enemies or to be harder to hit, letting enemy players into your spawn or spawn area, using the airblast glitch on Pyro...
- Inappropriate names are prohibited. (Including weapon names)
• Offensive, insulting, NSFW or derogatory usernames, item names/descriptions are not allowed (Disallowed items such as items with inappropriate names/descriptions or images are not allowed to be used in item loadout, not just held/used)
- Sprays, signs, flair, etc., that show nudity, hate symbols or obscene material are prohibited.
• Sprays, items or profile pictures that depict text/symbols of hate, acts of terror, sexual intercourse/acts, nudity, overly depicted genitalia, gore, scat, etc
- Impersonation or falsely claiming you are staff is prohibited.
• Imitating staff profiles/names/profile pictures, claiming or implying that you are a part of the staff team.
- Excessive spawn camping is prohibited. (Staff may determine what is considered excessive on a case-by-case basis)
• Not letting multiple players/teams exit their spawn area via continuously or repeatedly camping multiple (or one in more severe situations or maps like trade_plaza or trade_rawr) spawn exits with multiple players, and sentries.
- Excessive lagging is prohibited.
• Frequent lagging to an extent that negatively affects the gameplay of others
- Any threats to the community or its members are prohibited. (This includes but is not limited to DDOS threats, doxxing)
- Obstructing admin work
• Actions or behaviours that intentionally impede or disrupt administrative tasks such as handling cheaters or other rule breakers
- Attempts at bypassing punishments may result in removal from our servers.
- Using bullets holes to write out offensive messages or maliciously cutting off voice lines to pronounce slurs is prohibited.
- Refrain from using anything involving VPNs/Proxys, you will likely be banned by our Console for sharing an IP of a past rule breaker.
Chat & Voice Rules:
- Treating staff and players with respect is required.
- Hate speech of all types is prohibited.
- Advertising TF2 communities/sites is prohibited (outside of trading purposes). NSFW content is strictly prohibited all around.
- Spamming text and voice chat is prohibited.
- Our servers are ENGLISH only.
- Playing single or multiple sound effects in VC continuously or repeatedly is prohibited.
- Playing music in VC without permission or supervision from staff or playing music over others already doing it is prohibited.
- Anything pedophilic in nature is prohibited.
- Political talks (and/or names) are strongly not recommended. If a staff member tells you to stop, listen immediately.
- Begging for items or services is prohibited.
- Serious claims (e.g., pedophilia or grooming) about others should only be made with credible proof. False or baseless accusations aren’t allowed.
Any use of voice chat that disrupts voice communication through repetition, excessive noise, preventing others from communicating is considered mic spam and is prohibited.
This includes, but is not limited to:
Repeated or continuous use of sound effects, other disruptive audio, or soundboards to spam noises or recordings
Playing music without staff permission
Playing music over another user already doing it
Use of voice changers in a way that is excessive, loud, or disruptive
Audio that is excessively loud, distorted, or low-quality
This includes, but is not limited to:
Repeated or continuous use of sound effects, other disruptive audio, or soundboards to spam noises or recordings
Playing music without staff permission
Playing music over another user already doing it
Use of voice changers in a way that is excessive, loud, or disruptive
Audio that is excessively loud, distorted, or low-quality
Server Specific Rules:
1. Idle/Trade and Trade Servers:
- Scamming or attempting to scam other players is prohibited. Sharing account information for trades is also prohibited.
- Camping general map portal areas IS allowed, however, placing buildings/body blocking in order to trap the actual portal itself where people using it get stuck and cannot move, is NOT allowed. Camping the latch near the dirt maze in a way where players effectively get stuck also falls under this rule.
- Idling in servers with an anti-AFK plugin is not permitted.
- Instantly killing players who are leaving their spawn with map teleporters via backstab, sticky-traps or market gardens is considered spawncamping.
VIP Rules:
- Using VIP to give yourself an unfair advantage over others in combat is prohibited.
- Players may not enter combat while resized by any means, except for when resizing the entire body to an equally larger state. Any other forms of resizing in combat are prohibited.
- Use this calculator to find out what is allowed and what is not: https://vip-abuse.ugc.tf/
- Malicious use of overbearing and disruptive server-wide sounds, such as DPS enhanced looping taunts is considered VIP abuse.
- Custom weapons are permitted in combat as long as they do not provide an unfair advantage.
- Changing model color using sm_effects is forbidden in combat.
- Using more than one custom/gimme weapon at a time while in combat is prohibited.
- "In combat" can refer to attacking others (self-defense included), healing/attacking/defending buildings, healing players who are engaged in combat, doing actions which can foreseeably and directly affect the outcomes of fights.
- Specific weapon restrictions may apply, as outlined below.
The following actions are prohibited in combat and may result in disciplinary action:
- Using the Grappling Hook (1152) in combat for movement, positioning, dodging, or escaping. (Outside of combat is allowed for any class, if someone attacks you but you don't engage, you can grapple away).
- Using the MvM Shield (7008) to hit players behind walls.
- Using rifles on any class other than Sniper (Uber rifle custom weapon is ALLOWED on Medic/Outside of combat is allowed for any class)
- Using Sandvich or other lunchbox weapons mid-combat on any class other than Heavy. (Outside of combat is allowed for any class).
- Using a spy knife on a fast class like Scout.
- Using the Anti-Skill RL (7005) on Scout.
- Using a flame thrower on Scout or Engineer.
- Using the Your Eternal Reward to disguise as other classes while not playing spy.
If you are unsure or have questions on any potential usage-case for VIP perks, please feel free to contact staff on our discord or forum.
Default weapon IDs, Custom VIP weapon IDs, Custom weapon suggestion log.
RULES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE AT ANY TIME
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