Rules

The RP Guidelines have been moved to the Wiki. While not enforced as rules themselves, they do tie in heavily with our rules.
https://wiki.yogstation.net/wiki/Guide_to_Roleplay

We expect our players to be tolerant to people who are different from them in some way, and respect their choices. Do not use terminology that is considered bigoted or racist, or is offensive to a large group of people. Usage of the words “nigger”, “faggot”, variants and derivatives of those are completely banned from the server.

As a general rule, anything more sexualized than kissing and hugging is considered erotic. Do not roleplay acts of an erotic nature. Insulting people with erotic or intercourse related terms is fine as long as the insults are not graphic or explained in detail. Do not write, upload, or distribute pornographic literature.

All cases are subject to admin discretion. If you cannot be contacted, you may be banned to have you explain your part of the story on the forums. Ignoring admin PMs, lying, insulting admins or other players, or showing a general bad attitude will be counted against you and could lead to a ban.

Do not abuse bugs. Instead, report any bugs on our github.

If you are not a round antagonist, do not cause major station damage, cause major chaos, create fires or hull breaches, release harmful gasses, spread harmful diseases, force disabilities or powers without consent, turn people into monkeys, distribute harmful injectors, severely harm, decapitate, or murder people, trap people in places from which they cannot escape, or any other action that would be considering agonizing for other players. As a rule of thumb, don’t commit crimes worthy of capital punishment as a non-antagonist. This list is not conclusive.

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You do not retain memories of when you were unconscious or dead. If given a prompt about it on revival, you no longer remember how you died or who killed you.

If you join the round as a different character, such as a personal AI, drone, adamantine golem, animal, space ninja, lavaland character, etc. you retain no memories at all of any event that occurred before you took that character.

Obscene names or names that are similar in look or pronunciation to obscene phrases are strictly forbidden. Do not give cyborgs or bots obscene names. Avoid using famous names or names of other fictional characters. Do not include honorifics in your name. Most species can have human names, which consist of a reasonable first and last name. The complete list of name rules can be found: >>>Click Here for More Detail<<<

Do not kill random people for no reason. For individual antagonists (traitors, changelings, Nanotrasen ninjas) murder is allowed if you can justify your actions with a connection to your objectives, which you must explain in detail if questioned. Nuclear teams, wizards, blobs, traitors with hijack, ascended heretics, and ascended darkspawn are exempt from most of the rule; however, do not spawnkill/convert at Arrivals or render it uninhabitable. For antagonists with the Die a Glorious Death objective, they may do whatever they wish so long as their actions kill them. They should not just murder in the hopes of getting killed by others. Traitor and IAA AIs are subject to this rule unless they actually have hijack or have been caught by the crew and have no other choice.

Listen to your superiors (head revolutionary, head gangster, shadowlings if you are thralled). Do not kill convertible crewmembers for no reason. Do not suicide or ghost during the conversion process. This rule applies to Gangsters, Cultists (Blood or Clock), Revolutionaries, Shadowlings, and Thralls, as well as any other team-based antagonist.

As an abductor, your job is to kidnap people, experiment on them and return them to the station. Therefore, do not harm people unless in self defense. You should not interfere with the station in a round-breaking way, such as:
- Looting the Armory
- Stealing or destroying AIs
- Altering AIs' laws where their behavior diverges excessively from their previous laws
- Teleporting victims down to a place where they have no way out
- Taking people ID cards permanently
Your IDs operate the same as the Agent IDs, so you can scan abductees' IDs to gain the access with your own ID.

Secure the disk on your person or with a trusted, high ranking person. Not following this may result in a form of ban.

Do not play as a head of a department unless you are experienced in all of the jobs in the department. Do not authorise or enact actions that compromise the function of the station, its crew, or the hierarchy of command without a good reason.

unless he is acting captain or an emergency forces him to. Using the disabler he spawns with for self-defense is fine, but hunting people down and arresting them is not.

Alert level should only be raised to blue when there has been a confirmed spotting of an antagonist as detailed in the metashield guide (link)
Alert level should only be raised to red when deadly force is authorized as defined by Space Law (link).

Confiscated items can be deconstructed by security/requested to be deconstructed if they provide initial access to the "foreign/illegal" technology tech web. Otherwise, confiscated items should be put inside the contraband locker or the armory/evidence lockers. Do not carry around contraband items for personal/regular use.

If you go out of your way to outfit yourself with visibly indistinct clothing as other jobs as a member of Security, you lose any protections you would have as a Security member. The crew may treat you as the job or role as the clothes that you wear. This includes self-defense and resisting arrest. Undercover Security are still required to visibly display their ID/PDA on their person, stating their actual security job title.

Do not impede the AI's control over Atmospherics by placing manual valves or completely cutting off mix to distro. That is considered powergaming, as you have no reason to suspect someone will tamper with Atmospherics at the start of the round.

Do not deliberately disrupt communications or upload harmful or obscene telecoms scripts. Signal technicians are allowed to modify telecommunications, but making the messages unreadable or spamming communications is a violation of this rule.

Do not misrepresent chemicals being given to people. Do not distribute harmful chemicals. You may distribute drugs as long as they are properly labelled and pills do not contain overdoses.

such as luring fauna and megafauna to your companions to kill them off. Exceptions are the prisoners, who work each on their own accord.

but must return any kills they make to their tendril as soon as possible.

with all the restrictions that apply. They are allowed to defend themselves with lethal force if assaulted.

Someone convicted of embezzlement is unlikely to murder all of the station for laughs, but holding someone hostage is allowed.

If you become an animal you keep your antagonist/non-antagonist status. When not antagonist, do not use your new form's abilities to grief. This includes syndicate cyborgs. Do not split as a slime in public places.

Instead they may act as the role they are transformed into. Chaos carp bolts are not included in this rule and 3.7.1 applies in such cases.

Slimes spawned from pyroclastic anomalies may kill individual animals and people to feed on, but they should not break significant station equipment like engine containments in the hopes of broadly killing people. Anomaly slimes are non-antagonists.

1. Provide Logs and Demo Timestamps
2. Make sure that you are following the rules
3. Learn what you did wrong and how to avoid doing it in the future.