Server Rules - September 2023

Renegade Server Rules - Updated November 10th 2024

Rules can and/or will be amended at anytime if a particular incident calls for it, this is likely occur if a non-standard map is being played, in which case the decision is deferred to General Rule 2, follow a moderators instruction.

General Rules

1. No cheating or hacking of any kind, if caught abusing a cheat you will be banned.

2. Follow any direction given to you by an identified moderator.

3. Racism is not permitted. This includes slurs against a race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, group, or individual. It also includes slang used in today's vernacular.

4. All homophobia is banned.

5. Please do not constantly whine or moan about things. Everyone gets annoyed with it over time.

6. Please keep trolling to a minimum.

7. Do not Death evade.

8. No glitching of any kind: such as obelisk walking, firing through the Weapons Factory bay window, and using !stuck/!unstuck command to go off map.

9. No team hampering. This includes, but is not limited to: team vehicle stealing, blocking team vehicles, blocking team repairers(in any way, including cover MTC with C4) and over-mining.

10. No advertising of other servers, it's considered rude at best.

11. Do not stack teams by abusing the !tc command, or otherwise. This includes leaving the game to unbalance teams, allowing another player to join or swap teams.

12. Do not abuse the vote system. This includes starting polls to kick players, repeating polls that do not pass(or halted by a moderator), joining and leaving under different nick names to add another vote.

Infantry

1. One-man wall hops are not permitted, you cannot hop a wall by yourself.

2. No flaming characters.

3. Invisi-Hugging glitch is NOT allowed here. This means you have to come out of the corner clearly when you shoot.

Vehicles

1. Pic/Rail "in out shooting" is not allowed in combination with any vehicles when engaging against enemy ground vehicles, EXCEPT Buggy/Humvee/ APC/Chameleon/Recon/Tow-Humvee/Flying Vehicles. Ramjets versus vehicles is allowed.

2. Wall hopping with vehicles is not allowed.

3. No vehicles inside buildings.

4. No flaming vehicles. Remoting your vehicle so an sbh does not steal it is acceptable.

5. Blocking the harvester is allowed, as long as you can get your team's consensus to block it.

6. Capturing enemy harvester is NOT allowed UNTIL TT fixes bug that prevents from OB/AGT shooting enemy harvester.

Beacons

1. We allow fake beacons, but not constant spamming(4-5 really fast is considered spam).

2. We allow tunnel nukes, as long as they do not hit a building.

3. We do not allow Ledge beacons nor beacons on top of buildings on ANY map, except Canyon's barracks and WF(where you can jump onto back of wf).

Crates

1. Credit tib farming is not allowed(exception is Human Silo + your Ref being dead). This means shooting yourself with a rocket or a tiberium auto rifle that will cause you to lose health so your teammate can repair you.

2. If you get the Human Silo crate -AND- your Refinery is dead: you CAN have a teammate repair you in the tiberium field(Ref has to be dead)!

Map Specific

1. No Base to Base attacks, shooting enemy base from your base. (B2B) You must be across the second river outside of your base on Islands. EXCEPT Complex, Get_Rekt_b8. 

• On Snow: Shooting upper tunnels with arty, med, or any vehicle that will damage building is NOT Allowed.

Updates

 

April 13, 2025 addon concerning moderators/administrators changing gameplay for fun:

As long as a mod/admin can get most of the players onboard with making a game fun(using godmodes/gameovers/setnextmaps/setspeeds/spawning in guns/etc) they are allowed to do so.

• It's best to do it on smaller games, that way they will know if people have a problem with it. You need to get people talked into that.
• Don't use godmode to kill buildings. That does kind of wreck our ranking system up. We'll leave that sort of thing for actual RC events.
• If people throw a fit over it, you will be expected to stop(and/or gameover to a new map if needed). You'll know when people will throw a fit, so will the admin team.
• It's been an unwritten/unofficial thing for ages now, but going in writing officially.
• Make it clear to people who join the server after that, what you/players are doing, and for how long.

 

August 3, 2025 addon concerning shaders:

• Using any shader tool/program or shader setting that gives you an advantage by outlining players/walls/terrain/vehicles/items/weapons/etc is not allowed. When caught you will be banned, or forced to remove it(if caught again banned), depending on the situation.

 

Moderator Rules that mods abide by:

    1. Ask the people first who wants to teamchange, if noone does, bribe them with your money. If all else fails, use the !teams command, or !forcetc the last place person(if it is really one-sided(3 or more players worth)).
    2. Teamchanging add-on: From the start of a "mass leaving" of 2 or more players, you need to have the teams as even as possible before five minutes is done. If the playercount is 15 or less: you need to have this done within three minutes. If you happen to be an AFK moderator at the time(you're "not playing"), teamchange yourself since you're doing nothing anyway(unless you're spectating/watching someone of course, in that case find someone to teamchange). Do not sit there and argue with players/moderators about it all...thereby making things worse.
    3. If you deem the map is too stale-mated or one-sided beyond repair, ask players if they want to !gameover or !poll suddendeath(Full Moderators and higher have access to !fds suddendeath).
    4. If you need to halt a poll because a player is abusing the commands, then do so, and !shun them so they cannot make more polls(or any brenbot command, don't forget to !unshun later). EX: a player polls 5 times trying to sneak one through during a rush.
    5. Use the !warn command(over a kick) if you need to for unruly people.
    6. Use the !forcett command over a ban if possible(for non-4.0 scripts users) for cheaters.
    7. When placing bans, be sure to check their serial/ip range, so it isn't a regular player who gets caught up in a ban. <May 5, 2025: This public field is edited due to identifiable information>
    8. If a player is blocking the harvester and they did not get their team's consenus to do so, you may kill it, or warn that player if necessary. Full moderators have access to the !fds killharv <team> command.
    9. If you have to !atm someone ingame when no moderators are around, make sure it is someone you know will be trustworthy. Else, it'll be on your head if they mess up big.
    10. Do not ban someone for being AFK. If it is a repeat offender, bring it to the forums.
    11. Do not kick moderators who are AFK, not unless they have been so for long periods(2-3 games) and are really hampering their team by not being active.
    12. Do not qkick, kick, ban, forcetc, forcett, mute(or any other command) to end an argument with a player if you had a part in it. EX: baiting someone and whipping out the !mute ingame.
    13. Do not stream a bunch of abuse at players. The normal trash talking is ok.
    14. Do not perform glitches in the server. Do not cheat in the server.
    15. Do not use !fds revive(building name here) unless over 3/4 of the server populace agrees upon it. EX: someone glitch abuses a building and screwed the whole game up.
    16. Do not stack teams.
    17. Do not use your "powers" against another moderator during a verbal fight. Not unless that other person is clearly breaking a major server rule(ex: cheating, abusing other people for no reason). Bring it to an Admins attention or the forum.
    18. Do not kick/ban people from irc channels or teamspeak channels for the fun of it.
    19. Do not abuse ANY powers given to you, they are given to you to enforce the rules and permit fair gameplay throughout the servers, not for your own fun or enjoyment.

Edit: May 5, 2025: #2 Moderator ruling is relaxed, as it isn't the same as it used to be with full servers/etc when this rule was written.

Added in this section:

April 13, 2025 addon concerning moderators/administrators changing gameplay for fun:

As long as a mod/admin can get most of the players onboard with making a game fun(using godmodes/gameovers/setnextmaps/setspeeds/spawning in guns/etc) they are allowed to do so.

• It's best to do it on smaller games, that way they will know if people have a problem with it. You need to get people talked into that.
• Don't use godmode to kill buildings. That does kind of wreck our ranking system up. We'll leave that sort of thing for actual RC events.
• If people throw a fit over it, you will be expected to stop(and/or gameover to a new map if needed). You'll know when people will throw a fit, so will the admin team.
• It's been an unwritten/unofficial thing for ages now, but going in writing officially.
• Make it clear to people who join the server after that, what you/players are doing, and for how long.