Rules
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By joining The Cyanist Empire, you agree that you will follow all of these rules at all times. Failure to comply may lead to your account being restricted from accessing our services.
Any punishment is directed towards both the account itself and the individual who broke the rules at the time. As such, having a friend, family member or anyone else break a rule on your account will still lead to that account being punished.
You are expected to follow the ‘spirit’ of these rules as opposed to the exact wording. As such, there are no ‘loopholes’. Staff members have the final verdict and you are expected to abide by their requests to the same degree as you would to this document.
If you've been punished on any of our servers and would like to appeal, .
1st Offence: Warning 2nd Offence: 1 hour mute 3rd Offence: 24 hour mute If Continued: 7 day mute each time (Unless specified otherwise)
Misusing chat: Using public chat in any way that may be disruptive or discomforting for other users. This includes:
Spamming
Zalgo (𝓯𝓪𝓷𝓬𝔂 𝓽𝓮𝔁𝓽)
Excessive swearing
Toxicity, negativity and disrespect
Asking for ranks/cyanite/etc.
Discussion regarding politics, religion, criminal activity or other potentially controversial topics
Flirting or e-dating
Bypassing the language filter
Speaking in a language other than English
Pinging users unnecessarily
(Discord Only) Misuse of feedback channels: Intentionally creating invalid or joke suggestions/bug reports in the relevant Discord channels. 1st offence: Warning 2nd offence: 1 week mute in relevant channel 3rd offence: 6 month mute in relevant channel
1st Offence: 3 day mute/ban 2nd Offence: 2 week mute/ban 3rd Offence: Becomes Class III (Unless specified otherwise)
Harassment: Actively singling out individuals or groups and making their experience on The Cyanist Empire less enjoyable. This includes:
Abuse
Trolling
Threats
Discrimination
Impersonation (Including that of staff or other officials)
Advertising: Posting links or search terms to things not related to the server for personal gain or competition. Sharing a song or video you found does not violate this rule. This rule covers actions such as asking people to follow you on social media, buy a product or join another server.
Anti-AFKing: Using auto-movement methods such as water flows or mods to prevent the player from being registered as AFK. (Your playtime may be rolled back) On repeat instances your hourly cyanite reward will be disabled.
1st Offence: Permanent Ban 2nd Offence: Permanent Ban (Non-appealable) (Unless specified otherwise)
Underage: Being less than 13 years old. The Cyanist Empire is a PG-13 community and contains language and topics unsuitable for those under this age.
Exploiting/Hacking: Using external mods, clients or an oversight within the game or server to gain an unfair advantage.
Inappropriate Content: Creating or posting digital content of an offensive, gory, sexual or otherwise inappropriate nature. This includes avatars, usernames, media and digital creations. (In the case of an avatar or username, you do not have to wait to appeal as long as you have changed it.)
Contempt: Showing obvious disregard for server rules or property. This includes committing multiple class I-II offences within minutes of initially joining.
Causing Lag: Setting up contraptions or creating lots of entities with the intent to lag or otherwise overwhelm the server.
Raiding: Rallying or attempting to rally other users to violate rules with the intent of overwhelming moderation.
The following will result in an immediate, permanent and non-appealable IP-Ban from all services associated with The Cyanist Empire.
Chargeback: Opening a chargeback on any purchase made in the online store. Ingame purchases made on The Cyanist Empire are strictly non-refundable. If you encounter any issues making an online purchase, please contact an administrator.
Breaking the Law: Using our services to facilitate any form of criminal activity. Your IP address and any other details may be shared with local law enforcement.
Evasion: Using alternate accounts or any other means to evade punishments.
At any class (excluding Serious Offences) staff may instead choose to issue you with a formal Warning instead of the punishment typical of that offence at their discretion. Such instances are decided circumstantially on a case by case basis and are typically only granted on the merit of prior exemplary behaviour or an offence being considered borderline to having been committed.
Lack of knowledge of the rules is not considered a mitigating circumstance.
Any moderation action taken against you will be privately logged against your account. Only staff members can see this.
Class I warnings and punishments expire after 6 months and will be removed from your record.
Class II and III warnings and punishments remain on your record permanently.
Punishments are synchronised between all of our servers. Warnings, mutes and bans apply to all platforms.
Please note that IP bans cannot be appealed.
Following an appeal submission, the following outcomes are possible:
No change. The information provided in the appeal was insufficient or invalid.
A reduction in the punishment duration. The information provided demonstrates that the individual has appropriately reflected on their actions and/or mitigating circumstances were involved or the punishment was excessive for the nature of the offence.
The punishment being altered to a formal warning. The information provided demonstrates that the individual has thoroughly reflected on their actions and/or significant mitigating circumstances were involved.
The punishment being revoked. This outcome can only happen if, based on information provided, there is insufficient evidence that an offence took place. In this case, the punishment will be removed from your record.
If you are unhappy with the outcome of your appeal, you may submit another appeal one month after your previous submission. When submitting subsequent appeals, you should consider why your previous appeal was denied.
If a ban is successfully appealed and you are banned again, any remaining time on your original ban will be added to your ban period. This does not apply if the original ban was revoked.
This document is not binding and staff may, under rare circumstances, restrict access on any or all platforms for reasons unstated within this document. This is usually only done in the interest of public opinion and whether we deem that you may not be a good fit for our community.
By playing on The Cyanist Empire or otherwise accessing our services, you consent to being monitored at any point by server staff with or without your knowledge for the purposes of safeguarding, moderation and staff training.
(Discord Only) Violating ToS: Using our Discord server in any way that violates .
Any mute or non-IP ban can be . The amount of time that has elapsed since the offence took place will be strongly considered when the determining the outcome of your appeal.