General Rules

CHEATING / EXPLOITS / BOTS

• Any violation of the following will result in permanent ban for the offenders & tribe members may be face additional punishment if suspected to have knowledge of.
• BOT USAGE: including, but not limited to: Automated tasks, Aimbots, ESPs, Warnings, Anti-Cheat Protection, Enviromental Removals
• CHEATS / HACKS: any shady stuff that you can not explain or present sufficient proof of being legit.
• DUPING ANYTHING.
• MACRO USAGE.
• DUAL-BOXING.
• UNDER-MESHING: Manipulating your character through the terrain mesh at any time.
• STRUCTURE MESHING:
• Manipulating structures through the terrain mesh so they dont take damage.
• Driving structures or turrets on a platform dino or raft through an enemy structure.
• Placing turrets, turret mode dinos able to shoot through a structure but unable to take damage from opposite side.

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NAMING STANDARDS FOR STEAM, PLAYER, TRIBE, DINOS & NAMES; ALSO APPLIES TO STRUCTURES THAT CAN BE RENAMED.

• ALL naming choices MUST adhere to AGB's Golden Ruleguidelines.
• No generic names - e.g. - 123, 321, Human, Survivor, Player or any other similary un-unique or unmemorable names, with exception to dinos still named their generic class name.
• If you cannot be unique with your naming choice you will be renamed without discussion without your input on the new name.
• MUST use printable, standard US-ASCII characters recognized by Ark's engine & logs.
• !  "  #  $  %  &  '  (  )  *  +  ,  -  .  :  ;  <  >  =  ?  @  _  `  |  ∼  [  \  ]  {  /  }  ^
• 1-9 A-Z a-z
• If there is a ☐ box icon ☐ in any name, the player, tribe, dino, or structure affected will be destroyed.
• Simply put: the list of acceptable characters above is not permission to use !#&(((- as a name.

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TRIBE RULES

• The tribe owner has absolute control of the tribe. All decisions by the owner are final.
• A tribe can vote out an inactive leader. Admins will verify activity, and votes before changing ownership.
• If all members are not in discord, we will take no action.

* Have an unresolvable issue with your tribe owner? Need to go separate ways? DO NOT INSIDE, see below.

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TRIBE INSIDING/SABOTAGE aka 'insiding'

• Will result in a permanent ban for all involved individuals no matter if you are the antagonist, supporter, beneficiary or otherwise were negligent in preventing a plot.
• Harming your tribe's defensive abilities, progress or secrets to include, but not limited to: *
• Sabotage, deception, disinformation, treachery, double-dealing or any other means of malice used to cripple, undermine or otherwise hurt your tribe.
• Leaving tribe with resources, items, blueprints or dinos not explicity approved by the tribe owner or Admins.
• Sharing information regarding your tribe's defenses, base layout, or privileged information with another tribe.
• Parting ways with your tribe and you're unable to reach an agreement with the tribe owner? Submit at SUPPORT TICKET.
• DO NOT INSIDE YOUR TRIBE. Speak with an admin before doing ANYTHING.
• We can facilitate a resolution that is acceptable to all parties.

* Any plots, planning or intent presented to Admins with compelling or conclusive evidence will be considered insiding.

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GRIEFING / HARASSING

• Greifing or harrassing players or tribes will be resolved with an overwhelmingly disproportionate Admin resolution.
• Reports of griefing MUST be presented with evidence (times, tribe logs, videos, screenshots etc.) to include time frames.
• Situations we consider griefing or harrasing:
• Luring wild dinos to other tribes bases is considered griefing.
• Harrassing other players using structures to block or trap them or their dinos is considered griefing.
• Written or verbal harrasment that crosses the intent of our Community Rules .