RULES AND POLICIES
Jan 10, 2016 6:41:34 GMT
Post by Venus on Jan 10, 2016 6:41:34 GMT
rules.
Please read the all of the Rules, Policies, and FAQ before asking questions! Probably everything you might want answered is listed here and not reading the text will not be an excuse for rule-breaking.
O U T O F C H A R A C T E R
001. This site is literate, which means that proper grammar and sentences that make sense are required. Just make sure it's understandable, yeah? Quality over quantity, but if you have good posts that are long too, well, that's fantastic.
002. Under no circumstances are ooc racism, ableism, sexism, and general discrimination allowed. You get one chance, and one chance only. Upon your second offense, you will be suspended or banned. We are very serious about these rules. This site is lgbtqia+ friendly and we encourage people from all backgrounds, genders, sexualities, romanticisms, et cetera.
Long story short, respect everyone on this site.
003. Theft will not be tolerated in any way, shape, or form. If you have something that you didn't make - please credit the original person who made it. This includes original artwork and templates.
004. This site does not have a word count requirement for roleplay posts, but we encourage you to talk with your roleplay partners before or during roleplays so that all parties understand how each other roleplays and what they expect from their roleplays.
005. If you have an issue with another member, staff, or an overall complaint about the site, please bring it to the attention of a staff member. We will not silence someone for having an opinion.
006. However, we as staff reserve the right to place our foot down if an issue gets out of hand. we’re not about to kick back and watch fireworks fly; as admin we try our best to push away any personal feelings toward matters and handle it as a middle-grounder.
I N C H A R A C T E R
001. Since this is proboards and not another, more lenient forum host, we need to keep the site as a PG-13 one. While cursing is fine and dandy, don’t overdo it for the sake of spouting the f-bomb. Sex scenes do not belong on this site, not even via personal messages, so please take that off-site immediately, or you will be suspended.
002. Activity-wise, we will be hosting monthly activity checks requiring one in-character posts for every character you may have. This may be waived if you are on a leave, though the waiver ends as soon as the activity check does. Please try to keep us updated on your leave if you happen to be absent.
003. Please reach out to other people. After a while, it isn’t fun to see the same two people thread their characters with one another and hardly branching out. We are a community, not a one-on-one thread. Don’t be exclusive.
004. We are an animanga face claim site, so when adding images to your character's application, please use only animanga images for the face claim. Also, be sure to check the claims to make sure that your face has not already been claimed. Any form of animated or drawn face claims are allowed, just please be sure not to use real life face claims.
004.5. Original face claims are allowed under certain circumstances. Please PM an admin with the face that you would like to use and we have the right to accept or reject them. We are mostly concerned with making sure that they do not look too outlandish and are not just stick figures.
005. This site uses both liquid and static time. This means that your characters are able to be active in multiple threads at once (just remember to be active in them!) as well as meaning that the time will pass, but your characters will stay the same (in age, etc).
006. Powerplaying, godmodding, mary-sues, gary-stus, flaming, or any other type of behavior that is generally frowned upon in character has no place on this site.
007. Please use common sense. Legendary Pokemon are not allowed to be 'owned' (don't even try this) and legendary encounters are randomly done. (PM an admin if you have a solid idea as to why your character would have seen one before the start of roleplay - we reserve the right to tell you no.)
008. Shiny Pokemon can only be bought from the shop here, and commonly popular Pokemon may be banned on a case-by-case basis if overdone. (Please, consider not making a trainer who owns twenty Eevee!)
009. Characters part of the tribes who still reside on Evter Island do not have the ability to catch Pokemon because they do not have Pokeball technologies, but they are able to befriend native Pokemon as companions. Tribe members may start with one, two, or no companions. Due to their peoples' ideals, they do not "collect" Pokemon and often view them more as friends and equals than as owning them (some viewing them as even higher than themselves based on their beliefs). Please see the information page on the tribes for more information on each peoples' ideals.
policies.
001. We do allow your characters to have signatures, but we require them to be equal to or less than 150px in height and 500px in width. We do reserve the right to change your signature if we find it to be too big or inappropriate. Also, please refrain from using gifs in your signatures because it can be harsher on the eyes, cause a bit more lag, or just be generally a bit of an annoyance to the eyes when scrolling through threads.
002. Icons (for your user profile) are 100px in height and width for the smaller, and 350px tall, with a 250px width. We will assign you the site default icons should you chose to not create any for yourself. Please do not use gifs for your icons. They should be stationary, not moving.
003. If you create an account and do not say anything to us or do anything with it for a week, the staff will delete the account and it will be deemed inactive. This applies to talking in the cbox as well. Just let us know that you plan on staying and are not just a bot!
004. This site has a one account per character policy, as it makes sorting through characters a lot easier and allows for characters to be tagged in threads by themselves instead of tagging one account. That being said, there are also no OOC accounts for normal members of the site, as they would really not used for much other than idle prattle in the OOC boards and the mini profiles easily tell who plays what character in each post. PLEASE SIGN UP USING THE FIRST NAME OF YOUR CHARACTER. Do not sign up using your name/nickname as that makes it more challenging to tag characters.
005. While we do not have a limit on how many characters you can roleplay (just keep up with them!) to keep up with the plot we require that for every three other characters (civilian, trainer, breeder - even assimilated) you have to have a tribe member on the island. We call this the 3:1 Ratio and it may be subject to change (with notifications) down the road.
006. As of now, there are no character-playable gym leaders or elite four members/champion on Cyal because that is not the focal point of the site. Characters can challenge gym leaders and the elite four (once they have the badges), but right now they are NPCs. This may change in the future.
007. We very much prefer characters that are original, so canon characters from any media are not permitted.
008. There is no limit to the amount of Pokemon the modern characters can have, but please keep it reasonable for the character's circumstances. For example, it wouldn't make sense for a ten year old trainer who only has been training for a few months to have a PC box full of Pokemon.
009. Because this is a statless site, you do not need to list specific numbers when talking about your character's Pokemon, but because Pokemon learn different moves at different periods of time, levels can be used as a form of reference.
010. Wild Pokemon, as well as encountering NPCs or battling with NPCs, or other encounters, can be requested on the modding request board here.
011. There has been a lot of talk about Pokemon being of different body types and sizes based on breeding, but currently we only allow such modifications if they are similar to the original Pokemon's design because it makes the most sense for this site. If the size is similar to the original size and description of the Pokemon, it may be allowed, but the admins and moderators do reserve the right to reject modifications.
012. We have a face claim reservation policy that you are allowed to reserve a face claim for any amount of time that you need, but because we allow this, we only allow one face to be reserved per person at a time. If you would like to change this, reserve a new face and state specifically that the old one should not be reserved anymore.
013. Please be sensitive when it comes to disabilities. We have no problem with characters who have disabilities, but keep in mind that disabilities and disorders are not accessories and should not be tacked onto a character as an afterthought "just because." We strongly encourage members who wish to make a character who has a disability to educate themselves in how said disability affects individuals in their daily lives.
014. In order to keep the site clean and looking nice, our final policy is that all posts in roleplay threads need to have some kind of formatting. We also require you to use code for your plotter (and the replies), and tracker. PLEASE READ THE INFORMATION AND RULES ON THEIR RESPECTIVE BOARDS. It does not need to be an extravagant layout, you don't need to be a master coder, and if you don't want to you don't even need to go scrambling around looking for a code. You can either find your own code on one of the coding resource forums, make your own layout, or you can use one of the layouts listed here (just be sure to credit whoever made the code!).