ROTO - Rome

Community Conduct

• Be respectful. Harassment, toxicity, discrimination, and targeted abuse are not allowed.
• No NSFW builds, messages, paintings, skins, or content.
• No unrelated advertising, spam, staff impersonation, or player impersonation.
• No real-life threats, doxxing, DDoS threats, extremist content, or promotion of real-world atrocities.
• No false reports, fake evidence, or intentionally misleading staff during investigations.
• Loopholes are not a valid defense. Staff may punish behavior that clearly breaks the spirit of the rules.

Fair Play & Anti-Cheating

• No hacked clients, autoclickers, macros, unauthorized alts, or stolen accounts.
• One account per player unless approved by staff.
• No teleport traps, combat logging, or logging out to avoid combat, sieges, raids, captures, or staff action.
• No griefing outside active sieges or staff-approved war events.
• Warps and travel points must remain usable and may not be intentionally blocked or trapped.
• Allowed mods include Optifine, JEI, and minimaps unless staff says otherwise.
• Report exploits immediately. Knowingly abusing bugs or exploits is prohibited, even if reported later.

PvP & Combat Rules

• PvP is always enabled.
• No handcuffs or trapping items may be used in PvP or war.
• If a player hides in their base and refuses to fight, attackers must leave using /stuck after a maximum of 15 minutes.
• Repeatedly hunting, camping, or targeting a player outside active war may be treated as harassment.
• No AFK kills.
• No teleporting during combat, raids, sieges, hunts, or wars.
• No dual-wielding combat gear for extra stats.
• Units cannot be killed outside of wars unless they attack first. Breaking this may result in an instant ban.
• Greek Fire may only be used defensively to protect your own land.

Gear Restrictions

• No Netherite weapons or armor.
• No diamond weapons.
• No vanilla armor, shields, or axes.
• No enchantments on combat gear. Tool enchants and utility enchants are allowed.
• No vanilla potions.
• Potions are capped at Level 1.
• No Elytra or Ender Pearls for PvP.

Factions & Claiming Rules

• No sabotage, griefing, or stealing from faction members.
• Espionage, spying, and information-sharing are allowed.
• Faction leaders must return the items of kicked players.
• Claims must stay within the faction tilemap.
• Wanderers may claim small areas anywhere.
• No snake claims, hollow claims, or distant ocean-only claims.
• Sea claims may only extend up to 4 chunks from the coastline.

Immersive Paintings

• No profanity, offensive text, slurs, hate speech, or extremist content.
• No nudity, sexual content, or anything sexual in nature.
• No graphic, gory, violent, or disturbing content.
• No references to real-world dictators, terrorists, or figures associated with atrocities.
• Historical or religious Roman/medieval artwork is allowed only when used respectfully and in context.

Build Quality & Multipliers

Builds are judged by size, detail, realism, and effort. Structures must resemble their intended purpose and fit the server's historical theme.

Capital & Housing Requirements

• Capitals and settlements must have at least 8 houses inside the walls.
• Each house must be at least 8×8×6.
• Each house must include a bed, storage, décor, and basic utilities.
• Houses must look like realistic dwellings.
• Housing must be completed before specialized structures unlock.

Military Structures

Economy & Resource Structures

Animal Farms

Animal farms require a minimum 12×12 pen, 15 animals, and a barn.

War Declarations

• You must control at least one eligible city or capital to declare war.
• War declarations against active nations must be posted in the warfare channel.
• Diplomatic posts must show marching paths, ally permissions, and total cost.
• Attacking someone in their territory is a valid casus belli.
• If you are attacked and go to war over it, travel costs are nullified for one battle.

War Travel

• Land movement costs 3000 coins per tile.
• You may only march through your own tiles or allied tiles.
• Seafaring costs the same as land movement.
• Seas cannot be blockaded.
• If forces clash on the same sea path, a naval battle occurs. The winner keeps the route.

AI & Inactive Tile Conquering

• A diplomacy post is required and travel costs still apply.
• You must border the tile being conquered.
• Staff will organize the mock siege.

Relics & Units

Unit Rules

• Players may have a maximum of 8 units outside of wars.
• Faction leaders may design custom troop trees for their faction.
• During wars, factions have a faction-wide limit of 250 troops.
• Faction leaders may decide how troops are allocated between players.

Relics

• Relics include holy books and event artifacts.
• Relics must always be assigned to a town.
• Relics cannot be transferred during wartime.
• No town may hold more than 3 relics.
• If a tile is conquered, attackers gain the relics assigned to that town.
• After 30 days of inactivity, relics may reset or be hidden by staff.

Enforcement

• Reports require evidence.
• Exploit reporting may be rewarded.
• False reports are punishable.
• Players may not interfere with staff events, investigations, or administrative actions.
• Staff decisions may be appealed to senior staff or administrators.
• Final administrative decisions are binding.
• Dynmap Hide is allowed.