Rules

Rules

All Rules are subject to change without notice. – Last Edit 4/21/23

For ALL RULES! We will typically follow a 3 strike type system.

1. Warning in chat

2. Temporary Ban from servers. 24 hours to 1 week depending on offense.

3. Permanent Ban from servers and discord.

We also have a recorded strike system to remove and ban toxic players and rule breakers.

Bans can be appealed via discord if you have not been banned from discord.

In some circumstances we may skip immediately to a permanent ban.

These rules apply to all members including our admins.

Core Rules:

• Impersonating an admin is strictly prohibited.

  • • • You will be banned immediately. No appeal permitted.

• NO BEGGING for Items or Dinos: If the admin offers you may specify. Until the item or dino is provided they can choose to not give it to you.

• NO Verbal Abuse.

  • • • Harassment

      • Racism / Protected Statuses

      • We understand that these are adult servers. For the most part try and keep things at a PG-13 level. We know when things happen in game people get upset. Please keep it minimal and any such terms should not be focused towards a player.

      • You may NOT share content that glorifies or promotes suicide or self-harm, including any encouragement to others to do so.

      • oYou may NOT tell any player to Kill themselves or KYS.

• Respect all Admins and players.

• If you see something against the rules or something that makes you feel unsafe, let staff know. We want this server to be a welcoming space!

• If you have a complaint about the Ark servers, admins, or discord, DO NOT POST IT IN CHAT! Instead DM a leadership member.

• Friendly banter is acceptable as long as both parties are aware it is just simply friendly banter.

Anti-Toxic Section:

• Toxic behavior typically gets a 2-strike policy. 1st is a first and final warning. 2nd is a perma ban from Courage Gaming. In some cases we may ban immediately.

• PVP Tribe Stealing – Do not invite someone to your tribe to steal their items / dinos / structures. This will result in an immediate ban permanently.

Ark Cluster Rules:

Names

• Your name should be appropriate for your character and your tribe. Offensive names will result in either a rename or ban depending on the offensiveness of it.

• You MUST name your character. Do not use Human or Bob. If you fail to name your character, we will rename you to a name of our choosing.

• You can open a ticket to have your name changed to something you prefer if we rename you or if you forgot.

• You may not use admin in your name or tribe name under any circumstance. Other words indicating admin or staff also are not permitted.

PVP Game Play

• You may cage or Handcuff during a raid but must release within 1 hour of the raid end.

• You may not PVP an admin while they are doing admin duties. – They will let you know and provide 1 warning to stop.

Admin Abuse

• You may NOT call admin abuse in public chats. If you suspect an admin is cheating, you must either email help@courageark.com OR open a ticket in discord. If you discuss in public chats, you will be temporarily banned. If the admin is feeling nice, you MAY get 1 and only ONE warning. But after that, you will be timed out (Discord) and/or temporarily banned in game.

  • • If you were temporarily banned, you will be unbanned IF admin abuse is discovered in our investigation.

    • If you were temporarily banned, you will become permanently banned if admin abuse is not discovered. (Subject to approval by Owner)

• IF a ticket is received for admin abuse while the raid is ongoing, the raid will be put on hold, but you MUST not do any action that would defend or ready your base to continue. We will investigate and if no abuse, we will let you know. If there was abuse, they will be disciplined in accordance with our policies, anything lost will be restored, and the admin and their tribe will be prohibited from raiding you (UNLESS YOU ATTACK THEM FIRST) for 7 days. False reports may also result in a permanent ban for toxicity against admins.

• Please note someone IN an admin state does not automatically mean abuse. If they are not attacking / raiding you or looking for your base, it is NOT abuse. Some admins like to watch a raid happening just to see who wins. As long as the admin sits back and does not help either side, it is not abuse. If they decide to help they are not permitted to use powers.

Stores and Purchases

• BBS is available in game however not currently used.

• Discord Currency Store available in discord.

• Player Stores are not permitted.

Building

• Base Limits

  • 1 main base on the cluster.

  • You may additionally have a minor build on other maps to do any of the following:

    • • 1. • Prepare to raid people on the map

           • Prepare and fight boss fights.

           • Have a basic spawn point for when coming to map.

      • Minor builds should not have nearly as much as the main base.

      • Subscribers get 1 additional main base permitted per sub.

  • If you have more bases than permitted by rules Sub/Admin Benefits, the additional bases will be removed by admin without notice. If you continue to add additional bases, you will be tribe wiped without notice.

• A base is ANY structure including teleporters, traps, and more. We do count traps as a temporary structure however it must be taken down at the end of use or it will be counted as a base.

• You may additionally have a mobile base such as a raft, quetz, bronto, motorboat, and such.

• Each building should fit the purpose and the tribe size.

• If we think you are taking too much area you will be asked to downsize.

• $10+ monthly = 1 additional base

• Cloning Machines are not craftable or may be disabled. If sold by owner, those who purchased from owner can use.

• Location Restrictions:

  • Any location that is considered unraidable

  • Any location that is considered an exploit.

o No building or aggressive dinos whatsoever at any of the following locations:

• Fjordur teleportation area

• Genesis 2 Rockwell Innards

• §  Genesis 2 Space Bridges

• §  Wyvern egg nests, scar, Magma Egg Spawns, or Wyvern cave ON ANY MAP!

• Obelisks/City Terminals

• Player spawn locations

• Ragnarok Pearl Cave

• §  Ragnarok Lava Golem Cave

Ragnarok Ice Queen Cave

• Ragnarok Lifes Labyrinth

• The Center Jumping Puzzle

• Genesis Volcanic Cave

• Crystal Isles Honey Cave

• Crystal Isles Underwater Tunnels

  • All entrances and exits to cave listed above

• Extinction World Border (e.g. unfobbale locations above King Titan Terminal)

• Extinctions OSDs or Element Veins

• Valguero Aberration Zone Entrances

• Aberration surface and green surface entrances (red surface and blue surface entrances are allowed to be built in)

• Genesis – Mission Zones (including base locations ABOVE mission zones)

• Island Volcano

• Fjordur Element Cave

• Fjordur Aberration Cave

o You may TEMPORARILY fob in these locations when a base is built directly next to them. Any bases/structures/dinos found in these locations will be removed without warning. Building in locations not specifically listed above is permitted.

• Use Large Walls wherever possible.

• Stone and Greenhouse are very laggy. Use of too much of these materials may result in poor performance for yourself and others.

• If you are asked to change to metal/tek or downsize due to latency issues, you will have 3 days to comply. Failure to do so will result in our downsizing it for you which may result in things being lost. If minor, we may allow 7 days. If major, you may be downsized without notice. If extreme, you may be wiped without notice.

• Not permitted to block spawn zones.

• Only claim the land needed

• Tek Generators: Show Range MUST be turned off.

• You are not permitted to pillar / foundation / random block spam.

  • Exception: You can spam within 20 foundations of your base or turret tower.

  • Note: Excessive spam will result in immediate full tribe wipe without warning.

• No building within proximity of an obelisk or terminal or Community event structure.

• When building near another tribe, do not block potential expansion of other tribes. If complaints come in that you and your base are built too close, you will be told to relocate your base.

§  When building your base, all parts of your base MUST be in render distance from the center point of said base. For PVP, there is some latitude if for example you are taking over an entire cave. (The cave can only be blocked if no explorer notes inside.)

Dinos

• We limit 200 dinos per tribe via settings.

• NO OFFLINE BREEDING IS PERMITTED.

  • If we catch offline breeding, we may confiscate or kill the offending dino.

• All dinos MUST be next to your base within render distance except when in use.

• Any dinos found away from your base will be killed by our admin team without notice.

• Please do not tame and leave the dino. Once you tame it, please take it with you.

Tribes

• Admins do NOT get involved in internal tribe affairs including:

  • Ownership of items

  • Ownership of dinos

  • Members

  • Insiding (We cannot assist with this)

• If you are the owner of a tribe and you want to join another tribe, you must either choose a member to become the tribe leader OR merge into the new tribe.

• If your tribe decides to leave our servers, please let us know and disclose your base locations.

• Tribe owners are responsible for who they invite. Admins will not be able to get involved.

Merging Tribes

§  When you merge with another tribe, you become responsible for their structures and bases. IF their base(s) would put you over the limits, you are expected to open a ticket within 12 hours and notify us so we can work with you to allow time for you to reduce.

§  If wiped due to violations, it will not be replaced.

Getting Help

• Email: help@courageark.com

• Discord

• When a staff member is in game, please keep in mind that they are playing the game, too. Please leave them be unless they volunteer, you have a quick question, or it is an emergency.

Donations:

Our servers are donation funded. Anything not paid in donations comes from the owner’s pocket personally. We request if you enjoy our servers to donate something monthly. Anything helps. We prefer CashApp

• CashApp: $SamuelStockton

• Venmo: @Samuel-Stockton

• Facebook: 07sstockton

• Apple Pay: 316-250-9516

• Google Pay: samuelstockton8@gmail.com

• PayPal: samuel@sstockton.com

Wipes:

• Servers are wiped at the end of each season.

• Seasons are 2 months and are wiped on the last day of each season.

Discord Boosters:

• Free Dino paints on request (Limited by admin availability - Subs get priority)

Admin Store

• Discord Currency Store in discord.

• Donation Store found in discord.

• Last week of each season the store will be closed.

Admin Benefits / Rules

• Admins get 1 additional base.

• Admins are requested to be either subscribers or monthly donors.

• Additional Discord Currency Benefit.

• Admins may have alternate PSN accounts. Not permitted to cheat in any form on alternate accounts. This is intended so admins can play without others knowing they are an admin. If you find they are, you are not permitted to share that information with anyone. If you share the identity of the admin's alternate accounts, you will be banned for toxic play against admins.