
~B~1FreeInfantry Community Guidelines (last updated: May 16, 2024)

~B~0The following are our general community guidelines and zone rules.

The rules in the game are enforced by Infantry Staff. In addition to 
the following listed rules, members of Infantry Staff have reasonable
discretion to resolve unlisted issues that are deemed disruptive to the 
game or community. 

If you have a complaint about the conduct of a member of the Infantry
Staff or a particular intervention, you may direct message the 
Head Moderator, Military Police, through the Infantry Discord.

For more information on Moderators, see "Infantry Staff" in the F1/Help menu.





~B~11. Any player found to be engaging in the following gameplay offences 
may be subject to moderator intervention:~B



~B~1(a) ~0Intentionally leaving an arena/game with the intent to avoid 
punishment from a Moderator (e.g., lock, silence, ban, or jail time).~B

~1Example(s):
~0-Typing "?go" or "?quit" after a Moderator silences or locks you.
-Leaving the arena or game because you think a Moderator is about to ban 
you.



~B~1(b) ~0Using a hack, trainer, exploit, or abusing bugs with the intent 
to cheat in any way.~B

~1Example(s):
~0-Any programs that run while FreeInfantry is running and have some effect 
on your gameplay (e.g., health, rate of fire, speed, weapons, etc).
-Map related bugs such as shooting through walls and placing your character 
on physics in order to make your summons randomly warp players to different 
locations on the map (summon bug).



~B~1(c) ~0Forcing your character to be spectated or disconnected in order to 
avoid death.~B

~1Example(s):
~0-Spamming in chat.
-Pulling connection to create lag or disconnection.



~B~1(d) ~0Using a secondary "dummy" account. Meaning, having two accounts on 
at the same time and in the same arena.~B

~1Example(s):
~0-Using the second account to find players on the map while your main 
character is in game.
-Using the second account to feed your main character free kills 
(statistics padding).



~B~1(e) ~0Repeatedly summoning players without permission (also known as 
"Random Summoning").~B

~1Example(s):
~0-Summoning a whole team without consent to help your chances of survival.
-Summoning people into enemy mines and/or weapons fire (this can be seen as 
Statistics Padding or Team Sabotage as well).
-Summoning the same player repeatedly without request.



~B~1(f) ~0Intentionally sabotaging team efforts, friendly turrets, structures, assets, 
or players on your team (also known as "Team Sabotage", "Team Killing" and "TKing").~B

~1Example(s):
~0-Using a Demolition Pack or Demolition Charge to destroy a team's base 
structures.
-Intentionally firing weapons (ones that deal damage to teammates) at your 
teammates to lower their health points.
-Purposely getting vehicles stuck or moving them out of sight so your team 
does not utilize them.
-Playing goalie for the opposing team, handing the ball to the opposing team, 
taking the ball in the wrong direction (ball zones). 



~B~1(g) ~0Statistics Padding your characters (also known as 
"Stat Padding").~B

~1Example(s):
~0-Feeding (or receiving) kills to (or from) someone in order to increase 
their (or your) bounty, better their (or your) kills to deaths ratio, 
experience, repeated deaths to collect helmets (your own or not), logging 
off your alias to log on another alias to buy supplies for your main alias 
(cash padding), or any other activity with the intent of artificially 
inflating a player's score.
-Forcing an unowned flag drop. Being summoned/recalling to the dropship to 
force drop the flag you are holding, switching to Spectator Mode to force 
drop the flag you are holding, or running across terrain known to cause flag 
drops.
-In static flag zones, taking turns capturing a flag repeatedly in 
cooperation with a friend on the opposing team.

~1Exception(s):
~0-It is legal for a player who is leaving the game to give their bounty 
away to a player of their choosing. This is allowed provided the player in 
question leaves the arena and ends their session for the minimum amount of 
time of 30 minutes.

~1Note(s):
~0-Statistics Padding is usually dealt with first by a warning and then a wiping of the character.



~B~1(h) ~0Playing the game with excessively high lag/latency (intentional or unintentional).~B

~1Example(s):
~0-Flagging in zones where capturing the flag/position is the objective 
while your lag info is above the allowed limit (400ms ping, 4% packet loss 
non-combined, 250 c2s latency) or otherwise visually seen as disruptive by 
a Moderator.

~1Note(s):
~0-The abovementioned lag limits do not only apply to flagging. In any zone, 
a Moderator that sees your lag as being disruptive to the game may use those 
limits or may base it on a solely visual basis.
-Having higher latency than average ping in any zone may get you removed from playing.








~B~12. Any player found to be engaging in the following zone-specific offences may be subject to moderator intervention:~B



~B~1(a) ~0Soccer Brawl~B
~0(i) Sticking the ball on the wall.



~B~1(b) ~0Bug Hunt~B
~0(i) Elevator cheating ("ele cheating"), where Skrall spawns directly on an elevator 
in the map using a prohibited technique.
(ii) Air Clawing, where Skrall spawns directly on Marines to cause damage/kill using 
a prohibited technique.



~B~1(c) ~0Capture The Flag~B
~0(i) Intentionally dropping flags in difficult to reach places on elevators or next to them.



~B~1(d) ~0Eol Crater~B
~0(i) Using maser and certain types of grenades against players in dropship.
(ii) Using the Assassin's black hole weapon to suck players out of the dropship to kill them.
(iii) Building certain types of base structures meant for outdoor use, in an "Indoors" environment/terrain.



~B~1(e) ~0Eol Advanced~B
~0(i) Building certain types of base structures meant for outdoor use, in an "Indoors" environment/terrain.



~B~1(f) ~0Skirmish~B
~0(i) Placing a vehicle against a wall to shoot through it.
(ii) Taking the enemy's vehicle into their safe zone.
(iii) Using the summon bug to randomly warp a player across the map.



~B~1(g) ~0Chambert's Moon and Chambert's Tournament~B
~0(i) Abusing the credit system.



~B~1(h) ~0Cosmic Rift~B
~0(i) Getting the Shrike stuck.
(ii) Using the ship change abuse.
(iii) Spawning directly on a player using a prohibited technique to cause damage.
(iv) Interrupting duels taking place between two other players in their own area 
(Dueling Zone Public arenas only).








~B~13. Any player found to be engaging in the following chat/communication offences may be subject to moderator intervention:~B



~B~1(a) ~0Wearing inappropriate banners.~B

~1Example(s):
~0-Racist words and symbols
-Letter banners that turn an alias into an illegal one
-Profanity



~B~1(b) ~0Using inappropriate aliases, squad names, or team names.~B

~1Example(s):
~0-Racist, vulgar, profane or any name created using numbers and symbols to avoid the game's word filter.
-Aliases representing key mainstream religious figures; the use of which 
aliases and behaviour while on them may show offense to other players.



~B~1(c) ~0Flooding and Spamming.~B

~1Example(s):
~0-Any amount of message flooding that a Moderator deems to be disruptive to the chat interface.

~1Note(s):
~0-Spamming offences are typically dealt with first by a warning then a silence. 
Banning will occur if the player avoids the silence or is spamming to force disconnect.



~B~1(d) ~0Demonstrating excessive derogatory behavior.~B

~1Example(s):
~0-Insults relating to race, nation, gender and religion.
-Extreme vulgarity.
-Drawing pornography in the chatbox.
-Spelling any of the above on the map with in-game structures and/or items.



~B~1(e) ~0Giving coordinate information to the public chat.~B

~1Example(s):
~0-Base coordinates, flag coordinates, team coordinates, and personal
coordinates. 

~1Note(s):
~0-Team chat is allowed. Just not public (cyan) or enemy (dark cyan) chats.
-Other methods of providing spectator information may be considered for moderation
as long as it's easily verifiable and equally damaging to fair gameplay.



~B~1(f) ~0Intentionally abusing the ?help command.~B

~1Example(s):
~0-False or prank reports.
-Spamming the command.
-Derogatory remarks in ?help requests.

~1Note(s):
~0-When using the ?help command, add a reason to it (e.g., "?help How do I 
play sergeant?").



~B~1(g) ~0Intentionally abusing the !911 chat.~B

~1Example(s):
~0-Spamming the !911 chat.
-Derogatory language.
-Refusing to leave the chat without valid reasons for staying.
-Entering and leaving the chat repeatedly.
-Remaining in the chat and impersonating Moderator status to visitors.

~1Note(s):
~0-Proper usage of !911 includes: stating your purpose in the chat as soon 
as you enter, dropping the chat as soon as you are finished (or told to), 
and using the chat for rule violation reports only. For other matters use 
the ?help command.



~B~1(h) ~0Impersonating a Moderator or member of Infantry Staff for any reason.~B

~1Example(s):
~0-Saying you are a Moderator.
-Creating aliases that resemble any Moderator's alias.
-Serious claims that you have Mod capabilities in public zones.



~B~1(i) ~0Impersonating a player in order to cause a bad reputation for that player.~B

~1Example(s):
~0-Making aliases close to other players' aliases, claiming to be them, and 
behaving in a derogatory manner on the similar alias.



~B~1(j) ~0Intentionally misleading players in a manner that is significantly self-destructive.~B

~1Examples:
~0-Telling players that typing "?wipecharacter" will result in some kind of benefit.



~B~1(k) ~0Promoting malicious and/or vulgar URLs.~B

~1Example(s):
~0-Posting links that look like they relate to FreeInfantry 
but infact are infected with a virus of some kind.
-Any derogatory, pornographic, or otherwise vulgar sites.



~B~1(l) ~0Harassing anyone in a manner that is verifiable, persistent and disruptive.~B

~1Examples:
~0-Continuously making disparaging and hateful comments towards a player in a public chat with no
provocation on the targeted player's end.
-Serious real life death threats towards another player.

~1Note(s):
~0-Common and mutual "flaming", arguments and playing skills comparisons does NOT constitute the 
type of harassment covered under this rule.
-If harassment occurs through private channels, use ?ignore.



~B~1(m) ~0Sending mass squad invites and/or banner requests to a player without the player's consent.~B



~B~1(n) ~0Engaging in disruptive behaviour in any FreeInfantry league's public chat channel.~B

~1Examples:
~0-Spamming and derogatory behaviour.

~1Note(s):
~0-League chat channel refers to the league's public chat that is entered using ?chatadd. 
Not the public chat inside a league zone.
-This rule only comes into effect when a head staff member of the league asks a Moderator to enter
the chat and moderate it for the duration of the incident. The service is intended to help leagues
with problems in their chat that are beyond their own control measures. Does not include league staff chat.
-FreeInfantry leagues are defined as leagues that have been given their own zones.








~B~14. Any player found to be engaging in any activity that a Moderator deems 
inappropriate may be subject to intervention.~B








~B~1Punishments:~B

~1Punishments for violations of the above rules may include, but are not 
limited to, any combination of the following:

Wiping of character(s)
Being silenced
Being locked into Spectator Mode
A temporary zone ban
A temporary game ban
A permanent account ban
Banner privileges being removed
Being warned
Any other action a Moderator deems appropriate




Violations of our Community Guidelines may result in intervention from our Moderators up to and including account termination and removal from FreeInfantry.

