Main Rules
The following covers our main rules and guidelines that we expect when playing on our servers.
TTT is a game-mode that depends on a set of rules to dictate game-play and guide proper flow. Due to this, we enforce this set of rules to make game-play enjoyable, and fair for all players participating on our servers.
The main rules for our community can be summarized as followed:
- Don't be an ass
- Do not RDM
- No ghosting
- No room claiming/killing for following
- Do not delay the round
- No accessing unreachable/unreasonable areas
- No confusing/unreadable nicknames
- No abuse of user-generated content
- No explicit or NSFW material
- Do not harass other players or spam
- No hacking/using game-advantage scripts on our servers
And now in more detail:
1. Don't be an ass
At the end of the day, we're all here to play together and enjoy each other's company. If you're here to cause trouble, instigate drama, or generally be a nuisance, then your place isn't with us.
The punishment for this varies and depends on the severity of the offense, but as long as you avoid this altogether, none of this should be a problem.
2. Do not RDM
RDM stands for Random Deathmatch. This is the act of randomly attacking a player without a proper reason. For innocents/detectives, this means attacking someone who has not committed a traitorous act or hasn't implied they were a traitor through another action (such as being KOS'd or implicated through a traitor tester). For traitors, this often means attacking your fellow traitor buddy.
Note that this rule also applies to spectators (such as through controlling props), and during fun rounds (such as causing fall damage to your allies).
We have more in-depth information on how RDM and KOSing works in our servers. Please read it below.
3. No Ghosting
Ghosting means providing round-related information about the game to a participating player, through any method (like Steam chat, Discord, Skype, and including in-game PMs), often with the goal of giving them an advantage or access to information they did not have before or weren't aware of. Ghosting most commonly occurs when one of the players is dead, but is not limited to that.
Round-related information is anything that may influence the round (player locations or roles; strategic advice, etc.). No matter how obvious it may seem that the player is aware of this information, it is still against the rules. It is suggested to refrain from talking about the current round until the round has ended, or both players are dead.
Please note: Ghosting is handled on a case-by-case basis. Staff members may refer to a higher ranked supervisor to alter the punishment to something more appropriate to the case.
4. No room claiming/killing for following
You may not kill someone, even with a warning, if they are following you. Additionally, you may also not kill someone for being in a room that you have 'claimed' or claim rooms in general. If you are being blocked by someone, or if someone is harassing you, please use the unstuck command available for you, or notify a staff member if one is available.
5. Do not delay the round
Delaying means deliberately not progressing the round as required by your role. Because TTT is a round-based game, players are often waiting for the round to conclude, and nobody likes to wait for long just because someone is delaying. Examples of delaying include avoiding killing innocents as a traitor or hiding in obscure locations as an innocent. This can also include simply being AFK. If a staff member warns you to stop delaying, you must comply, or you may be slain by them.
6. No accessing unreachable/unreasonable areas
Unreachable/unreasonable areas are areas in the map that are impossible or unreasonably difficult to reach without the usage of non-standard movement mechanics such as prop surfing, boosts from other players, or using Traits. This only applies, however, if it is impossible or unreasonably difficult to attack you while you are within said area. Examples of this include the top of the lighthouse in Minecraft B5 or the dual towers in Rooftops. Staff members may teleport you out of such areas at any point, and continuous breaking of this rule may result in harsher punishments.
7. No confusing/unreadable nicknames
All nicknames in Crescent must contain at least three English-alphabet letters or numbers. This is to mostly ensure they are usable and callable in normal game communication, whether over voice or text. Nicknames such as "Someone", "Traitor", "You" are examples for confusing nicknames, as well as nicknames too similar to other players' (e.g. Kinky Marshmallow vs. Keen Key Marsh Mellow). A staff member will warn you if a change is required and may kick you if you do not comply.
8. No abuse of user-generated content
You are able to put your own personal spin on many of Project Crescent’s assets, such as renaming weapons, deathbadges, custom titles, quotes while loading in, sprays, etc. Your Steam username is also treated as user-generated content and must comply with these rules.
In general, these tools may be used however you wish. But some things are strictly off-limits. Your user-generated content should not be offensive and may not harass other users. Friendly banter is great - just don't take it too far. Under no circumstances may your content include the use of slurs – similar-sounding alternatives are also against the rules.
Intention is taken into account – if the intention of the content goes against the principle of the rule, it will be treated as a violation.
9. No explicit or NSFW materials
Crescent TTT, like most games, tends to attract a younger audience, and exposing such audiences to explicit material is both legally and morally wrong. While we do recognize that our players come from a wide range of ages, we have to think of everyone. This is one of the global rules of Project Crescent and applies to all forms of presentation in our servers, including (but not limited to) sprays, text chat, voice chat, links, and Steam profiles/avatars.
Explicit material includes material that can be described as pornographic (nudity, sexual fluids, sexual acts), or overly sexual in its nature. Even if the image crops out the pornography/sexual act, the image may fall under this guideline.
Gore/Disgusting material includes images that depict extreme violence, blood, corpses, human waste, or anything unsettling like this.
Of course, given the broad range of things that may fall under this definition, the decision is often up to the judgement of the staff member that handles the case, but we also trust you to use your own common sense when it comes to this.
A good guideline is: If it's not safe to show at an average workplace, it probably doesn't fit community either.
10. Do not harass other players or spam
Harassment can be loosely defined as aggressive intimidation or pressure placed on a person with the intent to insult or hurt the enjoyment of others in the community. This can include general insults, slurs, or aggressive intimidation.
Of course, as with all online communities, shit-talking and friendly banter is common to some degree and is an integral part of online culture. Please be aware that slurs will always be treated as harassment, targeted or not. In the same vein, hateful conduct is always treated as harassment, including but not limited to: racism and homophobia.
If a staff member asks you to stop - you need to stop. If you have a problem with another player, let the staff know. Do not take the matter into your own hands. 'Self-defense' is not a valid excuse.
Spam includes repeated, or unnecessary/annoying sounds/messages over text or voice. For example, flooding the chat with messages, coughing/breathing/screaming loudly in to your mic, playing music over your microphone without the vast majority of players agreeing with it, repeating messages over and over, etc.
Like before, it is impossible to list every possible type of spam. Therefore, this offense is discretionary to the staff member handling it. As before, if a staff member asks you to stop, you need to stop.
11. No hacking/using non-engine scripts
Hacking and scripting involves using third party programs or tools to alter your performance or capabilities, often to your advantage or to another player's disadvantage. For example: aimbots/aim-assists, trigger-bots, bunny-hop scripts, wall-hacks, no-recoil macros, etc.
We take this rule very seriously. Violations will result in a permanent ban from our community.
If a staff member asks you to stop doing something, you must comply. Failure to do so may result in further punishment.
You may only use ONE Steam account to play Crescent TTT. Refer to our Community Rules for further details.
While discussion with an admin+ is encouraged, moderators are trusted with discretionary decisions and as such may hand out harsher or more lenient punishments for offenses, as well as hand out punishments for things such as toxic gameplay without the involvement of an admin.
If you believe a staff member has overstepped their boundaries or is abusing their privileges, you may report them at the Reports and Appeals forum.
Traitorous acts
In order for a kill to be valid, you must be able to deduce that a player has committed one of the following. This can be either through directly witnessing it, or by using common sense (see below). An exception to this is GBA (see below as well).
Note: Killing on suspicion is not allowed, even in overtime.
Note: Traitorous acts do NOT apply to detectives unless explicitly specified. A Detective cannot be a Traitor.
Not actively identifying bodies:
- Ignoring any unidentified bodies in your vicinity within your sight and reach is a traitorous act.
- If a player cannot see an unidentified body because it's not in their plain sight (different room, behind a wall, etc.), then you may not kill them for not identifying it.
- It should be in their near vicinity. For example, if a player is on the bed on de_dolls, and there is a body on the top shelf, it is technically visible, but is far enough to where it is not considered traitorous. Be reasonable when determining these cases.
- You may not kill somebody for not identifying a body if it's out of reach (out of the map) or if identifying it will cause the player to be harmed in any way (such as fire, armed grenade around, map hazards, taking fall damage being the only way to identify it or active traitor traps). An exception to this is if they're already in an area where they're being harmed but not trying to move out of the area.
Note: Simply being near an unidentified body is not always traitorous.
Calling KOS on innocents (including detectives):
- Calling a KOS on an innocent is a traitorous act.
Note: You cannot kill somebody for calling a KOS on an innocent if you have no way to reliably know that they're 100% an innocent (such as testers that can be manipulated). You can kill somebody for calling a KOS on you. The most common occurence seeing the KOS'd player identified as innocent after being killed.
Using, holding or hiding any kind of traitor-only equipment:
- Interacting with any kind of traitor item is considered a traitorous act.
- Merely picking up a traitor item is NOT a traitorous act and an exception to this rule.
- Secret knives, as well as items shared by both detectives and traitors, are still considered traitorous items.
- Hiding traitor equipment is defined as the act of intentionally covering up or veiling any piece of traitor-only equipment as well as trying to obstruct clear sight on it through any means.
- This does not include detective-only weapons.
- This does not include weapons that are never equipped- such as if you see someone pick up a traitor weapon from the ground, but never equip it.
- This includes arming a C4, even though they are technically not holding the item.
- Note: You may kill a detective for arming C4 under self-defense, since their body will show which wire needs to be cut to safely disarm the bomb.
Blocking another player in an area that puts their life in immediate danger:
- Examples of this are: Blocking someone in a traitor trap area (inactivated or activated), blocking someone within the blast radius of C4 or blocking someone underwater to make them drown.
Note: This applies to Detectives and you may kill them for doing this under self-defense.
Being in a traitor-only area:
- Regardless of if you're a proven innocent, entering, leaving or just staying in it, as long as you were in a traitor-only area, you have committed a traitorous act and can be killed for it.
- Standing in the doorways of a traitor room is still considered being inside of it.
- Merely walking towards the T-room is not traitorous. The player is not KOSable until they actually take their first step in to an area only traitors can access.
Shooting players (or towards them), hitting or swinging melee weapons at them, or throwing grenades (excluding smokes):
- Shooting towards somebody is a traitorous act. This is commonly referred to as "Traitor Baiting" or "T-bait".
- Shooting towards nobody (e.g. the ceiling or the floor underneath you with nobody around) is NOT traitorous.
- Hitting someone with a melee weapon or swinging it at them is traitorous if you're reasonably close to the player.
- Throwing any grenade is traitorous - Smoke grenades are an exception; throwing a smoke grenade is NOT traitorous, as they deal no damage.
- Cooking a grenade (except for smoke grenades) is also traitorous and an indicator for a player doing this is their arm moving further up. It's a different animation from the regular "holding a grenade".
Damaging or destroying a Detective's equipment:
- This includes (but is not limited to) Guardian Drones, HexShields, and health stations.
- Pushing a health station into places where they're unreachable and entirely unusable is considered damaging them.
- NOTE: Damaging a detective's drone is treated as RDM when done without valid reason. Unreasonable destruction of a health station is treated as toxic gameplay.
Approaching players with an explosive item:
- This includes items such as explosive barrels, explosive T-activated props like mine tutrles, explosive Minecraft blocks, etc.
Pushing players off or near high ledges that may cause damage or map hazards:
- This includes pushing with your melee, with a prop, or any other type of pushing.
- This includes pushing players into water where they may drown.
- Map hazards include traitor-traps, or areas of the map that may cause damage, such as fires.
- Intentionally moving to block someone mid-jump over a height with your body or prop is also considered traitorous.
Using or placing props in places that can cause damage or in landing areas:
- One example of this is jamming a prop into a door to glitch its physics, causing damage to anyone who touch/open it.
- Water pools/areas are often used in maps a landing pad for players to safely land. Placing props in such areas is considered traitorous.
Important notes
- Remember: Detectives are immune to traitorous acts unless explicitly stated otherwise.
- Traitorous acts done in pre-round DO NOT carry over into the round.
- If someone commits an action pre-round that applies only after the round started, it isa valid T-act. For example: pushing a player off of a ledge, and them hitting the ground after the round started.
- Simply being near a Traitor item or a KOS'd player is NOT Traitorous.
- As another reminder, you may not kill someone on suspicion.
Punishments
Random Deathmatch
- 1st offense: 1 slay
- 2nd offense: 2 slays
- 3rd offense: (See Mass RDM)
- Note: RDM that is determined to be purposeful and or malicious, such as targeted RDM or revenge RDM, results in twice the number of slays being applied.
Mass RDM
- 1st offense: 7 day ban
- 2nd+ offense: 2x the previous offense
- Note: A staff member, at their discretion, may reduce this to 24 hrs for strictly accidental RDMs.
Spamming
- 1st offense: Warning + mute/gag (if necessary)
- 2nd offense: Kick
- 3rd offense: 24 hours mute/gag
- 4th offense: 1 week mute/gag
- 5th+ offense: 2x the previous offense
- Note: Blatant and excessive false reporting is treated as spam. Circumventing your mute/gag with PMs, reports, or similar will result in a ban.
Harassment
- 1st offense: Warning + mute/gag (if necessary)
- 2nd offense: 24 hours ban
- 3rd offense: 1 week ban
- 4th+ offense: 2x the previous offense
Unreachable or unreasonable areas
- 1st offense: Warning + Teleport
- 2nd offense: Instant slay
- 3rd offense: 24 hours ban
Invalid nickname
- 1st offense: Warning
- 2nd offense: Kick
- 3rd offense: 24 hours ban
Hacking
- 1st offense: Permanent ban
Ghosting
- 1st offense: 1 month ban
- 2nd offense: 3 months ban
- 3rd offense: Permanent ban
Abuse of user-generated content
For all offenses the offending content is reset. For the 2nd+ offense, any offending item(s) are permanently deleted.
- 1st offense: 1 day ban.
- 2nd offense: 1 week ban.
- 3rd+ offense: 2x the previous offense.
- Note: For the first offense, staff may warn as punishment. The next violation will be punished as the 2nd offense.
Posting explicit material/disgusting content
For all offenses the offending content is reset.
- 1st offense: 24 hours ban
- 2nd offense: 1 week ban
- 3rd+ offense: 2x the previous offense, up to a permanent ban.
- Note: Spray privileges may be altered at any level of offense depending on the nature.
Ban Evasion
Ban evasion is using a different account to access our servers while being banned. If you are found to be ban evading, your new account will also be banned until the end of the original ban.
Toxic Gameplay
The actions that may fall under toxic gameplay are broad and may vary in severity. Due to this, punishments under this are varied and is handled at the discretion of the staff member, usually with consideration for the history of the offending player.
Punishments for toxic gameplay can vary from a warning for first offenses, to a permanent ban for repeat offenders.
Karma Bans
Karma bans are issued when a players karma reaches below 600. Karma bans are automatic, non-appealable bans that last for 1 hour. Excessive karma bans may be extended using discretion from an Admin as karma bans are typically indicative of careless/overly aggressive gameplay.
Illegal activities
Illegal activities such as sharing/posting child pornography, doxing (sharing any personally identifiable information without consent), or any action that is considered a real-life crime will result in a permanent ban from the community and all of its services. These bans are NOT negotiable or appealable and may be forwarded to the authorities if required.
Illegal activities are NOT a joke - do NOT get involved in this.
Due to the nature of doxing, joking and 'pretend' cases will be treated the same as actual doxing.
Notes
Both admins and moderators may use their discretion if they deem that a harsher or more lenient punishment is warranted in a given situation. Moderators may also hand out discretionary punishments such as bans for toxic gameplay or general toxicity.
Trying to abuse the wording or interpretation of our rules will result in a punishment. Skirting close to the rules to cause issues for others may also result in a punishment. Remember: don't be an ass.
We reserve the right to punish as we deem necessary, regardless of the circumstances.
The rules are subject to change at any point and without prior warning. Please make sure to go over them again every once in a while, to stay up-to-date.