SERVER RULES

1. Users should, at all times, endeavour to be friendly and act in good faith. This includes: Refraining from using excessive profanity, treating other users with respect, not engaging in harassment or bullying, and not seeking to deceive any user or staff member on the server.

2. Users must not share, in any server platform, objectionable content, including nudity, pornography, gore, swastikas, and hate symbols or offensive imagery or content that may seriously offend another user.

3. Users must never seek to cause offence to a particular person or group of people, in such a manner, including but not limited to using slurs, language that is perceived to be targeted or hateful, or by engaging in activities that seek to exclude, harm, or put down said person or group of people.

4.

a. The intentional sharing of personal information, sometimes known as doxing, is strictly prohibited on all server platforms.

b. Server staff, where possible, will take every measure to prevent the sharing of, and removal of posted personal information and will take actions to punish the offending user where the sharing is intentional or is done with a lack of care on the user’s part.

5.

a. Users should not at any time use the Server as a means to promote a business, organisation, community, cause or other server for which the user stands to benefit from such promotion.

b. Users at no time may use Cities Creative as a means to promote a scam, a piece of media which may cause serious psychological or physical harm to a person, or promote any kind of dangerous or illegal website, organisation, or piece of media.

c. The Admins, at their discretion and in writing, may make an exception to rule 5 a for a particular user.

6. Users, on all platforms, should be identifiable to other users and staff. This includes not impersonating any other user or person with the intent to deceive other users and using Discord or in-game nicknames that resemble the users actual in-game name.

7.

a. Users at all times must follow directions and decisions made by the Server staff. This includes respecting warnings or directives, and not bypassing bans or mutes or any other action of punishment.

b. Should a user feel that any member or members of staff are acting in bad faith, or breaking the server rules and or policies, then they may seek to raise an official complaint with the Admins.

c. Users, unless in cases of the most serious misconduct, may appeal bans, mutes, or other punishment imposed by staff via the appropriate means unless it is otherwise decided that a user does not have this right.

8.

a. Griefing, including but not limited to intentionally destroying a part or the whole of another user's build, is strictly prohibited and is considered serious misconduct. Cities Creative will in every instance seek to identify the offending user or users by way of server logs, and roll back any damage caused.

b. Staff will in cases where users engage in repeated griefing, cause significant and wide ranging damage, or are found to engage presently or previously in a known griefing syndicate, or otherwise at the discretion of the Admins seek to ban the user from all Cities Creative platforms with no right of appeal.

9. Users are not permitted in-game to construct any build that seeks to slow, destabilise or crash the server.

10.

a. Users are not permitted in-game to generate, store, or transfer any illegal item that is not otherwise available to users of their rank. This includes, but is not limited to, items generated by NBT or gained by client hacks.

b. All inventories found to be containing illegal items will be cleared without notice.

11.

a. Modified clients, including client hacks, autoclickers, or any other modification to the game that may enhance a user’s ability to grief, or otherwise do harm to the server is strictly prohibited. Client modifications that do not modify the game in such a way, such as mini maps, are permitted as long as they do not pose a risk to other users or the server.

b. Cities Creative, will at all times, endeavour to prevent users with dangerous modified clients to join, and install server-side software to prevent these clients from causing any damage to the server.

12. Obscene, offensive, or hateful builds, considered under similar criteria to rules 2 and 3 are not permitted and will be removed.

13.

a. Users may not copy another user's build, or any build from the internet which is subject to copyright without the express written permission of the copyright holder.

b. In situations where a user has taken heavy inspiration from another build, staff will consider on a case by case basis whether this constitutes copyright violation and whether credit or removal is required.

14.

a. Any member with the rank of builder is entitled to build in the server projects. Builders are only entitled to build in sub projects where the project manager/s deem that they as an individual or group are entitled to build in such a project.

b. Cities Creative, at all times when a server project is active, will maintain at least one sub project which is open to all Builders subject to building regulations.

c. Cities Creative, from time to time, may maintain a server project that is open to users who have not attained the rank of builder, which is subject to similar rules as 14 a and b.

15. Builders are not permitted to build in sub projects where they are not entitled to build by the project manager/s.

16.

a. All builds in server projects must follow the in-game rules, server project rules, server project building regulations, and any regulation set by the project manager of the sub project.

b. All builds in server projects, unless specifically targeted for non-builders, must meet the minimum standards as required for the rank of builder.

17.

a. Builders may, by following the proper processes, apply to become project managers.

b. Where a sub project is open to all builders, then the project manager must endeavour to provide to the server a set of building regulations to be published on the server website.

c. Project managers are responsible for setting, maintaining, and enforcing the guidelines for their respective sub-projects.

d. Should a project manager be banned from Cities Creative or otherwise become inactive, then at the discretion of the Admins, the sub project be placed under the supervision of another Builder or other project manager/s for the sub project.

e. Project managers, may by notification to the Admins, transfer a sub project to another eligible Builder who then becomes the project manager.

18.

5. 1. Any builds that do not meet the rules above or relevant building regulations are liable to be modified or removed.
      
      

   2. Except where offending builds otherwise break server rules, they will be removed from the project world and moved into the storage world by a member of staff. The builder will be notified of this in writing by the staff member.

19. Cities Creative has a zero tolerance policy for:

a. Predatory behaviour, this includes but is not limited to targeting any (not limited to underage) players for romantic or sexual reasons;

b. harassment, this is defined by the ongoing harassment, direct and indirect of players in-game, on the discord or outside of the server; and

c. discrimination.

20. Offending users who are deemed to violate any clause of rule 19 will be considered to be engaging in gross misconduct and will face the most stringent punishment actions.

21. Where required by local, national, or international jurisdiction or the terms and conditions of Minecraft, Cities Creative will endeavour to make all server platforms a safe space for all players.

22. All staff will treat any reports of violations of these rules as highly sensitive and controversial, and will take every measure to protect this information and deal with reports in a sensitive, timely, and proper manner.

23. Cities Creative will, at all times, make publicly available a form for anonymous reports of players or staff.