Just like any online community, Discovery too has their own set of rules. Most of which are common-known and are written down and avalable to any new player in the form of the Rules section found [url=]here[/url]. But let's face it, those are just a tiny part of the whole social boundaries that Disco currently has. From things like sarcastic Kudos posts to how we behave in feedback threads, Disco has a lot of unwritten standards of behavour. Be it good or bad.
In this thread I would like you, a member of our community, to add your own observations. Let us call this the basic community guidelines.
If you can, please add where this rule comes from.
Keep in mind that this thread is in the general discussions and will be moderated. Anything irrelevant will be removed. After we have gathered enough of these, I will stitch it together and make a wiki page or video on it, aiding it with visuals where needed. Go.
Current list:
In-game
*"It is an unwritten rule for capital ship owners to constantly state their captain's name in every chat post." -This comes from 84, where most capital ships were used mainly for PVP with little RP focus. The overall quality of capital ship RP was terrible and at some point a player started using this and showing excellent ingame behavior and restraint and RP. The moment you saw this sort of post, you know what this person was about and it soon became something along the lines of a secret gesture. "I am here to RP with you, not shoot you". With time, more people started using it, trying to distinguish themselves from the rest of the capship wielding mass. These days, however, it is just a widely accepted quirk of roleplay style.
*"Using sci-fi movie-literature related names is frowned upon." -In addition to the rule regarding naming conventions, it is a common thing to frown upon anyone using names such as "The Millennium Falcon" or "Firefly" or "Enterprise" and so on. Connected to the overall dislike for imports.
Forums
*"You should not post threads with anything regarding your post count." -Overall frowned-upon behavior.
Misc
*"New players, especially ones migrating off of different servers, should never try and copy-paste their group into Disco." -There were many moments, where Discovery was found by groups of players, who used to play on different freelancer servers or are from a different gaming community. Needless to say, they were quick to make an ingame group, use their tag and so forth. It is highly undesirable by the Discovery community and such groups will often be shot down or targeted and abused both on the forum and ingame. The reason for this is that by doing so, you exhibit a tendency to live on actions that were performed outside of Discovery and somehow seem above the average new player. That does not work here.
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PSA: If you have been having stutter/FPS lag on Disco where it does not run as smoothly as other games, please look at the fix here: https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthrea...pid2306502
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Players are not allowed to explain rules ingame in order to gain advantage in encounter. This counts as rule lawyering and even if this is not prohibited by rule, it is still sanctionable offence.
That already counts as a server rule and is ''written''.
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PSA: If you have been having stutter/FPS lag on Disco where it does not run as smoothly as other games, please look at the fix here: https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthrea...pid2306502
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Less/No advertising in "Welcome" Thread. Untill and unless its asked for by the new player, it should highly be discouraged. Fierce raging and cross talks about each other's favoured faction should be frowned upon.
(04-04-2014, 07:07 AM)sindroms Wrote: somehow seem above the average new player
Not sure if it is a good idea to make it seem like any player is "above" any other player, having been around disco for longer doesn't make a player better then anyone else.
(04-04-2014, 07:18 AM)Snak3 Wrote: Demanding an unreasonable amount of money is considered against the rules as it is either PvP abuse or just trolling.
Demanding to suicide is the same.
Ever been pirated for 8 million with an empty cargo hold, or had a pirate in a bomber make you jetison your hold full of ore which cost you 20 million into space just to see them blow it up then have them refuse to let you go back to the mining field to get more ore?
I haven't had the pleasure of being told to "kill myself or die" yet, but i'm sure it would be amusing.
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(04-04-2014, 08:02 AM)Findarato Veneanar Wrote: Ever been pirated for 8 million with an empty cargo hold, or had a pirate in a bomber make you jetison your hold full of ore which cost you 20 million into space just to see them blow it up then have them refuse to let you go back to the mining field to get more ore?
I haven't had the pleasure of being told to "kill myself or die" yet, but i'm sure it would be amusing.
Unfortunately, many cases have erupted such and are still aviating around the corner. I was once asked for 20 millions. It was the entire worth what I was carrying...
P.S. I Rped my way out though
(04-04-2014, 08:02 AM)Findarato Veneanar Wrote: had a pirate in a bomber make you jetison your hold full of ore which cost you 20 million into space just to see them blow it up then have them refuse to let you go back to the mining field to get more ore?
Not exactly that but... I was forced to jettison my ore by LH~ when I was flying as IC|. I also have forced DSE), USI and others to hand over the ore as a LH~. Tough luck, but this is roleplay after all.
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