Basic Rules

BASIC RULES

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Welcome to Naruto Central, the place where the real world collides with the Ninja world!
To make your stay enjoyable, there are some rules that you must abide by in order to avoid potential conflicts which could otherwise arise.
If you do not follow these rules, then penalties may be imposed.
1. Only one character per account, please. To create another character, make a new account. Ideally, you should only have 3 characters, but you can have up to 5 as long as you are active on all, and post at least once per week with each.
Penalty: Reminder

2. Your characters must not interact with each other in any way, shape or form.
Penalty: Void post

3. Please try to post more than one line’s worth of roleplay to give the other posters something to reply to. 50+ words would be ideal.
Penalty: Reminder, -100 yend for repeat offenses

4. Don’t swear excessively, unless it is in-character, in a post. Don’t try to use the excuse of ‘but they will have heard it already!’ when referring to potential youngsters who may be present either – they may not.
Penalty: 10 minute ban per offense

5. Godmodding is not permitted. This is where you control another person’s character, or even try to hit them through 'autohitting'. Not only is it rude, but it prevents the character’s original controller from acting out potential actions.
Penalty: Void post

6. Don’t post adult content. This is against our host provider’s terms of service, is rude, and in some cases, illegal.
Penalty: Permanent ban

7. Your character must be approved before you can create a roleplay post with them. To create a character, look for the character creation area, read the rules and fill out the form shown.
Penalty: Reminder

8. Advertising is only permitted in the advertising forum. You are not permitted to advertise in your signature, chatbox or posts elsewhere.
Penalty for mass PM advertising: permanent
Penalty for normal PM advertising: 7 days
Penalty for post advertising: 1 day, post ad removed
Penalty for signature advertising: 1 day, signature ad removed

9. Please don’t misuse the mass PM feature by sending pointless messages, including adverts, spam and suchlike.
Penalty: 7-day ban

10. Be polite to those around you. Do not harass or degrade any other member.
Penalty: 1 hour ban per offense

11. Put out-of-character comments in brackets, to distinguish between in-character actions in your post.
Penalty: Reminder

12. If you wish for your character to leave an area or village, they must leave all topics from their current location beforehand.
Penalty: New location post void

13. Metagaming (using outside knowledge in the game world to gain an advantage) is not permitted.
Penalty: Post void, 1 hour ban

14. Be realistic in your actions. Your character can’t dodge a 10-metre fireball by simply jumping over it, for instance.
Penalty: Post void

15. All actions your character performs must have a reason behind them. For instance, you can’t send your character to destroy a village just because ‘they felt like it’.
Penalty: Post void

16. If you wish to make a new character, the new character you make starts at two ranks below your current character's rank (The minimum rank being Academy Student, and the maximum being ANBU). For example, someone with a Chuunin character can make another character of Academy Student rank, and someone with an ANBU-ranked character can make a Chuunin. In order to make an alternate character you must already have the rank of Chuunin first and will not be allowed more until reaching Jounin and above. This rule cannot be applied in the case of replacing dead characters, in the event that your character dies, you may create a new characters two ranks below the Character that had just died. Example, a Kage dies, then they are allowed to make a Jounin.
Penalty: Reminder and Character void

17. Once a stat has been added you may not change it, in the event of obtaining free stats that can be distributed (I.E. through rank ups.) You may rearrange the free stats as much as you want within the same day of receiving them, but once you get in a battle or a major event, the stats are locked in place.
Penalty: If found guilty, you lose 10% of each stat. If you do not have enough in one stat field to deduct from, it will be deducted from another stat area instead.

18. In the case of hand seals, if you type "Preforms Jutsu" hand seals are included, the post is not void due to the absence of "Does seals, then does jutsu".

19. After 48 Hours in a topic, if someone has not replied to the topic you are allowed to skip the person and continue. In terms of fighting one on one, this means that you can claim a hit after 48 hours; If fighting with multiple people the next person in line to post gets to post; In terms of Village Takeover, you automatically win if no one defends the village within 48 Hours. If someone states beforehand that they will be gone, then the rule does not apply.

20. In Character(IC) Ryo cannot be transfered Out Of Character(OOC); OOC Ryo can be transfered OOC; Stats cannot be transfered to someone else OOC nor can they be transfered IC without a special Jutsu or Skill; Jutsu Points can be transfered OOC to someone but it cannot be moved to an alternate account that you own.
Penalty: Whatever you were trying to illegally transfer shall simply be lost completely

21. You are allowed to have animals as summons, but you cannot create a character that is an animal.
Penalty: Character App will be denied

22. You are not allowed to copy and paste any RP post from this site or another site. Example of breaking this rule, copying all your posts from another topic and then making another topic combining all those posts into one post and asking for rewards for both topics. Another Example, copying a post someone else has made and using it for yourself. There are tons of examples, but the main point is DO NOT copy and paste posts.
Penalty: Topic/Post Voided, also 1st Offense: Hour Ban; 2nd Offense: 24 Hour Ban; 3rd Offense: Week Ban; 4th Offense: Month Ban; 5th Offense: Perma Ban.

3 temporary bans result in an additional 7-day ban, and a further ban results in a permanent ban.
Glossary:
Void: The post you make no longer counts in the topic it was made in
In-character: Communication between the characters
Out-of-character: Communication between the players
Metagaming: Using out-of-character knowledge that your character would not otherwise know in-character to gain an unfair advantage
Autohit: Unfairly hitting the other player's character without giving them a chance to respond
Godmod: Controlling another person's character[center]