○ Rules

[Switzerland]

BASIC RULES

Be Respectful
Respect staff and regular members. Bullying and harassment of ANY sort will not be tolerated here. If someone tells you to stop, listen and leave them alone.

Don't Post or Discuss Illegal Material
Basically, if it's illegal don't post photos of it, don't post topics about it, don't discuss it. If you killed someone or you got high last night after underage drinking, we don't want to hear about it. Keep these things to yourself. Got it?

Don't Post Stolen Material
We will not tolerate art theft or plagarism of any kind. If we find out you've been posting stolen art or writing you'll get one warning to remove it and stop posting it before we ban you for at least a month. It's unacceptable to take someone elses hard work and call it your own. ALWAYS provide credit for art that isn't yours if you use it. If an artist doesn't want their work to be used, don't use it.
Also be sure to get PERMISSION to use artwork that isn't yours for OC characters.

Keep Spam to a Minimum
Pretty self-explainatory. Please try to keep useless/pointless topics to the Random Topics board if you absolutely must post about them.

Don't Flame
DO NOT flame other members. What this means is don't try to start drama with people, don't insult members of the forum, don't be a jerk pretty much. Look at our first rule, see how it says to Respect? Flaming is disrespectful and will only get you in trouble.

Keep Cursing to a Minimum
Please try not to swear a lot in your OOC posts.

Respect Staff
Being rude to staff members and trying to start drama with them isn't going to get you anywhere. If a staff member tells you to do something, please do it, even if you don't agree with them on it. We try to be as respectful as possible to the members of the forum, we expect the same treatment back.

Don't Bump Old Threads
If a thread has fallen back a few pages and hasn't been posted in for over a month, please do not bump the thread unless you are the original poster.

Keep Angst to a Minimum
We will make threads for you to angst all you want in them, otherwise please keep angst to a minimal to nonexistant level.

Limit Debates
Friendly debates are ok, full-blown arguments are not. If you're not being mean to anyone and you're having an honest to goodness intellegent debate, go right ahead. The minute things get out of hand the thread will be locked and removed however.

No Mini-modding
If you're not on the staff team, don't try to correct people. Don't point out errors on profiles, don't point out what can and can't be done ICly. I know you probably mean well, but please, let the staff do their job.

[Switzerland]

CHARACTER AND POSTING RULES

Character Limit
When you first start off you are limited to TWO Canon Characters, but you may have as many OCs as you think you can handle.
After 25 posts, you may apply for a third Canon Character.

OCs

Original Characters (or OCs for short) can be made from: Nations Past AND Present, Micronations, and Regions (Places like Bermuda, New Foundland and Nova Scotia). These characters should be fairly well thought out, and should be mindful of their real-life relations.
Meaning, don't make a character out of Ireland and make them love England, because it doesn't make any sense.
OCs must be either of your own designing, or a design you have permission to use.

Choosing a House or Neutrality
For people who are creating OCs or who have picked up a character that doesn't belong to a Noble House yet have two choices.
The first choice is to remain neutral, to get a normal job that benefits all houses. Under this option is also the choice of being lesser nobility and running the risk of a larger noble family taking you over.
The second choice is to join a family, which is as easy as contacting the player of leader of the family you want to join, and requesting that your character join that family. If the family's leader has no player yet, just contact a member of staff. The only reason you should ever be denied entrance into a family is if it is getting too many people in it (because we want to try to keep things at lest semi-even, so we don't have a family of 18 versus a family of 4).

Posting Requirements
We don't have a set "you must post this number of posts each week", we just ask that you keep up with posting each month. We will have monthly actvity/character checks where you will have to post telling us who you are playing and if you want to keep them or not, and you will need to post links to all the threads you are in with those characters.
We DO, however, require that your posts are at least two paragraphs with eight sentances each, and that they contain proper spelling, punctuation and grammar.

Personas
We require that you have a seperate account for each character you play (a "Persona"). It's just easier to keep track of things this way.