RULES
Community Guidelines
We are a politically neutral community.
We do not tolerate extremism, racism, insults, personal attacks or discrimination.
If you accidentally kill a team member, you should apologise in ALL chat.
Behaviour that has a negative impact on the gaming experience and ensuring smooth gameplay must be avoided. This implies "trolling", "ticket wasting" and "griefing".
Admins
In addition to the following rules, admin instructions must be followed. In borderline cases of rule violation, the judgement rests with the admins present.
Reporting
Reporting violations of our ruleset is encouraged so we can maintain a neutral playing environment. Reports are handled in a private setting with members of our admin team, failure to report issues in the correct manner may result in your report being overlooked or thrown out.
- Reports should be made in our community discord server.
- You are required to provide evidence along with your report, ideally in the form of a short clip or screenshot.
- False reports will result in a timeout or even ban for repeat offenders.
Seeding
- The seeding rules apply as long as you play on the seeded skirmish map.
- Destroying RADIOS & HABS is prohibited. Additional FOB items may be destroyed.
- HABs may not be blocked or camped.
- Firing in and around your own HAB is prohibited.
- Placeable, stationary weapons are prohibited.
- Armed vehicles are not allowed to be used.
- Only ONE FOB and ONE HAB is allowed per team.
Balancing
- It is prohibited to shoot at and destroy enemy vehicles or infantry within a 300m radius of the enemy main base. (On smaller layers this is reduced to the closest flag to each main). The laying of mines is still permitted in this area, although you are not allowed to block the opposing teams only exit.
- Firing from vehicles from the border of your own main base is prohibited.
- Indirect fire near your own main is prohibited. (Within 300m).
- Rushing the opponent's first flag is not allowed.
- Intentional team kills are prohibited.
- To ensure smooth gameplay, guest clans should respond to balance requests / are encouraged to actively balance.
Squads
- Squads can only be locked if they are a special squad or are within a clan. If there are no open squads for unassigned players, clan squads must be opened. (Clans must have at least three players in order to lock).
- Squads should be accurately named for their intended purpose (e.g. T-90A, LAV-25, Logi, TOW etc).
- Squad leaders must select the SL role and are only allowed to take it off when they hand over their squad lead.
- Resigning from the squad leader position immediately after opening the squad is prohibited.
Vehicles
- All vehicles, with the exception of unarmed troop transports, may not be used as purely disposable means of transport.
- Vehicles that require a crewman kit must be manned by at least two crewmen.
- Vehicle claiming is done via squad name, the name should be exactly the same as listed in the vehicle legend. The first squad to correctly name the vehicle has a claim over that asset.
- Helicopter ramming is prohibited.
Communication
- Squad leaders are required to have a microphone and communicate with their squad and command chat.
- It is allowed to open a squad for a specific language. This should be indicated by a country code. Command chat should be kept in English.
Naming Schemes
- Players and Squads must have neutral names.
- Players and Squads must have a clearly readable and pronounceable part of the Latin alphabet in their name.
Cheating
- It is forbidden to exploit bugs and glitches.
- Any use of hacks and cheats is strictly prohibited.
- Radios must be accessible on foot and without assistance.
Recruitment and Advertising
- Recruiting members is prohibited for non-DZ clans.
- It is prohibited to advertise on Dark Zone.
Recording and Streaming
- It is encouraged to record your gameplay on the server.
- You are allowed to stream the contents of the Dark Zone server publicly with a 300s delay. If streaming in Discord you are responsible for ensuring that only your team members are present.
Data Collection
Whilst playing on the Dark Zone platform you may be subject to data collection via third-parties. This includes recorded gameplay, chat-logs, networking-logs and other types of analytical data. In this case, third parties include admins, other players and members of Dark Zone. Your in-game name and Steam ID will be recorded as soon as you join the server.
Final Remarks
This list is not exhaustive and the assessment of the rulings is always at the discretion of the respective admin present.
Admins can be called upon to immediately stop rule violations at any time; there are no exceptions. Instructions must then be followed immediately.
The first violation of the rules will result in a warning, then a kick. If the rules are repeatedly violated, there will be a 2-day ban, a 1-week ban for the third violation and then a permanent ban.
If violations are serious enough or if there is a lack of insight, rulings will be discussed with an independent admin team and/or the game developer.