4. OFFENSES
All offense reports will be reviewed by the GM Team. Offenses have varying degrees of severity (see the Offense Table). It is up to the GM Team to review and administer the appropriate demerit based on the evidence and facts of the case. The categories are as follows:
4.1. Verbal Harassment
Verbal harassment pertains to verbal actions that are repetitive, persistent and are threatening and disturbing to players, RF Boarders, Community and Level Up! employees, Moderators and other people associated with it.
This includes but is not limited to verbal attacks on the following:
Race, nationality and ethnicity
Deliberate and explicit effort to promote inequality and undermine the aggrieved person's country of origin, nationality or racial background in real life. This includes both clear and masked language and/or links to websites containing language or images that promote racial/ethnic/national hatred, recognized as a racial/ethnic slur, or allude to a symbol of racial/ethnic/national hatred.
Gender
A deliberate and explicit verbal attack on another person's gender preference and sexual orientation.
Religion
Actions or behaviors that undermine another person because of their religious preference or for what they do or do not believe. This includes both clear and masked language and/or links to websites containing language or images that negatively portray recognized religions or religious figures.
4.2. Sexual Harassment
Any unwelcome advance, action, behavior and/ verbal advance that is sexual in nature making the game or message board hostile and offensive. This includes but is not limited to advances on men or women, regardless of sexual orientation. This includes both clear and masked language and/or links to websites containing language or images that refer to extreme and/or violent sexual acts and extremely violent real life actions.
This includes both clear and masked language and/or links to websites containing language or images that insultingly refer to any aspect of sexual orientation pertaining to themselves or other players.
4.3. Grief Accounts
These are accounts made to scam or harass other players. Any account caught committing acts of harassment as defined in the RF Magna Carta will automatically be assumed to be a Grief Account. Any account with characters named specifically to cause harassment will similarly be defined as a grief account. Grief accounts are exempt from the Reasonable Doubt rule.
4.4. Communication Standards Violation
Profanity
Use of word or words in chat, in-game or in the message boards that are offensive, derogatory, blasphemous, sexist, obscene or vulgar in nature. This includes both clear and masked language and/or links to websites containing language or images that contain inappropriate references to human anatomy or bodily functions, or are pornographic.
Real Life Threats
This includes both clear and masked language and/or links to websites containing language or images that refer to violence in any capacity that is not directly related to RF Online Philippines. This includes both clear and masked language and/or links to websites containing language or images that insultingly or threateningly refer to other characters, players, Level Up! Employees or groups of people.
Trolling / Verbal harassment
Purposely posting inflammatory or incorrect information for the sole purpose of provoking an emotional response from other players, community, Level Up! Employees and other people associated with Level Up!
Spamming
Excessive communicating of the same phrase, non-constructive posts, similar phrases, or pure gibberish either in the boards or in game.
Illegal drugs or activities
This includes both clear and masked language and/or links to websites containing language or images that refer to abusing illegal drugs, or performing illegal activities.
Commercial Posts
This includes any non-RF related businesses, organizations or websites.
Race chat abuse
The use of Race Chat is a privilege, not a right. This is the most closely monitored chat in the game. Abuse of race chat includes, but is not limited to the following:
- Use of race chat for anything non-RF related
Profanity / foul language
Being insulting / defaming towards a player / guild / your own race in general
Giving out IRL information and issuing threats
Typing garbage or meaningless words
Others
This clause covers all similar and related offenses relative to the above.
4.5. Non-Verbal Harassment
Specific non-verbal actions are defined but are not limited to the following:
Kill Stealing
This occurs when one steals the drops/loots of a monster killed by another player.
Quest Stealing
Deliberately sabotaging another player's effort to complete a specific quest.
Grief Killing
Repetitive and deliberately annoying another player by joining into the kill or damage without explicit consent from that player.
Chaos potion abuse
The use of chaos potion in killing lower level players or players who cannot defend themselves either through level gap or equipment differences. Players abusing the use of chaos potion will only be sanctioned if the following conditions are met:
- Player was killed at least twice.
There is a gap of at least 10 levels (for players below level 30), and at least 5 levels for players for players above level 30.
In the case of players being killed only once by the offender, if the screenshot/video submitted shows the offender killing other players, this will be deemed as a valid case of chaos potion abuse.
In the case of a player filing for chaos potion abuse against players of a similar level (usually in the case of multiple players ganging up on another player), his evidence must clearly show the following (must be in video format):
a. The names of the offending players.
b. That he was really unable to fight back.
4.6. Real Money Trade (RMT-PHP)/Inter-server Trading
Due to the high possibility of fraud, advertising for inter-server or real money trading is not allowed in RF Online or on the official message boards. Level Up! Inc. will not remedy nor be held responsible for failure of any transactions of this nature.
This includes discussions on inter-server trades, trading for goods in real life, and selling of in-game items for real life currency and vice versa.
4.7. Impersonation
Impersonating a GM, Character, CCR or Level Up! Employee, Philippine Government Entity or Official, Forum Moderator is not allowed. Any character found to be making claims on behalf of or in the name of the above and found not to be authorized will be sanctioned in the most necessary way possible.
4.8. Bug Abuse
The act of exploiting inherent in-game bugs in order to gain advantages over other players in terms of power-leveling (PL), stat training (PT), or player killing (PK). This includes (but is not limited to) the following:
Terrain bug abuse
The use of terrain bugs to access areas not normally accessible to players to either leave a settlement, PL, PT, or kill players (e.g., Haram and Armory-213 safe-zone terrain bugs)
Guard tower blind spot abuse
The exploitation of guard tower blind spots to attack players in what is supposed to be a non-PK zone (e.g., Anacaade settlement, Armory-213, and Bellato Wharf)
Ninja-moves
The elimination of skill/spell animation to hasten the execution of multiple kills/spells against fellow players or monsters.
Potion bug abuse
The elimination of potion cool-down time.
4.9. Game Integrity Infringement/Use and promotion of 3rd Party Program
This is the use of any program that manipulates or alters the communications between a legitimate client and the game server. This includes and is not limited to: programs designed to automate features of RF Online, duplicate or modify items, stats, skills, characters, or cause any alteration in the behavior of the game. Altering the game client will qualify it as a third party program. This includes the promotion of hacks, cheats, exploits or private servers.
This includes posting links to cheats, hacks, malicious viruses/programs, unlicensed copyrighted material, MP3 and Anime episode sites, CD key generators, or sites that present ways to get them.
This includes promoting websites that pose as official Level Up! websites that are geared towards stealing players’ account information through fraud.
People who make statements in support or in tolerance of using 3rd party programs or private server service are subject to the same penalty.
