Customer Panel

THE NORTHMEN'S RULES

FOR GAME & DISCORD

COMBAT RULES

1. NO CHEATING

All forms of cheating will be resulted in a permanent ban. This includes, but is not limited to:

  • ESP, Nvidia Inspector, Aim-. speed- and wallhack.
  • Lagswitch
  • Advantage-giving software like Audio Radar
  • Crosshair and game filters are OK.

2. NO EXPLOITING/GLITCHING GAME MECHANICS

  • Example; taking items through walls / unrealistic openings such as cracks in the walls or similar.

3. NO ALT-ACCOUNTS

  • Background to this is that players have been using several accounts logged in inside a base, to then log in on each one when killed during raids or other PVP.

4. NO BAN EVADING

  • This means using alt accounts to avoid the ban, or other methods that makes you join the server when you are banned.

5. NO COMBAT LOGGING

  • If you have been in combat/dealt damage/taken damage you are not allowed to leave until 5 minutes has passed.

6. LOGGING OUT WITH RESTRICTED ITEMS

  • Logging out with raid tools, C4 components or Pokémon boxes is not allowed.
  • If you force log out in your territory, your items will be dropped to the ground and no compensation is given.
    • You can of course store your items inside your base; in lockers, crates or other storage units.

7. GROUPSIZE

This means the group system is capped and you can only have a certain total in your group.

  • Groupsize 7.
    • Within a group system, you can see each other on the map, HUD and the pings.
    • Leaving a group will set a cooldown timer on 4 hours before you can join a new.
  • Playing with Alliances is allowed.
  • A group also includes “Beta” subgroup, where additional 7 players can be invited/moved to. This group will not see the other groups HUD, pings or markers – or vice versa.

8. NO-LOGOUT ZONES

  • Bitterroot > Falcon Rock, Hawkins Nuclear Facility & Missile Silos
  • Chernarus > Oil rig
  • Deer Isle > Oil rigs, Alcatraz, K-MUC, Arctic Crypt & Temple
  • Livonia > Underground Bunker
  • Sakhal > Underground Bunker & Oil rig

If you force quit, you will be teleported to a specific place and no compensation is granted.

9. STREAMING

  • Stream sniping is not allowed!
  • It is forbidden to watch streamers that play on the same server as yourself, this is due to having an unfair advantage with gaining knowledge from the stream that you wouldnt normally know.
    • Streamer must provide solid evidence that would support a case of stream sniping.

CHAT RULES

  • English only in text chats/global in game chat
  • No tagging of ANY staff members
  • No racism, sexism, toxic behavior or bigotry of any kind will be tolerated
  • No spamming
  • No promoting outside communities
  • No NSFW in text- or voice channels, in-game names and groupnames
  • No impersonating staff, players or groups
  • No excessive trolling permitted within discord/game

DayZ is a game we are all meant to enjoy, setting out with the expressed intention of making another player miserable will not be permitted.

  • No Meta-gaming
    • Revealing other player’s location/bases, directly and/or indirectly.
    • Directly or indirectly announce ongoing raids.
    • Example: “who is shooting in Vybor?” or “who killed me in Cherno?” is Meta.
    • Asking for location is OK if you are not revealing anyone else than yourself.
    • Example: “Is anyone in Berezino?”
    • A direct raid announcement would be:
    • “We’re raiding them right now! Bring boom and push in!” (Clearly states that the raid is happening and gives instructions.)
    • An indirect raid announcement would be:
    • “Boom’s already going off—might be a good time to get involved.” (Hints that a raid is happening without explicitly stating it.)
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  • Do not accuse players of cheating or other rule break in chat
    • See “Report a rule breaker” in ⁠Report a Rule Breaker or ⁠Report a Cheater
  • Do not make accusations of Admin abuse in chat
    • Claims are brought directly to “Concerns” in ⁠I Have a Concern About an Admin…
  • Please do not tag multiple staff in tickets if there is no response, we will respond in a timely manner
    • Admins have the final say regarding any ticket/argument as well as the final decision
  • Do not lie in tickets
    • This includes providing false information to admins about a situation or compensation request.

BASE BUILDING RULES

1. NO BUILD ZONES

  • Military-, Police-, Hospital- and Waterfountain Locations are no-buildzones.

 

2. ROADS

  • You are not allowed to build on roads
    • Dead-end roads are an exception.

3. RAIDABLE BASES

  • You must have a raidable pathway in to your base and rooms.
    • You can not block these entrances or rooms by placing tents, storage or other obstacle to force players to either raid storage or go through vehicles in order to progress through your base.
  • You can not have ladders, vault animations or in any other way force players to parkour, balance or jump actions to be part of the raidable pathway.
    • Static ladders can still be part in a base, as long as it’s not a required path to reach any loot.
  • You can not force multiple players in order to raid or require any item other than raid tools (bases must be raidable by solo players).
  • “Death tunnels” (ie anything that requires attackers to crouch or crawl through an area to make an impassable bottleneck or prevent them from raising their weapon in a full 360 degree rotation at any height) is not allowed.
  • “Grenade holes” (ie anything that allows you to direct grenades to a specific area where the attacker can not shoot you or throw a grenade back at you).
  • You are allowed to have man-traps in your base.
    • A decoy room/route or trapdoor can not have any loot/storage as it would render inaccessible and un-raidable. It is to be considered as a departure from the main pathway. The main pathway can not be a forced single-way in. It must be possible to go back the same way one came from.
  • Vehicles inside a base must be able to be taken out. You can not block off vehicles.
    • Trucks require a certain height if parked in-doors, meaning you must ensure that you don’t have a wall on top of a gate, because then the truck can not pass through. Gate on top of a gate is a must if you build it in.
  • You can’t block or restrict people from being able to easily place C4 / use a raidsaw on your gates and doors.
    • Meaning that you can’t force people to stand in barbed wire while they are planting/raidsawing. Barbed wire on a gate is ok, but not so you have from every side making it a field of wire you stand in.

4. BASE TAKOVER

  • You can only take over a base if there is no flagpole or the flag is at 0%.
  • A flagpole/territory defines a base; without it it’s considered as a “hideout” or “stash” and can be claimed by others.

5. GATE/DOOR DISTANCE

  • Stacking gates/doors is allowed as long as it’s not clipping in to each other.

6. TENTS

  • You are allowed to have storage or a small tent inside a Military- or Cartent.

7. GATE/DOOR LIMIT

Dynamic Door Limit; Increased +5 per these intervals every friday;

  • Week 1: 5 Doors
  • Week 2: 10 Doors
  • Week 3: 15 Doors
  • Week 4 and forward: 20 Doors
    • This goes for a standalone base.
    • Not only locked doors/gates, but door/gates in general.

8. NO SKY BASES / UNREALISTIC DESIGNS

  • This means all buildings must be anchored and have realistic support to its structure.
    • You can not have “floating” skybases, tents, simple base holograms or gardenplots.

9. WALL HEIGHT

  • Maximum 5 wall height, equivalent to 2 watchtowers stacked.
    • Height counts from the ground surface or from the surface of a building/structure.
    • If walls are anchored to a structure, the height counts from the structure’s surface.

10. VEHICLES

  • Max 3 cars per group.

11. BOATS

  • Max 3 boats per group.

12. TERRITORIES

  • Maximum two bases/territories per group.

RAIDING RULES

1. NO GRIEFING

Griefing includes but is not limited to:

  • Logging out in another player’s base.
  • Putting locks on another player’s base.
  • Destroying someone else’s loot (shooting/burning).
  • Destroying loot on purpose (shooting/burning).
    • This goes for raiders destroying defender’s loot and defenders destroying their own loot while getting raided.
  • Vehicles are not part of the griefing rule.

2. NO GLITCHING IN TO A BASE

Glitching includes but is not limited to:

  • Intentionally passing through a solid object or objects that should be solid that have not been given collision. Regardless of whether this is to raid a base, is part of your own base or just an object in the map.
    • Windows that are not “player size” with room enough to easily crawl through counts as solid objects even if the glass is broken, window panes will still block you from easily crawling through.
  • Using garden plots, fireplaces or ejecting out of cars to go through walls/gates.

3. BOOSTING / ECO RAIDING IS ALLOWED

  • Boosting is allowed using maximum 3 players as the boosting unit, making it possible for a 4th to jump up and over.
  • You are allowed to use 1 object to elevate your position. Meaning you can drop any solid object and stand on it, for instance a tire.
    • Boosting objects must be leveled on a surface in order to use for boosting. Meaning you can not clip in any tents in to structure, or push a vehicle on top of a tent, or place items in the air and boost from it.
  • You can not use proxy items to boost on.
    • Example is placing attaching barbed wire on a wall/gate but not mounting it, making it a platform to stand on is not allowed.
  • If using a vehicle, tent or other storage, that will count as your 1 object allowance, to then proceed with 3 players maximum.
  • When boosting in to a base using vehicles/objects/players and you get stuck – it is your responsibility to get unstuck. Try relog or F11.

4. NO REBUILDING DURING RAID

  • You will be restricted to rebuild doors/gates or place codelocks while being raided.
  • It will set a timer of 20 minutes when someone uses a Breaching Charge or Raid Tools
  • The raid timer will reset itself everytime a C4 is armed or a raidtool is used.
  • Timer will run out if no further C4 has been armed or raidtool used, then you will be able to build again and place codelocks.
  • You are only permitted to start rebuilding gates/doors that were destroyed in the raid. Meaning at the same place, and not build new doors in new locations once the timer runs out.

ADVISORY & DISCLAIMER

1. EXPLOITING LOOPHOLES IS PUNISHABLE

If you are unsure about a rule, please ask!

2. VEHICLES

Vehicles and boats are highly unreliable and use at your own risk.No compensation will be given if you lose a vehicle or boat that includes your loot as well.Vehicles are not part of the griefing rule.

2.1 Tips that may help prevent your vehicle from glitching:
  • Camonet/tarp can be used to cover a vehicle. This will make it act static which prevents if from moving during restarts. It also helps server performance.
  • Don’t park vehicles too close to walls or other structures, or inside garages/buildings.
  • If parking inside; always cover the vehicle with camonet/tarp. NOTE that vehicle may still bug out after uncovering it if parked to close to an object/structure.
  • If a car is flipped up-side-down you can use the small wrench to flip it.
  • You can push your vehicle forwards or backwards. Put it in neutral (N).
  • Boats on Deer Isle & Alteria: Use the anchor (press Z) to make it stable on the water.

3. RECORD YOUR GAMEPLAY

  • Nvidia / Windows gamebar are examples. These can be used to save the last 5-20 minutes of gameplay.
  • Video footage is required for any compensation.
  • Video footage is also very valuable when reporting a rule breaker / cheater. If you are the one accused, your own video footage may clear your name.
    • If you get griefed, die from a bug or anything out of the ordinary we need video evidence or something that can document what you had when it happened.

4. LOOTCYCLING

  • Lootcycling of any kind, especially at military places is highly forbidden.
    • This means taking loot and dropping it outside in order to force spawn new loot systematically.

5. COMPENSATION

  • Video proof is required for any compensation.
  • We only compensate bugs that are out of the ordinary.
  • We do not compensate for server restart setbacks, vehicle/boat bugs, known Dayz bugs. It is admin’s decision on compensation.
    • Remember, this is Dayz. You will lose items in-game, you will die, you will have to start over, and live it with it or move on. And when you are upset, your best option is to do the opposite of what you would do when you are mad.

A)

Please understand staff members are at liberty to act upon rule breakers as we see necessary. Rules are interpreted and defined by the admins. Rules are a subject of change and admin’s word is law. Punishments will be based upon the offense and the attitude of the offender. Using common sense will help to avoid any sort of action being taken against you, please make sure to use it.

B)

By playing on The Northmen’s Server you agree with, that ingame footage may be recorded and used for our promotions.This includes videos and images posted in our Discord Channels.

C)

When playing on The Northmen you are automatically succumbed under the rules. It is your responsibility as a player to read and understand the rules.If you have a question about a specific rule, please ask!