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--- diplo:bylaws:ratting_policy [2021/09/07 02:16]
MalcorehVakarhn [Spirit of these Rules]
+++ diplo:bylaws:ratting_policy [2024/01/08 21:44] (current)
mrbibble [§1 Ratting Rules]
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-======Ratting Etiquette======
+======Ratting Policy======
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 ===== Spirit of these Rules =====
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-===== Game Mechanics for the Brachyura =====
+===== Game Mechanics =====
 There are a few game mechanics worth understanding, especially when it pertains to ratting. Understanding how they work will help you understand why the rules below are the way they are.
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       * Mobile Tractor Units will loot EVERYTHING in range, including the wrecks of real ships
-  * **ESS**
+  * **ESS Reserve Bank**
-      * ESS pays out automatically every 3hrs (at time of writing)
+      * CCP has implemented the long-awaited system for accessing the Reserve Bank of each system’s ESS.
-      * There is no longer an option to share manually.
+      * The ISK is gated (held) behind a CCP mechanism and even though  ratting in the system causes ISK to be placed into the bank, this is through game mechanics and not player action.
+      * <color #7092be>The ISK can’t be regarded as anyone’s property.</color>
+      * Players use a region-specific key  and get SCC Encrypted Bonds to be redeemed at a CONCORD owned station for ISK.
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-===== §1 Rules  =====
+===== §1 Ratting Rules  =====
 The rules below are for your sake as much as it is ours. It is our feeling that this makes for the simplest set of rules to abide by, and the easiest to enforce for a clean, consistent, non-blue-murdering ratting experience.
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   - **Stay in TEST space for ratting/mining/exploring unless stated otherwise by the diplomatic team.**
       - All TEST space is everyone's space. Setting up citadels or installing upgrades early into an ihub does not give a corp claim, rights, or privileges over a system.
-      - No supercap ratting outside of T0DT-T titan bridge range
+      - No supercap ratting outside of Home System titan bridge range
         * If you get tackled in a carrier in M4U get your own help or die quietly.
-      - Within the T0DT-T umbrella (see [[https://evemaps.dotlan.net/map/Outer_Passage/T0DT-T:T0DT-T,2ULC-J,EZWQ-X,ZZK-VF,SN-Q1T,8-AA98,QG3-Z0,RT64-C,2-84WC,R3P0-Z,ZJ-5IS,L1YK-V,ZEZ1-9,4H-YJZ,OW-QXW,24I-FE,NQ-M6W,HZID-J,VE-W7O,MC4C-H,UNV-3J,UEPO-D,QOK-SX,GA58-7,8RL-OG,90-A1P,3-QNM4,P-8PDJ,K4UV-G,Q7E-DU,CNHV-M,V-SEE6,DJ-GBH,J-0KB3,U-FQ21,9Z-XJN,QFRV-2,Y-7XVJ,7F-2FB,SN-DZ6,NEU-UD,RQNF-9,UC-8XF#sov|OP]]), regardless of red/green status, the following ships will be given equal priority over ship classes not listed below:
+      - Within the Home System umbrella, regardless of red/green status, the following ships will be given equal priority over ship classes not listed below:
-        - Haven/Sanctum/Patrol/Horde: Titan/Supercarrier/Carrier/Dread
+        - Haven/Sanctum = Drone Patrol/ Drone Horde: Titan/Supercarrier/Carrier/Dread
           - If a prioritized ship class lands on a site you are actively doing, you need to recall and cede the site (do not finish it)
-          - Do not begin another sanctum or haven (hordes and patrols excluded) in that system until you have observed the prioritized ships are no longer actively running.
           - Multiboxing, or running semi-afk, is not an excuse for missing a carrier landing on you. Set up your clients so you can see blues within a minute or two or afk in smaller sites.
         - No specific rules apply to anomalies smaller than Havens/Patrols, but please mind the guidelines at the bottom.
-        - T0DT-T is explicitly excluded from the umbrella restrictions since you cannot jump to the system you are in, classify it like a system outside of jump range.
+        - Alliance Home System is explicitly excluded from the umbrella restrictions since you cannot jump to the system you are in, classify it like a system outside of jump range.
       - Just because we have blues and renters doesn't mean they want us ratting in their space.
       - Feel free to do escalations you get in allied space
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       - If he does not claim it in a reasonable amount of time (few minutes) you may kill and loot it; he technically forfeited claim to it when he warped off. This does not apply to MTUs in deadspace and not in an active Anom.
       - I repeat, you do **NOT**  have the right to probe down and destroy MTUs from finished sites, many people drop them by the dozen while doing the sites themselves and bookmark them to come back and loot later.
-  - **You may NOT bubblefuck a pipe system**
-      - Unattended bubbles anywhere may be removed at any time by anyone.
-      - Unattended bubbles anywhere that get someone killed may make you responsible for their reimbursement.
-      - Attempt to PM the bubble owner in case it is being cloaky camped before shooting.
   - **In the event that PVP happens in your ratting site, you are not entitled to loot accidentally hoovered up by an MTU**
       - Distribute the PVP drops among the people who came to try and save you.
-  - **Encounter Surveillance Systems(ESS) must be monitored at all times.**
-      - If you want to ensure a payout, protect the ESS until the automatic payout happens
-      - Do not steal from blues
   - When saving logs for potential future discussions, only use: [[https://paste.pleaseignore.com|https://paste.pleaseignore.com]]
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+===== §2 Bubble Camps in Test Space =====
-===== §2 Guidelines  (STRONGLY encouraged in the name of efficiency, simplicity, and drama-prevention) =====
+While we expect all bubble camps in our space to exist for the purpose of PVP and not PVE protection, if your PVE protection bubbles are not in a pipe or otherwise well traveled system, and are not otherwise causing problems, we, Test Diplomats, do not proactively enforce said expectation. This does not mean owners of PVE protection camps are absolved of responsibility for things that do happen, nor does it protect the PVE protection bubbles from being shot if unattended. It only means that we don't proactively enforce a ban on their use for the purpose of PVE protection.
+  - **You may NOT bubblefuck pipe system gates, including artificial pipes created by the jump gate network**
+      - Unattended bubbles anywhere may be removed at any time by anyone.
+      - Unattended bubbles anywhere that get someone killed may make you responsible for their reimbursement.
+      - Attempt to PM the bubble owner in case it is being cloaky camped before shooting.
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+===== §3 Reserve Bank ESS Rules =====
+Test’s long-standing policy is that our space belongs to everyone in the alliance.  Members can enter any Test-owned system, warp to a vacant anomaly, run the site, and receive ISK.  Reserve banks are no different in this way. The Alliance will be treating these as PVE sites that are Free-For-All for TEST Members to access and run, these are simply another PVE site for players to run.
+These rules apply only to the Reserve Bank. Policies regarding the Main Bank are unchanged.
+  - **All policies from the Test Alliance Bylaws and Ratting Etiquette regarding where PVE sites may be run and who can run them apply to Reserve Banks.**
+  - **Claim to an ESS grid while a Reserve Bank is paying out is determined by the use of the Reserve Bank Key.**
+      - Not by who landed first, or who is hanging about.
+  - **The person who spends the Key on the Reserve Bank has sole and complete discretion on who may or may not be on grid while the Reserve Bank is paying out.**
+  - **You do not have the right to use any offensive module on another alliance member or blue.**
+      - If someone steals from your key activation, your only recourse is in the Diplo Office in Alliance Discord. Due to this, it is strongly recommended that you have Shadowplay or its equivalent running while accessing a Reserve Bank.
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+===== §4 Guidelines  (STRONGLY encouraged in the name of efficiency, simplicity, and drama-prevention) =====
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   - **If you land on a site more or less the same time as someone in a bigger ship, cede it to them**
     - Remember, you align and warp faster than he does.
+    - If your next site is within dscan range, scan it to verify that it is empty prior to warping to it.
   - **If you're ratting, be on Mumble**
     - This is as close to mandatory as a guideline gets.  If you have to spend time getting on Mumble after you get tackled you're probably just going to feed.  If you feed repeatedly to your own incompetence diplos may have words with you or your corp.
   - **Join a standing fleet if you're ratting in a common system**
     - It's certainly not mandatory, but it's a lot easier to call for help if you're already in a fleet and not panicking to make one as you're trying not to die.
+===== Related =====
+  * [[diplo:bylaws:mining_policy|Mining Policy]]
+  * [[diplo:bylaws:ice_mining_policy|Ice Mining Policy]]
+  * [[diplo:bylaws:gas_huffing_policy|Gas Policy]]

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