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TEST Alliance Bylaws
These bylaws are listed in descending severity of punishments. If you break the top ones, you're very likely to find yourself in need of a new Alliance.
Instant Expulsion from TEST Alliance/Dreddit
Linking Child Pornography anywhere TEST related
Impersonating a Director or Alliance Leadership (including Diplomats)
Making up a directorial order to manipulate a blue
Revealing personal information about any person without their express approval
Doing any of the following to alliance members or the alliance itself
Stealing from alliance members or allies
Stealing from the alliance or allied alliances
Luring alliance members or allies into a trap
Scamming alliance members or allies
Giving intel to or otherwise helping our enemies
Refusing to obey a direct order from a director
Hiding characters from IT/
TIA
TEST is an alliance of mains, “dual citizenship” is typically not allowed, and all alts in or out of TEST must be registered in auth unless otherwise approved by HC/
TIA.
Hacking/Cracking/Level-Escalation/Denial-of-Service attempts of any kind on any IT service.
Sharing “root”/“admin” passwords or access to anybody below sysop or to any non-member.
The following can get you in serious trouble
You may be forced to sing on Mumble, pay a large fine, or (if you are particularly a dick about it) find yourself a new alliance.
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Shooting or performing a hostile action against alliance members (or allies) without their consent or the approval of one of their corp directors (or a TEST Diplomat/High Command member)
Disobeying a direct FC order while in their fleet (this will likely get you killed immediately)
Excessively poor ratting etiquette/generally being a dick about PVE - breaking chains, hogging systems, etc (the typical punishment for PVE drama is a Trial by Ordeal to be determined by your corp leadership, or an alliance diplomat/shortbus member)
Warping to fleet members unless told to - If you warp to 0 on a cloaked ship, he de-cloaks, likely getting both of you killed (this will likely get you killed immediately)
Giving away any tactical location or other fleet information anywhere besides fleet chat
Harassing or otherwise preventing a director from doing their directorial duties
Cluttering up intel channels with non-intel (this will get you muted or banned from the relevant intel channel)
Excessively being a dick about fleet loot (always listen to your FC or your corp/alliance leadership, unless told otherwise loot is typically free-for-all)
Sharing “root” passwords by any non-encrypted means or unsafe means. If possible, always do SSH Key authentication, if its not possible then please exchange passwords via a private chat via Jabber or another encrypted chat system. Leaking passwords/etc by negligence will get you in serious trouble.
Not following common-sense hangar security practices
Excessively trolling/griefing/spamming in Mumble, Jabber, Discord, on the forums, or through corp/alliance evemail
Posting anything on alliance services that violates German law
The majority of our services are hosted in Germany, so we specifically have to cater to German laws on what we host, this most often comes up in the form of Nazi Iconography. TL/DR: Don't post swastikas on discord/forums for memes
Scamming on reddit
No Dreddit pilots are in any way allowed to be involved with recruitment scamming.
Don't be a dick.
We may be upset with you for the following
Repeat offenders will be fined/kicked
Not being in Mumble when in fleet ops, or being in a fleet's Mumble channel without participating in the fleet. Deaf/otherwise ineligible players are exempt from this.
Petitioning blues or encouraging people to petition blues. Please discuss problems with corp or relevant alliance leadership first.
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Not paying attention to
ratting etiquette (also covers PVE rules for generic activities without a dedicated document like scanning, event sites, etc…)
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Not paying attention to News and Updates
Discussing IRL politics on alliance services, or in alliance sponsored channels.
Dropping MTUs in PvP grids. If you do so, make sure the battle is over, the grid and almost the whole system has no enemies to kill and your MTU does not take loot that other Testbros in grid can take.
PAC (Private Alt Corp) Rules