Project Hometown community standards
Rules
The rules below are approved and currently in force.
Player and Character Age
Players and characters must be at least 18 years old. Providing false information about your age will result in removal from the community.
Community Conduct
Absolutely no harassment, discrimination, hate speech, sexual harassment, doxxing, threats, targeted abuse or encouraging these actions.
Romantic Roleplay
Romantic roleplay must be consensual, players are expected to understand that consent may be revoked at any time for any or no reason at all. Flirting, dating, kissing, holding hands and talking about feelings are examples of permitted romantic roleplay provided OOC consent is established.
Erotic Roleplay
Sexual acts, nudity meant to represent sexual acts, detailed descriptions of sexual activity, sexual dialogue or sounds are all strictly prohibited. Romantic scenes must remain non-sexual at all times.
Prohibited Sensitive Subjects
Sexual assault, sexual content involving minors, miscarriages, stillbirth, abortion, and similar subjects are prohibited. Real world hate groups and the recreation or glorification of real world atrocities are also prohibited. These subjects may not be included in roleplay or character backstories.
Terminal Illness and Mental Health Roleplay
Roleplay involving terminal illness or mental health should be handled with care and respect. It should be believable, serve purpose to your character's story, and must not be used for jokes, shock value, attention seeking or as a way to create drama. These conditions are not to be reduced to stereotypes or used to excuse rule breaking.
Consent and Lasting Consequences
Consent is required for graphic torture, mutilation, permanent injury or disfigurement, forced changes to identity, memory or long term mental state, and other extreme or lasting outcomes upon another character. Agree on boundaries before pursuing such scenes. Consent may be withdrawn at any time.
Account and Whitelist Ownership
Discord accounts, whitelist access and character game accounts belong only to the approved player. Do not share passwords, play another person's character, allow somebody else to use your account, or transfer whitelist access.
Original Characters
Characters must be original creations with realistic names and a believable place in Rosewood 1992. Direct copies of real people or fictional characters, purely comedic characters and deliberately disruptive concepts will be removed or denied.
LGBT Characters and Relationships
LGBT characters, identities and relationships are encouraged. Project Hometown is a roleplay server set in 1992, not a recreation, re-enactment or direct analogue of real world 1992. The setting must not be used to justify homophobia, transphobia, harassment, exclusion or attempts to restrict another player's character.
Player Written Application
Applications, character histories, change requests and in character writing must be writen by the player. Spellchecking and basic grammar corrections are allowed, but generative AI must not create, write, expand or rewrite submitted content.
Approved Character Continuity
The character played in game must remain consistent with their approved record. Significant changes to their identity, history, physical description, or established circumstances require an approved character change request.
Character Separation
A new character cannot inherit the knowledge, relationships property, possessions, employment, access or unfinished plans of your retired or deceased character. They may not investigate or avenge a former character using information learned while playing them.
Metagaming
Characters may only act on information they reasonably learned in character. Information from Discord, streams, resident profiles, support tickets, staff conversations, another player's screen or any other OOC source cannot be used in character.
Powergaming
Roleplay should be collaborative, do not force actions or outcomes on another character, perform actions your character could not reasonably do, or deny others a fair chance to respond to your characters actions. Best practice is to describe what your character attempts rather than assuming it succeeds.
OOC Discussion during Roleplay
Do not interrupt active roleplay to discuss rules, bugs, or personal disagreements through in character voice or text. Continue where reasonably possible, leave the scene safely if necessary and use the support system afterward.
Cheating and Unfair Advantages
Cheats, macros, unauthorized modifications, duplicated items, third party tools, exploits, or unintended mechanics may not be used to gain an advantage. Accessibility tools are permitted only when they do not reveal information or automate actions unavailable to other players.
Bug Reporting
Bugs and exploits must be reported privately through support. Do not repeatedly use them, retain anything gained through them or distribute instructions for reproducing them.
Violence and Escalation
Assault, robbery, kidnapping, or other violence requires a believable in character motive and reasonable roleplay leading to such actions. Violence should be the result of a scene, not its opening action. Immediate defence against an active threat is the exception.
Value Life and Injuries
Characters must react believably to danger, pain, or injuries. Do not behave as though weapons, serious wounds, or death have no consequence. Do not immediately disregard medical restrictions established through roleplay.
Combat and Scene Logging
Do not disconnect, respawn, or close the game to escape an active confrontation, arrest, search, robbery, injury, or other roleplay consequence. After an unexpected disconnection, return as soon as reasonably possible or contact the participants through support.
Permanent Character Death
You cannot force another character into permanent death or retirement without documented agreement from their player or prior staff approval. Without that approval, a defeated character must be left with a plausible opportunity to survive.
Captivity
A character cannot be held captive for more than 30 IRL minutes without their player's agreement or staff approval. Captives should not be kept while the captors are offline unless agreed by both parties or staff.
Private Property
Locked homes, private rooms, restricted staff areas, claimed vehicles, or clearly player controlled premises must be treated as secured even when game mechanics allow entry. Entering to steal, search, or sabotage requires prior staff approval.
Offline Theft and Raiding
You should not rob or steal from a player or their property while they are offline. A raid must be planned, submitted through support with a valid target, purpose, and supporting roleplay.
Destruction and Arson
Do not burn, demolish, dismantle, strip, or mechanically damage homes, businesses, public buildings, vehicles, or player owned objects without prior staff approval and roleplay supporting the action.
Submitting Reports
In character rule reports should normally be submitted within 72 hours by somebody directly involved in the scene. Harassment, cheating, exploiting, account misuse, or other serious OOC conduct may be reported later or by witnesses with relevant evidence.
No Real World Trading
Accounts, characters, property, items, currency, services, departmental positions, or other in-game assets may not be bought, sold, or exchanged for real world money, gifts or services.
Staff Directions and Loopholes
These rules are not exhaustive. Staff may clarify, change or add rules when needed to protect the community, and any changes will be published here. Conduct that clearly harms the community may still be dealt with even if it is not listed word for word. Staff will not normally interrupt an active scene. They may step in if the conduct is particularly serious, someone is at immediate risk or letting the scene continue would make things worse. If staff pause a scene or give an instruction, follow it at the time and appeal through support afterward. Deliberately exploiting a loophole, technicality or omission is a violation.
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