!motd Contest (09/09/2016 - 30/09/2016)

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Hello!

As the title suggests, we are having a contest for a new !motd to accommodate the updated rules list! The winner of the contest will have their creation used for the server!

The details:

If you don't know what a !motd is all about, it's a webpage that pops up on screen when you type !motd in-game. Its primary purpose for us is to display our rules.

The way it works is we have to enter a URL for a webpage in some code and then some magic happens and the webpage becomes the !motd. This doesn't mean you have to create your own webpage, but if you know what you're doing and want to, you can. If not, don't worry, the image you create can easily be put onto a new webpage to be used.

After the deadline has been reached, the staff team will review the submissions and collectively decide on the winner, who will have their creation used for the server!

Requirements and Guidelines:
  • It must be appropriate. No profanity, insulting or anything else that a 13+ audience shouldn't have to see when logging on to our server.
  • It must contain the entire contents found in the Rules List here (see below**).
  • It must advertise our forums.
  • It must have a space where a Twitter feed can be placed (see our current !motd as an example). If you're making your own website for the contest, message me (Chandler Bing/Infected_alien8_) for details on the HTML code you'll need to place the Twitter feed.
  • It would be great if it had an interesting background image.
  • It would be great if it mentioned we are a General Gaming Community and host other servers.
  • Please note that people can scroll up and down the webpage used for the !motd.
Of course if you have other ideas for what to add into your creation, feel free to do so, just make sure you follow these guidelines too.

If you are creating a website, I recommend you use Wix. Please make sure there are no toolbars/random buttons kept in your creation if you choose to start from a template of some sort. Try to make it look as less like a webpage as possible!

If you want some credit for your creation feel free to put a little "created by [name]" somewhere.

Prizes:

Of course, what's a contest without prizes? If your creation wins and is used, you will be given:

£15 worth of steam games of your choice, a custom title in-game (replaces server rank title [e.g. Resident], can be of any colour apart from Rainbow and if you already have one you can give it to someone else), 30,000 in-game cash to splash and, of course, bragging rights.

Any other designs that were deemed to be of very high quality will win their creators 10,000 in-game points.

How to enter:

Simply post in this thread or send a message to Infected_alien8/Chandler Bing with a link to your image or, if you're making one, the webpage for it.

You can submit as many designs as you want.

Everyone is encouraged to give this a go whether you play TTT or not!

If you want inspiration or an idea for what we're looking for, click here to see the previous contest, and here is our current, temporary !motd.

Thank you, and good luck to those who are entering! You have until 30/09/16 (three weeks time) to submit your creations!

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**Rules List


Rules
(the punishments you receive for breaking these rules depends on the context of the situation and the judgement of the staff)

1) No discriminating against others (racism, homophobia or any other insulting language will not be tolerated)

2) No ghosting (using third party software to advise or reveal information to someone that is in a round from another that isn't in a round/in spectator mode)

3) No teaming (purposefully helping the opposite team at the expense of your own team)

4) No offensive or inappropriate sprays (Garry's Mod is a 13+ game so keep that in mind)

5) No spamming, harassing or impersonating others

6) No camping/delaying the round in Overtime


7) No delaying the round by camping in Traitor or Detective rooms for extended periods of time. If you are considered to be camping in a Traitor/Detective room for too long, an admin will ask you to exit it, and if you don't, you may be forced to by a teleport.

8) No prop-killing or interfering with the game as a spectator prop
(you may prop-kill when alive as long as it isn't RDM)

9) No claiming rooms (e.g. "Come in here and I'll shoot you")

10) No scripting or hacking

11) No unintelligible or troll names
(e.g. "Nobody", "Somebody in Disguise", an indescribable symbol)

12) Do not use the grappling hook to get out of the restricted playable area of the map so that you cannot be harmed

13) Do not RDM
(Random DeathMatch; damaging someone without any reason at all or solely based on suspicion)


14) If you are slain, you are expected to remain on the server for the duration of the slay. If you leave, thus avoiding the punishment of sitting out for a round, you will be banned.

15) Do not damage or call KoS on someone for following you

16) As an Innocent or Detective do not call a KOS (Kill on Sight) without solid evidence or logical proof (Traitors may do this)

17) Unless you are a Traitor, you may only kill AFKs - with the reason
solely being because they are AFK - in Overtime (if the person has not moved for 60 seconds you can consider them to be AFK)

18) You may use the golden gun on suspicious players but only as long as there is a clear line of reasoning behind the suspicion

19) You may only kill someone with the intention of reviving them with the defibrillator in order to heal/prove them as innocent if the person agrees to it


20) Killing based on common sense is allowed (e.g. killing someone because you hear a death scream far away and everyone else apart from them are together)

21) Killing someone based on them having the same gun that somebody died from or them being the last person a dead innocent saw is not allowed

22) You may not kill or damage your Traitor buddies without their permission


23) If you randomly Taser someone and they are damaged or die in the process of it with nobody else being at fault, you will be held responsible and it will be considered RDM

24) Don't use the Taser to trap people inside walls, props and structures or to make them inaccessible in any way"

25) Detectives are not allowed to give out orders, and if they shoot someone for disobeying them it will be considered RDM

26) You may physically force someone to test
(e.g. with the Taser or props) but you may not damage someone for refusing to test

27) In voice chat speak in English only

28) Do not abuse glitches


29) Do not call a KoS on a certain model or accessory.

30) Do not damage or call KoS on someone for doing something traitorous pre-round

31) As a Traitor if you activate something that could harm your buddies (e.g. c4, traps, grenades) you must warn them - if they are damaged due to you failing to warn them, you will be held responsible and it may be considered as RDM

32) Do not AFK for extended periods of time simply to pointfarm or boost ontime.


33) RDMing someone for revenge is not okay - don't take matters into your own hands, report them to staff.



Traitorous Acts (You may kill people for doing these. Detectives are exempt from this list):
  • Damaging other players who have not been KOS'd or done a Traitorous Act
  • Refusing to follow through a KOS called by a proven innocent
  • Traitor baiting (shooting next to/above people, pretending you're killing someone, throwing props towards people at harmful speeds, anything that can be mistaken for genuine traitor behaviour)
  • Throwing harmful grenades (Incendinary grenades, Frag grenades, Discombobulator grenades in dangerous places e.g. a high-up ledge that people are standing on)
  • Walking past unidentified bodies after clearly seeing them and choosing to ignore them (but use common sense; if they're involved in a firefight and are too busy shooting a Traitor to identify bodies, don't use that as an excuse to kill them)
  • Damaging traitor testers/health stations
  • Planting C4 or other traitorous devices
  • Walking towards others with explosive props
  • Entering/leaving traitor rooms
  • Having traitor weapons (unless you picked them up from a traitor that you/someone else have killed and explained this, although you can still be KOS for it if you aren't believed)
  • Calling KOS on innocents (again, use common sense. If the innocent they KOS'd performed a Traitorous act and you saw them do it, don't use the false KOS as an excuse to kill)
  • Not responding to a Livecheck within 30 seconds of it being called
  • Locking someone in a room or blocking someone from entering an area after being given three warnings with at least three seconds in between each warning. (Warnings must make it clear they are a certain number warning and that the warning is to stop blocking or locking the person in a room, e.g. "warning 1, stop blocking me" or "final warning to stop locking me in.")
 
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Okay, apologies for the delay, it took quite a while for us to decide and confirm the winner due to my wifi being gone and other staff being away and other delays, but I can finally announce that the winner of the contest is Psycho! Congratulations! Your creation is now the new !motd! PM me the details of what you'd like to win game-wise and since you don't currently play TTT, feel free to choose someone else to give those rewards to.

And thank you webpaige for your entry as well.

And Mars yours was also incredible obviously.