add section for server hosting rules #298
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| <li>0.6.x and previous: The player count shown must resemble the amount of human players. The maximum player count must be the maximum number of human players.</li> | ||
| <li>0.7.x and later: You can also include non-human players using a special bot flag. This allows client-side filtering.</li> | ||
| <li>Do not host an excessive amount of servers. There is no fixed limit but try to not overdo it. (i.e. there should be people playing on them eventually)</li> | ||
| <li>Do not host servers purely for advertising purposes (e.g. passworded & having only an advertisement as name; having sponsoring info or the likes in the server name is perfectly fine).</li> |
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| <li>Do not host servers purely for advertising purposes (e.g. passworded & having only an advertisement as name; having sponsoring info or the likes in the server name is perfectly fine).</li> | |
| <li>Do not host servers purely for advertising purposes (e.g. a passworded server only for advertising purposes); having sponsoring info or the likes in the server name is perfectly fine).</li> |
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that's copy and pasted from teeworlds
dunno if this should be changed.
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fair - i just dislike how it reads :P
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I know what you mean, gotta get more feedback. if more ppl are for changing that, we can do that. It does not change the meaning, just improves wording/readability, might be fine.
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was pointed to that file. where else should this go? |
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I don't know, probably a new file. @murpii opinions? |
Yes, a new file. This isn't the right place for master server related rules. They're also incomplete. We probably need to talk about these rules first before implementing them. |
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Thanks for writing this up. Yea sorry, I meant a new file like /rules/. How about /masterserver-rules/? |
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I'd like to have something there that says that these rules are not exhaustive and that we'll add more rules if we find behavior that is bad for our players. |
| <h4>🌐 Hosting rules</h4> | ||
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| <p>Hosting publicly accessible servers requires them to be registered with Teeworlds' and DDNet master servers. | ||
| Game servers that register with these master servers are subject to <a href="https://www.teeworlds.com/?page=docs&wiki=rules/server_rules">the server hosting rules of Teeworlds</a> as well as the additional DDNet rules:</p> |
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This reads wrong. The "DDNet rules" below are currently copied from the link, those are not additional rules except the last one.
| <li>Do not host servers purely for advertising purposes (e.g. passworded & having only an advertisement as name; having sponsoring info or the likes in the server name is perfectly fine).</li> | ||
| <li>Do not advertise cheats (in i.e. message of the day, server messages, server name, through NPCs, etc.)</li> | ||
| </ul> | ||
| Servers violating this ruleset will be banned. | ||
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Maybe this page should also include sentences similar to the last two sentences from the link:
You can check out the list of masterserver bans at https://teeworlds.com/master-bans.cfg if you have any doubt.
If you wish to be notified about problems with your server(s) you may provide a contact email address in your MOTD.
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