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MTSArk Server Rules

We also follow the official Studio Wildcard Code of Conduct for Ark: Survival Evolved. Any breach of their rules or ours will result in punishment.

General Rules

Building Rules

PvP Rules

Punishment Guidelines

Minor Offenses (Warning)

  • Placing structures in the mesh (not a container): Verbal warning for first offence, leading to 24 hour ban per structure for user(s) found guilty
  • Violating building rule 2.1: Verbal warning for first offence, structures removed without warning
  • Staff disrespect: Verbal warning for first offence, continued abuse will result in further punishment

Standard Offenses (24-48 hour ban)

  • Placing structures that act as containers in the mesh: 24 hour ban per structure for user(s) found guilty
  • Blackmailing & forcing dictatorship: 24 hour ban
  • Multiple purposeful mesh bite attempts: 24 hour ban
  • Placing excessive quantities of C4: 24 hour ban
  • Floating structures on Platform saddle builds: 24 hour ban
  • Violating building rule 2.2: 24 hour ban
  • Building bases with other tribes for mutual defences: 48 hour ban for entire tribe rosters
  • Stacking dinos within one another: 48 hour ban for tribe leader & all dinos effected to be terminated
  • Different tribe(s) across multiple servers: 48 hour ban
  • Merging during FOBs: 48 hour ban

Major Offenses (3-7 day ban)

  • World border snapping: 3 day ban for users found guilty and structures forcefully removed
  • Intentional Mesh Soaking: 3 day ban for users found guilty
  • Illegal 3rd Partying: 3 day ban for users found guilty
  • Exploiting Damage Score system: 3 day ban for users found guilty & Immediate 50% Damage Score reduction of receiving Tribes Total DS. Tribe that gave score away to be dev wiped
  • Coordinated Attacks: 4 day ban for users found guilty
  • Teaming: 5 day ban for users found guilty
  • Mesh hitting (partial raid): 7 day ban
  • Fully concealed Illegal Platform Saddle builds: 7 day ban

Severe Offenses (14+ day ban, Permanent ban, Tribe Dev Wipe)

  • Account Sharing: 14 day ban for users found guilty & Tribe Dev Wipe
  • Racism: 14 day ban
  • Fully concealed Platform builds (leading to wipe): 14 day ban & Tribe Dev Wipe
  • Building rule 2.3 violation: 30 day ban for users found guilty & Tribe Dev Wipe
  • Real money trading: 30 day ban & Tribe Dev Wipe
  • Playing with banned players: 30 day ban & Tribe Dev Wipe
  • World border snapping (leading to wipe): 30 day ban & Tribe Dev Wipe
  • Despawning during raid defence: 90 day ban for users found guilty
  • Ban Evading: Permanent ban
  • Insiding a tribe: Permanent ban
  • Use of Cheat software: Permanent ban
  • Duping: Permanent ban for users found guilty & Tribe Dev Wipe
  • Mesh hitting (full wipe): Permanent ban for users found guilty & Tribe Dev Wipe
  • Entering mesh/building in mesh: Permanent ban for users found guilty & Tribe Dev Wipe
  • Extreme offensive language: Potential Minimal punishment to Permanent ban depending on the severity

Server Policies

Below is a list of public policies we as server staff abide by. The purpose of these policies is to have consistency in our decision making and more transparency for our community on how we handle certain situations.

Insiding Policy

If a tribe is insided, the victims are NOT to be reimbursed for any loss of items, dinos and structures. Insiding is taken very seriously on MTS servers. It is a Tribe Leaders' responsibility to ensure that trustful members are invited to their tribes, and MTS is not accountable for careless management from players and their tribe's belongings. Tribe ranks can be set up to avoid certain members from accessing, interacting, or demolishing specific tribe structures and tames through activation ranks, these restrictions are also applied to Pick Up guns. It is highly recommended you set up Tribe Governance to reduce the risk of this from happening. Exceptions can be made following extreme circumstances.

Insider Cooperation

After being found guilty, If an insider agrees to return all insided belongings back to the victim tribe to their satisfaction, then the ban may be shortened or lifted.

Tribe Leadership Authority

Players must acknowledge when playing in tribes whoever the leader of the tribe is in game is entitled to do whatever they wish with the tribe's roster or belongings. This policy is map specific.

Enforcement Transparency

When we perform enforcement, we will not immediately disclose full details or share evidence that was used in the process of punishing a player or tribe. This is to prevent metagaming and to protect our methods of catching cheaters to maintain a fair and safe environment so that the knowledge cannot be used in future scenarios.

Tribe Leader Responsibility

If a tribe is reported and found guilty for a breach of our rules or code of conduct, but admins are unsure of who the actual individual culprit(s) are. MTS staff will ban the tribe leader initially, once the tribe comes forward and discuss who the individual(s) are who broke said rule and investigations are complete, innocent member(s) may be unbanned and the rightful member(s) ban will be applied.

Evidence Standards

We do not accept discord messages as viable proof.

World Falling Bug

If a player logs in after connecting, relogging or after a server restart to find themselves falling under the world and eventually leading to death. Then the player is not to be reimbursed for their gear - there are multiple warnings put out regarding this avoidable bug that commonly happens on Aberration and Extinction maps in particular. Players must understand the risk when logging out with valuable gear on their persons. Falling through the world when using climbing picks, or connecting after a server crash for example is different and can be compensated.

Leadership Changes

When Tribe Leaders become inactive, unpopular or tyrannical. Members of the tribe can request the current Leadership to be forcefully overthrown. The tribe must have more than 75% of their active roster in agreement for the change - Open a ticket for instructions and further details on this process.

Boss Fight Refunds

We do not refund any loot from boss fights unless evidence of a truly unavoidable glitch occurs. Boss bodies disappearing after being killed do not qualify as refundable loot. To ensure you receive the loot from a boss fight, ensure the last hit is vs. a grounded boss with a tame with under half weight. Using "cheese" methods such as shotguns from inaccessible areas etc does not qualify for compensation.