Rules and Regulations

In Game:

• Respect Briefings: Briefings are always the first step in a mission and usually determine the flow of the rest of the mission. For leadership, briefings should be limited to 10 minutes at most. This time includes the command briefing and the individual squad briefings. This is done to prevent over-planning when it probably is not necessary. For non-leadership, the briefing is a time to check your gear and alert admins to any problems. Everyone that is not involved the command briefing needs to stay far away from the meeting or move when asked by command. Voices should also be kept in checked and lowered when asked by command. When getting briefed make sure you are listening and asking questions. Finally if anyone has any suggestions for a plan it should be done in the briefing. After briefing is done the plan will be set. Actions that go against the plan should not be done unless approved by leadership. You should also not express disapproval of a plan during the mission if you are not in a leadership role.

• Respect Command: Players that choose a command role need to perform with a certain behavior and should be treated in a certain way. Taking a command role means you are first agreeing to lead the mission in that role up to the end of the mission. You are responsible for the people you are leading. Intentionally and purposefully killing people you are leading is not acceptable. You are also in charge of making sure people below you are not acting inappropriately during a mission. For everyone, the chain of command is set up to help missions run smoothly and to add a structure to the group. It is your job to listen to people in a higher leadership position. This also means following their orders. You can express your objections but should still follow the orders if the leadership member doesn't change the given order.

• There are few excuses to loot dead enemies. By default, all gear except weapons are stripped from enemy corpses - the only ammo they'll have is what's in those weapons. As such, you should ONLY procure an enemy primary weapon if you are otherwise UNABLE TO FIRE and in IMMINENT DANGER. Otherwise, find a teammate to resupply from or pass it up the chain. If your FTL is alive, always ASK before procuring an enemy weapon of any kind - This serves two purposes; makes sure he's okay with you slowing down the FT's movements and dropping your security where applicable, and lets him know to pass on to the SL and other FT that you are wielding an enemy weapon. If you fail to do this, expect to receive friendly fire. Looted AT weapons should go to the fireteam's Rifleman AT if he has expended his launcher. Lastly, if your FTL has cleared you to procure an enemy primary weapon and you have a valid reason for doing so - retain your own rifle. If you need it that desperately, you'll have room in your backpack. Resupply from friendlies at the earliest opportunity.

Pre-Join

• 30 minutes before every session we have pre-join. This is to ensure that you have no issues joining the server, or trouble with any mods. During pre-join you’re free to mess around, however you should still not be doing stupid shit. If you have any issues, admins can help you but it is your responsibility to make sure your mod pack is updated and working. Do not expect admins to help you after a session begins.

Session

• Before every mission there will be a slotting phase. This phase is split up into a few parts. First, we slot leaders and medics. These are the most important roles. Establishing the leadership is important before we slot everyone else, as leadership determines what roles are to be taken. If everyone were to be able to slot freely with no structure, some issues would occur during the mission itself. After the leaders and medic phase comes the specialties, these are slots like Helicopter Pilots or HMG Teams. When we’re done with specialties it’s time to slot “normal” slots, such as AARs, Riflemen AT. (See Fireteam Structure) When we slot these roles, new-joins will slot first. This is to ensure that the recruits will have more experienced members within their fireteam, in case they run into any issues.

• It is important that you listen when slotting occurs. Having people talk over each other in the lobby during the slotting phase will only slow things down. We don’t have a system to make everyone shut up, we trust you’re all grown up enough to know when the time comes. Slotting is not something that should take long, and you should be quiet and wait for the mission to start. Pick your slots, and don’t worry if you don’t get the specific slot that you want. We run several missions every session, so you’ll have plenty of opportunities to try different things. There’s plenty of time to talk during the briefing, and during the mission itself. These conversations should therefore be saved for when the mission starts.

Out of Game:

• The Golden Rule - do unto others as you would like done to you. We trust you all know how to act like adults.

• Be yourself. This is a fraternity, but it can’t function if we don’t actually get to know each other.
  • We are not a milsim community outside of our ARMA sessions. Yes, we do take our main game seriously, but when we’re just hanging out, we’re all just dudes who like to play video games sometimes. If you’re worried about milsim aspects creeping into daily life in the Coalition, don’t be.

Real bigotry is not tolerated at all. If you have extreme prejudices, feel free to not share them. That being said, you need to have a thick skin to be a part of this group. Don’t expect we will accommodate any emotional baggage if you find yourself offended, we expect you all to be grown ups. This should be an environment of improvement as well. Seek out suggestions to improve in game and offer advice when you can. Keep in mind this discussion should be done respectfully with the intention of improvement and not laying blame.

Forums and Discord:

• Remember the old adage from 2004, what goes on the internet never goes away. Just keep that in mind.

• Discord can get clogged up pretty easily if we’re all chatting it up in a public channel, be aware of other’s trains of thoughts, don’t clog up the channel

• Complaining, whining, bitching, and generally acting like an idiot within discord while touching on any multitude of topics related to the community will result in an instant mute within discord. Coalition HQ and SPC owe no one anything, and as such, will suppress people who consistently stir shit.

• Keep shitposting in #general to a minimum, especially when people are actually discussing. It’s our main channel as a group, and therefore acts as a general melting pot for discussion. Anything goes here, just remain mindful.

• Be aware of the topic of your post/chat. Post it in the right channel or on the right board for the topic.

• The "nowplaying" channel in discord is purely for announcing play sessions. If you are looking for people to play a game with, you should use the @here command to let the group know. Anyone online should see it and come flocking to play 2007 Runescape with you. However, this channel is not for discussion. Keep discussion of games (and any play sessions mentioned in #nowplaying) to #othergames.

• Keep things safe for work. People check discord at work or in class, and we’ve got people in every single time zone. There is no time of day where you don’t run the risk of getting someone in trouble if you’ve got NSFW material in public channels. Keep these posts in places where people don’t run a risk of getting in trouble for looking at dodgy pictures (teamspeak, private chats, etc).