Thievery Rules

We highly suggest anyone participating in any PvP interaction follow the documentation rule, to avoid any discrepancies, or errors in staff judgment. 

T1. Thievery

Thieving is defined as stealing from another tribe/player in any form. If you are playing a thief character, this server is a roleplay server first and a PvP server second!

When engaging in thievery, you MUST follow all General PVP rules, unless stated otherwise, and all Thievery Rules including:

• T1. - B, The second you start a thievery and you die to a tame or a person, you must follow NLR aka not going back for your items or tames. (See rule: “G1. You Must Obey NLR”)

• T1. - C, If you are caught while thieving you cannot initiate conflict with the persons you are robbing. You must attempt to run, deceive or simply surrender. If the one who is being stolen from initiates conflict roleplay, you may then escalate to PvP to defend yourself. (see rule: “G11. Value Your Life”) 

• T1. - D, If you are caught and/or killed during an attempted theft, your identity is known by the player who is defending. 

• T1. - E, You can NOT steal from the admin staging area (Stormlord Mining Company Docks) or any admin structures/shops.

T2. Documentation

When preparing to engage in thievery, reflect on the motives and intent. Roleplay thefts should be modest, contribute to roleplay, and serve a purpose. Defend your character's actions by recording your gameplay, and taking screenshots to back up your actions in the case of a complaint. In the absence of documentation during a ticket dispute, Staff will rely on the evidence provided to make a decision. Safeguard yourself by maintaining thorough documentation.

Document screenshots of:

• Evidence, Notes, Clues, etc. ensuring legibility

• All locations where evidence is found

• All items stolen

• All preserved items and their respective locations

T3. Be Prepared

When engaging in thievery, you must go in fully geared, prepared and must have intention behind the theft. You must also be fully prepared to accept all consequences of your actions, including losing your items or tames.

• T3. - B, You must be geared, No naked thieving! 

• T3. - C, You must be prepare to preserve items you can not carry with you, use bad boxes in case you need to preserve items.

T4. No Tames

When engaging in thievery, you are not allowed to use any tames to assist you in a theft. Including displacing tames, killing tames, carrying items or using tames to break in.

• T4. - B, Shoulder Pets can be used, but can NOT carry items for you.

• T4. - C, Thieves may only take what they can carry. Tames can NOT assist you with weight!

• T4. - D, Tames can NOT be used to break into a base or break containers.

• T4. - E, Tames can NOT be used to displace or move other players' tames.

T5. Damage to Obtain Loot

When engaging in thievery, you must only do enough damage to obtain someone's loot. This means thieves are only allowed to destroy enough doors and window glass to get to the target. You may only break into THREE storage containers.

• T5. - B, You may destroy any doors and window glass to get to the target, nothing else. 

• T5. - C, Thieves may not use explosives (ex. grenades), they cause too much collateral damage.

• T5. - D, All items that cannot be carried must be placed in bad boxes or unlocked containers. Do NOT popcorn items if you can not carry everything. 

T6. Crew Size

When engaging in thievery, you are only allowed to have a maximum crew size of THREE members. 

• T6. - B, Members can be from different tribes.

• T6. - C, Only 3 storage containers PER theft, NOT per player.

T7. Laying Low - [Cooldown Period]

You can only hit the same tribe once per week, and there is a daily cool down period called “Laying Low”. When you are Laying Low, you may not steal from another tribe or player until after the next server restart. 

• T7. - B, You CANNOT change your appearance including clothing until 24 hours after the incident.

T8. Evidence

When engaging in thievery, you MUST leave behind Evidence. You must leave at least 3 clues that can lead back to you. The clues should give the affected tribe a way to begin the process of elimination (see below for examples). You cannot change your clothes until 24 Hours after the incident.

• T8. - B, Evidence with 3 clues MUST be placed at the site of the crime.

• T8. - C, If you die during thievery, you cannot go back for your belongings or tame(s), they can now be used as evidence. 

• T8. - D, Evidence MUST be placed when anything happens in thievery.

• T8. - E, Evidence MUST give 3 basic clues leading back to YOU.

• T8. - F, Evidence can only be picked up or destroyed by the tribe that has been affected. 

• T8. - G, If someone breaks in and does not leave evidence, inform an admin!
  
  

Examples:  

• “You see dragon claw prints leading away…”

• “You find a few blue feathers scattered about…”

• “You find claw marks on the door frame similar to a Drakes…”

• “You find a torn piece of black material with purple embellishments…”

• “You find residue consistent with torpor magic being used…”

• “You notice tiny stiletto prints leading away…”

• “You trip on a large, deep foot print leading…”

• “You see small clumps of redwood earth…”

• “You notice on the floor, a wet footprint possibly from melting snow…”

When thieving consecutively from the same tribe/person, Evidence must progressively get more detailed with EACH attempted theft. After your fifth attempted theft on the same tribe, evidence MUST lead directly to the culprit being either your name or tribe name.

• First Attempt - 3 basic clues, one being a physical feature.

• Second Attempt - 3 basic clues, one being a physical feature. You may only use ONE clue from the last attempt to tie this theft in with the previous one.

• Third Attempt - 3 basic clues, two being physical features. You may only use ONE clue from the previous attempts to tie this theft in with previous attempts.

• Fourth Attempt - 3 basic clues, two being physical features. You may only use ONE clue from the previous attempts to tie this theft in with previous attempts.

• Fifth Attempt - Evidence MUST include player name or tribe name.