BigD Guidelines

When playing on BigD servers, you have agreed to follow the rules set out on the BigD website. We expect all players to stick to a general set of basic decency guidelines.

Teamwork, Maturity and Fair play have been the foundations of BigD since the start. This Code of Conduct is based around those Principals. 

1. Advertising in any form for clans, communities, websites, or any other individual/group is forbidden without the approval of a Community Manager.

2. Any discussion of bans, kicks or warnings are not to be discussed in-game, in public spaces or by private message to admins/moderators. We encourage users to open a ticket in Discord or via our website in order to resolve all grievances.

3. Impersonation of any BigD Admins, Managers, Moderators, Clan Members, or other affiliated individuals and groups is forbidden.

4. Gamertags must not have profanity, racism, slander or any words/phrases that may be seen as offensive. This includes abbreviations and replacing letters of an offensive word with symbols/numerals.

5. Excessive/targeted profanity in voip and text chat is not allowed. 

6. Griefing, Spamming, Exploiting, Cheating, Racism, Sexism, Doxing, Hate Speech and Harassment are not tolerated on our servers.

7. Do not spam the !admin ping, if you do need to ping an admin, ensure you also include the reason within your !admin ping.

8. When streaming any BigD hosted games, it is recommended that you run a map overlay or delay.

   1. Stream sniping is considered an exploit of the game and will be punished as such.

9. BigD is an inclusive place to everyone all over the world, from different origins, backgrounds, religions, ideologies and orientations, so at all times, players are expected to act with integrity and treat each other with respect. This is just a game and we encourage teamwork, communication, to play fair, encourage each other, help balance servers when needed, teach new players and to just have fun with it.

10. Intentional team killing is not tolerated. Accidents can happen, so ensure you apologize in all chat.

11. No Meta Gaming: This is when a player is using outside knowledge, tactics or exploits in order to gain an unfair advantage over other players and/or the game itself. e.g stream sniping, screen sharing or gaining knowledge from the opposite team.

12. If situations arise that cannot be resolved by the written rules or grey areas arise, admins reserve the right to make decisions in order to protect server health and player experience.

BigD servers are a place where all players can come to game, let out steam, relax, have fun and compete, without the fear of harassment or being in a toxic online environment. 
This code of conduct is supported by the Anti-Harassment Guideline; Discord Guidelines and Individual Game Server Rules. 

Server Rules

Gameplay

1. Intentional team killing or RMT team killing is not tolerated.

2. Meta Gaming, Glitching, Griefing, Spamming, Exploiting and Cheating are not tolerated on BigD servers.

3. Racism, sexism, hate-speech or any kind of interaction that is discriminatory or offensive will never be tolerated.

4. All alt accounts require server admin permission prior to entering servers.

5. No RMT trading within the BigD discord or game servers.

6. Farming experience is not allowed in any form.

HQ areas

• Main HQ Camping is not allowed and a combat exclusion zone of 300m around each teams HQ is in effect.

  1. You cannot fire within or fire into the enemies 300m exclusion zone.

  2. You cannot fire out of your own teams exclusion zone, if you do then you can be engaged but not pursued.

• Players are allowed to pass though enemy HQs. No hostile actions allowed while within the exclusion zone.

• Players may build FOBs anywhere on the map, except near enemy HQs where they could be used to block enemy movement or allow players to repeatedly kill enemies leaving their HQ before they can reach the Control Zone.

Seeding

In order to kick-off an empty server, we have seeding rules in place to populate the servers as quickly as possible while maintaining fun for those in-game.

1. Until 15v15v15 players, only fight within the control zone. Seeding is over when the server reaches 15v15v15

2. Do not destroy or camp enemy APC spawns vehicles.

3. APC spawn vehicles are to be parked in a safe place on the edge of the control zone or within a FOB.

4. Armour and artillery are not permitted.

5. No Combat Aircraft to be used during seeding.

6. No Anti Air weapons to be used for duration of seeding.

Seeding often involves players joining and being away from keyboard (AFK). We ask that AFK seeders select the factions with the lowest player count. This helps to maintain even sides for Active players. The idle time kick triggers are adjusted accordingly. As such, admins may move AFK players between teams during seeding to ensure there is enough active players on each side.

Notes & Info

There may be instances where the rules can be exploited, and boundaries pushed, these will be reviewed by the admin on a case-by-case basis under the proviso of promoting fair-play. The rules are not designed to cover poor strategic choices by the team.

We encourage users to open a ticket in Discord or via our website in order to resolve all grievances. Discussion of bans or rules in-game is considered poor etiquette.

When streaming WARDOGS, it is recommended that you run a map overlay or game delay.  

Stream sniping is considered an exploit of the game and will be punished as such.

DEFINITIONS

• RMT or Real Money Trading is defined as a player exchanging in game resources for real life currency.