Welcome to Gaia! ::

RP Rules

These rules govern your conduct within the RP, and include some general rules about Pokemon. They are subject to change with or without notice. It is your job to check them for updates.

1. No Spamming. This includes, but is not limited to, chatting about signatures, advertising websites, single word posts, using Chatspeak (ROFL, LOL, LMAO, ect.), posting anything not RP related in HQ, using the wrong sub-forum, double and triple posting, and OOC chat.
............Violation #1: Warning and post deleted.
............Violation #2: Suspended for 4 Days.
............Violation #3: Banned.


2. No Flaming. This includes, but is not limited to, caps lock, putting down every idea they have, being generally mean, hateful or disrespectful.
............Violation #1: Warning and post deleted.
............Violation #2: Suspended for 4 Days.
............Violation #3: Banned.


3. God-modding will not be tolerated! This includes, but is not limited to, having your Pokemon take on an impossible number of enemies with only taking minimal to no damage, using Character Powers to become invincible or take down 101 Team Magma Admins, etc.
............Violation: Handled on a case to case basis. If your are God-modding with powers, powers are taken away and not returned and the user is warned. If God-Modding with Pokemon, suspension, demotion and banning become more likely. With this rule, only 1 warning is given.



4. All Pokemon must be caught in a mission or RP. The only exception would be Pokemon Eggs, which are, in fact, not caught, but obtained.
............Violation: Pokemon taken away until a proper way to obtain is completed. Should the violator continually do this, more severe action may be taken.


5. All evolutions and egg hatching must be approved by a Crew member. For the most part, Pokemon require 10 or 20 Evolution Points (Evo Points) to evolve. Eggs hatch after you've owned them for a certain number of days. See the Pokemon Rules for more information.


6. You must keep track of the evo point total of your Pokemon in your profile. Failure to do so will result in your Pokemon not being able to evolve. Crew members will check for this information every time a Pokemon is asked to be evolved. See the Pokemon Rules for more information concerning evolving.
............Violation: Pokemon not able to evolve. User notified. More serious action may result should it continue.


7. All trades must be approved by someone in the Crew. Trading must be agreed upon by both people involved. Trading with an NPC is not allowed. Also, trades may not happen until both owners have had the Pokemon for at least 5 days. You may ask for trades in the Aqua Shop and Garden sub-forum.
............Violation: Pokemon not traded. Users notified. More serious action may result should it continue.


8. Try your very best to be active. Yes, life happens, but we would still love for you to post at least once a week to let us know you haven't fallen off a cliff. Inactive member's profile will be moved to the Profile Archives, and depending on the situation, you could receive a rank down upon return. To participate in contests, you must post in HQ at least 3 times each week during the contest dates. Should you wish to terminate membership, please notify a Crew member.


9. All members must create a profile in the Profile Subforum. The profile must follow the guidelines post within the Subforum.
............Violation: If a member is active in the RP for a few days but is yet to create a profile, they will lose rights to participate in the RP until a profile is created. We understand that profiles may take a few days to set up properly.


10. All posts should be kept PG-13. So no excessively vulgar language, sexual content, excessive violence, or any other unacceptable materials should be seen in a post.
............Violation: Handled on a case to case basis. Usual procedure: Post edited, or deleted and person warned. Should the behavior continue, more severe actions may occur.


11. Above all, we are a Team. This means that no members should be added to another member's "Ignore" list on Gaia. If you have a problem with someone, please talk it over in PMs, but under NO circumstances should you completely ignore someone. This causes serious problems as you cannot see "Ignored" user's posts which could cause issues if something plot oriented is going on.
............Violation: Ignoring user asked to remove ignored user from Ignored list. Should Ignoring continue, banning or suspension of Ignoring user may occur and all future attempts to join Aqua will be ignored.


12. Training Role-Play Missions may be hosted by anyone in Tier 4 and higher. People below Crew level are limited by rank in the amount of TRPs they can host, but may participate in as many as they like. A Training RP (TRP for short) is an exploratory mission, with at least one other person, that gives you the chance to battle wild Pokemon and strengthen your team. The Pokemon you can catch during a TRP depends on your rank.
............Tiers 6 and 5: Only Baby- or Basic-stage Pokemon. No Legendaries.
............Tiers 4 and 3: Anything up to 1st-stage, except Legendaries.
............Tiers 2 and 1: Anything except Legendaries.

13. Concerning people who lead RPs/TRPs. After you host an RP/TRP, it is your responsibility as host to compile a list of which users in the RP caught what Pokemon and, if you are allowed and gave out a rank-up, to list who ranked up to what and from what. It will then be your job to either edit these changes into the Rank and Pokemon List or PM the list to a Crew member so they can do it. This may sound confusing, so feel free to send Maddymage a PM for a more in-depth explanation and a template to follow.
............Violation: Rights to host RPs/TRPs temporarily taken away. If the problem persists, rights to host are permanently removed.

14. This is a Pokemon RP. No one is allowed to be any species other than human or have any magic powers/strange weapons and the like. This RP takes place in the Pokemon Universe. We live with Pokemon and we fight using our Pokemon. At this time, hybrids (Pokemon human crossbreeds) are not allowed.
............Violation: You will be asked to change whatever is not Pokemon-related about your character. Failure to do so will result in not being allowed to participate in the RP until changes are made or a possible banning.

Our Definition of Spam

1. Sig requests, chatting about sigs and 'look at my sig' type posts are considered spam.

2. Advertising other threads or guilds or websites not directly related to Aqua is considered spam.

3. Single word posts such as hello, hi, or bye are not permissible and are classified as spam. Also, "LOL", "ROFL", "OMG", and the likes by themselves are not permitted.

4. Posting pictures that do not relate to the RP is also spam.

5. If your post contains no RP action in it then it is spam.

6. Out-of-Character chat (OOC) is considered spam when posted in the main RP thread.

If you want to say something in HQ try to make it a coherent sentence. That means it clearly outlines a reasonable thought. That thought should be related in some way to the Team.

Maddy was sitting on the beach outside. The message on the TADS she received in the mail had told her to wait here on this day. So far, no one else had arrived, but she didn't mind that. Her three Pokemon sat beside her in the sand; a Froakie, a Gible, and an Axew. It was a nice, clear day out and the breeze coming off the ocean was nice and cool. She pushed her long black hair out of her face as the breeze picked up for a moment.
"I wonder how many people there will be tonight..." She said aloud to her Pokemon companions.

Maddy noticed a boy walk into view a small distance away from her. From the way he just sat down, it looked as if he might've been waiting as well. She pushed herself up from the sand, brushed her clothes off, and slowly approached him.
"Are you... joining Aqua as well?" She asked him as she came close. She wasn't a social-able person by nature, but she was getting bored of waiting by herself.

"Yeah... I am." Maddy responded, sitting down in the sand once more.
She watched as her Froakie hopped off to go play in the ocean waves. Gible and Axew stayed on either side of her, however.
"I wonder who else will be showing up..."

Colton walked onto the beach, his brown hair reaching down to his ears when the wind died down enough to keep it still. "I take it you three got the message too." he said politely as his trusted Munchlax peeked out from behind his legs, being shy and slightly suspicious of the two boys and girl standing in front of Colton.

Allen sighed, "Good, I kind of didn't expect too many people, I guess I was trying to be cautious." But the way the other person came right out and asked, he guessed it wasn't something to be too discrete about, he nodded with a "Yeah." He eyed the Poochyena, staying on the fence about getting any closer. However Cubchoo squirmed in Allen's arms, wanting down. When he put her down, she waddled over to the Poochyena, starring at him, wanting to play. "Don't to that, you don't know'im..." He sighed and gave up, she was too playful to care. He looked over to the woman and her Pokemon and back to himself. He sat down to observe everyone. His Seviper came over behind him and the Froakie hopped down next to him.