Game Masters reserve the right to punish you for any violation of the rules; these range from a mute to a permanent ban. --These punishments are just a guide. A GM can decide the punishment during the time of action, so do not take the 1st offense for granted. Depending on the situation, the 1st offense can mean temp ban on the spot.

1. Respect other players and Game Masters.
Remember that players are from 7 to 57 old years, from all over the world. Disrespect will earn you a mute/jail/ban depending on severity. Disrespect includes inappropriate sexual/race/nationality comments, continuous insults (after warn) or flamming when told to watch their language.

1st offense: Warning.
2nd offense: 30minutes in Jail/Mute.
3+ offense: Temporary ban of 1 day (days will increase as the rule is violated repeatedly and will soon result in permaban if the rule is being broken continously).

2. Do not spam in the main channel, in towns, or towards another player AND speak english.
This includes talking in all caps, speaking in short words instead of full sentences, repeating a phrase over and over again, or stalking a player with spammed messages (all talk or in PMs).

1st offense: Warning.
2nd offense: Mute time.
3+ offense: Temporary Ban followed by Perma Ban.

3. Do not create unreasonable names for your characters.
Avoid symbols, extended ASCII characters (like ` ~ [ ] | º ¬ etc), alternating use of similar typeface (like I and l), and any names that are inappropriate or offensive to others.
1st offense: Rename of character names. If the player is offline it will be changed to "SeeGmBadName"
No cooperation from the player: Ban

4. Kill stealing: Do not attack, provoke, or heal other monsters of another players.

This includes mobbing or when a monster is aggressive (attacking or walking towards) that player. The only exception to this is if the player is in your party or agrees for you to attack/help them kill OR if a player is truely AFK (rule #5). Killing monsters created by Alchemists/Creators without their permission will also be seen as a KS.
1st offense: Warning
2nd offense: 1 hour in Jail/Temp Ban
3+ offense: 2 days temporary ban in which a possible permaban will be decided after that.
~~MVPs are free for all. You are allowed to attack with whomever is currently hitting it but you are NOT allowed to heal or buff the MVP nor are you allow to debuff a player. Buffing includes map spells like sancturary, pneuma, safety wall. Debuffing includes asperio to weaken damage or KE when the player is on assumptio.
~~As for the mini bosses, they are not free for all. So any attempt to kill them while someone is already hitting them is considered a kill steal.
~~Note to classes that hide: Upon hiding/cloaking, you are willingly giving up your mob to others. However if another player continuously follows you just to "steal" your mob, it is an offense.

5. AFK Farming
When a player leaves his character to farm using special cards or equipments. AFK Farming is legal in addition to these rules.
Player must ask farmer if he is there. If farmer doesn’t reply, his rights to the monster is revoked. If the farmer spoke and the player continues to attack, then ks punishments will be issued.
**DO NOT pretend to be afk just to get a player in trouble, these reports will be ignored**

6. Mob dropping
Do not gather monsters and lead them purposely to another player only to teleport away, thus hurting or killing another player. These include monster created by dead branch, hylo card, or azoth weapon. ***MVPs are droppable!!!***
1st offense: Warning.
2nd offense: 1 hour in Jail/Temp ban.
3+ offense: 2 days temporary ban in which a possible permaban will be decided after that.

7. Do not abuse in-game bugs, wrong drop ratio, bugged NPC, etc.
Report them to GMs immediately.
Perma ban if bug-abusers are caught. No ifs or buts!

8. Do not impersonate Ethereal-RO's GMs, staff, or other users.
This includes making a name similar to other players (and saying you are that player), claiming yourself as a gamemaster or adding GM in front of your name to confuse players.
Purposeful impersonation: Permaban.
Similar names or mistake of GM (being guild master): Name change if needed.

9. Keep all chatrooms and vending-shops on the sidewalks, for ease of moving.
Do not make your chatrooms or shops in the streets, inside houses (like the tool-dealer) nor let them block a warp or entrance.
1st offense: 30 minute temporary ban
2+ offense: Ban time is added with more offenses

10. Do not beg repeatedly for items, tanks, heal, buffs, etc.
Continuous trade request will not be tolerated either.
1st offense: Warning.
2nd offense: 10 min mute.
3+ offense: 10 min in Jail.

11. Do not abuse or spam skills when it isn't needed.
Including Wedding skills, creating a warp on a spawn area, AoE spells in town, etc. Do not use any skills against other players outside of WoE and PvP.
1st offense (exception to warp created on spawn): Warn.
2nd offense: 20 min mute.
3+ offense (and creating warp on spawn): 30 min temp ban.

12. Scamming with vend purchases will severly be punished.
This means vending NPC items higher than it's normal price or promoting slotted items when it's not in your shop.
Scamming of items purchasable from npc: Jail 30 minutes
Falsely promoting slotted items: Ban 30 minutes

13. @request is meant for technical support, bugs, etc.
Do not ask question that can easily be found on the internet. These requests will normally be ignored, or to a greater extent granted a mute or jail. Repeated offense will give you a more severe punishment. Use Roempire if needed.
1st offense: Warning
2nd offense: 15 min mute
3+ offense: 30 min in Jail/Mute to a temporary ban

14. Do not use any third party program(s) with Ethereal-RO.
This includes any program used to bot. Mutli-Clienting is allowed, but if the second one is a bot-program, the same rule goes.
Permanent ban of all accounts. No questions asked!

15. Giving out your password to other players is at your own risk.
It can result into your account being hacked and/or your items being stolen. GM's aren't obliged to get/find any items/accounts back for you.

16. Trades/Drops are done at your own risk.
A GM will not retrieve the item if you gave it to someone without paying attention. This goes for any items you drop or any items coming out of a pet.

17. High level monster in novice areas or monsters in town
Do not summon monster with dead-branch, hocus-pocus spell, azoth, hylo card in novice areas.
These includes fields adjacent to towns, dungeons for low level like payon, sewer, near kafra, etc. High level monsters that are spawned in those novice areas will be killed by a GM immediately. If seen at a novice area, please @request it to us.

Do not use plant cultivation or summon flora in town.
1st offense: Warning
2+ offense: Jail to a temporary ban.

Do not use Hocus Pocus in town.
1st Offense: 3 day ban
2nd Offense: 1 week ban
3+ Offense: Permaban


18. Guild Leader change
Will be annoucned.