Guidelines

Here you can find some additional information about the rules&regulations that apply to the XWAU-Project.

First, here you can find the Guidelines for making new XWAU crafts.

Some general info first.

  1. Everything that you find on this server is property of the XWA Upgrade project. This means you may not take anything from the server and use it for your own purpose in any way without the approval of the XWA Upgrade Team! There are some exceptions:
    a) you may use and modify anything you find here for your own purpose, but never make it public in case you do
    b) you may use the screenshots provided on the page for your own purposes, but you need to keep the copyright intact!
    c) you may do screenshots of all models yourself and then do whatever pleases you with those shots!
  2. Snooping on the server is HIGHLY inappropriate! Do not try your luck on it! In case I find out that anybody was trying to find things that he should not get, I will ban the person of the server without warning! Do not think you can get away with that, I get the full server logs. If I want I can pinpoint what you did, when you did it, and how long you did it! So be nice and leave the server alone!

Next some info about Posting on the UBB Forum:

  1. The most important rule in the forum is to keep it a friendly and happy environment. So, in case you don't have anything nice to say, think twice before saying anything! (And better think again before pressing the submit button!)
  2. You should stay on topic! All rooms have pretty clear descriptions to them, so please stick to them! The only room allowed for chit chat is the Pilot lounge. Here everything goes. (Unless it violates any other rule mentioned here)
  3. Spamming is not wanted here! So unless you have something intelligent to post, don't post!
  4. If an Admin and/or Moderator asks you to not do something, stop doing it immediately!
  5. Continous posting of useless posts may lead to a post count reduction. A warning will be given out prior to this.
  6. Voting Threads
    If somebody calls for a vote and the post was declared as followed:
    "Voting rules apply to this thread" following rules apply:
    6.1 You may only vote with the given possibilities. (Whoever opens a voting thread needs to include all valid choices in his thread)
    6.2 You may not post anything else except for your vote
    6.3 Votes may be changed, but you need to change your first post. In that case you should add the following to your vote:
        vote was changed
    6.4 Posts that include more than the allowed choices will be edited accordingly
    6.5 Posts that do not include a clear vote will be deleted
    6.6 Posts from people that already posted in the topic will be deleted!
    6.7 Offenders of those rules will be punished by either post count reduction or (in extreme cases) banning
    6.8 Once something has been decided by vote it's decided! It will no longer be open for discussion! I know this sounds pretty drastic, but with recent discussions going wild we need some order in the chaos. One additional note, while many things will be decided by the public, this is in no way a must. The team may at any time decide anything it wants about the project.
  7. Questions about things already stated in the FAQ will not usually be answered. Continuous ignorance of the FAQs will be punished
  8. The BOOT
    In case a non-XWAU Team member gets this icon flashing in front of his name, he or she should be really careful! This means he has pissed of a moderator (Administrator) and will be banned if he doesn't change his behavior really soon! In case the person still does not change his behavior he will be banned for a week. The BOOT will remain for about a month after that. In case the member still makes trouble he will get a second BOOT. A second BOOT will be a warning for a permanent ban. So be really careful with that! It will take 2 months to loose the second BOOT and another month to loose the first BOOT.
    The BOOT is supposed to serve two things:
    a) warn the member that he is in trouble
    b) tell everybody else that he hasn't been behaving nicely recently and that we will take care of the situation!
    Do NOT start flaming those with a BOOT, or you'll find yourself with a BOOT really fast! We (the moderators and administrators) will take care of the situation, it is not needed that anybody else starts a fight!
    XWAU Members who wear the BOOT are different, this is something that is used internally. We will give out more information on that later on!

Now the rules that apply in case you want to join the team:

  1. Everybody is welcome to the XWAU-Team, however, you must have abilities in following fields:
    1.1 DXFing (though to be honest, we do have quite some modelers right now)
    1.2 Texturing (Highly needed right now)
    1.3 OPTing
    Preferably we need people who can do more than just one task. Right now if you can only dxf you have to show of some pretty awesome work to get accepted, since we actually do not neccessarily need more modellers.
    We do not need beta-testers right now, so don't even ask
  2. Before you will be accepted into the team, you will have to show some work of yours. You may present whatever you want, it doesn't have to be something you'll use for the project. So, as long as you want to do DXFs, simply show some already done DXF from you, and we'll judge your work
  3. The Team will vote whether you'll be accepted or not, don't even start to bug any single member, this is a TEAM project!
  4. Non-Members cannot register crafts on the progress page. You can say that you want to do any craft on the page and then present it to us. In case it's XWAU standard you'll be allowed into the team and the craft will then be registered to you. However, in case any XWAU-Member decides to register the craft before you are officially granted member status the project automatically goes to this member. (You may of course still use your work to show your qualities)