Rules
PCPN wants a clean, competitive and friendly community. These rules apply to every player, verified members and staff included.
Strikes: 3 and you are out
Everyone starts at 0/3.
Each rule break the staff sees gives 1 to 3 strikes depending on how serious it is (table below). Strikes are given by hand, never by a bot.
At 3/3 you are banned for life, IP included. Cheating and threats are 3 strikes at once.
See your strikes in game in the PCPN menu > Profile > My strikes or in your player area. Strikes don't expire. If the staff made a mistake, it is removed.
Fair play
- No hacked client, cheat or unfair mod: killaura, reach, velocity, autoclicker, macros, x-ray, auto-pot, timer, and the like. Cheating is 3 strikes at once: banned for life.
- Lunar Client is required to join (other clients are refused). Its visual and comfort mods are fine: keystrokes, CPS display, armor and potion HUD. When in doubt, ask the staff before using it.
- If the staff asks you for a screenshare, you accept it. Refusing, leaving or deleting files counts as cheating.
- One account per person. Playing on someone else's account, or a second account to avoid a sanction, is ban evasion.
- VPNs and proxies are blocked when you join. If you have a real reason to use one, ask the staff for an exception with a support ticket.
Respect and chat
- No insults, no discrimination (racism, sexism, homophobia, religion...), no harassment and no threats (DDoS, doxxing, real life). This applies in game and on the site.
- Win with class and lose with class. Trash talk that becomes toxic is a strike.
- No spam, no flood, no advertising for another server.
- Your name, skin and messages must stay appropriate.
- Respect the staff. If you disagree with a decision, tell us calmly with a support ticket (sanction appeal).
Ranked and ELO
- No boosting and no match fixing: letting a friend win, playing for someone else, or arranging results.
- Abusing a bug (arena, kit, ELO, queue) is forbidden. Report it to the staff instead: it helps everyone.
- Every ranked match is recorded and can be reviewed by the staff at any time.
- Match formats: ranked 1v1 and ranked 2v2 are played in best of 3 (Bo3); unranked matches and duels in a single round; tournaments in Bo3 with the final in Bo5.
- Leaving a ranked during the countdown (dodge): 1st time in a day, 2 minutes without ranked queue; 2nd time, 10 minutes; from the 3rd time, it is a ranked loss with the normal ELO loss for the leaver (the match is cancelled for the opponent, who gains nothing).
- Anti-camping: after 4 minutes of a round in NoDebuff and 6 minutes in Build UHC, a red border appears at the arena walls and closes in progressively to a 9×9 area in the center; standing outside it deals heavy damage (about 2 hearts per second). In Build UHC you can build at most 8 blocks above the arena floor, for the whole match (no towers or sky bases). Safety limit: a match reaching 20 minutes in total is a draw with no ELO change.
- Disconnecting during a fight is an immediate loss, in every match type (ranked, unranked, 2v2, tournaments): your opponent wins, with no time to come back, whatever the cause.
- Boosting is monitored: the staff is alerted when a player wins 80% or more of at least 5 ranked matches against the same opponent within 30 days. Every alert is reviewed by a person, never sanctioned automatically.
Tournaments
- Tournaments are free and open to verified members only (7 days after your whitelist acceptance).
- In a 2v2 team? You can only enter 2v2 tournaments with your teammate. To play with someone else, leave or disband your team first.
- Finalists must accept a screenshare before the prize is paid.
- Spectators can talk to each other, but no one may pass information to a player during a match (ghosting), in game or anywhere else.
- Prizes are paid by PayPal. Cash prizes are only paid to players aged 18 or over (PayPal rule): under 18, no cash prize.
What gives a strike
| Reason | Strikes |
|---|---|
| Threats (DDoS, doxxing, real life) | 3: banned for life |
| Cheating (hacked client, macro, x-ray...) | 3: banned for life |
| Discrimination (racism, sexism, homophobia...) | 2 |
| Harassment or targeting a player | 2 |
| Advertising another server | 2 |
| Ranked boosting or match fixing | 2 |
| Abusing a bug | 2 |
| Insults | 1 |
| Toxic or unsportsmanlike behaviour | 1 |
| Spam or flood | 1 |
| Inappropriate name, skin or content | 1 |
| Disrespecting the staff | 1 |
| Other rule break | 1 |
Repeat offence counts double: a new strike for the same reason within 30 days of an active one is worth twice its points (3 at most).
A question or a mistake?
Open a ticket on the Support page. The staff can update these rules: the version on this page is the one that counts.