Rules

Primetime Network Rules

 

Welcome to Primetime Network.

 

Our rules are designed to keep the server fair, competitive, and enjoyable for everyone. By connecting to Primetime Network, you agree to follow the rules listed below.

 

Not every possible situation can be written into a rule. Staff may use reasonable judgment when dealing with behavior that negatively affects the server, its players, or its economy.

 

Punishments may vary depending on the severity of the situation, previous offenses, intent, and any damage caused.

 

 

1. Player Conduct

 

Treat other players with a reasonable level of respect.

Competition, arguments, and friendly trash talk are allowed, but there is a point where it becomes harassment.

You may not:

  • Repeatedly target or harass another player
  • Use racial, homophobic, discriminatory, or hateful slurs
  • Make serious real-life threats
  • Encourage another person to harm themselves
  • Share private or personal information about another player
  • Continuously provoke someone after being asked to stop
  • Organize harassment against another player

Disagreements are fine. Turning them into personal attacks is not.

 

 

2. Cheating and Unfair Advantages

 

Anything that gives you an unfair gameplay advantage over normal players is prohibited.

This includes, but is not limited to:

  • KillAura
  • Reach modifications
  • Fly hacks
  • Speed hacks
  • X-Ray
  • Freecam used to locate hidden areas or resources
  • Auto-clickers
  • Combat macros
  • Automated inventory macros
  • Packet manipulation
  • Movement exploits
  • Automated mining or farming tools
  • Baritone when used to automate gameplay
  • Modified clients designed for cheating

Using a feature because "the client allows it" does not automatically make it allowed.

If you are unsure whether a mod is permitted, ask staff before using it.

 

 

3. Allowed Client Modifications

 

Mods that improve performance, visuals, or accessibility without providing an unfair advantage are generally allowed.

Examples include:

  • Sodium
  • OptiFine
  • Iris
  • Shader packs
  • Performance optimization mods
  • Replay Mod
  • Cosmetic modifications
  • Resource packs
  • HUD modifications
  • Basic minimaps
  • Minimaps or similar tools may not reveal:
  • Hidden players
  • Underground bases
  • Caves
  • Ores
  • Hidden entities
  • Information you normally would not have access to

Staff may require you to stop using a modification if it is found to provide an unintended advantage.

 

 

4. Bugs, Glitches, and Exploits

 

Do not intentionally abuse bugs or unintended mechanics.

This includes:

  • Duplicating items
  • Duplicating money
  • Duplicating Gems
  • Crate exploits
  • Shop exploits
  • Claim bypasses
  • Permission exploits
  • Cooldown bypasses
  • Command exploits
  • Plugin bugs
  • Infinite money methods
  • Item generation bugs
  • Using broken mechanics repeatedly for personal benefit

If you discover a serious exploit, report it to staff.

Do not:

  • Share the exploit publicly
  • Teach other players how to use it
  • Store exploited items
  • Sell exploited items
  • Transfer exploited items to another account
  • Use alternate accounts to hide exploited items

Items, money, Gems, or other benefits obtained through an exploit may be removed.

 

 

5. Economy Integrity

 

Players are encouraged to trade, build businesses, resell items, and compete within the economy.

However, abusing the economy itself is prohibited.

You may not:

  • Intentionally exploit incorrect shop prices
  • Create money through bugs
  • Abuse buy/sell loops
  • Artificially manipulate systems using alternate accounts
  • Abuse refunds
  • Duplicate valuable items
  • Exploit server stores
  • Manipulate rewards through unintended methods
  • Normal market competition is allowed.

Buying low and selling high is not considered economy abuse by itself.

 

 

6. Real-Money Trading

 

In-game content may not be sold for real-world money outside official Primetime Network services.

This includes:

  • In-game currency
  • Gems
  • Items
  • Crate rewards
  • Claims
  • Land
  • Cities
  • Nations
  • Bases
  • Player accounts
  • Paid ranks
  • Server services

You may not exchange Primetime items for:

  • PayPal
  • Cash App
  • Gift cards
  • Cryptocurrency
  • Real-world items
  • Money on another server

Official Primetime Network purchases are the only exception.

 

 

7. Scamming and Player Trading

 

Intentionally deceiving another player during an agreed trade is prohibited.

Examples include:

  • Taking payment and refusing to provide the agreed item
  • Switching an item at the last second
  • Creating intentionally misleading shop listings
  • Pretending to represent Primetime staff
  • Faking payment
  • Using edited screenshots as fake proof
  • Misrepresenting an item during a trade
  • Players should still verify trades before accepting them.

Staff may not reimburse every loss if proper evidence is unavailable.

 

 

8. Claims and Property

 

Players are responsible for protecting their builds using the server's claim systems.

You may not intentionally bypass another player's protection.

This includes:

  • Claim glitches
  • Piston bypasses
  • Liquid bypasses
  • TNT exploits
  • Mob exploits
  • Teleport exploits
  • Entering protected areas through bugs
  • Accessing protected containers through glitches
  • Do not build structures specifically intended to disrupt another player's protected area.
  • Unclaimed builds may have limited protection.

Protect anything valuable.

 

 

9. Griefing

 

Griefing rules depend on whether an area is protected.

You may not:

  • Bypass claims to destroy a build
  • Intentionally destroy protected property
  • Use exploits to damage another player's base
  • Surround claims with intentionally disruptive builds
  • Create lava walls, water walls, or similar structures solely to interfere with another player
  • Abuse game mechanics to damage protected areas

Normal gameplay involving unclaimed land may be handled differently depending on the situation.

 

 

10. Earth Gameplay

 

Primetime Earth is built around:

  • Cities
  • Nations
  • Territory
  • Trading
  • Alliances
  • Player businesses
  • Competition
  • Community building

Players may compete for land, resources, and influence using legitimate server mechanics.

You may not:

  • Exploit territory systems
  • Bypass claims
  • Abuse alternate accounts to increase population
  • Artificially inflate city or nation statistics
  • Exploit war or diplomacy systems
  • Intentionally lag another city or nation
  • Use offensive city or nation names
  • Impersonate official server locations or staff-controlled settlements

Roleplay, rivalries, alliances, and political-style gameplay inside the server are allowed as long as all other rules are followed.

 

 

11. Alternate Accounts

 

Alternate accounts are allowed for normal gameplay unless they are being used to bypass restrictions or gain an unfair advantage.

Alternate accounts may not be used to:

  • Evade bans
  • Evade mutes
  • Abuse daily rewards
  • Abuse vote rewards
  • Abuse referral systems
  • Manipulate city populations
  • Manipulate nation populations
  • Manipulate leaderboards
  • Bypass account limits
  • Store exploited items
  • Transfer duplicated money
  • Manipulate the economy
  • Avoid gameplay restrictions

Benefits obtained through alternate-account abuse may be removed.

 

 

12. Chat Rules

 

Public chat should remain usable for everyone.

Do not:

  • Spam messages
  • Spam characters
  • Flood chat
  • Send the same message repeatedly
  • Excessively use capital letters
  • Spam commands that create public messages
  • Send malicious links
  • Constantly beg for ranks, Gems, items, money, or staff
  • Impersonate another player
  • Impersonate staff
  • Moderate swearing is allowed.

Swearing becomes a problem when it is being used for harassment, hate speech, threats, or excessive disruption.

 

 

13. Advertising

 

Advertising competing Minecraft servers is prohibited.

This includes:

  • Posting another server's IP
  • Posting another server's Discord
  • Posting advertisements through private messages
  • Recruiting Primetime players to another Minecraft server
  • Joining specifically to advertise
  • Using signs, books, or renamed items for advertising

Mentioning another game, community, or server during normal conversation is not automatically considered advertising.

Intent matters.

 

 

14. Inappropriate Content

 

Content created or displayed on Primetime must remain appropriate for the server.

This applies to:

  • Builds
  • Skins
  • Usernames
  • Nicknames
  • Signs
  • Books
  • Maps
  • Item names
  • City names
  • Nation names
  • Chat messages
  • The following are prohibited:
  • Explicit sexual content
  • Extreme gore
  • Hate symbols
  • Discriminatory imagery
  • Content created specifically to harass another player

Staff may remove inappropriate content without compensation.

 

 

15. Server Performance

 

Do not intentionally create anything designed to damage server performance.

This includes:

  • Lag machines
  • Excessive redstone clocks
  • Massive entity collections
  • Excessive minecarts
  • Excessive boats
  • Intentionally overloaded chunks
  • Machines designed specifically to reduce TPS
  • Repeatedly loading unnecessary chunks for the purpose of creating lag
  • Large farms are allowed within reason.

If a farm or machine causes noticeable performance problems, staff may ask you to reduce its size or remove it.

 

 

16. Staff Impersonation

 

Do not pretend to be a Primetime Network staff member.

This includes:

  • Fake staff messages
  • Fake punishment messages
  • Claiming you can ban or mute players
  • Pretending to represent server management
  • Creating misleading staff-like usernames
  • Using fake staff roles
  • Attempting to scam players while pretending to be staff

Official staff members can be identified through their server rank.

 

 

17. Punishment Evasion

 

Do not attempt to bypass a punishment.

Examples include:

  • Joining on another Minecraft account after being banned
  • Using another person's account
  • Using a VPN specifically to bypass restrictions
  • Rejoining Discord on another account after being banned
  • Having another player communicate for you to bypass a mute
  • Using alternate accounts to continue prohibited behavior

Accounts involved in punishment evasion may also be punished.

 

 

18. Account Responsibility

 

You are responsible for activity performed on your account.

Statements such as:

  • "My brother did it."
  • "My friend was on my account."
  • "Someone else logged in."
  • "I let someone borrow my account."
  • do not automatically remove responsibility.
  • Keep your account secure.

Do not share your Microsoft account password or login information with anyone.

 

 

19. Ranks, Gems, and Store Purchases

 

Purchasing something from Primetime Network does not give a player immunity from server rules.

This includes:

  • Paid ranks
  • Gems
  • Crate keys
  • Bundles
  • Cosmetics
  • Temporary perks
  • Permanent perks

Players who have purchased items can still receive normal punishments.

Depending on the situation, this may include:

  • Warnings
  • Mutes
  • Temporary bans
  • Permanent bans
  • Item removal
  • Currency removal
  • Gem removal
  • Permission restrictions

Purchased perks may not be abused to disrupt the server or gain unintended advantages.

 

 

20. Staff Interactions

 

Staff members are responsible for enforcing the rules and investigating reports.

When a staff member is handling a situation:

  • Do not intentionally interfere
  • Do not spam staff asking for updates
  • Do not threaten staff
  • Do not harass staff over a punishment
  • Do not encourage other players to attack staff
  • Do not destroy or hide evidence

If you disagree with a punishment, use the official appeal system.

Public chat is not the place to argue a punishment.

 

 

21. Evidence and Reports

 

When reporting another player, provide evidence whenever possible.

Useful evidence may include:

  • Screenshots
  • Video recordings
  • Chat logs
  • Transaction records
  • Server logs
  • Player usernames
  • Dates and approximate times
  • Do not intentionally submit fake or edited evidence.

False reports made to intentionally punish another player may result in punishment.

 

 

22. Punishments

 

Staff may issue different punishments depending on the situation.

Possible actions include:

  • Verbal warnings
  • Official warnings
  • Kicks
  • Temporary mutes
  • Permanent mutes
  • Temporary bans
  • Permanent bans
  • Item removal
  • Currency removal
  • Gem removal
  • Claim removal
  • Permission restrictions
  • Economy resets
  • Removal of exploited progress

Not every offense requires a warning first.

Severe cheating, exploitation, threats, doxxing, punishment evasion, or attempts to damage the server may result in an immediate ban.

 

 

23. Appeals

 

Players may appeal eligible punishments through the official Primetime Network appeal system.

When submitting an appeal:

  • Be honest
  • Explain what happened
  • Do not spam multiple appeals
  • Do not harass staff for a response
  • Do not submit fake evidence
  • Do not have friends spam staff on your behalf

Submitting an appeal does not guarantee that a punishment will be removed.

 

 

24. Loopholes

 

Attempting to find a technical loophole in the wording of these rules does not make harmful behavior acceptable.

Examples include:

  • "The rules never specifically said I couldn't do this."
  • Using a slightly different exploit than one listed
  • Using another account to perform something you cannot do
  • Having another player perform an exploit for you
  • Intentionally avoiding the exact wording of a rule while still violating its purpose
  • Use common sense.

If something clearly gives you an unfair advantage or damages the server, do not do it.

 

 

25. Rule Updates

 

Primetime Network may update these rules as the server develops.

Rules may change to account for:

  • New features
  • New exploits
  • New plugins
  • Economy changes
  • Gameplay changes
  • Community issues

Players are responsible for following the most recent version of the rules.

Major changes may be announced through official Primetime Network channels.

 

 

Final Reminder

 

Primetime Network is supposed to be competitive, social, and fun.

 

You do not have to agree with every other player.

You do not have to be friends with everyone.

You do need to play fairly and respect the systems that keep the server running.

 

If you discover a bug, report it.

If another player breaks the rules, report them.

If you receive a punishment you believe is incorrect, appeal it.

 

Don't cheat.

Don't exploit.

Don't intentionally ruin the experience for everyone else.

 

Play fair. Build something great. Enjoy Primetime Network.