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Code of Conduct & General World Rules
"Ultima Online is a very dangerous world. Lord British provides guards for our residents while they are within town limits; however, safety is in your own hands. Unless in extreme situations, the staff will not intervene in standard player interactions."
Law of Britannia
Quick Navigation: Account Limits • General Conduct • Discord & Forums • Discouraging Gameplay • Advertising Policy • Housing & Boats • RMT Prohibition • Macroing Rules • Approved Software
Account Limitations
- 3 Accounts Allowed: Each player is permitted up to 3 accounts. We prioritize a balanced, authentic game environment over inflated online player counts.
- No Account Sharing: Sharing access to your accounts or login credentials with others is strictly forbidden and can result in immediate loss of access to all accounts involved.
- Household Exceptions: Legitimate multi-player households sharing a single internet connection may contact staff for an authorized exception.
- Character Naming: Choose unoffensive, non-sexual, and non-obscene character names. Inappropriate character names will be renamed by staff.
- No Inactivity Deletion: Character accounts are never deleted due to player inactivity.
General Conduct & Community Standards
- Respect Staff & Volunteers: UO:Renaissance is run by a dedicated volunteer staff. Treat staff members with courtesy and respect.
- Mutual Respect: UO:Renaissance operates a pure single-facet Felucca ruleset. In-game conflict, battles, and rivalry are expected parts of the world, but taking hostility to a personal or abusive verbal level is strictly prohibited.
Discord & Forums Conduct
Community rules apply across all official platforms (Discord, Forums, and In-Game Chat). Violations are addressed regardless of whether other individuals have been penalized.
Harassment & Abuse
- Zero Tolerance: We do not tolerate insults, personal attacks, threats, harassment, or denigration directed at any community member.
- No Slander or Flaming: Name-calling, repetitive negative posts, flaming, or public slander are prohibited.
- Accusations: Public accusations of cheating, hacking, or exploiting are not permitted. Submit all reports privately to the staff team.
Obscenity & Discrimination
- Avoid vulgarity, offensive imagery, and derogatory language.
- Strict zero tolerance for sexist, racist, anti-religious, or homophobic slurs.
Discussion Etiquette
- General Chat: Keep public conversations focused on UO:Renaissance, game mechanics, new player assistance, and casual discussion. Political and divisive real-world topics should be avoided.
- Trade Discussions: Trade channels and forum sections are reserved strictly for buying, selling, and price checks. Commentary on buyers/sellers or drama is forbidden.
- PvP Discussion: Varied banter and competitive discussion are permitted in designated PvP channels provided they remain focused on in-game events and do not cross into personal abuse.
- Scamming & Traps: Players may not use public community resources (Discord/Forums) to orchestrate, advertise, or coordinate scams or deceptive out-of-game traps.
Disciplinary Escalation
- Offending comments removed with a formal warning.
- Repeat offenses result in 4- to 24-hour mutes or posting restrictions.
- Continued infractions lead to extended suspensions and permanent revocation of community access.
Discouraging Gameplay Policy
While Britannia features open-world PvP and risk, players are not permitted to engage in predatory behavior whose sole purpose is driving others away from the server.
| ✔ Standard Felucca Gameplay (Allowed) | ✖ Discouraging Gameplay (Prohibited) |
|---|---|
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✔ Defeating players in dungeons, overland wilderness, or champion spawns
✔ Full-looting defeated opponent corpses and items
✔ Thievery & Snooping items from non-young backpacks
✔ Looting unsecured containers in public houses
✔ Guild & Faction Warfare with unrestricted open combat
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✖ Verbal abuse, telling players to "get good or leave the shard"
✖ Excessive, relentless personal toxicity across chat or forums
✖ Trapping players in areas requiring
[help stuck] to escape✖ Ghost scout monitoring placed solely for grief tracking at dungeons/champs
✖ Excessive scamming and extortion
✖ Abusing house decay mechanics to sabotage neighboring houses
✖ Fear-mongering or spreading false narratives about shard development
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Golden Rule: When in doubt, if an activity is designed solely to torment or discourage others outside authentic game mechanics, do not do it.
Shard & Game Advertising
- Strict Ban: Advertising external servers, paid commercial services, or competing game shards is strictly prohibited.
- Zero-Tolerance Policy: Unauthorized advertising results in immediate, permanent termination of server, forum, and Discord access without warning.
Housing & Boats
- Ownership Limits: Every character may own 1 house (up to 5 houses per account across your characters).
- Decay Cycle: Houses decay in approximately 14 days if not refreshed by an owner, co-owner, or friend opening the door.
- Condemned Status: Houses enter condemned status if the associated account remains inactive for 90 days.
- Boats: Unlocked boats decay in approximately 14 days.
Real Currency Transactions (RMT)
- Real Money Trading: Buying, selling, or trading in-game items, gold, platinum, houses, or accounts for real-world currency (fiat, cryptocurrency, or out-of-game goods) is strictly forbidden.
- Cross-Server Trades: Cross-server trades (trading UOR items for assets on other shards/games) are prohibited.
- Penalties: Violations result in permanent confiscation/deletion of involved items and account bans.
Unattended Macroing Rules
Unattended macroing is permitted for character skill training using Razor, subject to the following strict safety restrictions:
| Category | Unattended Status | Rules & Operational Details |
|---|---|---|
| Skill Training (Self / Safe Area) | Allowed | Training skills (e.g. Magery, Anatomy, Music, Inscription) in private houses or town shops. |
| Combat / Monster Killing | Prohibited | You may NOT kill monsters or harvest creature loot unattended. |
| Resource Harvesting | Prohibited | Mining, Lumberjacking, Fishing, Cotton harvesting, Sheep shearing, and picking dungeon chests MUST be done attended. |
| NPC Vendor Selling | Prohibited | Automated mass-selling of crafted items to NPC vendors unattended is not allowed. |
| House Placement & Sign Clicking | Prohibited | Placing house deeds or clicking IDOC signs as a ghost must be performed attended. |
| Item Scavenging | Prohibited | Automated unattended scavenging of ground loot, rares, or farming items is forbidden. |
Permitted Third-Party Applications
To maintain game integrity and classic mechanics, only approved client assistants are permitted:
✔ Approved Applications
- Razor: The official, fully supported assistant for macros, dress agents, hotkeys, and targeting.
- ClassicUO: Next-generation high frame rate client compatible with UO:Renaissance.
- UO Auto-Map (UOAM): Live map synchronization for adventuring and guild positioning.
- UO Rudder: Authentic multi-boat navigation and sailing assistant.
✖ Prohibited Applications
- AssistUO (AUO) — Not permitted.
- SteamUO / UOSteam — Not permitted.
- EasyUO (EUO) — Strictly prohibited.
- Adrenaline & Injection Clients — Strictly prohibited.
- Custom / Modified Game Executables — Speed hacks, wall-hacks, and packet injection tools.
Related Resources & Support
- Getting Started — Full setup guide for new adventurers in Britannia.
- Razor & Client Setup — Downloading and configuring your client and assistant.
- Official Forums: Renaissance Code of Conduct Thread
- Official Discord Server — Reach out to staff via direct message or support channels.