The following is a list and explanation of common offences committed in-game and on this forum that are established punishable offences, as well as a list of those that are simply frowned upon.

Official & Punishable:

- Do NOT kill your teammates, who are recognizable by their blue names. This happens sometimes purely by accident; If you accidentally kill your teammate, apologize to him ("sry", "my bad", etc.), and try not to do it again. This offence is commonly referred to as teamkilling, TKing, shooting blues, or blue killing.

- Do NOT bomb your own hangars. Your hangars are the large, semi-cylindrical objects next to the runway that you take off from. The goal of a game with hangars in it is to bomb the hangars of the other team, located at the other side of the map. To find the enemy base, follow your teammates, or look at where the enemy planes (red names) are coming from.

- Do NOT swear excessively. Swearing is very much a case-by-case offence, but it should be avoided as much as possible. If you swear excessively, you can have your chat priviliges revoked, or even be banned from the game/forum. Please remember that despite our 13+ policy, there are young kids here, and we should try to not expose them to too much harsh language.

- Do NOT tank spawnkill. Tank spawnkilling is when you drive a tank into the enemy (or friendly) base, and as planes spawn, you shoot them before they get the chance to take off. This destroys the quality of the game, and you will be banned if you get caught by a moderator, or reported to one. You'll often see this referred to as tank spawnkilling, tank SKing, parking a tank, or simply spawnkilling/SKing.

- Do NOT start drama on the forum or in-game. This is an extremely broad rule, open to nearly infinite interpretation. Arguments, differences of opinion, and new points of view are welcomed and encouraged, but please be civil. Starting/participating in drama is often referred to as flaming or starting flame-wars.

Unwritten/ Frowned-Upon & Non-Punishable:

- Please do not use a plane to spawnkill. This is when you fly a plane in loops around the enemy (or friendly) base, and kill planes on the runway before they can take off. This is often referred to as spawnkilling, or simply SKing.
- Additionally, please avoid shooting planes on the runway/ carrier when you are approaching the base/hangars/carrier to drop your bomb. This is also non-bannable, but regarded as similarly dishonorable.

- As Veidar2 says below, if someone on your team is Tank Spawnkilling, ask for a free pass into the enemy base in order to eliminate the tank. Most players will honor this request, and it will allow the game to go on unimpeded. If you or your team is being spawnkilled by a tank, please request the above from the opposing team, or honor their requests to enter your base safely.

- Advise others to follow these rules. Explain to new players what the Dogfight Culture is like.


Feel free to contribute in the comments.

Thank you for following these rules! The whole community appreciates it!

*For Z/ Jacob*- Could you please sticky this? Thank you!

When I spawn into a spawn kill scenario in the hanger game and there are only one or two hangers left I turn into tank and bomb them. Then everybody moves on like they should.

You kill ur own hangers?

Yup after getting spawn killed 4 or 5 times, looking around and see they aren't ending but spawn killing. I figure two choices quit or end it. I put it up here to get an opinion. I don't feel good about it but...

i'd say leave. just so u dont get a bad rep w/ players that dont know u.

I agree with Calvin, kevy. If you are getting spawned by a tank, definately leave, cause you probably won't even get off the ground

Thanks from now on spawn kill = leave it to some other sucker.

Or, what u do: dont respawn right away. Wait for the tank to fire again, then respawn. Youll get up, an u can kill the tank.

One tank spawn killing = no problem
Three aces spawn killing = leave it to some other sucker.

Those guys arent aces. Theyre just jerks lol

Kevy wrote: Yup after getting spawn killed 4 or 5 times, looking around and see they aren't ending but spawn killing. I figure two choices quit or end it. I put it up here to get an opinion. I don't feel good about it but...

Its ok to do it but before you do tell everyone so they don't be like " why did that jerk bomb our hangers"

I'm totally with you on the tank in hangers. And I certainly am for honor in the skies with new pilots to give a chance and advice. I got it and really appreciated it on my way up.

On spawn killing there are moments when I understand it and - I admit - have done it. In a really close Destroy Enemy Airport game if I'm trying to escort new pilot with a bomb and a top ace is taking off, I might pin him down a few times to see if our bombers get through. That seems a tactical move since The Deadly Dozen can so dominate a game. But you all know it is a very rare thing for me to shoot a plane on the ground.

Here is another unwritten code - not a rule:

Help make games fair and play to the end if you have the time.

That means that if you join a six on one game try to leave the game and rejoin to even up the sides. And don't bail out of games that look like you'll lose, you'd be surprised what can happen at the end and how your leaving can hurt your team.

exactly. i'm going to add that if u dont mind. and if u do, too bad! lol

CalvinIsAwesome wrote: Because many players have asked for a list of rules, I decided to post anything that I can think of, both official rules, ans just common courtesies.

Official:

- Do not kill your teammates, which have blue names. If you do this too many times, you will be banned for five minutes. If it's an accident, apologize, and hooe that you are forgiven.

- Do not bomb your own hangers. This completely ruins a good hanger game, and gets you banned for five minutes. Bombing your own carrier is only a waste of a bomb.

- Do not swear. You will be muted if you swear too much.



Unwritten:

- Do NOT spawn kill. If I see you spawnkilling, I will warn you, and if you don't stop, I will shoot you.

- Do NOT use tanks to hide in a building and spawnkill. This is related to the last rule, but is so annoying, it deserves it's own. This rule only applies to apple users, and only other apple users can destroy these tanks, making it more unfair. While this is a realistic tactic, it makes people want to stab you in the face with a nuclear weapon. Don't do it.

- Be supportive. Our newer players need lots of help, so please share your expertise with them, even if they don't ask.

- Just a tip: Be known for something. Develop a knew move, be the best head on, the best turner. Whatever. Be unique!

Heh, you might as well have just posted the Enigma Code from our website.

We members of Enigma all value such rules! Whoo! Enigma!

lol

I'm think no spawn killing is too generic a rule. Sometimes that's the only way to really beat a game (carrier/hanger bomb). I definitely think the veterans should let the rookies get off the ground, but if mbizzi/WUDf/or any of those guys are on the ground I'll blow them to pieces 100 times before they take off and not feel bad about it.

Definitely not a fan of tank killing, but I think it's fine for a short time. The issue being that it is very hard to get a tank to an enemy base and if you can make it I think you have the right to earn a few easy kills because it was so hard to get there. With that being said, I am definitely against sitting there for 30 minutes and racking up 200 kills. Blow up a few guys, finish off the hangers, and then move on.

ok, i'll make a modification. if theres a stratigic advantage, like you're coming in and you snipe them before they get up, thats fine. only if you hope to be able to bomb, or are helping out a rookie. if youre just looping around and sniping them constantly, thats when its bad.

I'm with Seattle and Kazee on spawn killing from a plane. Sometimes needed when escorting and clearing the area. I object to it when a player is simply racking up kills. From a tank, airplane killing is justified in the hangar/airport game because it keeps the sky clearer of threats, but the person should be shooting hangar, hangar, plane, hangar, hangar... If it's plane after plane, then it's just gratuitous kills and not The Goal of the game.

One person was tank-spawn-killing in capture carrier game, and I alerted people to it. I wish more pilots were savvy to this, and allowed a temporary unspoken truce while we all "take care of the problem."

Manfred

yeah. i ask for people not to kill me while i deal with the tank, but me flying straight and asking not to be shot seems to be the same thing as "Hey, easy kill! Come shoot me down despite the fact that I'm trying to help you!"

I let a guy take a run at tank and when he missed I went in for a try and he shot me down!

lol fail!

I try to let a person fly a good 5 seconds before killing 'em immediately. Unless it's someone who is really good, hahahah.

i let them live till theyre a threat to me or a teammate. if theyre within shooting distance, as soon as they can shoot at me, i'll shoot at them.

Mhm. I love long distance shooting, hahahah.

Nice list Calvin

Manfred wrote: One person was tank-spawn-killing in capture carrier game, and I alerted people to it. I wish more pilots were savvy to this, and allowed a temporary unspoken truce while we all "take care of the problem."

I agree with you Manfred, a truce would be the ideal way of dealing with it, but I doubt that the spawnkiller's own team would agree it's a bad thing so long as it favours them.

Most players only care if they are being repeatedly shot by a tank the moment they appear. I often even don't notice it if it's a one of my own team who does the spawnkilling.

thanks veidar!

slenderman, long distance is the best! nothin better than sniping an ace from across the map!

Manfred wrote: I'm with Seattle and Kazee on spawn killing from a plane.

I agree. To spawn-kill from a plane is more in line with the idea of the game.

Have you noticed that often it takes several seconds from the moment you see the name of a player appear on the runway till he is really there?

It must be some kind of lag, but it still gives the others an unfair advantage.

When you see the top player from the opposite team is about to appear, most players wouldn't lose a second to try to take him out.

i dont like spawnkilling from a plane if its point farming, i have killed teammates because they were making players leave. i dont support teamkilling either, but if its for the good of the game, i think its justified.