Overview
This password-protected, 64-player, 24/7 Blackbox hosted server is listed in in-game server list as:
"Anvil Bay slowRP noGMabuse Steamfriend dichbach"
[for how to get the password read on]
This server will be up for the next year and with a focus on friendly and competitive Role play-oriented exploration of the game and preparation for the MMO. The overall goal here is to foster an active server on which the mutual goal of all participants is to have fun exploring the game dynamics with settings and house rules that are close approximations to those projected for the eventual MMORPG.
House Rules
This server is free to play for anyone who wishes to abide by the following six "house rules:"
1. Mature minded.
2. Use our Teamspeak3 server. We will provide a "room" for your group and block access to non-group members if you so desire.
8.9.36.41:9186
Name:^UG^ UnitedGodz TS3
Scroll down to Life is Feudal channel.
3. Interested in team play and not interested in acting like a dick, grieving, trolling, or similarly abominable online behaviors.
4. You are interested in becoming a long-term participant on a Role-play-oriented server with the intent to explore how game and group PVP dynamics evolve over time.
5. You are opposed to grief play, exploits, cracking, admin-abuse, or similar "gamey" breaches of a roleplay oriented gaming environment.
6. You are willling to adhere to an honor-based system limiting total players (not characters) per group/community of 14 (with temporary flex to 16). Multiple toons per player is fine, though if this seems to represent a loophole that leads to exploit play, we may decide to limit that in some way.
Once you have either Steamfriended me or joined us on TS3 (see above) and convinced us you accede to the house rules, you can get the password.
You can easily find the server once you have either me or someone else in the server Steam friended.
Details
Following are additional details of the ethos we are seeking to promote on this server community.
Group Size Limit of 14: Why?
At the outset I will ask that each group plan on a rough group membership limit of fourteen (14) total players, with flex to 16 in instances where players are likely to be absent or stop playing. Multiple toons per player seems fine, though I'd prefer if folks did not try to exploit the game by multi-boxing multiple simultaneous toons using multiple client side machines.
The intent with this sort of "group size cap" is to foster a server on which there are multiple different settlements/groups, each of which will get a chance to get going with developing a community relatively unharrassed by other groups, and on which aggregation of multiple groups into one overly-large group that dominates the whole server is discouraged, at least at the outset.
With a 64 player login limit, a cap of 14 will allow for 4 large groups of 14 and an additional fifth group of 8 players.
Combat
We intend to do plenty of combat, warfare and use of siege on this server. But we also hope to all still be good friends at the end of the alpha period, and thus, go into the MMO as a solidary group who all have solid experience and friendshp on which to start playing the MMO as a team.
So, killing each other, raiding, and thieving are not 'excluded' per se, but we hope to let everyone get a chance to get going before we get into the non-consensual PVP stage.
"No GM Abuse"
I am the only GM and may well be for the duration of the server's lifetime. I will be EXTREMELY discerning about giving GM access to anyone else; I wouldn't even give it to my own mother to be honest, and she is dead so that says a lot. I DO NOT use GM mode for ANYTHING, except fixing problems and testing.
Do not ask me for GM access; if you have to ask, then not only do you not need it, but you are probably unworthy
This server is most certainly NOT my personal kingdom nor Godmode playground. I trudge along at 1x skill point progression modifier just like everyone else
I am presently in the middle of the range as far as skill points acquired and for all practical purposes I am just another player. If someone has something that needs to be done (e.g., removing fences or a campfire or otherwise fixing a glitch or doing something that ostensibly SHOULD be included in the game, such as tearing down "deleting" a building) they are welcome to ask me, I am glad to do it and I generally get to it within 30 minutes.
But beyond that, we "have no GMs" who play on this server.
I have played on a couple servers where the Admins had succumbed to the lure of quick and easy advancement in GM Mode and it progressively spoils it for everyone.
Long-term Access
I have rented this server for one year, so short of me dropping dead it will be up for that long at least.
The server is pw protected and if you would like to gain access please send me a Steam friend invite (Diche_Bach is my steam avatar) or join our TS, talk to us to convince us you understand and agree to the six house rules listed above and the pw is yours! Play all you want!
The wall of text in my original post is spoilered below in case you needed any of the links or other information therein.