Welcome to Majestic Sci-Fi Central, before you start posting you need to be aware of a set of rules and code of conduct set down by the staff here. Everyone wishing to post and use the services provided on this site need to read and abide by these conditions.

Advertising
This sites number 1 rule. There is to be NO advertising of other sites or using this site as a recruitment centre. This includes posting links, signatures with links in them or advertising through PM’s. Failure to add hear to this will have you placed on a permanent ban, no exceptions and no chances of the ban being lifted.

Language
This is an English site, so please use English only while on these boards. All posts that include another language will be deleted by a staff member, this also includes swearing and abusive words. These are not permitted on the site under any circumstances.

Behaviour
It is your responsibility to conduct yourself in a responsible mature manner. You are under NO circumstances to use MSFC as a means to personally criticize, harass, discriminate, flame or personally attack any registered member or member of staff.

You are responsible for your own behaviour and the Administration will not accept any excuses for any inappropriate behaviour and will take necessary action in response to any behaviour unbecoming a member.

Respect
You as a member must respect any registered member and member of staff that uses the MSFC services, regardless of your feelings towards them. We all are here to share and enjoy our passion for science fiction and gaming and are here volunteraly and did not volunteer to take your disrespect.

A Privilege NOT a Right
Being a member of MSFC, one or more of the RPG's or a staff member is a privilege and NOT a right. You may be removed from any of these positions at any given time without notice by the Administrations judgement.

File Hosting Terms of Use
Majestic Sci-Fi Central (MSFC) provides free hosting and as such can not be held responsible for the files hosted on our server. MSFC respects the rights of an artist to control their own work and as such we (an individual and site) do not own any files submitted by members. All ownership falls on the original author's and they can at anytime for any reason ask for their files to be removed without opposition from MSFC, its staff or owner.

As a file submitter, author and a condition of hosting your files with us you agree to take responsibility for any and all files you submit to Majestic Sci-Fi Central and it's sub-domains by making sure they are free of viruses, spy-ware, mal-ware and any these potentially harmful to the system of anyone downloading your files. You also agree to have a credits text document with an accurate list crediting everyone involved in the creation of the file(s).

As a member and downloader you download at your own risk and by doing so agree not to hold MSFC, its staff, the author of the file or Majestic at fault or accountable (legal or otherwise) for any damage a file causes to your system in part or whole. We (MSFC) take no responsibility for any effects caused by you using files hosted with us. We do our best to screen all files submitted and uploaded but unfortunately this is not always possible.

You also agree to respect an author's rights and as a condition of downloading agree to not use the file in part or whole in any public project or to modify and publicly release a said file without the direct permission of the file's original author.

Email Addresses
Email addresses must be kept off the forums. They can be shared and/or obtained through private messages. This is for your own security and safety, to avoid unwanted spam emails and possibly viruses.

It is also requested that you register with an active account with a well known server like hotmail, aol, yahoo, gmail etc. It just makes approving your account much quicker as well as easier on the Administrators.

Spam
Spam is useless posts that people make when they don't have anything useful to say. Please refrain from doing this, as your posts will de deleted or edited and you will be contacted by a staff member.

Topics
Keep to the topic in a thread. Staff will notify you if your posts are off topic, failure to return to the topic at hand will have you contact by a staff member to discuss the situation further. Once your post has been edited by a staff member do not edit it back or remove a staff’s edit tag.

Flame Wars
Flame wars are arguments that are displayed over public forum or via PM and disrupts the running of a site. This is not tolerated, if a flame war erupts the staff will take preventive action to stop it. If it comes over from another site, members responsible will be put on a warning. Instigators of flame wars will be dealt with accordingly.

Signatures
Signatures are text or pictures that appear under your post. You are allowed only one picture for a signature and it must not exceed 600x200 pixels in size. If you are using mini signatures, you are allowed only 10 and they must not exceed 350x20 pixels in size.

If you are using text, you are not allowed to exceed 500 characters (including spaces) or 10 lines which ever comes first. If using a combination of both, the entire signature must not exceed 600x200 pixels in overall size.

Note: Every line of text that appears in the postbit above or below the signature image stands for 15 pixels.

Also signatures are under no circumstances to include any sort of links.

Avatars
Avatars are small images that appear near your username in posts. Avatars are to not exceed 120x120 pixels in size. You are allowed to upload your own or to use one of the avatars provided in the gallery.

Posting Pictures
In order to make sure the forum doesn't explode with graphics and slow down due to it, when you post a picture please make sure that it is no larger that 800x600 pixels.

If you need to show an image that is over 800x600 pixels please link to it, use the spoiler tags or use a thumbnail rather than displaying the full picture in a thread.

If you need space in hosting an image, free hosts are available. Two well known ones used by the staff here are: Imageshack and Photobucket.

Copying
Copying other peoples work without permission is not tolerated. You MUST request permission before using anyone else’s work in a public release. Also any MSFC material is the property of the MSFC staff and permission to reuse or edit this must be obtained by Majestic, our head administrator.

Ranks and Smilies
The ranks used on this site were created by Kuro-Chan of Kuro-RPG. The emoticons were created by Gilles Nuytens of The Sci-Fi World. Do not use their works without their permission.

Staff Decisions
The staff are here to make sure the site runs smoothly and without incident. They have been given the power and responsibility to manage various sections of the site. Only a higher ranking staff member can override another staff member decision if deemed necessary.

The staff have the right to remove any post, thread or messages that in our sole judgement violate and infringe upon the rules of this site. They also have the right to remove any posting ability and limit or terminate access to any member for any reason and at anytime without notice.

Do not edit a post after a staff member has, staff edits posts for a reason and editing it after a staff for whatever reason will only find yourself being contacted.

There are several levels/types of staff, information of the levels/types and their responsibilities can be found here.
All decisions made by the staff are final, there are to be no arguments/complaints or questioning about decisions made by the staff for any reason.

Promotions
From time to time, the staff will be looking for new staff members. This happens due to a number of reasons. Examples include the site expanding or a member of staff retiring due to other responsibilities.

When this happens a thread will be made on the forums notifying the community of the situation and the need of additional staff members. All interested parties are to submit an application form to Majestic, our head Administrator.

New Forums
If you want a new forum section or category on the site, you'll need to contact and prove its worth to Majestic, our head administrator.

Problems with other members
If you have a problem with another member or a staff member, PM the other member first and try to resolve it peacefully. If it does not work please PM Majestic or Syf about it. Do not make it public on the forums.

Please respect the other members for who they are, there will be no smart remarks or insults made against other members on these forums. If this occurs the said post will be deleted and the poster contacted and warned.

Warning Procedure
Unfortunately from time to time, there are times when a member is unable or unwilling to follow the rules laid down by the staff. When this happens it becomes necessary for a warning to be made. Details on the procedure can be found here.

Disclaimer
Any of the rules detailed above can be skipped at the administration's discretion. All staff members can interpret the rules as they see fit, even beyond their written meaning.

Rules can be changed or updated at anytime, notification will be made to the community and it's up to each individual to make sure they review and are aware of the changes made.

Enjoy the forums!

- Majestic Sci-Fi Central Staff