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Fair play

What keeps a match fair on every server: the same numbers everywhere, what the server and Team Vanilla check, reports, votes to kick, and staff.

#The same game on every server

• Base weapons, forces and parts keep their official numbers on every server. A server's packs add new things; they never change or re-skin anything of the original, and nobody can rebalance a base gun.
• A character from a pack is only a look: every soldier is hit by the same boxes whatever the model, and one much bigger or smaller than the base soldiers is refused.
• Smoke grenades and flash-bangs are always drawn in full, and no option changes a map's light, hour or sky.
• No aim assist, on a mouse or a controller.

#What is checked

• The server decides what happens in a match: it measures every shot through a wall itself, decides who a grenade's blast reaches, caps a shot's hits at its pellets, and refuses movement faster than the soldier and his gun allow.
• Team Vanilla checks every match report a server sends. One that could not have happened is refused, and SFLegacy Staff can take back what a server reported.
• Money moves only through Team Vanilla, with your approval: no server can add SP or Coins, sell a base item below Team Vanilla's price, or spend yours without your say.
• A global ban is kept at the door: a banned account is never given a ticket for any server.

#Reports and votes

• Report a player from the match menu (Esc), from a soldier's right-click menu in the lobby or a room, or a message from your inbox.
• Kick a player (vote) from the match menu. Everyone in the match answers with F1 (yes) or F2 (no) while the vote is up.
• Reports go to the server's staff and to SFLegacy Staff, who can watch the match's recording.

#Staff

There are two kinds of staff, kept apart:

• A server's own staff (its Owner, Admins, Game Masters and Moderators) act on that server alone: kick, mute, ban from it, read its reports and recordings. They cannot touch anyone's Team Vanilla account, rank, SP or items, and cannot act on SFLegacy Staff.
• SFLegacy Staff (Admins, Game Masters and Moderators) are Team Vanilla's, on every server. As their rank allows, they mute or ban across all servers, restore a forgotten password, and close a server that breaks the rules.

Every staff action is logged, and a community server's log is sent to Team Vanilla.

#If a server closes

If SFLegacy Staff close a server, or it stays off for 60 days, Team Vanilla refunds every player the SP and Coins they spent on its own items and capsules, and tells each by mail. Base items bought there are not refunded: they are yours on every server, so nothing of them was lost. When an owner removes an item players paid for, Team Vanilla refunds them the same way.