Community Rules
TGP Rules
Enforced with no tolerance for loophole abuse. Unsure if something is allowed? Open a support ticket. "It wasn't written" is not a defence. Rule breaks can lead to wipes, suspensions or bans.
Quick summary
- Discord: no staff disrespect, no spam or ping abuse, no doxxing, hate speech or NSFW, no server ads or piracy.
- ARK: no exploits or cheating, no excessive spam, no team cycling or exceeding the 4-man limit, no impersonating staff, no insiding, clean up traps and fobs after raids, no open world turrets, no blocking cave entries outside raiding.
- Admins will not force-join you to tribes, and are not responsible for items lost to server resets, Wildcard bugs, getting Arked or disconnections.
- Always log out somewhere safe. If an accusation cannot be proven, admins may not be able to act.
Management
- Proof or GTFO: have screenshots or clips ready before submitting a ticket.
- No bullying or racism: banter is fine, targeted abuse and hate speech are not.
- Name restrictions: names like "Admin", "Human", barcodes or "123" may be renamed.
- No impersonating staff: instant permanent ban.
- No unapproved advertising: ask via ticket first.
- No doxxing or dossing: instant permanent ban.
- Do not interfere with admins: if asked to move, stop or leave, do so.
- No intentional lagging or crashing through spam, dino stacking or exploits.
Punishments: 1st offence warning and tribe logged, 2nd offence 1-week ban, 3rd offence season ban. Admin discretion applies.
PvP and raiding
- No mesh biting: excessive or unfair attacking through the mesh can result in your dino being handed to your enemy.
- Caging and handcuffs: allowed during raids for up to 1 hour, timer starts once staff are notified. No random open world caging.
- Platform tames and tube builds: platform tames must stay exposed to turret fire from at least three sides plus top or bottom. Vertical and horizontal C4 tubes are allowed.
- No cheats, hacks or exploits: permanent ban, no appeal.
- No griefing or bullying, including blocking players from rebuilding.
- Raid interference: do not interfere with a raid or defence exclusively, this counts as teaming.
- No popcorning or despawning loot.
- No moonpool soaker traps placed during a raid. Pre-placed moonpools are fine.
- No flare spam during raids.
- After ascension boss fights, place element on your dinos to prevent loss.
Building
- Banned locations: Aberration surface entrances, major resource spawns, in or near mesh. Red-gunned without warning.
- No meshing: bases or turrets in the mesh means a season ban minimum.
- Teleporters: small teleporters near resource zones are okay with 10 turrets or fewer and must not block access.
- Spam limits: within 20 foundations of your furthest turret tower, max 10 cliff platforms, max 4 external turret towers. Carpet spam only between your entrance and closest turret tower. Clean up after raids. No Tek bunker spam.
- No tunnel building to bypass turrets or line of sight. Using structures as ramps during a raid is legal.
- Illegal base spots: if it takes a chair, bag, hook, pelagornis, ovis or similar tricks to enter, it is illegal and red-gunned.
- No random open world turrets. Temporary fobs must be packed up promptly.
- No blockages of cave or surface entrances unless actively raiding.
- Base limits: max 2 bases per map with 1 major or custom cave per tribe per map, and no more than 4 bases across the cluster.
- No internal Tesla coils: only from your base entrance outward.
Punishments: 1st offence warning and tribe logged, 2nd offence 1-week ban, 3rd offence season ban. Admin discretion applies.
Tribes
- 4-man tribe limit. No allies, no exceptions.
- No teaming: raiding, PvP or defending with another tribe is illegal. Trading and avoiding conflict is fine.
- No insiding or reverse insiding. Leaving members only take what they are given, owners compensate kicked members fairly.
- Report your tribe: innocent members who did not participate may receive immunity.
- No scamming: be honest in trades or be banned.
- Name consistency: your tribe name must match across all maps.
- No tribe cycling to keep a full roster.
Punishments: 1st offence warning and tribe logged, 2nd offence 1-week ban, 3rd offence season ban. Admin discretion applies.