ROCK Rules and Regulations -- 100% Complete : Current

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Turn Timetable

• Standard turns will be Tuesday through Monday and all engagements and moves will be placed within this time.
• Movements, Commands, and Declarations will be placed no later that Wednesday at 11:59pm eastern for a resolution to take place during that turn.
• All items posted after that time will be dealt with the following turn.

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Turn Event Order
- Ecomonic Calculation

• Calculting your lordship's gold will be performed at the beginning of each round.  The formula is (Total Settlement Revenue + Upgrades) + Raiding + Looting = Total

- Commands

• Purchase Settlement Upgrade (while providing settlement name and desired upgrade)
• Purchase Troop Upgrade (while providing desired tier upgrade)
• Split a specific army into two halves.

- Land Movement

• Movements are commands provided to designate your intention of moving an army from on grid square to an adjacent square.
• Armies are able to move two squares, assuming the squares are/become adjacent and follow a linear movement pattern. (Up, Down, Left, Right)
• There is no minimum amount of movements an army must take during a turn.

- Sea Movement

• Armies are allowed to move by sea, from any square adjacent to the main body of water to any other square adjacent to the main body of water.
• Moving by sea will cause the armies movement to be delayed 1 turn cycle.
• Inland rivers and tributaries are not concidered as the main body of water, and are therefore not accessable by sea movement.
• An army that has successfully completed a sea movement must wait a period of 2 turn cycles before performing another sea movement.

- Declarations

• Declarations state an armies intention when moving into,out of, or remaining in a grid square.
• Available Aggressive Declarations:
  I. Engage - Used to state the intention of engaging an enemy army.
  II. Raid - Used to state the intention of raiding an enemy village.
  III. Besiege - Used to state the intention of besieging an enemy castle/city.
  Available Defensive Declarations:
  I. Disengage - Used by a Defender to state the option to avoid an engagement.
  II. Bypass - Used to state the intention of moving through a square containing an enemy settlement.
  III. Hold Position - Used to state the intention of remaining in the current square for that turn.
  IV. Garrison - Used to state the intention of stationing an army into a settlement.

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Engagement Conditions
- Engagement Definition

• An engagement is the term used for the process of resolving an aggressive declaration utilizing a multiplayer battle/siege.

- Attacking/Defending Designation

• Attacking armies are those that issue an engage, raid, or besiege declaration toward an enemy army or settlement.
• Defending armies are those that are in a square or choose to move into a square where an attacking army has entered and made a declaration.
• Attackers and defenders will be represented during an engagement if the map so denotes it.

- Attacking Guidelines

• An army may not move into a square occupied by an enemy army without making an Engage Declaration.
• An army may move into a square containing an enemy Settlement without making a Declaration intending for an Engagement.
• Besieged Settlements will require the passing of one turn cycle before the engagement may be played out ingame.

- Defending Guidelines

• A defending army may choose to avoid an engagement by issuing a disengage declaration and a movement comand.
• A defending army may only participate in the defense of a settlement if they were garrisoned in that settlement before it was besieged.
• A lordship's army or a lordship's allied army may move to assist a village that is being raided if they are within the normal movement amount from the village.

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Battles/Sieges:
- Game Mode

• All engagements will be fought under a modified version of Team Deathmatch that provides static spawns as are utilized in Battle modes.

- Battle Size Calculation

• Engagements with an equal amount of participating players may be fought at even numbers if desired.
• The base amount of players that will be fielded will equal the smaller number of players brought to the battle by either side.
• If a team has a higher amount of players available for an engagment, a reinforcement player may participate equalling one player  for every two additional players that are brought by that team.
• Final Battle Size will equal:
  I. Team with lower number of players = Base
  II. Team with higher number of players = Base + Reinforcement(Total - Base / 2)

- Win Conditions

• A team is deemed victories in an engagement when:
  I. All opposing troops have been killed. 
  II. The opposing team retreats from the engagement per the Retreat Option.

- Retreat Option

• A team that is involved in an engagement has the option to retreat if both of the following conditions are met: 
  I. Their original starting force was greater than 100 troops. 
  II. 60% of their troops have been killed.

*New*
- Autoresolve

• A defending lordship may utilize an autoresolve to an engagement if they so desire allowing the engagement not to be fought but resulting in an outcome.
• A lordship that utilizes the autoresolve feature will take a calculated amount of casualites factoring in enemy army size, defending army size and tier equipment upgrades.
• Assaulting lordships that are involved in an autoresolved result recieve no casualties to their army/armies.

- Scheduling, Conflicts, and Fault Designation

• Scheduling will be performed via a soon to come "ROCK Engagement Scheduling" thread.
• An assaulting lordship shall post in the appropriate thread with a minimum of two available days/times for an engagement to take place.
• All counter proposals from the defending team as well as further scheduling discussion shall be posted in the appropriate thread quoting the previous post/posts within reasonable size.
• If, due to unresolvable scheduling, an engagement is not fought in the allotted turn a designation of fault will be placed upon the lordship that was unavailable to meet reasonably offered engagement days/times.
  
• If the defending lordship is found at fault the engagement will be autoresolved.
• If the assaulting lordship is found at fault the engagement will be cancelled with casualty penalty of 10% of the assualting army size.
• If multiple lordships are involved a reasonable time should be found to provide both sides with the most players possible and the match played within the allotted turn.

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Conquering Settlements

• A settlement that has besieged will be considered conquered when it's total garrison, army or standing, has been eliminated.
• Villages are not available to be be conquered.

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Settlement Garrison Replenishment

• Once a settlement has been conquered that settlements garrison will be replaced under the new lordship after the completion of 2 turns.
• Replacement garrisons will match the standard garrison allocation of 75 per castle and 150 per city.
• Replacement garrisons must follow standard garrison placement and are not reallocatable. (See Garrison Troops ruleset)

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Lordship Raiding

• Lordships have the option to perform a raid upon an enemy village if they have an army placed on the map square containing the village to be raided.

- Benefit

• Raiding an enemy village provides the assualting lordship with that village's income on their next turn.
• Raiding an enemy village negates the owning lordship's ability to acquire income from that village on their next turn.

- Engagement and Interrupt Information

• Raiding will take place with the full force of the assaulting army.
• Defending a raid will take place on the village's scene with the standard village garrison garrison as defenders.
• The defending lordship or ally may move a lordship army onto the village's map square to perform an interrupt to the raid.
• If a defending/ally army moves to interrupt a raid the engagement will take place on that village's scene with the assaulting army having the defending spawn.
• All casualties dealt to a lordship army during a raid will be deducted from that army overall troops size. 

- Raid Limitation

• After a raid is attempted, the assualting lordship must wait a minimum of two full turns before another raid may be attempted on that village.

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Module

• All engagements will be played utilizing the ROCK module.
• Please contact the ROCK Administration team if you plan to host ROCK engagements.

Server Settings

• Gamemode : Team Deathmatch
• Team #'s : Team 1 = Defender  |  Team 2 = Attacker
• Team Damage : Enabled melee/ranged @ 100%
• Block Direction : By Mouse Movement
• Combat Speed : Fastest
  
• Round Time : 120 Minutes (Maximum)
• Team Point Limit : No lower than largest army engaged.
• Respawn : 5 Seconds
• Starting Gold : 150
• Bonus Gold : 0
• Polls : All off
• Autobalance : Per Player Numbers Allowed

- Madmin Options

Enable Class Limit : Enable

• Infantry : Unlimited
• Archer : 30% Field Battle/50% Siege
• Cavalry : 20% Field Battle/0% Siege

Autokick for teamkilling : Enable

• Teamkill Limit : 3
• Team Wound Damage : 300
• Autokicks Till Ban : 5

Don't Kill Stray Horses : Enable