Ark Exodus PVP Players PDA

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

Ark Waking Realms: EXODUS Ruleset

Table of Contents

Chapter 1.
An Introduction to Waking Realms: EXODUS

Chapter 2.
Lore

Chapter 3.
Character Creation,Whitelisting, and Subreddit Postings

Chapter 4.
The Golden Rule Chapter

Chapter 5.
General Rules Chapter

Chapter 6 .
Specific PVP Rules Chapter

Chapter 6a.
PVP Zone-Combat Simulation

Chapter 7.
Discord/Subreddit Guidelines

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Waking Realms: EXODUS

Heil Traveler, I welcome you to the Waking Realms. Enclosed
herein is the laws of the lands. As you are playing during the
great exodus from the Yggdrasil simulation, you will need to
familiarize yourself with our rules of the ship. Here in the Waking
Realms roleplay is first and foremost. See someone flying
overhead? They may be a friend or enemy, wave and say hello,
start a line of dialogue and find out. You may make a friend, or
an enemy…that’s all part of the experience. You are playing in
the real world aboard the AEF (Allied Earth Federation) Colony
Ship Yggdrasil. Waking Realms has been a 4 year+ journey
started by the lore of the Ark Factions Server, which became the
Waking Realms RP.If you are so inlclined you can read back lore
on www.reddit.com/r/Arkfactions & www.reddit.com/r/
Arkwakingrealms But do so at your leisure, it’s not mandatory.
The Story was then fleshed out with Ark Waking Realms you see
here today. We were one of the first RP Ark Servers, and will
likely be around long after many others have come and gone.
We are adult owned and managed, and are very level headed.
We annually raise money for charity.Waking Realms is a safe
space for all Races, Creeds, Sexual identities and Ages. With
that said, open your eyes traveler. It’s time for you to awaken to
a world foreign to the one you remember.

Jinx-
Server Owner

Chapter 2: Lore

Needless to say, a lot has happened in our time. WR:
EXODUS mixes the mythos of Ark’s cannon lore with a
sister ship to the Genesis, the Yggdrasil. The simulation on
this ship was based on Norse Myth, and has been running
for hundreds of years, it's inhabitants living dozens of
lives. They now awaken, not knowing what is real, the
simulation, or the world they now inhabit. With this there
has been countless lore events outlined in lore posts on
www.reddit.com/r/ArkWakingRealms . The most
important single events were the War of the Bifrost (or as
we call it, the Cross Species Invasion). Whereas Edmund
Rockwell attempted to wrest control of the Bifrost (Ark
Network) from the Asgardians. He lost, but upon a fateful
happening, he was able to step foot on Asgard
(Extinction) and infect the gods themselves with his taint,
converting them into the Titans (Freya, Loki, and Heimdall)
and King Titan (Odin). You live in a time after the taint of
Rockwell has been purged and the Realms are at peace.
You have fallen through a Dimensional Sinkhole to Alheim
Beta, a mirror dimension made during the war of the Light
and Dark Elves. You now awaken here in a semi familiar
place, though much different then what you remember, will
you find a way to survive, or band together and try to
purge

the ship of its corruption, and find your way to your new
homeworld? Will you find friends or foes to aid or hinder
your progress of routing out the corruption on the ship?

Chapter 3: Character Creation,Whitelisting and SubReddit
Postings

It is said that every person starts as a blank slate. A block of
marble that you must chisel into the “True You”. This server uses a
whitelist to ensure that all players have a basic comprehension of
the art of Character Creating, as well as to give new players a
moment to think how their avatars will act, react, and interact in
general with the rest of the Citizens of the Ship. Take some time
to think about your character, who he is, what is his motivation?
We allow a large amount of freedom to create characters from
all time periods, fantasy realms and walks of life. Below are
some tips of do’s and don’ts when creating your character. We
strive to have our response to you back within 48 hours.
Sometimes there are delays and we apologize if ever there is
one. If you have not heard back from us, ping us on discord.
Information is in Chapter 7. Servers are restarted twice daily so
when you are whitelisted, you can get in fairly quickly. Use the
downtime to start working on how you’ll first interact with other
Citizens of the Ship. After whitelisting and initial character
creation (which includes a charater story posted to our Subreddit
(www.reddit.com/r/ArkWakingRealms), a player can create and
use only 1 character at a time (1PVP). If they choose

to retire a character and begin again, they are permitted to do
so at their discretion but the new character will need a subreddit
post at a minimum. Now we don’t like to restrain creativity here
on the realms, but we do have a few do’s and do nots to keep in
mind when creating your characters.

Do: Have a realistic name. Do not be surprised if you are not
granted access with your dwarven barbarian named “Beardly
Von Pussykiller” or your cheeky Maniac “Mike Hunt”. If your
character is horribly disfigured or proportioned, please have a
good RP that goes with it. A great example was a tribe called
the Urts. They roleplayed as Turtle people and had chests
exaggerated to form a ‘shell”. Another is a Waking Realms
mainstay, Thickneck. I wonder why they call him that….
Characters can come from pre-existing fictional universes. You
can RP as a Mandalorian or a Hogwarts wizard with some
restrictions (outlined in the Do Not section below) Gods are
permitted, but know that if you claim to be a god, there will
always be a skeptic. This RP is at your own risk. Demigods are
usually a better choice. Typically, you would allocate 50% of
your traits to reflect this. I.E. A Son of Zeus will have 50 points
into melee or health. Feel free to reach out to an Admin via the
Waking Realms Discord C if you would like advice on the matter.
(See Discord information) Use a voice changer to enhance certain
RP’s, but know there is no mute player button in ark, so make sure
if you’re getting some negative feedback on using it, to take it
constructively.

Do Not: No characters whose history would cause cultural
discomfort. So, no rapists, Nazis, or the like. We have a 0-
tolerance policy for this, and infractions of it will; 1. Not get you
through the whitelist application and 2. Will get you a perma-
ban. No pre-existing fictional characters. That means no Gimli,
Boba Fett, or anything that has a TM or R at the end of its name.
We don’t want a Cease & Desist and neither do you. However,
you can be A Gimli, but not THAT Gimli. No historical figures of
note aka. no Lincoln, Donald Trump or Adolf Hitler. You can RP as
a character of the same time period however, so you have some
room as it does not conflict with any other rule. “The Grey Area”
You can be a German soldier, you can be a Mandalorian, you
can be so many things, so why not be something original?
Originality and depth of backstory in your whitelist and
Character Posts is important. It gives the admin team a sense you
know what you’re doing. So, if you cannot take the time to craft
a character and a backstory, you may not get approved to join
us. You can always take extra time and resubmit though! And
remember, if you are going to change characters after you’ve
“lived” your life through his/her eyes, you are free to do so. Just
take the same time and care you had to for your first approved
character and do not forget a relevant reddit post or two
(death/new Character).

Chapter 4: The Golden Rules

Don’t be a Dick & RP comes 1st

Seems pretty obvious now doesn’t it? But common sense
isn’t always common. If you troll, spam, or harass people
on reddit or discord, intentionally target someone inside or
outside the game, or block artifact caves/resources so
others can’t advance and it gets back to us, don’t be
surprised if you get banned from the server, the discord,
and the subreddit. If you ask why, you’ll likely be
responded to, “You were a dick”. If you get this response,
chances are you need to take a minute to examine what
you were doing, and how it could be interpreted by
outside parties. In the end, we’re here to roleplay and
ride dinosaurs with freaking laser beams attached to their
heads.

Chapter 5: General Rules

This section is broken down to more easily digest and find
information as you need it. Every denizen is expected to
read these rules and prove so on the whitelist as there are
questions that are specifically pulled from this ruleset.

 Roleplay/ Roleplaying. Roleplay should always be
your primary objective. You’ve spent time working on
your character and have a very good idea of what
he/she/it will do in a given circumstance. Allow RP to
break the daily grind of the following; drop/artifact
hunting, taming, farming, and crafting. These elements
are always there, but a good character interaction,
for good or for bad, is not nearly as commonplace.
Use of the double slash (//) in chat is an example of
indicating OOC text in an otherwise IC interaction.

 Prohibited RP. Any racism, sexual harassment (on the
server or off in general to another denizen), use of
derogatory terms, or saying “FUCK THE RP” because
you don’t respect their RP choices, are grounds for a
cool down kick or ban.

 Uses of Cheat Programs/Exploits/Glitches/DDOS. If
we catch you doing any of the above, your ass is
banned for life. If you happen to find an exploit and
want to duplicate it for the admins, you may be
rewarded for being forthcoming with information to
help the server patch it. If it is from one of the mods
we might have to wait until the mod creator patches
it, but do not use it in the meantime. Never be afraid
to voice up. We will always be thankful.

 Bans & Ban Appeals. Bans are something any admin
or server owner hates to do to any player, but it
happens. Chances are there will be salty behavior,
and we apologize ahead of time. We are players
first, admins second. We always try to mitigate
having to ban people permanently. Bans range from
24-hour bans, all the way to permabans on all
Waking Realms communications channels and servers.
Here is a quick list of things that will result in bans
without any discussion: hacking, exploiting, accusing a
player of cheating without sufficient proof, accusing
an admin of “b-admining” (we have full logs on the
back end to check this, only the server owner can
access to confirm/deny), bringing IRL drama to the
server, trolling or spamming any of the Waking
Realms communications (reddit/discord), recruiting for
other RP servers. Also see the Golden Rule at the top
of the rule section which should cover any other

instance. If you feel you are being banned and should
not be, contact the server owner via discord and file
an appeal with your proof.

 Faction Abandonment/Server Cleaning. In the event
you get bored of the game, which happens, take a
moment and see if anyone wants your creatures or
gear. After that, our monthly cleanup will wipe out
any decayed structures you have abandoned. • War
(PVP War Rules) When all diplomacy fails, it’s time to
take the gloves off and get physical. War in the
Waking Realms is an attempt to settle a dispute,
drive someone off contested land, or even lay them to
waste. Know this can be a devastating loss and
understand when you enter into a war situation, we
expect you to lick your wounds, not rage quit. Yes,
you lost this war, but take the opportunity to perhaps
make a new character, or rebuild your home/village.
Rage quitting when you agree to war is a silly
concept, but happens 80% of the time. Know what
you’re getting yourself into. Below are the steps to
begin war.

o War must be declared with a valid reason to the
target tribe/faction/village. This can be done via
subreddit post (best option), in game, or on the
appropriate in character channels on discord. If

both parties agree war will happen, they must
then contact an admin.
o Both parties’ leaders must meet in a neutral area
with the admin. The admin is only there to
mediate and record articles of war. (What
structures are off limits, if war beasts such as
Titanosaurs, titans and Gigas are allowed and
whatnot)
o Both warring factions have up to 24 IRL hours to
“Prepare for Battle”. As this is a PVP server, war
cannot start until both parties’ leaders choose so
in the radial menu.
o Once the time is agreed upon, one or more
admin’s or 3rd party observers can be asked to
spectate to ensure the articles of war are not
ignored. In the case of an Admin being in one of
the warring parties, the server owner will change
the admin password on the restart before a war
to ensure that “badmin” actions are not used.
o As you are requesting Admin’s time to make sure
that war proclamations are not violated, we ask
you try and

 Setup wars on weekends, and
 Keep the war at maximum 2 IRL hours. If,

however you have a no holds barred war
and don’t need an admin present to make

sure that best practices are followed, you
may continue to war for up to 12 hours.
 War is between 2 tribes. No 3rd party
direct interference is allowed during the
battle. 3rd parties however can lend aid
with ammunition and dinosaurs by allies in
the lead up to war. But may not participate
directly lest they get a temporary or
permanent ban.

Chapter 6: PVP Specific Rules

These are very common sense, but need to be said. Do
any of the following, you will at best get a warning, at
worst a ban.

 You have a tribe limit of 10, build like it. You will be
tempted to build a huge mega city, instead build a
small town to start. We do not want to see server
performance degrade because you foundation a
200x200 area. We have more than normal structure
limit, but do try and restrain on size, and instead focus
on making those structures look alive. Think smart,
build smart.

 Do not build in artifact caves period. Or in front of
them. Sleeping bags are okay, but if you don’t clean
up after yourself on the way out and it becomes a
repeat offense reported to admins… you’re going to
have a bad time. So be respectful and pick up those

sleeping bags on the way out, so the next person can
still set them down.

 Each tribe is allowed their primary “base” or Town
location. They are also allowed a single outpost at a
time. If you merge with someone with an existing
outpost, you will be expected to clean it up, or an
admin will come and demo additional outposts until
there is only one. Don’t make us do that, as you may
earn a 24-hour kick for the trouble of us going
through the hassle of putting your tribe back into
specs. Consider instead of multiple outposts, building
mobile outposts. We will not limit you to how many
paracers or brontos’ you have for
mining/gathering/adventuring.

 No Pillaring/Foundation spamming. Instaban, no
questions or response from the Admin team if we find
it happening.

 No griefing period. If you get caught kiting dino’s to
someone’s base in an attempt to have said wild dino
destroy their base, and the admin’s find out, you will
be banned. No question.

 Raiding Rules
o First and foremost, WR does not allow offline
raiding. If that’s a problem, find another server.
o Raiding in the context of RP is an attempt to
either outright steal something from another
player, tribe or Indie. There are some nuances on

how you should go about doing it. Ideally there’s
a reason you’re stealing from someone in context
of RP so use the following below as guidelines of
why you are raiding, not as a justification that
you are.

 Do: Make sure the party is online and you
can see them. WR does not endorse the use
of battlemetrics to track online players, but
we cannot stop you from using them.
However, if you have an RP issue with a
player that enforces your need to raid them,
you need to have visual confirmation (take a
screenshot or video to use if admin’s ask for
proof if they are called in) Roleplay your
raid. Nobody likes being raided, but PVP
raids can be fun. If you have plans to raid
someone, create some IN PERSON dialogue
with the player that sets the stage for
hostilities. Raiding for raiding’s sake is lame,
you’re better than that. An example of this is
you go and buy a rifle, and the seller
changes the price last minute. You disagree
with them but ultimately pay the price. You
had an arrangement and he reneged. You
now have reason to justifiably try and get
that money back.

 Also, a tip: If you are going to be a pirate,
know that historically pirates did not raid
ports, they only raided the high seas. A
pirate going far inland is not in character for
a pirate. A Viking or say Mongol horde
would take raiding parties throughout the
land, but would only raid if they needed to.
Most of the time they demanded food and
drink and moved on. Raiding doesn’t always
have to be about stealing mats, guns, tames
& blueprints. It’s sometimes just to get a good
meal. Raiding in RP is the true show if you
are a good role player. Sure, the party
that’s being raided is going to be angry, but
if you did it right, they have to respect the
dedication you put into it. If you just wanna
go smash and grab, head to an official
server.

 Only destroy minimal parts of a base during
a raid. You’re pillaging, not wiping a base.
Take doubly care if it’s a tree or cliff
platform as overzealous use of explosives
could end up causing you to get a ban if it
levels their entire base.

 Expect the raided to defend. As you are the
aggressor, the defender has the right to use

any and all weapons/dinos at their disposal
to rebuff you.
 Once you die, that’s it. No returning to the
scene for 24 IRL hours. This ensures it’s a raid
and not an unofficial war. It is suggested you
keep one tribemate behind to ensure if the
raid is a failure, your dinos have a chance to
retreat. Otherwise, the defender may do
what he wishes with your mounts, saddles,
and items on the deceased raider(s).
 As we have structure locking set to on, if
someone leaves a chest open, it’s not
considered raiding.
 Only raid a faction/tribe/indie once per IRL
week. It makes no sense if you just rolled an
indie’s sheep farm, that you’d go back
before he’s recovered.
 Do continue to raid if a player decides to
“Battle Log”. This means the victim is aware
of the raid, and decides to either cross ark,
or straight log off to escape. This means
you’ve already begun the raid, not just a
verbal intent to do so. If you’re going for a
stealth raid and you see the victim use a
transmitter or drop to travel to another map,
disengage. You don’t want to be in that
position, as the admins will have to inspect

the logs and time stamps to determine if it
constitutes offline raiding. Better safe than
sorry.
 Kill only tames that attack you. Period.
 DO NOT’S

 Do not offline raid, as stated prior, you
will be banned. 0 tolerance policy on
that.

 No killing or abducting sleeping players.
You may strip them down to their
underwear, but do not kill them
(exception is if the player is on the other
side of a door and splash damage kills
them during a raid).

 Do not kill passive tames. Shoulder
mounted pets inside of structures are
omitted from this rule only on the basis
the death was accidental due to
breaching a structure. If they’re blocking
a door you’re trying to breach, use a
whip or punch it out of the way instead
of killing it if you can.

 Do not return to the scene of a failed
raid (aka you died) for 24 hours. It’s risk
vs. reward with raiding. Breaking this
rule will result in a minimum 24-hour
temporary ban.

 Do not start raiding until you have
initiated RP dialog if you are coming in
force. If you are going stealth (aka. you
and one tame), ensure you have proof
that you can see the victim (to cover
your ass).

 Do not raid someone if they are not on
the same map as you. If you are about
to start a raid and you can see a player
use a drop to travel away, try and plan
around their return. Unless you have
announced the raid via a RP interaction
and they are running. Then this is battle
logging and you are cleared to
continue. We have detailed logs so if
someone is guilty of battle logging,
they’ll be disciplined if they try and
raise a stink.

 Do not kite away dino’s from player’s
bases to kill them during a raid. If they
are on neutral and attack, stand your
ground. Kiting someone’s creatures
away one by one is a coward’s path
and is probably the biggest example of
“don’t be a dick”. There are methods
such as tranquilizing aggro dinos that
work just as well. If you disengage the

raid due to it going south and a dino
follows you halfway across the map, we
will not fault you if you kill it to escape,
that’s an in-game mechanic.

 Do not be salty. If the RP degrades into
a shouting match, disengage and send
an admin a message. The defender has
to read and agree to these rules as do
you. You do have rights as a raider.

 Turrets
o Players are allowed up to 20
turrets of any combination (hard
coded in settings). Only 4 of which
can be set to players and tames.
Even then they should be at max
medium range. This does not cover
“Organic” turrets like Velanosaurs,
Golems, Chalico’s, and Plant
Species X. No more than 10
“organic” turrets can be used at a
time to defend your base in a
range of 5000 foundations. Any
turret dino that is set to an
aggressive posture is considered a
hostile dino per ruleset, and if a
player kills it in an attempt to
defend themselves (say as a velano

grounds a passerby’s flyer), there
will be no repercussions. Flyer
Warfare/PVP.
o There are only a few restrictions to
flyer warfare and pvp. They are as
follows: NO PICK & DROP, Pick and
kidnap is okay provided you do not
do so with the intent to P&D.

 Dragon breath/Mana breath
should only be used in times of
war, and when fighting for
supply crates/OSD as far as
PVP is concerned. You may not
use them in raids.

 Griffin Divebombs are
restricted to War and
Drop/OSD Disputes.

 Mounted Artillery can be used
only in times of War against
other players (We know some
tames require them.) This
includes manned turrets,
ballistas, catapults, cannons,
ect. Abductions/Kidnapping
Sometimes your RP may be
holding someone ransom, or
needing to get someone out of

the way to conduct a stealth
raid. In these circumstances you
would kidnap someone. There
are only a few rules we expect
you to follow:

 Abductee’s can only be
held for a maximum of 30
minutes, after which they
will be executed, or let go.

 Abductee’s will be
roleplayed with during this
time, no knocking them out
and just ignoring them for
30 min. Unless they agree
to it.

 Know if you knowingly try
to just imprison new
players to the server, or
hold someone past the time
they should be imprisoned
(unless agreed to by the
abductee) You are likely to
receive a ban of 24 hours
or more depending on the
severity.

Chapter 6a. PVP Combat Simulator

The Combat Simulation is the monthly rotating map, previously
known as the Realm of Change. In this realm you are allowed
more freedom to PVP.
Standard rules for raiding/kidnapping/turret limits apply, but
the rest of main map PVP rules can be ignored. As this is an
anonymous combat simulation, your memories of PVP interactions
do not store to long term memory

Chapter 7: Community Discord/Subreddit Rules. Here are
just some basic guidelines for using our subreddit
(www.reddit.com/r/Arkwakingrealms) and Discord.

 When making a post on reddit, make sure to flair it
before posting.

 Discord is almost entirely out of character, except for
the in game chatter channel. In those subreddits, you
will be expected to speak “in character.

 Once you’ve been assigned Denizen status on discord,
please change your nickname to that of your in-game
character. Don’t worry this will only display on our
discord.

 Discord also abides by our golden rule. We do give
you a bit more flexibility to vent, but if we feel you
are being excessively hostile or hateful, admins will
take action. So, with that, welcome. Feel free to submit

your application, and we look forward to seeing you in
game! -WR staff.