PVP rules and definitions

PvP disabled areas
Spawn / Haven City
20 blocks radius outside spawn / Haven City's wall
Player towns who have PVP turned off.

PvP is enabled everywhere else including the Nether, Dungeons (for now - in testing) and wilderness.


Harassment:

Killing the same person without provocation (self-defense, anti-stealing and anti-infiltration kills do not count) more than 3 times every hour.
Verbally telling someone they must pay you to stop you from killing them. (Towns at war are exempt from this)
Parties or multiple players conspiring to lockdown someone with the 3 kill per hour rule.

Camping: Camping is staying outside an area to kill anyone coming through it or Consistently stalking the same person.

Do NOT camp the following:

Do not camp the roads leading out of spawn. This is the ONLY exit for new players and not a hunting grounds.
Do not use the spawn protections as a PvP tactic. Dancing in and out of protection will get you banned.
You may stay on someones property if you lawfully entered for no more than 15 minutes. (towns only)
If a player asks you to leave a clearly defined property you must do so in 15 minutes even if you have not killed them.
You are not able to return for 24 hours to the clearly defined property.

Once combat^ has started:

*= combat is defined by any of the following:
Attacking another playing in any fashion.
Swinging your weapon or having bow drawn at a player, implying you are imminently attacking.
Being in another player's town with defenders present.

You are NOT ALLOWED to use teleports or logouts (/home and /spawn) as fight tactics. If you engage in combat*, you are not allowed to port out of it. If you fight back on an attacker, you give up your right to port out of the fight. Once engaged, you must not port until the encounter is over. Constant use of teleportation to leave fights will be punished.

(This is not meant towards those who don't want to PvP, its for those using teleports as tactics when they PvP and start to lose.)

You are NOT ALLOWED to use PvP protected areas as part of fight tactics either. Victims who do not engage are allowed to run for a protected area or teleport, but anyone actively engaging in the combat is not allowed to use the safety of these areas while engaged.
Someone triggering a trap on you = *combat and you are allowed to defend yourself.

Other Activity:

You are not allowed to set your home location in someone else's area.
Do not attack people who are actively talking to an admin.
An admin needs to be able to talk with and work with people who are reporting rule-breaking. During the investigation, this person is not really able to defend themselves because they will be typing. If you do attack the, - this will will result in you being killed, losing all inventory items, and possibly being kicked or banned for a short amount of time.
Do not attempt to attack an admin or mod to see if they have /god mode enabled. You may be punished for this.