Important OpSkyblock Competition Rules

[_iGhostly]

NOTICE - Boosting Value & Minimum Prices

This thread covers everything there is to know about the 'boosting value' and 'competition' rule.

Before we start...

• We are going to hand out verbal warnings for minor offences. Note that this is purely at our discretion and if you get struck immediately while someone else receives a verbal warning instead, there is a reason for that, so don't use it as an argument to support your claim.
• This thread is subject to change at any time without prior notice. It is your responsibility to check it regularly to see if anything changes.
• If you feel like something written here should be changed, please suggest it HERE.
• While we don't strictly disallow some actions, we clearly label them here as something you shouldn't do. Failing to follow that might get you punished.
• If you get punished for boosting/sharing value, your disqualification is permanent throughout the whole season.
• Other disqualifiable actions which are not listed here are purely at your own risk.

What is boosting/sharing value?
Boosting/sharing value is an act of using shady or forbidden ways to increase your/other island's value. This results in a disqualification from the Island Top competition. Below, you can see what is allowed and what is not. Note that some items have minimum prices for which you can sell them, so going lower might get you punished.

• Buying realms e-ores for lower than their value¹ - Disallowed
• Selling spawners/mines world ores for a low price¹ - Disallowed
• Gifting mining backpacks/special ability pickaxes - Disallowed
• Gifting sell wands/head wands/crystal wands - Disallowed
• Gifting spawners/currencies/realms e-ores - Disallowed
• Using gkits that are proven not to belong to you or anyone from your island - Disallowed
• Making a public grinder² - Disallowed
• Selling gkits/ranks for Pika gold or gift cards - Use at your own risk³
• Selling spawners for Pika gold or gift cards - Use at your own risk³
• Trading any type of currency - Allowed
• Trading gsets/PvP items - Allowed

¹ Certain items have specific values attached to them which competitive players are expected to follow. Read further to find out the exact values of each item. Note that going below them may get you punished.

² A public grinder is an area where players can teleport to kill mobs from your spawners so you can get the loot from them. Competitive players are not allowed to profit in this way and you can get punished for making such a grinder.

³ When selling gkits or spawners for Pika gold or gift cards, contact a member of Team SkyBlock to be present to monitor the trade to prevent any future confusions.

Minimum⁴ prices for mines world ores (per one ore)

• Aquamarine: $1.4 million OR 700 experience
• Jade: $1.4 million OR 700 experience
• Opal: $2 million OR 1k experience
• Ruby: $1.1 million OR 550 experience
• Sapphire: $700k OR 350 experience
• Silver: $350k OR 175 experience
• Topaz: $550k OR 175 experience
• Tourmaline: $200k OR 100 experience
• Enchanted Crystals: $15 billion OR 7.5m experience

Minimum⁴ prices for enchanted and unenchanted spawners (per one enchanted spawner)

• Spawners should be purchased at a price equal to or greater than the price listed in /shop to maintain fairness in the economy. Any transactions below this threshold will be considered a violation of the rules and may result in penalties
• This also includes spawner bundles. However, this does not include spawners that are not in /shop since they don't add to the island value. As for experience-related trades, stick to the following:
  • 1 experience = $2000 (in value)

⁴ You must sell/buy your spawners and mines world ores for a higher price than the prices listed above. We also strongly discourage trading Spawners using Mobcoins or souls.

Competition Rules

Competition rules:

Cooperative island spam->
Flooding the chat as an island and making it unreadable will result in an island punishment instead of a standard warning/mute. This means if there are multiple island members sending the same message or similar in the public chat with the goal of spamming, the island will get struck. Does not apply when the entire server is typing 'L', 'LOL', or similar when someone gets banned/struck/etc.

Strikes-
First offense: 1 strike
Second offense: 2 strikes
Third offense: 3 strikes
Fourth offense: 4 strikes

Economy Script ->
Using any form of modification (which does not apply to automatic mob farms) to automatically grind resources for the island. Includes alt accounts.

Strikes-
First offense: 4 strikes + a cheating ban for the involved user
Second offense: 6 strikes + a cheating ban for the involved user

Island-wide Cheating->
Having 3 or more players from your island banned for cheating-related offenses, screen share bans, ban evasions of cheating-related bans or ban evasions of screen share bans. Kicking the players and cheating on alts are also included.

Strikes-
First offense: 5 strikes
Second offense: 6 strikes

Server Abuse->
Crashing, exploiting bugs, duping, and similar. Even if one person from your island does it, the entire island may get affected. This will lead to the abuser getting banned and your island getting struck and possibly disqualified (depending on the severity of the offense).It also includes using tracker bots(these bots are automated to track vanished staff).

Strikes-
First offense: 4 strikes
Second offense: 8 strikes

Sharing Value/Boosting->
Boosting other islands or getting boosted by other islands with spawners, money, or other currencies for them to achieve an Island Top place or similar. Includes trading money/spawners for Buycraft and similar.

Strikes-
First offense: 10 strikes

If you have any questions, please contact a member of Team SkyBlock.
Current Team Skyblock members- @_iGhostly @Levaniii @Stormidity @Florinyo @zNqtix @Cyb0rgMan