In this thread, you will find an explanation of every OP Factions-specific rule. Breaking these rules in most cases will result in faction punishments (strikes). Each amount of strikes results in a different faction punishment. Note that even inactive strikes count toward the faction disqualification when reaching 10 strikes.
- 2 Strikes - 24 hours /f raid ban
- 3 Strikes - 10% value reduction
- 4 Strikes - 12 hours no /f shield
- 5 Strikes - 48 hours /f raid ban
- 6 Strikes - 20% value reduction
- 7 Strikes - 18 hours no /f shield
- 8 Strikes - 30% value reduction
- 10 Strikes - Disqualification from Factions Top
Team Factions is a team that handles OP Factions reports and hands out punishments. The team is run by experienced staff members who played OP Factions in the past, so they have high knowledge of the game mode.
Feel free to make a support ticket HERE in case you have any questions about OP Factions and one of the Team Factions members will reply to it as soon as possible. However, please do not ask them to check your ticket as they may be busy.
- Your spawners must be base claimed (/f setbase) 3 days before the final payout.
- Your spawners must be placed 3 days before the final payout
- The base claim must be at least 3x3 chunks in size.
- Your value box must be at least 55 blocks tall.
- Your base's roof must be at Y = 255.
- Your faction must be at least 2 weeks old (this does not apply to the first bi-weekly payout).
- All value spawners (Iron Golems, Zombie Pigmen, Villagers, and Silverfishes) should be obtainable at Y = 190 or higher.
Abusing Faction Shield
Claiming with an alt faction inside of your buffer with the intent to give more than 20 hours of shield to your base is not allowed. Using claims with a shield to protect your cannon box also falls under this rule. The punishment tree for this rule is as follows:
- 4 strikes lasting 5 days
- 5 strikes lasting 7 days
- 6 strikes lasting 14 days
Abusing Raid Timer
Alternative/allied factions cannot be used to trigger timers on your faction with the intent of gaining a grace period. Furthermore, factions must not activate another faction's raid timer unless they have the intention to raid the faction. The punishment tree for this rule is as follows:
- 2 strikes lasting 3 days
- 3 strikes lasting 6 days
- 4 strikes lasting 9 days
Anti-Nukes
Anti-nukes are not allowed as defenses. The punishment tree for this rule is as follows:
- 1 strike lasting 5 days
- 2 strikes lasting 7 days
- 3 strikes lasting 14 days
Barrel Claim Rules
Your barrel claim must be connected to your raid claim and can only be 12 chunks long at maximum. Barrels cannot float into wilderness and they cannot be more than 1 chunk wide (i.e. 12x2 chunk barrel claim is not allowed). The punishment tree for this rule is as follows:
- 1 strike lasting 5 days
- 2 strikes lasting 7 days
- 3 strikes lasting 14 days
Bot Related
Bot accounts may not have any sort of vanish trackers, world scanners, player trackers, or any type of movement/combat modules. If a bot is seen to be moving/flying there is enough reason to screenshare the bot account/account owner for bot-related punishments. Claiming playtime rewards on a mass amount of bots will also count towards this rule. The punishment tree for this rule is as follows:
- 2 strikes lasting 5 days
- 3 strikes lasting 7 days
- 4 strikes lasting 14 days
Buffer Counter Defenses
You are allowed to have a maximum of 5 chunks of walls (40 walls) on your buffer counter. Oceans are not allowed to be used as defenses for buffer counters. The punishment tree for this rule is as follows:
- 1 strike lasting 5 days
- 2 strikes lasting 7 days
- 3 strikes lasting 14 days
Buffer Counter Limit
You are not allowed to have more than 1 buffer counter per side of your base. The punishment tree for this rule is as follows:
- 1 strike lasting 5 days
- 2 strikes lasting 7 days
- 3 strikes lasting 14 days
Buffer Limit
Your buffer count starts from the exterior of your base shell. The buffer limit is 15 chunks (120 walls). Going past this number will lead to strikes. Skipping chunks and generating more walls will also count towards your buffer size. Having even 1 extra chunk of buffer can get your faction punished. The punishment tree for this rule is as follows:
- 2 strike lasting 5 days
- 3 strikes lasting 7 days
- 4 strikes lasting 14 days
Claim Hindering
Claiming in the path of another faction's buffer during the grace period is not allowed. This rule does not apply to traps. The punishment tree for this rule is as follows:
- 1 strike lasting 5 days
- 2 strikes lasting 7 days
- 3 strikes lasting 14 days
Destroying Spawners
You may not mine, creeper egg, or chunkbust spawners while you are being raided. Players may mine spawners freely while on safety break or shield. The punishment tree for this rule is as follows:
- 2 strike lasting 5 days
- 3 strikes lasting 7 days
- 4 strikes lasting 14 days
Economy Scripts
Using software / an external tool to automate the farming crops is not allowed. This rule includes breaking crops with the printer break feature and using alternative/bot accounts to capture outposts. The punishment tree for this rule is as follows:
- 3 strike lasting 5 days
- 4 strikes lasting 7 days
- 5 strikes lasting 14 days
Faction Wide Cheating
Having 2 players banned from your faction for cheating or related offenses will lead to strikes. This includes all screen sharing bans, bug abuse, cheating, fly boosting, ban evading, and any expired bans. 2 new bans are required to move on to the next offense. The punishment tree for this rule is as follows:
- 2 strike lasting 14 days
- 3 strikes lasting 14 days
- 5 strikes lasting 21 days
Illegal Cannons
Cannons are allowed to shoot a maximum of 3500 TNT per shot and create a maximum of a 5-wide nuke on a watered wall.
The following cannons are disallowed:
- Reverse Nukes
- Push Nukes
- u-Fusions
- Horizontal Nukes
- Multiple Wall One-Shots
- Mid-Airs
- Corner Nukes
- Wall Removers
- Left / Right Shooters
- Worms
- Chimneys
- Roof Cannons
- Auto Adjust Cannons
- Cannons faster than 3 seconds (unless shooting below Y = 10)
The punishment tree for this rule is as follows:
- 2 strike lasting 5 days
- 4 strikes lasting 7 days
- 6 strikes lasting 14 days
Illegal Countering
Back countering and bordering countering another faction's raid/side cannons are not allowed. Front countering and side countering are fine as long as side claims are used. The punishment tree for this rule is as follows:
- 2 strike lasting 5 days
- 3 strikes lasting 7 days
- 4 strikes lasting 14 days
Illegal Patching
Players may not patch using Sandbots, Printer, or Genblocks while on an active raid timer or within 5 minutes of the last shot on their cannon box. You are only allowed to use illegal patching methods if you are being illegally raided (you must make a faction report with evidence clarifying the situation and it is at your own risk if they cannot prove you were illegally raided).
Furthermore, the following blocks are disallowed to patch with:
- Slime Blocks
- Cobwebs
- Enchantment Tables
- Banners
- Levers
- Cactus
- Anvils
- Chests / Enderchests
- More... (Team Factions Discretion)
The punishment tree for this rule is as follows:
- 2 strike lasting 5 days
- 3 strikes lasting 7 days
- 4 strikes lasting 14 days
Inviting Players Mid-Raid
Players are not allowed to join your faction if a raid has been started. The exception to this rule is if they are already within the faction's roster and used the rotate function. A raid starts once the timer has started. The punishment tree for this rule is as follows:
- 2 strike lasting 5 days
- 3 strikes lasting 7 days
- 4 strikes lasting 14 days
Multiple Cannons
You are not allowed to have more than 1 active cannon in a cannon box or claim. The same goes for counter-cannons and their claims. An inactive cannon would be a completely destroyed/unusable one. This is up to Team Factions' discretion to decide. The punishment tree for this rule is as follows:
- 2 strike lasting 5 days
- 3 strikes lasting 7 days
- 4 strikes lasting 14 days
Multiple Corner Claims
Your faction can have only 1 corner claimed. Factions cannot claim multiple corners on alternative accounts. The punishment tree for this rule is as follows:
- 1 strike lasting 5 days
- 2 strikes lasting 7 days
- 3 strikes lasting 14 days
Ocean Limit
You are only allowed to have 1 chunk (16 blocks) of ocean in width per side of your base. Having multiple oceans add up to 1 chunk is not allowed. The punishment tree for this rule is as follows:
- 2 strike lasting 5 days
- 3 strikes lasting 7 days
- 4 strikes lasting 14 days
Overstacker Limit
You are allowed to overstack a maximum of 6 blocks above barrel height. Your overstacker should not create a hole larger than 5-wide on a watered wall. The punishment tree for this rule is as follows:
- 2 strike lasting 5 days
- 3 strikes lasting 7 days
- 4 strikes lasting 14 days
Placing Spawners in Normal Claims
Placing spawners in normal claims hides them from faction top, this is not allowed. The punishment tree for this rule is as follows:
- 2 strike lasting 5 days
- 3 strikes lasting 7 days
- 4 strikes lasting 14 days
Raid Box Defenses
Raid claims cannot exceed 15x15 chunks in size. Players cannot extend their raid claim unless needed for their barrel using barrel claims. Players are not allowed to have more than 3 chunks of walls (24 walls) per side of their raid box. Furthermore, they are not allowed to use anti-nuke walls or oceans on their raid box. Slabs are not allowed on raiding or side cannons. The punishment tree for this rule is as follows:
- 2 strike lasting 5 days
- 3 strikes lasting 7 days
- 4 strikes lasting 14 days
Raid Detector Bots
You may not have bot accounts constantly AFKing on walls, even if they have no raid detector function. The punishment tree for this rule is as follows:
- 2 strike lasting 5 days
- 3 strikes lasting 7 days
- 4 strikes lasting 14 days
Raid Interfering
When another faction is raiding you cannot hit them, block them, counter them, etc. Players involved may be banned. Shooting a faction while they are already being raided may also lead to strikes based on Team Factions' discretion. This rule does not apply to the raiding outpost since there are currently no raid timers for them. The punishment tree for this rule is as follows:
- 2 strike lasting 5 days + 2d IP-ban
- 3 strikes lasting 7 days + 7d IP-ban
- 4 strikes lasting 14 days + 14d IP-ban
Raiding Without Raid Claims
When attempting a faction's base you are required to use raid claims before and after building and shooting your cannon. The punishment tree for this rule is as follows:
- 2 strike lasting 5 days
- 3 strikes lasting 7 days
- 4 strikes lasting 14 days
Raiding While Being Raid Banned
Receiving strikes can and will result in your faction getting raid-banned, continuing to raid while having said raid-ban will result in every player involved getting banned. The punishment tree for this rule is as follows:
- 3-day IP-ban
- 7-day IP-ban
- 30-day IP-ban
- 90-day IP-ban
- Permanent IP-ban
Server Abuse
The rule includes, but is not limited to: Players crashing the server, duping, or abusing a severe bug. This rule is 100% based on Team Factions discretion and even if only one player from the faction breaks this rule, the whole faction may be punished. The punishment tree for this rule is as follows:
- 5 strike lasting 14 days
- 10 strikes lasting 50 days
Side Counter Rules
Side-counter claims cannot be bigger than 5x5 chunks. Counters in these claims can only have 12 walls defending them. The punishment tree for this rule is as follows:
- 2 strike lasting 5 days
- 3 strikes lasting 7 days
- 4 strikes lasting 14 days
Sharing Value
Sharing value that influences the position of the top 3 factions is not allowed and will be punished through a disqualification based on Team Factions' discretion. The punishment tree for this rule is as follows:
- 10 strikes lasting 50 days
Shooting Multiple Counters
You can only shoot one counter cannon at a raid box at a time. This includes buffer, side, and front counters. Players must wait 5 minutes before shooting from a different side. The punishment tree for this rule is as follows:
- 2 strike lasting 5 days
- 3 strikes lasting 7 days
- 4 strikes lasting 14 days
Strike Evasion
Disbanding, recreating or joining a new faction to evade strikes and compete in the Factions Top competition is not allowed. You are only allowed to create/join a new faction if the new faction is purely and only for PVP. The punishment tree for this rule is as follows:
- 10 strikes lasting 50 days
Under no circumstance will value be reimbursed in the case of an inside. This is because insiding is 100% preventable through faction permissions and proper account security - your account security is your responsibility. However, players who inside others will be punished with the following punishment tree:
- 90-day IP-ban
- Permanent IP-ban
No value will be refunded or rolled back in any case.
- If you are interested in knowing who from your faction broke a rule (and you are the faction's leader), make a support ticket HERE.
- Include /f show of the faction/player you are reporting in your faction report. Otherwise, your report might get denied.
- Not knowing the rules is considered ignorance on your part and you will suffer the consequences regardless.
- Breaking any of these rules after your Faction has already received 10 strikes will result in a ban equivalent to the strikes received (2 days per strike).
- The faction leader is responsible for the actions of their members. If one of them breaks the rules, the entire faction gets punished.
- You can report people who break these rules HERE with valid video evidence.
If you have any questions, please make a support ticket HERE.
This article was written by Stormidity.