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  1. Good Manners

    Politeness, respect and a bit of broad-mindedness (even if somebody breaks the rules!).

    1. No provocations.

    2. No offenses.

    3. No posts with negative impact on the climate in our forum.

    4. Tolerance also means not to always start an argument just because someone has broken the rules.

    5. Every individual is only permitted to use one account in this forum, except as otherwise agreed. Membership on this forum is non-binding and free of charge. It is not permitted to pass account data to a third party. (very heavy)

      Please mind the special handling in the warning system!

    6. No advertisings or discussions for/about competition products (heavy)

      Our forum is not neutral at all, so these discussions would not match here. Please use other neutral plattforms for such discussions.

    7. Criticism has to be passed constructive.

      Other criticism does not make sense and will be deleted if neccessary.

  2. Moderation

    The moderators ensure proper conduct on this forum and support the administrators.

    1. The moderators are entitled to edit, close, move and delete posts and threads to keep things in order. Furthermore, they are authorised to warn users who violate the terms of use.

    2. If a user repeatedly violates the terms of use, the administrators are authorized to temporarily or permanently ban the user from this forum.

    3. Instructions given by moderators are to be obeyed. Complaints and crisitism need to be addressed personally to the moderator in question or to the administrators, as necessary. (heavy)

      Criticising the moderators or administrators in public often leads to emotionally heated off-topic debates and should therefore be avoided.

    4. The alerting system allows to easily report rule breaking. False alarm is prohibited!

    5. Warning System: In case of violating these terms of use, the moderators may declare a warning with a fixed score. In case of overspending a fixed limit of the score sum, sanctions will be activated automatically.

      The warnings and their scores will decline after a specified time. We differ between "light" and "heavy" violations. Heavy violations are marked in the rules. This is the base for our warning system:

      Level 0 - 0 points ("symbolic warning") and deletion of post: Not used template (regards show room, addon and screenshot forum).
      Level 1 - 1 point: Light violations with leniency, e.g. if a newbie asks euphoric for a release date or does not use the thankomat but posts very short "thankyou" posts.
      Level 2 - 10 points: Light violations commited repeatedly or in knowledge of the rule or heavy violations with leniency (newbies who obviously do not know the rule)
      Level 3 - 30 points: Heavy violations commited repeatedly or with knowledge of the rule; or normally as light classified violations with special severity or with obviously intentional background
      Level 4 - 60 points: Double accounts warning for the older account. The newer account will be blocked completely.

  3. Communication skills

    The moderators are entitled to remove posts and threads without comment, if the following rules are violated!

    1. Use the search function (SF or SuFu in German)! Please verify prior to opening a new thread, if the topic has already been covered.

    2. Off-topic posts (OT) should be generally avoided.

    3. Please use the thank-o-mat, unsubstantial posts without any merit are to be avoided.

      E. g. posts like "Thanks!", "Cool!", "Me too" or "hahaha funny!!!11"

    4. Digging old threads up should be avoided unless you have something essential or new to add.

    5. Don't try to be deputy sheriff! Only the official moderators are allowed to punish rule-breakers. As necessary, please use the alerting system.

      If there are simple rule violations, please do not send PNs to moderators or administrators! The alerting system is much more flexible and better for that!

    6. Questions about the release date or the current project state are generally regarded as annoying and shall therefore be avoided.

      If the developer does not give any information, he/she is probably not able to provide it.

    7. If a project presentation lacks both screenshots and concept, our moderators reserve the right do remove the thread.

    8. Please post wishes for addons only in the "Addon Wishes" section and offer contribution, if possible.

      If you'd like so see a certain map, building or vehicle in OMSI that does not exist yet, we ask you to post that wish in the corresponding section "Addon Wishes" only. Furthermore, the initiator should provide some documents (e.g. photos) or offer his/her contribution (for larger projects).

    9. Absolutely no advertisings (heavy) and no spam

      You will find link lists in our OT section; if you would like to see your link there, please post it in that section. Every other advertisings are prohibited.

  4. Formalities

    1. Thread titles and posts must not be highlighted by colors or any other way (bold, italic, underlined, font size, font type).

      It is of course allowed to highlight single words or phrases. But on the whole, posts should be formatted in a neutral way. Instructions or comments written by moderators are coloured in blue.

    2. Some sub forums have special formal rules. Please adhere to them!

      Please mind particularly the resolution and format of pictures or the minimum information you have to give if your e.g. post a screenshot or present a new project.

    3. Signatures may have up to 5 lines. Links, formattings and Images are not allowed (codes are deactivated).

    4. You must respect the copyright of all pictures and images used in your posts and of all downloads you would like to present. (heavy)

      In particular, you must not embed pictures without permission of the copyright owner.

    5. The rules of orthography, grammar, punctuation and syntax are also valid in this forum.

      Of course we make allowances for non-native speakers.

    6. We ask you to take care in writing posts!

      This also means to clearly structure your text and re-read it prior to posting.

    7. Double and multiple posts (several postings by one user directly following each other) within one day are to be avoided.

      Please use the edit function instead.

    8. No posts with youth endangering contents or about media with an age rating above 12. (heavy)

      Please mind that we have very young visitors and there are no age limitations in this forum.

    9. Writing Acces will be allowed not until two days after fully registration!

      The time between should be used for orientation in the forum. Perhaps your question(s) can be answered already with the FAQs or the search function?

    10. In some sub forums, threads and posts have to be activated by moderators.

      If you post there please mind: Before someone activates a thread or post, it will not be visible! Please do not write it again at once and please do not push us via PN!

      * Showroom and addons: Threads have to be activated
      * Official Announcements: Posts have to be actived (threads cannot be created at all)

  5. Account

    1. The deletion of the user account will be done exclusively by Marcel Kuhnt

      Please write a PN!

    2. Renamings will be done only in exceptional cases and can only be done by administrators

      Choose a good nick name, don't use first and last name and stand by the things you've written! Then there is no need to change your nick name. We just would like to have transparency, everybody should understand, who is who. So we will do renamings only in well-founded exceptional cases and if it is possilbe to see well the connection between old and new name.