New MMOwned Handbook 2011

[Found]

Welcome everyone, to the new handbook. I noticed the old one was made in 2009 and I though it's time for an update for the handbook, to make it nicer and updated and hopefully improved. Although big props to Confucius on making the old one.


Please keep the comments constructive if it's criticism. I hope you all enjoy, if it sucks let me know and I'll delete it!!! Thanks!

So lets get started Shall we.

Table of Contents:

I. MMOwned General information
II. MMOwend Forum Sections
III. MMOwned Guide
IV. Homepage
V. MMOwned Rules
VI. Reputation
VII. Ranks
VIII. Staff Members and Ranks
IX. Conclusion

I. MMOwned General information

MMOwned was created by Matt. The site was made long ago and has grown over those great years. MMOwned is a free community for all people, those interested in pretty much anything. MMOwned was originally made for World of Warcraft Exploits, Hacks, Bots and Guides; and it has expanded into a network of multiple prosperous sites where you can hang out and chat with others who share your interests.

Everyone is welcome here at MMOwned as long as you follow the rules. And I can speak for all of us when I say, thank you to all of the people who work hard every day to keep this amazing website up and running for all of us.. We sincerely thank you. Keep up the good work!

II. MMOwned Forum Sections

There are many sections here for discussions to take place, there are places here for people of all interests. So please look though this and read the general information about these sections!

NEWS



Site News

In this section, you will find all announcements and news from the MMOwned staff and News Team. Here you can also read Game revies, interviews, and amazing stories by our incredible news team!

Suggestions

In this section you would post any suggestions you have for the website, if you think you have a way to make this community better.. you might as well post a suggestion in this section. Be aware there are many rules for this section MAKE SURE YOU READ ALL OF THEM!


Site Bugs

Have you found a bug on the website? if so you should definitely post it here, posting bugs not only helps the community, but it also helps the staff. So please do everyone a favor, and if you notice a bug POST IT IN HERE!

Shared

This section is for donators, contributors, elites, legendaries, the reason is motivation to contribute, and for the people who actually contribute to be able to talk to eachother. This is also a way to remove 'double posts' and 'leecher spam'.

Donator

This section is for Donators, Elites and Staff only. If you want access to everything good inside, you need to donate. In my honest opinion donating is very very good to do.. It helps MMOwned stay up and running!


Contributor

This section is for all contributors and above. Good things are posted here, very good reason to contribute to get access to it!

Elite

General Elite Private discussions. Non elites can post here, but you can NOT see other peoples posts.

Legendary

Legendaries forum; Non Legendaries can post here, but you can NOT see other peoples posts. This is the top ranking forum with the best releases and guides, to get access you must contribute all you can to reach the legendary rep value, which you will learn later!

World of Warcraft



The world of warcraft category is for everything WoW related.

Emulator Servers

This is for EVERYTHING emu related, or as a better wording private server related.

Subsections:

Emulator Server Discussion

This is a place where people can talk about World of Warcraft Emulation, it's current state, and off-topic chat about it. It has two sub forums, Requests where people can request something made for them or their server, and Emulator Questions where members can ask questions about Emulation and get help from experts.

Emulator Server Releases

In this part of MMOwned members release things they have made for emulation. This includes new bosses, cool scripts, custom repacks, and pretty much everything you can imagine.

Emulator Server Guides

This is the part of MMOwned where you can learn how to make your own World of Warcraft server and how to script on it too! There are two sub forums based on the popular emulators used.

Programs

Here is where people release handy tools they've made for emulation. These tools can be used to make managing a server easier or making new things faster.

WoW Emulator Servers

Here people can advertise new server's they've made.

Emulator Server Exploits/Bugs

This section is much like the WoW Exploits section except for Emulation. These exploits tend to last much longer and give you a lot bigger advantages.

Developers

Private section for people in the "emulator experts" groups.

WoW General

Here members talk about WoW in general and also ask questions about it.

Items & Quests Discussions

Here people talk about World of Warcraft Items and Quests, question can be asked here too.

PvP & Battlegrounds

Here members discuss the WoW battlegrounds and share strategies, questions may also be asked here.

Instances & Raiding

Here people talk about raiding and instancing, you can also ask any questions here.

UI & Macro Discussions

Here users can show off their UI and share Macros, questions may also be asked here.

Talent Specs

People talk about their talent specs here and ask questions about them as well.

Exploits


This part of MMOwned is one of the most popular, fellow members post exploits they have discovered in the game to give you an edge. The down part is these exploits are usually fixed pretty fast because blizzard watches this forum. The good thing is there's a special section you can get access to by donating, Elite WoW Exploits, all the good exploits are moved here so they will last longer



Other MMO's



These are sections for other MMO's and I dont have too much to say about them, they're pretty self explanitory.

MMOwned Trading Market



World of Warcraft Buy Sell Trade

World of Warcraft gold, accounts, powerleveling and cdkeys to buy, sell and trade. ALWAYS USE SAFE TRADING PRACTICES.

General MMO Buy Sell Trade

World of Warcraft gold, accounts, powerleveling and cdkeys to buy, sell and trade. ALWAYS USE SAFE TRADING PRACTICES.

General Buy Sell Trade

General Non-MMO buy sell and trade. ALWAYS USE SAFE TRADING PRACTICES.

Members Only Accounts And CD Keys Buy Sell

Members only can post game account and cd-key sales.

Members Only Gold And Powerleveling Buy Sell

Members only post gold and powerleveling sales.

General



Off-Topic

All off-topic discussions go here.

The Back Room

All bets are off. Post what you want, how you want. Racism, sexism, and other derogatory things will not be tolerated. Post count is disabled in this forum

Gaming Chat

Discuss games not covered here in this forum.


Graphics

Post your art, media and graphic tutorials here.

Programming

Discuss all your programming needs here.


Starcraft 2

Starcraft 2 guides, exploits, strategies and discussions.


Call of Duty

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, COD4 glitches, hacks, cheats, bots, maps, exploits and general discussions.


Who's online



This is who's online!

III. MMOwned Guide

Ok, there are several things one needs to know in order to get anywhere here on MMOwned.

Lets start on how to post

To make a new post go to the post, and hit 'Quick Reply' or 'Advanced Reply'..
To make a new thread go to any category, and click New Post. And there you can do this!



Now lets move on to how to shout.





SHOUTBAWX INFO:

Rep needed: 40
Post needed: -

How to pm: /pm uname "Aldun" hi [[include the "s!]]
How to edit a shout: doubleclick it or click the 'V' next to your name.
How to delete a shout: click on the 'V' next to your name.
The rules can be found here
Additional info can be found here
The archives can be found here
A bigger shoutbawx can be found here


Make sure you follow the Shoutbawx Rules


1. Hating/Flaming

1. DO NOT flame someone for breaking the rules. Instead, tell them the rule they broke and point them to the rulebook.

2. Spamming

1. DO NOT shout more than 4 times in a row.

2. DO NOT spam, its annoying for one message to be split into multiple lines, instead put it into a single well-thought sentence.

3. DO NOT spam /me.

4. DO NOT spam 4chan stuff like "Shoop Da Woop" or "mudkipz".

3. Editing

1. DO NOT edit your shout to make it look as if someone said something they didn't.

2. DO realize that you can edit a shout by double-clicking it, rather than posting a new shout.

4. Shouting

1. DO NOT use different fontsizes, underline, hard to read colors (blue,black,etc) or anything else that would make your shout un-readable!

2. DO think before you shout.

3. DO think of other's feelings.

4. DO remember you aren't the only one in the bawx, think before you shout, use common sense.

5. Linking

1. DO NOT link to shock sites (IE: 2Girls1Cup, Meatspin, etc.)

2. DO NOT link your own thread, unless it can help solve a question in the bawx.

3. DO NOT link pornographic material, jailbait, loli, or anything else deemed inappropriate by a staff member (IV-Shouting, Rule 4)

6. Other Members

1. DO NOT release personal information about other members(MMOwned Member or not).

2. DO NOT ask why another member is banned.

3. DO NOT accuse others of having scammed MMOwned members in the bawx. PM a staff member about it instead, but if there is no trade thread then don't bother.

4. DO NOT annoy any member of the staff.

7. Discussion

1. DO NOT Rick Roll!

2. DO NOT use other languages, real or game-oriented, in the Bawx. Not everybody can understand it / wants to use your translator.

3. DO NOT let Drug discussions get out of hand.

4. DO NOT let Sexual discussions get out of hand.

5. DO NOT beg for reputation in the bawx, or say something along the lines of "I only need 10 rep for contributor rank!".

8. Trading/Begging

1. DO NOT Trade/Buy/Sell in the Bawx in the ShoutBawx, take it to the Trading Section/PMs/MSN.*

9. Moderation

1. DO NOT Question actions taken by moderators (If you have any question/issues, PM a Mod / Super Mod / Admin - Don't bring it up in front of everyone).

2. DO NOT Question one's integrity as a moderator. People who become moderator have been picked carefully and are able to do their jobs properly. If you disagree contact an admin.


3. If your name is not Cyan, Green, or Red, YOU ARE NOT A MODERATOR.
4. Not everyone receives the same punishment. Each staff member and day can be different.

5. Staff have priveledges - meaning they can break the rules. Just because a staffmember breaks a rule - doesn't mean that you can do it.

6. DO NOT bother complaining, just accept that you broke a rule and were punished for it.

How to report a post



Click the report button and you get a box, saying... Message:

Type the message here.

Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising messages, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts.

How to add reputation




You can add as much rep as you want, if you're a legendary or above you can -Rep

How to send a PM

IV. Home Page

Here at the home page you can read all of the news articles, see all of the latest forum posts, and the latest blogs created by the members of MMOwned.

This is the place for all news, and contests to be seen.

V. MMOwned Rules

Rules

* No bad/inappropriate Language.

* No Repping people so they can reach a certain rank "Go contrib"

* No Repping people on their birthday

* Do not try to hide your language either by switching letters, etc.

* No 4chan stuff, like mudkips/shoop da whoop.

* No catpics, dogpics, spampics (etc lolcats), failpics, facepalm.

* No Racism

* No Insulting Other Member(s)

* Any insults from gender to race are not tolerated.

* No Asking for Reputation

* No Trolling(Starting Fights/Useless Comments/Flaming.

* No Spam or Advertisements of any kind.

* It's the moderators judgment if he/she thinks it's spam/advertisement or not.

* No Doubleposting

* No Warez/cracks

* No no posting illegal stuff like stolen paypals, stolen itunes acts, stolen email accounts and passwords or anything like this.

* No Bumping/NecroPosting.

* Don't bump a thread to get more view/replies and don't reply in an old thread.

* No Reposting.

* Please search before you post anything.

* No Questions/Requests In Wrong Forum.

* If the forum does not allow questions/requests, do not post them.

* No Bad Signature Content.

* Do not use your signature to insult member(s) or link bad content.

* Use Proper Thread Titles.

* No referral links.

* No m y b r u t e crap!


Specific Section Rules


MODEL EDITING
Tag your thread
Post your race to race requests in 'Model Editing Questions & Requests' -section's sticky only
EXPLORATION
Rules and guidelines for exploration section (Exploration Rules and Guidelines!)

Tag your thread ([TAG] your thread in this forum or it will be deleted)
Emulator Server Discussion
Tagging your thread (Tags)

If you see a question in a wrong section, do not reply with "NO QUESTIONS HERE" or anything. At the end of the day, you are not a mod. What you can - and should - do is report the thread..


Do not question actions taken by the mods


Infractions and Infraction Points

When you break the rules in a post or thread, there is a likely chance of you receiving an infraction from a Moderator as punishment.

If you receive 3 separate infractions (On separate occasions), you will automatically be given a 2 day ban from the forums.

If you receive 12 Infraction POINTS (Each separate infraction can give a number of infraction points, decided by the Moderator depending on how bad the offense was) the result is a permanent ban from MMOwned.

Expired Infractions:

Every infraction you receive will expire within a set amount of time. When an infraction you've received expires, it will still be displayed on your profile as it had before, but it will say 'Expired' and will no longer count towards the 12 Infraction points.

Though expired infractions don't count point-wise, they still count infraction-wise, so it still counts towards the 2 day ban. Expired infractions are kept on your profile because they allow Moderators to see what sort of trouble you may have been up to in the past if needed, and so that even waiting a bit after getting in trouble won't save you from a suspension.

VI. Reputation

Reputation is the reward system of MMOwned and is a big thing here, the more rep you get the more sections you get access to. Here is how the system works:

Rep Power

Rep power is how much rep you can give to others, giving rep does not take away from your own, you can only give a certain amount of rep per day.

You must have 5 posts or above before your reputation is added to others.

You gain 1 rep power for every 365 days that you have been a member of MMOwned.

You gain 1 rep power for every 2000 posts you have written on MMOwned.

You gain 1 rep power for every 150 rep you have on MMOwned.

Regular members on MMOwned cannot rep any higher than 5.


Usergroup ranks on MMOwned

New User
This is the default rank you will start out with upon joining MMOwned. You will not leave this rank until you have at least 5 Reputation points or above.

Lazy Leecher

You get this rank if you have been on MMOwned for a while and not received 5 rep yet.


Active Member

This rank is acheived by getting 5+ Reputation points.

Donator

This rank is acheived by donating at least $15.00 to MMOwned

Contributor (80 - 324 reputation)

This usergroup rank is achieved by gaining 80 reputation points or above.
Members of this usergroup have access to two new sections of MMOwned, the contributor discussions area and the shared lounge, where donators also have access.

Contributors also gain access to the shoutbawx.

Elite (325 - 599 reputation)

This usergroup rank is achieved by gaining 325 reputation points or above.
Members of this usergroup can change their user title to what they want and have access to a section of the website for elite members, and above, only.

Emulation Expert

This is a private group which you must apply for

Legendary (600 reputaiton or above)

This usergroup rank is achieved by gaining 600 reputation points or above.
Legendaries also get the privilege of being able to give other users negative reputation points.

Newsteam

These are the news people of MMOwned hand picked by the staff, they write reviews on recent games and other news for MMOwned.

Moderators

A moderator gets the privilege of helping clean up MMOwned, the Moderators are assigned to their individual parts of the forum.

The moderators are handpicked by the administrators of MMOwned, asking to be a mod will not help increasing your chances for being a mod, but decreasing it instead, meaning DO NOT ask to be a mod.

Super Moderators

Supermoderators are moderators who have moved up in grades and therefore received more powers and responsibility. They have more powers than the average moderator and can moderate every section.

Administrator

Adminstrators are a very select few that are in charge of keeping MMOwned up and running as well as making sure that everything is going smoothly and that people are enjoying their stay.
They are in charge of different things between each of them such as donations, keeping the site running, username changes and other major changes unable to be done by the rest of the staff team.

MMOwned Developer

These members of the staff our MMOwned's web developers.

Ranks

Ranks are based on post, the rank name is featured under your name in the postbit.

VIII. Staff Members and Ranks

Administrators


KuRIoS

Ket

Zab

Developers


Apoc


Super Moderators

Xel

Parog

Errage

Moderators

2dgreengiant

EventHorizon

Reflection

UnholyShaman

stoneharry

Glynbeard

Jchunx

maclone

Merfed

Zoidberg


News Team

Jackie Moon

Confucius

JD

Dr. Doom

sT@N

aphel

Facerolling



MMOwned Helpers

Tobii

Ground Zero

Jackie Moon

Fault

Dark_Angel

IX. Conclusion

Ok guys, this is all I have for now, and as updates happen.. I will update this post.

I hope everyone enjoyed the new handbook... and I do hope it helped at least someone. Thanks all for reading

------ Credits -------


MMOwned Staff
MMOwned Members
Confucius
Jchunx
KuRIoS
2dgreengiant
Ket
Trollin
Terrorblade
Forsak3n
SpellEffects
Aldun
And of course;

Most of this was all from you being in the guide somehow.. thanks for reading and MEGA CREDITS TO CONFUCIUS.

More, sorry if it looks a little messy, it's going to get better as soon as I am awake :P

[Remus3]

Looks good, great job.

[Harambeqt]

wow... +r =)

[SpellEffects]

Xel is a webdev aswell, I think you forgot about him.

[eSko]

Looks awful (too many colors), but nevertheless, great to have updated handbook
Maybe you should add to the reputation part the fact, that because of the new +rep plugin, max rep power of regular member is limited to +5.

+rep for your work

[Found]

Looks awful (too many colors), but nevertheless, great to have updated handbook
Maybe you should add to the reputation part the fact, that because of the new +rep plugin, max rep power of regular member is limited to +5.

+rep for your work

Thanks for the tip.. I might work on the colors a little.. The reason it's colorful is to orient what category it's under.. I will improve on it.. Just need more ideas. Thank you eSko.

Thanks everyone else

---------- Post added at 09:51 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:14 AM ----------

Fixed up the colors, hope you all like it a bit better

[Terrorblade]

You forgot the Developers section in emulation.

[Confucius]

Horay it needed updating and you did a great job!

[Found]

Thank you. I added some new things to it.. fixed the colors up even more.

[eSko]

fixed the colors up even more.

looks great
it doesn't hurt my eyes anymore...

[Terrorblade]

You forgot to put that emulation questions/requests need to have a prefix.

[Found]

I stated previously that everything should have a prefix.

Thanks eSko, happy it looks better

[Found]

Added some more in the emu section and fixed some staff members

[KuRIoS]

Help for MMOwned
Help:MMOwned - MMOwned Wiki

Would be great if you could zip the pictures needed (ones that are missing) to me.. Please name them exactly the same as the names there ... ReplyToThread.png and such
Help:MMOwned:Forum Usability - MMOwned Wiki

[KuRIoS]

Xel is a webdev aswell, I think you forgot about him.

But he is not visible as a webdev - so shouldnt be there as one.
also edited some of the staff list and such.. No reason why ppl should message members that wont reply