Offense Categories
NAP 9 classifies behavior into Minor, Moderate, and Severe tiers to keep penalties predictable. Escalation rules apply across tiers.
🟨 Minor Offenses​
Low-impact, accidental, or isolated violations with minimal loss.
Examples
- Accidental tile/base contact
- Mild chat or diplomacy delay
- Minor disruption to rotation handoff (non-malicious)
Required Evidence
- Timestamped screenshot/video
- ≤3 sentence description
- Damage summary (if any)
- Diplomacy context when relevant
Standard Penalties
- Logged warning + restitution
- 24–48h Probation (no non-capitol PvP; violation auto-escalates to Moderate)
Mitigating: apology, self-reporting, clean 30-day history.
Aggravating: repeated minor behavior, non-response, casual negligence.
🟧 Moderate Offenses​
Meaningful disruption, repeated violations, or harmful actions without clear malice.
Examples
- Repeated task/truck plundering
- Aggressive tile hits without tag drop
- Pattern of diplomacy refusal
- Obstructing L6 temporary drops
- Violating Minor probation
Required Evidence
- Timestamps and pattern demonstration
- Diplomacy attempts (required)
- Damage/loss summary
- Clerk case validation
Standard Penalties
- Mandatory restitution
- 48–72h Combat Restriction (no offensive PvP outside Capitol)
- Temporary rotation suspension (player or alliance)
- Moderate Watchlist for 14 days
Mitigating: rapid restitution, full cooperation.
Aggravating: repeat within 30 days, multi-player involvement, defiance of instructions.
🟥 Severe Offenses​
High intent, high impact, coordinated aggression, destabilization, or evasion.
Examples
- Coordinated attacks on NAP alliances
- L6 land theft or obstruction
- Cross-server collusion against 1866
- Targeted harassment
- Penalty evasion (ban dodging, tag hopping)
- Evidence tampering
- Harboring a banned/blacklisted player after official notice (not removed within 4 hours)
- Repeated Moderate offenses
Required Evidence
- Verified timestamps (multi-source when possible)
- Diplomacy logs
- Impact statement
- Clerk validation
Penalties (Simple Majority: ≥5 YES)
- 72h serverwide ban (untagged)
- 7-day ban from all alliances
- Restitution and Severe review record
Penalties (Supermajority: ≥7 YES)
- Permanent blacklist
- Alliance sanctions: rotation removal, temporary expulsion/demotion to Associate, suspension of protections
- Permanent alliance expulsion or KOS designation
Notes on Penalties​
- Council may adjust within the tier if evidence shows strong mitigation or aggravation.
- Appeals are only available for penalties longer than 48 hours; see Appeals section.***