rules of engagement - roe

Territory Takeovers
 
Only alliances actively enrolled in a takeover for a territory may partake. People are forbidden to jump to respective alliances to help in takeovers (during and prior)
The player must be in respective alliance for 7 days before they can partake.
During incursion events, it is not allowed to contest any takeover in a system that is already owned by an alliance.


Default Mining rules: (1/3)

NLNS applies to survey ships on a mining node
No warning time required before attacking an OPC mining ship.
Mining ships can be attacked on a node without loot if they are no longer actively mining (i.e., the node is zero or the mining ships’ cargo is full.)
Specialist ships are only protected on their respective nodes (D'Vor on Latinum, Discovery on Mycellium, Botany Bay on Data, Meridian on Isogen, Feesha on Concentrated Latinum, Voyager on Anomaly Samples etc.) any other miner on specialist nodes is free to clear without warning if no free mines.
Evidence that an attack is compliant to RoE must be provided upon request.

Default Mining rules: (2/3)

G4 and C-Lat in Warp 56+:
NLNS: Applies
Warning time: None -- Zero mine

Default Mining rules: (3/3)

G5 in Warp 185+:
NLNS: Applies
Warning time: 10 minutes -- Zero Mine
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G4 ship requirements
Protected ship:
A single Nova, G5, G4 faction miner, T8 horizon or G3 faction miner level 20 and above per player per system as long as:
The miner mentioned above must be crewed with a mining officer that is actively boosting the speed of the resource being mined, whereas the below deck abilities does not count per the crew requirements.
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G5 ship requirements
Protected ship:
A single Nova, G5, G4 faction miner or a G3 faction miner level 40 and above per player per system as long as:
The miner mentioned above must be crewed with a mining officer that is actively boosting the speed of the resource being mined, whereas the below deck abilities does not count per the crew requirements.
For G4 and G5 nodes:
One miner per system per person in case there are no free mines

G6 ship requirements
protected ship:
A single selkie or G6 faction miner per player per system

Token systems:
Protected ship:
A single D'Vor on latinum node per player per system.
A single horizon, faction miner or Nova on a non-latinum node per player per system.
NLNS: Does not apply, overflow is protected while actively mining.
Warning time: 10 minutes -- Zero Mine / Full cargo

Open space hits ok. The following exceptions are protected:

Open space hits ok. The following exceptions are protected:

All ships in Xindi space
All ships in Freebooter space
All ships in Gorn space
Vidar/talios in Borg space
Franklin in Swarm space
Stella in Exchange space
Mantis in actian space
Monaveen in Monaveen space
Etc... (For example other ships with token systems)

Rules for Armadas and damaged armadas

All Solo and Group armada participants are protected from being shot and/or debuffed.
Launching an already set armada and then speeding up the countdown timer to kill it before the alliance whom was first to set the armada, is considered as stealing and is not allowed.
Damaged Armadas anywhere (that your alliance did not fail): A minimum of 5 min wait time from when the damaged armada was found.