OLC POLICY

If you choose to design an area and write it on AddictMUD, you must be made aware of a policy that will be strictly enforced.

1. Due to past problems with a lot of people starting projects and after building a room or 2, disappearing or just merely hanging around doing nothing, these guidelines were created. Brazil is the person currently with primary authority to assign a zone to someone wanting to build, and with the power to enforce these policies, or modify them as seen fit.
2. If you wish to build an area, you must go to the webpage and submit an application. (http://www.addictmud.org/olc). All fields in the application are mandatory. Do NOT mudmail anyone asking if your email was received, it is merely an annoyance, you will receive a response via email or mudmail when/if your proposal is accepted.

 3) Each project may be worked on by as many authors as the person who
   applied for the area wants to allow.  The person assigned the area will
   have full control over who is allowed to edit the area with the 
   "zallow" and "zdeny" commands.

 4) If a area goes unmodified for an "unreasonable amount of time", it will
   be removed from the active building port so that another builder may be
   given the spot.  If you are going to be absent for a while please 
   inform Nynaeve and the appropriate action will be taken.  If your zone 
   is removed from the active port, please contact Nynaeve because there 
   is a strong possibility we still have the zone.

 5) The AddictMUD implementation team reserves the right to use/not use any
   project created using OLC. Any changes made to the completed project
   before it is installed in the mortal world may be discussed with the
   primary author, if possible.

 6) A copy of the area files may be mailed to the original author only.
   What the author does with the area afterwards is none of our concern,
   it's your area.  The author must request this to be done, it will not 
   be done automatically.

 7) We will not trade or give away areas built with the OLC without
   permission from the author(s).  Please provide us with a current email
   address so that we may contact you if you leave AddictMUD for any
   reason.

 8) If we decide to use the area for the mud in general, once it is
   completed and installed in the mortal world, it will be considered the
   property of AddictMUD, and it's administration, and will not be removed
   unless the Implementation Team deems fit to do so.  If you leave an
   unfinished area, we reserve the right to do whatever we feel necessary
   to that area to finish it if we choose to do so.

 9) You will NOT necessarily be promoted or rewarded for creating an area 
   for AddictMUD.  It will, however, be considered when promotions are
   discussed.  

10) Since olc is done on another port, anyone should have access to all the
   commands necessary to load eq and create test characters to test the
   area.

This policy was designed to protect both the author's and the AddictMUD
Implementation Team's interests and is non-negotiable.  If any portion of 
this policy is objectionable to the perspective author, the only recourse 
he/she has is to not use OLC to design and build the area.