CODE OF CONDUCT
S E C T I O N S
Section 1: In-agency Rules and Regulations
All General Rules and Regulations are applicable to all members of all ranks, alliance members and VIPs of the FIB unless stated.
- Be Respectful to all individulas correlated to the Federal Investigation Bureau Community, regardless of their gender, beliefs, race, rank or sexuality.
- Speak English at most times. F.I.B recognizes English as the universal language. You may speak in another language for a maximum of three (3) consecutive bubbles. Doing more than what is allowed will result in disciplinary action. It will be considered consecutive as long as the last bubble spoken in another language is still seen on the Habboon screen.
- Avoid the usage of consecutive capital letters. Abbreviatons are considered. You are allowed a maximum of three (3) consecutive bubbles of all capital letters. Doing more than what is allowed will result in disciplinary action. It will be considered consecutive as long as the last bubble spoken in another language is still seen on the Habboon screen.
- Do not spam and/or flood the agency headquarters, portal or Discord. You are also not allowed to spam any members of the F.I.B Community in other affiliated locations. Doing so will result in disciplinary action.
- Any type of enable, transform, dance or jump command is not allowed in any part of the F.I.B premises unless freetime is announced by one of the foundation members. You will be given three (3) warnings before it will result in disciplinary action.
- Asking or hinting for pay or promotion is not encouraged and will result in disciplinary action when done repeatedly.
- Asking for codes, badge rights, web rights, room rights, portal rights or discord rights is allowed only if the user has reached the specific rank that requires these rights, e.g. an 1iC requires room rights.
- Double jobbing is prohibited. This is defines as having two accounts working in F.I.B or another agency while denying the second account as your own. All workers are not allowed to have another account that is active within F.I.B unless registered to the official ALT group. However, you may not fill stations on both accounts at the same time.
- Coloured chat and text is prohibited in base unless you are hosting a base event, commanding AOD, giving an announcement, or in the event of a freetime.
- Do not abuse your powers or privileges as a higher ranking officer. Using your rank, position or status to favour or go against another individual is stricly prohibited.
- Being away from your keyboard and/or idling is not allowed on any workstation or in the hallways with the exception of the FTB area. Failure to do so is subject to disciplinary action.
- Do not troll, scam, raid or degrade others or be affiliated with such actions towards individuals or other agencies including F.I.B.
- The use of ethnic slurs will be subject to disciplinary action, expecially when there is an intent to offend the other party.
- Indicidual(s) with inappropriate usernames that may be considered as racist, sexually explicit and/or targeted harassment towards another user will not be hired. This includes names that contain website ads. Should they be recruited, the firing of such individuals will be immediate.
- The discussion of sexual acts publicicly in any communication network, program, software or website associated with the Federal Investigation Bureau is prohibited.
- Sexually explicit outfits are prohibited within F.I.B premises. This includes using Habboon's clothes to make a user look naked.
- Purposely committing crimes on the Code of Conduct after receiving a verbal warning will result in a harsher disciplinary action. This will be considered as trolling within the agency, and is applied to all F.I.B premises.
- You are not permitted to advertise F.I.B in premises of other agencies, militaries or similar organizations. Advertising/recruiting members for F.I.B is only encouraged in rooms that are not owned by an agency or a military organization, such as public rooms, e.g. The Habboon Hub.
- Abusing the rules in a manner that evades the warnings will not be tolerated. This includes, but is not limited to, turning on coloured chat for one bubble then disabling it before any warning repeatedly and intentionally idling at a station.
- Negligence to one's orders will not be tolerated. This includes, but is not limited to, deliberately disobeying the rules because of their rank, refusing to command ATT when being told to, and not listening to other individuals who instruct you to do what you are doing otherwise.
Failure to abide in any of these rules and regulations will result in punishment via Section 7 (Consequences for Violations) of the CoC and/or termination from the agency depending on the severity.
Section 2: Commands
The following are the commands that are to be used in the HQ.
- Any individual who is eligible to perform these commands may only use them on another agent and/or indicidual who is one division lower than them, excluding Disciplinary Team members who may command members above their rank.
- Failure to follow any of the commands in this section of the Code of Conduct is considered to be a violation of that law and a violation of the Code of Conduct.
- When commanded to ATT (Attention), stand in front of the commander, wave and say "Yes sir/ma'am!"
- When commanded to AE (At Ease), return to the station you were previously filling before being commanded to ATT, AOD or FTB.
- When commanded to FTF (Fill The Front), sit at the front desks of the base and recruit people to work for F.I.B, or let existing members, VIPs and allies in.
- When commanded to FTS (Fill The Security), sit in security to control the gates and handle who enters ANY parts of the base (training area or headquarters)
- When commanded to FTT (Fill The Training), train the recruits who wish to join F.I.B.
- For people who need to be right back or are waiting for a working station to become available, a worker may choose to FTF (Fill The Back)
- When commaned to FTTD (Fill The Transfer Desk), a 2iC+ member must transfer members from other agencies to F.I.B.
- When commanded to AOD (Attention On Deck), everyone at any workstations (FTF, FTS, FTT, FTTD) will stand, wave and say "Yes sir/ma'am!"
- When commanded to CTH (Clear The Hallway), fill any available workstation(s) or FTB to clear the paths of the headquarters. It must be commanded when there are people who are idling in the hallway or if there are more than five (5) people in the hallway. To idle in the hallway includes the seat next to the station.
- When commanded to BTB (Back To Base), return to headquarters and resume normal duties. This command is normally used after meetings or major F.I.B events.
Section 3: Rank Requirements
The Rank Requirements cover the following: the High Ranks Division, Trial iC Division, the 1iC Division and the Sponsors.
Section 3H. High Ranks
Section 3T. Trial iC+
Section 3F. 1iC+
Section 3S. Sponsors
- High Ranks Division
- Trial iC+ Division
- 1iC+ Division
- Sponsors
Section 3H. High Ranks
- You are expected to have a discord and portal account as you enter this division with the same name, nickname, or username as your Habboon user
- All promotions, training, and infractions must be logged immediately; if not immediately, as soon as possible. Failure to log will result in disciplinary action.
- Exclusive units, except Awards Committee and Financial Unit, are available for application as a member of the High Ranks. You may only join two units at a time. With permission from Foundation, you may join a third unit. It must be noted that an individual cannot be a member of the Disciplinary Team and Legal Affairs concurrently.
Section 3T. Trial iC+
- Time that an individual has given towards a direct benefit of the Federal Investigation Bureau will be considered work hours (e.g Exclusive Unit work, FTF, FTS FTT)
- Rank Retainment deliberation is when 1iC+ will consider the possibility of an individual retaining their rank.
- Promotion deliberation is when 1iC+ will consider the possibility of an individual being promoted.
- Demotion deliberation is when 1iC+ will consider the possibility of an individual being demoted.
- Any individual pertaining to the Trial iC+ division of the Federal Investigation Bureau who has logged at least 14 hours of work over the course of five (5) days every week has right to a deliberation of rank retention.
- Any individual pertaining to the Trial iC+ Division of the Federal Investigation Bureau who has logged at least 14 hours of work over the course of five (5) days every week has right to a promotion deliberation.
- A Leave of Absence must be filed if an iC member is unavailable to attend to their work hours for a period of 2 or more days.
Section 3F. 1iC+
- The abuse of badge, room, portal, and discord rights to benefit oneself is strictly prohibited and will result in a Demotion or a Kick-on-Sight in accordance with the severity.
- Portal and Discord must be checked upon regularly for updates within base.
- 1iC+ members may choose whether to get a 30% share from their sales as a Financial Unit member.
- Weekly reports must be done based on the iC division assigned to them and submitted to one of the respective foundation members by every Sunday.
- Each 1iC member is expected to lead an exclusive unit. This may be of their choice or whichever unit does not have a unit head at the time of their promotion to 1iC.
- Each Foundation member is expected to oversee an exclusive unit, where the exclusive units will be divided equally amongst the number of Foundation members. They may speak with one another to request for help or if they decide to switch units within reasonable measures
Section 3S. Sponsors
- Sponsors are required to follow and adhere to the Federal Investigation Bureau’s Code of Conduct.
- Any individual who has proof and/or has witnesses that they have donated an amount of at least 40,000 Habboon credits or 3 in Throne Rares have a right to enter the headquarters through security and access to the FIB Discord server with a Bronze Sponsor role.
- Any individual who has proof and/or has witnesses that they have donated an amount of at least 85,000 Habboon credits or 6 in Throne Rares have a right to enter the headquarters through security or a security gate bypass and access to the FIB Discord server with a Silver Sponsor role.
- Any individual who has proof and/or has witnesses that they have donated an amount of at least 140,000 Habboon credits or 9 in Throne Rares have a right to enter the headquarters through security or a security gate bypass and access to the Training and Security areas as well as the FIB Discord server with a Gold Sponsor role.
- Any individual who has proof and/or has witnesses that they have donated an amount of at least 195,000 Habboon credits or 12 in Throne Rares have a right to enter the headquarters through security or a security gate bypass and access to the Training and Security areas as well as the FIB Discord server with a Platinum Sponsor role and are able to attend FIB official meetings.
- If a Sponsor repeatedly breaks the rules, they will be subjected to Sponsor Strikes. After their third strike, their Sponsor status is revoked, and the Sponsor cannot repurchase their status without filing an appeal with Legal Affairs. It must also be noted that other people cannot rebuy a Sponsor status for someone whose Sponsor status was originally revoked.
Section 4: Master policies
The Master Policies cover the following:
Section 4P. Promotions
Section 4L. Promotion Lines
Section 4T. Training
Section 4D. Disciplinary
Section 4C. Court
Contempt of the Court, otherwise known as “Contempt”, is an offense that happens inside or during the meeting in a type of disregarding the policy and authority of the court. The following form of disrespectful or opposing actions against the court in session will be punished through court disciplinary system:
Section 4R. Rank Transfer
Section 4A. Alliances
- Promotions
- Promotion Lines
- Training
- Disciplinary
- Court
- Rank Transfer
- Alliances
Section 4P. Promotions
- Promotions are given to hard working individuals who meet the promotion criteria by filling stations, training, and promoting other hard working individuals in base.
- Promotions are to be given to workers who are ranked a division lower than the promoter. Promoters cannot promote an employee who is in the same division as themselves.
- If the employee being promoted is a member of the Agent, Security, and Training Division, the promoter and the employee must be online for twenty (20) minutes.
- If the employee being promoted is a member of the Junior Division and above, the promoter and the employee must be online for thirty (30) minutes.
- The employee must be active within base and at a workstation at the time of the promotion.
- All promotions must be logged on the official F.I.B portal.
- It is your responsibility to train after promoting someone to a rank which requires training. If you find yourself in a situation where you must go offline after logging, it is encouraged that you let someone else promote and train the worker so that you are not stealing a log from another high rank.
- If there are no badge admins available in base, request a badge admin to accept it whenever they get online on the official F.I.B Discord.
- If you were to disconnect from Habboon, make sure to have at least three (3) witnesses or screenshots provided on Discord channel "disconnections" to validate your online time. The screenshots must include your last login time before the disconnection and an open clock.
- Repeat promotion is allowed. This means that you can promote a worker who already has your promotion tag in their motto. However, you must wait an additional ten (10) minutes with regard to the promotion requirement.
- Double promotion is strictly prohibited. This means you are not allowed to skip ranks when promoting workers.
- Promotion hoarding is strictly prohibited. This means the promoter is barred from promoting more than three (3) workers within the span of ten (10) minutes.
- Commanding multiple employees to ATT at the same time is considered promotion hoarding and is strictly prohibited.
- Promotion camping is strictly prohibited. This means that the promoter is barred from waiting behind an employee who is reaching the allowed time for promotion.
- Commanding an employee to ATT while they are attending to their duties is considered promotion camping and is strictly prohibited, e.g. the employee is in the middle of recruiting at FTF and the promoter tells them to ATT when done.
- Promotions outside the working areas are strictly prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to, promoting in FTB, meeting rooms, and events.
- Promotions for the sake of filling logs are NOT allowed. Promotions must be given to hardworking FIB employees.
Section 4L. Promotion Lines
- Only 4iC+ members can conduct promotion lines and must be granted permission from the 1iC+ members to conduct a promotion line.
- Promotions from a promotion line do not need to meet the time requirements, such as online time and the time between promotions.
- The time of which the promotion line is logged will be used as the worker’s last promotion time.
- The promoter should include who approved the promotion line in the log.
- Promotion lines void the repeat promotion rule but not the double promotion rule. The promoter should not skip ranks under any circumstances.
- Head Leaders cannot be promoted to Trial iC through a promotion line.
Section 4T. Training
- The official F.I.B training scripts must be used as provided on the official website. This applies to recruit, security, trainer, senior, high rank, or trial iC training.
- Skipping any part of the training, whether it be the rules and regulations or the training tests, is strictly prohibited. Should the trainer be caught will result in disciplinary action.
- Three (3) chances will be given to a recruit who misbehaves. Failure to cease will result in a terminated training session where the trainer will request for a room rights holder.
- Bribery will not be tolerated when it comes to rank deliberation. Should the trainer be caught will result in disciplinary action.
- The correct rank to be given to a recruit upon training completion is based on the number of correct answers during the test.
- All training sessions must be logged on the official F.I.B portal.
Section 4D. Disciplinary
- Any workers that have been caught breaking the rules in any way are subjected to being warned before receiving a strike.
- When punishing offenders, they must be punished fairly according to the severity of their crimes.
- Valid evidence must be provided for the situation before any disciplinary action is enforced. They must be sent to the members of the Disciplinary Unit for approval. Valid evidence are screenshots of the full screen with chat history and clock open. The offending user must be seen in the act of breaking rules. Witnesses should take screenshots if the member who issues the disciplinary action was unable to; otherwise, the infraction log will be denied.
- All infraction logs must be logged on the official F.I.B portal.
- If the disciplinary action taken upon the offending worker was not logged on the official F.I.B portal, the sanction on the offending worker will be removed.
- Infractions logs are to be reviewed by a member of the Disciplinary Team and will be approved or denied based on the evidence provided in the log. Evidence must be public for all users to view.
- Concealed evidence must only come from 1iC+ members in the instance where information must be held private from the general public. Evidence like these must be presented to the Director or Deputy Director of Discipline.
- Tampering with evidence in a way that would hide significant events to the issue is strictly prohibited. Highlighting or boxing specific events is allowed. You may censor whispers, but the username of the person whispering to you must be visible for recognition that it is a whisper and not an important chat bubble.
- Should there be any unavailable members who are able to command ATT to a high rank, e.g. a 1iC idles at a station and no member of the Disciplinary Team is available, the next available high rank in line with the official ranks list in the room can command ATT towards their higher rank.
Section 4C. Court
Contempt of the Court, otherwise known as “Contempt”, is an offense that happens inside or during the meeting in a type of disregarding the policy and authority of the court. The following form of disrespectful or opposing actions against the court in session will be punished through court disciplinary system:
- Insult a judge/justice or witness.
- Disobeying a judgement or court order.
- Interrupts the proceedings of the court.
- Jurors, justices, plaintiffs, or defendants leaving the room without any consent or explanation.
- Misbehaving inside the court (roaming, dancing).
- Inappropriate dress code.
Section 4R. Rank Transfer
- The transferee's current agency must have at least 100 members in the main badge.
- The transferee must have worked in their current agency for at least two (2) weeks.
- The transferee must be a member of the agency’s second division.
- The transferee must be able to provide their current agency's website and/or official portal.
- The transferee must not have been fired from his/her current agency.
- The transferee must not have transferred from one agency to another in a span of a week. This is considered agency hopping and will not be tolerated.
- An inactive member who was removed may return and will be given a lower rank. However, they must have at least three (3) people who remember them who can vouch for them.
- A fired F.I.B worker is denied from transferring back unless given approval from Foundation.
- Only the first rank of every division can be offered to the transferee.
Section 4A. Alliances
- Allies are considered BVIP, whereas members of foundation and 1iC are to be considered SVIP inside FIB (unless discussed by the Founding Parents).
- Only the Founding Mother and Father can handle alliance cases.
- All terms and conditions of the alliance must be agreed upon by both agencies before accepting the ally-ship.
- Any alliances that are currently active with FIB are to be listed on the website.
Section 5: unit policies
The Unit Policies cover the following:
Section 5A. Awards Committee
Section 5D. Disciplinary Team
The Disciplinary Team will only accept members with a clean disciplinary record. This includes, but are not limited to, warnings, strikes, or former dishonorable discharges within the agency.
- Awards Committee
- Disciplinary Team
- Events Team
- Financial Unit
- Innovation Unit
- Legal Affairs
- News Team
Section 5A. Awards Committee
- When promoted to the 2iC division, it is mandatory to join the Awards Committee. It is a closed unit and will not accept applications. When promoted to 1iC division, you have the choice to remain in the Awards Committee as a helper or to leave the unit.
- The voting announcement will be made on Wednesdays and the winner results announcement will be made on Fridays by the Awards Committee head or assistant.
- As an assigned Vote Counter for the awards of the week, your tasks must be completed in time for the winner announcement. If you are unable to meet the requirements as Vote Counter, your rank as a 2iC member will be negatively impacted.
- The Awards Committee must not expose any of the votes in each category. Voting must be kept in secret unless it is approved by the Awards Committee head.
- The previous winner of the week will be banned for the next week's awards. Thus, they cannot be voted unless a week has passed. This includes awards which are based on logs, such as Efficient Trainer and Efficient Promoter.
- The Major Awards such as Best iC and Best non-iC will not be based on only the people's opinion, but also by the FIB unit & base activities and logs.
- The Minor Awards will be based on the poll created for the opinion of the people.
- The Best Couple Award requires couple registration in order to be considered in the weekly voting. The registration form is posted hours before the voting announcement.
Section 5D. Disciplinary Team
The Disciplinary Team will only accept members with a clean disciplinary record. This includes, but are not limited to, warnings, strikes, or former dishonorable discharges within the agency.
Section 6: Consequences for Violations
The consequences for violations will be separated into five parts:
Workers are to be striked after 3 warning has been issued UNLESS they are a member of HR division and above.
Workers are to be demoted during their third strike OR if the severity of the offense was major.
Workers are to be fired after their third strike OR if the severity of the offense was crucial.
Users, be it workers or non-workers, may be placed on Kick-on-Sight if they repeatedly and severely broke the general rules and regulations.
VIPs are punishable through strikes. A striking system made for VIPs will take place if they are to break any of the general or VIP rules and regulations.
- Strikes
- Demotions
- Fires
- Kick on Sight
- VIP Strikes
Workers are to be striked after 3 warning has been issued UNLESS they are a member of HR division and above.
- The number of the strikes issued should be proportionate to the rules they’ve violated.
- Minor offenses = x1
- Major offenses = x2/x3/fired
- The length of the strike issued depends on what division they're in and the severity of the offense:
- Minor Offence
Agent to Elite - 2 days
HR to DM - 3 days
TM to Trial iC - Up to Disciplinary Unit
iC+ - Up to Disciplinary Unit - Major Offence
Agent to Training - 3 days
Junior to Elite - 4 days
HR to DM - 5 days
TM to Trial iC - Up to Disciplinary Unit
iC+ - Up to Disciplinary Unit
- Minor Offence
- The strike system will take place after the first warning is issued.
- x1 will be given to the worker who has been warned but refused to obey the order that was given.
- x2 will be given to the worker continues disobeying any of the rules.
- x3 will be given to the worker does not show any improvement in behavior. The offending worker will also be demoted at this strike.
- The moment they misconduct again, they will be immediately terminated from the agency with documented proof.
- Strikes should be logged on the Portal or Discord immediately; if not immediately, as soon as possible.
Workers are to be demoted during their third strike OR if the severity of the offense was major.
- Giving a demotion is compulsory when issuing the worker a strike of x3.
- The amount of ranks to be demoted depends on the circumstances and severity of the crime.
- When demoting more than one division, one must provide a reason with permission from a member of Disciplinary Unit, 1iC, or foundation.
- Demotions may be given if users are repeat offenders.
Workers are to be fired after their third strike OR if the severity of the offense was crucial.
- A Kick-on-Sight request must be made by users below the rank of 1iC+ or if the person they want to Kick-on-Sight is a member of the iC divisions. These requests should only be entertained by a member of 1iC or foundation.
- A worker who has been fired can be rehired by gaining the approval of a member of foundation or Disciplinary Unit.
- People who have been fired can still come into the base if they obtain VIP status.
Users, be it workers or non-workers, may be placed on Kick-on-Sight if they repeatedly and severely broke the general rules and regulations.
- A user who has been placed on the Kick-on-Sight list can only return to the FIB with special permission.
- Users placed on the Kick-on-Sight list must be kicked from the FIB base and any other base activities such as events.
- A Kick-on-Sight request must be made by users below the rank of 1iC+ or if the person they want to Kick-on-Sight is a member of the iC divisions. These requests should only be entertained by a member of 1iC or foundation.
VIPs are punishable through strikes. A striking system made for VIPs will take place if they are to break any of the general or VIP rules and regulations.
- VIP strikes follow the same striking system as the strikes of workers.
- A strike given to a VIP is to be logged as per usual and posted on the webs next to their name.
- A strike given to a VIP is permanent and cannot go away with good behavior.
- When a VIP has obtained 3 strikes and commits another offense, their VIP status is to be taken away.
- KOS is to follow any offending activity after their VIP status has been removed.