Q: What is spycrabbing, and what are the rules in general?

[( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Roudydogg1]

A: NeonHeight's Servers sees spycrabbing as a conditional trade agreement.

When judging spycrabs, we adhere to the "normal" overall rules used by most, unless its proven that PRIOR to the spycrab different rules where applied by the crabbing parties. I said Prior, and mean that. No rulechanging/adding DURING the taunting.

Basic rules:
- The first to do 3x a spycrab, LOSES.
- If both arrive at 3x a spycrab at the same time, both must taunt again for the 4th spycrab, and so on.
- Only spycrabs count, errors etc do not count, and should be waited for to be corrected.


Please be aware that:
- On most trade servers it is often a rule that an admin must administor the spycrab if above a certain value. You must ask a mod or an admin to hold items if they are more than TWO keys worth.
- If someone runs from a crab, collect your proof in the form of screenshots of the agreement, recorded video of the crab itself, and the trade history on the day the spycrab happened.
- If a player disconnects during their 3rd spycrab, it is the same as disconnecting during any other part AFTER the agreement and after the spycrab has officially started, and they should be reported.

If you need further clarification on any of this, or wish for someone to elaborate, feel free to add myself or an admin regarding.

[( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Roudydogg1]

Best practice of spycrabbing:
- Make sure both parties are aware on the spycrab rules and what count as points etc. Even if they spout that they are experienced crabbers etc, make sure.
- The spycrabbers add each-other to their friends-lists on steam.
- Open a steam chat and agree beforehand what is traded. Craft hat for 1.33 refined or w/e. Screenshot the agreement.
- There is NO security in having the trade open. People can show the items to each-other with a trade (if its hats or w/e). If needed, show it, and close the trade. Do not keep it open during, just retrade after.
- If a server Admin is to be observing the spycrab, add him and both parties have to trade the agreed items to the admin/MM..
- Spawn as spy.
- Go to a quiet well-lighted area.
- Do not stand against the wall.
- Do not move during/between taunts.
- Remove any disguise, to be sure, require both parties to do so by shooting once with the revolver.
- Ask people to keep their distance. People bumping into you can disqualify the taunting (even if bumping only 1 side, it should disqualify the taunt of both to keep things fair).
- ONLY a spycrab will count as a point. A spycrab is when you raise your arms and the cigarette case is being flapped open and close repeatedly.
- If it is getting crowded, move to another area where others aren't bumping the involved parties.
- Wait for eachother to finish the taunt before starting the next/use a countdown.
- If only one person has taunted, then the person who did taunt must wait until the other guy who did not yet taunt has taunted once.
- If either party disconnects, first things first, TAKE THE SCREENSHOTS. Once you have what you need to report, wait and see if they will return. The general time to wait for people to return to the server is around 10 minutes. It can sometimes take more time for the player to return; power outages and computer problems do happen.
- Scores stay if a player disconnects and rejoins right after due to an error or w/e (within 1-2 minutes), unless both parties agree otherwise before the event has started, or unless the player is doing anything to turn the crab in his/her favour.

[هشام]

I was doing a spycrab and this guy ran away, I should've have reported him. I didn't know running away from spycrab was against the rules before.

[( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Roudydogg1]

Originally posted by Itachi:

I was doing a spycrab and this guy ran away, I should've have reported him. I didn't know running away from spycrab was against the rules before.

If its for value or items, then yessir.