General rules for ALL Tortuga:
Tortuga is a nudist community and resort, not an ordinary sex sim. We expect good conduct from all while at Tortuga. The same conduct used throughout Secondlife. We believe every SL resident should be familiar with Linden TOS, Linden Ageplay Rules, Linden Community Standards and SL-Etiquette as something every SL resident should already know. Also this SL-Etiquette slideshow, that is linked on the official SL Etiquette page, is part of our rules.
Too much to read? Simply use common sense, civility and respect others is all that is needed when visiting Tortuga. Community minded people and individuals who like activities such as sailing or surfing while not disturbing others are welcome in Tortuga.
Actions that get you arrested or kicked from a club in RL will earn a ban in Tortuga. Actions that anger other people, you will soon get the attention of a manager.
- This is a Nudist resort for human and merfolk avatars only, so clothing is not permitted anywhere in all sims. (hats, jewelry and beach shoes are allowed, as well are slight body modifications like tails and ears.). Changing clothes: On arrival in the underwater welcome dome, before teleporting down. On leaving, best teleport up to the dome, or at least hide in a bush or under water. Changing outfit exhibitionists in the center of our beaches are not welcome.
- Size of body parts, like cocks and boobs, should be reasonably proportioned and not extreme in size.
- We do not allow child avatars.
- Community members and guests should not send mass IMs to others seen on radar.
- Tortuga is a social community place. Looking for a sexpartner is ok at the Naughty Beach, in all the rest of Tortuga people look only for social contacts. Be non intruding and non pushy with your talk. Especially outside the Naughty Beach you should not disturb people with your urgent need for a partner. Community people want social contacts without pressure, especially if you are unknown to them. Small talk is fine, but inquisitive talk obviously leading to partnership or sex is NOT. Basically if your talk is only aiming at a specific gender you are interested in, it is most probably intruding and not wanted by community members. Of course it is ok if talk without pressure leads to more after a while, just don't expect it as a given.
- First contact with a person unknown to you should be in local chat, not IM. IM's are like phone calls, they are for friends. You will notice that most people react very positive and friendly if you contact them in local chat.
- Read profiles before contacting people and respect what they write there. We appreciate if you also have a meaningful profile to ease social contacts with you.
- Don't assume that everyone wants sex or is looking for a partner of the opposite gender (for LBGT same gender). Some people are just here for activities like sailing, etc.
- Paradise Beach is the beach for general social encounters and activities. All furniture animations are PG animations(non-sexual). Sex is not permitted on Paradise Beach.
- If outside of the Naughty Beach, please don't disturb people with requests join them or joining you. Most community members are open to talk and chat, but often just to find friends, independently of their gender. Contacts should be social and not about looking for partners. If your talk only aims at the gender you are interested in, it is probably not what other community members want here. So please, no sexually loaded pushy approaches.
- Naughty Beach is the beach for hotter encounters and activities. All will find high quality adult animations in the furniture. People go there if they want more frisky things, so you can safely expect people are there for sex. It is the place for everyone to live their wild side, be it exhibitionist or whatever. If you feel uncomfortable with people having sex all around you, we recommend you to use our safe Paradise Beach. However wild the Naughty beach can be, our community members expect and appreciate refined approaches. Get to know your partner a bit before going to the hot bits. Too direct approaches are not appreciated. Even the Naughty Beach is not a destination for fast sex, if you don't know anyone. People expect some flirting skills, class and eroticism over blunt sex approaches and you to take the time to get properly acquainted before pushing for more. Also here, common sense, civility and respect for others and especially empathy for the needs of others are what we expect. Egoistic callous ways soon make you an outcast. Here some tips how become a good lover. Emoting is something most people here love. If people ask for emoting in their profiles, please respect that and either learn it or look for another lover.
- All areas outside of the Paradise Beach have adult furniture. However, for the other places you should bring a partner with you to use the romantic hideouts with their adult outfits. Again, don't look for partners outside of the Naughty Beach.
- Voice: Is enabled, but Tortuga is no voice sim. Short greetings and sexual roleplay = OK, long conversations = NOK. People are not interested in your small-talk with others, so don't spam them with it.
Private Property
- Public: Ground level in Tortuga, Water areas in all sims.
- Private: All sky boxes, water dwellings and sky platforms that are not reachable with a public teleporter. All houses and islands outside of the Tortuga sim
- No trespassing of private homes or platforms, no disturbing of their owners.
Photography:
- Is explicitly allowed and encouraged. However, keep in mind that there is a Linden Lab Official:Snapshot and machinima policy. May your pics be a success :) It would be great if you tell people where you took them when you publish them, and hey, we always enjoy a link to see your work, also we have Flickr groups. The rez time is 10 minutes, if you need more time, contact an owner.
Landing in the sim:
- Make sure that you are naked and all is rezzed and you don’t bump into people on the dancefloor.
Using Vehicles in Tortuga
- Tortuga is designed boats up to 15 m length, 7 m width and 3.8 m height of the main body of the ship (means masts etc. that are higher are ok, it is about blocking the panorama) and max 150 prims for group members and 33 for non-group members. These boats are allowed in the standard boat slips of Tortuga. Some few boatslips are built for wider, then wider than 7 m is allowed (house boats) but not longer than 15 m. Boats up to 25 m are allowed on private islands, as long as they are parked in a way that does not block waterways, or temporally rezzed for cruising, however. But keep in mind, we won't take complaints if you can't cross in certain places with oversized boats, the tight places are designed for the 15x7x3.8 boats (and phantom masts / antennas etc. if they are higher than 3.8 m) Especially Passoa, the Tortuga channel and the tunnel between Endless Dreams and Tavana can cause problems for bigger ships.
- Help us to keep Tortuga nice, use vehicles that are nice to look at.
- Small not too noisy helicopters, balloons and gliders are ok, but Tortuga is no aircraft sim, so don't exaggerate. Also small submarines are fine.
- Important is that you and your vehicle don't disturb others.
- No parking of boats in the Tortuga main sim, people relax here and want to enjoy the panorama. Crossing through teh channel in Tortuga is allowed.
Rentals
- While we really depend on our generous members who rent in our sims, who we want to thank here, we must insist on some rules to keep the spirit of the community of Tortuga up:
- As by the vote of the community, Tortuga is a Nudist resort, so we expect you to be nude at all times. As privacy is in high regard in Tortuga, nobody will spy inside your house, so changing clothes in a CLOSED house, where you are not visible for people outside is tolerated.
- We carefully compose the looks and themes of our sims to have them as beautiful as possible for your boat turns. So please don't put items that are too gaudy, weird, noisy or with hovertext around your house. A Caribbean towel in vivid colors is fine, in other words use common sense, stay in the beach theme. What is not visible ot other wise detectable from outside, in your house, is at your discreetion. Means if you want a non beachy Darth Vader statue in your home, that is fine by us.
- Respect your neighbours, don't disturb them in their homes, also refrain from camming their privacy. If you have items out that disturb neighbours, like noisy and similar, we reserve the right to return them. We are not mean, keep in mind your neighbours have also a right to enjoy tortuga undisturbed.
- Don't build extradocks or other extensions to your rental that block the waterways, other people want to boat too. in doubt ask for support so we find an agreeable solution if you need more space.
- Stay in your prim limit or ask for prim upgrades. Your neighbours want also to rez things and the people boating will thank you if they don't get a "the sim is full"- message on crossing the sim border.
- No scripted pets, especially no breedables in the sims or other heavily scripted items.
- Anything that ruins the boating fun of the community is not allowed in the rentals, especially no securities.
PS: It really needs a lot to get banned here = breaking several rules and being a pest for everyone else. However, we don't pay refunds to rulebreakers.