No Talking Order (ATBW Blog)

A No Talking Order is a temporary rule issued to a player in an ATBW Blog Online Multiplayer Game by one of the game's admins or staff while in game, with its first appearance in 1999. Users who do not follow this order could get banned from the game for a certain amount of time.

The rule is used in most ATBW Blog Online Multiplayer Games but they will have different consequences for the offense, usually with the player being banned for a minimum amount of time. However on some servers, if it is too persistent, the offender could even risk being permanently banned from that game.

Deer Tracks
In Deer Tracks, any player breaking this order may get banned for a minimum of 3 days but no more than 1 week, with ban evading granting double the amount of time given to the ban. Additionally, anyone who refuses to comply with the ban could even risk getting banned permanently.

These orders are often enforced by local community server admins, but can also be enforced by game staff on rare occasions.

CCTV Online Games
CCTV Online constitutes bans on users who break the order, but they are generally more laid back than other companies and mostly only heard of from local admins who run individual community servers they are admin on. The same can go for a moderator of the server if they implement it, and even the server owner can enforce it if needed.

Since September 17, 2021, a user can be banned globally by global staff without notifying the server owner beforehand after they receive two warnings within 12 months on Casual, Competitive, Minigame, and even on Community Servers. Moreover, blasting music on any community server was banned on all community servers by the company and server owners will now be held accountable if any of its users break this policy. Global staff can implement a no-talking order on everyone within a single server if they find someone micspamming in a community server, including the local admins, moderators, and even the server owner.

California City Street Racers
Anyone breaking such order on a community server when implied by a local admin of that server, the user could be subject to bans if they refuse to comply. Further, if the user creates alt accounts to evade that ban, those accounts often become permanently banned and either the ban on the original account being reset or being extended for a longer period. In rare cases, admins can even permanently ban anyone just for breaking the order.

California City Defense
Anyone breaking such order on a community server when implied by a local admin of that server, the user could be subject to bans for refusing to comply. Additionally, global admins in the game can even implement this order on a casual or competitive server if they join, though this is extremely rare and almost never happens.

In the case of a local admin order to that specific server, the user can be banned for a certain amount of time or in extreme cases even permanently banned from the server altogether.

In the case of a global admin order to that specific server, the user can be banned from every community server if it is on a community server or the whole game entirely if on casual or competitive, or in extreme cases, be permanently banned from all community servers or even the entire game together. In the case of staff, which is rare, the user's account can be terminated under severe circumstances.

California City Monochromatic World
After California City Monochromatic World was sold to CCTV Online on February 11, 2022, the company had also begun to exert its authority towards players.

Watercolor Sheep Racing
Anyone caught breaking this offense could be subject to bans if they refuse to comply. Local community server admins on a specific server can issue an order and will often lead to a ban if the order is violated. Additionally, game staff may also issue an order under rare circumstances if they are to inform others of any issues.

With a no talking order issued, users under the order are not allowed to say anything through the chat or the voice chat or they can be subject to bans for failure to comply. Asking questions to them is also not allowed and local server admins, global server admins, and even game staff are allowed to deny any user to ask them questions and have the right to ban them for doing so.

Notable Incidents
The first notable order was implemented in a community server in early 2003 when two users were breaking game rules by skipping over boundaries of the game racetrack, with a game staff member eventually joining the server and warned them if they cheat again, they could get banned from the game. Another user who told the staff member "sir I'm not going to break any rules I'm a good person," was told to stop talking or he would be banned from the game for a week.

On September 21, 2021, Watercolor Studios CEO Matthew Quartz barged into a community server operated by Caso4, who is a well-known user of the game, and imposed a no-talking order for approximately 30 minutes and users were not allowed to leave the start room. This was due to an investigation led by the company at the time after the server owner reportedly allowed cheaters onto the server.

CCTV Productions Online Multiplayer Games
Before January 2, 2021, CCTV Online was owned by CCTV Productions as a division of CCTV Interactive. However, this changed after it was made into a separate company in response to the Caltrose25V5 Recession that was affecting the company at the time due to damage to online game servers caused by Caltrose25V5 in April 2020. However, California City Monochromatic World was still owned by CCTV Productions until February 11, 2022 when it was auctioned to its former subsidiary. Since then, CCTV Online now has full control over the game and exerts its authority over players in it.