Practice Fair Conduct

Welcome to Hmcd Gamers—a focused, respectful community built around mastery, clarity, and fair play. Whether you’re pushing your ranking in a competitive ladder, adjusting tactical positioning in squad matches, or finding the ideal loadout for your next match, you’re part of a network that values shared progress. This page outlines how we all contribute to an environment of mutual trust, thoughtful strategy, and purposeful competition.

Founded by Thero Dornhaven, Hmcd Gamers brings together seasoned players, strategic minds, and competitive tacticians who take gaming seriously—and honor it through discipline and integrity. As a team located in Sacramento, California, we’re committed to nurturing a space that supports advanced play, serious growth, and a respectful community culture. These guidelines are your compass: helping us ensure that knowledge is exchanged with care, performance is celebrated without ego, and every player—new or veteran—has the space to refine their edge intentionally.

Why Fair Conduct Matters

In fast-paced multiplayer environments, trust is fragile but foundational. Every well-coordinated flank, timed ability, or precision kill relies on a collective understanding that the rules of engagement are being respected. That’s why fair conduct is more than a guideline—it’s your strongest tool. It creates a level playing field so skill, timing, and preparation shine.

When you treat opponents with respect, prioritize honesty over shortcuts, and approach each game with clarity and calm, you’re helping build the kind of community others want to be part of—not just on the leaderboard but in practice sessions, scrims, and forums.

What We Stand For

At Hmcd Gamers, our culture is built on discipline, altruism, and accuracy. We’re here to sharpen one another, not mock. To contribute—not provoke. And to train—not to exploit.

The core principles that guide our behavior include:

Integrity: Compete clean. No software manipulation, no glitch abuse, no match-fixing.
Respect: Every teammate, opponent, and contributor—regardless of rank or role—deserves dignity. Debates are welcome; hostility is not.
Transparency: Whether discussing megastructure builds or crit windows, explain your methods clearly and give credit where due.
Growth mindset: Even elite players continue refining. Questions are not weakness—they are discipline in raw form.

How We Communicate

Productive communication fuels squad synergy. Sharp callouts, brief reports, trustworthy guides—these are the hallmarks of skilled players who value clarity.

Keep in mind:

Use succinct, constructive language. When giving feedback or critique—whether in match reviews or meta discussion—offer specifics more than sarcasm.
Debate with humility. Your experience matters, and so does someone else’s. Meet in the middle; outcomes improve when ideas are weighed, not weaponized.
Uplift others who show effort. Celebrate progress-by-practice, not only performance-by-intuition.

Informal doesn’t mean careless. And serious doesn’t mean cold. A little intentionality transforms a comment from “noise” into “insight.”

Examples of Fair and Unfair Practice

Let’s define this clearly—because ‘practice’ shapes your habits, and habits shape your performance under pressure.

Good Practices:

Giving clear position data in scrims, rather than overloading chat with emotion
Providing a breakdown of your build choices with timestamps or logs
Accepting match outcomes with a goal of post-review, not blame placing
Sharpening reaction time through peer-drills or aiming labs, not input-bending mods

Unacceptable Conduct:

Exploiting bugs or loopholes to win without facing consequence
Griefing, intentional friendly-fire, withholding intel from teammates
Stacking matches with alternate accounts to manipulate rank
Spreading misinformation about loadouts or strategies to confuse less experienced players

These behaviors not only harm the immediate match, but corrode future collaborations. Short-term wins built on exploitation rarely withstand real competition—and they don’t belong in this community.

Moderation: Purposeful, Not Punitive

Our moderation team operates with focus and reason. We don’t shadow-ban for disagreement; we review context before acting. But if you witness:

Consistent misinformation
Use of hate, slurs, or targeted humiliation
Match manipulation or plugin injection

—we want to hear from you. Please reach out quietly and directly at [email protected]. Reviews are conducted thoughtfully, with an emphasis on learning when possible, and accountability when necessary.

Training Ethically

Elite performance depends on ethical preparation. Use training platforms authentically. Don’t simulate artificial delays for reaction tests, or strip down mechanics to create a false edge in real matchups. Win real; refine real.

If you’re building custom drills or scenario runners to help others train—excellent. Please document accurately and note sources. Adapt what you learn, but never claim what you didn’t create. This community values practical intelligence over pretense.

Fostering Thoughtful Team Play

Whether it’s 2v2 duos or 6v6 competitive raids, consistent teamwork demands constructive feedback, shared intent, and silence that serves strategy—not tension. When coordination breaks, resolve quietly. If roles overlap or collide, define terms respectfully. We’re here to train through mistake resolution, not mistake denial.

The way you approach a chaotic skirmish or rushed flank speaks volumes. Practicing fair conduct shows not only who you are—but how far others can rely on you in high-pressure play.

About Our Founder

Thero Dornhaven built Hmcd Gamers as a place where real players could engage without ego, break down mechanics with clarity, and push performance through long-form mastery. His belief is simple: strategy is a form of trust. That philosophy guides how we analyze, present, and participate across all levels. Thero remains directly involved in shaping the content and structure of our breakdowns, ensuring the spirit of intentional learning continues each day.

Need to Contact Us?

If you have questions, suggestions, or want to flag a situation not covered here, we’re always open to clear, fair conversation. Reach us directly at [email protected] or by phone at +1 916-303-4971. We aim to respond within normal support hours:

Open Monday to Friday, 9 AM–5 PM PST

You can also visit our headquarters in Sacramento at 4063 Pearl Street, Sacramento, California 58147, United States—where much of our analysis and content review happens daily, in calm focus and deliberate pace.

In Closing

Fair conduct isn’t fluff—it’s the bedrock of everything we do here.

Our community isn’t built on volume. It’s built on discipline. Share wisely. Compete honestly. Collaborate intentionally. And if you practice, do so with purpose. Because those habits follow you into the next round—and the next hundred after that.

Thank you for helping keep Hmcd Gamers a disciplined, thoughtful community built on performance earned, never exploited.