What are your personal rules?

I try to show empathy like letting survivors reset if I hook them a bunch with 5 or 4 gens left. My goal is blood points and I no longer really care if they escape or not. If survivors power the gates I usually open the door immediately to speed things up. That being said if they let me catch them I will hook them until death.

No mori or Noed at the beginning I did but no longer for both sides survivor killer only two metas at a time usually I run one. No hardcore camping unless endgame or you really need a kill same with tunnel. Survivor no key did at beginning no longer. Unless rituals because auric cells are precious and I want pig.

Killer rules:

Example of fav perks when used with The Trapper - Unrelenting (for the circle runners), Unnerving Presence (increase auditory warnings), BBQ & Chili (let me know when a survivor is close to my food), and one of these three: Iron Maiden (for the #$%^ who know I'm using BBQ & Chili), Insidious (when I feel like hookin me some noobs), or Distressing when I hope to play against an experienced team.

1. Kill everyone.
2. If I can't kill everyone, then let the one go who played hardest. Can't stand playing with a #$% teammate when I'm a survivor, so kudos to the one who actually plays the game. Doesn't mean I let up though. If they can't escape, then they can enjoy the hook.
3. Teabaggers die first.
4. First priority is flushing out survivors. Second is punishing altruistic actions. Third is punishing straight forward play.
5. Lastly, if a #$%^ decides to unhook another survivor to use them as a shield, then I put the #$%^ on their hook instead. Only exception is if the previously hooked survivor was a teabagger, or #$%^ teammate (body blocking, etc.).

Survivor rules:

The below rules are based on a more defensive and stealthy play and so I use these perks when playing in this manner:

Iron Will (keep your mouth shut - the killer can hear you), Self-Care (take care of yourself so the other survivors can't #$%^ you over (50% of the time they do)), Calm Spirit (decrease visual and auditory footprint - as a killer I look for crows sparking across the map), and one of these two: Kindred (used most often to increase altruistic playing capability), or Lightweight (further decrease my visual footprint - very useful for quick dashes to cover and slow walks/crouch-walks to another cover). Sometimes I'll used Kindred and change Self-Care for Lightweight when feeling like the altruistic honor-system might be obeyed.

1. Observation first. Get a lay of the land, escape routes, vantage points, etc., and what killer I'm dealing with, unless they make a hit on a teammate early on - then genny time. When in this mode I do 3-5 second rushes to cover with the rush being a walk. I prefer to see at least half the map and search out totems prior to fixing generators. Black Swamp is prime example, the map normally generates about 2-3 totems on the edges or visible from it, and is easily walked without being seen.
2. Never stay at a generator for too long. Depending on the type of killer I'm up against, I'll spend anywhere between 10 seconds to 30 seconds on a genny if I'm alone. I'll continue a look out every 20 seconds or so when working with teammates. When alone, movement isn't always to a new genny, but to a vantage point. Follow the first rule with observation, destroy totems, etc. (I've used this as a tactic against grievers (which at least 1/3 of the other survivors are) where the killer and the only other survivor/griever are trying to locate me - allows me to still rack up points before the ultimate betrayal)
3. Altruistic actions are not performed in the Killer's LOS (line of sight), unless unhooking with the whole team's help, or finishing healing.
4. I will not heal another survivor immediately after unhooking unless the killer is in the process of picking up or moving with another survivor to hook them. Survivors should WALK away from the hook a decent distance away and break LOS ASAP so the killer can't go right to the hook area and re-hook them, or hear the injured survivor or healing process.
5. I don't unhook #$%^ teammates who only look out for themselves, unless they are the last teammate with me - even then I may not unhook you if you caused a teammates death (like unhooking them near the killer to act as a shield without having Borrowed Time, etc. you #$%^'s).

To wrap up, I should say that these aren't all the rules I play by. But, you get the gist.

I will still blame you for the down, since it was your decision to do it.

My rules as killer? I don't really care about anything, I just do what I feel like doing and hope to have fun while at it. And if the game keep me matching with people way more experienced than me, my rule is just to go play something else.

I usually go by a few personal rules

1 if you play slowly as a team you will get preferential treatment, higher amounts of hooks before anyone is killed on hook

2 if you get off hook and sit on a gen injured then ds me when I down you thats a paddlin

3 if I hook someone go after you while you are healthy down you and get dsed anyway thats a paddlin

4 if you stay injured for extensive periods of time just to work on gens instead of healing and the game starts to go too fast thats a paddlin

5 if my slowdown is gone early in the game while I was going out of my way to go slow you better be ready for a high speed paddlin

6 hatch is only if im feeling it I don't owe you hatch because your team died

7 if I feel you might be running 4 meta perks or DS Unbreakable you might be tunneled out of the game with suspicion of needing a paddlin

If Twitch is your hobby, you wait in the lobby.

Exactly, nothing more to add.

1. Myers is Daddy
2. Dweet is god. Dweet is life.
3. Try and have fun

Just play in whatever way I find the most enjoyable. I personally have the most fun while playing in ways many would consider "nice", but it has little to nothing to do with the opinion of anyone else. It's simply what I find the most enjoyable, and if that makes me an enjoyable opponent I guess that's a bonus? Don't see why it wouldn't be as I have no interest in "playing for salt" or any of that stuff.

not really but some killers benefit massively from it: hag and spirit. otherwise its just an ok beginner perk

My big one is don't go after survivors right after they get unhooked. Yeah sometimes it's their teammates trading with Borrowed, but most of the time I've seen it they were just farming and I feel bad for making games unfun for other people.

I dunno about the whole "give hatch to people who earned it" mentality and I'll explain why. I watch a couple youtubers who play nothing but dbd (won't mention their names here) and I've seen a handful of games where a survivor is VERY GOOD. Not toxic.. just good. Looping killer for a nice long time, dodging shots, dodging attacks, timing perfect pallets, getting the best pallet or flashlight saves etc and then the whole team dies and its just them left standing

And you know what happens? The killer will be so annoyed or feel like they worked so hard against this 'sweaty' survivor that they will hook them even if they admit defeat. Its a cyclical mindset where you're going to hook them if they're too good because you feel YOU earned it (even tho technically, they earned the hatch) and if they don't give you a struggle at all, you're just gonna say "meh they didn't EARN the hatch"

Or at least, I've seen that happen from about 4 different dbd players who claim to give the hatch to people who earned it, which gives me some doubt.

Me, personally, I empathize with survivors. If I think that they didn't have a chance to win, either because their teammates dcd or were just goofing off and this one person was trying - or if 3 of them are toxic and one person wasn't toxic and was abandoned by the other guys, i'll give em the hatch. If the game was exceptionally easy, i'll often give the hatch to the last person. If a person goes down painfully close to the hatch, I'd rather give it to them instead of picking them up while they probe the hatch with their outstretched fingers.

Oh and if I'm playing piggy and someone boops my snoot, they automatically get the hatch (unless they were toxic beforehand)