Server Rules

1.1 Use Common Sense

Not every possible situation can be specifically covered by the rules. Use good judgment and do not intentionally abuse loopholes.

1.2 No Scamming

Any form of scamming is strictly prohibited. This includes fake trades, false promises, intentionally deceptive transactions, and similar practices.

1.3 Be Respectful

Stay respectful outside of character. Harassment, excessive toxicity, discrimination, and slurs are prohibited.

1.4 No Exploiting or Cheating

Do not use outside programs, scripts, cheats, or other software that gives you an unfair advantage. Players may also not intentionally abuse glitches or unintended game mechanics.

1.5 Names

Player names must use readable English characters. Do not use excessive spaces, symbols, or confusing characters intended to make your name difficult to read or type.

1.6 No Spam

Do not excessively spam chat, voice chat, commands, props, sounds, or other server features.

1.7 No Impersonation

Do not impersonate staff members or intentionally use names designed to confuse players about your identity.

1.8 Staff Decisions

Cooperate with staff members during administrative situations. If you believe a staff decision was incorrect, use the proper appeal or report system instead of disrupting the server.

2.1 Random Deathmatch (RDM)

Players may not kill another player without a valid roleplay reason. Valid reasons may include self-defense, defending property, raiding, mugging, or other legitimate roleplay situations.

2.2 New Life Rule (NLR)

After dying, players may not return to the area of their death for 180 seconds. Players must also forget information directly related to the circumstances of their previous life.

2.3 Prop Climbing

Players may not use props to climb onto buildings, access restricted areas, bypass defenses, or reach locations that normally cannot be reached.

2.4 Prop Blocking

Players may not use props to completely block roads, entrances, doors, spawn areas, or other locations that players must normally be able to access.

2.5 Prop Killing

Players may not intentionally kill or damage other players using props.

2.6 Metagaming

Do not use information your character could not reasonably know. This includes information obtained through OOC chat, Discord, the kill feed, another player's screen, or similar sources.

2.7 FearRP

Players must value their character's life. If you are clearly outnumbered or held at gunpoint and cannot reasonably escape, you must comply with reasonable roleplay demands.

2.8 FailRP

Do not perform actions that are clearly unrealistic or inappropriate for your current role. Players are expected to reasonably act according to their job and the roleplay situation.

2.9 Revenge RDM

Players may not kill someone simply because that person killed them during a previous life. Your death ends that roleplay situation unless another valid reason develops.

2.10 Combat Logging

Do not disconnect, change jobs, or intentionally avoid roleplay in order to escape an active arrest, raid, mugging, kidnapping, or combat situation.

2.11 Self-Supply

Jobs that sell weapons or other items may not switch jobs or abuse their position solely to supply themselves or friends with items at base price which would otherwise be more expensive when sold through roleplay.

3.1 Base Entrances

Every base must have at least one reasonably accessible entrance. Players may not construct completely inaccessible bases.

3.2 Fading Doors

Fading doors must have visible and accessible keypads or buttons. Players may not intentionally hide or obstruct the controls required to enter the base.

3.3 Maximum Fading Doors

A base may contain a maximum of three fading doors protecting its main entrance unless otherwise stated by server-specific rules.

3.4 No Fading Door Abuse

Players may not rapidly open and close fading doors during combat in order to shoot players while preventing them from returning fire.

3.5 No Parkour Bases

Bases may not require players to jump or crouch to move through the base.

3.6 No Maze Bases

Bases may not contain intentionally confusing mazes designed solely to delay or trap raiders.

3.7 No One-Way Abuse

One-way viewing materials may not be used to provide an unfair shooting advantage where one player can clearly attack another player who cannot reasonably see them.

3.8 Building Signs

Players actively constructing a base may place a clearly visible "Building" sign. While the sign is active, the base may not contain valuable entities or be used for normal roleplay nor may unaffiliated players enter the base.

3.9 Public Areas

Do not build structures that obstruct major roads, sidewalks, government buildings, spawn, or other important public areas unless your job specifically allows it.

4.1 Raiding

Only jobs permitted to raid may initiate raids. A raid must have a legitimate purpose such as stealing money, printers, weapons, or other valuable entities.

4.2 Raid Cooldown

Players must wait at least ten minutes before beginning another raid and may not repeatedly raid the same base.

4.3 Raid Duration

Raiders must leave the property when the raid has concluded. Players may not remain inside another player's base indefinitely after taking the available valuables.

4.4 Mugging

Only jobs permitted to mug may initiate a mug. The mugger must clearly state the amount being demanded and give the victim a reasonable amount of time to comply. After attempting a mug, the player must wait 5 minutes before attempting another mug.

4.5 Mugging Limit

A player may demand no more than $5,000 during a single mug.

4.6 Kidnapping

Only jobs permitted to kidnap may take another player hostage. Kidnapped players must be given a reasonable roleplay opportunity for release or ransom.

4.7 Kidnap Duration

A player may not be held hostage for longer than ten minutes unless both players voluntarily agree to continue the roleplay situation.

4.8 Countering

Players may only interfere with a crime when they have a reasonable roleplay reason to do so, such as being law enforcement, protecting a party member, or defending their own property.

4.9 No Spawn Crime

Players may not raid, mug, kidnap, arrest, or attack players inside designated spawn.

5.1 Citizens

Citizens are generally law-abiding players and may not raid, mug, kidnap, or perform actions restricted to criminal jobs.

5.2 Thieves

Thieves may raid and steal from other players but must follow all raid cooldowns, NLR rules, and other criminal rules.

5.3 Gun Dealers

Gun dealers should operate a legitimate weapon business and may not abuse their job solely to provide themselves or friends with base-cost weapons.

5.4 Hitmen

Hitmen may only kill players when they have an active hit through the server's hit system. Hitmen may not request fake hits for personal reasons.

5.5 Hobos

Hobos may build a single self contained structure in public areas but may not block roads, or entrances.

5.6 Police

Police officers must have a legitimate roleplay reason to arrest, search, or use force against another player. A legitimate reason to arrest is defined as obeying Mayor laws or actions that witnessing blatently violent actions. Stun baton spam is prohibited.

5.6.1 Police Reaction

Police must respond appropriately to incidents and obey fearRP. If a police officer is getting attacked, they must respond lethally.

5.6.2 Police Corruption

Police may not assist criminals, accept bribes, or intentionally ignore crimes unless the server specifically provides a corrupt police job.

5.7 Mayor

The Mayor may create reasonable laws and initiate lockdowns when there is a legitimate roleplay reason. Laws may not override server rules.

5.8 Mayor Laws

Laws must be clearly displayed and reasonably enforceable. Laws may not require players to perform impossible actions or allow random execution, harassment, or other violations of server rules.

5.9 Government Officials

Government jobs must follow the Mayor's valid laws while also following all server rules. Server rules always take priority over laws created during roleplay.

6.1 Valid Combat

Players must have a valid roleplay reason before attacking another player.

6.2 Self-Defense

Players may defend themselves when another player presents an immediate threat to their life.

6.3 KOS Signs

KOS signs must be clearly visible and may only apply to players entering legitimate private property.

6.4 Warning Players

When appropriate, players should clearly warn trespassers or other offending players and give them reasonable time to comply before using lethal force.

6.5 Spawn Killing

Players may not attack or repeatedly kill players who have just spawned or are inside designated spawn protection areas.

7.1 Money Printers

Money printers and similar illegal entities may be stolen or destroyed during valid criminal activity when permitted by the player's job.

7.2 Entity Blocking

Do not intentionally place entities in locations that block doors, roads, players, or important server functions.

7.3 Vehicle Abuse

Vehicles may not be intentionally used to repeatedly run over players, block spawn, trap players, or disrupt roleplay.

7.4 Abandoned Entities

Players should remove unnecessary props and entities when they leave an area or no longer need them.

8.1 Staff Sits

Players must cooperate with staff members during an administrative sit. Roleplay is considered paused for the players involved.

8.2 Evidence

Players should provide screenshots, recordings, or other available evidence when making serious reports whenever possible.

8.3 False Reports

Intentionally submitting false or misleading reports against another player is prohibited.

8.4 Staff Abuse

Staff members may not use administrative powers to gain an advantage during normal roleplay.

8.5 Appeals

Punishment appeals and staff complaints should be handled through the appropriate Discord or forum channels.