GENERAL SERVER RULES:
1. Acting on or relaying information in OOC is known as metagaming and is not allowed. (OOC=Out of Character/Context)
2. Prop-abusing or Prop Spam is NOT allowed - Do NOT force collide props together, this can and will be considered crashing the server; Doing so results in a permaban.
3. Roleplay information must be relayed in /advert chat!
4. You must have ATLEAST 5 people in a party AND Admin or Above's permission to block off public areas, roads, streets, tunnels, etc.
5. Extreme flames/harassment/threats will not be tolerated under any circumstance.
6. Any sort of hacking/cheating the game is automatically a permaban.
7. Advertising other communities or forums is not allowed.
8. Threatening to attack the server or community, even in a joking manner, can and will result in a permanent ban!
9. Hacking is your account's responsibility. We don't care who actually hacked; whether it was your brother, sister, turtle, etc; It's your account, take
responsibility and keep control over it.
10. The abuse of bugs/exploits/work-arounds will not be tolerated.
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12. Do NOT Random Demote. Demotions can only be made when staff members are busy or offline.
13. Do NOT impersonate an admin or any player. This includes RP names. If you do impersonate and don't change your name you will be punished.
14. Do NOT evade from punishment.
15. Do NOT spam your camera flash.
16. Do NOT expect an admin to take any action for any situation without substantial proof!
17. Do NOT carry rules on other server to this one.
18. Do NOT try and find loop holes in the rules.
19. Super admins HAVE the final say in situations.
20. The PD lobby is PUBLIC. It cannot be KOS or AOS. The front door should not be locked.
21. Do NOT kill a player that is still where they spawned!
22. NO troll names.
23. You may ONLY use smoke grenades while in combat (Raiding a building).
24. "It is not in the MOTD" is NOT a valid argument/excuse.
25. Government officials (except Mayor, who may only have a Pistol [P228, Glock, Five-Seven]) may use any weapon.
26. "Prop Quaking" is absolutely not tolerated. (Slamming props against walls to shake map) If caught doing so you will receive a 24 hour ban.
Roleplay Rules:
1. You DO NOT have to advert Raids and Mugs!
2. You must play by the NLR (New Life Rule [5 min]). - Through new life rule you do not recall anything before your death and cannot interfere with past situations. Wait 5 minutes before returning to where you died, regardless of the situation. This excludes dying for non-RP reasons such as accidentally killing yourself with a prop.
3. Do not "Friend Claim", this is the act of killing anyone who kills someone else just because you claim to be "friends". To be valid 'friends' you must have some RP relation to that character while being in a party together. (E.G. Basing with him, in his party, or his body guard.)
4. Do NOT FailRP. This is the act of failing to role play a job properly within the scope of the rules. If you are in a specific job requiring you to carry out specific duties and you are failing to carry out those duties, you will be demoted. (Ex: Mayor basing with gangsters, having a gun equipped as a hobo or medic, etc.)
5. Do NOT scam anyone.
6. Do NOT hitbox. This is the act of being able to shoot someone without them being able to shoot you back.
7. Do NOT build in Public (Exception being Hobo's which can build anywhere but not blocking the streets)
8.You cannot have printers while you have a building sign up. Admins are allowed to remove them before warning (Any kind of Gun-dealer may have shipments while building of it contributes to the building process.
9. If you are mugging someone, they must know. For example, you have to be in front of them it say their name in your bind or in chat.
10. Do NOT KOS minge. (Meaning: Do NOT make KOS signs on bases that either bait or are just there to kill).
11. The current laws in /laws still apply, even if there is no living mayor.
12. RP is allowed in spawn, but you cannot arrest/kill/mug/pickpocket a player who has just spawned or is spawning in the server. You may, however, arrest someone if they're breaking the law in spawn (this excludes arrests due to a lockdown.)
13. You do not have to warn people before arresting them.
14. Prison bail may be set by CP between $1-20k. Bail may be denied or accepted towards any player.
15. CP are NOT allowed to unarrest people if no bail is paid. Only exception is if RDA and no staff is on.
16. Citizens ARE allowed to own guns/base with printers. They just cannot raid.
Assault/Killing Rules
1. Do NOT RDM (Random Deathmatch), this means killing someone for no legitimate reason.
2. You can kill someone in your base if they are trespassing and you have a KOS sign, but you must give them sufficient warning if they are "Teasing the line".
3. Do NOT randomly stunstick people for no reason.
4. Do NOT make prop-killing devices.
5. You may NOT kill in a raid if the person is unarmed in their current life.
6. Please wait roughly 10 minutes between hits on the same player.
7. The max for mugging is 500. The max hitprice is only 10,000.
8. When mugging, you must give the player time to drop money. Five seconds is the smallest amount of time allowed. (always include this in your mug message)
9. If you are a criminal job and you try to mug someone and they do not comply, you can kill them.
10. Hitmen may NOT ask for a hit on a specific person.
11. Do NOT place a hit on someone consecutively.
12. Players CANNOT be raided if they are building. (Must have building sign)
13. You may NOT "bait" people to shoot at you by shooting around them or taunting them. Doing allows them to kill or arrest you without being punished.
14. The lightsaber counts as a weapon, even if the blade is retracted. If the lightsaber is in your hand, then you are allowed to be arrested on sight.
War Rules
1. When asking for war between two parties, you can NOT start killing them unless the other party accepts the war- which you have to do over advert.
2. The war can only last up to 10 minutes.
3. Do NOT take the war to the spawn and kill people as soon as they respawn.
Prop Rules
1. Do not spawn props in buildings you don't own.
2. Do not prop-spam or minge, if someone asks you to stop what you are doing with a certain prop then stop; especially if it's an admin asking.
3. Do not prop-climb/surf.
4. One entrance must be unblocked/able to get through. Blocking all entrances will get your props deleted.
5. Do not block public areas or major paths; secluded areas can be blocked off with a party of five and an admin's permission.
6. Do not tamper with other players creations/property. This includes pocketing their props.
7. Do not remove other peoples props or anything they created without permission, even if you're on their buddy list.
8. No floating props or bases allowed.
9. You may have one way props as long as you do not use them to shoot through. ONE-WAY PROPS MUST BE FULLY-BULLET PROOF
10. Props with non-reflective material are NOT ALLOWED. You MUST be able to shine a flashlight on it and have light reflect-off it so you can determine depth(s).
Building/Basing Rules
1. All keypads/buttons that are connected to a door must be within a reasonably close distance to the door and visible.
2. While you must have a keypad/button on each side of every fading door, you may only have THREE fading doors for the entrance of your base. You are allowed more fading doors for other things, such as covering printers.
3. There must be AT LEAST one entrance to your shop/base. Any others you are allowed to block off with it not being considered propblock.
4. An entrance needs to be clearly indicated.
5. Do not make an entrance that requires crouching. This Includes Jump Entrance Bases.
6. Cannot have invisible props or entities. Every part of your base must be visible.
7. Your keypad granted length must be set so you have enough time to be able to get inside. (Minimum 5 seconds)
8. You cannot put keypads or buttons far away from your entrance, nor make them hidden. They must be clearly visible near your door.
9. There must be a keypad or button linked to your fading door, allowing players to enter and leave.
10. You can have a maximum of one keypad or one button (each way) per fading door.
11. Using the color/material tool to create invisible or barely visible props/buttons/cameras etc, is not allowed.
12. Using fake keypads, buttons or fall hatch/traps is NOT allowed.
13. The official owner of a house is the player who owns the front door.
14. Do not buy random houses and doors that you aren't going to use.
15. The only time 'KOS' can be used is if the player has entered your property.
16. Kill-box abuse is not allowed. Example: Creating a base that allows you to shoot any raider but the raider cannot shoot you back.
17. Fading door abuse is not allowed. Opening a fading door using the bound key is considered fading door abuse - (Use your keypad/button!)
18. You must warn players to leave your base before killing them unless you have a KOS sign warning them.
19. Loitering signs are NOT allowed.
20. You may not build on the sidewalk (excluding the hobo class) or the streets(everyone) it is Governments property!
21. You may NOT build while being raided or 5 minutes after being raided!
22. You may NOT have hitboxes in your base. This means: A person is able to shoot and/or see you, but the other party cannot.
23. Do NOT bait your property. Meaning, Putting a KOS sign on a part of your property that is involved in public property! As well as putting a KOS sign on a house that has nothing in it.
24. Blocking off tunnels is only allowed if approved by an admin or higher. Other public areas are approved by superadmins. ( Please refer to rule #4 in GENERAL RULES Section )
Raiding/Mugging Rules
1. You DO NOT have to Advert Raids and Mugs!
2. You may NOT kill in a raid if the person is unarmed in their current life.
3. Do not solo raid. You must raid with at least one partner. Thieves, Ninjas, and Custom Classes are excluded from this rule.
4. Do not minge-raid - Raiding a base you know has absolutely nothing in it or raiding an unowned base just to shoot people.
5. The police can raid to confiscate printers, drugs and weapons but only with a valid warrant. They cannot steal legal items - Health, armor and money.
6. You must wait 5 minutes after raiding, and 20 minutes before raiding the same person again.
7. Do not raid the police department unless there are atleast THREE CP's/SWAT Online.
8. You may not interfere a raid after you've been killed during it.
9. You cannot block or knockdown cameras to blind defenders
10. The max mug is $500. The max ransom is $10,000, but $20,000 for the mayor.
11. You may not mug more than two people in a 5 minute span of time.
12. You cannot mug civil protection officers or hobo's
13. If you just finished mugging somebody, please wait 15 minutes until you mug the same person again.
14. Revenge killing is not allowed unless you feel threatened. If a person has just killed a member of your party, you may not kill him unless you've seen who killed him. If the person who killed them did so out of self defense you may not take action.
15. Only raiding classes can mug people. The only exclusion to this rule is classes that cannot raid solo.
(Put in place to avoid party mugs who would automatically kill the person if they defend themselves.)
Bombing Rules
1. You can NOT kill someone for holding out a bomb.
2. You CAN be arrested for holding out a bomb.
3. You can NOT bomb outside of buildings.
4. You must wait at least 10 minutes before bombing another building.
5. Bombers may use their bombs as self defense if they are being shot at, although it will reset their cooldown back to 10 minutes for them to bomb a building again.
6. In order to bomb, you must advert a message that includes the word (or any variation, like boom) "bombing."
7. Bombing is considered raiding. Because of this, raiding with a bomb requires at least 2 people (a person to finish the raid after the bomb detonates).
8. Since bombing is considered raiding, in order to bomb in a building, the building MUST have valuables (ex. Printers, Drugs, Weapon shipments) if it does not contain any valuables, it is considered MINGE-RAIDING.
Kidnapping Rules
1. You CANNOT Kidnap members of the Government (The Mayor is excluded from this rule)
2. You must wait 40 minutes before kidnapping the same person.
3. You must wait 20 minutes between kidnaps
4. The maximum time you may hold a person is 15 minutes.
5. Do not minge kidnap - Do not kidnap just to kill them.
6. You MUST have a direct RP relation to kidnap an individual.
Counter-Raiding
- You may only counter raid if you have some sort of RP relation and are in a party
with the person that would give you reason to protect their base. (Ex of RP relation: You are in a party and are basing with them.)
- You may not just counter raid because you see someone raiding.
Job Specific Rules:
Gun Dealers
1. You must have a shop of some form.
2. You must sell to everyone.
3. You are allowed to sell for any price within the scope of RP.
4. You may not raid.
5. Switching to these jobs, buying the items and switching back to another job is not allowed. (Self-supplying) This also considered job abuse.
6. You may have a gun for your own self defense.
7. Two players with the same type of job may base together. (EX: Heavy Gun Dealer basing with a Light Gun Dealer. HOWEVER, Black Market Dealer may NOT base with Heavy OR Light dealer(s). This is because Black Marker Dealer operates outside the legal scope and the other Dealers mentioned operate legally.)
8. You do not need a gun license as a Gun Dealer to sell guns unless the Mayor has added a law requiring you to have one.
9. Gun Dealers may not base with thieves.
Guard -
1. You must attempt to be hired.
2. You cannot help raid or defend raiders as a bodyguard. You guard bases; you do NOT raid people.
3. You cannot be the mayors body guard, as that title is reserved for the SWAT.
Medic -
1. Cannot base with any raiding classes or be in the same party.
2. May have printers and only carry light arms (pistols and one handed smgs)
3. You may heal government and government officials.
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