COMMUNITY & SERVER RULES

Community & Conduct

• Treat all players with respect.
• Racism, sexism, homophobia, hateful slurs and targeted harassment are prohibited.
• No bullying, excessive harassment or abuse.
• Real-life threats, doxing or exposing personal information = severe punishment / permanent ban.
• Do not force inappropriate or sexual RP onto other players.
• Suicide/self-harm RP is prohibited unless specifically approved for a planned character death.
• Content creators and streamers are welcome — keep the community suitable for public content.

Cheating & Exploiting

ZERO TOLERANCE.

• Hacks / cheat software
• Injectors / malicious modifications
• Bug or duplication exploits
• External programs giving an unfair advantage
• Unfair crosshair / graphics modifications
• Real World Trading
• Money, item, vehicle or XP exploits
• Rule-looping or exploiting loopholes
• Helping players evade bans
• Hiding rule violations from staff

Stream Sniping

Using Twitch, Kick, YouTube or any other stream to gain IC information is prohibited.

Staff Decisions

• Staff decisions must be respected.
• Do not argue with staff during an active situation.
• Disputes must be handled through a ticket or appeal.
• Do not publicly attack or harass staff.
• Lying or withholding information from staff may result in further punishment.
• Ignoring staff instructions is a serious offence.

Once staff close an active situation, it remains closed unless staff say otherwise.

Advertising

Advertising other servers, Discords, communities or services without approval is prohibited.

This includes:

• Other FiveM servers
• Competing RP communities
• Discord communities
• Unapproved businesses/services
• Unapproved content promotion

Content creators may promote content where permitted.

Metagaming

Your character may only use information they have legitimately obtained through RP.

• Discord information
• Stream information
• OOC friendships
• Information from screenshots/clips
• Information from another character
• Information transferred between your own characters

Multiple Characters

Your characters are separate individuals.

You cannot transfer:

• Knowledge
• Relationships
• Locations
• Gang information
• Criminal information
• Assets
• Secrets

Hostile RP

Hostile RP must have a legitimate RP reason.

This includes:

• Shooting
• Killing
• Assault
• Kidnapping
• Vehicle attacks
• Gang conflict
• Armed robberies

2-Minute Interaction Rule

You must have at least 2 minutes of RP interaction before killing another player in an RP situation, unless the circumstances clearly establish an existing hostile situation.

Vehicle Deathmatch

Using a vehicle intentionally to kill or seriously injure another player without appropriate RP justification is prohibited.

Identification

You must reasonably identify your target before initiating serious hostile RP.

Fear RP

Your character must value their life.

If you are:

• Outnumbered
• Held at gunpoint
• Surrounded by armed players
• In an obviously dangerous situation

You must react realistically.

Powergaming

Do not force actions or outcomes onto another player.

• Forcing outcomes
• Unrealistic actions for an advantage
• Deciding another player's actions
• Abusing /me or /do
• Animation or mechanic abuse
• Ignoring injuries/crashes
• Using OOC information IC

Trolling & Griefing

Do not intentionally ruin another player's RP.

• Repeatedly killing the same player
• Constantly baiting police
• Unnecessary provocation
• Blocking entrances
• Mic/message spam
• Screaming through microphones
• Trolling restrained players
• Disrupting peaceful RP
• Unjustified vigilante behaviour
• Using bugs to disrupt RP

RP Avoidance

You may not intentionally avoid RP or its consequences.

• Combat logging
• Respawning to escape RP
• Pretending to be AFK
• Disconnecting during chases/robberies
• Refusing legitimate medical RP
• Relogging to remove injuries
• Suicide to avoid consequences

Accidental disconnects must return as soon as possible.

Robberies

Robberies must create RP — not simply provide easy money.

• Have a legitimate RP reason.
• Do not repeatedly target the same player.
• Do not target new players learning the server.
• Do not unnecessarily target basic-job players.
• Do not demand unrealistic amounts.
• Do not force major asset transfers.
• Do not exploit mechanics.
• Vehicle inventories require legitimate RP justification.

Hostile Participant Limit

MAXIMUM: 8 CRIMINALS

Applies to:

• Bank robberies
• Store robberies
• Kidnappings
• Shootouts
• Police encounters
• Rival gang conflicts

Drivers, lookouts and directly involved players count toward the limit.

Police do not count toward the criminal limit.

Hostages

Hostages must be legitimately obtained through RP.

• Paying someone to be a hostage
• Friends acting as hostages
• OOC hostage agreements
• Fake hostages
• Repeatedly using the same hostage
• Taking hostages purely for money

Do not take the only active employee at a staffed business purely to create a hostage situation.

New Life Rule

After respawning:

• You forget the RP surrounding your death.
• Do not return to the death scene.
• Do not seek revenge.
• Do not tell others what happened.
• Do not retrieve items/vehicles from the scene.
• Do not assist your group in the previous situation.

EMS Revival

If EMS legitimately revives you, you retain memory of the event.

You still cannot re-enter or influence the hostile situation.

Slings

After being shot you will be placed in a sling for 10 minutes.

EMS decide whether you are placed in a sling.

• If EMS place you in a sling, you must not return to the same situation.
• If EMS do not place you in a sling, you may return to the same situation.
• Do not pick up or move downed members while the situation is ongoing.
• Remove all clothing associated with the situation before leaving the zone.
• Bribing, threatening or pressuring EMS to avoid a sling is prohibited.

IC Communication

IC communication must use approved in-game systems.

• Local voice
• Radio
• Phone
• Approved in-game systems

Discord calls, private external calls and external communication to coordinate IC actions are prohibited unless specifically approved for a server system/event.

Safe Zones

Hostile RP cannot be initiated against players actively using designated safe zones.

Examples:

• Hospitals
• Garages
• Clothing stores
• Property interiors
• Other designated safe zones

Safe zones cannot be abused to escape RP.

Server Restarts

NO NEW CRIMINAL ACTIVITY 30 MINUTES BEFORE OR AFTER A SCHEDULED RESTART.

Where possible, ongoing criminal RP should be concluded before the pre-restart period.

Police Corruption

Police corruption requires prior Senior Staff approval.

This includes:

• Selling police equipment
• Giving weapons to criminals
• Selling confidential information
• Assisting criminal organisations
• Taking bribes as part of corruption RP