Server Rules

GENERAL RULES:

All players and characters must be 18 years of age or older.
If you (the player) are under the limit you will not be allowed to RP in this server. If you want to have characters that are younger, open a ticket in the discord and wait for approval. You may only have one character that is underage. If your character is underage, you must understand that romance rp will not be tolerated.

Sexual harassment, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, or racism will NOT be tolerated in this server. Any of these will result in a permanent ban without appeal.

Disrespect:
This server does not tolerate any kind of disrespect, toxicity, racism, hate speech or sexual harassment towards ANYONE within the community. Doing so will grant you an express ticket out of the community. Our goal in this server is to create a safe and fun environment for people to RP and write their stories in.

Be original and create new stories.
All characters and their names must be unique. Characters may not be from shows, movies, books, or any other media. You may not name your characters after historical figures, either living or dead.

By verifying yourself in the discord server, you have confirmed that you have read the rules and will follow them.
The consequences of the rules will apply whether you have read them or not. The rules are subject to change as the server grows.

We have ZERO tolerance for:

  • Hate Speech, Hate Crimes or Slurs
  • Stalking or Other Predatory Behavior
  • Personal Insults OOC
  • Slave Roleplay
  • Suicide or Self-Harm Roleplay
  • Infanticide
  • Active Pregnancy Roleplay – You may refer to prior or potential future pregnancies, but may not rp as if currently pregnant. If you would like your character and another to have a child together, please submit a ticket.
  • NO MACROS, AUTO-CLICKERS, OR ANY OTHER FORM OF CHEATS/HACKS.
  • Exploiting glitches or hacks. If you find a glitch or exploit, please notify staff through a ticket.

Zero tolerance means a permanent ban if found guilty of breaking any of these rules. There will be an investigation done by staff to make the decision on your ban.

You do not need to finish a scene if you feel uncomfortable with it. Make the other people in the scene known of your discomfort and if the scene continues, make a ticket right away. You do not have to RP with anyone that makes you uncomfortable.

DISCORD RULES:

  • Do not post NSFW content.
  • Do not post personal information about yourself or others.
  • Do not harass anyone.
  • No racism, homophobia, transphobia, hate speech, personal insults, etc. towards others.
  • Your discord name must contain your character’s name.
  • Please don’t message staff members privately about server issues.

STREAMERS:

This server is streamer-friendly. Conduct your RP with the understanding that anyone you encounter in game could be streaming. DO NOT use information from a stream IC. It is considered meta gaming, and will result in punishment.

FAIL ROLEPLAY & FEAR RP:

Fail RP is the act of breaking character or doing unrealistic things that could break the immersion of others. It is strictly prohibited.

ALWAYS value your life in any situation, and behave realistically. If someone had a gun pointed at you, you wouldn’t run or try to pull your weapon out, because your life is more important than a gun or money. If your character takes a risk, you should be ready to roleplay the consequences of that risk if it fails.

  • Using modern-day slang is not allowed, you should speak and use terminology according to the time and year, 1900.
  • Don’t disregard injuries, this ruins RP for doctors, always RP your injuries.
  • No horseplay! This includes actions like blowing your buddy’s head off for funsies or jumping off towering cliffs to see if anybody survives. It’s a failure to value life.
  • Do not force or input yourself into an ongoing scene/situation.
  • DO NOT engage in gunplay over roleplay. Don’t attack another player without having a story-driven intent behind it.

POWER-GAMING:

Power-gaming is the act of doing anything that could give you an unfair or unrealistic advantage when roleplaying. Power-gaming is attempting to control a narrative that isn’t yours by forcing an outcome in favor of you. It is prohibited. Power-gaming can take several forms. Playing your character and story should always be more important than playing for money or fame.

  • Abuse of game mechanics to gain an advantage during roleplay is power-gaming.
  • You are not allowed to swap items or money between your characters, this is considered power-gaming.
  • Downing an individual with the intention of making them “forget” events that had just happened is also power-gaming and is strictly prohibited.

RANDOM DEATH MATCH (RDM):

RDM is strictly prohibited. This is the act of intentionally hurting someone without sufficient meaningful roleplay beforehand. 

Assault and murder are serious crimes that should never be taken lightly, however “hardened” your character may be. There must be a reason or motive behind your actions for wanting to harm another character, and you must also have substantial interaction leading up to the act itself. 

Saying hello before downing a character is not enough. Before you may attack another player, the active scene must have met the following criteria:

  • The attacker and victim must have spoken to one another directly, each having multiple lines of dialogue – either spoken or delivered through the use of /do and /me commands.
  • The attacker must have established a motive for the attack in the conversation.

CORRUPTION ROLEPLAY:

If you wish to do corruption roleplay (as a doctor, LEO, lawyer, government official, etc.) you must submit a ticket and have it approved. If your character is found guilty of corruption, you must realistically RP the IC consequences.

RESPAWNING:

When your character becomes “Seriously Injured” (is downed), you have the option to call for a doctor or respawn. You are encouraged to try calling for a doctor before respawning. If you are revived by a doctor, you lose the 15 minutes of your character’s memory immediately prior to being downed. If a doctor accepts your call but does not arrive before the respawn timer finishes, wait an additional 5 minutes for them. They may have to travel in order to reach you, and it’s not fair to them to pull them away from their RP only to bail before they arrive. 

If you are not revived by a doctor and choose to respawn on your own, you will lose the last 30 minutes of your character’s memory. You will not lose anything from your inventory. You are still encouraged to have your character seek out a doctor for medical attention after respawning.

This memory loss means you may not seek revenge for your death immediately upon reviving. You will need a witness of the events to refresh your memory or naturally discover clues to piece together what happened before you can take action. 

While a character is downed, they are considered “unconscious.” During this time, a character should not be able to see nor hear – and therefore should not remember later – anything that happens around them. You are expected to realistically RP resulting injuries. 

METAGAMING:

Metagaming is prohibited. This is the act of using information in-game that your character should not have knowledge of. Information you gained out of character (OOC) may not be acted on or disclosed in character (IC) until your character learns of it naturally IC. If you have multiple characters, they may not know each other, nor have any contact with one another. You can’t transfer information between your characters by having them exchange telegrams.

MICROPHONE RULES:

We do not have any quality requirements on your equipment. Voice changers are allowed, but only if the resulting voice has a natural and realistic sound. 

Do not play copyrighted music through your microphone. Sound effects, music recordings within the public domain, or player-created instrumentals are allowed only when realistic within the scene. For example, you may use the /do command to “play guitar” and then play a guitar or a public-domain guitar track into your microphone.

IDENTIFYING:

You may not ID people by their voice. There are other ways to ID someone (including scars, clothing, guns, or unique mannerisms). This also means you cannot identify someone by their accent.

CRIMINAL ROLEPLAY:

  • When robbing an individual of weapons, you can only take weapons that are visible on their person.
  • You are not allowed to completely wipe a player’s inventory.
  • You can only rob banks every 15 minutes per group/gang
  • You cannot force a player to withdraw anything from their personal inventories (banks or houses).
  • You are not allowed to rob someone and proceed to down them.
  • You may not repeatedly target the same player(s).
  • You are not allowed to commit major felonies or rob banks/stores during the 30 minutes preceding or following a server reset. 
  • You can “leave evidence” for crimes that have not been witnessed to enhance further RP by using the /scene command.
  • Attacking locals without an established motive is considered Fail RP.
  • Torturing someone without OOC consent is prohibited.
  • Trying to force perma someone’s character, such as taking actions against the character that they would not reasonably recover from is prohibited.
  • Dumping someone’s body in a place where it cannot be retrieved by a doctor (Bottomless pits, middle of lakes, rivers, etc.) is prohibited.
  • Taunting or goading a player after you have downed them is prohibited. They are not meant to hear nor remember anything happening in that moment, and you should want to avoid being caught, so there’s no reason to stick around.
  • Do not wait to ambush a doctor or LEO coming to help someone. Do not move their body; this is power-gaming.
  • Attempting to rob players that are in a menu (banks, telegrams, clothing store, etc.) is prohibited.
  • Attempting to, or succeeding in, robbing a person that is clearly AFK is prohibited.
  • Selling any illegal items in New Austin, since it is lawless and no LEO’s have jurisdiction there, is prohibited.
  • Storing/depositing bank notes that you just received from a bank robbery, in the same bank that you robbed is prohibited.
  • Scopes and sniper rifles may not be used when robbing a player train, but are allowed during NPC train robberies.

VIGILANTISM:

Do not enforce the law if you are not LEO. Always search out law if you see something illegal happening, do not take it upon yourself to handle it. You may protect your friends if you are present when something happens to them, but do not insert yourself into scenes you have no involvement in. Vigilantism deprives both LEOs and criminals of their RP.

COMBAT LOGGING:

Exiting out of the game during an active scenario (such as med RP or law RP) is forbidden. After committing a crime, you must wait 15 minutes before you can log off. If your game crashes, notify the other players involved and/or staff via discord.

BEING HOGTIED:

Players should use common sense when hogtied, if the character isn’t sure if escaping makes sense, they should not attempt it. Players should not break out of hogties unless your captor has left you unattended for 5 minutes.

ROBBERY ROLEPLAY:

  • Pocket wiping is prohibited. 
  • You must leave them with some food and drink items.
  • You may only steal 3 items, plus any or all of the guns that are visible on the person’s body.
  • The player being stolen from may not switch out or pocket their weapon(s) to prevent an equipped weapon from being seen and stolen.
  • Do not leave players handcuffed, otherwise staff will have to uncuff them.
  • Do not use friends as willing hostages.

TORTURE ROLEPLAY:

You must ask for consent to torture another player’s character either via DM’s or by a message at the scene. You may not “kill” someone directly after torturing them. Downing the player causes them to forget the torture scene (making it pointless) and ruins any potential for further RP. Permanent damage to a character requires consent as well.

PERMA RULES:

  • Players can only decide to perma (kill off) their own characters, you cannot force someone else to perma their character. Once the character is dead, they remain dead. There is no coming back for this character in any capacity, and they must be deleted after the fact.
  • If two individuals consent to a duel, the result will end with one dying and perma-ing their character.

PARTY SIZES:

  • The maximum size for a posse is 5 people. A posse is a group that travels to undertake a hostile action. A posse can be a group of criminals, lawmen, or civilians. A responding or opposing group may match the size of the first to make it an even 5v5.
  • Any group who were already at a location suddenly finding themselves defending against a posse are not obligated to limit their response to five persons. Every individual present may make their own decision.
  • If a hostile party of 5 rides into a town and creates a hostile environment, the citizens are not obligated to limit their response to five persons. Any citizen who is so inclined, may defend themselves.

WAR:

If two gangs or groups go to war, it is the responsibility of the leaders of the groups to decide on the terms beforehand with staff via a discord ticket. The posse limit for gang wars can go up to, but cannot exceed 12 players. The war party must be designated in the ticket. If individual players involved change their mind or get busy with IC or OOC things, they may be substituted for other members in the alliance by mentioning the substitution in the ticket. A substitute may not enter the war party until after the substitution is approved by staff within the ticket.

PROPERTY RULES:

Each player is limited to a maximum of two properties. You may have two houses or one house and one business. A single character cannot own more than one house, but may own one house and one business. 

If your character who owns a business commits any crimes in said business, IC consequences may occur.

You may not hold another player hostage or another player’s body behind a locked door.

Inactive properties are subject to being seized and put on the market or auctioned off. If you own property and plan to be away for an extended period of time, you should notify staff via a ticket. If the property is inactive for 3 weeks without notice it is at risk of repossession. If the inactivity continues past 8 weeks, the property may be repossessed even with notice.

ANIMAL PED RULES:

Players using animal peds must abide by all the same rules as human characters in addition to the rules in this section that are specific to them. While incredibly fun to play, the animal peds in the server are intended to be used to further and deepen roleplay. Numbers will be limited and applications will be carefully selected. 

  • Do not talk. Use a soundboard or /me or /do to communicate. Keep these communications realistic.
  • When you need to eat or drink, go somewhere away from people. This animation is not yet working correctly. 
  • If you are downed, the vet must revive you away from others, as it will temporarily transform your character into a human. You must immediately revert back to animal form before returning to rp.