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Server Rules

*Ignorance or misinterpretation of any of the rules or other rulesets will not be accepted as a defense against disciplinary action. Server rules are always subject to change and updates are added as the admin staff sees fit. Failure to follow any of the following rules can result in a server ban.*

Keep reports logical, meaningful, and relevant. Mass reporting a group/individual with no real actionable rule breaks for the sole intent of revenge for in-city actions may result in repercussions for yourself.

Requirements to play:

  • A working microphone

  • A customized character (both clothing/face from default) that looks realistic enough to engage with others.

1. Random Deathmatching (RDM)

You are at no point allowed to kill another player's character without sufficient reason and/or without initiation. 

  • You must give the player you are roleplaying with a reasonable amount of time to comply with your demand(s). 

  • Giving a player an impossible demand, and then killing them is strictly forbidden, and will result in punishment. 

  • If a player is complying with you, you must have a valid reason to kill them. 

    • A valid reason is expected to be reasonable and executed within a reasonable time frame.

  • You should at no point start roleplay with someone with the sole intent of it escalating to a fistfight or gunfight. 

  • Randomly shooting or punching someone will result in punishment. 

  • No one is required to pay a ransom, including police, killing someone if the ransom isn't paid isn't a valid reason to kill someone who complied.

  • During a scenario where a gang wants to “group” initiate, only one gang member is required to initiate. This player is responsible for ensuring that he/she is heard loudly (via shouting) and clearly by the opposition. The Initiating player must make the opposition aware that they are initiating as part of a larger group. I.E “Leave the area or WE will shoot.”

    • This does not initiate the gang as a whole, only the members within proximity of the situation. Any additional ‘members’ arriving must initiate themselves.

    • The player performing the group initiation may be required to provide sufficient evidence that initiation was done correctly.

    • Groups need to be in matching vehicle colors to be involved in group initiation.

  • Helicopters do not need verbal initiation ONLY if there are no ground units to initiate on PD/FIB below. Instead, you may initiate by shooting the air several times and give the helicopter reasonable time to pull away. If it does not leave the area, you are clear to shoot, however, be aware passengers in the helicopter may retaliate and backup ground units may arrive who would join the fight as PD has been initiated via shots.

    In case of a report please make sure to provide footage of at least 3 minutes prior to the incident!
     

1b. Auto Initiation
In scenarios where this rule applies, if any other form of initiation is made that includes demands (e.g. gang initiation), auto-initiation no longer applies, and regular initiation rules must be followed.

  • If you are lockpicking someone's vehicle or hotwiring it, you are automatically initiated into hostile roleplay with the owner(s) of that vehicle.
     
  • When police perform a Code 5 stop on you, they are initiating hostile roleplay with you allowing you and your passengers to shoot at them.
    • The Code 5 starts once the police have drawn their weapons on your vehicle and demanded you to step out with your hands up.
    • Valuing your life still applies.
       
  • Vehicle boost missions (A and S), which involve a GPS tracker that needs to be hacked, are hostile situations where the people in the boost vehicle are allowed to shoot at the police once their pursuit has started.
    • Anyone joining to assist the booster(s) is required to initiate themselves into the situation.
       
  • For heists (Banks, Vangelico, Pac Standard): the criminals initially involved in the heists are initiated into hostile roleplay with the police. So, once they leave the heist and enter a pursuit, they are clear to shoot the police without saying anything.
    • Anyone joining the pursuit to assist them will need to initiate themselves.
       

2. Vehicle Deathmatch (VDM)

  • You are at no point allowed to use your vehicle as a weapon, even if someone is threatening your life, you cannot run them over. This rule doesn’t apply if someone runs into your vehicle, as it isn’t your fault.
     
  • Purposeful vehicle-to-vehicle contact is not allowed if attempting to cause a driver to lose control unless you are both traveling at 60 mph or below.
     
  • Constant vehicle-to-vehicle contact in an attempt to disable an engine is not allowed at any speed.
     
  • Accidents happen, if your actions result in a possible violation of these rules you should try to remedy the situation by continuing a chase or taking the victim to the hospital for example.
     

3. Not Valuing Life (NVL)

Not properly taking your life into consideration when performing an action such as: jumping off a roof, driving into the ocean, walking/running on the freeway, exiting a moving vehicle, taking a ramp, etc. - If one or more of these actions result in your death you could be punished for NVL.

If you are held at gunpoint you must comply with their demands, you are not to pull out your weapon and shoot them, nor can you perform any other action than what you are told. For example, calling over the radio before placing your hands in the air when told to do so.

If you have a friend who gets the jump on the person holding you up, they may then take over the situation by putting a gun on them. The friend must initiate hostile role-play with the person first, they cannot just shoot the person. If you or the person you are holding up complies with your demand you are not to kill them. You need a legitimate reason to kill them. If you are outnumbered by a party who has weapons and proceed to use your weapon against them, this is considered not valuing your life. If someone has you at gunpoint and lowers their guard AND turns their body away from your person, you may try to escape the situation or take advantage.

This is different for police, if a police officer is held at gunpoint and an officer around the corner is notified, he is allowed to shoot if deemed clear to. 

This is not to be abused by the police, if the police choose to just shoot, it could cause the officer held up to be killed which would defeat the purpose of valuing your life and could result in a punishment.

Reference "13. Player robberies" for more specifics.
 

4. New Life Rule (NLR)

If you are incapacitated and revived, you do not have to forget who killed you or how you died.

  • Unless your character personally knows the person who killed you, do not identify the person to the police by name, only by clothes and face.

  • All charges that could be applied if you committed any crimes can still be applied.

  • You can return to a fight if it was outside of a redzone and you were brought back to your feet through any means other than taking the light.

If you are killed and respawn at a hospital, you are to forget any details about your killer and the events that led to the event.

  • You may not report to the police that you were murdered. 

  • You may not go back to your location of death, and you cannot involve yourself in any ongoing scene that led to your immediate death until that situation is over and the people involved in your death have left the area.

  • You cannot be reminded of your death to get revenge on those involved in your killing.

  • Unless you are killed by the police all prior charges the police have out on you still apply. 

Killing Police Officers at a Police Department and committing crimes within/around the outside of a Police Department will be picked up on camera. Even if you kill the cops there, they can review the "footage" and arrest those who raided the PD. 

*This means if a cop is killed at a Police Department he/she can "remember" the clothing of the suspects involved, and anyone fully identified and ran through the police system prior to an officer's death can be "remembered".*

The police are not to say, "You killed me", they are to say, "You killed an officer(s) at the PD".

 

5. Powergaming (PG)

Power gaming is defined as Using mechanics or roleplaying mechanics that do not exist. Roleplaying on behalf of other players or NPCs is classified as Powergaming.

  • “Hacking police computers to delete video records” -- This is an example of Powergaming.

  • Forcing people to roleplay the way you want them to is considered Powergaming.

  • Attempting to roleplay powers for your character beyond what is possible for an average person.

  • Attempting to circumvent roleplay by forcing a death upon your character that doesn’t result in a permanent death for the individual. 

  • Attempting to take someone out of police custody in a locked vehicle by using the escort menu.
     

6. Metagaming (meta)

Metagaming is defined as Using external factors, information, or knowledge your character would not be able to obtain through normal means of gameplay. Using any information from streams, forums, or discord, is strictly forbidden. Your character can only know what it learns in-game.

  • Sharing out-of-character information via /me is considered metagaming.

  • Using any out-of-character communication devices to communicate in-character information while unable to in-game. (Discord, Teamspeak, Skype, Steam. etc)

  • Stream sniping is not tolerated. Being in a stream while you are also in game, whether you are watching or not is considered Metagaming and you will be punished for it.
     

7. Exploiting

Exploiting is defined as abusing bugs, broken game mechanics, and/or using mechanics for an unintended purpose in an abusive way to benefit yourself. This includes duplicating vehicles/money/items. Failing to report game-breaking bugs and using them for your benefit/gain will result in punishment.

  • Using any broken game mechanic to gain an advantage over other players is not permitted.

  • Duplicating money/items in any way is not permitted.

  • Emoting during combat, in an attempt to avoid damage such as bullets, fists, or melee weapons is not permitted.

7. B Cheating

  • Using any software or modification that gives you an advantage over other players is not allowed.


7. C Macroing

  • Using any third-party software to automate any process or actions is not permitted.
     

8. Combat Logging

You may never disconnect while in an active roleplay scenario with another player. This includes but is not limited to, whilst being in the custody of a police officer.

  • If you are downed in an active gunfight and then disconnect/close your client, this is considered combat logging.

  • Taking the light in the middle of a roleplay scenario or while in police/ems custody is considered combat logging.

  • If you are disconnected through the game crash, you are required to rejoin the server and return to the state you were in during the RP scenario.

  • If your game crashes whilst you are in custody or you are in an RP scenario, you must make an attempt to find the officer/civilian you were with prior to the crash and attempt to continue the RP.

  • If you are revived by a medic and are cleared of medical custody and there is currently no ongoing situation that involves you, you may log off.

Roleplay Time Limitations

If kidnapped, restrained and left without a clear roleplay purpose for more than 10 minutes (meaning left in the desert, on the street or elsewhere) you are allowed to disconnect from the server as your RP has ended with the other player. This does not mean waiting 10 minutes at a bank robbery to disconnect as a hostage- you are still in an ongoing situation.
 

9. Hostage Situations

If the Police Department complies with your requests, you must ensure that the hostages' lives are secure and safe. You cannot request impossible things from police or hostages.

You need to prepare your heists before you take hostages, if you take more than 10 minutes to get a hostage to the heist location you may be asked to release them.
 

10. Incapacitated Roleplay

You are not to use any radio/voice communication to relay in-character information to other players. 

Do not talk in-game while dead if you have suffered a serious injury. You are however allowed to roleplay injured and reply with appropriate information if asked by medical/police or a civilian attempting to render aid.

Using (G) while dead to call ems is a game feature that the developers made to contact EMS. It is also permissible to do /call 911 to contact police for MEDICAL ATTENTION ONLY, if there is no EMS online. (This means there are no medics online, not that no one has answered your call)

If you are kidnapped and your communication and/or GPS have been removed in RP whilst you have been restrained, it is FailRP to try to contact anyone using any form of communication in character. Using systems such as /call medic, /call 911 is not permitted. Relaying your position using out-of-character means, either in-game or out of the game is Metagaming as covered above.
 

11. Out of game voice

Do not talk out of the game(in character) if you are kidnapped/hostage and the players have role-played removed your communication/phone/etc.
 

12. FailRP/Trolling:

Excessive harassment and trolling can result in a server ban. Respect your fellow players.

  • Derogatory remarks about race, religion, gender, sexual preference, sexual orientation, gender identity, etc. whether it be in RP, on the forums, etc. are not allowed.

  • Role-playing sexual assault (non-consensual touching, rape, etc.) sexual acts or other unwanted sexual roleplay is not allowed.

  • No mic spamming (playing loud music or sounds) without the consent of others.

  • Do not spam OOC chat.

  • Cop baiting, (e.g.: baiting the cops into a chase/baiting them to robberies, baiting them through 911, etc.) will result in a server kick/ban.

  • DO NOT spawn vehicles for jobs and leave them in the spawn area. If you are not going to use a vehicle, store it.

  • You are not allowed to get a job with the intention of using the provided vehicle for personal use.

  • You may NOT Role play as any form of a Terrorist organization explicitly to create chaos via explosions, ramming, or firing.

  • Taking out/Storing, delivering, or chopping a vehicle while actively engaged in an RP scenario (eg. a police chase) is considered FailRP.

  • Tackling people without initiating hostile roleplay or having a reason for tackling is considered trolling (such as pretending to trip after running into someone)

  • Do not share in-character information if your character couldn't do so normally (dead/handcuffed, zip-tied, etc..)

  • Using a "Bluetooth headset" is not an excuse to talk out of the game (in character) while restrained/zip-tied.

  • Failing to talk(in-character) in-game while using out-of-game communication is considered FailRP. This accounts for EMS/Police as well.

  • Impersonating police officers is not allowed.

  • You cannot use skydiving to evade arrest or capture.

  • You may not create a second character with the sole intention being to benefit your main character and/or their associates.

  • You are not allowed to change your vehicle's color right after or during a hostile roleplay scenario.

Involving yourself, beyond spectating, in an active roleplay scenario with no clear roleplay reason can be considered fail roleplay.

This includes, but is not limited to;

  • Stealing a vehicle outside a bank robbery

  • Interfering or disrupting a police chase

  • Entering a closed-off crime scene

  • Involving yourself in a gunfight that you are not affiliated with.

  • Involving yourself in an ongoing robbery or hostage situation you are not affiliated with.

12b. Corrupt Roleplay:

  • Purposely committing felonies as a police officer or a medic is not allowed.

  • Using corrupt roleplay as LSPD\LSMC to directly benefit your alternative characters and their associates is not allowed.

Examples of corrupt roleplay:

  • Murder

  • Drowning people

  • Robbing people or your department

  • Robbing a bank

  • Accepting a bribe

  • Lying on a police report

  • Clearing a bolo for self-benefit.

12c. Teleportation:

  • While in an active roleplay situation, you cannot use teleportation methods for uses such as escaping or avoiding the situation.
  • You cannot wait/camp at public elevators with the intent to kill or harm others.

Here are a few examples for context: 

  • Using an elevator teleport
  • Entering/exiting a player-owned property.

12d. Weapon/Conflict-Free Zones:

  • This refers to areas that prevent you from unholstering weapons and targeting/punching other players, such as hospitals and the Casino.
  • While in an active hostile roleplay situation, you cannot flee to these zones to escape or avoid the situation.
  • You also may not deliberately use these zones as a safe area to avoid/hide from conflict that directly involves you.

13. Player robberies

You cannot force players to transfer your money from their bank account. 

You cannot force a player to drop their items on the ground.

Player-on-player robberies are not allowed unless you are part of a gang or crew.

  • Gang/Crew members are only allowed to rob a rival gang member, and only if they are in conflict with their gang.

You are able to steal vehicles and if you get keys to that vehicle, you are able to search the trunk. (Chain robbery rules still apply to stealing player cars to loot them)

Player robberies are expected to be well executed and hold role-play value. Any group or individual that chain-robs (Spending their time in city consistently robbing other players) is considered a rule break under FailRP and Trolling. There is no time frame between robberies that allows you to ‘reasonably’ chain rob and avoid this rule. Players will be punished accordingly.

13b. Heist Roleplay

  • To be involved in a bank robbery you must be inside or in the near vicinity (10 meters) of the building being robbed. Vicinity starting at the front door. This means that only the people at the robbery can take part in the hostile roleplay initiated, you can no longer have mystery snipers.
     
  • All hostages need to be legitimate! Either by kidnapping them or if they are at the place being robbed. Someone volunteering or accepting payment to be a hostage makes them an illegitimate hostage.
     
  • The only time you can KOS someone during a robbery is if they run into the bank/store with a gun out in a hostile way. If not, you must initiate some form of threatening role-play with the people outside/inside before shooting.
     
  • Cops will try and negotiate with people at robberies, you will have more than a heads-up before they start shooting, so you may not KOS them until the pursuit has started.
     

14. OOC Chat

Ooc (out-of-character chat) is not to be used for arguments, harassment, or derogatory remarks. Be respectful of other players in-game. If staff tell you to stop, and you continue, expect to receive a warning/kick/ban depending on the seriousness of the offense. If you have a complaint about someone, place it in the player report section of the forum.
 

15. Voice Changers

Unrealistic voice changers (eg. chipmunk voice) are not permitted on our servers. If you are using a voice changer that the staff deems unrealistic (or annoying), you will be warned. If you continue to use the voice changer after being warned, you will be banned from the servers.
 

16. Toxicity

Any behavior considered to be "toxic" is not permitted on STRP. Toxic behavior includes bullying, harassment, trolling, creating unnecessary drama, and manipulating or controlling others against other players. Continued toxic behavior will be met with a permanent ban.

  • Please be respectful to other players. We're all entitled to our own opinions, but we expect our players to be tolerant when it comes to other players and their situations.

  • We also understand that some players may RP as characters who may come across as "mean" and we're okay with that. Although, this is not an excuse for toxic behavior. There's a fine line between good RP and just being plain mean. Staff will keep this in mind when issuing bans for toxicity.
     

17. Behavior Outside of STRP

STRP staff is not responsible for behavior outside of our servers, our forums or Discord. Unfortunately, it's difficult for us to get a clear picture of a situation when we don't have access to complete logs. If someone is harassing, bullying you, etc. outside of the game, block them.
 

18. Sharing Accounts

Sharing accounts on STRP is not permitted. If someone gains access to your account, we are not responsible for any losses or bans you may incur. STRP accounts sync directly with your Steam account, so keep your Steam details safe.
 

19. Ban Lengths

We do not have a set length of time for each type of ban. The ban length is completely up to the member of staff who banned you and is often based on a number of factors. Bans can also be reduced OR extended at the discretion of any member of staff.
 

20. Staff Discretion

Unfortunately, these rules do not cover every single situation. If a situation occurs where STRP or its players are affected in a negative way, an administrator or higher has the ability to ban you for a reason not listed in the rules. The member of staff who makes use of this "Staff Discretion" policy must provide you with a thorough explanation for the ban and it must be clear that you had a negative impact on the community and/or its players.
 

21. SABS Bans

SABS is our automatic banning system. It bans players for gaining an unfair advantage in the game through the use of various exploits.

We will not reverse a SABS ban unless one of the following conditions is met:

  • You have a video recording of when you were banned by SABS (at least five minutes leading up to the ban).

  • We just updated SABS and a bug caused you to be banned by accident.

Neither of the points above guarantees that your ban will be lifted. SABS bans must be handled by administrators and developers.
 

22. Retiring Your Characters

Committing suicide is no longer permitted on STRP. If you'd like to retire your character, there are many other ways to do so. Suicide is a sensitive topic and even though an argument can be made for retiring a character this way, it has become much too frequent and it has led to a number of unnecessary player reports (and drama). If you do RP a situation where you retire your character, you are REQUIRED to delete your character (staff will be enforcing this).
 

23. Redzones: 

Redzones are KOS (Kill on sight) zones around the map, if you are inside one of these zones you can kill and be killed without initiation from the other party. 

  • Both parties must be within the redzone to be eligible for KOS (Kill on sight).
     
  • Redzone baiting is not allowed. Stand on the edge of the redzone at your own risk.  (If you idle at the border of a redzone or run/drive around the edge of a redzone, and get killed by doing so, it will not fall under the RDM rule. Stand close to the edge at your own risk!)
     
  • All other rules still apply within the redzones excluding RDM (Random Death Match) and NVL (Not Valuing Life).

Neighborhood Redzones:
(i.e. redzones within the main map that are attacked by crews/gangs and show a red circle to enter.)

  • Players are not allowed to engage in combat in red zone neighborhoods unless they are actively attempting to claim the zone for their gang.
     
  • Once you have entered an active redzone area you cannot leave the zone until the fight is over either via ‘capping’ the turf or finishing the fight. If you decide to leave the zone, you cannot enter and rejoin that active fight. This prevents unfair repositioning that dramatically affects the outcome of a redzone fight.
     
  • If the redzone has been capped (the circle drops) and a fight is still ongoing; players can continue the fight as usual, and all rules still apply as if the zone was still up. You must stay within the original zone borders and NO ADDITIONAL members can join if they were not previously inside the active redzone.
     
  • You cannot return to the same fight at Turf after you have been downed (Reviving and Respawning). Once respawned or revived, you can however go to a different turf. 
     
  • Initiation does not carry over outside of the redzone, both parties must be inside at all times for initiation (KOS) to be valid.
     
  • Players cannot enter a redzone in large industrial vehicles to use it strategically as cover.

Cayo Perico:

  • If you are in active warfare e.g., shooting at or being shot at and attempting to flee the red zone area of Cayo, the initiation lasts as long as both parties are actively engaged in a firefight. If both parties, get too far away to keep engaging outside of the Cayo redzone you would need to initiate hostile roleplay again. (Firing shots from far away doesn't keep you initiated)
     
  • If you are killed on Cayo Perico, you cannot return to the island for 30 minutes from when you respawn.

 

24. Blacklisted vehicles

  • Do not steal police cars, ambulances, firetrucks, planes, helicopters, construction vehicles, or any military vehicle. Some of these are blacklisted, some are not. If you happen to be able to get into one, this does NOT mean you are allowed to drive or fly around in them.

  • Using tankers to blow them up during RP situations is not allowed.
     

25. Scamming

Coming to an agreement with another player for a trade/exchange and intentionally not delivering your side of the deal is not allowed.

  • Anything gained from scamming will be removed from the offender.

  • If you are selling items with durability, the buyer must be made aware of its current durability number.

  • While trading/selling boosted vehicles, the other party must be made aware of its boosted status.

    Please take into consideration that proof needs to be provided for action to be taken and for the missing goods to be returned.
    This only includes deals/exchanges made in the city for in-city assets and includes trades between our NA and EU servers.

26. TBM

  • Listing a vehicle for a small amount on TBM to avoid tax is at your own risk, which means staff are not responsible for reversing any transactions created like this.
     

27. Game Mods

  • The use of third-party game modifiers, which provide an unfair advantage and/or are considered unrealistic, is not allowed.

Examples:

  • Removing terrain/objects (bushes, props, bodies of water, etc...)

  • Loud footsteps, headshot sounds, death sounds

  • Adding unrealistic visual effects (confetti blood-splatters, bullet tracers, disabling night-time, etc.)

  • FOV (field of view) modifiers that extend/enhance the camera view of the perspective of the player beyond the settings available within FiveM/Grand Theft Auto.

 

Enacting your own punishment on players who are breaking server rules is not allowed. Please make a report and allow staff to decide the punishment. Two wrongs do not make a right. Breaking server rules as a result of other rule breakers may result in punishment at staff discretion.

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