Rules and Guidelines

GETTING STARTED RULES

    Read all of the rules carefully. Claiming ignorance of these rules is not allowed and will result in at least a 24 hour ban.
    You must be a member of RP First GTA RP Discord. Change your Discord name to include your RP name as soon you join. Example: “Discord Name (RP Character Name)”
    You must make an ID at City Hall the first time you enter the server.

GENERAL RULES:

    Respect others at all times. Racism, hate speech, rape, and sexual harassment are not allowed.
    NO ERP on the server. Keep your hentai tentacle fetish shit to DMs, ODESIUS.
    Do not grief others. Griefing is the act of intentionally angering or irritating another player with malicious intent. Example: Consistently stalking a player to force RP.
    Do not violate the Twitch Terms of Service or Rules of Conduct. Read them here and here.
    Value of Life: You must value your life and the lives of others. For example, do not attempt to draw a weapon while being held at gunpoint or carelessly injure NPCs.
    No PD baiting. Value for your life/freedom and strive to not get caught in a crime. Jail/ Fines are not to be treated lightly.
    Metagaming: Do not act on any information obtained through means other than direct RP.
    Powergaming is the process of gaining an advantage in a RP scenario, either by using in-game mechanics or RP, to give the other players involved no opportunity to interact or defend themselves. It gives the other people involved in RP no option but to lose. Powergaming is prohibited. Examples: Constantly speaking over Players or Robbing Players without giving them an opportunity to speak or defend themselves.
    Breaking Character: You must stay in character at all times. No exceptions. Do not break character if you see someone breaking a server rule or have a problem with another person. Instead, file a report  with the specific server rule broken. Insinuation of a rule break in game is a blatant violation of this rule and will be met with discipline – this includes references to Admins.
    Do not abuse in-game mechanics to gain an advantage over another Player or avoid RP.
    Glitching/Hacking/Exploitation are all against the rules. This includes using in-game mechanics that are broken or a 3rd party program to knowingly gain an advantage in any situation.
    You must use a microphone in RP. Local text chat is prohibited.
    Use in-game VoIP at all times. Third party apps such as Teamspeak and Discord are prohibited.
    In the case of server restarts/disconnects: Continue exactly as left off without bringing attention to the restart/disconnect.



PvP and INJURY  RULES:

    RDM: RDM is never allowed. Conflict must be initiated either verbally, through texts, or ads.
        Ads are to be the last resort for initiating conflict and only used when all other options have been exhausted.
        Gunfire that does not injure or down a player is not considered RDM. Example: Shooting at the ground in front of a Player’s feet to get their attention.
    The only exception to rule 1 (of PVP rules) applies to Store Robberies, Bank Robberies, and Heists. In these 3 scenarios both parties will assume gunfire will happen without verbal, text, or ad communication. Read the below very carefully.
        PD must follow their SOP guidelines at all times.
        PD must immediately identify themselves when arriving on scene and attempt verbal communication before firing their weapon.
        PD will assume that suppressive shots will be fired at them without verbal communication from Criminals.
        PD is allowed to return fire with the intent to injure/put down once they receive suppressive fire from Criminals.
        Criminals MUST be in the immediate area for Rule 2 to apply to them.
        Criminals are NOT required to use verbal communication before firing at PD. However, they must use suppressive fire if they choose not to verbally communicate first. Suppressive fire means firing shots at PD with the intent to push them back into cover without injuring them. Give PD the opportunity to take cover, react, and fire back before shooting with the intent to down the PD Player. Suppressive Fire Examples: Shooting at the feet of PD, shooting the car doors and hood of a PD car, or shooting at the side and tail of a PD chopper.
        Rule 2 is in effect from the moment the Robbery/Heist is started until either 1) The Criminals involved are arrested and/or 2) The Criminals involved escape.
        Both Criminals and PD will follow General rule 4. Do NOT attempt to pull out a weapon, raise your weapon, or shoot if a Player has you at gunpoint. Example: Criminal runs out of Store, weapon in hand, into a PD Officer who has his gun pointed at him. At this point, the Criminal is NOT allowed to raise his weapon and attempt to shoot because it is not valuing life.
    Do not log out while in the middle of combat or to exploit game mechanics.
    Do not go to the barbershop with the intent to drastically change your appearance if wanted by PD. Examples of what is NOT allowed: Changing your face, eyebrows, hairstyle, age, etc. Examples of what IS allowed: Dyeing hair, putting on a painted mask, shaving beard off, etc.
    New Life Rule: Please read this rule carefully. It is different from other servers.
        Revived after being downed = remember what happened, but not who did it. You remember the events and circumstances leading to your death (Place and how it was done), but not who was involved (you don’t remember if it was male/female, what they wore, or how they spoke).
        If ALS’d = Do not remember anything leading up to your death.
        If killed from explosions or falling from great heights. Players can be revived but must not remember anything leading up to your death.
        The downed player must speak or emote to EMS/PD to indicate they want to be revived or ALSed. Example “/me no pulse” tells PD/EMS to not revive and “/me weak pulse” tells PD to revive them.
        EMS/PD will not revive downed players until they indicate that is what they want.
        The LSPD can charge/arrest Players for crimes committed before they respawned.
        Criminals: This means you cannot respawn and claim memory loss to keep PD from charging you with crimes. Get creative: Use masks, different voices, different outfits, different vehicles, change your license plates, etc. if you want to conceal your identity and not have a paper trail lead back to you.
        Criminals: You must wait 1 hour before re-engaging in the conflict that caused you to be downed/respawn. We ask you use common sense: If you are shot multiple times, fall off of a building, or go down  in an explosion then do not re-engage even if it’s been 1 hour. RP serious injuries.
        Examples of what is NOT allowed: Respawn and then immediately drive a car to pick up your wanted friend who you just attempted to rob the bank with; EMS revives PD Officer who then immediately starts chasing the Criminal(s) who escaped a Robbery.
        If you want to claim having a bomb vest or having an explosive please have an explosive to show this. There needs to be counter play for the other side.
        Sniper rifles must not be used on players and primary function should be to disable vehicles.
    Injuries
        Do not speak If your injuries would cause you to be unconscious. Wait until EMS arrives to emote (/me) your injuries.
        Logging out while down and waiting for EMS is prohibited.
        Do not call “headshots” or say what another character’s injuries are.
        Use discretion with accidental death or knockouts.
        PD can say they were hit in their Body Armor when downed in gunfights (regardless of where shot or how many times shot), so that they can stay on duty to keep all server content open.

        Rule 5.4 still applies to PD, but they are NOT required to RP a limp or severe trauma that causes them to go off duty unless they choose to. This means higher-ranked PD officers cannot force others to go off duty due to injury – that is a violation of 6.3.