Server Rules #1

[Smack City Roleplay]

Welcome to SmackCity Roleplay Server!

Please ensure you read these rules and remember to follow them at all times! Failure to do so can and will result in punishment.


General (The below will NOT be tolerated under any circumstances)

• Harassment, bullying, or targeting any member of the community
• Racism, sexism or any other form of discrimination
• Impersonating a member of the SmackCity staff team
• You must be 16+
• Spam punching is not allowed!
• Do not share your character or account with anyone else, you are responsible for your character's actions
• Interaction Timer : You cannot provide violent RP without a 1 min interaction.
• LAPD Shootouts : Shootouts should not happen over a minor crime, They should happen if you are being chased for more then 20 minutes and there is no other way OR you have a valid RP reason to kill a cop!
  

Names

• Your character needs to have a realistic name, if staff does not think it is appropriate, they will ask you to change it, failure to do so could result in a CK.

Forbidden Roleplay Types

• Rape RP
• Impersonation of LAPD or AMR, unless it has a valid RP story behind it.

Communication

• All communication must be done in-game, this means no Discord calls.
• You must have a fully working microphone, however if your character roleplays as a mute or doesn't speak, you must communicate clearly and efficiently using /me. We highly encourage the use of emotes to fit.
• If you make no effort in changing your voice for criminal activities, PD/Others can and will identify you by voice.

Phone Apps (Twitter, Yellow Pages,)

Twitter

• You are allowed to advertise the sale of illegal items on these platforms, but you will most likely get a warrant.
  

Yellow Pages

• This is for advertising businesses or selling things only. If it is illegal, it must have a disguise to make it look legit

Exploiting & Cheating

• Exploiting bugs/jobs to your advantage is not allowed.
• Use of 3rd party programs or tools that give you an advantage is not allowed
• No graphical mods that remove detail from the environment, beyond which is supported by the game, such as no props.
• Keeping any items from a glitch, bug or modder is not allowed.
• Transferring anything from one character to another, this includes creating a new character just to transfer money/items is not allowed. Transferring items to another player for the sole reasons of leaving the server or deleting your character is not allowed.
• You cannot have more than one characters in the same gang.
• Using unfair game mechanics to your advantage.
• Failure to report any bugs to the developers the moment you find them via #support-tickets in Discord can result in punishment.

OOC

• Do not break out of character no matter what the reason is. This includes calling people out for poor roleplay, mistakes or rule breaks. What you should do in this situation is call for staff using /report and if no staff responds, use /civid to get the ID and carry on with the situation until you can make a player report using #support-tickets via Discord.
• Do not call people by their OOC names i.e. Steam or Discord names.
• Terms when referring to staff, for example gods, government, making a prayer are not allowed, If you must make a report you are expected to carry on roleplaying out the situation.

Relationship RP

Any drama that bleeds IC from OOC or vise versa that causes drama/rumor spreading/toxicity, then the person met causing drama/spreading rumors will be punished, staff are not here to baby sit relationships that turn sour both IC and OOC.


/ME /DO

• /me should be used to enhance your roleplay for others. If it makes sense in roleplay it must be followed, try to be realistic with your /me.
• /me is not to be used for ‘taking’ items such as guns or radios. These are things you need to physically take .
• /do should be used to enhance your roleplay for others.
• /do should also be used when your DOING something thats visible, different then a /me.
• For example /do punches male in the face, for talking shit.----------------

Metagaming

• You must only use the knowledge of what you have learned IN character. You must not use anything you find out or learn from streams/Discord IN character
• You must make sure if you are in the server you close all streams related to Smack City RP
• Anything you learn/find out about from Discord should not be taken IN character

Interaction

• interaction must be done face to face
• You may protect your friend(s) if you/they were involved in a previous situation, and they are in trouble. But you must counter initiate on the opposing party
• Initiating someone must have a good roleplay reason behind it
• You must try and give 3 verbal warnings to initiate
• interaction ends after 30 minutes, you must keep the (New Life Rule) in mind
• Someone trying to take you hostage is an interaction. If they fail you do not need to interact, same applies for being robbed.

ForceRP

• You cannot force interactions, it must be done in the nature of the RP situation
• You cannot force yourself into someone else's roleplay scenario that you are not a part of (Civ or LAPD)
• You cannot force someone to go into their house/motel/garage to get anything for you

FailRP
Everything you do in character should be realistic and probable, you must go along with the role play situation you have been dealt. Some examples of FailRP but not limited to:

• Swimming/climbing ladders with handcuffs on
• Misuse of carrying
• Tackling/Ragdolling for no reason
• Leaving any situation before EMS have finished their treatment
• Removing a patient from the care of EMS before they have finished being treated
• Soundboards/music without using /boombox or in a car, it must make sense
• Using the musket against any civilian, no matter the situation
• Combat storing. Storing items or vehicles while you are in an active RP situation. Example of this but not limited to: Storing items or vehicles while escaping from the police.
• Not fearing for you like with a gun to your head is considered FRP.

Power Gaming
Power Gaming is abusing game/script mechanics to your own advantage or to gain an advantage.
Exploiting
Exploiting is abusing a feature in the game that is not meant to be used. Example - Carrying over walls, Duplicating. This will result in a character wipe.

Value of Life (NVL)
This is for Civ vs Civ, please see ‘Police Interaction’ for LAPD vs Civ. These are also examples but not limited to:

• You must value your life at all times
• When a firearm is pointed at you are to comply at all times (you may try to escape if the opportunity arises, i.e. they stop pointing the gun at you)
• Planning to jump from extremely high areas (accidents happen)
• Taking big jumps at high speed

Dumping
Dumping is the result of incapacitating someone, removing any forms of communication, and “dumping” their bodies so that they have little to no chance of being rescued. Ie: ocean dumping, wilderness dumping, roof dumping. When dumped players are forced to either “Press E to respawn” or take their chances waiting for help. If a player chooses to respawn they will wake up in Pillbox losing everything in their pockets and MUST follow the NLR (new life rule). There has to be a very extreme reason to dump someone and take them out of the role play situation.

• Talking trash or simply hitting someone's car does not warrant dumping someone.
• You must always use dumping as a last resort, if punching/using melees for example haven't worked.
• To avoid dumping you should always make sure players you down have a phone on them and are untied/uncuffed and not placed in water where their distress won’t work..

Avoid using excessive force over minor things!

New Life Rule (NLR)
NLR is when you have either been dumped or respawned (bled out) at Pillbox. You forget all prior knowledge of the events that led up to you going down

• You must forget all events that led up to you going down
• If you do respawn, you are not to return to that situation for 60 minutes (1 hour) you are to sit out and recover, you are still to act as you have forgotten but your friends can tell you what happened and you may get involved again after 1 hours.

Injuries and Getting Treatment

• If you're ‘down’ and laying on the ground you are not dead, you can still roleplay out your injuries for EMS