RULES

**Elemental Roleplay | Server Rules**

*Failure to abide by server rules may result in a temporary or permanent ban. As a community member, it is your responsibility to keep up-to-date on the latest server rules. By playing in Elemental Roleplay, you have agreed to the rules and have a clear understanding of the cities rule set.*

**General Rules**

* **Age**: **All users must be 18+**
* **Language**: English is the primary language of the server. Keep Discord chat appropriate.
* **Steam** **Usernames**: Any Steam name considered inappropriate or inconvenient for staff may be asked to be changed. Using odd characters, slurs, or the like.
* **Identity**: No stealing another user’s name or server identity. Keep your character name’s appropriate.
* **Default** Danny: Make your character’s appearance unique and your own.
* **Sharing** Items: Do not share items/money between your characters. You are not allowed to smuggle items into jail, unless you are participating in a jailbreak.
* **Permadeath**: If you wish to perma your character, please discuss the roleplay leading up to your character's death with Staff, EMS, and parties that may be involved.
* **New Life Rule**: When a character respawns at the hospital (pressing “E” and bypassing EMS/Nancy) they forget all information leading up to their death.
	+ If treated by Nancy, it is expected for your memory to be a little bit foggy, forgetting certain details like outfits.
	+ If a friend was present during your death, they may fill you in on the details leading up to it.
* **NVL “no value of life”**: You must value your character’s life when put in situations that threaten it.
	+ Not realistically fearing for your life when you are threatened with weapons or severe harm from other means.If there is a gun against your head, you will do whatever you can to not die.
	+ Whenever characters are brought into police custody and a second group of 5 is formed to attempt a prison break, that second group is not allowed to intervene until the prison transport begins. Doing so with small arms or an unthought out plan is also NVL. Having non-spontaneous shoot outs at PD is not allowed.
	+ Your character must try and contact medical help of some sort while incapacitated. With that being said when being ocean dumped in order to call for EMS you must be able to visually see locals in the distance that can contact EMS for you. If no locals are within view distance you will have to see the light forgetting all details.
	+ Speed (100+) attacking other vehicles (ramming).
	+ Players should not be inserting themselves into ongoing situations or shootouts, between two groups or one group and the police.
* **Suicide RP**: Committing suicide or suggesting you’re ending your character’s life is **NOT** permitted.
* **Powergaming**: Using in-game or roleplay mechanics without allowing other users the freedom to act upon or defend themselves. The following is also prohibited:
	+ Using in-game emotes during shootouts to hide behind cover, rob while laying down, and provide surveillance through the 3rd person view.
	+ Using graphic mods that give you an advantage in gunfights.
	+ Bypassing In game mechanics that are implemented. For Example, using a helicopter to break people out from Prison when there’s already a prison break system implemented for jailbreaks.
	+ Utilizing phone contacts to see who’s in the city, may also be seen by staff as powergaming if used negatively.
	+ Using the player list (“U” muscle) to have an advantage during scenarios. The player list should only be used to aid staff with collecting player ID’s to report via ticket.
* **Metagaming**: The act of using out-of-character or external information for in-game or in-character situations. Using discord to communicate. This is prohibited. This includes but is not limited to: Stream sniping, change logs, information learned on a separate character, and information found in Discord server, etc. If you have to question whether it is information you can use in-character, do NOT use it.
* **RDM / VDM**: Random death match / vehicle deathmatch. Randomly killing another user via weapon or vehicular methods is prohibited.
* **Combat logging**: If you crash during a scene, try your best to get a hold of other participants or staff. If you haven’t done so, it will be assumed as combat logging, which will result in an immediate ban.
* **Advertising**: Advertising another server is prohibited.
* **Drama**: Keep OOC drama OOC, and IC drama IC. No arguing/harassing in Discord.
* **Consent**: The content of your roleplay must be consensual with all parties involved OOC. Utilize local OOC chat if necessary. This includes but is not limited to: torture, erp, and perma-ing.
* **Micromodding**: Please allow staff to do their job and moderate the server. If you see somebody breaking the rules, report it, but it is not your job to moderate it. Out of city issues should not be addressed in the city. You will hear the term from time to time, "city council" or "mayor" but try to refrain from discussing anything pertaining to tickets in the city. The term "angels" or "prayers" as well. Depending on the severity of micromodding during an active situation you may be liable to receive punishment as well.

**Cheating / Exploiting**

* It is strictly prohibited to use any game-breaking mechanics, game modifications, and enhancements that would otherwise give you an unfair advantage over users who do not utilize these methods. Macroing to perform any activity is a bannable offense.
	+ This includes but is not limited to: Black skies, tracers, thermals, wall hacks
* Exploiting client and/or server bugs is a bannable offense. If you find any server bugs, report them in Discord.
* Do not try to duplicate items in your inventory. The anti-cheat will catch you and ban you from the server.

**Locations**

* **Green Zones**: Pillbox. If you are in an active RP situation and it bleeds into pillbox the RP situation will still continue as it has been going. Do not use the Pillbox as a safe zone that you can run into to stop RP. The Pillbox green zone begins inside the hospital as well as the upper parking lot. Neither Elgin avenue in front of Pillbox, nor the sidewalk along Elgin, is included in the green zone. Those two areas are fair play.

**In-Game / In-Character Rules**

* **Roleplay Expectations**: You are required to stay in-character unless staff pauses the roleplay.
* **Injuries**: Roleplay your injuries. If your character experiences any bodily harm, it is expected to roleplay the injury out. ie; limping, having a headache, etc. Feel free to be creative and give EMS some good roleplay. If you’ve been shot, stabbed, etc, you are likely in immense pain. If not done it could be seen as FailRP.
* **Harassment**: We do not tolerate sexism, racism, homophobia, or any other form of discrimination. There will be no warning for people who display these kinds of behavior. Always be respectful towards people.
* **Server Restarts**: Committing a crime 30 minutes before and after a restart is prohibited. If there is an active scene during a restart, after the restart is over the scene must continue.

**Criminal Rules**

* **Bodycam**: Police officers are automatically outfitted with bodycams on their uniforms. Civilians and criminals are able to use “bodycam footage” if they have used /me turns on bodycam or something similar in order to use the footage in court. This needs to be seen in the footage. When using bodycam footage for OOC tickets staff will ask for the entire interaction from beginning to end to provide us with a full story. Staff will disregard any footage if it is trimmed to create a one sided story.
* **Group Limit**: There is a group limit of 5 people per crime committed. If a person in the group is downed, they cannot go to Pillbox (or other options) and return to the scene, they need time to recover from their injuries.
	+ Relaying information to or between characters (lookouts, radio communications) counts as you being part of that scenario.
* **New gangs in the city**: We require all organizations/gangs/MC’s to fill out a gang application on the Discord, we have a whitelist process for the gangs and Elemental. Operating as a gang without the ticket submitted can and will lead to a blacklisting from crimes.
* **Farming Cops**: No one should be hunting cops. Shooting cops is allowed ONLY when there is a reason to do so. There should not be the intention in your plans to shoot cops. Have a good plan to try and get away.
* **Gangs**: Skirmishes leading up to, and war itself will be default 5v5. You may negotiate between the rival gang to increase that number up to 10v10 max.
* **Gang wars**: Can be stopped by staff but do not need to be approved by staff. Gang wars must be negotiated by gang leaders before going into a full scale war. Anything prior to war negotiations being conducted will not be considered a gang war.
	+ Negotiations should not be conducted in Green Zones. There are plenty of other locations in the city that can provide more immersion.
	+ When raiding a turf or compound, the defending gang may have UNLIMITED resources as long as the fight remains on the turf. Once it moves away from home turf, it goes back to 5v5 (unless negotiated otherwise).
	+ When two gangs are in an active war, no other gang can third party the war. In the instance that a gang is shot up because an active war is on their turf, RP it out. It could create a conflict once the active war is over.
	+ In an active war, no cars with spoilers can be used in a firefight. Spoilers MUST BE REMOVED if shots are fired.
	+ No bullet proof cars for shootouts i.e. Zentoro, Jester RR, Infernus more to come as identified.
	+ No multiplayer vehicles that have add-on cosmetics that have mounted weaponry and bulletproof cosmetics (deathmatch style).
	+ Wars stay south of Adam's Apple Blvd. unless it is on a gang's turf north of Adam's Apple
	+ DOWN IS DOWN! If you are shot down, you stay down until the scene is over. You can not transport them for aid to re-engage.
	+ When robbing downed gang members, leave their phone and radio. Anything else is fair game.
	+ Cops will stay away and allow the gangs to fight it out. Once the fight is over and looting occurs, cops can come in and warn/chase/detain. If you shoot at a cop, you are subject to the full force of the PD.
	+ Cool down is 30 minutes once the fight has ended. Do not go and start hitting up the downed gang at pillbox or anywhere else right after the win.
	+ Wars can last up to but not exceed 72 hours.
* **Corruption**: Police officers are allowed to be corrupt if given permission by staff. Any corrupt activity **MUST BE** approved by staff – you must have valid reasons for ANY corrupt activity you perform – including, but not limited to: tampering with evidence, selling or distributing PD-issued weapons, informing criminals of warrant information, etc. CID and High Command are excluded and not allowed to be corrupt.
* **EMS Corruption**: EMS will not be allowed to use their abilities to assist in criminal activities, nor feed information such as police locations to assist organizations or criminals
* **Emergency Services**: If you are stealing a government-issued vehicle (cop car, ambulance, etc) make sure you have a valid reason. If caught afterwards it is likely that you will receive more severe punishment than normal. (Clarification: This punishment is meant in-city)
* **Escalation**: Use your weapons as a last resort. Criminals should always look for an opportunity to escape. If it’s possible to roleplay your way out of a scenario, do it!
	+ There must be some sort of initiation (interaction) between two parties before beginning a shootout. “Twitter beef” is not considered an act of initiation and will require an interaction between parties before engaging in a shootout. During times of war both gangs can agree upon scenarios being “on sight”.
	+ If there is personal beef, escalation should be as follows: Talking, fighting, shooting. There are the rare occasions where conflict leads directly to shooting. Staff will monitor this on a case by case basis.