1. General Rules
2. 1-) Basics
3. No RDM
4. No RDA
5. NLR (New life rule) is 3 minutes. Do not return to the place of death for that duration and you forget everything from your past life (including how you died and who killed you).
6. No Metagame (using information that would not realistically be available to your character)
7. No major crimes during a PD/FBI meeting (UNLESS the highest PD/FBI Command is on AND all tactical unit command that are on have agreed to it.)
8. **Major crimes counts as the following - Hostage taking, Kidnapping. Bank raid, General store raid, PD Raid, Presidential Assassination***
9. Do not impersonate whitwlisted members, staff, and other players.
10. No Disrespect/Racism/Inappropriate or offensive content (In anyway shape or form)
11. No Glitching/Hacking/Cheating
12. No Mic/Horn Spam/Voice changers
13. Fear RP is in effect - respond to situations like you would in real life. For example, if someone pulls a gun on you and you are unarmed, you must follow their commands.
14. No Fail RP
15. Protesting may be done peacefully, but no weapons or violence is allowed
16. No prop abuse (Pushing, climbing, blocking, etc.)
17. You cannot take over places. If you raid a place, you must leave after you have accomplished your goal. Do NOT stay to prevent people from returning for an extended period of time.
18. If EMS is online, you may not respawn if you were killed during a criminal activity/situation of some type (shootout, raid, etc.) Government officials MAY handcuff you as soon as you are revived and may take you to jail.
19. No /advert Counter (Ex.- Criminal vs. Criminal Bank Raid)


• You can ONLY advert Assist if you are a Family Member (same last name in your RP name) / Or if you are all on Bloods/Crips (Bloods/Crips may NOT work together at all) OR if you have the same RP Job/RP job name.

Murder and hits may only be done in a secluded place

No vigilantism - you cannot assist police in their raids and other law enforcement activities.

No crouch/jump bases

• Example of a Crouch Base is shown above

If you are revived by EMS, than there's no NLR, therefore you remember your past life on what happened. You MUST RP IT OUT THOUGH.

Gang Members are recommended to be in TeamSpeak, but do NOT have to

The tow truck as well as other vehicles from the job bundle (bus, taxi, truck) may not be stolen.

Do not advertise Twitch/YouTube channels without a Manager’s permission.

Families can't have alliances with other families

Do not sell Store Credits for money in game

Don't build during an Active RP Situation

You may only assassinate/kidnap/raid the President/Vice President when the tax rate is at or above 30% OR if there are 5 or more Secret Service (including C.A.T.). If the person is mid kidnap or etc, you can not just change the taxes/And or have a Secret Service switch off, and then proceed to call the situation false

You Can't Steal Government Vehicles-at all.

Paramedics are a Neutral Faction (Can't be taken Hostage, Vehicles stolen, etc.)

Suicide/threatening to suicide is FailRP/CopBaiting if you Do NOT have a valid reason.

Weed, printers, and money silos are illegal by default. Weed can be made legal by the President.

You cannot build in the bank/general store. As a banker, you may build inside the bank but only for RP purposes (waiting area, flowers, etc. - no fading doors or defenses)

If you are handcuffed, you must comply with the officer. Not doing so can be considered FailRP. If the police officer gets distracted and leaves you alone, you may attempt an escape.

After changing your name to join a family, you may not assist/help out anyone in that family with any criminal activity for a total of 3 minutes

You may not kill someone who you are trying to break out of jail or who's in handcuffs, but you are allowed to help them escape by lockpicking their cuffs/cell.

Cop baiting is not allowed. Cop baiting is intentionally breaking the law or annoying a police officer in an attempt to have them arrest/confront you.

Do not spam your camera in game (Camera spam)

  2-) Government

All Guns are illegal (except for pistols but they still can't be out in public)

No Taser rushing

You may never interrupt training.

Printers, weed, and money silos are illegal by default. The President can make weed legal.

Bitminers are always legal. Police cannot destroy them for any reason

Spike Strips are only to be used by PD Sergeant Major+ or equivalent

Cops are not allowed to accept bribes..

Deputy Commissioner+ can arrest for up to 30 minutes if present.

If someone is wanted (sign above a person’s head) you may AOS/KOS the person. In order to KOS you must warn the criminal at least 3 times to stop moving. If they comply, you must arrest them instead.

You may arrest criminals after they are revived if they were involved in a criminal situation (Maximum jail time is 8 years).

3 -) Adverting/Yelling

You must /advert raid

You must /advert Jailbreak

When Raiding Bank, you can take over the entire bank. The group of people assisting do not have to stay in the Bank Vault, only the person robbing the bank does. When robbing a general store, however, you must stay inside the general store. You, or anyone involved, cannot leave.

You cannot close or lock the door of the vault when you are raiding it. The vault door must stay open at all times

You must /advert carjack

• You cannot carjack vehicles that have just been spawned in at any of the dealers

You must /yell or /advert Murder.

You can NOT raid PD. You may only raid it when a family member is trapped and needs help escaping.

You are NOT allowed to /advert false or /advert bind test

If committing a major crime, everyone must be in the same family or same RP Job Organization and have their names correctly inputted, this does not apply to jailbreaks. Everyone involved must /advert.

4-) Martial Law

Any civilian/criminal seen with a weapon out can be KOS’d by PD

PD High Command can activate Martial Law at any time, However, a valid RP reason must be given. Example - Riots, excess violence, out of control gangs, etc.

Martial Law may only be authorized by PD High Command, it may last up to 30 minutes. Reason for declaring Martial Law must be stated immediately.

5-) Important Timers

Raids - 5 Minutes/Raid -- 45 Minutes/Same Base

Kidnaps - 15 Minutes/Kidnap -- 30 Minutes/Same Person

Assassinations - 15 Minutes/Assasination

Bank Raids - 15 Minutes/Bank Raid

Murder - 5 Minutes/Murder -- 30 minutes/Same Person

Mugging - 5 Minutes/Mug -- 30 minutes/Same Person

General Store - 15 Minutes/Robbery

 Gang Rules (Bloods & Crips)

Bloods and Crips are always at war. This does not mean every time you see each other that you are to shoot each other. You must have a valid RP reason. They may never work together or team up

All gang members are recommended be in TeamSpeak. (You should be in the Gang Channels and have the same name)

If you commit a crime, the rest of the gang in that area can be arrested for association.

Disclaimer - Gangs can be changed to Whitelist mode at any point if management feels it is being abused. 

RP Rules

1-) Basing

Max fading doors (Per Base): 5

Max buttons (Per Base): 5

Keypad required for every door with a toggle or 5 secs open time.

• Do not use your numpad to open the door, instead input the code into the keypad or use a button

Your base cannot force players to crouch/jump

Shooting windows do not count as fading doors

No invisible props

No kill boxes.

• A kill box is when you can trap a player between 2 fading doors and you can shoot at them but they can't shoot back at you.

You cannot use no collide for defense/entrance purposes.

You may not prop block raidables.

All parts of a base must fit at least 2 people back to back.

Do NOT make bases with small peepholes (otherwise known as head glitching)

whitwout/Whiteout/Underwater bases are not allowed

Trap bases are not allowed. This is anything that acts as a trap door to trap or damage raiders.

Keypads must be visible and not hidden. Fake keypads are also not allowed.

KOS/Building signs MUST BE CLEAR AND CONCISE

Bases may not be raided if there is a building or RP sign.

• Bases with building signs can be prop blocked off. However, they may not be used as hideaways for criminals. They may also not contain any type of raidables.
• RP Only buildings are designed for peaceful RP scenarios. No raidables are allowed here, thus they are also not allowed to be raided.

Maze bases are NOT allowed. The path through the base’s defenses must be obvious and accessible.

Text signs must be large and easily seen (80+ text size).  

World Glow is not allowed.

Roof bases are not allowed unless the building's roof has a built in access point.

Every bases' property line stops where the sidewalk/map road/fense starts. You may not extend your base or a KOS sign beyond your property line.

You may not combine one way props and a non one way prop (Fence and gates) in order to see and shoot players at the same time (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1490478705)

Bases may not be built across spawn, near the hospital and near the elevator shaft outside of spawn.

Do not make any bases or props that block or disallow access to an NPC.

Bases must not strain the eyes. This means no flashing props or bright colors.

2-) Raiding

Must wait 5 min in between raiding different bases

Jailbreaks may not last longer than 10 minutes

• Must be breaking someone out
• Going into any government base, is considered Cop bait unless you are raiding DOC (Must be adverted)

You cannot build during any raid

If the bank raid has 1 minute remaining and there is still a hostage, police can rush in and try to take down the targets.

You MUST advert (Bank Raid/General Store Raid) if raiding either one

3-) Mugging

Must /yell or /advert mug

Max mug is $5k

If you successfully mug a person you can not kill them

4-) Kidnapping/Hostage Taking

Must /yell or /advert kidnap

If the person has a gun out, you cannot kidnap

To take a player hostage, there must be at least 10 PD online (This includes SWAT/ARU/SRT/CERT/FBI/Etc.)

Do not hold anyone longer than 15 minutes

Restraints are required to kidnap someone (or else it will be considered false hostage)

Kidnapping in Spawn/AFK People is not allowed

You may only have one person (kidnapped/hostage) per person.

Once you rob a store/the bank, you MUST let the hostage(s) go, you can't take him/her away out of the store/bank

 

Ransom Prices THAT MUST BE FOLLOWED BY ALL CRIMINALS

• Civilian -­ $5,000
• Officer­ - $10,000
• Senior Officer / Corporal ­- $20,000
• Sergeant ­- $30,000
• Master Sergeant/ Sergeant Major- $50,000
• Lieutenant -­ $60,000
• Captain ­- $70,000
• Major - $80,000
• Colonel - $90,000
• Assistant / Deputy Chief - $100,000

5-) Priority Rules

Criminals must have a VALID reason to run from Police. This includes but is not limited to

• Having a warrant for shooting at government
• Your vehicle being wanted in a prior pursuit
• Your life is threatened by an officer

Criminals must have a VALID reason to shoot at police. This includes but is not limited to

• Having a warrant for shooting at government
• Your vehicle being wanted in a prior pursuit
• Your life is threatened by an officer

Criminals may not engage in harmful and or felony acts for the following reasons

• Merely being stopped for a traffic violation
• An officer giving you a ticket
• An officer bumping your vehicle
• Any player merely coming up to you and speaking with you

These rules apply to player interaction as well. Do NOT randomly shoot players for stupid and or playful acts

RP situations out. Warnings will be handed out for breaking RP if priority situations are brought up without proper reason

    Government Rules

1-) Police

Listen to your superiors

Corrupt cops are NOT allowed,

You may go off the wanted sign above the criminal's head (You may AOS/KOS the person) To KOS the person, you need to warn the person 3 times to stop moving, if they comply you have to arrest them (Actually RP it out)

You must be a Qualified Trainer to train police. This is Sergeant+

Follow the guidelines on vehicles - https://gaminglight.com/forums/index.php?/forum/91-police/

During a Bank raid/hostage situation, you are to respond to the area code 3 and secure the roads to stop vehicles passing and wait for SRT/ARU/S.W.A.T to arrive on a scene and give orders.

You are NOT to deal with Bank Raids or Hostage Situations unless there is no S.W.A.T/ARU/SRT online.. (The Highest ranking officer on Scene takes control).ARU/SRT to stand down they must comply.

Any Semi Truck that is in a pursuit can be declared lethal instantly. (Command does not need to approve)

2-) S.W.A.T

You may Patrol as S.W.A.T but cannot perform traffic stops. You may only conduct traffic stops if you have seen the person with a weapon out.

You can call the pursuit to a stop and take over lead unit if the subject is declared Code Red or has Shot/Pulled a weapon at another Officer or Citizen

You can deal with Bank Raids and Hostage Situations.

3-) FBI

FBI may do illegal things while undercover to gain criminals trust but may not murder, release from jail, or take drugs/Evidence.

To get into the FBI, you must be a VIP+ (this means you may get FBI Prob.)

FBI may not base with the same person within 15 minutes of catching/being caught in the act of basing undercover

5-) EMS/Fire

You must wait until the area is code 4.

Wait for permission to move into a situation that had a recent shootout.

No combat healing/reviving.

Never move into a bank raid, hostage situation, general store robbery, etc. unless given permission by the highest government official on scene. It is your responsibility to not enter dangerous situations.

 Other Job Rules

1-) Mayor 

You do NOT control the PD/SWAT/FBI, So don’t order them around.

You can own a house but must have protection. You can ask the FBI to protect you, But they don’t have to.

You cannot Raid or Commit Crime.

You can only have pistols and shotguns.

• You can only make Weed legal, and this has to be on the Law Board, Money silos and printers cannot be made legal.

FBI he right to protect the President (only if they have permission from ta command member in that department

The President can only have official government employees protecting him.

As Vice President, your job is to work with the President not against him

*If there are 5+ SS currently active, the president can be assassinated regardless of tax amounts

 2-) Judge/Defendant/Prosecutor 

You can only have a pistol for self-defense.!

You cannot commit a crime while in these classes.

Your job is to help people get out of jail, So RP situations out!

The judge cannot deal with a friend or individual they know this is classed as Fail RP. Your judge whitelist will be removed.

The judge must have a valid reason RP reason for setting someone free from jail.

If someone is not coming to a trial, you must advert a warning toward them 3 times prior to dismissing the case.

• Adverts must be at least two minutes apart.

You cannot accept bribes. However, you can charge people 25k for a court case and for you to Defend/Prosecute a person. Court cases can cost up to 75k.

 3-) Gun Dealer

Cannot raid

Can not commit major crime (Ex. A jailbreak)

Must have a shop

You may have bitminers, weed and printers

Can self-supply when actively running a shop.

• Changing jobs to purchase guns then switching back is an example of self-supply that is disallowed.

Can only base with other dealers.

 4-) Hitman/Assassin

Hits must have a valid reason - random hits are not allowed.

You must /advert when a hit is accepted and completed.

You may not carry out a hit on a government official in front of other government officials or when they are in their base.

 6-) Tow Truck Driver

Any vehicle parked illegally can be towed (roadways, sidewalks, etc.)

You are a neutral class and are not allowed to carry any weapons.

You may not kill a tow truck driver just because they are towing your car. RP the situation out.

You must RP you latching the car onto the truck before pulling away.

Latching moving cars is not allowed.

You may not tow emergency vehicles that are illegally parked. Call 911 instead.

Do not use your tow truck as a ramming device.

You may not tow a vehicle that has someone in it.

If you have impounded a car, you may set a price to release the vehicle back to the owner. The max price is $5,000

 7-) Inmate

You must stay inside of the jail while playing as an inmate. If a jailbreak occurs, you are allowed to leave.

Props are allowed inside of your cell, but you are limited to 5 props per cell.

Killing DOC/Police outside of a jailbreak is not allowed.

Inmate does not give you an excuse to micspam or minge in the DOC.

Treat the job as real life and do not ruin it for others.

Prison riots can be held once every hour. This is the only time where you are allowed to use the knife unless you are involved in a jailbreak

8-) Hobo

Hobos may build outside but you are not allowed to build on the roads.

Hobos cannot block off any buildings with props and cannot stop the access for anyone on a roadway.

Hobos may micspam music and music only. You must be stationary to play music. You are not allowed to micspam outside of buildings to annoy the inhabitants.

Hobos may only own pistols and melee weapons.

Hobos can mug.

Hobos cannot be mugged.