You MUST respect all the staff, remember that they are here helping to serve the community without receiving pay. They are only here to have enjoy themselves and provide fairness to everyone without bias. Being rude, disrespectful or offensive can lead to punishments if deem fit by UAT.
Note: The ArdicGaming Roleplay Server Rules are all the rules that are related to accounts, scripts which aren't monitoring in character actions IG, OOC and much more.
Transferring assets is strictly limited to premium users. If you wish to transfer money, vehicles, property or other assets, purchasing the perk with gamecoins is mandatory. You are not allowed to transfer weaponry or drugs of any sort. You will also not be given back any impounded or seized vehicles after a transfer. This is not limited to the previously mentioned.
Please refer to ALT>ALTing regulations for further details.
Scamming of vehicles and properties is not allowed by any means. Scamming of vehicles and properties is not allowed by any means. Drugs and Guns are allowed to be scammed through IC means as this is purely criminality. Scamming of players through the advertisement system is not permitted. This is considered a legal ads system and is purely to get legitimate sales. Other means of scamming players for their money is permitted provided it's not through the ads system.
Leaving your computer or in any manner tabbing out or going AFK should not be done in a public area, please use our F10 option going to the character menu for this.
During inactivity, your assets will be force-sold. Assets only being your interiors and vehicles. Money and items on your characters will not be removed during inactivity. If an asset is force-sold with this reason, it is not refundable. An asset, of any type, is considered inactive after having not been active in 30 days. Most assets are manually deleted as we do not rely on our automatic inactivity scanning system as of November, 2021.
Interiors can be force-sold including all the side interiors linked to the property. If a house is inactive, the garage will be force-sold along with it. This is to keep the properties as one. The main property always overrules the sub-properties. So if a garage or bedroom is inactive but the house itself isn't, the house and all subinteriors (including the inactive one) cannot be force-sold.
Interiors may be force sold by admins if the owner is avoiding the inactivity scanner without the use of inactivity protection by logging on and using the interior or having a friend use the interior without roleplaying on the server with that character. The script handles the process of subinteriors being attached to the main one. In conclusion subinteriors cannot be forcesold without the main house being sold; either by the player or forcesold by an admin due to inactivity.
Vehicles will never be force-sold, unless it has been parked in a force-sold interior and you have been inactive for 30 days. If you purchase an interior that was force-sold and vehicles still exist in the interior, they will be deleted if inactive or they will be taken as parked there in character. A vehicle which has been towed and impounded needs to be released as soon as possible. If it stays in the impound for more than 7 days the respective faction may claim your vehicle and sell it to another player. After 14 days it will be script wise deleted if the respective faction decides doesn't want to claim the vehicle.
Retexturing the game has been made possible scriptwise, yet has its rules in order to maintain a certain level of decency. Erotically oriented pictures may only be used in appropriate/private spaces i.e. personal interiors or strip clubs. Same applies for any socially unacceptable pictures, they are to be kept out of interiors accessible for the public.
Billboard/signage texturing can to promote themselves (reserved for government and its municipal agencies). Exterior re-texturing can be placed to advertise a business once the single-use perk has been bought. Please visit: https://ardicgaming.com/mta/premium/perks for pricing on the Billboard/Signage perk. The reason for the cost is so that the environment does not become cluttered with signage and unnecessary advertisements.
Any user within the Community who doxes anyone, staff, members or otherwise will be banned and blacklist from all AGRP services without the chance of appealing. We take Doxing very seriously here to protect the personal lives of those who come here to enjoy the community. This type of behavior is not tolerated.
The use of COVID-19 In Character is strictly prohibited. Players come here to escape from reality and enjoy a game, not to come here and be plagued with real life pandemics. Anyone who tries to use COVID-19 (symptoms, spreading the virus etc) Will be banned from the server indefinitely, making an appeal to get unbanned 3 months from the original ban date. This is a matter we don't take lightly as it offends, disgruntles and downright just upsets people.
Any asset that has been uploaded to the AGRP Community (Discord, Forums, Game Server etc) now becomes the property of ArdicGaming Roleplay. The Credits will still be issued to the rightful owner. By submitting any assets/work to the Community means that you agree that you are giving up your rights of copyright and ownership to the ArdicGaming environment. Respective ownership of said assets now lay with the Owner/Shareholders of AGRP. Any item not listed below can be deemed by AGRP Owner/Shareholders to succumb to the Copyrights&Ownership rule. The following assets listed (but not limited to) are subject to this rule;
1. Map uploads
2. Skin Retextures
3. Skin Mods
4. Vehicle Wraps
5. Vehicle Mods
6. Wallpapers
7. Item Textures
8. Graffiti Art
9. Logos
10. Icons
11. Banners
12. 3D Models
13. Media
14. Forum/Discord Contributions
The reason for this rule is so that disgruntled players cannot request or take action against the server to remove their creations. This boils down to some assets being heavily used by players for their enjoyment, and whilst an disgruntled player may want to ruin their own experience, we will not allow it to ruin others' experiences.
A request can be made for your asset(s) to be removed from the AGRP Community; though the Community Owner/Shareholders reserve the right to deny your request. This request typically is discussed by Management, discussing key benefactors such as its impact on the environment if it were to be removed; the impact others would feel if the asset(s) were removed, if the request is reasonable, does the request have malicious/disgruntled intent or is the request genuine. All mitigating factors will be discussed in detail and then a response will be given to the requester either accepting or denying the request for the removal of the asset(s).
Items which are considered “hard to get” are items which require UAT or FMT Leader permissions to spawn. Players cannot request items which may give them an unfair advantage over other players. - Player(s) being defined by the following members;
1. General Players
2. Law Enforcement
3. Emergency Personnel
4. Governing Bodies
5. Illegal Roleplayers
6. Legal Roleplayers
The list above includes (but not limited to) unfair advantaged players.
Reasoning for acquiring “hard to get” items must be defined in a UAT or FMT ticket. If the ticket goes directly to UAT they will then discuss your reasoning for the acquisition of said item(s). With your intent on using them being legitimate and strong roleplay reasoning with an established character background in place.
Hard to Get Items list (not limited to the following);
1. Body armor
2. Bulletproof armor (vehicles & interiors)
3. Bulletproof windows (vehicles & interiors)
4. Bulletproof tires (vehicles)
5. Bulletproof panelling (vehicles & interiors)
6. Axon body cameras
7. Suppressors
8. Scoped rifles
9. Explosives & specialized weaponry
Unjustified Reasons (not limited to the following);
1. Your faction is a security firm
2. Your faction is a militia
3. Your faction is based on terrorism
4. Your character's background story suggests they would have these item(s)
5. You character roleplays acquiring these item(s)
6. Your pipeline would RPly have these item(s) in stock
Note: If you come across any of these items in-game such as breaking into a house or a vehicle, these items are free for the taking. Just alert a UAT or FMT Leader at the time of acquiring these items so that they can add it to your character's notes so that there is a papertrail on the items and how they were acquired.
Changing the name of a character is allowed if the character has 15 hours or less. Any character that has more than 15 hours or that has a criminal record cannot get a name change. This is due to your character creating a concrete identity in the roleplay environment. Your character may have gotten arrested, interacted with players so on and so forth. This rule is in place due to script limitations and script dependencies. Any character that has more than 15 hours then you will have to stick with the name that you have. The exceptions to a name-change is when you and someone else gets married. This depends on who is taking whose lastname (surname). For example Johnathan Taylor is marrying Elizabeth Mason, Elizabeth decides to take Johnathan's surname; she is now known as Elizabeth Taylor. Johnathan however can decide to take Elizabeth's surname (though this is typically uncommon, it happens) and he now becomes known as Johnathan Mason. We have specific marriage commands to do this for us; which still leaves a papertrail for any government facility to follow up on. The second exception is if you’re character has a famous name and somehow wasn’t copped on by an admin within your 15 hour grace period. If someone realizes your character‘s name is famous, the admin will proceed to give you the opportunity to choose a new name. If you refuse to choose a name the admin will come up with a name for you and proceed to change it, regardless of how many hours is played on that character.
Identity changes are allowed in a factor where basically your character undergoes the process of illegally changing their identity. What happens in this case is that the character you want to change the identity of will illegally go through the VM process along with an in-depth roleplay scenario and situations to make this process possible. Once your character undergoes this process you create a new character and UA approves your “Special Character” request. After the process is complete, you create a new character and we set you up with the stuff your old character would have had (items, inventory items etc - properties and vehicles exempt). We then CK your old character so that you can no longer log into him which would conflict with the character's story. We would however, unCK your character if you decided to revert the identity process.
For example, Johnathan Taylor has had an extensive history with the law and he is currently awaiting the death penalty upon his capture. Johnathan undergoes plastic surgery and an identity change to Michael Fiocchi. The character, Johnathan Taylor is CKed and his history is still present within the game for government facilities to trace if required.
This process typically isn't taken light-heartedly and isn't always accepted. The player's reasoning must be extensively good, and often time these requests are denied due to poor reasoning and not having a true understanding of how identity changes are made. These requests take time and often require FMT and Admin supervision at all times; due to your character having the same DNA, so when the identity changes you could still be caught through various means. So staff teams will have to be extra vigilant which is why we take these requests so seriously and expect the highest of standards when executing the change.
Accounts are owned by the respective person who originally signed up with the information. Accounts regardless of where they were made (forums, Finder, in-game or other AGRP services) are owned by the person who originally signed up with them. Accounts cannot be sold, nor should they be given to somebody else. If someone possesses an account which does not belong to them (regardless if they were authorized to use the account from the actual owner) they will be banned and blacklisted. If the owner of an account gave their details to their friend, both parties could be blacklisted and banned. We take account sharing, selling and stealing very seriously. If an account was breached (unauthorized access from the owner) the account will be seized until the perpetrator is found and banned. The account will then go back into the possession of its rightful owner. Any bans, jails, history offences etc will be removed from the account providing the owner can backup their claims with some sort of evidence - or if an admin has done a thorough search of the account and is satisfied that the actions did not come from the original owner.
The Graffiti System is a system that allows you to draw/tag on essentially anywhere in the map. You can create your own graffiti within the menu, or you can upload one from a URL. Graffiti can be used specifically to help determine a certain part of the city to help indicate who the block belongs to. However, it can also be utilized to express artistic design by art-lovers alike! With that being said, there are a side of rules to using this system.
SUBJECT TO CHANGE
1. Must obey server texturing rules (disgusting, insulting, criminally chargeable accordance to local law etc).
2. Must not go around every other wall and spray tags everywhere.
3. Must roleplay their actions BEFORE spraying the tag.
4. No trollish tag behavior.
5. Must obey general server rules in relevance to offensive materials and other potentially related rules (use common sense).
6. Must not contain backgrounds;
Good Example
Bad Example
7. Failure to abide by server rules or graffiti rules may result your graffiti permissions being revoked, you could even be blacklisted from ever using the system again; or it could result in a temporary/permanent ban from the server depending on the severity.