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These are the legal roleplay rules in place to maintain order and stability in the server.
Gates may only be placed on property that you own. If you do not own the property, the owner of the property must grant you permission to place a gate on the property. In order to request a gate, contact the Mapping Team. You must provide logs of gate installation after the Mapping Team accepts your gate.
In general, generic items that adversely affect others during roleplay situations must be present such as gloves to prevent fingerprints, a bat to bludgeon someone, a CCTV camera to provide surveillance, etc. Generic items which do not adversely affect others in general, are not required, like a toolbox you pull a hammer out of.
All legally obtainable generics must be purchased in character through shops or the appropriate faction providing delivery services. Minor exceptions may be made on a case-by-case basis for spawning legal items under specific situations which are time sensitive such as needing a tire iron to change a tire when it is otherwise completely unavailable or where an item would reasonably be present and is necessary to roleplay like breaking into a police car and stealing the computer inside.
If one decides to roleplay having jewelry of significance, they need to have a generic made for it. This is the case for expensive watches, rings, and other luxurious jewelry. A simple wrist watch does not need a generic made for it.
Exceptions for items which are not rare and commonly available at big box stores may be made by the handling administrator at their own discretion.
Generic items are not to be used in world 0 to replace exterior world mapping.
Items which have an illegal use and thus the purchase would not be registered or taxed, should be acquired through illegal factions in the server or a request to the Faction Team.
When purchasing an interior you must also buy the associated interiors that come with it. An example being buying a house, and having to buy the garage that comes with it. You may not buy a garage and then not buy the house. If you do this, you will have the interior removed from you. (Most of the scripted additional interiors should be predetermined by the new interior system, but this rule still stands)
If an interior is disabled via means of roleplay such as a fire, natural disaster, etc, it must be renovated to be enabled again. Roleplay must be provided to an administrator and documented in the interiors history. If an interior that was accessible for community means such as gas stations or an active 24/7 sees the same circumstance, it may get passively rebuilt if the time taken impacts quality of life for an extended period of time.
Weapon licenses may be attained in character by filing the required paperwork found on the Police Department FAQ and links. Weapon licenses are monitored by a spreadsheet and in game means, so information about such things should go through the PD to find out the exact protocols of obtaining such a license.
Legally purchased weapons and ammunition may not be sold on the black market or to friends illegally. Legally purchased weapons may also not be used for criminal purposes. Unless it was absolutely unavoidable in the situation. An example of this would be getting into a heated discussion with a player, and your character has illegal tendencies to rob that player; the player then tries to defend themselves leaving you in a situation where your firearm may result in means of de-escalating the situation. This could be argued as self defense though, due to your character instigating the situation this is not deemed under the rule of using legal guns for illegal activities meaning it’s an entirely IC situation.
It is prohibited to stat transfer weapons. If this rule is broken, punishment similar to alt to alt will occur.
Tier 1 and 2 licenses availability and restrictions are dependent on the in character laws at the time. PF (Purchasing Firearms & CCW) Information on the two can be found by contacting PD firearm licensing branch.
To uphold realism and to ensure RP, the rules in place must be followed on the subject of NPCs.
You may not have an NPC that serves as a guard for security unless:
- The NPC is on government property (City Hall, LSPD, courts, etc.)
- UAT permission is given with exigent circumstances
- If you wish to have security, you will need to hire it ICly through role playing. This will promote legal RP and aim to keep situations where NPCs will be used to deter crime to a minimum as it often brings conflict.
- The Auto Parts - AP NPC may not be spawned outside of mechanic shops.
- The Prison Worker NPC may not be spawned outside of a prison.
- The generic “NPC” may not be spawned outside of government property (exceptions are to guard exterior doors, fences, etc)
- The Santa Grotto NPC may not be spawned unless UAT permission is given.
- Faction NPC and Weapon NPCs may not be spawned without UAT and or FT permission.
- You may not have any store, custom or default, in residential or mechanical interiors.
- You may not have both an electronics store and a general store NPC in the same interior unless you own a “superstore” class interior.
- Exempt from store NPC limitations are malls, example being Verona Mall, where the interior price is $5,000 but the building would be worth much more. In situations like these, use common sense.
*All stores must be set as "business" type ID.*
TBA
*Note: Exemptions are often made based on admin’s discretion. Whilst this list is a guide, it’s not strictly enforced and common sense should be used to judge the usage and enforcement of this guideline.*