DarkRP Rules

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Last Amendment: 07/20/2025

General Rules
1. Please be respectful to all members. We strive for freedom of speech, but harassment, overly obnoxious hate speech, and mentioning harm towards children or animals will not be tolerated.
2. Do not advertise links, other servers, or communities.
3. Do not use alternate accounts at all.
4. Do not spam chat in any way. Mic spam is defined as playing sounds or music for an extended period of time. Hobos are allowed to play music on their mic, given that it is not loud or obnoxious.
5. Do not attempt to evade punishments.
6. Do not RDM. RDM (Random Death Match) is the act where you kill someone without a valid roleplay reason. You may kill someone for damaging you or using violent force (E.G. Kidnap attempt, Stun stick, etc.). You may not kill someone for shooting near you or threatening you.
7. Do not abuse your job in any way. Job abuse is defined by switching to a job to perform a sole action, then switching off.
8. Exploits of any kind will result in an immediate punishment depending on the severity. Anti AFKing is considered exploiting.
9. Cheats of any kind will result in an immediate punishment. Auto Clickers, E Spammers, Flashlight Spammers, and any other third-party software is considered cheating.
10. Do not prop block or prop climb.
11. Do not impersonate staff or other users.
12. Do not trap people in your base. If someone asks to be let out and you refuse, you may be punished.
13. Do not scam anyone for in-game money or real life money.
14. You may not sell your job position. (Someone can ask to buy it off you, but you cannot actively say that you're selling it.) You are allowed to sell custom class slots.
15. Do not obscure your player with accessories in any way at all.
16. Do not spam smoke grenades.
17. Insiding is not allowed. Do not steal or start a raid from the inside of a base, even if you snuck in.
18. Staff have final say. If you have a problem with how your sit was handled, please make a report on the discord and It will be looked into further.
Metagaming/NLR Rules
1. NLR (New Life Rule) prohibits you from remembering anything that is inside your NLR area. This includes: players, bases, vehicles, and any other entities. NLR lasts 5 minutes.
2. Do not return or interact with the RP situation involving your NLR during its period. (E.G. returning to a raid after 5 minutes)
3. You may not metagame. Examples of metagaming would be: Adding players to your doors during an active raid to defend, Telling a cop you are being raided after being killed, or Adding a law making all hobos KOS.
Purge Rules
1. ALL jobs may participate in the purge.
2. Government/Police are not allowed to warrant, raid, or want people during the purge.
3. NLR does not apply during the purge.
4. You do not have to advert anything during the purge.
5. You are not allowed to purge from your base (i.e. using fading windows to shoot players outside from safety.
6. The purge does not mean you may break server rules.
Airdrop Rules
1. All jobs may enter and participate in airdrop zones.
2. Any player that is inside the red circle is KOS.
3. NLR applies to airdrops, you may not go back to it once you've died.
NVJ's and RP Action Rules
1. NVJ stands for non-violent job. These are jobs that cannot raid, mug, steal, kidnap, capture/defend territories or counter. The F4 menu designates which actions a job is allowed to perform.
2. RP Actions are automatically initiated based on certain actions.
3. Keypad Cracking/Lockpicking will automatically advert raid.
4. If a go-kart is lockpicked, a carjack will automatically be adverted.
5. Kidnap Baton/Restraints will automatically advert kidnap.
6. C4 will automatically advert terror.
7. To counter RP Actions, type /counter. You must be at the beginning of a base entrance to start a counter a raid (before the first fading door). Terror attacks are exempt from this, you do not have to advert to counter them.
8. To assist RP Actions, type /assist in the area of the action that is happening. Being in a party or gang does not exempt you from this rule.
9. Once you have finished an RP Action, you must type /over to signal that the action is over.
10. Do not use RP Actions to harass players. (E.G. Chain Mugging, Chain Raiding, Chain Kidnapping, and Chain Countering)
11. Do not leave the server while an RP action is happening against you.
12. RDM jobs must still advert according to their job description.
Party Rules
1. You may defend a party member if you physically witness them get injured.
2. You may not defend a party member who was injured during an RP Action that they instigated. You must be assisting their RP action to defend them.
3. You may not defend a party member who was injured during a territory capture.
4. You must be in a party to base with people. Base members must be co-owners on the property doors. (Government are exempt from this rule)
5. Do not harass or bait people with parties. This includes chain mugging, chain raiding, chain kidnapping, and chain countering.
Gang Rules
1. Party rules do not apply to Gangs. If you wish to defend your friends you must be in a party.
2. You may not defend a party member if you are participating in gang captures or defenses. (You may only defend/capture territories with other gang members)
3. When a territory is being captured, the current flag holders are KOS to the capturing players while in the same district. Opposing gang members are highlighted in red, and the current district is shown in the top right of the UI.
4. If the territory capture is canceled, KOS for both parties is invalidated unless damage has been dealt.
5. If the territory has been fully captured, KOS for both parties is invalidated unless damage has been dealt.
6. You may not defend territories from inside or on top of a building or base.
7. You may not defend or capture territories as a Non-Violence Job.
Base/Building Rules
1. Your base must be connected to a world door that you own.
2. You must be in a party to base with other players. The party must be added as owners to the doors (F2 -> Toggle Party Ownership).
3. Your base entrance may have a maximum of 4 fading doors. Each party member may have an additional fading door, controlled by a button or similar, to store their raidables only.
4. Your fading doors must be able to fit at least 2 players in between them.
5. Your base may not have one-way engagements. If the defender can see or shoot the raider, the raider must be able to see or shoot the defender. You may not have cameras that replicate a one-way window.
6. Your shooting windows must be at least 2 "blocks" tall and wide (models/hunter/blocks/cube05x05x05.mdl). Your chest and head should be visible through the window.
7. You may not have fading doors made out of multiple props (i.e. a single fading door made out of 2 props).
8. Your base may not have shooting windows that are above or below the entrance (i.e. the raider and defender should be on the same level).
9. Your keypads must be owned by the owner of the world doors (i.e. a security guard cannot create keypad fading doors in the bank, since the bank doors cannot be co-owned)
10. Your keypads and buttons must be around eye-level, and must be accessible without crouching or jumping.
11. You may not have fake or useless buttons and keypads.
12. You may not have prop maze bases. Your base must have a clear path and may have a maximum of 4 turns.
13. Your base must be easily enterable. Your base cannot force raiders to crouch or jump in any way. Your base may not have any pixel perfect elements (i.e. a keypad that can only be cracked at an extremely precise angle).
14. Your base may not have any drops or ledges (i.e. making the floor a fading door then toggling it so the raider falls, or having a hole that makes it possible to fall). You may not trap players in your base.
15. You may only have one entrance to your base. You must be able to exit the base through the entrance.
16. You may not have blinding or disorienting bases that cause visibility issues. This includes pitch black or white bases.
17. You may not have base designs that force raiders to keypad crack or lockpick the same door twice to get through.
18. Your base may not block off sections of the map, including elevators or tunnels. Your base should not block off NPCs or dumpsters, or have KOS lines that block them off.
19. You may not mega-base (a single base that covers multiple, separate buildings). You may not block off an entire district even if your party owns all the buildings.
20. No-collided props must have a textscreen to indicate them. You may not stand inside no-collided props.
21. Hobos may make buildings on the sidewalk, or empty places like the fountain or beach. Hobo buildings may not be extremely large or distracting, and may not prevent or slow down movement (i.e. a tunnel house that takes up a huge amount of space with only a tiny gap on the side to pass through).
22. Your KOS sign and KOS line must be visible and readable. The only valid reason for KOS is being past the designated KOS line. KOS may persist for 3 seconds after the player leaves the KOS zone.
23. Your Building sign must be clearly visible and readable. You may not have any job entities, printers, or anything that can be used to make money with a Building sign.
24. You must be actively building or editing your base while your Building sign is up. Do not hog buildings you aren't using or participate in roleplay for an extended time while your Building sign is up.
25. You may not have both a KOS sign and a Building sign at the same time. If someone is harassing you while building, or if you need your NLR zone cleared, please make a report.
Raiding Rules
1. You may not raid a base with a building sign.
2. Raids may only last for 15 minutes. If you die during an active raid, you may not return to your base until the raid is over. If the PD is being raided, Government Officials are exempt from NLR.
3. You must wait 5 minutes before raiding a different base and 10 minutes before raiding the same base.
4. During an active raid, all players inside the base are KOS to the raiders and defenders.
5. You must be at the beginning of the base's entrance to start a raid.
6. You may not destroy your raidables/job entities during an active raid.
7. If you are raiding for a hit or bounty, you may only raid for the kill. You may not destroy or steal from raidables/job entities at all during a hit/bounty raid.
8. You may not use any explosives for defending a base during a raid.
Mugging Rules
1. You must always /mug amount to initiate a mug. The maximum mug amount is $20,000.
2. Mugs only last for 1 minute. You must wait at least 10 seconds before killing the person unless the player damages you.
3. You may not tell someone that free looking or moving is KOS.
4. Make sure to type /over when you have finished the mug.
5. You must wait 5 minutes before mugging a different person and 10 minutes before mugging the same person.
Kidnapping Rules
1. To initiate a kidnap use the kidnapping baton on your victim.
2. Holding someone kidnapped may only last for 10 minutes.
3. The maximum ransom for a kidnapped person is $500,000.
4. You may not tie people to props or hang them around the map or get people stuck in the world/props.
5. You must wait 15 minutes before kidnapping a different person and 30 minutes before kidnapping the same person.
6. If you are kidnapped you must follow the kidnapper instructions, however you may struggle or refuse to pay against their orders.
Stealing Rules
1. To steal something from a player, you must type /advert steal.
2. You do not have to advert steal if you are raiding the same person.
3. You may kill a player if they are stealing your items.
Warning Rules
1. You may warn players if they are bothering you or following you. To begin this type /warn.
2. You must /warn 3 times with 10 second intervals, after the third warning, you may kill the person.
Go-Kart Rules
1. Do not abuse karts in any way. This includes: Using karts to get inside a base, Using the remover tool to delete your kart when it is stolen.
2. You are KOS if inside someone else's kart without permission. This includes the passenger seat.
3. To initiate a carjack, lockpick the go-kart. Taking karts without lock-picking is considered stealing. You must type /advert steal if you do not need to lockpick the kart.
4. You must wait 15 minutes before carjacking a different person and 30 minutes before carjacking the same person.
Government Rules
1. You may not make laws that are designed to mass arrest people. Examples include: Jaywalking is AOS, Not saying hello to the mayor is AOS.
2. You may not make laws enforcing KOS.
3. You may not make laws that target specific players or jobs (E.G. Making thieves AOS, giving someone immunity to laws, etc.) However, making certain job items illegal is allowed within reason. For example: "Bitcoin Miners are illegal" and "Selling guns without a gun license is illegal" would be allowed, but not "Pizza Ovens are illegal" or "Having a gun store is illegal".
4. Police must have a valid reason for a warrant/want. You may not make random/baseless warrants/wants (E.G. Printer sounds, Mandatory Search, or Printer Check. You must be able to physically see what you are warranting the person for.
5. Police must have a valid reason for an arrest. You must physically witness illegal activity to arrest someone. Players who are wanted may be arrested or warranted.
6. Do not harass people with government jobs and do not use the system to target people.
Terror Rules
1. Terror attacks may only last 5 minutes and may only occur in a single district.
2. You are allowed to shoot out of your green terror circle, if the person is in the same district as you.
3. Do not enter buildings or sit on rooftops during your terror attack.
4. To begin a terror without C4 type /terror. You do not have to work with other terrorists during the attack. You must wait 30 minutes in-between terror attacks.

* Read job descriptions for specific job rules.

* Remember staff have final say.

* If you have any questions, feel free to ask any staff.

DarkRP Rules

General Rules

Metagaming/NLR Rules

Purge Rules

Airdrop Rules

NVJ's and RP Action Rules

Party Rules

Gang Rules

Base/Building Rules

Raiding Rules

Mugging Rules

Kidnapping Rules

Stealing Rules

Warning Rules

Go-Kart Rules

Government Rules

Terror Rules

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