Rules

Your character should have motivations, limitations, habits, relationships, fears, and consequences. Avoid treating the character as a disposable avatar used only to access weapons, vehicles, or combat.

Actions should be based on what your character knows, not what you know as a player.

Roleplay should develop naturally. Do not force every encounter into a shooting, chase, robbery, arrest, or staff situation.

You may play bold, reckless, criminal, rude, corrupt, scared, inexperienced, or unstable characters, but the portrayal still needs internal logic and believable consequences.

Being arrested, injured, robbed, outnumbered, exposed, or forced to retreat is not a failed roleplay scene.

Do not stall, disconnect, exploit mechanics, or invent last-second information simply to avoid losing a scene.

Players who consistently create good scenes for others will always be valued more than players who simply accumulate wins.

Use normal character dialogue for all conversations that can reasonably be handled in roleplay.

Do not discuss Discord, staff tickets, rule numbers, clips, keybinds, menus, respawns, texture loss, FPS, crashes, or other game terminology in ordinary character conversation.

Do not say things such as “I am going to report you,” “that is RDM,” “check the bodycam clip,” or “my game is lagging” while a scene is active. Finish the scene, then handle the issue through the proper channel.

If a technical problem makes roleplay impossible, keep OOC communication brief and return to character as soon as possible.

Do not use your character to retaliate against someone because of a Discord disagreement, staff report, previous argument, or personal dislike.

Do not carry IC hostility into DMs, voice channels, tickets, or public chat as player-to-player harassment.

Do not coordinate IC actions through unauthorized OOC channels.

Use proximity voice, radio systems, telephones, dispatch tools, or other approved in-world communication methods when available.

Avoid unnecessary background noise, soundboards, music spam, voice changers that destroy intelligibility, or deliberately disruptive microphone use.

Do not remain in external voice calls with players who are participating in the same active scene unless the call is being used solely for approved server operations and no IC information is exchanged.

Livestreaming server gameplay is prohibited while connected to the server, spectating server scenes, or participating in server-related voice communications.

Do not broadcast active scenes through Twitch, YouTube, TikTok Live, Discord screen share, Kick, or similar live platforms.

The purpose of this restriction is to protect player privacy, prevent stream-sniping or outside information, and allow serious roleplay to happen without an external audience influencing behavior.

Locally recorded clips may be retained for staff reports, personal review, or approved edited content, provided they are not used to harass, expose private staff information, or bypass server privacy expectations.

Complete and verify your CAD character profile before joining the server for the first time and before playing any newly created character.

Your in-game character information must reasonably match the character represented in CAD. Keep the record updated when major character information changes.

Use a believable name and character concept appropriate to the setting.

Do not create joke characters, celebrity copies, meme identities, or intentionally immersion-breaking appearances for serious scenes.

A character should not completely change personality, profession, allegiance, criminal history, or relationships from scene to scene merely because it is convenient.

Characters may grow or change over time, but major changes should have an in-character reason.

Do not create alternate characters solely to transfer information, money, property, revenge, or influence between stories.

When changing factions, careers, gangs, or departments, respect any applicable cooldowns, training requirements, and continuity expectations.

Your character only knows what they have personally observed, been told in character, or can reasonably access through approved in-world systems.

Names above heads, Discord roles, player lists, map markers, staff messages, streams, clips, and OOC conversations are not character knowledge.

When a credible weapon is aimed at your character and you do not have a realistic advantage, show appropriate fear and caution.

Being armed does not automatically give you a believable reason to fight several people, rush a gunman at close range, or ignore a hostage situation.

Consider numbers, distance, cover, surprise, injuries, available escape routes, and the character’s personality before deciding to resist.

You are not required to play a coward. You are required to make decisions that acknowledge risk.

Suicidal actions performed only to avoid arrest, inventory loss, questioning, or roleplay consequences are not acceptable.

Roleplay the severity and location of meaningful injuries. A gunshot, stabbing, severe collision, fall, or repeated taser exposure should affect movement and decision-making.

Do not sprint, fight, climb, drive aggressively, or immediately resume combat after severe injuries unless the circumstances make that believable.

Allow EMS and medical personnel reasonable opportunities to assess and treat you.

Do not dictate exact medical outcomes to other players. Describe symptoms and injuries; let qualified medical roleplay develop naturally.

After major treatment, consider a realistic recovery period rather than instantly returning to the exact conflict that caused the injury.

You may refuse treatment in character when reasonable, but refusal does not erase the injury.

Unconscious or incapacitated characters should not provide tactical callouts, detailed descriptions, or other information they could not realistically communicate.

First death: The first time your character dies, one life is consumed. The character may continue, but the death must remain part of their history. You must establish a believable survival outcome, such as being recovered by EMS, transported to a hospital, undergoing emergency treatment, and later being discharged after recovery.

If your character previously died from a shooting, stabbing, serious crash, or similar incident, you may not later act as though it never happened. If the event is discussed, your character should explain that they survived after medical intervention, hospitalization, or another believable in-character outcome.

Second death: The second time that same character dies, the death is permanent. That character may no longer be used and must be deleted. You must create a new character before returning to normal roleplay.

Before retiring or deleting a permanently deceased character, the character's MDT record must be updated to Deceased. A character may only be marked Missing when the roleplay legitimately supports an unresolved disappearance or the character's fate is not known in character.

A character's life count does not reset by changing their name, appearance, job, department, faction, or by temporarily shelving the character. The two-life limit follows that character for their entire story.

A replacement character must be treated as a genuinely new person. Do not transfer the deceased character's memories, relationships, grudges, property, criminal knowledge, or other information simply to continue the same story under a different name.

When incapacitated, do not continue normal conversation, give live tactical intelligence, use outside communications, or manipulate the scene through OOC messages.

If revived, continue roleplaying injuries and confusion where appropriate.

When a character’s death is treated as permanent or a new-life event under server systems, do not immediately return with perfect memory to retaliate or recover property.

Do not repeatedly return to an active scene after being removed from it by death, hospitalization, arrest, or staff direction.

Never disconnect because your character has been killed or incapacitated in order to prevent a lawful or roleplay-appropriate search, robbery, evidence recovery, arrest, or inventory consequence.

Have an in-character purpose for serious crimes. Money, revenge, intimidation, territorial conflict, desperation, organized crime, and opportunity can all be valid when developed properly.

Do not repeatedly rob, kidnap, attack, or provoke random players with little or no roleplay simply because the game allows it.

Escalate conflict naturally. Verbal hostility does not automatically justify lethal force.

Give victims a reasonable opportunity to understand demands and comply when the scene allows it.

Do not manufacture hostage scenes with friends or alternate characters solely to force police into a payout or mechanical advantage.

Criminals should account for witnesses, cameras, plates, fingerprints, injuries, police response, surveillance, and later investigation.

Kidnapping should have a narrative purpose and should not be used to trap someone in an excessively long scene without meaningful interaction.

Hostages must be treated as actual leverage and actual human beings. Unnecessary execution with no escalation or story value may be treated as poor roleplay.

Hostage takers should communicate demands clearly and allow reasonable negotiation when police are involved.

Robberies require believable interaction. Do not silently empty inventories without roleplay when the target is conscious and available to interact.

Only take items that make sense for the scene and server economy. Do not use robbery mechanics primarily to grief or wipe another player’s progress.

Law enforcement searches should be tied to a lawful or roleplay-supported basis within the server’s legal framework.

Players must not disconnect, transfer items, hide property through alternate characters, exploit storage, or intentionally die to prevent an otherwise valid search or seizure.

If an inventory search is occurring, the searched player should not use inventory mechanics to move, drop, consume, stash, or destroy items to defeat the search.

Do not shoot without a believable reason and sufficient escalation.

Do not fire at people merely because they insulted you, bumped your vehicle, ran near you, or annoyed you.

Warning shots, blind firing, indiscriminate spraying, shooting through crowds, and intentionally unrealistic gunplay may be treated as fail roleplay.

Use cover, distance, communication, surrender, retreat, and negotiation when those options make sense.

Do not exploit third-person camera angles, desync, animation states, interiors, or other mechanics to shoot or observe in ways your character could not reasonably accomplish.

After a major shooting, allow the aftermath to exist: injuries, witnesses, medical response, evidence, police investigation, fear, and consequences.

Random Deathmatch (RDM) and Vehicle Deathmatch (VDM) are not acceptable substitutes for roleplay.

A vehicle may be used as a weapon only where the character has a believable reason and the circumstances support that level of force. Accidental collisions should be roleplayed as accidents, not instantly converted into gunfights.

Routine driving should be reasonably believable. Constantly driving at maximum speed, jumping curbs, launching over terrain, or ignoring collisions without a scene-based reason breaks immersion.

High-performance driving is appropriate during emergencies, pursuits, races, escapes, or other developed scenes, but vehicle limitations still matter.

Do not take vehicles through terrain, gaps, jumps, stairs, barriers, or water merely because the game physics allow it when the real vehicle could not reasonably do so.

Crashes should matter. A major impact may require slowing down, stopping, roleplaying injuries, disabling the vehicle, or waiting for assistance.

Police and suspects should avoid “win at any cost” pursuit behavior. The goal is a believable chase, not abusing physics until one side loses.

Use communication, de-escalation, commands, positioning, backup, and investigation before force when practical.

An arrest should be supported by the facts your character has. Do not use OOC knowledge, player reputation, Discord history, or assumptions as probable cause.

Searches, seizures, detentions, warrants, and charges should follow the server’s legal framework and department policy where applicable.

Officers should articulate what they are doing. Give detained players enough information to understand the scene without turning every stop into a courtroom debate.

Use force proportionally. A disrespectful or fleeing suspect does not automatically justify lethal force.

Do not intentionally prolong detention, stack absurd charges, seize irrelevant property, or use police mechanics to punish a player OOC.

Police corruption, misconduct, or rogue behavior requires server/department approval when it could substantially affect other players or undermine the department structure.

Treat evidence as meaningful. Witness statements, video, fingerprints, DNA, casings, plates, vehicle damage, clothing, timelines, and phone records should be handled as information, not magical certainty.

Allow suspects and attorneys reasonable opportunities to speak. Good police roleplay is not measured only by arrests; it is measured by the quality of the investigation and scene.

Create jobs, businesses, social groups, relationships, disputes, hobbies, local events, accidents, emergencies, and everyday interactions.

Do not treat civilian gameplay as downtime between shootouts. The strongest worlds feel alive even when no crime is happening.

Use realistic reactions to police activity, shootings, crashes, fires, severe injuries, and dangerous scenes.

Do not swarm emergency scenes simply because you saw activity on the map or heard about it OOC.

When portraying a professional occupation, make a reasonable effort to understand the basics of that role without turning it into a rigid simulation requirement.

Faction loyalty, transfers, alliances, rivalries, promotions, and leadership decisions should be treated as meaningful character events.

Do not faction-hop to chase whichever group is currently winning, active, or better equipped.

Group conflicts should develop through identifiable causes and escalation. Avoid declaring endless wars over trivial incidents.

Do not use faction Discord channels to live-feed information your characters could not reasonably communicate in game.

Leadership is responsible for the culture of the group. Encouraging repeated rule-adjacent behavior may result in group-level administrative action.

When a faction transfer policy exists, its BCT, time-in-unit, leadership approval, and cooldown requirements apply in addition to this handbook.

Derogatory, discriminatory, or offensive language, including slurs, may only be used in a clearly in-character context where it serves the scene or character portrayal rather than the player’s OOC hostility.

Such language may never be used to target, intimidate, harass, or demean another player outside of roleplay, in tickets, DMs, staff discussions, public OOC channels, or after a player has made clear the scene is crossing into real-world harassment.

Do not spam offensive language, use it as shock content, or make it the entire identity of a character. Context, restraint, and narrative relevance matter.

Never use roleplay as a shield for targeted OOC harassment or coordinated abuse.

All content remains subject to the rules and terms of the platforms and services the server uses. A server rule cannot override platform-level restrictions.

Do not force sexual, sexually humiliating, or graphically intimate roleplay onto another player.

Any mature relationship roleplay must be consensual between the involved players and remain within applicable platform and community requirements.

Graphic torture, hate content, or other extreme material should never be sprung on an unwilling player merely for shock value.

Do not use Discord messages, streams, clips, player lists, staff tools, map knowledge, alternate characters, or another player’s screen to locate or identify people in character.

Do not recognize masked or disguised characters solely by voice, username, clothing habits, or OOC familiarity unless the recognition is genuinely reasonable in context.

Do not return to a scene because someone told you what happened through an unauthorized OOC channel.

Do not force actions or outcomes on another player without giving them a reasonable opportunity to respond.

Do not claim impossible abilities, invisible equipment, nonexistent evidence, or guaranteed outcomes simply to win a scene.

Use /me, /do, emotes, animations, and server mechanics to describe or support roleplay, not to unilaterally dictate another character’s injuries, emotions, knowledge, or actions.

Do not exploit animation cancels, hitboxes, camera angles, collision, invulnerability, interior loading, desync, inventory timing, reconnect behavior, or other technical quirks for an advantage.

Do not abuse character switching, relogging, respawning, storage, garages, impounds, or inventories to escape an active consequence.

Do not intentionally duplicate, hide, transfer, or destroy items through bugs or unintended mechanics.

If you discover an exploitable issue, stop using it and report it privately to staff. Repeated use after discovering the issue may be treated more severely.

Do not interrupt an active scene solely to troll, provoke a shootout, steal attention, or create chaos with no connection to the story.

Give players enough time to respond to commands, questions, medical treatment, negotiations, searches, and major actions.

Do not talk over everyone simply to control the scene. Use radio discipline and allow relevant parties to speak.

When entering an existing scene, take a moment to understand what is happening before acting.

After a scene, carry forward reasonable consequences. Injuries, damaged property, warrants, relationships, debts, arrests, and reputation should not vanish because the immediate excitement ended.

Do not disconnect during an active interaction, pursuit, arrest, medical scene, robbery, search, or confrontation to avoid the outcome.

If you crash, make a reasonable effort to return and continue the scene when possible. If returning is impossible, notify the appropriate party or staff channel when practical.

Logging out after a scene has clearly concluded is normal. Logging out because the scene is going badly is not.

Do not summon staff in the middle of every disagreement. Finish the scene when reasonably possible and report afterward.

Use reports for genuine rule or technical concerns, not as leverage to win an IC dispute.

Provide clear evidence when available: timestamps, player IDs, names, clips, screenshots, and a concise description of what occurred.

Do not edit clips in a misleading way, omit critical context, fabricate evidence, or coordinate false reports.

Follow staff direction during an active review. Arguing endlessly in scene or continuing the disputed behavior can create additional problems.

Staff decisions may consider the totality of the scene, prior behavior, intent, severity, and whether the player made a good-faith effort to roleplay.

Verbal coaching or documented warning for minor or first-time issues.

Strikes for clear or repeated violations of the server standard.

Inventory, money, vehicle, item, or scene rollback when an exploit or disconnect was used to preserve an advantage.

Character consequences, character wipe, faction removal, department discipline, or role restrictions when the violation is tied to a specific character or position.

Temporary suspension for serious or repeated behavior.

Permanent removal for severe abuse, cheating, targeted harassment, repeated bad-faith conduct, or conduct that makes continued participation incompatible with the community.