SERVER RULES

The following rules are made to make clear what is allowed and what is not, this is required for any decent roleplay server. We expect you to read all the rules before playing. It may take a couple of minutes to read all the rules, but an average ban is a lot longer than that. It's almost impossible to cover every single detail with rules, so we expect that you use your common sense and won't do questionable things or search for loopholes. If you are not sure if something is allowed or not, ask an admin to clarify. BlackdaggerRP is a roleplay server - losing is part of the game. You can turn a negative experience into a positive one by working with the RP. Sometimes you will die, be arrested or otherwise be forced into situations you don't necessarily want to be in. RP isn't about winning or losing however, but making the best of what happens and enjoying the journey, as events are often out of your control. No matter how good you are, or how prepared you are, sometimes you will lose. Remember, our roleplay (RP) is about recreating a lifelike civilization - your character is by default a functional member of society, so make your character behave realistically.

 

 

 

General rules

1.1 - Using cheats, hacks, abusing glitches, Using third party software (discord vc ect ect) is not permitted and can be classed as metagaming if it gives you an unfair advantage in rp

1.2 – You can only own and use one account, using more than one account to avoid a punishment or otherwise can result in a permanent ban. If you want to switch to another account, make a thread about it on the forums.

1.3 - Do not reconnect, suicide or do anything else to avoid a roleplay situation. If you suddenly have to go, inform the people you are roleplaying with clearly in chat and give them a few minutes to conclude the RP. If you are unable to stay for those few minutes, we recommend that you go AFK instead of disconnecting and inform staff via @.

1.4 - Do not swear excessively, argue or insult in OOC chat, and do not write caps-locked messages.

1.5 - Listen to admin decisions; they aren't negotiable.

1.6 - You may not be racist, sexist or otherwise discriminatory to players out of character. This behaviour is tolerated in-character however your actions must have context and/or background RP to it.

1.6.1 - In-character discrimination is allowed only on in-character text chat and in-character voice chat.

1.7 - Scamming is not allowed. Also, do not steal items which other players have dropped to carry out a transaction.

1.8 – Do not advertise other servers, GMod communities, NSFW content, or gambling websites of any kind. This includes your steam name. Community/Clan tags are allowed.

1.9 - If you see someone breaking the rules, try to warn them or contact an admin. Do not take the situation into your own hands. You may still defend yourself if your character’s life is endangered by the rule breaker.

1.10 - Purposefully attempting to find loopholes in the rules will likely result in punishment.

1.11 - If the Mayor dies the current mayor will be removed from the mayor role immediately in some cases if the mayor is RDMed or anything reguarding something which may have broken the rules infrom staff immediately.

1.12 – Do not promote anything conflicting with the rules in adverts and laws, or by any other means.

1.13 – Do not mic-spam. If you want to play music through your microphone, have an appropriate prop and ensure the sound is not too loud and your mic quality is decent.

1.14 – Do not trade your in-game money/items for real money, CS:GO skins, game keys, or anything else that's not other in-game money/items.

 

 

 

FearRP

2.1 - You are considered to be under FearRP when you are in line of sight of a visibly armed person, who is within default microphone range of you and is able to harm your character at that moment. You must act afraid of armed people and life-threatening situations.

2.2 - You must follow the orders of the person(s) who have you under FearRP, and you may not draw a weapon on them or attack them. FearRP applies to melee weapons if you are within effective range.

2.3 - You may not run away from someone who has you under FearRP and is pointing a gun/knife at you, unless they specifically order you to.

2.4 - You are not under FearRP if you are also visibly armed. Visibly armed in the context of FearRP means that you have your weapon out and in your hands, regardless of safety mode. You are not considered visibly armed when you are seated, regardless of whether you are holding a weapon in hand or not.

2.5 - If someone switches from a gun to another item while FearRP is active, FearRP still applies. In this case, unless the person keeping you under fear rp is visibly unarmed for longer than 40 seconds you are not to draw a weapon in return.

2.6 - any weapon ie knife or gun can be used to initiate FearRP.

2.7 - You are allowed to call for help and try and escape while FearRP is initiated only if the initiator is visibly occupied and is not pointing their weapon at you or if they are clearly out of harming distance, if you are restrained in rp you must abide by the current situation you are in.

 

 

 

Basic Roleplay Rules and Job Rules

3.1 - Your character needs to have a valid in-character reason for their actions, especially ones that harm or otherwise affect other players. The action needs to be appropriate to the reason e.g massacring the entire of a gang is not an appropriate response to being insulted by a guy with the same model as a gang member.

3.2 - roleplay rape or any other form of sexual abuse is forbidden. You are also not allowed to use real-life extremist names or symbols.

3.3 - Do not do unrealistic things out of context (FailRP). Think of reasons for your actions and what you do and ask yourself if it’s realistic – e.g running around the town punching everyone as the mayor is FailRP. This also applies to unrealistic buildings out of context.

3.4 - Powergaming is not allowed. E.g do not write “/me pulls out a gun and shoots his opponent right in the head” when it hasn’t actually happened in the game. Instead of “/me Takes gun from your waistband disarming you” use “/me attempts to take gun from your waistband disarming you” and let the other player decide the outcome.

3.5 - Stealing the moonshine equipment is not permitted as it is a whitelisted job for only a small group of people, do not carry entitys around in public with your grav gun you can ctrl +e to pocket items

3.5a- You are not to run around with your physgun out when out in public its reccomended to have your keys equipped to help enhance rp.

3.6 – please disconnect from the server when going afk for long periods of time and do not go afk to avoid rp

3.7 - buisiness owners are not to rob and do illegal activities while their business is open.

3.7a– Donator known gangs are not above the law and are fully held accountable for rdm and failrp, just because you are a criminal gang doesnt mean you get a free rdm pass

3.8 - [being revised]

3.9 - Do not use information obtained by out-of-character means, in-character (Metagaming). Exception-you may use Teamspeak/Discord/similar as a way of communicating with friends out of character, but only if information used in that chat was not used ingame to gain an advantage..

 

 

 

New Life Rule (If you die)

4.1 - If you die, you forget how you died. You cannot go back to the place where you died for 10 minutes or interfere in any other way with the RP happening in that area (unless it was in the main town you spawn in). If you were killed, avoid contact with the players that killed you for the duration of the NLR timer. Ask for staff permission to break NLR if you died to a bug/prop/RDM/etc.

 

 

 

Base rules

8.1 – Do not make fortified bases in obvious businesses

8.2 - Walls used to surround a base can't be more than 4 metres (PHX units) tall. If there are uneven surfaces where the walls are placed, some leniency will be allowed to compensate.

8.3 - You may barricade windows (must not be a 1 way prop ) only to stop people form entering through them not to give you an unfair advantage in a fight.

8.4 - you may not barricade doors to stop people entering or to purposely make it unfair for the attacker (ie they have to jump crouch to get in )

8.5 - Bases which have extremely unfair advantages for the defending party, including but not limited to: crouch/prone-only entrances, mazes, long narrow corridors, entrance keypads being visible by the defenders, and others, can be considered a Doomfort and aren't allowed. A member of staff has the final say in whether a base is a doomfort or not – make an @ call to ask if you are unsure.

8.6 - Your base must fit your character's roleplay. E.g Poor characters can't afford to base in high-tech pseudo-military bases. and all places must look historically somewhat accurate so no car props ect ect

8.7 - You cannot make bases out the map or sky bases.

8.8 - You require staff permission to do "Country" RP (e.g taking a part of the map and turning it into another country with its own laws/exempt from global laws, sherrif, Mayor, etc.) or other similar RPs.

 

 

 

Government forces rules and criminal rules

11.1 – Sherrifs and deputys may arrest you for a max of 20 minutes Irl time if you disconnect to avoid the time you will be banned for triple the time of your jailtime and that will only grow the more you break the rule of failrp.

11.2 - Sherrifs and deputys may venture out the town in search of wanted criminals, in NO case is a gang or criminal to be KOS without prior rp reason

11.3 – You may be corrupt, but only if it does not directly endanger the lives of deputys or civilians. Corruption has limits and should benefit your character, it does not allow you to go around beating up citizens for no reason or making up completely random arrest reasons. The Mayor and Sherrif may not be corrupt without staff permission.

11.4 - You may kill/injure other government members, but only if they are an immediate threat to your life, the lives of innocent people, or if it is your only valid option while on-duty. Do not injure/kill for revenge, personal gain, grudges.

11.5 - Goverment may not abuse their jailing power by keeping people in jail for longer periods of time unless they are justified in rpif the only officer online is about to disconnect make sure to release all current prisoners and note down their name on the watch list on the forums

11.6 - you cannot fine people as goverment but you can take bribes.

11.7 - You cannot kill unarmed people or those who no longer pose a threat (injured, unconscious, handcuffed, etc) unless you have full character rp justification.

11.8 - Anyone on the most wanted list on the forums is classed as a dangerous criminal and within reason goverment can take agressive action on any person they feel may be that wanted individual within reason.