Rules

General Community Rules

1. Respect All Members: Treat players, staff, and community members with respect. Harassment, bullying, discrimination, hate speech, and targeted personal attacks are prohibited.
2. Use Common Sense: Not every possible situation can be covered by a written rule. Players are expected to act reasonably and in the spirit of serious roleplay.
3. No Cheating or Exploiting: The use of cheats, unauthorized modifications, exploits, or third-party tools to gain an unfair advantage is strictly prohibited.
4. No Bug Abuse: Any bugs, glitches, or unintended mechanics must be reported to staff. Knowingly abusing them for personal gain is prohibited.
5. Follow Staff Instructions: Staff instructions must be followed during moderation or active investigations. Disagreements may be addressed through the appropriate appeal process.
6. No Impersonation: Impersonating staff, law enforcement personnel, or other players in a misleading or abusive manner is prohibited.
7. No Advertising or Spam: Unauthorized advertisements, repeated spam, and unsolicited promotion of other communities are prohibited.

Roleplay Standards

1. Remain In Character: Players must remain in character during active roleplay unless a legitimate administrative or technical issue requires otherwise.
2. No Metagaming: Using information obtained outside of roleplay to influence your character’s decisions is prohibited. This includes information from Discord, streams, private messages, or another character.
3. No Powergaming: Do not force actions or outcomes on another player without giving them a reasonable opportunity to respond. Unrealistic or impossible actions intended to gain an advantage are prohibited.
4. No Fail RP: All actions must remain believable within the setting. Deliberately unrealistic behavior that disrupts immersion is prohibited.
5. Value Your Life (NVL): Your character must take credible threats seriously and react appropriately to dangerous situations.
6. Fear RP: Characters must realistically respond to threats, including situations involving weapons, restraint, or significant disadvantages.
7. No Random Deathmatch (RDM): Attacking or killing another player without a valid roleplay reason is prohibited.
8. No Vehicle Deathmatch (VDM): Intentionally using a vehicle to run over or kill players without valid roleplay justification is prohibited.
9. No Combat Logging: Disconnecting, leaving the server, or intentionally avoiding a roleplay scene to escape its consequences is prohibited.
10. No Scene Interference: Do not interfere with ongoing roleplay without a valid in-character reason.
11. Quality Over Winning: Roleplay should focus on creating meaningful stories rather than simply winning confrontations or avoiding consequences.

Death, Injuries, and Respawning

1. New Life Rule (NLR): After a death or respawn that triggers the server’s NLR rules, follow the applicable memory-loss and return-to-scene restrictions.
2. No Returning to Active Conflicts: Players may not return to an active scene simply to rejoin the same confrontation after being incapacitated or respawning.
3. Injury Roleplay: Injuries must be roleplayed realistically. Players should not immediately resume normal activities after serious injuries without appropriate roleplay.
4. No Injury Avoidance: Do not use healing items, animations, respawning, or other mechanics to avoid the consequences of an injury or active scene.
5. EMS Cooperation: Players must cooperate reasonably with EMS and participate in medical roleplay when appropriate.

Criminal Roleplay

1. Valid Criminal Intent: Criminal activities must have a reasonable in-character purpose and contribute to meaningful roleplay.
2. Robbery Requirements: All robberies must follow the specific rules for that activity, including any requirements for police availability, participant limits, cooldowns, and hostages.
3. Hostage Rules: Hostages must be part of a legitimate roleplay scenario. Using cooperating friends or artificial hostages to manipulate a scene or obtain unfair advantages is prohibited.
4. No Cop Baiting: Deliberately provoking law enforcement solely to initiate pursuits or create repetitive interactions is prohibited.
5. Realistic Escapes: Criminals must use believable methods to evade law enforcement. Exploiting map limitations, glitches, or unrealistic mechanics is prohibited.
6. No Random Violence: Criminal activity must not be used as an excuse to target random players without valid roleplay justification.
7. Gang Conduct: Gangs and criminal organizations must follow all established rules regarding alliances, recruitment, territory, group sizes, and third-party involvement.
8. No Exploiting Criminal Mechanics: Abusing robbery systems, inventory transfers, duplication glitches, or other mechanics for unfair gain is prohibited.

Law Enforcement and Emergency Services

1. Professional Conduct: Police, EMS, fire personnel, and other government employees must maintain professional standards while on duty.
2. Follow Department SOPs: All department members must follow their department’s standard operating procedures, training requirements, and chain of command.
3. No Abuse of Authority: Government employees may not use their position, equipment, access, or privileges for personal gain or retaliation.
4. Realistic Use of Force: Law enforcement must use force proportionately and in accordance with applicable department policy and the circumstances of the scene.
5. Evidence and Investigations: Officers must follow established procedures for arrests, evidence collection, searches, and investigations.
6. EMS Roleplay: EMS personnel must provide appropriate medical roleplay and avoid unfairly interfering with unrelated scenes.
7. Corruption Restrictions: Corrupt government roleplay is prohibited unless expressly authorized under server policy and the relevant department’s rules.
8. Restricted Equipment: Emergency vehicles, uniforms, weapons, and department equipment may only be used by authorized personnel in accordance with policy.

Vehicles and Driving

1. Realistic Driving: Driving must be appropriate to the situation, road conditions, vehicle type, and circumstances of the roleplay scene.
2. Vehicle Realism: Do not abuse vehicle handling, performance, or game mechanics to gain an unrealistic advantage.
3. Vehicle Theft: Vehicle theft must involve reasonable roleplay and comply with applicable server restrictions.
4. Emergency Vehicles: Only authorized personnel may operate restricted emergency vehicles or use emergency equipment.
5. Unrealistic Ramming: Deliberately ramming vehicles to initiate conflict or gain an unfair advantage is prohibited.
6. Safe Zones: Follow all designated safe-zone restrictions. Safe zones may not be exploited to escape legitimate roleplay consequences.
7. Vehicle Damage: Vehicle damage must be acknowledged and roleplayed appropriately when it affects the vehicle’s operation or occupant safety.

Communication and Discord

1. Respectful Communication: Harassment, discriminatory remarks, targeted threats, and abusive behavior are prohibited in voice chat, text chat, and Discord.
2. No Mic Abuse: Excessively loud microphones, disruptive soundboards, repeated screaming, and intentional audio interference are prohibited.
3. Radio Etiquette: Use designated radio channels appropriately and follow department-specific communication procedures.
4. No Out-of-Character Advantage: Discord messages, private conversations, and staff discussions must not be used to gain an unfair in-character advantage.
5. Privacy Protection: Do not share another person’s private information, account credentials, or sensitive communications without authorization.
6. Appropriate Content: Community channels must remain appropriate for the community and comply with Discord’s rules.

Character and Account Rules

1. Appropriate Character Names: Character names must be suitable for serious roleplay and comply with server naming restrictions.
2. Character Separation: Information known by one character may not be transferred to another character unless there is a legitimate in-character basis.
3. No Unfair Asset Transfers: Players may not use alternate characters or accounts to bypass economic restrictions, penalties, or other server rules.
4. No Ban Evasion: Creating or using alternate accounts to evade a suspension or ban is prohibited.
5. Character Realism: Characters should have believable identities, motivations, and behavior consistent with the serious roleplay environment.
6. Character Slots: All character slot restrictions and character-specific rules must be followed.

Economy, Jobs, and Businesses

1. No Economy Exploits: Abusing jobs, payouts, inventory systems, or other mechanics to generate unauthorized money or items is prohibited.
2. Legitimate Employment: Players must follow the requirements and restrictions associated with their chosen jobs and professions.
3. Business Conduct: Business owners and employees must follow applicable business policies and participate in reasonable roleplay.
4. No Unauthorized Transfers: Money, items, vehicles, and other assets may not be transferred to bypass server restrictions or exploit the economy.
5. No Real-Money Trading: Buying, selling, or trading in-game assets for real-world money is prohibited unless expressly authorized by official server policy.
6. Report Financial Bugs: Unexpected payouts, duplicated items, or abnormal financial transactions must be reported to staff rather than exploited.

Bugs, Exploits, and Server Integrity

1. Report Technical Issues: Report significant bugs, crashes, exploits, and unintended mechanics through the designated support channels.
2. No Duplication: Item, vehicle, money, or inventory duplication is prohibited.
3. No Unauthorized Tools: Software or modifications that provide an unfair advantage, compromise security, or interfere with server integrity are prohibited.
4. No Exploit Sharing: Do not distribute instructions for abusing server vulnerabilities or encourage others to exploit them.
5. No Malicious Activity: Attempts to disrupt server operations, compromise accounts, or interfere with community systems are prohibited.

Staff, Reports, and Appeals

1. Use Proper Channels: Player reports, bug reports, and ban appeals must be submitted through the designated channels.
2. Provide Accurate Information: Reports must contain truthful descriptions and relevant evidence when available.
3. No False Reports: Knowingly fabricating evidence or misleading staff during an investigation is prohibited.
4. Respectful Appeals: Players may appeal moderation decisions through the designated process. Appeals must remain respectful and provide relevant information.
5. Staff Impartiality: Staff are expected to apply rules fairly and disclose relevant conflicts of interest where appropriate.
6. No Retaliation: Retaliating against someone for making a good-faith report or participating in an investigation is prohibited.
7. Staff Discretion: Staff may address conduct that clearly violates the purpose of these rules or seriously disrupts the community, even if the exact scenario is not explicitly listed.

Rule Enforcement and Punishments

Rule violations will be reviewed based on their severity, available evidence, prior history, and impact on the community.

Possible disciplinary actions include:

1. Verbal warning.
2. Official warning.
3. Temporary removal from the server.
4. Temporary suspension or ban.
5. Removal from a department, gang, or whitelist.
6. Permanent ban.

Severe violations may result in immediate suspension or a permanent ban without prior warnings.

Staff should apply appropriate and proportionate consequences. Players may appeal disciplinary decisions through the official appeal process.

Final Expectations

1. Know the Rules: All players are responsible for understanding and following the current rules.
2. Respect the Community: Treat other players fairly and help maintain an inclusive, enjoyable environment.
3. Prioritize Immersion: Make decisions that support believable characters and meaningful roleplay.
4. Accept Consequences: In-character actions may have in-character consequences. Do not use out-of-character arguments to avoid legitimate outcomes.
5. Stay Informed: Rules and policies may be updated as the community develops. Players are responsible for reviewing official announcements.
6. Represent SAR Well: All members are expected to contribute positively to the reputation and development of San Andreas Reborn.

Failure to read the rules does not excuse a violation.

Thank you for being part of San Andreas Reborn. We look forward to building a serious, fair, and immersive roleplay community with you.