Server rules

[Kessu]

Each and every rulebreak can be bannable offense!

Community wide Rules

• No flaming (insulting/swearing) towards other players (personal attack).

• Pornographic content (including distribution and discussion) is not allowed.

• Sharing cheats or such is not allowed.

• Discussion regarding "sensitive" topics such as personal matters, religion, politics are not encouraged in most cases.

• Attempts to avoid or ignore administration punishment aren't allowed in any way.

VC:MP Server Specific Rules

• Deathmatching is prohibited on the server.
• Killing players without a valid roleplay reason is not allowed. Killing (or attacking) players randomly, or under one-sided roleplay conditions are not permitted.
• Killing in self defence is allowed.

• Vehicle killing and intentional ramming are not allowed.
• Do not use vehicles to hit or kill players intentionally. An exception may be to stun (within a roleplay situation) someone; such as the police may stun a fleeing criminal, but may not use a vehicle to kill.

• Vehicle to vehicle ramming is tolerated in ongoing roleplay situations, if relevant.

• Drive-by is not allowed against players on foot, but is acceptable in vehicle vs vehicle scenarios when roleplay is present.
• Drive-by from Faggio, Sanchez, PCJ-600, Freeway and Angel is disallowed. Drive-bying the mentioned bikes is also disallowed.

• Car-surfing is not allowed.

• All forms of cheats/modifications/hacks that directly affect gameplay are disallowed.
• Any third party features that affect gameplay conditions to give an unfair advantage or otherwise must not be used. Visual modifications are allowed.

• Script abuse in any form is against the rules.
• Going around scripted limitations by meeting it's requirements with intention of bypassing said requirements is not allowed.

• Death-evading in any form is disallowed.
• Pausing in combat is not allowed.

• Impostering Admins or other players is not allowed.
• Attempting to breach other players accounts is forbidden.
• Do not ruin roleplay situations or ongoing events.
• Taking action against illegal events as a cop is allowed, however if you're unsure if a event is illegal or not contact server administration.

• Cop hunting is disallowed.
• Chasing or provoking police to become wanted is not allowed. Criminals may only receive a wanted status under roleplay grounds - for breaking a law (in-game) for instance.
• Wanted players are not allowed to alt-tab, kill themselves or pause the game.

• Players are not allowed to return to a roleplay situation after death.
• The only exception to this is the police, who are allowed to re-join a situation. This exception does not extend to civilians who died in a roleplay scenario and changed to cop.
• Returning after death to pick up the case in a scenario you died in previously is not allowed.

• Criminals are to be given a chance to surrender before being engaged by police, unless another player's or the police's life is at immediate danger.
• Even after using the /sur command, suspects must first be given the chance to surrender before police attack. Do not attack less than a second after typing the command.

• Surrendered suspects (that have surrendered through the /sur command) cannot flee or be attacked by police unless under imminent threat.
• Surrendered suspects cannot be rescued either, until jailed.
• Suspects who have not used /sur are NOT considered as surrendered even if they say "I surrender!" or raise their hands up.
• Suspects not officially surrendered, but in custody of the police can be rescued as long as the situation is roleplayed.

• Police units may only use the Sea Sparrow under authorised conditions.
• The Sea Sparrow, once authorised, is to be only used against criminals escaping in boats or other aircraft.
• You must use /sur atleast 3 times before you fire with Sea Sparrow.

• Those that wish to assist criminals may only do so under roleplay conditions.

• Situations that involve roles such as hitmen or assassins must take into account certain roleplay parameters.
• Players cannot simply attack or kill others in the defense that they were acting as an assassin, for example.

• As Argonath is an international community the main language used is English, and therefore we ask all players to communicate in English whilst on public chats.
• Foreign languages can be spoken in every other chat with exceptions of: Public chat, police radio, emergency radio and /me command.

• Advertising websites or servers not linked to or supported by Argonath RPG is strictly forbidden.
• General talking about other servers however is allowed, as long as you are not recruiting or advertising for that server. Flaming other servers/communities is also strictly forbidden.

• Avoid usage of inappropriate language, and especially those that may be directed at other players or groups.
• Do not flame or intentionally use unsuitable language in the public chat as it can cause offence. In roleplay situations, avoid excessively swearing or flaming other players.

• Provoking arguments with the administration is not allowed. Questioning/challenging their administrative calls in public chats is considered provoking an argument.
• If you feel abused by an admin, send a detailed report of the incident to [email protected] instead of sparking an argument ingame.

• Flooding, as well as spam in the chat is strictly disallowed.
• Overusing characters to fill up the chat, or generally disrupting the chat with irrelevant text is not allowed.
• Overusing capital letters is also not allowed.

• In scripted bank robbery situations, police cannot be outnumbered.
• In order for a bank rob to be initiated, there should be a sufficient number of active/available cops to criminals.

• Gangwars are not to take place without an admin present.
• Gangwars have a cooldown of 2 hours which starts at the end of the scenario.
• Said cooldown may only be bypassed if a new scripted event started AFTER the cooldown was already in place and both groups are involved with the new scripted event.

• Player may create multiple accounts, but he may not try to bypass the restrictions set for one account by doing this.
• This means that a player with multiple accounts can still own a maximum of: 1 Property, 1 Business, 4 vehicles of any sort. By trying to bypass these restrictions with multiple accounts you risk being banned and having all your accounts reset to zero.

• Using colors in the chat is disallowed to keep the chat clean and readable.

• "Training" (also called dueling to practise combat skills) is disallowed for civilians.
• Cops are allowed to train only within Fort Baxter.

• Staying AFK in-game as a cop is not allowed
• Staying AFK in-game as a civilian in scripted criminal hotspots (example: crane) is not allowed.
• Staying AFK and blocking entrance to somewhere is not allowed.

Rules may not be stretched or broken in the name of "roleplay", and must be upheld at all times.

Rules updated on April 21st, 2018