[size=300] [color=#2980b9]DarkRP Rules![/color][/size]
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[size=300] [color=#c0392b]Interaction With Staff[/color][/size]
Admins are here to help you, do not argue or provoke them, follow the rules, and when requesting an admin try to explain yourself the best way. Follow what the admin says even if it is not specified in the rules and do not start arguing with them, if an admin breaks a rules or being extremely rude to you, you may report him on the forums. Remember that the admins are administrating to make your experience and play time better, please respect them (as well the other players on the server).
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[size=300] [color=#8e44ad]The Basics[/color][/size]
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[*]Do not copy someone's name.
[*]Your name must contain characters type-able by an English keyboard and you can't have a space in between each character of your name.
[*]Only English is allowed in the OOC channel and/or in any OOC situations.
[*]Any form of hacking or scripting (Avoiding AFK Timer, Aimbot,...) will lead to permanent ban.
[*]Always follow Fear RP - the idea that you value your life and must act accordingly in dangerous situations to prevent death.
[*]You may not disrespect or provoke other players even when roleplaying.
[*]No purges, wars or any kind of event which encourages mass killing.
[*]Do not Fail RP.
[*]Do not exploit/abuse any bugs or glitches, doing so will result in a punishment (depends on the situation), instead, report them on the forums.
[*]Do not build/kill in spawn.
[*]Do not prop abuse (this includes surfing, killing, spamming, climbing and blocking or any other type of prop abuse).
[*]Do not spam (this includes chat, camera, stunstick, microphone / voice,...)
[*]Religious discussions are not tolerated in this community as it tends to arise unnecessary arguments. Please keep religion out of Atlantic Servers.
[*]You can only use custom jobs with any class, do not use custom job to pretend to be another job that is on the list (or anything similar to it).
[*]Do not spawn inappropriate structures.
[*]You CANNOT sell or giveaway VIP printers, ammo or chargers to other players (they may use your chargers if you are basing together and you may sell the guns).
[*]Do not block NPCs around the map.
[*]Do not bait people into attack you or arresting you; such as running around with an illegal weapon in front of Civil Protection to provoke them to arrest you
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[size=300] [color=#f1c40f]Basic Terms used on the server[/color][/size]
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[*][b]OOC[/b] - Out Of Character
[*][b]IC[/b] - In Character
[*][b]RDM[/b] - Random Death Match
[*][b]NLR[/b] - New Life Rule
[*][b]FDA[/b] - Fading Door Abuse
[*][b]RDA[/b] - Random Arrest
[*][b]Meta[/b] - Metagaming
[*][b]CP[/b] - Police (Civil Protection)
[*][b]Mod[/b] - Moderator
[*][b]Admin[/b] - Administrator
[*][b]SA[/b] - Super Admin
[*][b]HA[/b] - Head Admin
[*][b]SM[/b] - Staff Manager
[*][b]DCTAP[/b] - Disconnected To Avoid Punishment
[*][b]L2AP[/b] - Leaving To Avoid Punishment
[*][b]RP[/b] - Role-Play
[*][b]IRL[/b] - In Real Life
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[size=300]RDM - Random Deathmatch[/size]
Random Death Match, literally means a random attempt to shoot a player or kill. All kills and opening fire(Using your weapon) threats must have a valid role-play reason, not all the valid reasons need to be written down, use your common sense, attempting to kill/damage someone without a valid RP reason will end up in a kick and if the situation is major, a ban(the staff decides the length).
Do not kill people when they leave your property or are not behind the KOS line.
[u][b]For example:[/b][/u]
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[*]If someone attempts to raid you and you kill him, [b]it will NOT count as RDM[/b].
[*]If you just walk on the street, pull out your gun and kill someone without a reason at all, [b]it will count as RDM[/b].
[*]If you don't like someone or you got killed recently by someone and you go back to him and kill him for revenge, [b]maybe you even broke NLR and it's considered RDM[/b].
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[size=300]NLR - New Life Rule[/size]
New life rule, this rule applies to you when you die, and means that you must not come back to the your death point within 5 minutes, or anywhere close to it. You must also forget all role-play related events of your character (for example you and you die, you must 'forget' that).
You can not return to your base if you died defending it from a raid until the raid is over, this includes sniping from a distance or shooting at your base from the outside. You will notice that you are still being raided when people are telling you to go outside, you can see that your stuff is being destroyed or you can use a camera which you must have placed before the raid started.
[u][b]For example:[/b][/u]
Someone raids you, while you go back to your base he is already gone, however it haven't been 5 minutes yet, [b]you broke NLR[/b].
Someone raids you and you die. You have waited 5 minutes and go back to your base. On the way you see the guy who raided you, you pull out your gun and you kill him, [b]you broke NLR[/b].
Someone raids you and you die. You have waited 5 minutes and act towards the players who raided you as if nothing has happened, [b]you didn't break NLR[/b].
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[size=300]Meta Gaming[/size]
Do not metagame, ever:
[list]
[*]You are not allowed to transfer any information from IC to OOC, or vice versa.
[*]You are not allowed to base your actions on non-realistic stuff like seeing something through the wall(Keypad code you got while playing a different job, Name Tags, Drug Lab Tags, etc).
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[size=300]Hits[/size]
[list]
[*]You must place a hit using "E on the hitman" if you want someone dead.
[*]If you're a Hitman, you will see the name of the person you have to kill on your screen, that means that there is a hit on them.
[*]Do not accept hits off of anyone in the PD.
[*]You do not need a valid reason for a hit! Just yet, this rule may change!
[*]You cannot ask for someone to meet up with you just so you can kill them.
[*]Ask for an admin then killing them will lead to a warn.
[*]Do not ask where someone is if you have a hit on them!
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[size=300]Mugging[/size]
[list]
[*]You may mug one player per 5 minutes.
[*]You may not mug the same person within 15 minutes.
[*]Maximum mug amount is $5,000! , 50$ when mugging hobos with no exceptions.
[*]Only the jobs out of the Gangs and the Criminals may mug
[*]If someone mugs you and you have your back turned to him you CAN'T pull out a gun and kill him, however you can kill a mugger if you already have a weapon out when someone mugs you and you're looking directly at him or with a fair distance between each other.
[*]If you are being mugged while in an idle car, you may not drive away and must follow the mugger's orders (to a mugging RP extent, without breaking rules).
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[size=300]Kidnapping[/size]
[list]
[*]You may kidnap one player per 15 minutes.
[*]You may not kidnap the same person within a hour.
[*]Maximum hostage release fee amount is $25,000!
[*]Only the job groups from Gangs and Criminals may kidnap.
[*]You may only hold a hostage for 25 minutes.
[*]You have to always advert Kidnap.
[*]If one kidnap isn't successful and they get away, you may kidnap someone else straight after.
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[size=300]What can count as illegal[/size]
[list]
[*]Owning a printer.
[*]Any BITMINER machine
[*]Buying guns from gun dealer is legal, however only pistols are legal in public. All gun dealer guns are legal on your private property.
[*]Buying guns from heavy gun dealer is illegal. All HGD guns are legal on your private property and illegal in public.
[*]Using/Owning illegal drugs and drug labs.
[*]Using/Owning a knife is legal, however Machete are illegal.
[*]Theft.
[*]Raids.
[*]Lockpicking/Keypad-cracking.
[*]Pulling any kind of gun on a CP. (It's only KOS when you do Shoot the CP)
[*]Life threatening someone. (Doing threats by actions or words)
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[size=300]Organisations/Gangs[/size]
[list]
[*]You are not allowed to raid someone who is a member of your organisation.
[*]You can only come to the aid of another player if you are in the same organisation. (e.g if someone is getting raided, you may not help defend them unless they are in your organisation).
[*]You may not use the same organisation names as other organisation, if you caught doing so, you will be asked to change your organisation name by an admin.
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[size=300]Cars/Vehicles[/size]
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[*]You may carjack an idle car, the driver may drive off at their own risk.
[*]You may carjack once every 7 minutes.
[*]You are not allowed to steal cars unless you are [u]a job from Gangs or Criminals[/u].
[*]Don't drive recklessly.
[*]You must advert Carjack
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[size=300]Raiding[/size]
[list]
[*]You may only raid the PD fi you are stealing from the bank, Breaking someone out or helping a hitman with a hit.
[*]Don't raid someone if you know there is nothing to gain from it. EG: raiding a public open places.
[*]You may not raid the same person within 25 minutes.
[*]You DO need to advert raids.
[*]Once you're done with the base, leave it. Do not stay in the base for more than 5 minutes.
[*]You aren't allowed to KOS someone for pointing a gun at your base. But you may warn them 3 times or count down from ten, if they fail to put the gun away, you may kill them.
[*]Lock picking, keypad cracking and trespassing does make you KOS to the property owner.
[*]A KOS line is not needed at a default rp door but is needed for an entrance that doesn't use a door.
[*]Anyone interfering with the raid are KOS to the raiders and the raiders only.
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[size=300]Basing[/size]
[list]
[*]There should always be at least one entrance that is accessible and not blocked to your base.
[*]You may have only 3 fading doors for each entrance of a base.
[*]Each base entrance fading door must have one (and only one) keypad on each side of the door.
[*]A keypad must always be visible (no hiding them behind stuff, or making the person to look in a certain angle to see them), the keypad must be seen easily and always near the fading door.
[*]Do not FDA (fading door abuse), it means holding the fading door opened for less then 4 seconds or using hotkeys, All fading doors must have at least 4 seconds delay before they close again!
[*]Do not build base defences in the PD, apart from safes for storing weapons. However if it is a PD takeover, the raiders may build barricades because the PD may keep coming back.
[*]You can't have welded, unfrozen props on any part of your base and also that forces players to push through them to get somewhere or into the base.
[*]Between each fading door, there must be able to fit 2 one way props in.
[*]To own a building, you must posses the majority of the RP doors.
[*]No fake keypads.
[*]No bright colours or plain textures that are painful to the eyes.
[*]If you're shooting window has a fading door, it must function the same as normal fading door, minimum close delay - 4 seconds.
[*]Only build the KOS line at your rp door/other entrance connected to you house. Don't extend the KOS line to the pavement or road and don't build Large walls outside of your property line (The physical building and any land within a fence/wall).
[*]Do not make fake entrances or storage walls (no collided entrances, etc).
[*]Both the raider and the defender must be able to deal the same amount of damage to each other at all times, neither should have to crouch.
[*]No skybasing (no flying platforms and etc, they must be supported by other props/walls).
[*]Do not build on the street unless you are a hobo.
[*]You may not force anyone to crouch/jump in your base.
[*]Lock picking, keypad cracking and trespassing does make you KOS to the property owner. A KOS line is not needed at a default rp door but is needed for an entrance that doesn't use a door.
[*]You may not claim multiple room buildings as a single person, you must have a person for each room. You may only claim a building with multiple room if you're a hotel owner. You MAY NOT claim districts any more.
[*]You're not allowed mazes in your base what so ever, however, windy/turny/long corridors that delays a player to get in the base are allowed.
[*]Trapdoors aren't allowed in your base(You can't have something that makes players get trapped or fall in your base as it makes the base very difficult to raid).
[*]If a base has the potential to break one of these rules then it still counts, no work around!
[*]You may not force people to shut the rp door to proceed into the base.
[*]Keypads must be connected to a working fading door.
[*]Do not build inside unowned buildings or ones that you do not own.
[*]Do not build out on the streets or anywhere public. The Hobo, DJ, and Entertainer classes can however build on the sidewalks and park areas.
[*]Do not block off large parts of the map (Unless you own all doors in the area you have blocked off and it isnt blocking another part of the map.), or any place where NPCs or Dumpsters entities spawn.
[*]Use common sense when basing with classes. If you have any questions on basing please ask staff ingame.
[*]Do not build on rooftops unless they are accessible via walking (inaccessible rooftops).
[*]Do not raid from inaccessible rooftops.
[*]You may not toolgun manipulate spawned entities in any way.
[*]Do not interfere with people that have a "Building" sign.
[*]When a building sign is up, you cannot have any entities in your base.
[*]While building, put up a sign that says "Building" to let others know you are not roleplaying.
[*]All hit classes may build a base!
[*]Anyone in the DP Can have a home but not a base.
[*]You may not block a tunnel that leads somewhere at any point!
[*]No kill boxes/Head Boxes/Crouch Boxes ETC..
[*]No safe No-Collide boxes
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DarkRP Rules!__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Interaction With StaffAdmins are here to help you, do not argue or provoke them, follow the rules, and when requesting an admin try to explain yourself the best way. Follow what the admin says even if it is not specified in the rules and do not start arguing with them, if an admin breaks a rules or being extremely rude to you, you may report him on the forums. Remember that the admins are administrating to make your experience and play time better, please respect them (as well the other players on the server).
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The Basics
- Do not copy someone's name.
- Your name must contain characters type-able by an English keyboard and you can't have a space in between each character of your name.
- Only English is allowed in the OOC channel and/or in any OOC situations.
- Any form of hacking or scripting (Avoiding AFK Timer, Aimbot,...) will lead to permanent ban.
- Always follow Fear RP - the idea that you value your life and must act accordingly in dangerous situations to prevent death.
- You may not disrespect or provoke other players even when roleplaying.
- No purges, wars or any kind of event which encourages mass killing.
- Do not Fail RP.
- Do not exploit/abuse any bugs or glitches, doing so will result in a punishment (depends on the situation), instead, report them on the forums.
- Do not build/kill in spawn.
- Do not prop abuse (this includes surfing, killing, spamming, climbing and blocking or any other type of prop abuse).
- Do not spam (this includes chat, camera, stunstick, microphone / voice,...)
- Religious discussions are not tolerated in this community as it tends to arise unnecessary arguments. Please keep religion out of Atlantic Servers.
- You can only use custom jobs with any class, do not use custom job to pretend to be another job that is on the list (or anything similar to it).
- Do not spawn inappropriate structures.
- You CANNOT sell or giveaway VIP printers, ammo or chargers to other players (they may use your chargers if you are basing together and you may sell the guns).
- Do not block NPCs around the map.
- Do not bait people into attack you or arresting you; such as running around with an illegal weapon in front of Civil Protection to provoke them to arrest you
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Basic Terms used on the server
- OOC - Out Of Character
- IC - In Character
- RDM - Random Death Match
- NLR - New Life Rule
- FDA - Fading Door Abuse
- RDA - Random Arrest
- Meta - Metagaming
- CP - Police (Civil Protection)
- Mod - Moderator
- Admin - Administrator
- SA - Super Admin
- HA - Head Admin
- SM - Staff Manager
- DCTAP - Disconnected To Avoid Punishment
- L2AP - Leaving To Avoid Punishment
- RP - Role-Play
- IRL - In Real Life
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RDM - Random DeathmatchRandom Death Match, literally means a random attempt to shoot a player or kill. All kills and opening fire(Using your weapon) threats must have a valid role-play reason, not all the valid reasons need to be written down, use your common sense, attempting to kill/damage someone without a valid RP reason will end up in a kick and if the situation is major, a ban(the staff decides the length).
Do not kill people when they leave your property or are not behind the KOS line.
For example:
- If someone attempts to raid you and you kill him, it will NOT count as RDM.
- If you just walk on the street, pull out your gun and kill someone without a reason at all, it will count as RDM.
- If you don't like someone or you got killed recently by someone and you go back to him and kill him for revenge, maybe you even broke NLR and it's considered RDM.
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NLR - New Life RuleNew life rule, this rule applies to you when you die, and means that you must not come back to the your death point within 5 minutes, or anywhere close to it. You must also forget all role-play related events of your character (for example you and you die, you must 'forget' that).
You can not return to your base if you died defending it from a raid until the raid is over, this includes sniping from a distance or shooting at your base from the outside. You will notice that you are still being raided when people are telling you to go outside, you can see that your stuff is being destroyed or you can use a camera which you must have placed before the raid started.
For example:Someone raids you, while you go back to your base he is already gone, however it haven't been 5 minutes yet,
you broke NLR.
Someone raids you and you die. You have waited 5 minutes and go back to your base. On the way you see the guy who raided you, you pull out your gun and you kill him,
you broke NLR.
Someone raids you and you die. You have waited 5 minutes and act towards the players who raided you as if nothing has happened,
you didn't break NLR.
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Meta GamingDo not metagame, ever:
- You are not allowed to transfer any information from IC to OOC, or vice versa.
- You are not allowed to base your actions on non-realistic stuff like seeing something through the wall(Keypad code you got while playing a different job, Name Tags, Drug Lab Tags, etc).
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Hits
- You must place a hit using "E on the hitman" if you want someone dead.
- If you're a Hitman, you will see the name of the person you have to kill on your screen, that means that there is a hit on them.
- Do not accept hits off of anyone in the PD.
- You do not need a valid reason for a hit! Just yet, this rule may change!
- You cannot ask for someone to meet up with you just so you can kill them.
- Ask for an admin then killing them will lead to a warn.
- Do not ask where someone is if you have a hit on them!
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Mugging
- You may mug one player per 5 minutes.
- You may not mug the same person within 15 minutes.
- Maximum mug amount is $5,000! , 50$ when mugging hobos with no exceptions.
- Only the jobs out of the Gangs and the Criminals may mug
- If someone mugs you and you have your back turned to him you CAN'T pull out a gun and kill him, however you can kill a mugger if you already have a weapon out when someone mugs you and you're looking directly at him or with a fair distance between each other.
- If you are being mugged while in an idle car, you may not drive away and must follow the mugger's orders (to a mugging RP extent, without breaking rules).
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Kidnapping
- You may kidnap one player per 15 minutes.
- You may not kidnap the same person within a hour.
- Maximum hostage release fee amount is $25,000!
- Only the job groups from Gangs and Criminals may kidnap.
- You may only hold a hostage for 25 minutes.
- You have to always advert Kidnap.
- If one kidnap isn't successful and they get away, you may kidnap someone else straight after.
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What can count as illegal
- Owning a printer.
- Any BITMINER machine
- Buying guns from gun dealer is legal, however only pistols are legal in public. All gun dealer guns are legal on your private property.
- Buying guns from heavy gun dealer is illegal. All HGD guns are legal on your private property and illegal in public.
- Using/Owning illegal drugs and drug labs.
- Using/Owning a knife is legal, however Machete are illegal.
- Theft.
- Raids.
- Lockpicking/Keypad-cracking.
- Pulling any kind of gun on a CP. (It's only KOS when you do Shoot the CP)
- Life threatening someone. (Doing threats by actions or words)
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Organisations/Gangs
- You are not allowed to raid someone who is a member of your organisation.
- You can only come to the aid of another player if you are in the same organisation. (e.g if someone is getting raided, you may not help defend them unless they are in your organisation).
- You may not use the same organisation names as other organisation, if you caught doing so, you will be asked to change your organisation name by an admin.
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Cars/Vehicles
- You may carjack an idle car, the driver may drive off at their own risk.
- You may carjack once every 7 minutes.
- You are not allowed to steal cars unless you are a job from Gangs or Criminals.
- Don't drive recklessly.
- You must advert Carjack
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Raiding
- You may only raid the PD fi you are stealing from the bank, Breaking someone out or helping a hitman with a hit.
- Don't raid someone if you know there is nothing to gain from it. EG: raiding a public open places.
- You may not raid the same person within 25 minutes.
- You DO need to advert raids.
- Once you're done with the base, leave it. Do not stay in the base for more than 5 minutes.
- You aren't allowed to KOS someone for pointing a gun at your base. But you may warn them 3 times or count down from ten, if they fail to put the gun away, you may kill them.
- Lock picking, keypad cracking and trespassing does make you KOS to the property owner.
- A KOS line is not needed at a default rp door but is needed for an entrance that doesn't use a door.
- Anyone interfering with the raid are KOS to the raiders and the raiders only.
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Basing
- There should always be at least one entrance that is accessible and not blocked to your base.
- You may have only 3 fading doors for each entrance of a base.
- Each base entrance fading door must have one (and only one) keypad on each side of the door.
- A keypad must always be visible (no hiding them behind stuff, or making the person to look in a certain angle to see them), the keypad must be seen easily and always near the fading door.
- Do not FDA (fading door abuse), it means holding the fading door opened for less then 4 seconds or using hotkeys, All fading doors must have at least 4 seconds delay before they close again!
- Do not build base defences in the PD, apart from safes for storing weapons. However if it is a PD takeover, the raiders may build barricades because the PD may keep coming back.
- You can't have welded, unfrozen props on any part of your base and also that forces players to push through them to get somewhere or into the base.
- Between each fading door, there must be able to fit 2 one way props in.
- To own a building, you must posses the majority of the RP doors.
- No fake keypads.
- No bright colours or plain textures that are painful to the eyes.
- If you're shooting window has a fading door, it must function the same as normal fading door, minimum close delay - 4 seconds.
- Only build the KOS line at your rp door/other entrance connected to you house. Don't extend the KOS line to the pavement or road and don't build Large walls outside of your property line (The physical building and any land within a fence/wall).
- Do not make fake entrances or storage walls (no collided entrances, etc).
- Both the raider and the defender must be able to deal the same amount of damage to each other at all times, neither should have to crouch.
- No skybasing (no flying platforms and etc, they must be supported by other props/walls).
- Do not build on the street unless you are a hobo.
- You may not force anyone to crouch/jump in your base.
- Lock picking, keypad cracking and trespassing does make you KOS to the property owner. A KOS line is not needed at a default rp door but is needed for an entrance that doesn't use a door.
- You may not claim multiple room buildings as a single person, you must have a person for each room. You may only claim a building with multiple room if you're a hotel owner. You MAY NOT claim districts any more.
- You're not allowed mazes in your base what so ever, however, windy/turny/long corridors that delays a player to get in the base are allowed.
- Trapdoors aren't allowed in your base(You can't have something that makes players get trapped or fall in your base as it makes the base very difficult to raid).
- If a base has the potential to break one of these rules then it still counts, no work around!
- You may not force people to shut the rp door to proceed into the base.
- Keypads must be connected to a working fading door.
- Do not build inside unowned buildings or ones that you do not own.
- Do not build out on the streets or anywhere public. The Hobo, DJ, and Entertainer classes can however build on the sidewalks and park areas.
- Do not block off large parts of the map (Unless you own all doors in the area you have blocked off and it isnt blocking another part of the map.), or any place where NPCs or Dumpsters entities spawn.
- Use common sense when basing with classes. If you have any questions on basing please ask staff ingame.
- Do not build on rooftops unless they are accessible via walking (inaccessible rooftops).
- Do not raid from inaccessible rooftops.
- You may not toolgun manipulate spawned entities in any way.
- Do not interfere with people that have a "Building" sign.
- When a building sign is up, you cannot have any entities in your base.
- While building, put up a sign that says "Building" to let others know you are not roleplaying.
- All hit classes may build a base!
- Anyone in the DP Can have a home but not a base.
- You may not block a tunnel that leads somewhere at any point!
- No kill boxes/Head Boxes/Crouch Boxes ETC..
- No safe No-Collide boxes
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