Server Rules

The short version

Rule priority and exceptions

A general permission to attack does not override a specific restriction. Role-specific rules, safe-zone restrictions, and explicitly stated exceptions take precedence over general combat permissions.

For example, being a valid KOS target does not automatically override EMS neutrality, police-specific engagement restrictions, or other applicable role rules.

If two rules appear to conflict, follow the more specific rule. If the conflict cannot be resolved from the written rules, disengage where reasonably possible and submit a staff ticket for clarification.

Staff must apply the published interpretation consistently until the rules are clarified.

1. RDM

You may only attack or kill a player when one of the reasons in this section applies. Anything else is RDM.

1a. Always valid targets

These players can be engaged on sight. No initiation needed.

1b. Initiation

A player initiates on you when they:

• Aim or shoot a weapon at you in a threatening manner.
• Intentionally ram your vehicle.
• Steal your vehicle.
• Threaten to kill you.
• Insult you or your crew in voice or text chat. Keep a clip or screenshot as evidence if reported.
• Enter assault rifle range with clear hostile intent. This does not count if you move into their range.
• Deliberately act against you in a way that directly threatens or interferes with you or your crew.
• Repeatedly follow you without a valid reason, in a manner that reasonably indicates hostile intent.
• Begin towing your vehicle, in the case of a tow driver.

Fighting back

Once a player initiates on you, you may fight back against that player. If other players are clearly participating with them in the same confrontation, such as by travelling together in the same vehicle or actively supporting them, you may engage those players too.

Being nearby, being in the same crew, or being in the same vehicle does not automatically make someone involved in the confrontation. There must be a clear connection to the ongoing situation.

Deliberately entering or baiting an active gunfight

An ongoing gunfight does not automatically make every player in the surrounding area a valid target. Players must still have a valid reason to engage someone under Rule 1.

Players must not deliberately enter, remain in, or position themselves in the line of fire to provoke another player into shooting them, manufacture an RDM report, or get another player punished. This does not prohibit legitimate participation in a confrontation or automatically make someone who enters a gunfight guilty of baiting. Staff will assess the player's actions and intent in context.

When reviewing these situations, staff will consider:

• Whether the player was already involved in the confrontation or had a valid reason to engage.
• Whether the player deliberately entered or remained in the line of fire despite having a reasonable opportunity to move away.
• Whether the player intentionally provoked or attempted to bait another player into shooting them.
• Whether the shooter had a valid reason to engage the player and whether the shots were reasonably directed at a legitimate target.
• The full context of the incident, including available video evidence and the actions of all parties.

Being caught in crossfire does not automatically constitute RDM, but it does not automatically excuse unjustified shooting either.

Deliberately baiting another player does not give that player permission to break the rules. Equally, deliberately entering a gunfight does not automatically make every shot against that player legitimate.

Staff will assess each incident individually. A report being denied does not, by itself, constitute false reporting. Punishment for malicious reporting requires evidence of deliberate dishonesty or abuse of the reporting system.

When initiation ends

Initiation does not give you permanent permission to attack someone. It ends when the initiating player is killed, the confrontation has clearly ended, or both sides agree to stop fighting. If the situation has ended, you need a new valid reason to attack again.

A player fleeing or temporarily leaving the area does not automatically end an ongoing confrontation. However, you may not pursue someone indefinitely after the original confrontation has clearly ended.

Other rules still apply

Initiation does not override safe-zone restrictions, EMS neutrality, police-specific rules, or any other role-specific restriction. Revenge and initiation are separate reasons to engage and must each meet their respective requirements.

Evidence

If initiation is disputed, staff may request clips, screenshots, or other relevant evidence. Staff will assess the available evidence and surrounding circumstances when deciding whether initiation was valid.

1c. Revenge

If a player attacks you, kills you, arrests you, or takes your property, you receive revenge against that player. You may kill them once while your revenge icon is active. You must be able to identify the player you have revenge against.

• One revenge kill: Each revenge claim allows you to kill that player once. Failed attempts to kill them count as using your revenge.
• New attacks: If the same player attacks you again after your revenge has been used, you may receive a new revenge claim against them.
• Simultaneous kills: If two players kill each other at approximately the same time, both players retain valid revenge against the other, provided their revenge icons are active.
• Arrests and property: Being arrested or having your property taken can grant revenge, as described above. A tow driver starting to tow your vehicle counts as taking your property.
• Revenge is not permanent: You may only use revenge while the revenge icon is active. Once it is no longer active, you cannot rely on that revenge claim to justify an attack.
• Revenge is specific: Revenge against one player does not automatically grant permission to attack their crew, friends, or other nearby players. Any engagement with other players must be justified by a separate valid reason under the initiation and RDM rules.

Revenge does not override safe-zone restrictions, EMS neutrality, police-specific rules, or any other applicable server rule.

1d. Attacking EMS

EMS are always neutral. They are not a third side you can farm, and they are not included in redzone or airdrop kill-on-sight.

You may kill a paramedic only when they are reviving, healing, or trying to pick up someone you do not want picked up after telling them not to do so. That includes staying next to that person so they can get the revive off.

You may tell them not to pick that person up. If they revive them anyway, you may kill them for it. Only a criminal who is in that fight can give this order. A cop cannot.

You may not:

• Kill EMS because they are in, or walking into, a redzone or airdrop
• Kill them for being on duty, driving past, or standing nearby
• Kill them for reviving your friend
• Take them hostage to make them work for you
• Don't follow cops to combat. Showing up with them, or trailing them to the fight, is teaming. An accident once or twice is not punishment. Doing it consistently can get you banned from the EMS job.

1e. Fighting police

When you can fight cops is covered on the Criminal Rules page, and what cops may do is on the Police Rules page. The key points:

• With 0 stars, you may only attack a cop if you have revenge on them, or they are trying to arrest or kill a member of your crew.
• If you're wanted or have a bounty, a cop showing up on your minimap counts as initiation. You may open fire.
• Shooting at or toward a cop is initiation too. That cop may shoot back.

1f. What counts as RDM

• Shooting a player who has no bounty or hit, hasn't initiated, and isn't in a redzone, airdrop zone, or active robbery
• Killing someone because they looked at you or drove near you
• Killing someone after your reason ran out: the fight ended, they left the redzone or airdrop zone, or the robbery is over. Being near an active robbery does not make someone a valid target while they remain outside the robbery area.
• Shooting a player or their vehicle (tires included) just because police are chasing them
• Placing a hit without a valid reason
• Obliterating a player without valid revenge and an active revenge icon.
• Camping outside police spawn zones to ambush police officers, or camping hospitals, safe zones, or police stations to target players entering or leaving.

2. Teaming

Don't work with or help the other side. The sides are criminals, cops, EMS, and tow drivers. Cop teaming rules are on the Police Rules page, and EMS rules are in Rule 3.

As a civilian or criminal, you may not:

• Team up with or help cops or EMS
• Join their fights, unless you have your own valid reason to engage their target
• Drive them away from their enemies
• Ride with a cop while they are doing police work, or while you are committing crimes

Tow drivers are neutral civilians. Normal civilian rules apply to them, with no extra teaming restrictions. They can't be attacked unless they initiate or start towing your vehicle.

3. EMS

Paramedics are neutral. Your job is medical aid, not fighting.

3a. Staying neutral

• Only help suspects through the scripted revive and heal mechanics
• Don't become a private medic for any gang or player
• Don't help suspects in fights, unless another rule allows it
• Don't drive suspects away from enemies or police
• If you are transporting a suspect and police or enemies arrive, stop and let it play out

3b. Use of force

Red name and Most Wanted players are not targets for EMS. You may not kill a player just because of their wanted level.

3c. Other restrictions

• Don't carjack innocent civilians, cops, or other paramedics
• Don't damage unattended player vehicles on purpose

4. Cheating and mods

The simple test: if it isn't meant to be used and gives you more than a visual benefit over other players, it's not allowed, unless it's on the allowed list below.

4a. Not allowed

4b. Allowed

Staff decide on anything not listed. If staff rule a mod not allowed, you can be banned for it even if it isn't listed here.

5. Exploits and bugs

5a. Examples

• Killing players on the revive screen, still loading in, or otherwise unable to control their character
• Forcing a wanted level onto another player unfairly
• Misspelling banned words to get past the chat filter
• Money, XP, or item duplication
• Emoting mid-fight to dodge damage or clip through things (see 5b)
• Ghost peeking (see 5c)

This list is not complete. Staff decide case by case.

5b. Emotes

No emotes during a fight or active chase. No exceptions. No emotes during events either, unless staff allow it for that event.

5c. Ghost peeking

Don't use walls or cover so your bullets pass through solid surfaces the engine shouldn't let them through.

5d. Reporting bugs

Found a bug? Get proof and report it in a private support ticket. Reporting a bug will never get you punished. Hiding one will.

These all count as hiding a bug:

• Quietly farming it, for example a money or item duplication bug
• Sharing it with friends so your group can use it before staff find out
• Encouraging others to abuse it
• Continuing to use a known exploit instead of reporting it

6. Self-killing and kill feeding

6a. Self-killing

Killing your own character is allowed, at any time, including during a chase, firefight, or arrest.

This includes explosions, blowing up your own vehicle while standing next to it, driving into hazards, drowning, drug overdoses, and any other legit game or server mechanic that can kill you.

6b. Kill feeding

Letting another player kill you on purpose to manipulate bounties, pad stats, or avoid a consequence is not allowed. Obvious patterns will be punished, even if each case is claimed to be an accident.

7. Crews

Crews are treated as a group for initiation, accountability, and crew wars. Being in a crew doesn't exempt you from any rule or give you extra rights beyond what's listed here.

7a. Shared initiation

If one crew member has valid initiation on a player, other members of that crew may retaliate against that same player under the normal initiation rules while the same confrontation is ongoing. This does not make unrelated players valid targets, and being in the same crew alone does not authorize attacks against anyone else.

Shared initiation ends when the underlying confrontation has clearly ended, the initiating player is killed, or both sides agree to stop fighting. After it ends, the crew needs a new valid reason to attack.

7b. Crew wars

Every crew war must be arranged with staff and approved by management. Crews can't declare or run their own unofficial war. Staff and management may set extra conditions, such as who takes part, how long it lasts, where it happens, and other rules.

7c. Crew accountability

Crew members are responsible for the conduct of their crew. If a member keeps behaving badly, management may fine or penalize the whole crew. This is for ongoing patterns, not every single mistake by one member.

7d. Crew members playing as cops

On duty, your crew means nothing. See Police Rules.

8. Safe zones

Safe zones such as hospitals and spawns are no-combat areas. They show on the map as large green circles, and you'll see an on-screen indicator when you're inside one. No indicator means no protection.

No camping outside protected locations: Players with 1 or more stars may not camp immediately outside police spawns, hospitals, safe zones, or police stations for the purpose of farming easy kills against players entering or leaving those locations.

This includes repeatedly waiting at exits, positioning yourself to ambush players as they leave, or remaining nearby solely to exploit predictable player traffic.

This does not prohibit passing through the area, ordinary travel, or a genuine active pursuit. The restriction is against deliberately holding the area to farm kills.

Being a valid KOS target does not exempt you from this camping restriction.

Important: Being exempt from safe-zone protection does not automatically make every attack lawful. You must still have a valid reason to engage the target under the RDM and role-specific rules.

Using a safe zone to escape a fight you started or were losing may be treated as exploiting.

9. Staff, accounts, and reports

9a. Ban evasion

Serve your full ban. Don't bypass it in any way, and don't play on any other account while one is banned. If you do, your ban is doubled.

Don't sell, trade, or share accounts to get around bans or in ways that hurt server security. You are responsible for everything done on your account.

9b. Lying to staff

Don't knowingly lie to staff when reporting a player, appealing a punishment, or claiming a prize, refund, or compensation. This applies anywhere staff are involved, not just in tickets. Proven lies mean a ban.

9c. Impersonating staff

9d. Begging

Refund or compensation requests for a real bug or server issue are not begging. Use the normal ticket process.

9e. Reports

Reports about clearly valid kills under Rule 1 will be denied. Repeat offenders get blacklisted from reports and may be banned.

A denied report is not automatically a false or malicious report. Players may submit reports when they reasonably believe a rule has been broken, even if staff ultimately disagree.

However, deliberately manufacturing an incident to provoke another player into breaking a rule, knowingly submitting misleading evidence, or repeatedly abusing the reporting system may result in punishment. Staff must assess the evidence and intent before issuing such punishment.

Include a clip or screenshots with enough context for staff to see what happened and when. Reports without evidence may not be actionable, and false or malicious reports can be punished.

Don't abuse the report system. That means no:

• Reporting someone to pressure staff after you lost a fight
• Mass-reporting someone over a personal dispute
• Refiling a complaint staff already answered
• Flooding tickets with reports that have no evidence

9f. Staff decisions

Staff decisions, punishments, and investigations are not public discussion topics. This covers bans, warnings, mutes, kicks, report outcomes, investigations, and appeals, whether they're about you or someone else.

Don't:

• Discuss another player's punishment in game, on Discord, or in other community channels
• Argue in public about whether a punishment was deserved
• Use public pressure to influence staff
• Get others to take sides
• Keep bringing up decisions that are already settled

Also don't disrespect staff who are moderating respectfully, or spam them with bad-faith debates.

Disagree with a decision? Use an appeal or ticket. Think a staff member abused their power? Open a Staff Report ticket on Discord with evidence and a clear timeline.

10. Community conduct

10a. Serious offenses

10b. General conduct

10c. Persistent negative behavior

Some players never break one big rule but keep making the server worse for everyone around them. That counts too.

10d. Minimum age

You must be 18 or older to play. Players under 18 may only stay if staff have explicitly agreed they've shown clear maturity, and that can be taken back at any time. Lying about your age or trying to get around this rule can be punished.