Collide RP ZA - Complete Rules & Guidelines

Basic Community & Server Rules

• Players must be 18 or over to participate on Collide RP ZA server. No exceptions.
• Do NOT DM staff for support or server questions! Open a support ticket so that the whole staff can see it and be available to help you.
• Frequent blatant rule breaking and/or being toxic overall will result in a ban. This is up to the discretion of the staff team.
• Harassment, racism, sexism, trolling/drama, must win attitudes or hateful speech of ANY kind will not be tolerated on Discord, any of our game servers or in players streaming chats.
• This includes any use of any variation of the "K" and "N" words in any capacity.
• Be considerate of others' roleplay! You should strive to make the best possible scenario for your fellow players.
• Use of outside discord servers, private voice chats or third party voice communication while on FiveM is prohibited for in-character communication.
• Attempts to find loopholes or skirting around the rules is not allowed.
• Abusing game mechanics or exploits are prohibited on our server. This will result in a permanent ban.
• No Griefing. Do not continually attack or target a player over and over again if a problem has already previously been resolved via RP.
• If a rule has been broken, do not break character, finish the scenario first.
• Ban evasion will not be tolerated.

Discord Rules

• Players are required to change their Discord "nicknames" to their character name/s.
• No starting drama or being toxic in any public ooc chat channels.
• Do NOT DM staff!

Character Rules

• Players are required to stay in-character at ALL times while in the server.
• Value your life. Treat your life as if you have no respawns left.
• All characters MUST be a custom character, no default model characters allowed.
• "Asset dumping" to another player or character, if you plan to leave the server, is not allowed.
• Players cannot put any Government Funded businesses in a Last Will.
• Dismemberment RP should only be small pieces that can always be repaired through EMS.
• ERP is allowed within reason between consenting adults, not in public areas.
• No sexual harassment or rape RP. Period.
• No threatening or committing suicide.
• Players cannot roleplay as supernatural creatures.
• Serial killer characters are a "one and done" type character.
• Players cannot force permadeath on other players.
• Players cannot have both a cop and a criminal character until they become an "Established Citizen".
• No loitering - this isn't VRChat! Plan events and activities.

Fail RP

• Meta Gaming is prohibited, banned on first offence.
• Power Gaming will not be tolerated.
• RDM (Random Death Match) and/or VDM (Vehicle Death Match) against other players will not be tolerated.
• Players are not allowed to "combat log" to avoid punishment/being killed.
• Using any player based menu (that show player names or count) as "In-character" information is prohibited.
• Information that you hear through walls is not allowed to be used in roleplay.
• Communication is required before any gun fight or attack.

Roleplay Realistically

• If you jump your car off a bridge during a chase, you must stop once you land.
• Drive realistically, do not play bumper cars.
• Masks and SAPS/EMS uniforms cannot be worn in everyday life.
• Players are NOT to /carry other players on a motorcycle to exceed more than 3 players.

Fear for Life

• If your character is held at gunpoint, you need to fear for your life.
• Don't run away, play out the scenario with your captors.
• Guns must be present, not just yelling you have guns behind tinted windows.

General Rules

• Voices cannot be used against anybody if masked.
• Physical Body cameras, phone cameras and CCTV are the only footage that can be used as evidence.
• The aircraft carrier and military base zones are prohibited from entering.
• Players cannot return to a previous roleplay scene after they have completely removed themselves from it.

Criminal Rules

• Criminals are not allowed to camp or claim drugs, money laundry or black market locations.
• No beefing with EMS over them doing their jobs.
• Do not garage your vehicle or hide in an apartment if you are in a chase.
• Do not "cop bait" - driving around the police station to get them to chase you.
• Do not spray/scene vulgar or hate speech in the server.

Vehicle Rules

• Players cannot steal EMS or LEO vehicles.
• LEO players/cars/trunks may not be robbed of any police weapons.
• You are not allowed to chop your own vehicle OR gang/business vehicles.
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• Shooting outside of cars while driving at high rates of speed is not allowed.

Business Rules

• Mechanics can't use lockpicking job menu for crime.
• Players MUST utilize and create RP for whitelisted jobs while they are on duty.
• No player shall steal or abuse businesses or society funds. This is a strikeable offense.

Streaming Rules

• Twitch TOS and Community Guidelines are to be followed at all times.
• ERP may not be streamed, it does not fall within most streaming TOS.
• Stream sniping and metagaming will NOT be tolerated - first offense is your last offense.

Fail RP

Meta Gaming

Examples of metagaming:

• Watching live/vod streams to learn information about other characters or locations and using that information in roleplay.
• Any information learned from OOC chat on Discord.

Power Gaming

Power Gaming will not be tolerated. Examples include:

• Using/abusing game mechanics or exploits to gain an advantage.
• Do not hide in a house or apartment (instance) to avoid an active roleplay scene.
• Using other characters that aren't in a specific gang/group/investigation to help your own/friends gang/group/investigation.
• Memory wipe a player is not allowed (except gangs can mem wipe previous gang members).

RDM & VDM

• RDM (Random Death Match) and/or VDM (Vehicle Death Match) against other players will not be tolerated.
• Running over or shooting at a player with little or no dialogue prior is considered Fail RP.
• All "hitman" actions must be carried out with a proper amount of RP.
• Running people over with a vehicle in ANY instance is VDM.
• Any and all conflict MUST be initiated verbally - no talking will result in Fail RP.

Combat Logging

• Players are not allowed to "combat log" to avoid punishment/being killed.
• If your game crashes, you are required to come back and finish the scenario.
• Examples: Being downed by police and disconnecting to avoid being arrested, or being chased and logging out mid-scenario.

Additional Fail RP Rules

• Using any player based menu (that show player names or count) as "In-character" information is prohibited.
• Information that you hear through walls is not allowed to be used in roleplay.
• Communication is required before any gun fight or attack.
• Making up treatments/injuries/changing scenarios for any RP to be presented as "evidence" is power gaming.
• Do not insert yourselves into other players RP if you were not directly involved.
• Do not do things that your character cannot physically do (dropping items while handcuffed, etc.).

Roleplay Realistically

Examples of unrealistic scenarios that must be avoided:

• If you jump your car off a bridge during a chase, you must stop once you land.
• If you get away from police, a criminal wouldn't circle around again to see where police are.
• You wouldn't return to the scene of a crime to pick up a vehicle if you can see police processing the area.
• Do not intentionally jump off of buildings.
• Drive realistically, do not play bumper cars.
• Masks and SAPS/EMS uniforms cannot be worn in everyday life.
• Players are NOT to /carry other players on a motorcycle to exceed more than 3 players.

Fear for Life

Fear RP

• If your character is held at gunpoint, you need to fear for your life.
• Don't run away, play out the scenario with your captors.
• Guns must be present, not just yelling you have guns behind tinted windows.

Choosing Not to Fear RP

• If you decide not to fear for your life and end up losing the fight, you are required to go into an automatic 48 hour coma.
• The scenario must be finished out with whoever has you in custody.
• Once downed, your character cannot remember any of the scenarios (New Life Rule).

Power Shift

• If you are being held at gunpoint and someone else gets the gunman at gunpoint, this is considered a power shift.
• Now the odds have balanced to a 1 hostage v 1 hostage situation.
• Negotiations to end this with no bullets can now begin.

Roleplaying Your Injuries

• If you are hurt, you must RP your injuries realistically.
• Your character wouldn't be able to run if you have a broken leg.
• After getting tased, your player can't just stand up and run.
• RP out your head injuries by being loopy.
• If you are hit by a local vehicle during a scenario, you would be seriously injured.
• When you are downed during a scenario and require medical RP, you are officially out of that scenario.
• Players are not to communicate while downed due to a 48 hour coma.
• When downed, do NOT force respawn unless you absolutely have to.

General Rules

• Voices cannot be used against anybody if masked.
• Physical Body cameras, phone cameras and CCTV are the only footage that can be used as evidence.
• The aircraft carrier and military base zones are prohibited from entering.
• Players cannot return to a previous roleplay scene after they have completely removed themselves from it.

Meta Profiling

Examples of meta profiling:

• Assuming someone was involved in a crime based on their unique vehicle without proper evidence.
• Using distinctive clothing items to link someone to a crime without proper investigation.
• Recognizing someone's voice while they're masked and using it without other evidence.

Criminal Rules

• Criminals are not allowed to camp or claim drugs, money laundry or black market locations.
• No beefing with EMS over them doing their jobs.
• Do not garage your vehicle or hide in an apartment if you are in a chase.
• Do not "cop bait" - driving around the police station to get them to chase you.
• /scene is no longer allowed to be used as graffiti. All tagging must be done using a spray can.
• Do not spray/scene vulgar or hate speech in the server.
• Shooting at any public officials (EMS/DOJ/LEO): When you commit a crime the max time is 60 months, BUT the moment you decide to fire at an EMS employee or officer, the arresting officer can chose to stack charges and put you in jail for a max of 120 months.

Vehicle Rules

• Players cannot steal EMS or LEO vehicles.
• LEO players/cars/trunks may not be robbed of any police weapons.
• You are not allowed to chop your own vehicle OR gang/business vehicles.
• Once a successful pit and box-in maneuver is done, the original criminal vehicle is to stop moving.
• Shooting outside of cars while driving at high rates of speed is not allowed.
• "Drive-bys" can only be done with RP prior AND going 20mph.
• Shooting from car to car can only be done at 50mph or lower.
• The Liberator is NOT to be used for crime. Period.
• It is against the rules to remove plates on cars from the extras menu to perform crime.
• Repair kits are not allowed to be used in an active scenario/situation.

Corruption Rules

• No EMS or LEO corruption is allowed while on duty.
• The selling of PD weapons/tools and evidence already placed in the evidence locker is not allowed.
• Low level corruption is allowed, just not the sale of equipment.

SAPS Specific Rules

• Officers that are not wearing "body cam" will be held to the same standards as all other Civs.
• If an LEO RP's that you are cuffed while down or to a hospital bed, you must RP that you are unable to move.
• Red stop lights are to be considered as stop signs.
• Players with an LEO character & gang character, cannot investigate or participate in police investigations that involve their character.
• If an officer responds to a gang battle event area, they may be shot on sight.
• If you can't see the plate on the car, the car can't be ID'd using the automatic license plate reader.
• 1 pursuit vehicle can be "on patrol" with the same number of officers that it takes to rob Pacific Standard "Big Bank".

Kidnappings/Hostages

• LEO can only be kidnapped if 4+ officers are on duty.
• With 2 EMS and 3 officers on duty, players can kidnap EMS players from Eclipse.
• Civilians can be kidnapped with zero cops on.
• Hostages cannot be held longer than 30 min unless the scenario progresses.
• You can't kidnap or rob the same player repeatedly.
• Hostages should be put in the trunk of a car/SUV.
• Hostages are NOT to be /carry'd on a motorcycle.
• Hostages must not be a willing participant for hostage takers.

Robberies

• Players can only be robbed of the belongings and money on their character, not their bank account.
• NO POCKET WIPES: Players cannot steal every item from a single players pocket.
• Players must be "held up/hands up" in order to be robbed.
• Do not camp job sites to steal from other players pockets.
• When doing a robbery, only the criminals who originally set up the job can be involved.
• Motorcycles may not be parked inside of a building.
• If LEO's/criminals/gang members have a shooter in the bushes, they are required to announce their presence.
• Criminals can use motorcycles during crimes only when 3 or more cops are on duty.
• Criminals can no longer "shoot out" cameras in bank robberies.
• Up to 4 criminals/gang members are allowed to commit crime together at one time.
• Players can match the number of officers for bank and store robberies.
• Increased Fine for getting your car out of impound when using a personal vehicle for robbery and a 48 hour hold on the vehicle.

Gang Activity

• Players are not allowed to have two characters in the same group/gang.
• It's the gang leaders responsibility to keep gang members in check.
• No gang jumping: If you leave a gang you have to wait 2 weeks to join a different gang.
• No outright snitching an entire gang to the police.
• If the police gather enough evidence to raid your gang, you will be put on a cooldown of 1 week.
• Don't take anything that you didn't earn or work for in a gang if you decide to leave.
• Temporary alliances are accepted within RP reason.
• Small hits and retaliations are okay, but before it becomes griefing, gangs must meet to "settle" differences.
• Gang Battle players are restricted to the same number of people as the lowest gang number.
• Max active players in a single gang allowed online at one time is 4.
• Cooldown after a gang battle has finished is 2 days.
• Do not metagame gangs based on spray OR territories menu.
• Do not spray other gang tags if you are not in that gang.
• Un-tape someone BEFORE leaving them, don't leave players duct taped!
• Players are required to hold someone up with a gun/weapon BEFORE they can be duct taped.
• Gangs are not allowed to intentionally hide their gang spray paint.

Business Rules

• Mechanics can't use lockpicking job menu for crime.
• Players MUST utilize and create RP for whitelisted jobs while they are on duty.
• No player shall steal or abuse businesses or society funds. This is a strikeable offense.
• Examples include: Selling a car without creating an invoice, performing upgrades without billing, taking money directly from Society Fund, sitting around on-duty collecting a paycheck without any RP.

Maintaining Activity on the Server

• Players in supervisor positions will be required to be active in-server at least 2-3 days weekly.
• If you are the leader of a gang/cult/organization and you are inactive for a month, the group will be handed off to the secondary higher up player.
• Inactive gangs and businesses will be migrated to other players or removed after a month of inactivity.
• If you manage a business, it is your responsibility to keep your society account filled.
• If a player leaves the server, it is up to the discretion of the staff team to sell or foreclose on any property after 2 months of inactivity.

Consequences of Being Banned or Leaving

• If you are banned from the server your character(s) and all of your in-game assets are forfeit.
• If you choose to leave for more than two months without taking a formal leave of absence, your character(s) and all in-game assets may be wiped.
• If you need to take a break for OOC reasons and you intend to return, be sure to keep in touch.

Streaming Rules

• Twitch TOS and Community Guidelines are to be followed at all times.
• ERP may not be streamed, it does not fall within most streaming TOS.
• Stream sniping and metagaming will NOT be tolerated - first offense is your last offense.
• Watching or listening to a stream while in the FiveM server is up to the discretion of the streamer.
• If you are asked to leave the streamers channel while in the server, you must comply.
• Players who are directly involved in the roleplay on the server, may not make suggestions to change the direction of the rp in a streamers channel.
• Speaking ill of other players, servers, admins/owners on stream or harassing streamers is not allowed.
• Players are not allowed to clip other players' streams to use against them in a player complaint ticket.
• Using clips or highlights as evidence in RP, you will need to be using one of the following: The in-game cellphone, camcorder or a clothing item that resembles a "body cam".