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The Server Rules GENERAL RULES GENERAL GAMEPLAY COPS CIVILIANS BOUNTY HUNTERS TERRORISTS

Posted by Thtb on Aug 17th, 2008 - Basic Client Side Coding

GENERAL RULES

NO flaming the VON or chat.
NO camping the civ spawn hospital, even if you are civ.
Cheating, hacking and exploit using is a reason to get banned immediately!
Killing other players with no role play-reason is not allowed. See SPREE KILLER section.

GENERAL GAMEPLAY

NO demanding the replacement of "lost money" - there's no proof. (That goes for COPS too)
IF an accident etc. occurs, try and sort this out between yourselves or call in a police officer to access the situation regarding (if) any compensation.
NON-LETHAL should always be your mode of play.
It is NOT allowed to switch to the other side to get ingame advantages (eg spawn as COP, drop your weapon and switch to CIV
It is NOT allowed to use stun against COPSs, except accidents or (really) corrupt COPs
It is NOT allowed to block flags and needed gates/doors. Exception see "Sahrani Life Police Department".

COPS

MUST warn before shooting or stunning! In extreme situations shoot to kill first (eg. the cop is about to be killed)
If a car must get stopped, try to shoot the TIRES - not the civ.
COPS ARE allowed to camp the drug buy/sells and terror island.
The MAYOR must be protected at all times with at least one escort cop.
All cops are REQUIRED to follow and enforce the rules set by the governing mayor.
Remember: YOU work FOR the CIVs and mayor - try your best to investigate crimes reported by civilians.
The Mayor is not above the law; if he breaks it, deal with as normal. (see Mayor section)
Cops are NOT allowed to use AI 'captives' (in order to promote teamwork between real players)
To combat the problem of corrupt cops, they now risk the danger of being kicked from the game if caught in the act.
are NOT allowed to help CIVs in illegal actions (e.g. bank robbery, weapon convoy highjack)

CIVILIANS

TERRORISTS

You are a TERRORIST, act like one if you are going to roleplay this - no complaints about "camping" known terrorist hideouts.
Spreekilling is even not allowed for terrorists.

BOUNTY HUNTERS

Bounty Hunter does not mean you can kill RED civs! ONLY if they have a bounty on their head. If you are unsure, ask the cops.
BH is NOT an excuse to run around with weapons out near cops only to complain when you get shot/arrested/ticketed.
Remember, you are STILL A CIV - follow the cops and mayor's laws etc. You have no "free passes" unless a cop is specifically working with you (and even then thats limited at best).

MAYOR

As Mayor you are responsible for running civ relations with law enforcement and running day to day Sahrani Life.
When setting laws, you CANNOT set laws that reverse the game's rules. For example, you cannot outlaw other guilds from trying to become mayor or order cops to shoot civs.
The Mayor is NOT above the law! Murders etc. committed by the mayor will be dealt with in the usual manner by cops (ie arrest, ticket etc.)
Mayor has 3 "lives". Breaking the law on the 4th time will result in the Mayor being removed from office. Failure to do so will result in exile to South Sahrani or a deserted island!
NO civilian guards/protection/anything. That's the COPS job.

SPREE KILLING

On our servers spree killing is defined as: a player that does nothing in the game but kill other players continually, e.g. kills more than 2 cops or 2 civilians (sum 2) at the hospital. "Roleplay spreekilling" does not exist, even for terrorists.
A player is NOT a spree killer if he kills a number of cops/civs in one round with roleplay. That means e.g. when a player kills cops at the bank with intention of robbing these.
A player IS a spree killer if he go get guns and kill again after each spawn. After two continually respawn spree kills, the player is now a spree killer.
Spree killers will LOSE the NEW LIFE RULE. On each and every spawn they can be arrested/stunned/ticketed at cop's discretion. Server Administrators are allowed to kick spree killers, on re-enactment two times the can get banned for min. 24 hours.
When a spree killer begins again after two 24 hours bans, he will get perm-banned.
When the spree killer has had enough of this reversal and say so, warn them about doing so in future and return spree killer to normal gameplay.
If an EX-spree killer begins his spree's again - repeat these steps.

SAHRANI LIFE POLICE DEPARTMENT

ARE allowed to block weapon buy- flags for a short while to prevent deathmatching. Maximum 30 minutes!
ARE allowed to give other COPS instruction - not "orders"!
ARE allowed to use the given force against deathmatching and spree killers in their estimation.
are NOT allowed to play against the server rules.

SERVER ADMINS

Warn before kicking, be it to make a place for another player, or a punishment.
Screenshot your warning and the kick in global chat.
Admins with to many complaints against them and no screenshots for proof will LOSE admin privilege's on the server.
If a player complains about an action, and it's covered in the above rules, refer them to the fact that the rule message was displayed to them for 5 seconds on join - and ask them to check the rules again.
If a player is kicked, returns and start playing against the server rules again, kick him again. If he returns again and try to REMEMBER screenshots.
ARE not allowed to abuse their admin-force to play with their own rules
are NOT allowed to be logged in all the time, except Community Managers

COMMUNITY MANAGERS

Sahrani Life