Community rules and standards

• Information learned out of character — from Discord, from a stream, from a staff conversation — cannot influence in-character decisions. That is metagaming.
• Out-of-character channels exist for arrangement, questions and complaints. They are not a second, invisible scene.
• A character’s relationships, debts and grudges belong to that character, not to the account behind it.
• OOC hostility does not transfer into roleplay as a justification, and in-character conflict does not justify OOC hostility.

Enforcement: Metagaming is usually corrected with a conversation first. Repeat or deliberate metagaming leads to character consequences and can reach account suspension.

• You may describe your own character’s intent and attempt. You may not declare another character’s reaction, injury, or death.
• Powergaming — forcing an outcome that leaves another player no room to respond — is not permitted.
• Scenes with significant consequences should leave room for a response: an emote, a demand, a decision.
• If two players genuinely cannot agree on an outcome, either side may pause the scene and ask for staff mediation.

Enforcement: Staff may void an outcome that was forced, with a recorded reason, and restore the affected character state where the platform allows it.

• A character facing credible lethal threat is expected to behave like a person who wants to live.
• Injury and death are roleplay, not punishment. Characters recover in roleplay time, not real-world minutes.
• Repeated reckless behaviour that ignores consequence damages the setting as much as an exploit does.
• After a character death, in-character knowledge of the circumstances is limited to what survives the death.

Enforcement: Value-of-life breaches are treated as a roleplay quality issue and handled through coaching, character review, or progressive sanctions.

• Local text roleplay is the primary channel: speech, /me actions and /do environmental descriptions.
• Local out-of-character chat is for brief clarification inside a scene, not for conversation.
• Private out-of-character messages are not a substitute for a scene and must not be used to influence roleplay.
• Write readable text. Do not use chat to advertise, recruit for other communities, or paste unrelated content.

Enforcement: Chat abuse and channel misuse are logged. Persistent misuse leads to chat restrictions before account-level sanctions.

• Criminal activity must have an in-character motive and a plausible plan.
• Indiscriminate violence, random attacks on strangers, and crime purely to generate a reaction are prohibited.
• Escalation must be proportional: not every dispute is a shootout, and not every shootout is a war.
• Criminal organisations are responsible for the conduct of their members.

Enforcement: Escalation violations are reviewed with evidence. Sanctions range from scene voiding to removal from criminal organisations and account sanctions.

• Money, items and property move only through authorised in-game actions. Client-supplied values are never authoritative.
• Duplicate accounts, arranged transfers, and out-of-character trades to move value between accounts are prohibited.
• Business ownership carries obligations: taxes, licences, employee pay and records are part of the roleplay.
• Exploits and bugs must be reported, not used. Using an exploit is worse than the exploit existing.

Enforcement: Economic violations are resolved by reversing the affected transactions where the ledger allows, followed by sanctions up to permanent removal.

• Ownership of vehicles, properties and businesses is persistent and recorded.
• Do not obstruct, trap or degrade a location to prevent access to it.
• Entity spawning, asset manipulation and client-side modifications that change the shared world are prohibited.
• Report broken world state rather than attempting to correct it yourself.

Enforcement: World integrity violations are handled as exploit reports, with ownership and state restored from the authoritative record.

• Harassment, threats, discrimination and doxxing are prohibited without exception, in character or out.
• Sexual content is not permitted on the platform.
• Respect roleplay boundaries that other members state, including subjects they will not roleplay.
• Do not impersonate staff, and do not present speculation as a staff decision.

Enforcement: These are the fastest route to removal. Serious breaches can end an account immediately, pending review.

• Report through the support system with as much specificity as possible: time, characters involved, what happened.
• Recorded evidence is retained only as long as an investigation and appeal require.
• Filing a report in bad faith is itself a violation.
• Staff members involved in a scene do not decide the report about it.

Enforcement: Every reviewed report produces an outcome record with the reviewing staff member, the decision and the reason.

• Sanctions are progressive where the violation allows it, and immediate where safety requires it.
• Every sanction records a reason and the staff member responsible.
• Appeals are available for every account-level sanction and are reviewed by a different staff member.
• Decisions made in bad faith, including by staff, are correctable.

Enforcement: Appeals are submitted through the portal. The outcome of an appeal is recorded alongside the original decision.