ARP SERVER RULES

Please show respect to all players and staff at all times. Behave appropriately and kindly and avoid causing drama. Do not intentionally cause or escalate conflicts. Do not harass other players or intentionally cause arguments. Disrespectful language or speech toward the LGBTQ community, minorities, or other marginalized groups is strictly prohibited. Do not discuss politics. Do not use swear words or attempt to bypass the Roblox chat filter. Slurs and NSFW (not safe for work) content are not tolerated. Please speak English only and do not spam, including excessive text, emojis, or other forms of spamming. Do not advertise, including asking for staff, offering to pay players who join, or sending invite links or codes.

Partaking in any of these rule violations will lead to punishments.

FRP (Fail Roleplay): Failure to properly or realistically roleplay scenes.

RDM (Random Deathmatch): Randomly shooting, punching, or otherwise attacking/killing players for no genuine reason.

VDM (Vehicle Deathmatch): Randomly shooting, ramming (driving into), popping tires, or otherwise attacking/damaging vehicles for no genuine reason. Also applies to using a vehicle to ram into objects, players, other vehicles with a vehicle.

NLR (New Life Rule): Upon dying and respawning/being transported to a hospital (pronounced dead) you must start a new roleplay with a new personality and no previous knowledge of your previous life.

Fear RP: Reacting realistically to threats, such as a gun being pointed at you or threats against your life.

Remain in Character: Do not break character or speak out of roleplay without notice (e.g., using ‘-text-’ or ‘text’).

GTA Driving: Driving unrealistically, such as failing to follow traffic laws, not roleplaying crashes at speeds over 15 mph, driving over curbs, or ramming through fences and light posts."

Civilian Realism: Civilians must roleplay having a realistic life. If they are working as a civilian employee they may not partake in crimes. They should also roleplay realistic reactions to fines and punishments.

NITRP (No Intention to Roleplay): Disregard for any roleplays, refusing to roleplay with others. Includes failure to roleplay medical scenes.

Meta-gaming: Using game features or external tools that are unrealistic in real life, such as the green gun indicator, player blips on the map, or speaking on the radio when dead."

Realistic Avatars: All avatars must be realistic, with no floating objects, particles, glowing items, or unrealistic features. Tactical gear is only allowed for those participating in (tactical team) roleplay."

Roleplaying Motions: Any action not possible in-game should be indicated with text (e.g., '-cuffs-' for placing someone in handcuffs). This applies to actions such as pinning, searching, and medical roleplay.

Maintaining RTO: At all times within the in-game radio system all players must maintain Radio Traffic Only, speaking only what is crucial for the situation at hand, no chit chat or random conversations.

Trolling in any way, cop baiting (intentionally and obviously breaking laws in front of police in an effort to ensue roleplay), tool abuse and prop abuse (excessively placing props, using props to obstruct vehicles, props to move vehicles, using props to intentionally cause lag, using props improperly, using tools improperly, excessively, or in an obnoxious manner), and spawn/respawn abuse (respawning the character to avoid roleplay/roleplay consequences, capture, or conclusion to roleplay, to spawn vehicles, repair vehicles by spawning a new vehicle, change vehicles, or as a form of teleportation) are all prohibited. Abusing the fire alarm pull stations is prohibited. Law enforcement officers (LEO) may not flee from other LEO, and may be pulled over if they have violated laws.

You may roleplay as DOT or construction without being whitelisted; however, you must request permission from staff before you close any lane/road. You may not block more than one lane at a time. You may respond to all calls as DOT, but you may not tow vehicles without a legitimate reason. You may not tow staff vehicles under any conditions, and you may not tow LEO vehicles unless they have been unmoved for greater than 15 minutes, in which case you may tow them to their respective spawn location. DOT, EMS, and FD may not start pursuits. 

You may use voice chat if you wish; however, if a member at the scene does not have voice chat you must use text. Do not play music through voice chat, excessively loud volume, excessive background noise, “ear rape” and any other intentionally disruptive actions will result in punishment. You may play music through the Boombox UGC, but it must not be explicit in any way (e.g., language, meaning, or themes). You may not play music at a staff scene or if staff request you to turn it off.

When a priority timer is active, no high priority roleplays (shootings, robberies, hostage situations, barricaded persons, pursuits, etc) may start. If a high-priority roleplay is already in progress, it may continue. Safe zones are areas in which high priority roleplays may not be started. These zones are: Police spawn, Sheriff spawn, DOT spawn, FD spawns (both), and the Civilian spawns (both).

The Area of Play (AOP) is the area/region of the map that roleplays may occur in. These will be posted every session in the (SESSIONS) channel. No players may exit the AOP unless specifically allowed. All pursuits must stay within the AOP. The AOP will be removed once the in-game player count exceeds 30. 

When speaking with any staff member you must show respect and act professionally. Staff may roleplay while on duty, so if someone says they are a staff member you are to believe them. If you do not, use the “!mod” command and ask a second moderator to confirm. If you request for a moderator you must have a valid reason, and if it is a member report you must have proof (photo or video) ready to send. You may not disrespect staff, nor may you intentionally waste their time. If you are kicked you may not rejoin for a minimum of 30 minutes. Staff have the ability to extend this if they feel it would be fitting. Leaving to avoid punishment, leaving when a staff member teleports/starts speaking to you, or leaving during a mod scene will result in a ban. Impersonating staff (saying you are staff, pretending to have commands, using staff uniforms and liveries, etc) is prohibited and will result in a ban. Interfering with staff scenes is not tolerated and you may be punished.