Server rules

These are short on purpose. Staff read them the way they are written, not the way you would like them to be.

#Cheating

• No menus, injectors, aim assistance, scripts, macros that play the game for you, or anything else that changes your client.
• No modified or cracked clients, and no third-party tools that show you things the game does not.
• Selling, advertising or handing out cheats is a permanent ban, whether you used them or not.
• Your account is yours. What happens on it is yours too, including what a friend did while sitting at your keyboard.
• New accounts made to get around a ban are banned as well, and the original ban gets longer.

#Bugs and exploits

• If something is broken, report it. Do not farm it.
• Duplicating items or money, clipping through walls or into bases, reaching storage from outside a base, spawning things that should not exist: all bans.
• Quietly using a bug and saying nothing is treated the same as using it on purpose.
• Reporting a serious exploit clearly and privately never gets you punished for having found it.

#Other survivors

• No slurs, no hate, no sexual content involving minors, ever. These are instant and permanent.
• Hostility in the world is fine. Following one person around to make them stop playing is not, and calling it roleplay does not change that.
• Do not share anyone's real-life details, photos or accounts.
• Take arguments about rules out of global chat and into Discord.

#Voice and playing a character

• Speak as your character while you are in the world. Out-of-character talk belongs in text or Discord.
• Do not use an outside voice call to talk to someone your character cannot hear. If you are both in the world, use the game.
• No mic spam, no soundboards, no music played down voice.
• You do not have to be friendly, but give people a chance to respond before shooting when you can. If shooting first is all you ever do, staff will have a word.

#Raiding, stealing and bases

Raiding is part of this server. Losing things is part of this server. The limits are about grief, not about mercy.

• Take what you came for. Do not flatten the rest of a base for the sake of it.
• Use the crowbar, the gate or a breach charge. If you got in by clipping through a wall or standing on invisible geometry, that is an exploit, not a raid.
• Do not raid using information your character could not have: streams, screenshots, someone's Discord message, a friend's out-of-character tip.
• Do not build against or inside someone else's territory to wall them in, and do not build over spawn points, traders or quest givers.
• A base that decays because nobody paid its upkeep has not been raided. That is the game working.

#Combat logging

• Logging out, alt-F4ing or restarting FiveM to get out of a fight, a raid or a chase is combat logging. Wait it out or die like everyone else.
• Genuine crashes happen and staff can tell the difference. Come back and finish it.
• Logging out to dodge staff who are talking to you counts too.

#Staff, decisions and appeals

• A staff decision stands while you are in the game. If you think it is wrong, take it to Discord afterwards.
• Admins do not hand out items, money or vehicles, and do not replace gear lost to a death or a raid. Gear lost to a bug is a different matter: report it with details.
• Appeal once per punishment, in Discord, with your character name and roughly when it happened. Calm appeals get read first. Abusive ones get closed.
• Pretending to be staff, or claiming a staff member told you something they did not, is a ban.