Chapter 2
Adverts
This section covers rules about adverts and warnings.
Required advert actions are covered in the “What you must advert” and “What you do not have to advert” sections.
Adverts are used for RP commuication across the server and to announce some actions to the server.
RP action adverts announce the beginning of RP actions that require adverting.
The advert shall be considered the start of the action for cooldown purposes. The cooldown shall start upon the over advert.
RP actions unintentionally announced through adverting can be cancelled by adverting (false/void) the adverts will be invalid for all purposes.
Subsections of Adverts
You may not chain adverts
Adverts that annouce RP actions MUST contain exactly one RP action. Chaining multiple RP action announcements or warnings is prohibited.
Example:
/advert PD Raid/Bank Raid/Mug/Warning
What you must advert
| Action |
Advert Required |
Must advert over |
Must advert counter |
| Raid |
No |
No |
No |
| PD Raid |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Bank Raid |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Kidnap |
No |
No |
No |
| Muggings |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Warnings |
Yes |
N\A |
N\A |
| Steal |
No |
No |
No |
| Hit Accepted/Hit Complete |
No |
No |
No |
You may not abuse warns to kill someone
Before you can kill the any player, you must issue 3 consecutive warnings with 3 seconds inbetween them.
If a player complies with the warnings and then returns outside of 30 seconds you must restart the warnings from 1.
Warns must be issued for valid reasons
You may not issue warnings for RP interactions that do not involve you.
You may only issue warnings for valid reasons, such as:
- Refusing to leave your base
- Following you
- Pointing a gun at you
- Shooting at your base
- Loitering outside your base
Examples of invalid reasons are:
- Hobo playing music through mic
- Someone standing near you
- Someone holding a gun in your general area
When issuing warnings you MUST attempt to resolve the problem if applicable. Examples of this are:
- Someone points a gun at you, you must attempt to move out of the sight of the gun before issuing a warning.
- Someone is following you, you must actually try moving away from the person