Server Expectations

Welcome to Golden Coast Roleplay

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Whilst we foster an atmosphere that allows you to have fun in an environment that capitalizes on everything Grand Theft Auto has to offer, we have been on a mission to set out to create an atmosphere where losing a gun fight or chase doesn't punish the player, but rewards all parties with a fun and engaging experience.

We aren't here to micromanage your roleplay, so have set out a clear ruleset to encourage roleplay over ruleplay.

No racism, sexism, or hateful prejudice

This is a community where we hope all players feel safe to play. Hateful conduct will not be accepted on this server.

No harassment or anything similar

No harassing other players, sexual or otherwise. Anything that leads to repeat aggressive pressure or borders on intimidation on an OOC level is against the server rules. This does not pertain to characters engaging in legitimate RP avenues and cannot be used for players to skirt the consequences of their in-character actions. If you feel you are being harassed, feel free to open a ticket to talk about it and we can help advise you on a path forward.

Roleplay first

You must be in character on the server at all times. Roleplay through the encounters in front of you. If there is a rule break, report it AFTER the scenario has completed. (This does not pertain to major rule breaks like racism, sexual abuse, or major harassment.) If you are offered roleplay you should reciprocate that roleplay. Even if you are trying to grind. This is an RP server first and a game server second. If you are committing crime, at the beginning of an interaction if you're offered RP by the cops, you must reciprocate and give them SOME roleplay back. If you are in a situation where your character is threatened with violence or the victim of violence, this is an expected risk in GTA and you must RP through the situation.

No exploiting

If there is a mechanic that does not seem to be working as intended or that is over-tuned (e.g., emote spamming, abusable economic rewards), report this to staff and stop using the mechanic. Also, do not undertake actions that would exploit a situation: Combat logging, camping respawn points, major crime mechanics (e.g., heists or store robberies) 30 minutes before or after regularly scheduled restarts, forcing cops to drop PD equipment despite game mechanics preventing them from being robbed.

Abusing respawn mechanics

You must not use the respawn mechanic unless you are unreachable by PD, medical, or you are glitched. If you are glitched and police have come to the scene, turn yourself in.

Green zones

Repeated and/or low-effort kidnapping, robbing, or assaulting (with weapons) in and around government buildings is strictly prohibited. For example, your friend gets captured for a chase, and you decide on a whim to break them out of custody in a hospital or police lobby.

Camping teleports

There are numerous mechanics that "teleport" you to another location (e.g., elevators, housing doors, etc.). Holding someone up or immediately attacking someone out of one of these exits is strictly prohibited. Allow any exiting party the ability for counterplay (to gain cover or re-enter/exit the building).

Value your life

Value your life and the lives of those your character would value (e.g., police with innocents/hostages, your friends, and acquaintances). This includes when a gun is placed at your back or when you are unarmed. You must surrender unless you are planning to RP out the full consequences of your actions for story reasons (e.g., planning to permadeath or other very serious permanent consequences like government job firing or permanent negative character drawbacks like not being able to shoot or drive).

No random death matching

No attacking or engaging in combat with another player without verbal RP interaction or being initiated into combat first. This includes with vehicles or drive-bys. You must give sufficient RP and counterplay before shooting.

No metagaming

Metagaming is the act of using information your character has not gained in character. This could be information from streams, Discord direct messages, or other methods of OOC information consumption. This includes indirectly using the information; just because you don’t openly say the meta’d information out loud does not mean you haven’t used it to take actions your character would not have otherwise to gain a favorable result.

No stream sniping

Support streamers by subscribing, promoting their streams, and being a positive member of their community. Do not under any circumstance use a stream to gain information about a streamer's needs or location to join them on the server. Do not watch streamers or engage in their stream chat while actively playing on the server.

No power gaming

Power gaming is the complete removal of a player's agency in a situation. You must leave a player with at least some options for counterplay in a scenario. An example of counterplay is giving a kidnapped player options to remedy their situation before harming them where the RP makes sense. Do not report people for giving you consequences for your actions; if you had numerous choices over days that led you to being kidnapped to be shot, that isn’t powergaming. Your counterplay was in not making those mistakes.

Consent for graphic content

When it comes to any graphic content (outside of obvious GTA violence and humor), there must be consent between all parties that can see, hear, or witness the content. This includes: Example: Any form of extended torture RP or dismemberment RP. Example: Any reference to pregnancy complications including abortion or miscarriage RP.

Heist limits

5 players max to a heist or crime mechanic. Police are limited to 8 unless the encounter has lasted over 30 minutes and is violent.

Conflict limits

To encourage a fun and engaging environment for all types of players, civilian and criminal conflicts are set to 5v5 (Police can bring 8). HOWEVER, groups can agree to waive this conflict rule via the OOC chat. 

Turf or Property: This is a small area or section (a small set of buildings or an interior) that you have sufficiently RP’d with tags, RP, or government acknowledgment. This does not include large areas or regions. (You can't claim all of Little Seoul for defenders' rights, only a small portion.) If you are attacked on your turf or property and you have more than 5 people on your turf or property, your gang/group may defend yourselves; however, you may not allow people who were not on your turf at the time of the attack to engage over the numbers limit. You may not lead a conflict to your turf to circumvent numbers limits.

No copyright music

Do not endanger content creators by playing copyrighted music in public. Make every effort to protect content creators, as it could jeopardize their livelihood.

Out-of-State conduct

We are not here to police your personal relationships. While we will obviously remove anyone who does not align with our goals to create a healthy, safe community, we are not interested in mediating personal disagreements between players. We do, however, exercise the right to remove anyone from the community for any off-server conduct.

Adult server

This server is 18+, which means that humor and conversation topics could be adult in nature at times.

Fail roleplay

Our goal is to maintain a high-quality RP experience for all players. If you openly distort the world for others with low RP quality or disrupt other players' RP experience by being abnormally obnoxious and not taking the server seriously, we reserve the right to remove you from the server. 

Please ensure that your character’s appearance aligns with the realistic and immersive standards we strive to uphold. Any attire that is deemed low effort or disruptive to the immersive environment of the server, such as those worn to show an obvious association with the FiveM Arena game mode or other subcultures that are meant to make light of the server environment, will not be tolerated. Example: Combinations of Bowl Cut hair, surgical gloves, cat ears, and goggles typically associated with FiveM arena that are worn to obviously showcase this fact. Cosplay and other bit outfits are tolerated. However, anyone whose whole identity is distorting the reality of others is not.

Staff toxicity

You are always welcome to constructively criticize the server, but please do not cross the line of being toxic towards staff. We have review policies in place where reports against staff are reviewed independently without that staff's input. This also includes ban appeals.

Ocean dumping

Dumping someone's body in the ocean is allowed for story purposes; however, this must not be used as an attempt to force permadeath or memory loss. If a player is ocean dumped, they are allowed to direct police to the location of where they were originally downed to prevent abuse of evidence collection mechanics. Additionally, ocean dumping vehicles with no prior roleplay is against the rules and is considered Fail RP.

No vehicle death matching

Do not purposefully use your vehicle as a weapon unless you have no other ability to escape but to strike another player with your vehicle (once, not multiple times). This does not apply to staged executions, just active or freshly initiated conflict.

Pocket wiping

Taking the majority of items from a person when they're down or through robbery mechanics with no RP reason is against the rules and may be considered griefing. 

Example: Taking someone's gun or their valuable goods is okay. Taking someone's water, food, guns, and random miscellaneous items for no reason is not.

Endless conflict

Every conflict has an expiry date, particularly when it involves a group or gang towards another group/gang/individual. If you continually engage in a conflict that results in your character/friends/groups/gangs' harm without attempting to end the conflict, this is considered NVL. Additionally, if you continually harass/engage a group/gang/individual without giving them a reasonable option to end the conflict, this will be considered griefing and against the rules.

Conflict cooldown

If you continually engage in large mass shootouts with multiple casualties over a short period of time (within hours of one another), this will be considered Fail RP

Government jobs

The government as an RP mechanic is meant to and does innately power game players that commit crime. However, government players should make an effort to offer counterplay wherever possible. Using government powers to consistently target a group or individual without proper foundation or RP rationale is considered Fail RP. This behavior is unrealistic, especially with many crimes occurring daily in a very large city, and it breaks immersion. 

Undermining/Sabotaging Government Departments for OOC reasons (e.g., rank, OOC command decisions, and mechanics) is Fail RP and detrimental to server health. If you have a legitimate issue that is upsetting you OOC, open a ticket to discuss with server staff or to arrange an OOC health check. Do not negatively impact morale when you are upset on an OOC level over a department's operations. Legitimate IC complaints/internal conflict are, of course, totally fine to be roleplayed out. 

Corruption: The police department, medical, or DOJ cannot provide false information for subpoena or warrant requests due to a lower burden of proof present for the sake of expediency of RP. Selling materials from job stores that are meant for those specific jobs is considered abuse of a game mechanic.