Rules
Please make sure you take time to also review the Roleplay section in order to learn what we expect from the roleplay perspective.
Unfortunately, every city needs to have rules in place to guide players to the type of roleplay the city expects, and Diversion RP is no different. Rules exist not to punish or limit players but to ensure that all players have an enjoyable experience while in the city.
Overview
Roleplay - We expect all community members to roleplay to the highest possible standard and remain in character while in-game. A person must act in the confines of the character they have created and are currently playing as, if you wish to switch characters you must log out of the server and log back in as your new character.
All community members must be respectful at all times while in-city or on our community platforms. This means that users must never be involved with or publish any content that is deemed racist, homophobic, sexist, prejudiced, or disrespectful. We also forbid the sharing or publishing of any sexually explicit content on any of our community platforms.
DRP strives to create a city where everyone can enjoy their time. This city and community are meant to be places that everyone can enjoy their off time. At the end of the day, this is a game and we want people to enjoy their time playing it.
Section 1: General Rules
Communication
You must be able to understand, speak, and type English since we are a North American based server.
You must have a working microphone. DRP is an all-inclusive community that includes people with disabilities. If you have a disability that hinders your ability to use a microphone, please reach out to a member of the staff to facilitate another method of communication.
Respect for Community
Please carefully observe the following guidelines to ensure a respectful and harmonious environment:
Respectful Communication on Official Platforms: Communications related to DRP, whether in-game or on official DRP platforms, including streamer channels, must always be respectful. Refrain from sending angry or offensive messages resulting from in-game events.,
In-Character Interaction: We understand that in-character (IC) interaction can include trash talk and abrasive behavior as part of the role-playing experience. This is acceptable as long as it remains in character and does not breach the boundaries of respect or target players out of character (OOC).,
Boundary Between IC and OOC: Any behavior that crosses from in-character to out-of-character, especially if it becomes disrespectful or offensive, is not permissible. Maintaining this distinction is crucial to ensure that in-game dynamics do not lead to personal conflicts or breaches of our community standards.,
Private Interactions: Direct messages (DMs) between individuals, if not involving official DRP platforms, are generally beyond our scope, respecting your privacy in personal matters. However, extreme cases such as stalking or sexually explicit content, if reported and impacting in-city dynamics, will be addressed firmly.,
Disputes with Staff: If you disagree with a staff ruling, please address it constructively. Instead of direct confrontation, submit a ticket for a formal review of the issue. This approach promotes a more effective resolution process.,
No Trolling: Engaging in behavior intended to provoke or disturb players, members, police, staff, etc., under any circumstances, is strictly prohibited.,
Your commitment to these guidelines is essential. They are designed not only to maintain order but to enhance everyone's gaming experience.
Game Modifications
You are not permitted to use a modification that grants you an advantage on the server. DO NOT install game mods that alter vehicle handling, performance, or that can gain you any type of advantage over others. Cheats, mods, plugins, scripts, or any third-party additions will get you banned if you are caught using them. Our city uses Pure Mode Level 1; this allows you to use well known graphics mods and sound packs in your game but will prevent many third-party modifications.
Recruitment/Advertising Other Servers/Self Promotion
Absolutely NO recruiting to other servers or advertising other servers in any DRP discord or in game. Discord server profile “about me” section must not advertise other servers. Your main Discord “about me” can be whatever you’d like but the profile for any DRP discord needs to not advertise to other servers. No self-promoting, promoting other servers, or recruitment is allowed. This includes Direct messaging or spamming invites to other members.
Third-party Communication is Allowed
You ARE allowed to be in private Discord calls or any other means of out of city communication while you are in city. However, any and all decisions made about your character and their activity must be made by the character in city. Failure to vocalize and roleplay out your gameplay, especially with other people will be considered meta-gaming.
Why do you allow this?
We feel that:
1) You are going to do it anyway
2) It reduces the need to talk OOC with your crew. if you are in a Discord call you can keep all of your OOC conversation in Discord and keep your roleplay in city.
Section 2: Server Rules
Going Out of Character (OOC)
You must always strive to RP first before ever going OOC. Please, do not use the OOC to end a scene, try to change the scene using RP first. Ending a scene by saying or going OOC is considered FailRP. Going OOC during RP scenes can result in disciplinary action. If you need a staff member:
If a staff member is available in-game, doing /report can get you assistance. Doing /report does not guarantee that you will get help right then however. If you have an issue with how RP is going, the best way to get a staff member is to create a ticket in the discord.
Deathmatching
Killing another player for little or no engaged roleplay is strictly forbidden. There will be absolutely no RDM or VDM. (For Example: If a traffic accident has occurred while a player was hit by a car it needs to be roleplayed out.)
Downed & New Life Rule
Phase 1: (On your side) When in this phase you are considered knocked out/down, which means you're able to still speak in game and on radio. However, if you are cuffed or your hands are zip tied you should not be using the radio.
You can remember the general interaction that led to you ending up on the ground. You still are required to act hurt as you have been injured.
Phase 2: (On your back / Fully bled out) If you see the light, you must forget everything within the past 30 minutes. (from the time you go on your back and 30 minutes prior). When you are dead you cannot talk on your radio or in city at all. Your dead, your hands and mouth don't work. So don't talk.
You may be reminded of things that happened prior to seeing the light by someone who was involved on the scene. Due to EMS federal protection they can only tell you what procedures were done to you. They must not tell you who brought you or who shot you if they know. EMS must remain neutral at all times.
Do Not Return to the Scene
If you are downed or removed from the scene by EMS/Fire, Police, or taken to the hospital by another subject you are not allowed to return to the scene until the situation/scene is complete.
Calling for EMS
If you are down for any reason, EMS is to be utilized when they are available, but if they are busy or at a different location, give them a reasonable amount of time to arrive at your location or at the hospital.
Power-Gaming
Power-gaming is the act of using an in-game mechanic, any external information, or a roleplay concept to favor your own character or story, and give yourself an unfair or unrealistic advantage. (No running to teleportation markers to escape, such as running into your apartment or anywhere that is not accessible by others. This includes an example of doing a robbery, getting in a chase and running to a garage, and putting your vehicle away. If you are still in your original vehicle then there must be a 10-minute wait period to store that vehicle, repair, modify or pull another vehicle after a pursuit.) Another example of powergaming would be kidnapping a cop to get your friend out of jail. The reason it is seen as powergaming is because LEO’s have to value the hostages life and negotiate. There are ways to break your friends out of jail other than kidnapping a cop. Also, If you are asked for your federal ID in-game, you are required to give it for reporting purposes or face disciplinary actions!
Metagaming
The act of using out-of-character/external information for in-game situations that you may become a part of. This includes stream sniping, 3rd party VOIP applications (discord calls, TS for non-LEO), etc. Any information used from watching streams, typing/reading chat, etc. will be met with disciplinary action up to and/or including a suspension from the server.
Offensive RP/Suicide RP/Combat Logging
Roleplaying any type of sexual assault such as any non-consensual touching, rape, etc. is not allowed and will result in a disciplinary action, and an appeal will not be allowed.,
Suicide RP will not be accepted or tolerated.,
Roleplaying a mental Illness will not be accepted or tolerated.,
Logging off or forcibly re-spawning to avoid situations is not allowed. IF you have to log off but are in the middle of an RP situation, you will need acknowledgment from all parties involved. This includes police chases and/or medical scenes. If you know you do not have the time to complete a scenario, do not start it. If all parties involved do not agree that the scene must be ended and you log out it will be considered combat logging and be dealt with accordingly.,
Once you commit a crime you must wait ten minutes before logging out of the server. If you are in the middle of a scene and your game crashes or something causes you to suddenly leave, try to log back in as soon as possible and explain your situation. If you cannot get back in within 5 minutes, please create a ticket and explain what happened and whom you were involved with during your scene so we can notify them of the issue. Abusing this rule will result in a disciplinary action.
Zero-Tolerance Rule
DRP has ZERO tolerance for ANY sexual misconduct, not following this rule will result in disciplinary action. Any Reports of Sexual harassment of any degree at any time will be handled accordingly and investigated thoroughly by the Senior Administration. Rape scenes of any nature are PROHIBITED, even with consent from other players this behavior will get you both banned without the ability to appeal.
Roleplaying sexual assault (such as non-consensual touching, rape, etc.) is not allowed and will result in a disciplinary action and will be thoroughly investigated by Senior Administration. We do not tolerate this behavior.
Racial Slurs/slang words and Transphobic/Homophobic terms used in any way towards others will not be accepted or tolerated. We do not take these situations lightly. Each report will be determined on a case by case basis.
Additionally, the use of directed sexually explicit insults, which includes any language intended to sexually degrade, shame, or insult a specific individual, is strictly prohibited. General use of sexual terms in a non-targeted manner is permissible within the context of the game. However, using such language to personally attack, demean, or harass another player is unacceptable and will be subject to severe disciplinary action.
Exploiting Bugs
At no time are you allowed to exploit bugs in-game for personal gain. If it’s too good to be true, it probably is. Please report a bug if you find one via a discord ticket.
Interactions between your characters
You are allowed to have multiple characters in the city; however, your personal characters cannot know each other from an in-character perspective. Your alternative characters should not have the same relationships with other players on all your alts. You are also not allowed to interact between the two characters i.e. transferring money or any other assets between your characters or using a third-party "friend" to transfer items between your characters. If this is discovered those items will be deleted from your inventory and you will receive disciplinary action.
You may have a cop and gang member alt in the city. Again, they do not know each other, and they should never share knowledge. If your cop knows your gang is about to be raided, your gang member does not know that and should not warn them. Failure to keep them separate will result in you have to choose one or the other.
Robbing Players
When robbing another player, you should never pocket wipe. You Cannot:
Remove Food Items, Radios, or job tablets.
Request bank transfers, user their phone to transfer money or force them to sell their car(s), ,
Take items from someone else's apartment or house.
In the instance that you are robbing/trying to kidnap a player, you cannot kill that player unless they outright refuse to comply, provide resistance, or provoke you to inflict harm.
When robbing businesses, you can only take what is in the workers pockets, not their stashes or boss menu accounts.
If you steal someone's phone you cannot delete contacts, messages, or do any malicious actions. You cannot transfer funds.
If a person is killed (on their side or back) they can be robbed. However, the reason for killing them cannot be specifically to rob them. There must be roleplay behind it.
Healing in a situation
You cannot reapply body armor or heavy body armor mid gunfight, you can however use bandages and drugs to slow bleeding or apply small amounts of armor with drugs but no body armor.
Exploiting Scripts/GTA V Mechanics
Knowingly exploiting the script and/or the GTA V engine in order to gain an advantage is not allowed. This includes abusing the physics of GTA V in order to do unrealistic things such as ramping cars off cliffs and continuing to flee. Unrealistic driving is considered FailRP.
You need to roleplay out vehicle damage. Examples include:,
If you hit a pole head on with significant front end damage, your car would be totaled.,
If you are going 75 mph and hit a barrier or pole or some heavy object multiple times the natural RP would be damaging your vehicle to the point it is undriveable. Not continuing to drive after striking multiple barriers and other things at high speeds.,
Driving in the city limits constantly at 100mph+ is also unrealistic.,
Do not use emotes to avoid fall damage, enter locked areas, pull people out of locked areas or anything that would provide an unrealistic advantage.
Failure to Roleplay/Unrealistic RP
Failing to roleplay is strictly forbidden. DRP is a semi-realistic roleplay server, you are expected to be roleplaying at all times. If a situation presents itself where rules are broken, roleplay first, and report later. You are expected to use script features to assist in roleplay. DO NOT continuously type in OOC chat while another player is trying to roleplay with you.
Safe Zones
Safe Zones must be crime-free. It is FailRP to run away from a crime and enter a safe zone. If the RP begins outside of the safe zone and is brought into the safe zone you may continue the criminal RP, however, it must be realistic. If you are loitering in a safe-zone your federal protection is removed. The following are considered safe zones unless the RP has led there:
Inside and car ports of Police Stations,
EMS/FIRE Stations,
Inside Hospitals (Inside or under awning) (no retaliatory crimes),
Spawn Locations - Spawn locations are SAFE ZONES in that a player must be allowed to move freely from the spawn location after flying in and have two minutes to collect themselves and their vehicle. Spawn locations are not protected when loitering in the area.
Impersonating Emergency Personnel
Citizens are prohibited from impersonating emergency personnel this includes, but is not limited to, Police, Fire/EMS, DOT, and Communications.
Stealing or Harming Federally Protected Vehicles and/or Personnel
Personnel:
EMS/FIRE personnel are important to our city. But they are not revive bots and should get to enjoy roleplay as well. This means they should be able to be hostages. In order to take EMS/FIRE hostage there must be 3+ EMS online and on-duty. You cannot take EMS from an active scene.
In the case of a scene with active shooting:
If EMS is staged near a scene it can continue, EMS must not be used as a means to end a scene and must only be called in once it is cleared by Police. If EMS enters the scene before it has been cleared by police that was at their own risk.
Vehicles:
Citizens are not allowed to steal EMS/Fire/SADOT vehicles. You may steal police vehicles and from police vehicles, however there must be RP intent, and stealing cop cars cannot be the sole focus of your roleplay.
Fire/EMS vehicles/personnel are restricted from being stolen and stolen from.
Heist, Bank Robbery and robbing Rules
Hostages:
There must be a minimum of 6 officers for high priority crime. (i.e. bank robbery, jewelry store robbery. Except for taking a police hostage where there must be 7 officers on duty.),
Robbers can not take a friend(s) hostage, one of the robbers cannot pose as a hostage or have a fake hostage. The Robbers must go out and find a random person and take them hostage for these scenarios.,
There is no limit on hostages, however there must be a reasonable amount of individuals to manage the amount of hostages you have.,
Taking the hostage with you after the crime is committed is not allowed, a hostage will not be allowed to leave the scene of a robbery. Law Enforcement will take action to prevent the hostage from being taken from the scene.,
If a ransom is being requested in exchange for the hostage, the hostage MUST be exchanged for the money. (Total ransom allowed for request: $25,000 per hostage in cash.),
Robbers:
No more than 5 robbers and 1 lookout on the scene of a robbery.,
No more than 3 vehicles will be allowed,
Your scene must be set up before starting the robbery. You can not start the robbery and then add people to it or show up later with the hostage.,
Robbers can ask for demands during negotiations (cops not pursuing and taking the hostage from the scene is not a demand option).,
LEO:
Law enforcement will begin conducting the negotiations and are allowed a plus 2 rule.,
In the event that an officer is shot, an all call may be used to call in all available officers with no limit to how many respond.,
Negotiations can be conducted over a mutual radio channel between robbers and police, by phone or with a megaphone.
Cop Baiting
No cop baiting. Do not purposefully try and get police attention on you by doing things you would not do with an Officer near you. This includes burning out in the middle of intersections, purposefully revving your motor at lights to bait a pullover/chase, and purposely committing traffic violations in the vicinity of police.
EMS Authority over Respawn/EMS Custody/Injuries after EMS Care
Respawn:
When in EMS custody, do not respawn (see the light) without permission. When you are revived, you are in medical custody until the medic clears you.
RDM/VDM
Deadly action needs to have RP behind it.
Random Deathmatch (RDM): killing/attempting to kill without intent and roleplay. Killing on sight without proper escalation is not allowed as it could be seen as a form of RDM. Proper escalation would be an ongoing scene that would allow shooting on sight. (i.e Interactions between individuals or groups of individuals that have escalated to violence.),
Vehicle Deathmatch (VDM): using a vehicle to kill/attempt to kill without intent or roleplay.,
When to put in a ticket/report a player:
Example, if someone hits you with their car and you are unhappy, find that person and role play out getting insurance, payback, etc.,
If you are run over multiple times and put on your back then escalate to a ticket.
Fear RP
Fear RP is what you would do in real life if faced with a scary situation, it is an RP server do not treat it like a videogame. You must fear for your life, just as you would in a normal situation outside of the game.
For example, if you are alone in an alleyway and individuals hold you at gunpoint and you cannot escape without dying, you must follow FearRP. The average person would follow their demands as they are helpless in the situation, you wouldn't just walk away or try to pull out a weapon when you are outnumbered.,
If you are in your car and someone pulls a gun on you, it is acceptable to speed away, but you are taking a chance on being shot/shot at.,
If the cop/suspect informs you to not touch the radio/phone this includes hitting your panic button you must comply or risk being killed.
Perma-Death/Death Penalty
A player may decide to perm-death any of their characters. No player will be forced to perm-death a character, except in the following instances
The administration team may choose to give your character a Death Penalty if you are considered a repeat offender of deadly crimes or show blatant toxicity with your character’s roleplay.,
You do not have to report that you are killing off a character.,
If a player decides to do a perm-death, they must be declared dead by any on-duty EMS, use the "/me" command to inform the EMS of your intentions when they arrive on the scene.
Torture RP
While Torture RP is allowed it must be done within reason and the victim must be allowed to continue to RP after the scenario with all body parts still functional and intact if they choose to do so. They can keep any deformities left from the RP if they wish. SEXUAL ACTS ARE NOT ALLOWED.
Camping Illicit Areas
Illicit areas include drugs areas, job areas, money washing, etc.
Civilians cannot intentionally sit in high traffic areas that lead to illicit spots for the reason of robbing individuals.,
Cops are also not allowed to camp drug areas for the sole purpose of making a traffic stop and busting the subject leaving the drug area. Officers are allowed to conduct surveillance to help build a bigger case.
False Flag Operations by Civilians
Civilians who execute actions with the clear intent of conducting a false flag operation are subject to death from the gang they are impersonating. For example, robbing a bank and wearing other gangs’ EUP with the intent to get them blamed for your actions.
Respect For Life Rule
Any situation leading to a shootout or a killing must have reasonable RP behind it. You MUST attempt to RP the scenario before going straight into violence.
There is a shooting cooldown, regardless of scene type, you must wait 30 minutes before initiating another shootout. Roleplay over Gunplay is HIGHLY recommended!
Server Restart Rule
NO criminal Activity is to happen 30 minutes before and/or after a Server Restart. This is everyone's time to put their belongings away, put vehicles in garage. Restart times are 2:00am, 6:00am, 5:00pm EST.
Erotic Roleplay
While technically allowed, ERP is strongly discouraged on the grounds of it being really freaking cringy. However, we are all adults, and you have are welcome to participate in it if you wish.
Any and all sexually explicit or nude activities must be conducted in the privacy of your own apartment or home. These activities may not take place in public spaces and are strictly prohibited while streaming on any platform.
Additionally, any discussion, implication, or reference to sexual activity is prohibited on in-city social media apps.
Third Partying
Involving yourself in a scene that is on-going. The only exception to this rule is if you are running from the police and you wreck your vehicle you can call for a pick-up. If the original scene doesn't involve you, do not involve yourself.
Section 3: LEO Rules
Dirty Cop RP
Dirty cop RP comes with a lot of responsibility. In order to be a dirty cop, you must open a ticket in Discord and discuss it with staff. It is very important to remember the Dirty Cop RP is not giving your gang a bunch of guns and armor (that's power gaming), it should always be done with an RP story in mind and not as a means to improve a group of players.
Off Duty RP
Cops are important to the city and burn out can be a real thing. We do not expect cops to always be on duty. You may have off duty RP as long as that off duty RP is not used to play as a criminal.
Police Mistreatment and Appeal
If you feel you have been mistreated in a police situation, use the proper channels in city (ie. speak to a supervisor, fill out a complaint form for that specific agency). Do not contact an admin unless the officer is clearly breaking a server rule. Take abuse of power as in character and report it as you see fit.
Crim-baiting
Police officers are prohibited from artificially creating opportunities to entice criminals into committing crimes. This includes camping known drug locations without investigative buildup, aggressively fishing for minor violations to escalate situations, or following suspicious individuals until they "slip up" without probable cause. Officers must respond to organic criminal activity and actual calls rather than manufacturing arrest opportunities. Police roleplay should focus on realistic investigations, community engagement, and allowing criminals space to develop their own storylines. this rule will result in removal from the police department and potential disciplinary action.
Spam Cuffing/ Tackle Cuffing
At no time should you use spam cuffing or the instant tackle/cuff "quirk" to cuff a player. This is considered a bug and doing so will be treated as abusing an exploit.
Section 4: VIP
Sale of VIP cars
The sale of VIP cars is prohibited. Please do not sell your vehicle or VIP benefits to any other player. You may give or trade your vehicle at your discretion and are subject to losing the vehicle forever and will not be a reportable offense.
Section 5: Streamers
Expectations
Anyone in the DRP community can stream. There is no application process. All that we ask is that you open a ticket and let us know you are going to be streaming so that we can:
Give you the DRP Streamer Role in Discord
Add you to the Live Now bot
and so, our media team has your stream link so they can stop by from time to time.
It is important to remember that streamers must follow all of the same rules as the rest of the server.
Streamers should avoid showing secret/protected locations on their streams at all times.
Section 6: Reporting and Disciplinary Actions
Reporting Processes
DRP is not a ticket based city. However, with rules comes rule breaks and with rule breaks comes reports. In order to properly fill out a ticket to report a player these are the processes.
You must submit all evidence you have of the situation in either screenshots or clips. Clips must be unedited and must include sound. If you have to submit a lot of clips that is OK.,
Clips must have 2 minutes prior to the reported incident and 2 minutes after.,
Tickets with no evidence will be dismissed and should be handled in the city through RP.,
You should have all of your evidence ready to go and ready to add detail to your ticket when you open it.,
If you suspect a rule break you need to include the rule from the rule book that you believe was broken with the evidence.
Administrator Instructions/Rulings
If an administrator's ruling seems to have been made in error the dispute must be handled outside the game via discord by creating a staff complaint ticket. Please do not "DM" members of the Staff Team directly, use the proper channel within Discord, follow the proper chain of command or open a support ticket. Do not privately message the owner of the city to circumvent a disciplinary action.
Disciplinary Process
Philosophy At Diversion RP we do not believe in giving people goofy in city punishments like "coms" or "staff jail". We also believe that a rigid discipline process does not provide for a fair assessment of all situations. With this in mind our Diversion RP Staff Guide is available to everyone to review how staff will handle specific situations. We hope that this transparency helps players and staff know exactly how a situation is going to be handled.
We believe in a teach, correct, remove process that is applied to all members of the community equally. The same way a ticket is handled for a member is the same way it would be handled for a senior staff member. If you do get removed from the community, you will be told why and you will be given a time frame for reapplication if applicable.
DRP rules are subject to change, be added to, or be removed as the community grows. When rules are changed the community will be notified.
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