Policy
Rules
AfterDark is light RP: play the city, use the systems, and let heat, fines, arrests, prison, police pressure, and money loss handle most consequences.
Server Conduct
- Do not harass players, spam, crash the session, or drag normal gameplay into out-of-game fights.
- Do not use props, vehicles, physics tools, menus, map holes, or unfinished features to break the session.
- No exploiting unfinished systems, debug controls, or known bugs.
- Respect staff direction during technical issues, moderation, or events.
- Light RP means readable city behavior, not strict scene arbitration.
Crime and Consequences
- Criminal play is expected. Robbery, theft, fights, getaways, wanted heat, fines, arrests, and prison are part of the loop.
- The game systems handle criminal consequences wherever possible: heat, wanted state, fines, arrests, prison, dropped cash, and police pressure.
- Do not farm money, heat, death drops, fines, or prison time with alt accounts or friends.
- Running from police is gameplay. Using bugs, menus, map holes, or debug tools to avoid consequences is not.
- Do not turn normal crime into rule arguments. Staff steps in for harassment, exploits, or broken states.
Government and Police
- Police are part of the pressure loop, not referees for every crime scene.
- Use the taze, arrest, charge, release, fine, and prison systems. Do not use job powers to harass players.
- Act on witnessed crime, wanted state, active chases, dispatch pressure, or obvious threats.
- Detained players should move through the normal release, fine, or prison flow.
- Mayor laws should create playable city pressure, not impossible gotchas.
- Bodyguards protect clients and officials first.
Jobs and Economy
- Civil jobs make steady money, government jobs respond to danger, and criminal jobs create risk for bigger payoff.
- Criminal roles are gameplay roles, not default rule violations.
- Use job tools for their intended loop. Do not use job access to grief, soft-lock, or stall other players.
- Use ATM, pocket cash, shops, vendors, and crime terminals as intended. No macro or duplicate-abuse farming.
- Wanted, fines, prison, wallet, and bank systems are authoritative.