Citizens

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Current revision as of 20:30, 15 February 2008

When you first begin your journey through City 18, you are a typical citizen. This guide below is to help you become accustomed to proper rules and behavioral guidelines.

Don't Punch CPs

It might as well not have a purpose, since no one RP's doing it. Running up to a CP and starting to punch them, or punching them and running away is just going to anger them, and result in you getting harrassed, either by a stunbaton, Beanbag Shotgun, a Gun or all three. If you do get killed or arrested, don't start doing it again when you get out or respawn (this is a breach of New Life Rule (NLR) and server ethics). There are some rare cases where Punching a CP is RP acceptable, but only in certain, well RPed events, such as organized riots, or hostage taking situations. However, running onto the Nexus, punching, and running off is not one of these cases, and depending on the admin at the time, you may be kicked from game.

Behavior

Act like you would if you were really there- don't jump around everywhere, yell for no reason, or run around in circles. Don't pull a gun out in view of the Nexus and every Citizen on the street. As such, you should not punch your fellow citizens for no reason. This also means don't be stupid, and do things such as constantly jumping up and down when an officer is trying to detain you. Doing that is just going anger them.

Typing and You

Try to use proper grammar and punctuation as possible. Do not use terms such as 'u, dont, lol, rofl, omg and wtf'. These are only acceptable (somewhat) in OOC, but not IC.

Shooting

When someone, especially a CP, starts shooting, or running with a gun out, or goes to arrest someone, DO NOT follow them or crowd them! Try to picture the situation in real life. If someone pulled out a gun and began shooting people, would you follow them? No! You would run for your life, and keep running. Likewise, if you see an officer running towards a building holding a gun, do not crowd them, as you are likely to be arrested for your presence at a crime scene. If you are in possession of a gun, do not go around randomly shooting people. This will not only decrease your standing with other members, but will probably get you a ban. If you RP a kill, then you are fine, but do not just kill at random.

Obeying Orders

Listen to Combine orders. If an officer tells you to leave the area, face a wall, stop running, keep away from Nexus, or something similar, listen to them! If you choose not to, you will find yourself regretting it soon after due to a very sharp, electrical pain in your backside soon afterwards.

Hierarchy

Know the Combine hierarchy: this means that its probably acceptable to walk up to a Metro Cop and ask them a question, but with every level up, the danger for you increases. This is what it means: Metro Police were previously human. However, Overwatch Soldiers are heavily brainwashed, and view Citizens as a kind of disease; talking to one of them will probably result in a beating, followed by brainwashing. They also have a larger arsenal of weapons at their disposal then the Metro Cop. This means that if you annoy them, you are more likely to be knocked out sooner, and running won't help you when a piece of rubber is hurtling towards you. The best thing to do is talk to an Officer who doesn't seem to be busy and is not guarding the Nexus. Use /cr to request to talk to an Officer, or talk to the City Administrator if he is present.

KO'ed Bodies

Don't try to drag a body away if an Officer is tying them up. This will most likely get you arrested as well, or even killed, depending on the current mood of the officer. Also, when an officer is arresting someone, it is acceptable to watch, but you should not stand right next to or behind them. Watch from across the street.

Death

Your life is the most important thing you have. Do not do things that will get you beaten, shot, or killed. Carry bandages and health vials with you and heal yourself if you are hurt, instead of just bleeding to death. Do not think that you can just die and respawn. There will soon be a 'Karma' system fully activated on the server, and you will possibly lose Karma each time you die. This may affect things such as which items you can buy in your supply license. If you die, then you do not remember your past life. You may start again somewhere near your last life, but do not enact revenge killings or the like (New Life Rule).

Metagaming and Powergaming

Here is a short list of a few things that are considered Metagaming. Metagaming or Powergaming (more severe) is the use In Character of knowledge you do not have, or using abilities you've had no way of obtaining. As people their name, that way, you can prevent any trouble ahead of time.

• Calling someone by name that you've never met
• Using Combine request on someone that you've never met (use a physical description, not a name)
• Revenge killing after you have died
• RP killing someone where they cannot prevent it (such as: /me grabs neck and breaks it)
• For those of you flagged: "stealing" a CP uniform must be RPed very carefully, and must be approved by an admin beforehand.

Do not abuse your Flag to let all the citizens into the Nexus or Kill them when you never RPed taking a suit for your Citizen. So far, only Infernal and Greyfox have RPed correctly, and with prior permission (Infernal), taking a CP suit and weapons, then burying them for later use by their characters.

OOC

OOC means 'out-of-character'. Try to keep talk in OOC to a minimum. Local-OOC or PM's are useful. If someone kills you for no reason, or breaks new life rule, don't yell in OOC at them; use a pm. The whole server doesnt want to know about your problems. Local OOC is can be accessed by typing " .// <what you want to say> " PM is "/pm <first name of person you want to PM> <your message>." If there are multiple people with the same first name, use their nickname (for example, if there name was John ' Nickname ' Smith, you could use the command " /pm Nickname <message> " to send them a message.

Crime

Report crimes, as it is beneficial to you, as it will keep crime low, which will be less of a threat to you It will also keep the flow of ration distribution going. Rations give you money and will completely restore your hunger once hunger mod is working. Furthermore, once Karma is in effect, they may give you a certain number of Karma points.

Binds

It is helpful to have certain things bound to keys. This can be done with the 'bind' command in the console. This is accessed by typing "bind <key> <command>". If you want to bind multiple things to one key, you must add a semicolon (;) after the previous command, and type the next command. For instance, if you are a CP and want to bind F6 to saying 'affirmative', but also changing your name to 'ROFLCOPTER' (purely as an example) you would bring up the console and type bind f6 'rp_playline 4'; 'rp_changename ROFLCOPTER'.

Some things that might be helpful for a citizen to have could be: /y HELP!, /y I'LL COMPLY!, your name and cid, "I'll come peacefully, officer". Alternatively, if you are more prone to criminal activities, you may bind something to "COMBINE COMING!" or "/y I SURRENDER, DONT SHOOT!"

It is also useful to bind the command 'rp_toggleholster' to a key, as this toggles holstering, and it is much quicker than typing 'rp_toggleholster' into the console every time you want to put away or draw your weapon.

Think of some of your own binds that fit your character and your needs. Take note of things you say often, or that you may need to say quickly.