6.8 Power gaming

Power gaming is defined as the act of forcing or gaining an unrealistic, unfair, or impossible position over another player without giving them an opportunity to interact, defend, or escape the situation. This often involves breaking immersion and disregarding the roleplay experience of others.

  1. Any act that causes the player to be able to avoid use of items will be considered power gaming.

    • For example: relogging when your hunger and thirst meters are low in order to ‘refill’ them on loading into the server without using any food or water.

  2. DMing a player with a law enforcement character to ask them to go on duty so that you can rob something or commit a crime is power gaming.

  3. Extreme changes in appearance in a short and unrealistic amount of time are considered powergaming.

  4. Characters may change their hair, makeup, and/or face paint as desired, but there is a cool-off period of 10 minutes before they’re able to change them again.

  5. If a player is making an effort to disguise their voice in any way (changing accent, using a voice changer etc) then you cannot identify them off their voice alone. You will need to see their face unobstructed or obtain other evidence in order to identify them.

  6. Additionally, lone factors like hair color or ‘build’ are not acceptable identifiers if a person is attempting to conceal their identity unless used to support more tangible evidence such as car plates, tattoos, unobstructed visual of face, etc.

  7. Identification should be based on a number of factors and not just one sole identifier unless the person’s face is entirely visible or they have made no attempt to conceal their identity.

  8. Going to prison to seek out a jailed player is considered power gaming. It is unrealistic to gain unapproved access to the prison as it is secured and heavily guarded. Players in Prison are also unable to reasonably defend themselves as they have no weapons.

  9. No hostile or criminal activity is permitted 30 minutes prior to restart/storm. Server announcements go out during this period to make sure you’re aware.

  10. You cannot initiate a job (ie garbage collection) and use the vehicle for crime. No using job vehicles in crimes or for hostile actions.

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