Prerequisites: 

You must be over the age of 18 before joining YellaBelly Roleplay.

You are responsible for your account. Any breaches of the Rules and Regulations on your account will be attributed to you. 

Prior to joining the RedM server, ensure that your Discord name matches your character names. If you have multiple characters, you may list these in your Discord name. E.g: Clem | Svetlana | Awe

You must have a clear working microphone and you may only communicate in English. Voice changers must be realistic. 

This is a Serious Roleplay server, which means that character names, backstories and appearances must be realistic.

Whilst in state, these rules are are referred to as ‘Government Rules’ or ‘Federal Laws’

Every new character will begin in the town of Strawberry. This is a Green Zone which means any criminal activity is forbidden.

It is your responsibility to remain up-to-date with our Rules. You must react in the Discord server that you have acknowledged the Rules. 

Whenever it states ‘Severely injured’ in the rules, we are referring to when a player is downed. 

Section A: Warning and Punishment Policy:

A.1: YellaBelly Roleplay normally operates a 3 strike policy regarding breaches of the Rules. The strikes are as follows:

 

• First Strike: Warning: You will be given a recorded warning depending on the severity of the rulebreak. 
• Second Offence: Temporary Ban and temporary removal of whitelist.
• Third Offence: Permanent Ban.

 

A.2: YellaBelly staff have the final say in terms of punishments. If you are deemed ‘unfit’ by staff, you are subject to removal from YellaBelly permanently. This decision cannot be appealed.

Section B: Toxicity, Discriminatory Behaviour and Use of Expletives:

B.1: There is zero tolerance for any toxic, discriminatory or oppressive behaviour.

-B.1.1: This includes any form of discrimination, gendered, forced sexual, racist, homophobic, ableist behaviour.  

 

B.2: Swearing is allowed, but not excessively, and should make roleplay sense. Screaming over your mic and name calling is NOT quality roleplay.

Section C: Exploiting:

C.1 You are not permitted to give any items to any of your other characters. This includes transferring items through other players, houses, or horses and wagons. 

-C.1.1:  You should not be using one character for gaining required materials for another. 

 

C.2: Do not duplicate items, or exploit duplication bugs.

-C.2.1: If you have discovered any form of exploit, it is your responsibility to report this to staff. Failure to do so will result in punishment. 

 

C.3: Do not Mod while playing on YellaBelly. 

-C.3.1: The only permitted scripts or mods you can use are visual overhauls or shaders, however if these are found to provide any benefit or advantage, you will be subject to punishment.

Section D: Breaking Character:

D.1: You must always remain in character. Casual Out-Of-Character conversations are not permitted. 

 

D.2: Breaking character must only be done when you are instructed to by Staff Members or Marshals. This could sound something like ‘you are welcome to speak plainly’. 

 

D.3: You must not use the Global Chat function. The only exception to this is for Staff Announcements or Doctors when appropriate. 

See Section R for further information about Staff in Game

Section E: Powergaming and Fail RP: 

E.1: Permanent injuries, such as losing a limb or an eye, are decided by the player, and cannot be decided by anybody else. ALL decided injuries must be roleplayed by their respective parties. 

 

E.2: The use of commands cannot be used to force another player into your demands.

-E.2.1: You cannot demand items from a player’s bank, house or business. 

 

E.3: Identifying somebody based on their masked appearance or voice is not allowed unless there is a genuine roleplay reason otherwise. 

 

E.4: The passing or trading of goods through exploiting (eg. through a wall) is prohibited. 

 

E.5: You are not allowed to use the game mechanics to your advantage; eg. Ragdolling, escaping hogties instantly or avoiding executions. 

 

E.6: When Law Enforcement removes all of your weapons (via /me removes all weapons) you must roleplay that you have no weapons. 

 

E.7: You are not allowed to Combat Log (exiting the State to avoid further roleplay), unless you provide Staff with an extenuating circumstance. Failure to adhere to this rule will render you subject to punishment.

 

E.8: When changing outfits in reference to the J menu, you must be in an appropriate area such as a clothing store or wardrobe. You must not be doing quick changes of clothing using this menu whilst doing crime or in an active chase with the Law. 

– E.8.1: This includes using /rc when wearing a J menu outfit.

Section F: Impersonation, Vigilantism, Self-Defence:

F.1: You are not permitted to roleplay as Government Officials or Emergency Services (Law and Doctors)  without holding an official role in one of these positions. 

-F.1.1: This includes the use of forged documentation or wearing their uniforms or identifiers. 

 

F.2: When criminal action occurs, you should respond realistically. If you are in the area of a crime but not directly involved, don’t intervene on behalf of Emergency Services. Make sure you are valuing both your life and the lives of others present and following correct initiation rules. (Sections N and H) 

 

F.3: The only time where you are permitted to directly respond to criminal acts is when you or your group are initiated upon. You may still be considered an active combatant, and the Law may charge you with the associated crimes.

 

F.4: You have the right to defend your properties and friends through correct initiation. This will not be considered criminal, but there is a chance that the Law will investigate the situation.

Section G: Criminal Roleplay, Robbing and Cooldowns:

G.1: You are not permitted to engage in any criminal behaviour 30 minutes prior to a server restart. 

 

G.2: You cannot rob greenhorns (new players) of their starter items. 

 

G.3: You are not allowed to both rob and severely injure a player.

-G.3.1: The sole exception to this is if the victim initiates combat roleplay, which allows you to defend yourself in accordance with F.4. 

-G.3.2: Placing a hogtied individual into a body of water automatically renders them severely injured, so take caution when using hogties.  

 

G.4: You should not attempt to rob a player who is away from their game or using an in-game menu.

-G.4.1: If you are found to be abusing inactivity to avoid roleplay from progressing you are subject to punishment. It is recommended that you use /status  ‘daydreaming’ to identify you being away. 

 

G.5: Chain robberies of players and stores are not permitted.

 

G.6: You should always leave individuals with a reasonable chance to survive. An individual’s pockets should not be completely cleared to where they have no food or water to recover from the robbery.

 

G.7: Robberies must be initiated through verbal intent, and the intent to rob must be clear to the victim. Victims should be offered a chance to surrender their items prior to any violence occurring.  

 

G.8: Criminals are allowed a maximum of 5 individuals when engaging in criminal acts.

 

G.9: When parties end combat roleplay, all involved individuals must not engage in criminal acts for 1 hour.

-G.9.1: This applies to robberies. You are also not permitted to repeat the same robbery within 12 real life hours. 

-G.9.2: This also applies when you are released from Law Enforcement custody. You have to wait 1 hour after release before committing any criminal activity. 

 

G.10: One robbery, killing or kidnapping per criminal group or individual of the same victim(s) within 12 hours is permitted. After the robbery has concluded, those victim(s) may not be robbed again by you, or your party for 12 hours. 

 

G.11: You may only steal 1 weapon, including guns and knives, from each victim involved in a robbery.

Section H: Killing Players:

H.1: The act of killing or severely injuring an individual must be conveyed through fair warning, with a credible roleplay reason. You should not randomly kill or injure players or locals (NPCs).  

-H.1.1: Fair warning must be verbal. Warning shots do not count as proper initiation. 

-H.1.2: The use of scopes to kill or severely injure players from a distance with no initiation is not permitted. 

 

H.2: You cannot force an individual to permanently kill their character. This includes duels.

 

H.3: If a situation occurs where a character is severely injured by another player, you are allowed to move the body, but must do so within 5 minutes. 

 

H.4: Individuals who have been severely injured cannot return to an active combat situation.

Section I: Hostage Taking:

I.1: If hostages are compliant, it is bad practice to severely injure them.

-I.1.1: When a hostage is severely injured, they should not still be used as a hostage. 

 

I.2: You are not allowed to use your group, friends or associates as hostages. It must remain an uninvolved third party. 

 

I.3: You are permitted to break out of regular lassos to avoid capture. 

See Section L for further information regarding hostage taking for Emergency Services.

Section J: Abuse of Advertisement and Scenes:

J.1: You are not permitted to use advertisements to promote obscenity, or unrealistic roleplay elements such as obvious criminal behaviour.

-J.1.1: This includes the direct promotion of criminal acts, for example selling moonshine through a Pinboard.

-J.1.2: Posters may be used to advertise criminal wares, but it should be done subtly and carefully so as to avoid detection by The Law.  

J.2: Pinboards should not be used as a form of back-and-forth communication between individuals, however you are allowed to convey public announcements/messages to the State, such as declarations of gang warfare. Back-and-forth communication using posters is permitted.

 

J.3: You are permitted to place one copy of a poster to the pinboard in each town. When you want to repost the advertisement, you must remove the old one. 

 

J.4: The use of scenes must align with J.1, and must be placed within realistic locations. No floating scenes in the middle of the road etc. There are private property signs that you can build from your home furniture menu to mark your property line.

 

J.5: You must not place an overwhelming amount of scenes within one area. 
-J.5.1: “Overwhelming” is defined by staff, and removal is at their discretion.

Section K: Green Zones:

K.1: The entire town of Strawberry and its boundaries is a Green Zone, meaning you must not engage in any criminal acts.

K.2: Temporary green zones may be created for events, and will have corresponding announcements of their limits and boundaries set by staff.

 

 

 

Section L: Emergency Service interactions:

L.1: You are not allowed to abuse the /alert functions to bait emergency service workers. 

-L.1.2: This includes the ambushing of emergency service workers. 

 

L.2: You are not permitted to move bodies of Law Enforcement once they are severely injured, unless you are rendering them genuine medical aid. 

 

L.3: If you are stocking illicit goods within your business, Law Enforcement are able to seize the shop and shut it down with a warrant. 

-L.3.1: Maintaining a character bounty also renders your business at risk of seizure and shut down. 

 

L.4: Mainland Law Enforcement are not permitted to be corrupt. 

-L.4.1: Guarma Law Enforcement entities are able to be corrupt, exclusively in the confines of Guarma. 

-L.4.2: All citizens of YellaBelly must adhere to report any corruption within Mainland Law Enforcement. Failure to do so will render you subject to punishment.

 

L.5: Law Enforcement are allowed to respond with up to 7 individuals when responding to a criminal scenario, and 10 for fort robberies. 

 

L.6: You cannot kidnap, take hostage, rob or dump the bodies of Law Enforcement or Doctors while they are on-duty. Off-duty is fair game. 

-L.6.1: Law Enforcement and Doctors should not persistently be on duty to avoid this. 

-L.6.2: If an off-duty Law Enforcement Officer or Doctor is approached, they should not go on duty to avoid being robbed.

 

L.7: You must allow reasonable response times for emergency services. Take your time with evolving your roleplay situation while they are en-route. 

Section M: New Life Rule:

M.1: When you choose to respawn you must forget 10 minutes prior to your state of injury.

-M.1.1: You must not choose to respawn while in an active situation. 

 

M.2: If you are treated by a Local Doctor or Player Doctor you can remember up until the point where you were severely injured.

 

M.3: When you are revived from a combat situation, you cannot initiate any form of combat roleplay for at least 1 hour, to let your injuries heal. 

-M.3.1: The sole exception to this is regarding active Law Enforcement. They may re-deploy to another region after a respawn. 

 

M.4: If you choose to respawn, you may not seek revenge, as you will have forgotten the 10 minutes leading up to your injury. If you have credible information which identifies your aggressor, such as a witness, you may respond based on the proof pointing to an individual.

Section N: No Value of Life (NVL)

N.1: You must fear for your life when threatened with weapons or severe injury. 

 

N.2: You are allowed to flee a situation if a crime has not yet been initiated upon you.

-N.2.1: If however, the crime has been initiated and  you have equal numbers (1 versus 1, 2 versus 2) you have the opportunity to flee. 

 

N.3: If you are outnumbered you must fear for your life.

-N.3.1: If your party equals or outnumbers the aggressors then you are permitted to defend yourself.   

-N.3.2: If your party is outnumbered by only one, you may also attempt to defend yourself.   

Section O: Permadeath

O.1: Permanently killing a character is the decision of the individual whose character it is. 

-O.1.1: This decision is final, and cannot be reversed.

 

Section P: Random, Horse and Vehicle Deathmatch

P.1: You are not allowed to attack or severely injure another player without any prior roleplay or story buildup. This is considered Random Deathmatch or RDM.

 

P.2: You are not allowed to attack or severely injure another player using a horse or wagon without any prior roleplay or story buildup. This is considered Horse and Vehicle Deathmatch or VDM.

-P.2.1: Wagons or horses can be used as means of self-defence.

Section Q: Metagaming

Q.1: Information obtained from outside of the State of YellaBelly cannot be used to your character’s advantage; official Discord channels marked ‘RP’ are allowed to be used. 

-Q.1.1: This includes the use of any third party communication and stream sniping.

 

Q.2: You are not allowed to share knowledge between your characters. 

 

Q.3: You are unable to identify an individual by their voice alone.

Section R: Staff in Game

R.1: If a staff member steps into a situation and identifies themselves as such, the roleplay situation has turned into an Out-Of-Character (OOC) situation. You must listen comply with staff requests.

 

R.2: If you are disrespectful or toxic towards staff in YellaBelly, you will be banned immediately.

 

R.3: Do not harass or attempt to force staff to break character, regardless of which character they are actively playing.

-R.3.1: Your ideas, questions or concerns are best in a support ticket so that we can refer back to them through transcripts. 

 

Section S: Selling Businesses

S.1: YellaBelly Administration can revoke player owned businesses for any reason. 

 

S.2: You are not allowed to sell your business privately, or assign ownership to another player. 

-S.2.1: All business sales and purchases must be led by the YellaBelly Real Estate Team.

Section T: Torture and Erotic Roleplay

T.1: Torture and Erotic Roleplay without explicit and informed consent from the both parties is strictly prohibited. 

-T.1.1: Consent for Torture Roleplay is strongly recommended to be obtained through a ticket to ensure that all parties are aware of what boundaries are in place. 

-T.1.2: If you are actively in roleplay, and need to engage in Torture Roleplay, you must obtain explicit consent from the receiving party through a /me ‘consents fully to activity’. 

 

T.2: No public Erotic Roleplay. If you wish to engage in Erotic Roleplay, it must be in absolute privacy. This means make sure you are whispering, and keep in mind staff can see all of your /me prompts…

 

T.3: Consent for either Torture Roleplay or Erotic Roleplay can be revoked at any time, and the roleplay must cease immediately, with no exceptions. 

 

ROLEPLAY GUIDELINES

Not technically rules, but a good place for reference. We will constantly update this section. These are just comments and suggestions taken from seasoned RPers and myself.

1. Get into character to help tell a story. The most fun and immersive role-player’s (RPers) are the closest thing to actors. We use RP to escape reality and enjoy ourselves, so get immersed. Use a catch phrase or action in game to really delve into your character. You may surprise yourself.

2. Give your character life beyond just getting into shootouts. Yes, it is everyone’s dream to be a badass, gun slinging cowboy and be the hero of our own adventure. But, playing a live action NPC can be quite fun. Some RPers love just being that ‘extra’ that interacts with locals (NPCs) or even gets mistaken for a local. (I know I got a kick out of it when someone exclaimed, “Oh shit, I thought you were a local”)

3. RP scenarios with others should be a collaborative effort. Good RPers make an effort for both parties to enjoy the RP, not just themselves. (RP is a two way street, and if you want good RP you must give good RP)

4. Do not force your RP style on someone else. If someone starts to walk away from a scenario or interaction, let them go, we do not encourage harassment. Sometimes brief encounters with others are the most memorable.

5. Combat RP – Murder should be a last resort, but combat can be a fun exciting experience. Try to keep in mind, sometimes, taking a loss or ‘taking the L’ is actually great RP. Mature RPers are able to understand taking the L helps to develop more RP than constantly having the ‘win at all cost’ mentality. Interacting with doctors and law as a victim is also a fun experience.

6. Criminal RP – This can be one of the toughest RP roles to take on and the first one to be done poorly. You should have respect for the player behind the character. Do not just go out and do crime for no reason. RP it out, and let every action have an RP reason. That reason should not be that you are bored.

7. Robbery RP – The fear of being robbed adds to the excitement of the game. But, please keep in mind, in a matter of minutes, you are taking potentially hours of hard work away from this player. This can frustrate anyone which can make them hate the player and the game. When you rob or force other players into your RP, remember that you are responsible for their RP also, and everyone must come out of the scene with a good RP experience.