Server rules [Updated 02-24-2021]

The sliding rule only applies to hacking now and not VC-MP glitches. We can't ban VC-MP glitches, because they are part of the game until the developers fix it. I can try to prevent it in scripting, but it's most likely not possible.

Fixed some more grammar.

Fixed even more grammar.

added /addupgrade into the command abuse rule list, updated the instructions for what to do when a ban evader comes and added the rule for attacking the server/forum

NOTE: The rule I added won't be applied until the next patch!

I've added a turbo glitch rule. Anyone caught using it after patch 3.5.2 has been released will receive a first person view ban, which means that they can't use first person view the same way as the rest. Anyone who creates new accounts to use it will just be treated as a ban evader.

wall glitching rule updated by the management staff:
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"Glitching by killing from a place that isn't accesible without the use of any commands or from a place not possible to get to without penetrating a object/solid (a wall, a roof, a fence, etc.) is not allowed unless there is no wall separating the killer from the victim. Using a weapon to kill someone by a bullet that penetrates a solid wall is also not allowed from any position. If you're caught wall glitching in this way, you will either get a warning, a kick or a temp-ban."

added the weapon part.

new rule by the management team

[*]Script abuse: The exploitation of bugs or glitches to bypass a server limit or system is not allowed. Anyone doing this must report it to the scripter. Punishment for breaking this rule includes a warning, kick and a tempban, unless the scripter of the server is planning on a fix for the exploit and allows the exploit to be abused until it's fixed. Examples of known abuses that will give you a punishment: if you find a way to respawn/repair the hunter so you can use it all the time.

I added an account hacking rule, that disallows you to hack Another person account on VKs without getting your own account banned. I didn't discuss this with the management team since, this rule should be here, obviously.

An admin is however not allowed to punish anyone who insults/provokes/discriminates them, they have to report it and the majority and at least 2-3 admins have to agree that he is breaking the rule.

"You aren't allowed to discriminate people based on their race, nationality/country, native language or religion. Discrimination according to our rules is defined as something that the majority of people it applies to find it offensive"

we have updated the text of the discrimination rule a Little according to suggestions made by the management team. the reason for the change is to prevent admins from abusing this rule to their own advantage.

Evidence Fabrication rule added.

Updated added a new rule that allows us to punish toplist cheaters, that get an unreasonable time in the minigames. The punishment includes a stats reset (for the races) and a temp ban to make sure they don't do it again.

We have now repaired the previous discrimination to make it more fairer and stricter. We have also re-added sex as a protected characteristic and fixed a lot of ways the previous one could have been abused.

"An admin is however not allowed to punish anyone who insults/provokes them, they have to report it and the majority and at least 2-3 admins have to agree that they are breaking the rule."

This part is now removed from both the insulting and provoking rule. And a small grammar mistake has been fixed in the provoking rule.

scamming rule updated.

Spawn killing rule updated. The old rule had many flaws which caused every admin to have a different meaning of spawn killing. This update attempts to make a common understanding of spawnkilling for both admins and players. Here is the new rule:

You are not allowed to kill a player after they spawn without them having a chance to escape (except by using commands) or within 5 seconds of when they spawn except if they teleport from their location. If the spawned player is attacking other players after they spawn then it's an exception to the spawnkilling rule and if they are killed by another player, it won't count as spawnkilling. The server has spawn protection and so the player cannot be damaged in the first 5 seconds of spawn (except with helicannon, heliblade or driveby due to a VCMP bug). A person can therefore only be spawnkilled by the exploitation of a VCMP bug or if they are made to fall by a shotgun (stubby, spaz, pump), explosive (grenade, rocket launcher, vehicle explosion), or close combat melee (possible by any weapon when in close to a player) and then killed by any means after their spawn protection gets disabled before they get up and have a chance to escape. If you break this rule multiple times, you will get warned, kicked, get your stats resetted, tempbanned, or permanently banned depending of the severity and number of offenses.

Two updates today! Remember to quote each other guys.

Rainbow Dash wrote:scamming rule updated.

4K. wrote:Spawn killing rule updated. The old rule had many flaws which caused every admin to have a different meaning of spawn killing. This update attempts to make a common understanding of spawnkilling for both admins and players. Here is the new rule:

You are not allowed to kill a player after they spawn without them having a chance to escape (except by using commands) or within 5 seconds of when they spawn except if they teleport from their location. If the spawned player is attacking other players after they spawn then it's an exception to the spawnkilling rule and if they are killed by another player, it won't count as spawnkilling. The server has spawn protection and so the player cannot be damaged in the first 5 seconds of spawn (except with helicannon, heliblade or driveby due to a VCMP bug). A person can therefore only be spawnkilled by the exploitation of a VCMP bug or if they are made to fall by a shotgun (stubby, spaz, pump), explosive (grenade, rocket launcher, vehicle explosion), or close combat melee (possible by any weapon when in close to a player) and then killed by any means after their spawn protection gets disabled before they get up and have a chance to escape. If you break this rule multiple times, you will get warned, kicked, get your stats resetted, tempbanned, or permanently banned depending of the severity and number of offenses.

Added a rule regarding information of selling world 1 vehicles and properties. The rule does not punish normal players, but is there to inform them that they may lose their vehicle if they have purchased it due to an admin's mistake. Here is the new rule:

An admin is allowed to sell a world 1 vehicle or property in one or more of the following situations: the owner of the vehicle/property has not visited the server for more than 31 days (/lastjoined to check), the owner is banned from the server and won't be able to join for 31 days, or the owner has given permission or requested the vehicle/property to be sold. If the vehicle/property is sold and none of those situations apply, then the admin who sold the vehicle/property is to be punished, the vehicle/property is sold and the new owner (if any) is returned their money. The vehicle/property cannot be bought till the above situations apply. You are no longer to purchase additional world 1 vehicle slots, and you are to own not more than 1 world 1 property.

4K. wrote:Added a rule regarding information of selling world 1 vehicles and properties. The rule does not punish normal players, but is there to inform them that they may lose their vehicle if they have purchased it due to an admin's mistake. Here is the new rule:

An admin is allowed to sell a world 1 vehicle or property in one or more of the following situations: the owner of the vehicle/property has not visited the server for more than 31 days (/lastjoined to check), the owner is banned from the server and won't be able to join for 31 days, or the owner has given permission or requested the vehicle/property to be sold. If the vehicle/property is sold and none of those situations apply, then the admin who sold the vehicle/property is to be punished, the vehicle/property is sold and the new owner (if any) is returned their money. The vehicle/property cannot be bought till the above situations apply. You are no longer to purchase additional world 1 vehicle slots, and you are to own not more than 1 world 1 property.

Another rule update:

Provoking rule has been updated so that both the provoker and the provoked person who breaks a rule are punished. Also provoking is better defined in this new rule so please read it carefully. Here is the new rule:

You are not allowed to provoke other players into breaking server rules. Provoking is when a player encourages another player into breaking a server rule. If the player being provoked does not break the rule then only the provoker is to be punished. If the player being provoked did break a server rule then the provoker is to be punished according to the punishments outlined in this rule while the provoked rulebreaker is to be punished according to the punishment defined in the rule he broke. Punishment for provoking is a /warn on first offense, tempban for 7 days on second offense, tempban for 2 months on third offense, and a permanent ban on fourth offense.

Added definitive punishments and removed "It is also not permitted to insult someone's religion or culture." from the insulting rule.

Added a clause in the impersonating rule which prevents a clan tag from being counted in the character count if it is registered in VKs.

Update:

Slide hacking rule has been updated to give a better definition of slide hacking which also might assist our admins and other players in indetifying slide hacks. The full rule:

Slide hacking is when a player is moving without a normal walking/running movement. Slide glithes are a series of glitches that may have similarity to slide hacking although there is a difference. If a player is slide glitching then on their screen their movement is normal while for others it may somewhat resemble slide hacking, with this information it is clear that slide glitch movement isn't very controllable and does not last long, while on the other hand slide hacking will show a sliding motion on the player's screen and on other players' screens therefore it is controlled movement and will last as long as needed by the player and often can only be turned off or disabled by reconnecting. Such hacks are not allowed and will result in an instant permanent ban.

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Impersonating rule has been edited to add the clause that if someone impersonates and admin or a VCMP developer then a permanent ban should be issued as the severity is increased. The full rule:

Impersonating includes using a name in the chat or on the server which differs only, from another already existing name owned by a VCMP player, with 0-3 letters (excluding a clan tag if it is registered in VKs) depending on the case. This rule does not apply if the staff doesn't find any similarity between the both names or if the person who is being impersonated is okay with it. Players that are caught breaking this rule should be offered a stats transfer and get warned, kicked or banned. If a player is impersonating an admin from the VKs staff or a VCMP developer (users in the Developers group on forum.vc-mp.org) then the severity is increased as it puts the server at risk and therefore a direct permanent ban should be issued.

ЧК. wrote:Update:

Slide hacking rule has been updated to give a better definition of slide hacking which also might assist our admins and other players in indetifying slide hacks. The full rule:

Slide hacking is when a player is moving without a normal walking/running movement. Slide glithes are a series of glitches that may have similarity to slide hacking although there is a difference. If a player is slide glitching then on their screen their movement is normal while for others it may somewhat resemble slide hacking, with this information it is clear that slide glitch movement isn't very controllable and does not last long, while on the other hand slide hacking will show a sliding motion on the player's screen and on other players' screens therefore it is controlled movement and will last as long as needed by the player and often can only be turned off or disabled by reconnecting. Such hacks are not allowed and will result in an instant permanent ban.

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Impersonating rule has been edited to add the clause that if someone impersonates and admin or a VCMP developer then a permanent ban should be issued as the severity is increased. The full rule:

Impersonating includes using a name in the chat or on the server which differs only, from another already existing name owned by a VCMP player, with 0-3 letters (excluding a clan tag if it is registered in VKs) depending on the case. This rule does not apply if the staff doesn't find any similarity between the both names or if the person who is being impersonated is okay with it. Players that are caught breaking this rule should be offered a stats transfer and get warned, kicked or banned. If a player is impersonating an admin from the VKs staff or a VCMP developer (users in the Developers group on forum.vc-mp.org) then the severity is increased as it puts the server at risk and therefore a direct permanent ban should be issued.

New rule:

A new rule has been added to prohibit owning more than 4 world 1 vehicles.

You are allowed to own 4 World 1 vehicles, if anyone is found owning more than 4 then his vehicles will be sold by head admins so they are left with 4. This rule does not apply to custom prop vehicles as you are allowed to own as many as the server allows. Also admins are requested to give players the choice to choose which vehicles to be sold where possible. This rule will take effect at 29.10.17 according to server time/date.

Update:
- Stats Reset punishiment has been removed from Spawnkilling Rule.
- Stats Reset punishiment has been removed from /Kill (Evade) Rule.
- Stats Reset punishiment has been removed from Closing your Game (Evade) Rule.
- Turbo Glitch Rule has been edited.

new rule
Mute evade
You are not allowed to mute evade. Mute evading is when you are muted and you reconnect to get unmuted. First offense will be dealt with a /warn and second offense with a final /warn. Subsequent offenses should be dealt with /tempban with reasonable durations according to severity and offenses. Permanent ban may be used rarely in cases that the player is a frequent mute evader even after several tempbans.

/fix & /repair Rule has been removed.

team killing rule updated, so you cant get punished for just accidental team kills.

Added the following as a note that applies to all server rules:

Punishments for all the above rules are to be issued for the account holder, the account from which the rule was broken.

Spamming rule has been changed to Flooding rule as we no longer have the need of the spamming rule as we have the anti spam system and if it's bypassed then the player is to be punished according to the server bypass rule.

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Added a note to the death evading rule to clarify. although it was already in affect.

"If you get killed by the same person who you evaded death from before, 10 seconds after the evade, then it won't count as death evade."

Katana glitch rule has been added.

Rule added:

• Aimlock/Aimbot: An external tool that automatically aims on a player without any transitionary rotation. Any player using this type of hack should be given an instant permanent ban.

Rule updated:

• Wall glitching (III): Glitching by killing from a place that isn't accesible without the use of any commands or from a place not possible to get to without penetrating a object/solid (a wall, a roof, a fence, etc.) is not allowed unless there is no wall separating the killer from the victim. Using a weapon to kill someone by the impact of that weapon that penetrates a solid object is also not allowed from any position. If you're caught wall glitching in this way, you will first get a warning, then get a kick on the second offense and finally get a temp-ban on any subsequent offenses.

Chuck Norris wrote:
[*]Ghost city Glitch (II): This glitch happens when you die while you are frozen, It looks like the other player is just a shadow, you can't see him clearly but he's still there, You are not allowed to kill someone while you are doing this glitch. The punishment for this is that you will first get a warning, then get a kick on the second offense and finally get a temp-ban.

Updated.
Remplaced Ghost City bug rule for Ghost City Glitch rule.

Teamkilling rule updated.

Added "Timeout" to death evading rules.

Wall glitch rule sentence removed: Using a weapon to kill someone by the impact of that weapon that penetrates a solid object is also not allowed from any position.

The management team voted for removing this rule since it's impossible for this not to happen with people who uses the rocket launcher. The case I used in my example in the topic was this: A player behind a wall next to a door opening (for example cuban cafe) if someone for example shots a rocket at the door opening it's not a rule break, however if a person shots a rocket at the edge of the door it's a rule break. This is kinda stupid and too easy to break.

As always however: Using any weapons from a place not accessible without teleporting or penetrating a solid object is still against the rules, but shooting a rocket at a wall and killing someone from the other side is not (as long as the guy shooting the rocket didn't glitch into a wall himself).

Aimlock/Aimbot: An external tool that automatically aims on a player without any transitionary rotation. Any player using this type of hack should be given a ban. However, punishment may only be issued if a report or a private discussion in the admin section is posted & multiple staff members (at least some over the level 8 as well) are in agreement of the rule break. The reason for this extra check is that the rule is hard to detect.

red part is updated.

Added a note to the wall glitching rule explaining property doors:

Note: Property doors in world 1 can be used to create the illusion that this rule is being broken but "from a place that isn't accesible without the use of any commands" very clearly says that the place has to not be accessibly without of the use of any commands, all the time. Since property doors are open by default it's very possible to access those places without having to use a command.

Just quickly updated the toplist cheating rule. I added a command that removes all your race/parkour/death race/stunt time. Everyone who cheats will no be much easier to remove.

Note it won't be possible until the next patch. So if there are any cheaters now in the toplist everyone there will receive a tempban or worse once the new patch arrives.

The idea that toplist cheating okay because everyone else does it is not a valid excuse. You did use hacks after all.

added a new rule.

[*]Fake messages: You're not allowed to create messages in the chat or in any place where you can put messages that makes it seem like it's from the server or from another player (unless that player gives you their permission or is okay with it). Anyone caught doing this should be verbally warned on the first offense and muted on the second offense.

Rainbow Dash wrote:added a new rule.

• Fake messages: You're not allowed to create messages in the chat or in any place where you can put messages that makes it seem like it's from the server or from another player (unless that player gives you their permission or is okay with it). Anyone caught doing this should be verbally warned on the first offense and muted on the second offense.

Updated the impersonating rule to avoid players saying another player's nick counted as an offense. Here is the new rule:

• Impersonating: Impersonating includes using a name as your ingame nickname (set in VC:MP browser settings) in the server which differs only, from another already existing name owned by a VCMP player, with 0-3 letters (excluding a clan tag if it is registered in VKs) depending on the case. This rule does not apply if the staff doesn't find any similarity between the both names or if the person who is being impersonated is okay with it. Players that are caught breaking this rule should be offered a stats transfer and get warned, kicked or banned. If a player is impersonating an admin from the VKs staff or a VCMP developer (users in the Developers group on forum.vc-mp.org) then the severity is increased as it puts the server at risk and therefore a direct permanent ban should be issued.

We've decided to remove this part from the fake message rule: (unless that player gives you their permission or is okay with it).

This means that all types of fake messages now disallowed. I am sorry for those people who likes to joke with their friends, but we can't have double standards and it's going to lead to lots of confusion if we only allow certain amount of fake server messages.

How can you still joke with your friends? I am sure you still can without making it look like the message belongs to us.

Just to remind you all the impersonation rule has also been updated so that it only applies to using an in-game name (that you set in the VC-MP browser) so if you want to play with a friends name or a similar name to your friend you're still allowed to do that with their permission.

Perma-warn system has finally been incorporated into the server rules, all instances of "warn" are now replaced with "perma-warn" to explicitly specify that from now on perma-warns will be used for official warnings and warn will just be used for verbal warning. Here is the note that has been added regarding this update:

Perma-warnings Effective after 15.08.18, perma-warnings will be issued instead of normal warns. /warn will now be used for verbal warnings, but are still not required. For all cases where an admin would previously use /warn, the admin will now use /permawarn and it will also be used for Warnings in reports. After a player has accumulated 3 perma-warnings, then he should be tempbanned for 3, 5, etc days. But a player can still be banned before 3 perma-warnings depending on the rule broken, so if the rule says that a player should be tempbanned on second offense then the player can get banned on his 2nd perma-warn. It does not matter which 3 rules a player has broken to gain 3 perma-warns, the player will be temp banned on the 4th perma-warning regardless and the ban will account for all rulebreaks.

the management team has decided that the vehicle limit for world 1 vehicles will be 3. since the default limit is set at that.

many of you will ask:

why are you doing this? well some really old players are familar with there being something called vehicle upgrades in the past that allowed you to own more than 3 vehicles in one account. that was eventually removed leaving like 99 % of the playerbase stuck with 3 vehicles per account. the reason why we decided to change it from 4 to 3 is simply because it becomes too annoying to keep track of 3 vehicles a player has in one account and 1 vehicle they have in another.

i will make sure no head admin sells a car of people who owns 4 vehicles giving you all a chance to trade them for cash like you always do. do it fast because in 1 week we will start removing one car from everyone who owns 4.

when will this stop will we be able to own 0 world 1 vehicles in the future? no this wont happen. 3 is the default limit we wont put it any lower.

new rule. it was mentioned in an admin topic. 3 out of 6 discussed it, directly. one other management member mentioned in the topic he agreed with it and we are pretty sure no one will mind this basic rule being added.

[*]Pausing the game inside and during minigames: Pausing the game during minigames or special events hosted by Marcus or any bot/Npc in order to win and get the rewards in unfair way isn't allowed. Anyone who is caught doing it should be kicked from the minigame using /minigamekick. Anyone who is doing it frequently should be punished first with a perma-warn and then with a tempban if they continue.

[*]Other evades: All other sorts of evades like drowning, jumping from roof and other ways in which a player dies on purpose so his killer doesn't get credit for it is disallowed. Note that commands that has a timer and/or delay when you type them (like /gotoloc & /goto) doesn't count as evading. Players can only be punished for this if a report is made and multiple admins agree that the death evade was done intentionally. Punishments are the same as for death evading.

new evading rule.

Updated wall glitching rule.

Update:

The insulting rule has been modified, adding a line where encouraging suicide/self harm is disallowed. Here's the full insulting rule definition.

Insulting: You're not allowed to insult other players frequently. Insulting someone includes calling players by offensive names and swearing at them. Players who join with an offensive name should be offerred a stats-transfer on the first offense and have their name banned on any subsequent offenses. It's also disallowed to promote or encourage suicide/self-harm to others such as, real-time depictions that might lead others to engage in similar behavior. Self-harm is defined as the intentional and direct injuring of the body, including self-mutilation and eating disorders. If a player is caught insulting another player /ignore is a recommended action. If the player is evading /ignore or insulting a lot of players frequently, a recommended punishment is /mute from the admin. If the player evades the mute more than 2 times and has received several perma-warnings that they will be banned if they don't stop, a temp ban is a suitable punishment.

The old animation commands rule has been updated, it's not possible anymore to get up faster by using animation commands after being hit by a shotgun.

It's no longer allowed to use animation commands in combat to dodge players bullets:

Animation commands: You're not allowed to use animation commands in combat to avoid being hit by players.


Also, added an exception to the wall-glitching rule found in the definition below:

Wall glitching (II): Wall glitching with any weapons are not allowed which means you are not allowed to harm/kill anyone by penetrating any form of solid objects by abusing the VCMP bug using weapons like the sniper, molotov/flamethrower, explosions, chainsaw, melee or just by the fist. However, using explosions through the open area to harm the victim is allowed but it is not allowed to use explosions if the victim is surrounded by walls or any other solid objects. An exception to this rule are objects that can be shown at different places on players' screens due to sync issues e.g a crate, a streetlight, a mailbox (basically an object that can be knocked or moved by players).
If you're caught wall glitching in this way, you will first get a perma-warning, then get a temp-ban.

Update:

Fixed a misunderstanding word from the fake message rule.

Fake messages: You're not allowed to create messages in the chat or in any place where you can put messages that makes it seem like it's from the server or from another player. Anyone caught doing this should be verbally perma- warned on the first offense and muted on the second offense.

Update:

The JDAM system will be considered an exception to the wall glitching rule under some circumstances. Here's the new description.

Wall glitching (II): Wall glitching with any weapons are not allowed which means you are not allowed to harm/kill anyone by penetrating any form of solid objects by abusing the VCMP bug using weapons like the sniper, molotov/flamethrower, explosions, chainsaw, melee or just by the fist. However, using explosions through the open area to harm the victim is allowed but it is not allowed to use explosions if the victim is surrounded by walls or any other solid objects. An exception to this rule are objects that can be shown at different places on players' screens due to sync issues e.g a crate, a streetlight, a mailbox (basically an object that can be knocked or moved by players). The JDAM system is also an exception to this rule as long as your aircraft is in the air. If you're caught wall glitching in this way, you will first get a perma-warning, then get a temp-ban.

Update:
Removed JDAM exception from wall glitching rule as some players were intentionally taking advantage from it.
Removed Duel evading rule as you can no longer bet in it.
Updated stats padding rule and it's punishments
Stats Padding (II): : If you and one or more players attempt to get better stats by killing each other several times without offering resistance in same scenario, then all players involved should get punished according to this rule. The punishment for stats padding on first offense is a perma-warning + stats alteration, on second stats alteration + ban and on 3rd stats reset + ban. Note: It's maybe not a good idea to kill the same person 20-30 times in a row 20-40 seconds after he spawns if he is not resisting you hard enough, since it's hard to tell a difference between that and stats padding.

Updated Provoking Rule:
Provoking : You are not allowed to provoke other players into breaking server rules. Provoking is when a player encourages another player into breaking server rules. If the player being provoked does not break the rule then only the provoker is to be punished. If the player being provoked did break a server rule then the provoker is to be punished according to the punishments outlined in this rule while the provoked rulebreaker is to be punished according to the punishment defined in the rule he broke. Punishment for provoking is a /permawarn on first offense, tempban for 7 days on second offense, tempban for 2 months on third offense, and a permanent ban on any subsequent offenses and You are also not allowed to provoke a player with the intent to be a nuisance to them or to provoke violent reaction, punishment for breaking this rule is a mute after 3 verbal warn, the mute duration will be a period of time decided by the admin who is enforcing the rule.