61 editable starter rules covering community conduct, serious roleplay, characters, crime, vehicles, businesses, departments, staff, Discord, and content.
Treat players, staff, creators, and guests with basic respect. Harassment, hate speech, threats, targeted humiliation, and discriminatory conduct are not accepted.
Disagreement about a scene is allowed. Attacking the person behind the character is not.
Slurs, hateful stereotypes, extremist propaganda, or content designed to target a protected group are prohibited in game, Discord, streams, names, clothing, businesses, and profiles.
An IC villain does not excuse OOC hate speech.
Sexual roleplay requires clear consent from everyone involved. Sexual harassment, coercive sexual content, or sexual content involving minors is prohibited.
Stop immediately when another participant withdraws consent.
Do not expose, threaten to expose, or misuse another person's private information.
Doxxing, sharing private photos, or attempting to identify a player outside the community is prohibited.
Cheats, injectors, macros that create unfair automation, duplication, exploiting, and knowingly benefiting from a bug are prohibited.
Report an exploit privately. Do not demonstrate it publicly or distribute instructions.
Do not use alternate accounts, identifiers, VPNs, or other methods to avoid a suspension or ban.
Appeal through the official process.
Players must follow Cfx.re, Rockstar, Discord, and NightShift content requirements.
Unauthorized copyrighted assets, malicious files, or prohibited content may be removed.
Stay in character during active scenes unless staff pauses the scene or an emergency requires OOC communication.
Use brief neutral wording for technical issues rather than arguing OOC in voice.
Do not use information your character did not learn through roleplay.
Discord messages, streams, name tags, map markers, and another character's perspective are not automatically IC knowledge.
Do not force actions or outcomes that remove another player's reasonable ability to respond.
Use attempts and describe actions instead of declaring that another character is restrained, searched, or injured without interaction.
Respond believably to the world, injuries, threats, authority, and established circumstances.
Ignoring a serious crash, immediately returning to danger after treatment, or acting unaffected by severe injury may be fail RP.
Characters should respond believably when facing a credible threat to life or serious loss.
Being outnumbered at gunpoint normally requires compliance unless the scene creates a reasonable opportunity.
Violence requires roleplay context, escalation, and a reasonable opportunity for participants to understand the conflict.
A prior disagreement does not create permanent permission to shoot on sight.
Do not use a vehicle as a weapon without strong scene-based justification.
Accidental collisions should be roleplayed. Repeatedly striking people with a car to win a fight is prohibited.
Roleplay injuries according to their cause and severity. Allow EMS and other players to create a meaningful scene.
A gunshot, major collision, or fall should affect movement, decisions, and recovery.
After a character is declared dead or respawns under the server's new-life rules, do not immediately return to the scene or use information your character should no longer remember.
Final memory rules and cooldowns must be matched to the selected medical script.
Do not intentionally interrupt, troll, bait, or derail scenes for attention.
Driving through an organized event, repeatedly provoking a scene with no character motive, or spamming audio can be griefing.
Complete the scene when reasonably possible, then use evidence and the report process.
Staff may intervene immediately for cheating, severe harassment, or a scene that cannot safely continue.
Your characters may not share knowledge, money, property, criminal contacts, or coordinated plans without legitimate RP.
Using one character to discover information for another is prohibited.
Use a believable first and last name appropriate for the setting.
Meme names, celebrity copies, slurs, and names designed only as jokes may be rejected.
Keep each character's relationships, knowledge, assets, and affiliations separate.
Characters on the same account cannot act as convenient messengers or asset holders for one another.
Backstories cannot grant automatic authority, wealth, criminal power, military expertise, or relationships with established characters.
A background may inspire RP, but skills and influence must be demonstrated in the city.
Permanent character death must follow the server's approved process and should not be used to avoid debts, charges, or consequences.
Staff may require resolution of active matters before approving a permanent death.
Identity changes must use the approved process and cannot erase active legal or RP consequences.
A cosmetic name change does not automatically remove warrants, debts, or known relationships.
Major violence, wars, kidnappings, and repeated targeting require a clear RP foundation.
Use demands, negotiations, meetings, warnings, evidence, and consequences to build conflict.
Use proportionate escalation. Not every insult, traffic collision, or business dispute justifies lethal force.
Verbal conflict can lead to threats, fights, legal action, or future scenes before firearms.
Robberies must provide interaction and cannot be used only to strip every item from another player.
Give clear demands, reasonable time to respond, and a story-driven reason for the robbery.
Do not repeatedly rob random players or target the same person without meaningful story development.
Cooldowns and value limits may be added after economy testing.
Hostages must be real participants and treated as part of the scene, not disposable mechanics.
No fake hostages, alternate-account hostages, or prearranged hostages used only to trigger a robbery.
Kidnapping requires a reason, meaningful interaction, and a plan that allows the scene to progress.
Do not hold a player for an excessive period without engagement or a clear objective.
Do not force players to transfer houses, businesses, entire bank accounts, or protected assets through threats unless a specific approved system allows it.
Normal robbery limits and staff-approved storyline terms apply.
Faction disputes should involve claims, business, reputation, supply, diplomacy, or other RP interests.
Scheduled deathmatching with no city consequence does not meet the NightShift standard.
Do not treat public departments as NPC obstacles. Give them information, negotiation, evidence, and decisions to work with.
Repeatedly baiting police only to start a chase is low-quality RP.
Do not disconnect, respawn, or use technical systems to escape an active scene or consequence.
Reconnect and contact staff if a genuine crash occurs.
Normal traffic, public areas, and crowded events require believable driving.
Extreme speeds and dangerous manoeuvres should fit a chase, race, emergency, or character reason.
Do not drive ordinary vehicles as if they are indestructible off-road machines.
Vehicle class, damage, terrain, and collision severity should affect behaviour.
Organized racing should use approved routes, registration, safety rules, and event procedures where available.
Public races may create police, EMS, news, betting, sponsorship, and business RP.
Do not use trunks, garages, transfers, or vehicle systems to duplicate, hide, or bypass restrictions.
Report script issues privately.
Major damage should require appropriate repair RP and cannot be ignored by rapidly storing or respawning a vehicle.
Mechanics should be used when available.
Owners are expected to operate, hire, train staff, advertise, and create reasons for residents to visit.
Inactive ownership may be reviewed or reclaimed under the business policy.
Branding, upgrades, inventory, advertising, staffing, and expansion are handled through the city economy and approved RP processes.
Do not bypass business RP with unauthorized OOC arrangements.
Price fixing through OOC coordination, duplication, laundering exploits, and manipulation of broken scripts are prohibited.
IC negotiations and competition are allowed.
Applications may begin on the website, but interviews, training, hiring, discipline, and termination should occur in character.
The website records interest; it does not replace management RP.
Do not control multiple major businesses solely to restrict opportunities or funnel money.
Ownership limits may be established as the city economy develops.
Businesses may exaggerate creatively, but scams or misleading promotions must create fair RP and comply with IC law.
OOC false claims about store purchases or server systems are prohibited.
Department positions exist to serve and create RP, not to dominate scenes.
Abuse of job permissions or authority may result in IC discipline and OOC review.
LSPD, EMS, DOJ, Weazel, and other public roles must follow their approved policies and chain of command.
SOP breaches may be handled IC unless they also violate server rules.
Private MDT, medical, staff, and internal department information may not be published or transferred without authorization.
Public notices must be intentionally approved for release.
EMS and other neutral services should not use protected job access to assist factions or personal conflicts.
Characters may have relationships, but restricted tools and information cannot be abused.
Penal-code disagreements, court rulings, warrants, licences, and legal procedure are IC matters unless a server rule is also involved.
Do not use OOC staff reports to relitigate ordinary IC legal outcomes.
Published stories should identify verified reporting, opinion, correction, and unconfirmed information.
News RP may be biased IC, but fabricated OOC accusations or private information are prohibited.
Reports, appeals, compensation requests, and staff complaints must use the designated form or ticket system.
Do not pressure individual staff through private messages for a preferred outcome.
Do not edit evidence deceptively, omit material context intentionally, or submit false claims.
Provide the relevant lead-up and timestamps where possible.
Do not reference warnings, tickets, admin actions, or staff conversations in character.
OOC outcomes must not become IC leverage.
Do not claim staff authority, use confusing names, or imply access you do not have.
Report suspected impersonation privately.
An appeal should explain the decision being challenged, relevant evidence, responsibility accepted, and why reconsideration is appropriate.
Repeated identical appeals may be closed.
Information in general Discord channels is not automatically known by your character.
Only approved IC channels and posts may be treated as city information.
Do not use streams, clips, chats, or creator activity to locate or gain advantage over a character.
Publicly available content is still OOC unless learned in RP.
Do not use content creation to harass players, reveal private information, or intentionally disrupt scenes.
Follow platform rules and respect reasonable privacy requests.
Do not advertise unrelated servers, services, products, or communities without permission.
NightShift business promotion should use approved IC and website channels.
Keep applications, reports, support, development feedback, and IC content in their designated systems.
This allows the correct staff team to respond and preserves records.