Rules & Announcements
What’s new, and the rules of the city.
News from the staff team comes first (events have their own page). Below it is the one standard everyone is held to — by joining the server or the Discord you agree to follow these rules, and to accept staff decisions made under them.
Announcements
Latest from the staff.
Hello
Greetings Mr Miserwinkle
— Jim Reed
Server Rules
One standard, for everyone.
General
The basics everyone agrees to before they load in.
You must be 18 or older
Restless Souls is an adult community. Anyone found to be under 18 will be removed until they are.
Microphone required, English only
Roleplay here happens in voice. You need a working microphone, and all voice and text in the city must be in English.
No toxicity, anywhere
How you treat people in our Discord, in stream chats and on social media counts too. Toxic behaviour towards community members on any platform can get you banned from the city.
Stay in character, sort it out afterwards
If something breaks mid-scene — a bug, or someone breaking a rule — keep roleplaying as best you can. Open a ticket in our Discord once the scene is over.
Reports and appeals go through a ticket
Use a Discord ticket for player reports, ban appeals and support — not a DM to a staff member. Tickets keep everything recorded and handled fairly.
Your account, your responsibility
Anything done on your account is on you, even if someone else was using it. Don’t share it, and lock your PC.
No advertising
Don’t promote other roleplay servers or communities.
No real-money trading RWT
Don’t buy or sell in-game money, items or services for real money or anything else of real value.
Conduct
Behaviour that breaks the city for everyone else.
Hate speech means a permanent ban
Racist, homophobic, transphobic or other hateful language, and any sexual-assault roleplay, gets a permanent ban. No warnings.
Leave the rulebook out of the city
Don’t quote or hint at server rules in character, and don’t mention other servers.
No cop baiting
Don’t provoke the police just to start a chase or a fight with no story behind it — for example lighting up drugs outside the station and running, standing on patrol cars, or spinning tyres and blasting your horn in front of officers.
Don’t crash other people’s scenes Third-partying
Stay out of shootouts and standoffs between other groups, or between a group and the police, unless you’re invited in character or the game puts you there.
No asset dumping
Don’t hand your money, items or vehicles to another player without a real in-character reason. Dumped assets are wiped and the character responsible may be deleted.
No harassment
Don’t target, follow or pile on community members, in the city or out of it.
Roleplay
The standard every scene is held to.
Topics that are off limits
No erotic roleplay, and no suicide, miscarriage or abortion roleplay.
Torture needs both players’ agreement
Torture roleplay is only allowed when the players on both sides have agreed to it out of character.
Realistic character names
Your character’s name must be believable, appropriate, and not borrowed from a famous person.
Play out your injuries
When you’re downed, your injuries come first. Sound hurt, and use /me to describe what’s happened to you.
No calling tactics while downed
You can warn the person helping you about an immediate threat. You can’t call out enemy positions or plan the fight from the floor.
Keep the outside world out of your words
Don’t use in-character stand-ins for out-of-character things — “the gods”, “the voices in my head” and the like.
Your stream isn’t evidence
Don’t mention your stream or recordings in the city, and never use footage as in-character information.
No ocean dumping
Don’t drag someone far out to sea and leave them there without a real in-character reason.
Hidden spots stay hidden
Don’t share secret illegal locations or methods without earning it through roleplay.
Robbery needs a reason
You can only rob someone you’re directly involved with, for a real in-character reason. No emptying people’s pockets completely, no treating players like loot boxes, no robbing the same people over and over, and no robbing someone you just found downed.
Don’t strip vehicles
Don’t remove another player’s vehicle customisations.
Kidnapping has a time limit 15 min
Don’t hold someone for more than 15 minutes without their agreement. If they don’t object, that counts as agreement.
No grabbing people in menus
Don’t kidnap or attack someone who’s stuck in a menu — a clothing store, barber, bank or garage.
Out-of-character talk stays out of the scene
Use out-of-character chat only for problems that stop roleplay, like a technical issue, and keep it brief.
Combat & value of life
Conflict is part of the city. It needs a reason, and your life should matter to you.
No random violence RDM
Before you use violence, there has to be roleplay leading up to it: either a clear, reasonable demand with time to respond, or enough build-up that everyone involved can feel the tension.
Hostile roleplay lasts 30 minutes 30 min
Once a hostile scene starts, it stays active for 30 minutes.
No hitmen
You can get help tracking someone down, but you have to play out the confrontation yourself.
Vehicles aren’t weapons VDM
Only use a vehicle against someone as a last resort — when there’s no other way out — or to escape a blockade, or for a fair PIT or block during a chase.
Value your life Fear RP
Act like your character wants to live. If you’re outgunned or cornered, don’t reach for your radio or phone, hit a panic button, or simply walk away.
Follow reasonable demands
When you have no way to defend yourself, do what’s reasonably asked of you. That doesn’t mean whoever draws first wins — if a fair chance to fight back appears, you can take it.
After someone goes down: 60 minutes NLR
Once a player is downed in a hostile scene, neither side can start trouble with the other again for 60 minutes. A character who respawns doesn’t remember what led to it.
Don’t use your car as a roadblock
Don’t put yourself in front of a car doing highway speeds to stop it.
Combat logging & fail RP
Leaving a scene you’re part of, or playing it in a way no real person would.
No combat logging
During an active scene, don’t disconnect, respawn, or put a vehicle away in a garage so others can’t reach it.
No volunteering as a hostage
Don’t offer to be a hostage, and don’t ask anyone to be one.
Do what a real person would Fail RP
Don’t take actions or use game mechanics that no real person would risk their life on.
Metagaming & powergaming
Win the scene through roleplay, not outside information or the rulebook.
No outside information Metagaming
Only use what your character learned in the city.
No Discord calls with other players
While you’re in the city, don’t sit in a Discord call or party with other players.
Don’t watch other players’ streams
While you’re in the city, don’t watch or sit in the chat of another player’s stream.
Your characters are strangers
Your characters can’t know each other, or belong to the same group or business.
Keep secrets in the city
Don’t post hidden illegal locations or methods in private Discords.
Don’t force the outcome Powergaming
Let roleplay decide how things end. You can’t force a belief or condition on someone else — supernatural roleplay included — and you can never force someone to permanently kill their character.
Restarts don’t reset a scene
Don’t use a server restart, a timeout or a disconnect to change where a scene was heading.
No hiding items where they can’t be found
Don’t drop items through walls, out of bounds, or anywhere other players can’t reach.
No pulling cars mid-chase
Don’t take a vehicle out of a garage while the police are chasing you.
Green zones
Places like hospitals where the city stays calm.
What’s not allowed in a green zone
No violence, robbery or kidnapping, no stealing vehicles or from them, and no selling or trading illegal items.
Running there doesn’t save you
If you flee into a green zone to escape a fight, the zone doesn’t protect you and the other side can follow. The same goes for hanging around in one while your group is at war.
Fair play
Everyone plays by the same mechanics. Zero tolerance.
Report bugs, don’t use them
If something is broken, or feels too good to be true, stop using it and tell staff. Using bugs, workarounds or outside tools to get ahead is exploiting.
Banned game modifications
No changing blood effects to make hits easier to see, no field of view beyond the base game, no stretched resolutions for bigger targets, no permanent bullet tracers, and no sound packs that make footsteps, headshots or suppressed shots easier to hear.
No macros or scripts
Don’t automate anything in a way that gives you an edge, and don’t get around the AFK kick.
No moving things between your own characters
Don’t pass money or items between your own characters, or help anyone else do it.
No desync tricks
Don’t exploit lag, animation cancelling or movement glitches to move faster or gain an edge.
Staff & appeals
How decisions get made, and how to challenge one.
Staff decisions stand in the moment
Follow staff instructions during a scene. If you disagree, finish the scene and raise it in a ticket afterwards.
Don’t ruin the city for others
Staff can act on behaviour that clearly spoils other players’ experience, even where no rule names it exactly.