The LightVille Constitution

No harassment, personal attacks, bullying or shaming. Nobody is targeted for their race, ethnicity, nationality, language, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability or age. Roleplay conflict between characters is fine. Attacking the real person behind the character is not.

These are never acceptable, in any form, on any platform. Each one is at least a Class C offence (Chapter 7). The ones marked Class D lead to a permanent ban.

Our community includes players from age 13. Because of that:

• Sexual roleplay of any kind is not allowed, with or without consent.
• Detailed torture, dismemberment, cannibalism and other extreme violence are not allowed.
• Roleplay involving suicide or self-harm is never allowed.

Arguments between characters never move to Discord, WhatsApp, social media or real life. If you are upset about a scene, report it (Chapter 7). Don't take it out on the player.

Do not advertise other servers or communities anywhere in LightVille spaces.

You are welcome to stream and record your roleplay. When you are in a support ticket or support voice channel, mute your stream and hide your screen. Support conversations stay private between you and staff. Never come looking for a streamer by their real or OOC name.

While you are in the city, you are your character. Use OOC chat only when you really need to. If a scene goes wrong or makes you uncomfortable, play it out calmly and report it afterwards.

• Don't go OOC to rant, argue or threaten to get someone banned.
• Don't mention the rules, clips, recordings or staff in character. Use city language instead (Schedule 1).

Your character only knows what they saw, heard or were told in the city. Information from Discord, WhatsApp, streams, videos or OOC chat does not exist for your character.

Your characters are strangers to each other. If you play more than one character, they can't share a family name, be related, know each other, or pass money, items, vehicles or information between them.

Never force an outcome on another player. Build your actions step by step with /me, let them answer with /do, and use a dice roll or coin flip when the result is in doubt. No superhuman strength, no invincibility, and don't talk over people so they can't respond.

Act like your life matters, because to your character it does. When someone has a weapon on you, you comply. You also value your freedom and your belongings: no dumping cars in the ocean, no ramming for fun, no getting arrested on purpose.

You must start roleplay before any attack. That means a clear in-character threat or demand that gives the other person a real chance to respond. The only exception is when someone is already aiming at you or shooting at you.

Vehicles are not weapons. Running people over or ramming vehicles on purpose is not allowed. SAPS pursuit tactics are covered by the SAPS handbook.

Guns are the last option, not the first. Before shooting, your character should try to talk, negotiate, fight with fists, walk away, or report it to SAPS. Shooting from a moving vehicle is not allowed.

The city tracks your wounds, so play them. If you are shot in the leg, you limp. If you are bleeding, you need help.

• When you are downed, wait for FMD. Don't respawn while SAPS or FMD are nearby or on the way.
• Don't go AFK while FMD is treating you.
• Only FMD may carry or escort a downed player. Friends may help only when no FMD member is in the city.
• No searching, robbing or dumping downed or dead bodies.
• Don't use /me to act while you are dead.

What you remember depends on how the scene ends.

Don't leave the city during a scene unless you have a real emergency. Leaving to avoid an arrest, a robbery or a death is a Class B offence.

If you crash, come back as fast as you can and tell the people in the scene ("my head popped"). If you crash during a pursuit or an arrest, also tell a Supervisor how long you'll be.

No crime may start in a green zone. A scene that began somewhere else may continue into one, but nobody may be broken out of custody at a hospital or SAPS station. Green zones are also the only places you may stay AFK.

The Prison is off limits unless you are serving time, visiting, or taking part in a staff-approved breakout scene. Never glitch into or out of it.

Don't use bugs or game mechanics to get ahead. That includes:

• Duplicating money or items, or any bug that gives you money
• Crosshair software, macros or automation
• Bunny-hopping, spam punching, or zig-zagging in a shootout
• Spawning a job vehicle to escape SAPS
• Abusing emotes or /drag to fit extra people in a car

These are not allowed unless the Board or Events team approves the scene in advance:

• Terrorism, bomb threats or mass shootings
• Raiding a SAPS station or the courthouse
• Hijacking aircraft
• Kidnapping SAPS or FMD members, or holding officers to free a prisoner
• Pretending to be SAPS, FMD, a judge or any official you are not
• Playing agencies that don't exist in LightVille, such as the FBI or the military
• Vigilante or hitman roleplay

• Use a realistic name. No joke names, celebrity names, puns or anything offensive.
• No animal or unrealistic masks. Wear a mask only when you are about to commit a crime.
• Nothing carries over from a past character: no money, items, vehicles, jobs or ranks.

Gangs are more than shooting. Business, territory, loyalty and rivalry all make good stories. Every gang is bound by the initiation rules in 3.5. Constant violence for its own sake isn't tolerated.

No crime in the 15 minutes before and the 15 minutes after a server restart.

You may rob another player for up to half of the cash they are carrying. Bank money is never part of a robbery.

• Wear a mask when you rob someone.
• You can't force anyone to withdraw from an ATM or bank, or hand over things that aren't with them.
• One robbery per hour. A group counts as one: if your crew robs someone, the whole crew waits an hour.
• Never rob SAPS or FMD members on duty, players at spawn or in character creation, or service workers you called on purpose (taxi, tow, mechanic).
• Never hurt or kill a victim who is complying.
• Robberies in public are allowed, but remember 3.4: value your freedom.

You may steal a vehicle through roleplay, to joyride, strip or hold it for ransom. Ownership never changes. A stolen vehicle can't be sold, registered or kept. When the scene is over, the vehicle goes back to its owner through the impound.

• Never steal SAPS or FMD vehicles.
• Never take more than one vehicle from the same person at once.
• A vehicle used in a robbery or murder may be seized by SAPS command.

In-character scams for cash are allowed. Vehicles and property can never be scammed away. They change hands only through a real sale the owner chooses.

To take a hostage you must have a real weapon, and the hostage must be taken through actual roleplay. Fake hostages, such as a friend posing as one, are not allowed. SAPS and FMD members can never be taken hostage.

• During a pursuit, don't despawn, swap or repair your vehicle, and don't use garage or impound menus.
• You may switch vehicles only if you planted the second one there before the crime.
• Don't start a robbery on a bike unless you planted it there beforehand.
• When SAPS pulls you over, play out the stop. Don't drive off mid-scene and don't open fire straight away.

Don't commit crimes just to start a chase or a shootout with SAPS, and don't ambush officers. Every crime must give SAPS a real chance to respond.

If you are not part of a scene SAPS is handling, keep away. If an officer has to tell you more than twice, you may be detained.

SAPS and FMD members on duty may never be killed or robbed. Off duty, they are treated like anyone else, but only if earlier roleplay gives you a real reason to target them.

A player kill is a normal death. Your character survives and follows the New Life Rule (3.9). A character kill ends a character forever. It can happen in only two ways:

• By your own choice, through a permadeath request to staff.
• By court sentence, for the most serious crimes, approved by both the Chief Justice and the Executive Director.

A gang war that includes character kills needs both leaders to agree in a faction ticket, and every member taking part must have opted in.

Don't join a faction to abuse its benefits, equipment or access. Faction rank gives you authority in the city. It gives you no staff powers.

Corrupt-cop storylines are allowed only when they create roleplay and give nobody a real advantage. Giving armoury weapons or equipment to anyone outside SAPS means a permanent ban from SAPS and a ban from LightVille.

Never harm FMD. They are there to help you, not just to pick you up. Roleplay with them, follow their treatment, and don't walk past medical staff at the hospital.

Court rulings are law in the city. If you disagree with a ruling, appeal it in character through the proper process. Don't take it to staff. The rights of arrested and accused persons are set out in the Provincial Constitution (Schedule 2).

Each faction has a handbook with its own procedures. Handbooks add detail to this Constitution but can never overrule it. Where they disagree, this Constitution wins.

Every punishment must name the section broken, its class, and its step on the ladder (Chapter 7), and it must be logged with a reason. Punishments without a logged reason may be overturned.

Never judge a scene you were part of, or one involving your close friends, your gang or your faction. Hand it to another Supervisor.

No money, item or vehicle may be given, refunded or removed without a logged reason. Refunds need evidence.

Admin mode is for handling reports and incidents. Never use staff powers or information to benefit your own characters or friends.

Reports, logs, tickets and staff discussions stay private.

A staff member who breaks this Constitution is dealt with by the Executive Director, or by the Board for serious cases. They face the same ladder as players and may also lose their role.

1. ReportIn game or by ticket
2. ReviewLogs and evidence
3. ClassifyWhich section, which class
4. StepFind it on the ladder
5. LogWith a written reason
6. AppealWithin 7 days

Players at level 5 and below are still learning. The first time a newcomer breaks a Class A or Class B rule, a Supervisor explains the rule and makes a note. There is no punishment. If they break the same rule again, the normal ladder applies from step 1.

Class C and Class D offences are not covered by the education phase. Respect and honesty are expected from day one.

Each time you break a rule in the same class, you go up one step. Select a class, then a step.

A clean record moves you back down the ladder. Strikes expire after a period with no new offence in the same class. Expired strikes stay on your record, but they no longer count.

A Supervisor may move a punishment one step up or down from where the ladder puts it, and must write down why. They may never skip more than one step.

Reaching step 5 in Class B or C puts you on a final warning until that strike expires. Any Class B or C offence while you are on a final warning means a permanent ban.

Permanent bans are only for Class D offences and for breaking a final warning. Every permanent ban must be signed off by the Executive Director or a more senior Board member. You may appeal a permanent ban once, after 30 days.

Supervisors decide cases using the city's server logs, what staff saw themselves, witness statements, and any screenshots or clips. Clips help, but they are never required. Nobody loses a case just because they play on a phone that can't record.

Use /report in game, or open a ticket on Discord. Include the player's ID. Don't raise the rule break in character. Finish the scene, then report it.

Appeal a punishment by Discord ticket within 7 days. It will be reviewed by a different Supervisor from the one who issued it. The punishment stays in place during the appeal. The Executive Director's decision is final. Appeals of permanent bans go to the Board.