The following sets a standard that all legal factions must abide and follow by. Faction policies and processes should be updated to reflect these rules.
Legal Factions Committee is required to endorse anyone stepping in to any position which is a Legal Faction Leader position.
All legal faction requests must be documented in the Legal Faction Leaders forum.
Faction leadership and their command are required to maintain an activity level of 1.0 ABAS. Faction leadership must enforce this. Staff members who are faction leadership are exempt from this guideline.
When denying entry to a faction, by recruitment or reinstatement, factions must make the full denial reason known to the applicant. This is suggested to be done on the public responses, such as reinstatement denial for transparency, but private messages are also an acceptable alternative. "Does not meet standards / is not qualified" is not a sufficient reason. It must be specific. The applicant should not have to ask for this to be done. This is for both in character and out of character.
Factions may not issue any out of character punishments against members of the LS-RP Staff Team for any server rule / common violations, such as an OOC suspension for having an attitude. When a situation arises, factions should send a staff report to the Head of Testers or Head of Admins, with the Legal Factions Committee copied in immediately.
Disagreements with other faction leaders should be raised to and mediated by the faction's rank 1 before escalated to a report to the Legal Factions Committee. A report should be used as the last resort when factions in a conflict are unable to come to an agreement.
Any faction changes that affect other legal factions must be discussed with and approved by Legal Factions Committee.
Factions cannot force actions upon another faction's members or attempt to influence decisions against them in another faction. An example is SD trying to have a PD member punished for whatever reason.
Promotions to Command ranks must meet the faction's own promotion criteria; a faction leader cannot promote people before their eligibility simply to fill spots. An example is PD promoting a Sergeant to Captain simply to fill a Bureau ACO spot); alternatively, everybody should have a fair and equal chance at progressing in to limited / prestigious roles.
When denying entry to a faction's unit / division / group / upgrade applications / etc, factions must make the full denial reason known to the applicant. This can communicated by word of mouth, a private message or any other convenient way of communicating as long as it's done. "Does not meet standards / is not qualified" is not a sufficient reason. It must be specific. The applicant should not have to ask for this to be done. This is for both in character and out of character. This is to promote fairness and transparency.
Complaints against legal faction members should be sent to the faction's rank 1. The Legal Factions Committee will not handle individual complaints against legal faction members.
Players may not be banned from a faction forum unless they are maliciously spamming the forum, advertising or are a spam bot account.
Legal Faction Leaders may not recruit anybody into their faction who is currently in another legal faction of the same type. This includes:
This does not apply to the Government and Courts factions.
The following applies to the usage of a Beanbag Shotgun and 40mm launcher:
The following applies to the usage of a Taser:
Assault Rifles may only be used by legal faction members to:
Reasonably match suspect weaponry, only when confirmed to be seen or visible.
Assault rifles can be deployed at any time for the purpose of roleplay regardless of these rules, but should not actually be used unless any of the above criteria are met.
Return fire in an active drive-by, regardless of the suspect's drive-by weaponry.
These assault rifle restrictions cannot be manipulated or waived by any faction rank authority.
LSPD SWAT, LSSD SED, or SADCR FAT deployments (/swat required) may use M4s freely.
The use of MP5s by legal factions is not regulated by server rules.
Police officers do not need to collect DNA or fingerprints when imprisoning someone at a prison facility. This is to be NPC'd as collected by the facilities custody staff or may be role-played by facility staff if available and desired. Prison facilities shall be treated as a full service facility, which means the facility staff would be required to collect the above. The police officer may not NPC it if the person being imprisoned requests to role-play the process.
Police officers can not NPC the collection of DNA or fingerprints when imprisoning at a jail facility, i.e their station house. However this can be NPC'd if desired by both parties.
Collection of mugshots can't be NPC'd and has to be done through the in-game MDC.
You are not required to utilize emotes when deploying spike strips during pursuits. You will be required to utilize your trunk by opening it and going to that location. From there you may deploy the spike stripes without typing any emote. Police officers should use common sense while deploying spike strips.
You should not:
Police officers may not:
The only exception to this rule is if the Police Officer has acquired corruption permission from their Faction Leader with the appropriate tier.
Police helicopters may not camp illegal factions and their members. They may respond to the scene of a 911 call, or if called in by ground units to assist in active situations but idly hovering over them for longer than 3 minutes without a designated situation is not allowed. You should not camp out any illegal roleplayers just to wait for something to happen to call it in.
You should not treat pursuits as a game of bumper cars. This also applies to SWAT teams. Realistic interceptions are allowed but if you miss an interception, you shouldn't head back and start trying to ram their vehicle.
You should not make any head on collisions with any vehicles. This also applies to SWAT teams and their armored vehicles. If their vehicle is travelling at slow speeds, it is acceptable to move in from the front and press against their bumper, otherwise it is considered a head on collision.
Shooting at a vehicle is only to be used as an absolute last resort and is only permitted when:
There will be no other exceptions or special conditions to tire-shooting.
Passengers may only return fire via passenger drive-by against vehicles. Engaging suspects that are on foot whilst a passenger is not allowed.
Tactical deployments (/swat required) are not regulated by this rule.
Legal Faction members can roleplay corruption after obtaining appropriate permissions.