Server Rules

By connecting to Summit City you agree to follow these rules and the CFX Terms of Service.

You must read this document before playing. "I didn't know" does not void a sanction, though genuine inexperience is weighed when choosing one.

Whythe alternative is that not reading the rules becomes the safest strategy.

In-game, a staff member's ruling on the intent of a rule is final and must be followed immediately. If you believe the ruling was wrong, comply first and raise it afterwards in a Discord ticket.

Whyscenes cannot be paused for a debate; disputes have a proper venue and it is not the street.

Rules may change. Changes are announced in the #announcements channel on Discord and take effect at the time stated in the announcement. The version and issue date on the cover of this document are authoritative.

You must be 18 or older to play on Summit City. Misrepresenting your age on the whitelist application is a permanent removal, discovered whenever it is discovered.

They get tired, scared and hurt. They have a name, a history and things to lose. Every decision you make in-city should be one that person could plausibly make.

The measure of good roleplay is not whether you won, it is whether the people opposite you would tell the story afterwards. If your plan gives the other side nothing to do, it is a bad plan.

Arrests, robberies, injuries and failures are content, not punishments. Characters who never lose are characters nobody wants in their scene.

There is no score. Money, gear and territory are props for stories. The moment you optimise against the rules instead of playing a person, you are in the wrong city.

Grudges, relationships and arguments between players must never drive what characters do, and nothing a character does to a character may be carried back out against a player.

You must remain in character at all times while in the city, including while downed, detained, or mid-argument. You must not speak about rules, reports, staff, or anything else OOC in voice.

Whyone player dropping character collapses the scene for everyone in earshot.

/me describes your character's visible actions ("/me pats down the jacket pockets"). /do states or asks about the state of the world ("/do is anything in the pockets?"). Answers to /do must be honest. Neither may force an outcome on another player, see 4.2.

OOC discussion belongs in Discord or a ticket, after the scene. There is no OOC voice channel in-city and text chat must not be used to litigate a live scene.

Acting on anything learned from Discord, a stream, a friend's call, or any channel outside the city is metagaming, defined and sanctioned at 4.1.

If something real interrupts you mid-scene, you may step out: say a brief out-of-breath line if you can ("I need a minute"), go, and message the other party or a staff member as soon as possible. A genuine emergency is never sanctioned; using "emergency" to escape consequences is combat logging under 4.8.

If you believe a rule was broken against you: finish the scene in character, then open a Discord ticket with your clip (see Section 10). Stopping a live scene to litigate is a breach of 3.1 even when you were right about the original offence.

DefinitionUsing information your character did not learn in-city to influence what your character does.

You must not act on information from streams (stream sniping), third-party voice comms (Discord calls while in-city), a previous character's memories, or friends relaying positions. You must not recognise a masked or disguised player by their voice alone unless your character genuinely knows them well IC.

• 4.1.1Third-party voice comms while in-city are prohibited outright. All character communication goes through in-city voice, phone or radio.

Whymetagaming makes every mask, ambush and secret pointless, it deletes other players' preparation.

DefinitionForcing an outcome on another player, or acting beyond what a real person could do, so the other side has no meaningful way to respond.

You must not write /me lines that decide another player's fate, perform physically impossible feats, shrug off injuries, or play a character with no weaknesses. Give the other player a window to respond before an action lands.

Whyroleplay is a negotiation. Removing the other player's ability to answer turns their character into a prop.

DefinitionActing in a way no real person in that situation would, treating the city as a video game rather than a world.

You must roleplay injuries and their aftermath, drive with some regard for physics, and not do things like climb mountains in the rain to evade one traffic stop, swap number plates mid-chase, or stand silently AFK in the middle of a scene.

Whyone person playing it as a game makes it a game for everyone around them.

DefinitionYour character fears death and serious injury exactly as you would, and acts like it.

At gunpoint with no realistic escape, you must comply. Outnumbered and covered, you must not draw. Seriously injured, you must not fight on as if healthy. Bravery is allowed, a trained character taking a calculated risk is roleplay; a shopkeeper swinging at three armed robbers is not.

Whywithout fear, no threat means anything, and every scene becomes a shootout.

DefinitionAttacking or killing a player without sufficient roleplay build-up and a clear in-character motive.

"Sufficient" means the victim had a real chance to understand the threat and respond to it: a spoken demand, a visible escalation, an established conflict. A motive invented after the shot does not count. Escalation standards during organised crime are governed by the Criminal & Organisation Rules.

Whybeing killed with no scene attached gives the victim nothing, no story, no choice, no roleplay.

DefinitionUsing a vehicle as a weapon, or driving recklessly at players to grief them.

You must not run players down, ram occupied vehicles without roleplay reason, or circle pedestrians to intimidate them "for content". A collision during a legitimate pursuit is judged on context; aiming the car at a person is not.

DefinitionAfter respawning at hospital, your character does not remember the events immediately surrounding their death, who downed them, how, or why.

After a respawn you must stay away from the scene of your death for 30 minutes and must not act on, relay, or "suddenly recall" the circumstances of it. Everything before the incident is still yours: the feud, the debts, the history all stand.

• 4.7.1NLR is not a licence to abandon consequences. Charges, injuries treated by EMS, and ongoing storylines survive your respawn.

Whywithout NLR, death is a taxi ride and every fight restarts in fifteen minutes.

DefinitionDisconnecting during active roleplay, during police contact, or at any moment where leaving avoids a consequence for your character.

You must not disconnect while downed, detained, pursued, mid-scene, or holding another player's stolen property. If your game genuinely crashes: reconnect as fast as you can, return to the scene, and post in the crash-report channel on Discord with the time. The expectation is that you come back and take the consequence.

Whypulling the plug deletes the other players' scene at its climax, it is theft of their time.

While in-city you are one character, fully. You must not blend characters, swap mid-scene, or hop characters to dodge an active situation (this is also combat logging under 4.8).

All character names must be submitted in the #name-registry channel on Discord and approved by staff before the character is played. Playing an unregistered or unapproved name is a breach.

• 5.2.1Celebrity names, brand names, and names that are offensive, hateful, or reference real-world tragedy will not be approved. Staff may require a rename at any time; refusing escalates.

Ordinary downs are not permanent, NLR (4.7) governs what carries over. A character kill does not need staff approval beforehand: Summit City wants natural, free-flowing roleplay, not pre-planned scenes.

A CK must come from genuine, well-built roleplay, an established storyline, a real IC motive, and a scene that does it justice. Random or low-effort CKs are not permitted.

• 5.3.1After a CK, the player responsible must open a Discord ticket so staff can remove the character, and must include a clip of the full scene meeting the Section 10 standards. Staff review the clip; a CK not backed by good roleplay all round may be reversed and treated as RDM under 4.5.
• 5.3.2You may also retire one of your own characters permanently at any time by ticket. A CK’d or retired character does not return, and their assets do not pass to your other character (5.4).

Whycharacter kills are the heaviest outcome in the city, so they are only valid when the roleplay earns them.

Players may hold up to two characters. Each must have a completely different storyline and both must be played well, a second character is not a backup or extension of the first.

The only restricted combination: you may not hold a criminal or gang character alongside a PD character.

• 5.4.1Your characters do not know each other, do not know what each other knows, and must never exchange money, assets, or favours, directly or through intermediaries. Character bleed is metagaming and economy abuse at once.

Whytwo characters sharing one player’s knowledge or resources undermines everyone else’s roleplay.

You must have a working, intelligible microphone to play. Text-only play is not supported outside accessibility arrangements agreed with staff in advance.

Your voice should be clear of constant background noise, echo, and open-mic breathing. If others regularly can't understand you, staff may ask you to fix it before continuing.

In-city phone, radio and texts are your character’s tools and behave like real ones: you can’t text while sprinting from police, radio use is audible to people beside you, a dead character makes no calls, and phones and radios cannot be used underwater.

Mic spam, soundboards and music blasted through voice are prohibited. A subtle voice changer used consistently as part of a character is permitted; one used to dodge recognition of a rule-breaking player is not. In-car radio at reasonable volume during a scene is fine.

Racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, doxxing, threats against real people, and targeted harassment of a player are permanent removals. There is no IC framing that makes any of this acceptable.

Cruel, criminal, manipulative characters are welcome, the test is whether the player opposite is still having a scene. The moment your "villainy" exists to make a player (not a character) miserable, it stops being roleplay.

Dark themes are permitted within one hard boundary: nothing that breaches the CFX Terms of Service, ever, that line is Tier 5. Within it, sensitive roleplay (sexual content, severe torture) requires explicit prior OOC consent from every player involved, obtained before the scene, not during it.

• 7.3.1Consent may be withdrawn mid-scene by any participant at any time, without penalty and without needing a reason. Say "I’m stepping out of this OOC" or message the participants; the scene stops or routes around you, no questions asked.

Mental health roleplay is permitted within safe guidelines: it must be portrayed respectfully and realistically, and every player involved must be comfortable with it. It must never be played as a joke, used to mock, or used to target or distress another player.

• 7.4.1Suicide and self-harm roleplay is not permitted under any circumstances, with or without consent.
• 7.4.2Any player may step out of a mental health scene at any time under 7.3.1.

Whythese themes touch real people; handled carelessly they cause real harm.

Sustained pursuit of one player across characters, sessions, or platforms, in-city, on Discord, or in their stream chat, is harassment under 7.1 regardless of how each individual incident looks in isolation.

Mod menus, cheat clients, code injectors, aim assistance, ESP, and macros that automate gameplay are permanent removals on first detection. Having the software installed and running while connected counts as use.

Purely visual or audio mods, graphics packs, reshades, crosshair-free HUD tweaks, radio mods, are permitted. Anything that alters gameplay is not: no removed visual effects that others must endure (rain, muzzle flash), no field-of-view or damage changes, no minimap enhancements. If in doubt, ask in a ticket before installing.

If you find a bug that gives an advantage, item duplication, wall-clipping, broken pricing, you must stop, not repeat it, and report it in a Discord ticket. Exploiting it, or quietly telling friends instead of staff, is treated the same as cheating. Honest, prompt reports are never sanctioned, whatever the bug did.

Duplicating items or money, laundering duplicated assets, and real-money trading of in-city assets are permanent removals. Assets touched by duplication are wiped wherever they ended up, including from players who received them unknowingly.

One account per person. Connecting on a second account, or using a VPN or new identity to evade a ban, permanently removes every account involved.

Your whitelist is personal. Sharing, lending, or selling access to your account, or playing on someone else's, removes both parties. You are responsible for everything done on your account.

Anyone may stream their play. To use the Summit City server logo in your stream layout or channel branding, you must open a streamer ticket in the Discord and be approved.

Streams of Summit City must carry an appropriate title, no clickbait that misrepresents the server, no rule-breaking framed as content ("RDMing until banned"), nothing hateful or sexualised in the title while representing the city.

Active, approved streamers may be rewarded through the server's reward system. Rewards are cosmetic or supportive; they never confer IC power or rule exemptions.

Watching a stream to locate, follow, or gain advantage over the streamer is metagaming under 4.1 and is sanctioned as such. Streamers accept the ordinary risk of being visible; they do not accept being hunted through their own broadcast.

Streamers must not read game-relevant information from their own chat ("chat says they're behind the building"), that is metagaming against the players in your scene. Moderate your chat accordingly or hide it while in-city.

While streaming Summit City, especially with the server logo displayed, your OOC commentary about players and staff should meet the standards of Section 7. Approved streamers who repeatedly disparage players on air lose approval before they earn sanctions.

You must be able to produce clips of your own play when involved in a report, as the reporter or the reported. Run recording software (Medal, OBS replay buffer, or similar) whenever you are in-city. "I don't record" is not a defence and leaves reports against you unanswered.

A clip submitted in a ticket must: cover the incident with sufficient lead-in (at least the two to three minutes before, not just the moment itself), be unedited and uncut, include full game audio, and be of watchable quality, staff cannot rule on a 240p clip where nobody's voice is audible. Timestamps and the names involved go in the ticket alongside it.

If a Discord call or any third-party voice comms can be heard in a submitted clip, the clip is void as evidence, and is itself evidence of a breach of 4.1.1 by the submitter. If audio has been purposefully muted, stripped, or edited to hide such comms, the clip is equally void and is treated as an attempt to mislead staff.

Whya clip proving someone else's breach cannot be bought with your own.

Recording your own play is always fine. Posting clips publicly to mock, dogpile, or expose another player OOC is conduct under Section 7. Clips submitted in tickets stay in tickets.