GANG BIBLE

What Gang RP Is: Gang RP is about building a living, breathing criminal organization with culture, hierarchy, history, and consequence. It is about the story — the rivalries, the politics, the internal drama, the come-up and the fall.

What Gang RP Is Not: Gang RP is not a license to shoot. It is not a competitive team deathmatch mode with extra steps. Gangs that consistently produce low-quality, shoot-first RP will have their whitelist reviewed and revoked.

The Standard: Every hostile action must be backed by genuine in-character reasoning. Build the narrative.

Becoming Official: Unwhitelisted groups may exist as criminal crews but do not receive territory recognition or war standing.

Application Requirements: Minimum 6 confirmed founding members, named leader and second-in-command, gang name not referencing real-world orgs, written lore submission, Discord ticket.

Probationary Period: All newly whitelisted gangs enter a 14-day probationary period.

Roster Management: Rosters must be updated within 48 hours of any membership change.

Inactivity: A gang below 6 active members for more than 14 consecutive days is subject to whitelist removal.

Hangarounds / Prospects: Do NOT count toward official gang capacity. May NOT participate in formal beefs, wars, or defensive castle. Hangaround period is 7 days minimum.

Full Members: Formally patched in. Must have been on server for minimum 48 hours and completed 7-day hangaround period.

Leadership Responsibility: Gang leaders are accountable for the conduct of their members.

What Territory Means: Owning territory is a narrative anchor — your home, your block, your operation. It is not a mechanical kill zone.

Claiming Territory: Territory must be approved by staff at time of gang's whitelist application.

Castle Defense: Defensive party may field up to 6 members with no additional spotters.

Territory Disputes: Must be resolved through RP escalation — not a single shootout.

Tagging: You may only spray your own gang's tags. Removing another gang's tags is a valid beef trigger.

Wearing Your Colors: Full members must wear identifiable gang colors when engaging in gang-representative activities.

Going Dark: Masks and plain clothes are permitted for heists where disguise makes narrative sense.

Impersonation: Impersonating another gang is prohibited.

Group Initiation: When a gang member initiates on a rival, all members of both gangs are considered mutually initiated.

What Is Beef: Beef is an active, escalating in-character conflict. It is the accumulation of disrespect, theft, territorial aggression, and confrontation.

Valid Beef Triggers: Repeated robbery of members, disrespect of leadership, defacing tags, moving into claimed territory, breaking deals.

Invalid Escalation: A single minor interaction, OOC dislike, wanting territory for mechanical reasons with no RP buildup.

Slide Timer: Once a hostile scene has concluded — 5 minutes of no active shooting — a 30-minute cooldown begins.

New Member Lockout: Any player who joins a gang has a 7-day lockout before they may participate in active beefs.

No Conflict at Community Events: Deliberately attending an event to ambush a rival gang is prohibited.

What War Means: A formal gang war is a declared, staff-acknowledged state of escalated conflict. War should be the culmination of weeks of escalating beef.

Declaration Requirements: Documented history of in-character conflict, at least 3 distinct hostile incidents over 7 days, both gang leaders must acknowledge.

War Terms: Maximum 14 days duration. All participants must wear identifiable colors at all times.

Allied Involvement: Allied gang members still count toward the applicable group cap.

War Cooldown: Following war resolution, a 14-day ceasefire begins.

Alliances: Gangs may form in-character alliances. An alliance allows allied members to assist subject to the group cap.

No Coordinated Mega-Groups: No arrangement may be used to field more than the maximum group cap.

RP Before Violence: Gang members are held to the same — and arguably higher — standard of RP initiation as any other player.

Don't Be a Farm: Gang activities should be driven by RP, not optimized purely for economy.

Engaging the Wider City: The best gang RP touches other parts of the server.

Hitman Actions: A hit cannot be executed on someone who has had zero prior interaction with your gang.

The Strike System: 1 strike = formal warning. 2 strikes = suspension of war rights for 14 days. 3 strikes = gang whitelist removal.

What Earns a Strike: Multiple rule violations, consistent slides with no RP justification, roster fraud, leadership failing to act on problem members.

Whitelist Removal: Gang loses all official recognition, territory claims, war standing. Members revert to unwhitelisted criminal crew status.

Represent Your Set Well: You are a representative of your gang in every interaction — IC and OOC.

Beef Stays IC: Conflict between gangs is in-character. It ends when you close the game.

Accept the L: Losing a fight, losing territory, losing a war — these are story moments.

Staff Relations: Raise disputes through proper channels, respectfully, after the scene.