Gameserver Rules & Regulations

In order to make sure that everyone is able to enjoy our San Andreas: Multiplayer server in the way they should be, a number of rules are in place. The contents of this page may be downloaded as a PDF file as well. Please contact us if you have any questions or comments about these rules.

LVP Gameserver Rules & Regulations | Version: 1.0 | Date: 2009-09-20

This document describes the rules- and punishments which apply to the Las Venturas Playground game server. The Las Venturas Playground Management reserves the right to change these rules at any time, with or without prior notice. Every new rule shall be properly announced in the game itself, on IRC, the forums and via our newsletter. All rules are open for discussion, and input from members is highly appreciated. Firstly, a few general regulations related to punishments.

  1. Players will at all times have the right- and ability to appeal their punishment. This can be done by creating a topic on the community boards or sending a private message to the crew member who banned you on IRC. If you feel you are being treated in an unfair way by the administrator, you can send a private message to Richard "estroe" describing the situation.
  2. The severeness of punishments gets decided by the number of times the offence has occurred with a person in the past. The periods of time used in this document only apply to the first offence for each player, further occurrences may increase the severeness of the punishment. The player's history and notes may have influence on the length of a punishment.
  3. The Las Venturas Playground Management reserves the right to exclude any person from participating at any time, for any reason. This will, however, only be done when a majority of the active Management members agrees with such a punishment, which only occurs in very extreme cases. These people will be given one more chance to appeal their punishment, either by a well-written e-mail message or a letter through regular mail.

The following rules apply to Las Venturas Playground as of 2009-09-20. All rules will be enforced by administrators- and moderators following the Management's interpretation of them. The rules that are active at the time the offence gets committed decide the punishment that will be given to the player. When the rules change, no previous handed out punishments will be revised, neither will punishments be given for rules which are not included at the time of the offence.

  1. Cheating, following the definition "anything that gives you an unfair advantage over another player", is absolutely prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to speed-cheating, money-cheating, health- or weapon cheating and key-binds. This rule also applies to various semi-innocent explanations like relatives or friends installing it on your computer, testing- and trying cheats to see what they do or making a joke towards one of your friends. The general punishment is a life-time ban, regardless of your rank on Las Venturas Playground. The only exceptions to this rule are crewmembers when they first get instated, as we require them to know what they are fighting. This happens on isolated servers under strict Management moderation.
  2. Swearing, flaming and insulting people in general is prohibited under all circumstances. This rule includes, but is not limited to, swearing in main-, regular-, world- or gang chat, personal messages and the show message command. The cause of the insults, like being provoked, has no influence on the punishment at all. This rule applies in a limited way for gang-chat conversations, but in no way guarantees limited punishment when broken. Stricter punishments may apply in case of swearing in a racist- or discriminational context, expressing extreme left- and/or right-wing political idea's and using diseases. The punishment is directly related to the severeness of the offence, and in case of a ban the length may vary between two and eight days, for the first occurrence.
  3. Abusing any software errors, also known as "bugs", is not allowed unless explicitly described in this document (see appendix A). The source of the bug, which can be either the Las Venturas Playground game-mode, the San Andreas: Multiplayer modification or Grand Theft Auto® itself, does not have influence on the punishment that will be handed out. The punishment itself will be decided based on various facts, including which bug got abused, how, and with what intend the offence was committed. Warnings will be handed out prior to appealing to stricter punishments.
  4. There are various rules which apply to the different ways of communicating in the game server itself. Each of these rules has their own punishment, and most will be controlled automatically by the server. Others require interference from administrators.
    1. In public channels of communication, being the main-chat, regular-chat and the show message command, the use of the English language is required. Any other language will result in a temporary mute starting at two minutes, incrementing with each repeating occurrence of the use of foreign languages. After an certain time a permanent mute may be given for the length of the playing session. One is, however, free to talk in their own language in the personal chatting channels, which include personal messages, phone calls and the gang-chat.
    2. Any form of aggressive chat, including swearing, flaming, insulting and provoking, will result in a warning followed by a more severe punishment. Based on the committed offence, the administrator may choose between a, albeit temporary, mute, a kick or a ban with a time span which shall be decided by the administrator.
    3. Advertising is in no way allowed, unless explicitly allowed by a member of the Las Venturas Playground Management. Advertising will result in an immediate kick, or a temporary ban in case of multiple occurrences. Sharing links to illegal software, (child-) porn or cheats will results in more severe punishments, which will be decided depending on the offence itself.
    4. Excessive capitals, exclamation marks, question marks or other ways to try and gain attention from players or administrators can be considered as spam at the discretion of the administrators available.
    5. Spamming or flooding is in no way allowed. Automated systems will instantly kick people breaking this rule, however, bans might manually be instated by administrators afterwards, depending on the contents of the messages. Floods which are too quickly to be done manually will be considered as key-binds, thus handled as a cheat.
  5. The Las Venturas "Pirate Ship", located around the center of The Strip, is classified as a peace zone. The complete ramp and the ship rail also are considered as part of the ship. This means that you may not kill- or inflict any kind of damage to players standing around on the ship, neither deliberately, nor accidentally. Doing so will result in in-game jail time, or in bad occasions, being kicked. Keep in mind that the effects of exploding weapons and vehicles is your responsibility.
  6. The Las Venturas Playground Staff puts a lot of time and effort in keeping the server as nice as possible, so treat them with respect. Administrators have the right to punish a player for showing disrespect, spreading false rumors, attempting to blackmail and/or extort Las Venturas Playground Staff or players and trying to find the limit of the patience from a crewmember.
  7. Starting, threatening to, or being involved in any attack towards Las Venturas Playground will result in an immediate ban, most likely a permanent one. This includes, but is not limited to (distributed) denial of service attacks, ping-floods, message-floods or other kinds of harmful attempts to stop Las Venturas Playground from working correctly. The argument "it was only a joke" will in no way have any effect on the length of the punishment.

Next to the rules, there are a number of cases in which rules only apply under certain circumstances. Administrators may decide to not enforce these rules at all, they are on a best-effort basis. Because of this, we request that one follows the rules by themselves.

  1. During a cruise around San Andreas, peace should be maintained by all who participate. Often one puts a lot of time and money in modifying his/her vehicle, which is why trashing such a vehicle certainly is not a good thing. Killing and shooting will not be appreciated either. If you drive around San Andreas and notice a cruise coming by, let them pass safely and do not obstruct their route. Administrators may jail and/or kick people deliberately trying to mess up a cruise.
  2. Fights taking place in the Fight Club, located in the north of Las Venturas, should not be interrupted by people passing by. This place often gets used for one-on-one battles, and therefore should be avoided by those not participating. Administrators may jail and/or kick people who deliberately try to interrupt fights in the Fight Club.
  3. Play fair. Teleporting away during fights with other players, using drive-by on other players, infiltrating gangs- or clans with the purpose to gain intelligence or irritating another player by other means usually is not desirable. The crew is allowed to take actions against such persons by various tools included in the Las Venturas Playground source, such as a stricter limitation on teleporting functionalities.

Gameserver Rules & Regulations: Appendix A

This appendix describes the bugs which are allowed on Las Venturas Playground. When a bug is not listed on this page, as described by rule three, it is prohibited to use the bug. New bugs will be discussed frequently on the Las Venturas Playground Forums.

  1. c-bug
    This bug is allowed when it fits the following description: fire a round from a desert eagle, or any other hand-weapon. After firing it, quickly release the right- and left mouse buttons and immediately press the "crouch" key on your keyboard. This will skip the animation of lowering the gun, allowing you to move faster after a shot.