MSRP III Rules Dev
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The document Version is 1.0.x It is in development and will reflect future rules on the site
-12/20/2007 0.1 Document first drafted
-01/02/2008 0.2 Document Layout fixed
-01/03/2008 0.3 Rules transferred from paper and formatted
-01/04/2008 0.3.5 Rules Scrapped. Re-Written.
-01/05/2008 0.3.9 Basic Forum Rules lifted from Wastelands. Game Rules under re-do to fit original idea.
-01/06/2008 0.4 Game Rules Draft Finished. Game Playable.
-01/08/2008 0.4.5 Updated 4.4.10. Territorial Rule
-01/10/2008 0.7b Added Amendments Section, Loophole Section, and Conclusion.
-01/25/2008 0.8 Combined two rules, created "The Porello Rule"
-01/27/2008 0.8.1 Refined rule 4.4.7.
-02/12/2008 1.0 Refined rules and spelling, overall check, finished loose ends, modified several areas.
-03/04/2008 1.0.1 Edited One Rule for clarification
-04/02/2228 1.0.2. Edited Businesses rule to include code statement.
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Introduction
Welcome to Mafia Station Role Play III, or as it will be referred to in the rest of this document, MSRP III. For those that are unaware of the history of the site, this is the third incarnation. MSRP II and I will be restored for archival purposes as soon as possible, and once they are a link will be placed here. The rules that follow are assembled from the experience and ideas I have had over the past three years developing sites that are games, and six years involved on communities (starting in 2001 way back with Science and Industry). Welcome to the game. I intend it to be a different and friendlier experience, a more violent experience, and overall a more engaging experience than the sites before it.
Player Agreements
You, as the player, agree to the following conditions and by playing the game have agreed to all that is stated in this document.
Article One
You, player, are responsible for your own actions on this site and you will be held accountable for these actions.
Article Two
By playing MSRP you acknowledge the following statements:
- MSRP and its staff and its owner are not responsible for any emotional or mental damage you may suffer by playing this game, you chose to play it and as such you are accountable, additionally MSRP and its staff and its owner are not liable for any slander posted, be it by members of staff or players. You chose to play the game and if someone slanders you in game it is not the game's fault or the owner's fault. - You agree to the above and to all following rules and statements and to follow what the staff members ask of you: I, player, agree not to abuse the site, cheat, or otherwise harm MSRP in any way and hold myself responsible for my own actions. I, player, acknowledge that this game is meant for mature audiences, as it contains independent writings of its players and may contain violence and or other objectionable material. I, as a player, am hereby bound by the rules and upon joining this game; I have willfully agreed to the following rules set forth by the document from which this statement is read; also all other official rule documents. I, as a player acknowledge that this game is a free game and can be denied to me for any reason without due cause and or due process by the games owner. I, as a player, am also hereby bound by all rulings by administrators after I have exhaust all means for appeal or have been noted it is a final ruling.
Article Three
You, the player, hereby acknowledge all of the above and below and that these rules can change at any time given or be superseded by a Head Administrator upon their discretion.
General Forum Rules and Guidelines
Unacceptable Behavior
On this site there are unacceptable behavior rules, meaning if you do these things you will be punished for it since you are in violation. They are as follows:
- Flaming: When you insult someone or attack with ad hominem reasoning, or no reasons at all. Person A states argument X. Person B personally attacks Person A.
- Trolling: The act or actions to get someone to start flaming, basically putting out flame bait and attempting to start fights between players.
- Baiting: The actual act of baiting, from putting out small snide comments to major offenses and direct insults to call someone out, or even making something up to get one person to attack another.
- Disrespecting Staff: Being disrespectful or insulting staff members.
- Disrespecting Players: Insulting members and/or making stuff up about them.
- Abusing the Game: Basically cheating or abusing a flaw in the game somehow. We're always watching.
- Cheating: The actual act of cheating, making more than one account or sending money without IG reasoning, any number of things that are wrong.
Language Policy and Use
It is important that the language rules be maintained so that the staff can properly grade and judge material. If we cannot understand it, and who knows you might be insulting us in some other language, we will deny it.
- Use English, unless it is IG, and speech.
- Do not use netspeak or leet speak, since here it is n00b speak.
Warnings
Warnings are a visible punishment for rule breaking's, disrespect, cheating, or otherwise bad behavior. They are issued one at a time, unless it is a major offense, and are assigned a time period. You get two warnings, the third one is always a ban.
- You will get a warning for what is listed in 3.1
- Getting a warning removed means you have had it for over the period assigned (90 days on average).
Bans and Banning
You will be banned for major offenses and an accumulation of minor offenses. A ban is where you are basically blocked out of the site on your character, most bans are timed bans, but permanent ones are also possible.
- Bans are issued for an accumulation of items in 3.1 or for major offenses or hacking attempts.
- Being un-banned means you will wait until the time limit expires, else if you have a permanent ban tough luck.
- Timed bans have an average length of 90 days.
- Permanent bans are never lifted.
Staff Contact Policy
To contact a staff member you need to first ask yourself if it is that important and if it is please use the PM system. It is rude to IM a staff member about the site constantly and will drain them from wanting to staff on the site. If you harass a staff member you will most likely be blocked, and if you continue on the board you will be banned.
Do: PM a staff member your problem. Don't: IM a staff member and tell them or demand them to address your problem.
Do: Use the complaint forum. Don't: IM the staff member who is on all of your problems that could go there.
Do: When you IM a staff member be cordial and if you think it is that important be respectful since you are using their time. Don't: Be a jerk and demand this, that, and the other gets done.
Do: Use the report forum. Don't: IM the admin to 'proof read' and then ask them to grade.
Do: Be a good player on the site OOG and keep it civil. Don't: Don't: Be a flaming retarded idiot douche.
The OOG Account Policy
You as a player are given One (1) Out Of Game account that you can use in any of the Out of Game forums, and through this you can keep your playable accounts seperate from what you do outside of it. This helps keep player accounts less cluttered with OOG postings in their post lists. This makes it easier for staff and administration to effectively search your posts and verify things you do and or buy. You may post in the OOG with just your player account if you wish, however it is allowed of you for your convenience. If you get your OOG account banned, this means you are banned from posting in the OOG forums as well.
It is STRONGLY recommended that you create and use the OOG account in the OOG forums now.
Game Rules
These are the In Game rules and dictate the game play on MSRP III. There are 23 rules, and that number will be maintained at all costs to keep the game as simple, easy to understand, and playable as is humanly possible. The fact that there is only one game system and that the roll of staff is much more limited in regard to management of assets, while being simultaneously more ingrained into the game itself should provide you, the player, with ample opportunity to learn and prosper In Game.
The One System
-There is, and only will be, the Judgment System. -All other systems are to be considered false-gods and infidels before the Judgment System. -The Judgment System covers all and is all, and it is to be regarded as the master of the game, and the system you play under. The Judgment System is the only job a Dethmin and a Dethmod will have. Under the Judgment System your posts will be evaluated, your situations looked at, your IC actions dealt with, and possibly and likely - you will get feedback in the form of first an evaluation and then a counter. The Judge will then expose to you your weaknesses or fallacies or create a situation that you must then respond to in order to gain your requests if they deem your requests more than what you asked for. The better the post, the less you will encounter the hardest of counters. All Judgment counter-posts that relate to business, or requests that usually do not involve other In Game Players unless it is a joint operation will have an "out" option - being that you write a shorter abandonment and receive a much smaller reward, or at least get away alive. However, if you successfully respond to a judgment the outcome could be better than what you asked for. In the end you determine what happens. - You may not bump judgment center posts anymore, as the policy is from bottom to top. - You have 48 hours to respond to a counter by player or staff. - Staff has 48 hours to counter a post, if that time limit is up they can only judge the outcome - Staff have 24 hours from claiming a post to actually grading it. Failure to do so goes against the staffer. - Each post by a player is subject to a counter by grading staff within 48 hours of its posting. - Each post by a player against another is subject to counter by the player(s) it affects for 48 hours
If there is no counter by another player after 48 hours the staff will judge it with no response
The staff may give a special counter should it be ridiculous or crappy
- In the case of a hit, or mugging, or any PC on PC event that can be countered:
Person A will post, and Person B shall have 48 hours to respond with a counter of that post.
Staff will judge this and determine if a counter is available should it be countered
Staff may place in their own counter if within 48 hours of player B's counter (meaning police or other).
Player A may counter-counter Player B if the judging staffer says "Player A can counter"
If granted a counter player A has 24 hours. From the time of that counter being posted - Player B can counter the counter counter.
This can continue further should judging staff say so - unless both parties request no more counters.
- You can appeal judgments, ask for counters on things, only in the proper forums. - You cannot counter after final judgment of a post is made. - If you feel your post has been forgotten, post in the Appeals forum immediately. - You can appeal all judgments within reason in the appeals forum. Frivolous attempts will go against you. - Any Judgment appealed can be reviewed if it is appealed within 48 hours of final judgment. - Extenuating Circumstances of all situations will be taken under consideration.
The Three Basics
Player Accounts
You will only be allowed two player accounts, and if you chose to use two, you may not have them in different syndicates unless you list the syndicates in the biographies for said characters. You must list in each bio who your other character is if you do not have them in the same syndicate. This is what you must do if you want two.
Biography
You must have a Biography to play. It must list all current items and all relevant things. If you wish to link to posts where you got those items, you may do so and are encouraged to do so. If you lack a biography all posts are null and voided.
Starting the Game
You will start from scratch - with nothing on you and no back-story that provides you with anything of value. You start at zero. You can have a back story, however your cannot benefit from it. No amount of history can earn for you what a role-play that makes your history and is judged can.
The Seven Holy Rules
You are bound by Reason
You must use reason to decide how to role-play when regarding other IG players and NPCs. If you do the unreasonable, it will be graded harshly - and an example of such would be to attack another player with no IG connections or provocation, or the blatant fabrication of reasons. In any case, judgment of such event will come back in the appropriate manner.
You are bound by Role-play
You must role-play for things you earn in the game. That's right, there is no real estate system, there is no drug system, and there is no NPC store. You want it? Go out and get it. Hire a real estate agent, make connections in the underworld, run an ad in the newspaper. We're not here to hold your 'wittle' hand.
You are bound In Game.
You must regard only the in game forums, with the cities in them, as in game. There are no secret role-plays, there are no secret behind the scenes garbage, and only the stuff announced in the grapevine can affect game play by becoming 'general knowledge'. However, to take advantage of it, you must inform yourself through either another player or hear about it or read about it or be told by an NPC.
You are charged with yourself
You are in charge of what your character does. If someone you don't like in your syndicate orders you around, and you think you and/or your character wouldn't do that... well you can decide for yourself. Just expect the consequences.
You are not charged with others
You cannot god-mod other players or their NPCs to a great extent. In judgment the administration will decide the outcome of any event needing judgment
You are bound to the Third Dimension and this Universe
You are bound by the laws of common physics. You are not in the Matrix. Try and Die.
You are bound to the game
You are located where you role-play - you must begin and end within the confines of the game's locations. However, between the beginning and the ending it is not restricted of you to travel. You must end back in the game's locations, however.
The Twelve Lesser Items of Concern
These rules are strung together for now. Consider them changeable and such to my whims and fancy.
Monetary System
During game play until the monetary system is fixed you need to keep track of all your cash if you wish to keep it and use it by creating a cash post in a new forum. Yes, something else was said earlier, but I decided it is easier to just make a checking forum so that you can keep track of income and expenses. Do not edit posts to add cash. Add it in news posts, and subtract it in new posts, and provide links in those posts. Auditing will commence when the Cashmod works, and links will make your cash be delivered 100% faster.
Reality Check
Pricing on all items you buy must be real-world prices, this goes along with how much you pay an NPC for hourly wages or for being with you if they are a paid type. Failing to pay them may eventually catch the eye of a judging dethmin or dethmod - who will then assume control of that NPC until the dispute is settled. Basically it can really adversely affect a judgment you need.
Lord of the NPCs
City NPCs and all other NPCs including law enforcement are under the final jurisdiction of the administration. This means that all the police, ambulance, fire rescue, and other services are under control of the staff. Yes, the staff gets to role-play as NPCs as they see fit outside of judgments. They can develop them, but are also subject to higher authority and other judging admins.
Ranks
Ranks will be handled by the player. 'nuff said. Post Count Ranks, once standardized, are the only "forum" rank you can have - however under occupation you could place your In Game rank within your syndicate.
Biographies - The Porello Rule
Bios are there for their creators and for staff. If you want to use one against someone - quote it in a role-play so that they cannot change it. However for any other use, it is OOG. You can only use it against them as in making sure they do not change what they have on them. Quoting a bio in a bio is strictly prohibited because it is harassment and will be a one month MINIMUM ban.
Judgments
Post judgments for anything you would like judged please. Just ask, link, and then wait. Once you submit something for judging - you may not edit it, as editing will disqualify it. The logging system in BB3 is really, really nice.
Business
Business Earnings are something you have to do on your own. If you want business... you need to make it. Thus you make business, submit it to judgment, and an income that is realistic will be given when it is role-played for. The income will be for ONE DAYS WORTH or EACH DAY ROLE-PLAYED and will be for the TOTAL AMOUNT OF ALL OPERATIONS. The best way of determining how much you make in a day is to first go to monthly - you see how much you'd realistically make in a whole month (gambling not included - gambling must be done by actual gambles on real world things, like basketball or whatever) and then counter that with the costs of running a business (paying employees, maintenance of machines, money spent on supplies and on other costs). Once you have that amount, divide by 30. If you get an In Game Player to use your business - you get double your last profit reward from a non player profit if you link to it and prove that your business was used by a real human player. For each time a player uses your business (and don't try to scam, or the EPA will shut it down) you will make double from your last non-player earnings post in addition to what the player pays you. -Any business not role-played in within 31 days will be locked and archived until the original poster reclaims it or until an additional 14 days pass in which time it will go under staff control until such time as a new owner buys it from the staff. -Should the owner be killed or incapacitated and there is no living will, the business will pass on to staff control until such time as a new owner buys it from the staff. -Business Code must be kept up to date - if it is not, anything added unless it is within the last five role-play posts is invalid.
Of Guns and Rifles
Bullets go through car doors. Bullets go through wood. Bullets go through paper. Bullets fragment. Rifle rounds can penetrate level 4 armor. Rifle rounds can penetrate bullet proof glass. Rifle rounds kill faster and cause more damage. APC round do not fragment inside of a body, and thus they are "cleaner" wounds. Non APC rounds found for handguns don't make small holes. They make large ones. They cause damage. Know your ammo, know your gun, and know its capabilities. If in doubt - go to theboxotruth.com and read.
Rambo
If you try to purchase automatic weapons from a guns shop or skirt the permit - consider the police informed. You are not Rambo, and if you walk around town with a whole arsenal, you will be picked up easily.
Territorial Rule
You cannot own a city, you cannot own a city. You cannot own a city. You cannot own a section. You cannot own a section. You cannot own a section. You cannot own a city or a section. You can only own buildings you inhabit and businesses you have. You can only own buildings you inhabit and businesses you have. You can control the surrounding streets. You cannot own or control a whole neighborhood. You cannot control or own a whole city. You cannot control or own a whole section. You cannot. No. You cannot. Ever. Ever. Ever. Ever.
Say it with me.
"Cannot own a city. Cannot own a section. Cannot own a neighborhood. Cannot control a city. Cannot control a section. Cannot control a neighborhood."
Well gee Charlie, how do I have anything to do within it? Simple. Influence. You influence by being there, but just because someone else comes into a part of a City, Section, or neighborhood does NOT mean you will know. No it doesn't. Go ahead and try it - see what happens. See who dies. See who ends up with their blood running down the street for abusing the "I know shit" idea that is a holdover from the retardo MRPG days. Go ahead. I dare you.
Insulting New Players or Donors
Results in the Death Penalty for all your characters.
Rule Change Policy
All rules and such are subject to change without warning, but usually an announcement will be posted to let you know that there have been updates. Vote Ron Paul.
Amendments
When the rules are declared 1.0 this section will be used for any additions made on the fly - but do not warrant a total version update. It will likely not be used often.
Loophole Statement
If there is a loophole anywhere in the rules - consider it killed by Divine Intervention and wholly un-exploitable.
Conclusion
By understanding and knowing these rules you should have a much easier time learning the ropes and the concept of the site. A site with less systems is a site with less flaws, and a site where the player is in more control of themselves. These game rules are property of Mafia-Station.com, Mafiastation.com, Mafia-station.net, Mafiastation.net, and JackuulEmpire.com. Any reproduction or reprinting of these rules without the written consent of the site owner (me - Jackuul) along with ideas herein are in violation of intellectual property rights and forbidden.
MSRP III is a JackuulEmpire.com game, wholly owned and operated by the owner of JackuulEmpire.com.
MSRP III may cause drowsiness and might possibly lead to addiction. Please consult your psychiatrist if you have any mental disorders such as retardation and flucktardation before playing, as these conditions combined with this site may have the following side effects: Attention Deficit Disorder, Coughing or Wheezing, Stress, Anxiety, Vomiting, Red Eye, The Clap, The Downs, Elvis, and runny nose. Additional side effects have been reported ranging from vomiting up the entire stomach to anal leakage. Do not operate machinery while playing.
