Server Rules.
Official server rules, regulations & guidelines
Read all rules before entering the city. Ignorance of the rules is not a defense.
Core Community Guidelines
Impersonation
Impersonating staff, owners, developers, law enforcement, or other official positions without authorization will not be tolerated.
Discrimination & Severe Content
There is an absolute zero-tolerance policy for racism, suicide roleplay, rape roleplay, sexual harassment, or hateful and explicit comments regarding another player’s sexuality or identity.
Communication Protocols
A fully working microphone is mandatory. Push-to-talk must remain enabled at all times while in the city. Soundboards, voice changers, and excessively loud audio may not be used to disrupt roleplay.
Administrative Respect
If an administrator approaches you in the city, remain respectful and follow instructions. Do not message or DM staff members, Angel, or administrators without prior permission. Staff will not handle or discuss unrelated out-of-city personal disputes.
False Reports & Ticket Conduct
Do not knowingly submit false reports, edit evidence to mislead staff, withhold important context, or lie during a staff ticket. Doing so may increase the penalty.
Recording Recommendation
Players are strongly encouraged to record their gameplay. Staff may be unable to act on reports that do not include sufficient evidence.
Platform & Community Conduct
Players must follow all applicable FiveM, Cfx.re, Discord, and community platform rules while participating in The Avenue.
Rule Definitions
RDM — Random Death Match
Attacking, downing, or killing another player without valid roleplay initiation or a reasonable roleplay reason.
VDM — Vehicle Death Match
Intentionally using a vehicle as a weapon to ram, injure, down, or kill another player without valid roleplay justification.
Fail RP
Unrealistic behavior, breaking character, or acting in a way that damages or avoids a roleplay scene.
Fear RP
Showing realistic fear for your character’s life when faced with a clear and immediate threat.
Power Gaming
Forcing actions on another player, using unrealistic abilities, or denying another player a fair opportunity to respond.
Metagaming
Using information learned outside the city—such as Discord, streams, or another player’s screen—to gain an in-city advantage.
Combat Logging
Disconnecting, using F8, force-closing the game, or intentionally dropping connection to escape an active roleplay scene or its consequences.
Green Zone
A protected area where fighting, shooting, robbery, kidnapping, and other hostile actions are prohibited unless specifically authorized by these rules.
OOC — Out of Character
Speech or actions that refer to real-life matters, game mechanics, rules, staff reports, or anything outside your character’s knowledge.
NLR — New Life Rule
After fully dying and respawning at the hospital, your character must forget the events directly leading to that death and may not return for revenge.
Initiation
A clear, audible roleplay interaction that communicates hostile intent and gives the other player a reasonable opportunity to understand and respond.
Roleplay & Combat Regulations
Stay In Character
Remain in character at all times while in the city. OOC speech inside the city is Fail RP. If a rule violation occurs, complete the scene first and then submit a support ticket with evidence.
Initiation Requirement
Before shooting or robbing begins, aggressors must establish at least a 2-minute interaction. Initiation must be clear, audible, and connected to the conflict. Silent following, random insults, or a brief argument alone do not automatically establish valid initiation. Immediate self-defense against an imminent lethal threat does not require waiting two minutes.
Fear RP & Value of Life
You must genuinely value your character’s life. Comply with reasonable demands when clearly outnumbered or held at gunpoint. Charging armed players, ignoring overwhelming threats, or intentionally provoking death may be considered Fail RP.
New Life Rule
If you fully die and respawn at the hospital, you must forget the events immediately leading to your death. You may not return to the scene, recover lost items, seek revenge, or continue the same conflict. Being revived by EMS does not automatically erase your memory unless staff rules otherwise for the scene.
Revenge Killing
You may not return after death or hospital respawn to retaliate against the person or group responsible. Information from before your death cannot be used to locate or attack them.
Stream Sniping & External Information
Do not use livestreams, Discord streams, TikTok, YouTube, another player’s screen, or any outside-city information to locate players or gain an in-city advantage.
Character Separation
Information, money, vehicles, weapons, businesses, relationships, conflicts, and gang knowledge must remain separate between characters. You may not transfer assets between your own characters or use one character to benefit another.
Third-Party Interference
Do not enter an active robbery, shootout, kidnapping, police pursuit, or personal conflict unless your character was already directly involved in the roleplay leading to that scene.
Injury Protocols
You cannot harm someone who is currently on a crutch. Players on a crutch must not involve themselves in negative, violent, or criminal activity. Serious crashes and injuries must be roleplayed appropriately.
Vehicle Roleplay
Unrealistic driving is prohibited. Do not drive ordinary vehicles off-road without reason, continue normally after severe crashes, launch vehicles from extreme heights, repeatedly ram vehicles, or use badly damaged or overturned vehicles unrealistically.
Roof Combat
No shooting from rooftops. Selling drugs on rooftops is also strictly prohibited.
Device vs. Weapon State
Having your phone out does not automatically mean your weapon is put away. Remain aware of your active weapon state.
Voice Recognition & Masks
A masked player may not be identified solely by voice unless there is additional reliable roleplay evidence connecting that person to the identity.
Body Handling
Do not hide, dump, move, or place downed bodies in inaccessible or unreasonable locations to prevent EMS, police, or other players from reaching them.
Animal & Pet Protection
Do not intentionally kill animals or player pets except where required by a legitimate game mechanic or immediate self-defense.
Business Activity
Business owners must remain active in the city. One week of unannounced inactivity may result in forfeiture unless an owner has approved the absence beforehand.
Fail RP Rules
Fail RP Standard
Any action that is unrealistic, breaks immersion, ignores an active roleplay scene, or gives a player an unfair advantage may be considered Fail RP.
Breaking Character
Players must remain in character while inside the city. Do not mention staff, tickets, clips, Discord, server rules, bans, or other out-of-character matters during an active scene.
Scene Completion
If you believe another player has broken a rule, finish the scene unless continuing would create a serious technical or safety issue. Submit a support ticket afterward with valid evidence.
Ignoring Roleplay
Players may not intentionally ignore reasonable roleplay, refuse to respond during an active scene, or walk away solely to avoid consequences.
Unrealistic Actions
Players must not act unaffected by serious injuries, gunshot wounds, extreme vehicle crashes, major falls, explosions, or other severe incidents.
Animation & Menu Abuse
Players may not use animations, emotes, menus, clothing screens, inventory screens, or other mechanics to avoid damage, escape a scene, conceal actions, or gain an unfair advantage.
Respawn Abuse
Players may not respawn while an active scene is still taking place unless instructed by EMS, staff, or the game system after a reasonable waiting period.
Forcing Outcomes
Players may not force another character into an outcome without giving that player a reasonable opportunity to respond through roleplay.
Unreasonable Escalation
Minor disagreements may not be turned into shootings, robberies, or other extreme violence without proper roleplay development and valid initiation.
Injury Roleplay
After a serious crash, shooting, fall, explosion, or similar incident, players must reasonably roleplay their injuries. Immediately running, fighting, or driving normally may be considered Fail RP.
Enforcement
Fail RP penalties may range from a warning or community service to a temporary or permanent ban depending on severity, intent, and prior violations.
Green Zone Guidelines
- All registered player-owned businesses
- All designated activity locations
- All government areas, including City Hall, police departments and hospitals
- All civilian job locations, including job headquarters and designated work areas
Civilian Job Protection
Civilian workers are protected at designated job locations and work areas. Being on duty, wearing a uniform, or driving a company vehicle does not grant green-zone protection while traveling outside designated green zones.
Green Zone Abuse
You may not enter, remain in, or repeatedly circle a green zone to escape an active pursuit, robbery, shootout, kidnapping, arrest, or other roleplay scene. The active scene may continue only as directed by staff or law enforcement.
Camping Protected Locations
Do not camp green zones, garages, spawn locations, activity locations, or businesses for the purpose of robbing, attacking, or repeatedly targeting players as they enter or leave.
Disciplinary Penalties & Enforcement
Combat Logging
Do not log out of character, intentionally drop connection, use console commands, or force-close the game to flee an active scene, evade arrest, or escape being killed or robbed. Genuine crashes must be reported and the player must attempt to return as soon as reasonably possible.
| Violation Level | Enforced Penalty |
|---|---|
| 1st Offense | Empty pockets completely + 100 community service assignments |
| 2nd Offense | Empty pockets completely + 250 community service assignments |
| 3rd Offense | Temporary suspension from the server (duration determined by staff). |
| 4th Offense | Permanent ban at staff discretion. |
Cheating, Exploiting & Unauthorized Software
Cheating
Using executors, mod menus, aim assistance, unauthorized crosshairs, macros, injected files, dupes, or any third-party software that provides an unfair advantage may result in an immediate permanent ban.
Bug & Economy Exploitation
Do not knowingly abuse bugs involving money, inventory, businesses, vehicles, crafting, housing, drugs, robberies, or job payouts. Report exploits immediately. Illegally obtained money or items may be removed without reimbursement.
Exploit Sharing
Do not demonstrate, teach, sell, distribute, or repeatedly test an exploit with other players outside an authorized staff investigation.
Administrative Actions
Staff Conflict of Interest
Staff members may not handle tickets involving their own character, gang, family, business, close friends, or a conflict in which they participated. Another staff member must review the matter.
Abuse of Staff Powers
Staff may not use administrative powers, spawned items, privileged information, or staff tools to benefit themselves, friends, businesses, factions, or roleplay outcomes.
Appeals
Punishments may be appealed only through the designated ticket or appeal process. Public arguments, harassment of staff, or repeated DMs about a completed decision are prohibited.
Spirit of the Rules
Staff may address malicious, disruptive, or exploitative behavior not specifically listed when it clearly violates the intended spirit of the server. This rule may not be used to create arbitrary punishments.
Criminal & Theft Restrictions
Civilian Robbery Limits
You must have more than one distinct negative interaction with a civilian before robbing them. Each interaction must involve separate, meaningful roleplay—not repeated insults or manufactured contact. Clear video evidence is required.
Robbery Compliance
When a player is being robbed at gunpoint, they must realistically comply by raising their hands and following reasonable demands. Refusing to put your hands up, intentionally delaying, or using menus or animations to avoid being searched may be considered Fail RP. If the incident is reported with valid video evidence, staff may remove the player’s entire pocket inventory.
Robbery Group Limit
No more than four players may participate in robbing a single person at one time.
Post-Robbery Rule
You cannot kill a target after successfully robbing them unless they create a new and immediate threat after the robbery is complete.
Drive-by Shootings
Drive-by shootings are prohibited. Players may not fire weapons from a vehicle, whether it is moving or stationary.
Retaliation Cooldown
Retaliation must occur within 15 minutes of the original active conflict. The timer begins when the involved parties separate and the immediate scene ends. After 15 minutes, the scene is dead and new initiation is required. NLR overrides retaliation rights after death or hospital respawn.
Bangouts
During an active gang or family shootout, involved parties are prohibited from searching or taking pockets. All combat, initiation, retaliation and New Life Rule requirements continue to apply.
Repeated Robberies
Do not repeatedly rob the same player, chain-rob players without meaningful roleplay, target newly joined players, or rob players while they are clearly stuck in menus, loading, character selection, or customization screens.
Camping Crime Locations
Do not camp drug locations, ATMs, garages, businesses, crafting areas, or other activity points solely to repeatedly rob or kill players using those locations.
Police Baiting
Do not intentionally provoke police solely to create a pursuit, shootout, or kidnapping. This includes repeatedly circling police stations, committing meaningless crimes in front of officers, or interfering with traffic stops without a valid roleplay reason.
Public-Service Farming
Do not repeatedly attack, rob, kidnap, or bait PD or EMS for equipment, weapons, vehicles, loot, or entertainment.
Pre-Restart Crime Restriction
No new criminal activity may be started during the final 30 minutes before server restart. This includes robberies, kidnappings, shootouts, and similar hostile scenes. Any scene already in progress must be concluded reasonably and may not be stalled to use the restart as an escape.
Looting Framework
You may take pockets only after a 2 minute interaction naturally. You can’t kill someone then rob them. VIP weapons and one-of-one weapons cannot be stolen during robberies. If you are unsure whether an item is protected, leave it and contact staff.
Bodybagging
Random or unjustified bodybagging is prohibited. A bodybag may only be used on a fully deceased character when supported by meaningful roleplay, such as an active gang war, an ongoing conflict, or repeated distinct negative interactions. Purchasing a bodybag does not exempt players from any server rules. All applicable initiation, combat and green-zone restrictions still apply.
Bodybagging Consequences
A successfully completed bodybag burial temporarily eliminates the victim’s character for four hours and removes everything in their pockets. This is not permanent character death. The inventory-loss mechanic is not permission for other players to steal protected weapons.
Gender Interaction & Protections
Female Harassment
There is zero tolerance for malicious harassment directed toward female players. Standard in-character trash talk is permitted; however, a player who initiates disrespect cannot claim harassment solely because another player verbally defends themselves in character.
Sexual Harassment
Sexual harassment, unwanted sexual comments, coercive sexual roleplay, or repeated sexual behavior after being told to stop will result in severe punishment, including an immediate permanent ban.
Trap & Gun Restrictions
Female-owned guns cannot be stolen. Male characters are strictly prohibited from entering designated female trap houses.
Civilians & Family Framework
Civilian Movement
Civilians who are not part of a family or recognized gang may not impersonate an active gang or operate as one. This does not prevent ordinary self-defense or valid roleplay interactions.
Family Networks
Families, including sisterhoods, brotherhoods, sororities and fraternities, may support one another, coordinate, participate in bangouts and shootouts, and engage in conflicts with other families or gangs when supported by valid roleplay. Families must follow the same initiation, combat, retaliation and New Life Rule requirements as other players.
Family Identity
Families are not required to purchase a gang package simply because they participate in shootouts or other valid conflicts. They may not impersonate an official gang or claim official gang territory or privileges.
Colors & Customization
Families may have their own identity and custom chains, but may not wear gang flags or claim official gang territory colors.
Faction Rules
Detailed gang, faction, territory, war, alliance, and faction-package rules are maintained separately in the official Factions Discord. All faction members are responsible for following both sets of rules.
Public Services (PD & EMS) Regulations
Law Enforcement — Police Department
Engagement
Players may not randomly attack officers or shoot solely to avoid a routine traffic stop, arrest, pursuit or taser deployment. During an active bank robbery, hostage situation, or other serious criminal scene, involved players may engage officers before officers fire if clear, valid hostile initiation has occurred and lethal force is justified by an immediate threat or a clear escalation of the scene. The normal two-minute initiation requirement applies when initiating hostile action; immediate self-defense against an imminent lethal threat does not require waiting. Officers arriving on scene, issuing lawful commands, or drawing a weapon alone do not automatically justify shooting. Give officers a reasonable opportunity to negotiate or respond when circumstances permit. PD may use lethal force in response to an immediate lethal threat, including during an official shots-fired tracking call. Random attacks, police baiting and public-service farming remain prohibited.
PD Engagement Examples
These examples clarify the engagement rule above; all other applicable roleplay rules still apply.
| Situation | Can criminals initiate shooting? |
|---|---|
| Routine traffic stop | No |
| Routine arrest | No |
| Taser deployment alone | No |
| Police simply arrive at a robbery | No |
| Active bank robbery with valid hostile initiation and escalation | Yes |
| Hostage situation with valid hostile initiation and escalation | Yes |
| Officer creates an immediate lethal threat | Yes — immediate self-defense |
| Randomly attacking officers | No |
| Shooting police solely to start a pursuit | No |
Robbery Restrictions
When robbing law-enforcement officers, you may not take PD-issued tasers, service firearms, or restricted police equipment.
Double Life
Active police officers may not participate in illegal gang activity on that character unless explicitly directed by the Chief of Police.
Scene Interference
Civilians may not interfere with traffic stops, arrests, pursuits, or police scenes without a direct and valid roleplay reason.
Emergency Medical Services
Active Scenes
EMS may not enter an ongoing combat scene. Once EMS arrives to treat downed individuals, the combat scene is officially over and no shooting is permitted. Shooting an EMS worker after a scene concludes is prohibited and subject to the EMS abuse penalties below.
Interacting with EMS
You may not hold EMS at gunpoint, steal EMS or PD vehicles, or search public-service vehicle inventories. A player revived by EMS may not immediately flee police and must follow all law-enforcement instructions.
Public Service Corruption
Corruption is prohibited across EMS, DOJ, PD, and whitelisted Realtor positions unless a specific staff-approved storyline says otherwise.
| EMS Abuse Violation | Mandatory Penalty |
|---|---|
| 1st Offense | 100 community service assignments |
| 2nd Offense | 250 community service assignments |
| 3rd Offense | Temporary suspension from the server (duration determined by staff). |
| 4th Offense | Permanent ban at staff discretion. |
By entering the city, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to follow these rules.