GTA 5 Online Roleplaying: GTA 5 RP Rules to Remember
GTA 5 RP Rules to Remember (Image via GTA RP Servers)
GTA 5 has been out for quite a long time – 10 long years in fact – and by now, everybody is probably tired of playing the plain old single-player activities around Los Santos.
Fortunately for fans, GTA 5 is super easy to mod, thanks to a wealth of programming libraries that modders can use to add third-party content into the game.
One of the better third-party content for GTA 5 is the custom Roleplaying servers where players can take on mundane everyday life around Los Santos.
However, like any other sub-community, rules are set to help keep things orderly. And for GTA 5 RP servers, players have to play by the rules or risk getting kicked out or, worse, banned from the server indefinitely.
- 5 important terms GTA 5 RP beginners should know
- Important GTA RP terms for beginners: VDM, RDM, and more
GTA 5 RP Rules to Remember
Play Your Role
GTA 5 Roleplay servers are a simulated society. As such, players follow a certain path in-game that aligns with typical actions and behaviors that their particular role is expected to play.
RP fans refer to this act as Out of Character or OOC.
With this in mind, it is important to remember to play within the confines of your character’s roles and never deviate from the character norms.
Deathmatching is Generally Illegal
Deathmatching describes players who treat GTA 5 RP servers like the typical GTA 5 single-player environment – killing anyone just for fun.
As mentioned previously, GTA 5 RP servers adhere to societal rules in-game to keep things orderly and realistic. In other words, killing anyone for no real reason is a bannable offense that RP server admins take seriously.
Metagaming: Don’t be a Snitch
Players in RP servers must remember that they are roleplaying a character in GTA 5 RP servers. As such, players need to act according to how they would in real life.
The term Metagaming is often thrown around in RP servers. This generally refers to when players act on something their character should not know about.
For example, when real players themselves know that someone was killed in the server, but their character was nowhere near the area when the crime happened, then obviously, their character should have no idea that a crime even happened. Divulging information regarding who killed the person is not something their character can act upon themselves.
GTA 5 RP Rules: The Most Common Rules GTA 5 RP Servers
GTA 5 RP Rules: The Most Common Rules GTA 5 RP Servers (Image via GTA RP Servers)
Most common abbreviations in GTA 5 RP Servers
- VDM: VDM stands for Vehicle Death Match. It is a bannable and kickable offense on most of the roleplaying servers. For example, VDM occurs when you hit someone with your vehicle for no valid reason. If you do not roleplay it out and solve the situation as per your created fictional character, you can be kicked from the server.
- RDM: RDM stands for Random Death Match. This is also similar to VDM, but instead, it involves random players. RDM occurs when either you kill someone, or someone else kills you without any valid reason or roleplaying events leading up to it.
- EMS: EMS stands for Emergency Medical Service. You can use the EMS abbreviation to alert the players who are roleplaying doctors and medical staff to heal you during a serious illness or injury.
- Metagaming: Metagaming is a term used to refer to the usage of real-life knowledge and tactics out of the RP world to influence your RP experience and, ultimately, the outcomes. It gives an added advantage to the player who resorts to metagaming, of course.
- Powergaming: Powergaming is a term that is used to describe the usage of in-game mechanics, external information, or a roleplay concept that gives you an added advantage to your own story or roleplay character.
- IC: IC stands for In Character. It means that whatever you type in chat while in the IC mode is written as the fictional character you are playing on the roleplay server.
- OOC: OOC stands for Out Of Character. While you are in OOC mode, whatever you type in the chat is written as your real self and not the fictional roleplaying character on the server.
Fear for Your Life
Fear RP is probably the most controversial and, ironically, the most unrealistic aspect of GTA 5 Roleplay.
In GTA 5, whenever random roleplayers encounter a criminal, they are not allowed to fight back or run away. The innocent has no choice but to yield and obey the oppressor’s commands.
Although unrealistic, this rule is put in place to maintain order and keep players from going OOC.
Cheating is Taboo
This should come as no surprise as cheats and other exploits breach OOC rules, Fear RP, metagaming, and many other unwritten rules in GTA 5 RP servers.
Cheats are fun in GTA 5 single-player but illegal in RP servers and will almost always lead to an indefinite ban.