Chapter 8: Hostage / Player Robbing
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A player may be taken hostage for 15 minutes, after which they may choose to stay up to another 15 minutes or leave.
Do not kill players in restraints
You cannot restrain someone outside of a redzone and then bring them into a redzone just to kill them. This is also FailRP.
Exception: You may kill players that do not follow reasonable demands (For example, "be quiet or die" is acceptable, but playing "simon says" or asking for the alphabet backwards is not.)
After a hostage situation/robbery the player must be unrestrained and released in a safe manner and also either within 1 kilometer of a garage or 1 kilometer from their point of restraint.
Player must also be healed/not limping
If you rob a player you may not hold them for ransom and vice versa.
You may not take the same person hostage more then once every 30 minutes.
Exception: If that person initiates engagement first and commits a hostile action towards you after taking them hostage and before the 30 minutes is up, then you may take them hostage again. This does not include the APD.
APD members outnumbered 3 to 1 with guns clearly pointed at them need to surrender and abide by the hostage rules.
Exception: APD members playing the role of hostage negotiator may not be taken hostage before/during hostage negotiations.
Members of the APD may not be restrained or excessively tased at Federal Reserves, Blackwater, Jail, or Pharmaceutical/Bank events.
Not once does it state you must release someone right after robbing them you may keep them for the 15 mins
Chapter 9: Vigilante
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Vigilantes are no exception to the law. They must also follow the server rules regarding RDM, VDM etc.
Vigilantes are not required to announce before shooting in red/illegal zones.
The difference between a Vigilante and a Civilian is only that they can place a wanted player in jail.
You are still able to do illegal activities, if caught, you will be dealt appropriately by the APD. Consult the APD Handbook and the APD Ticket Guide for more information.
Players associated with “meta-gaming” while having a vigilante license may be subjective to receive administrative action.
If a player has been a victim of robbery or murder, that player may not return to seek revenge and send him/her to jail.
You may not follow a player around who is breaking the law and continue to collect the bounty on them over and over.
Example a player is placed in jail, you or a member of your group break them out only so you can place them back into jail over and over.
You may not group with a player and allow then to build a bounty just to collect on it in the end.
You may not exchange/receive any form of monetary compensation in relation to sending a player to jail.
Do NOT abuse the vigilante license.
Do NOT send players to jail with less than $75,000 bounty.
Do NOT take a wanted player, that is already restrained, away from another Vigilante and then send them to jail unless the Vigilante has asked you to.
Do NOT pull players out of vehicles if a player is not wanted.
Do NOT send people from your own gang to jail.
You may NOT rob a wanted player and then place them in jail for a bounty.
This includes members of your party as well.
Vigilantes that repeatedly down another player without justifiable cause will be considered RDM and will be dealt with via administrative action.
Downing a player to keep them down cause you have no zip ties is RDM.
If you are robbing a player outside the vigilante role it must be RP'd as normal.
Downing a player with a bounty before announcing yourself is RDM (Side chat is not considered announcing).
Downing a player with a bounty that is running away from you after announcing yourself is NOT RDM.
Vigilantes can simply be put as “forces that have been rejected, denied or have yet to be accepted to the Police Force to serve justice in Altis Life”. However, they are not cops. Hence, they are only authorized to act upon subjects that have a $75,000 bounty or higher on their head. You do NOT enforce laws, that is an officers job.
Vigilantes may not have their weapons out in main cities just like any other Civilian. If a APD member asks a vigilante to holster their weapon, they must comply or potentially face a ticket from the APD.
Vigilantes should never attempt to arrest an APD Detainee. If APD ask for assistance that is fine but do not run into an area yelling "I'm a vigilante" and attempt to arrest someone the officer is dealing with.
If you are escorting a player with a bounty and an officer asks you to stop, you need to stop and explain what you are doing. Officers can NOT take the wanted player away and attempt to ticket or send the player to jail if you have captured the wanted player(s) in the appropriate manner.
If you are wanted the APD may process you and if you refuse to pay your ticket the APD may then process all wanted players accordingly.
If you restrain a wanted player you are required to;
Let the player know what they are wanted for.
Let the player know their bounty amount.
Let the player know you will be sending them to jail.
Take the player to the jail transport located at all Vigilante outposts.
It states in the prossesing you must let them know what they are wanted for tell them there bounty amount and tell them you will be sent to jail it is brain dead easy