New players
Getting started guide
Everything you need for your first night in the city.
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Before you connect
Join the Discord, read the rules, and keep the Discord desktop app open while you play so your accounts link. Test your microphone and push-to-talk.
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Create your character
Pick a believable name (no celebrities, no jokes) and an age and background that fit the story you want to tell. You can have more than one character later.
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Your first hour
You start with a little cash and a phone. Get your ID at City Hall, open a bank account, and pick up a starter job from the job centre. Ask locals for directions in character.
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Grow your story
Make connections, save for a car and a place to live, and decide what your character wants. Departments and businesses hire through in-city applications.
Controls
Default keybinds
| F1 | Phone |
| F2 | Inventory |
| F3 | Emote menu |
| F5 | Character and job menu |
| M | Map and GPS |
| L | Lock / unlock vehicle |
| B | Seatbelt |
| Caps Lock | Push-to-talk (proximity voice) |
| Z | Change voice range |
| X | Hands up |
| T | Chat (out of character, use sparingly) |
| F8 | Console |
Words you will hear
Roleplay glossary
- IC / OOC
- In character / out of character. Everything in the city is IC unless it truly cannot be.
- Metagaming
- Using information your character could not know, such as something seen on a stream or in Discord.
- Powergaming
- Forcing outcomes on others or doing things that are unrealistic, like a character who can never lose.
- RDM / VDM
- Random deathmatch / vehicle deathmatch: attacking or running people over without a roleplay reason.
- Fear RP
- Valuing your life. If you are outnumbered or at gunpoint, act like it.
- NLR
- New life rule. After you go down and respawn, you forget the events that led to it.
- Fail RP
- Breaking immersion: behaviour no real person would do in that situation.
- Combat logging
- Leaving the game to escape a situation. Treated as seriously as cheating.
- PD / EMS / DOJ
- Police, medical services and the courts. All run by players.
- CK / PK
- Character kill (permanent, needs approval) and player kill (you lose the memory of the event).
Next: the rules
Read them before you apply. The application asks about them.