Factions Rules and Requlations

Normal Faction Wars

Conditions/Regulations
No agreement required for either side to initiate this type of war.
May either become; Player Kill War, Long Term war, or simply ends as a short lived conflict.
Not intended to be a long term/continuous conflicts.
Only last until everyone involved dies once.
Automatically considered when a faction attacks other faction more than once.

Explanation of Attacks
Attacks are defined as if you as a faction member go into another factions' turf and commit a hostile act against that factions' member, property (to include graffiti tagging if witnessed/caught in the act), regardless of the outcome. Any attacks are to be fully roleplayed events and should not fall under deathmatching behavior.

Killed Members, Participation, and Cooldowns
Killed members may not participate under any circumstances, this to includes kills made by LEO factions, imprisonment for 5 or more hours, and ajails in relation to the conflicts. The cooldown for any attack is 6 hours. This applies to the attacking faction.

Allies Restriction
You are allowed to use an ally during attacks under strict circumstances. You need to have circumstantial evidence that your faction and the other faction is allied, it has to be a worth-while alliance, it must be longer than two weeks. You may only use 1 allied faction per attack. The attack must not exceed 4 players in total and your faction needs to be 50% of the attacking party (2:2). If the rule is broken the faction directly involved in the war will be punished.

Weapon Restrictions
Grenades, and Molotov's may not be used. OOC /mask may not be used during this war.

End Conditions
Opposing faction is killed entirely (PK'ed from the conflict)
The war escalate into Long Term War or Player Kill War
Agreements from both sides
Faction management intervention to end the war



Long Term Wars

Conditions
Agreement of both factions, or Faction Management's decision to force the war
Mutual agreement for the cooldowns between attacks can be made between involved factions prior to the war, if no agreement is made, the standard time will be automatically applied
If there are mutual agreement for higher or lesser cooldown time, it has to be documented via D-RP forum, screenshot'd, and sent to the Head of Factions.
Intended for a long-lasting conflict with no win or lose term

Explanation of Attacks
Attacks are defined as if you as a faction member go into another factions' turf and commit a hostile act against that factions' member, property (to include graffiti tagging if witnessed/caught in the act), regardless of the outcome. Any attacks are to be fully roleplayed events and should not fall under deathmatching behavior.

Killed Members, Participation, and Cooldowns
Killed members may re-involved themselves 24 hours after their death, to includes kills made by the LEO factions, or imprisonment for 5 hours or more, or ajails in relation to the conflict. Cooldown for any attack is 24 hours, unless there are mutual agreements for higher or lesser time. This applies to the attacking faction. Note: If there are mutual agreement for higher or lesser cooldown time, it has to be documented via D-RP forum, screenshot'd, and sent to the Head of Factions. You're also responsible for keeping a documentation for yourself in case of issues.

Weapon Restrictions
Grenades, Molotovs, and OOC Mask may not be used during the Long Term Wars.

End Conditions
Mutual agreement from both factions, unless forced upon by the Faction Management
Mutual agreement to switch to a Player Kill War to end the war
If forced by faction management, must obtain FM's approval to end the war
Faction management intervention to end the war


Player Kill Wars

Conditions
Temporary Wars between all involved factions
Have defined win/lose conditions (i.e. turf, property, or anything agreed upon prior to the war)
Must exchange roster prior to the war (No ALT or inactive or anyone not listed in the roster allowed)
Being put to "Brutally Wounded" equals to a kill (PK)
Intended for an "all-stakes in" wars, it's meant to resolve themselves as soon as possible
Faction management must be notified before the war with both participating roster
Faction management may force this war if deemed necessary to settle problematic disputes between faction
Documentation of any of your kills is on you/your faction. Keep track of your factions progress in the war in case of disputes.

Killed Members, Participation, and Cooldowns
Killed members (including being put at a brutally wounded state) may not participate under any circumstances, this to includes brutally wounded/kills made by LEO factions, imprisonment for 5 or more hours, and ajails in relation to the conflicts. If you are brutally wounded (and not killed.) during an attack from a faction you're currently in a PK war with, you're not allowed to participate in any further attacks against that faction other than turf defense. You are to be ICly considered too injured to participate in any further attacks but may have acknowledge the attack ICly by surviving it. What this means is you RP surviving the attack and have full recollection of it all, but may not participate in retaliation.

Allies Restriction
Only 1 ally per side is allowed and must be included in the roster exchange before the war started.

Weapon Restrictions
Grenades and OOC Mask may not be used during a Player Kill Wars.

Aftermath of War
Losing/surrendering party will have to forfeit whatever was agreed upon, unless both faction mutually agrees to call of the war. Factions involved in a Player Kill war with each other may not go to another war for at least 1 month.

End Conditions
75% of one factions member lists are taken out
One party surrenders
Mutual agreement to end the war
Faction management intervention to end the war



Turf Regulations

Information
Turf rules are designed to regulate the claims and usage of turf in order to minimize OOC conflicts.

Submitting a Turf Claim
Faction must be active/exists for 1 month before submitting a turf claim to the faction management
Faction must be active in the area it wishes to claim
The member count must justify the size of the claim
Faction/member must own 2 properties within the area they wishes to claim (if no scripted property is available, this will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis

Regulations
Claimed turf must continue to be actively used
New faction may not be established in a claimed turf, except
Members of other factions who owns property within the turf are allowed to only use their properties. Not as a gathering spot or grouping point for their faction.
Entering another faction's turf for the sole reason of provocation is not allowed, and is a punishable offense

Turf Expansion or Changes
If a faction wishes to expand or changes their turf, they must complete the application again. You will need to thoroughly explain the reason for the new turf, what in-character development lead to this expansion, and what goals/uses they will have for this new turf/expansion.



Character Kill (CK) Regulations

Agreements
Agreements for CK must be made via D-RP forum PMs or within your forum section (only if official) and available to be forwarded to the faction management in case of disputes. Agreement must shows the terms of CK and the person's response stating specifically that the person agrees to the term as written. Any other type of agreement will not be considered to be valid and will not enforced. Note: Any attempt to forge/fabricate CK claims/agreement will result in a severe repercussions.

IC/OOC Reasons
CKs may only be done for IC reasons. OOC based CKs are forbidden.

Length of Agreement
CK agreements only valid while the faction is active & exists. All CK rights over any characters are expired upon the closure/termination of a faction. In the case of the character moving past/departing a faction that holds CK permission on them, they may request leadership to formally relinquish the CK permission on them. If both parties cannot come to agreement, Faction Management may be contacted to intervene.

If you agree to these terms and regulations, make a faction or join a faction today!