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Introduction

The main purpose of this guide is to improve the roleplay quality and mentality of players of the Argonath RPG RageMP server. This guide can serve as your reference to improve your roleplay character and style in the Argonath RPG. NOTE: This guide has some edited terms and definitions to adapt to the Argonath RPG vision.

What's Roleplay?

In the simplest possible definition, roleplay is about picking a unique role for yourself to perform. A character that you like, and know how to act out the story. In Argonath RPG, picking up multiple roles - we can call it characters now - is possible and the opportunities are endless. You can roleplay as all possible, and logical characters you wish. You can even roleplay other imaginal characters or even fictional science roleplay - like the ones you see in movies! However, there are some limitations that ensure the roleplay is fun and accepted by all parties involved. We will go through some of the important and common limits in this guide, but not all of them!

Acceptable Mentality

The mentality of the players is something that should be taken care of by veterans and the administration of the server. We can not control other people's minds but we can try to influence them to do the best and the right choices. Here in Argonath RPG, we seek for a special mentality, something that we wish all of our players have and understand very well. We will try to sum those up in few points as the following:

• This is a roleplay server and not a money-grinding server. Always keep in mind that money is just a tool to use for ROLEPLAY. Not the otherwise. Having millions in your inventory does not mean anything unless you make a ROLEPLAY use out of them. Always prioritize roleplay to grinding money.

• This is NOT a freeroam server. You should always try your best in roleplay-ing and you should always think twice and thrice before doing an action that might be taken wrong by the other side. Remember, you are not right all the time!

• Argonath RPG is a community that allows everyone and anyone to join it and have fun with it. We don't require applications nor RP qualification tests to be a member of this community. This means you will always find people who lack roleplay, deathmatch or even doing unrealistic actions in roleplay situations. Your job as a veteran is to guide them through the journey. Even some members of this community lack roleplay qualifications, even if you think they aren't new to the server. This guide wouldn't be created if we all encounter a problem in the roleplay quality with most of the players in the community. Always remain calm and try your best to guide them!

• This is a game, it's a place where you want to have some fun and relax from the real world. Hating other people because of a character they are roleplaying or because they do hate you within the roleplay storyline does not mean that you should hate each other OOCly. Always stay friendly and accept whatever the outcome of the roleplay is.

• This game is not play2win! There is nothing called wining the situation or losing it. There is something called character development chances. Did you fail in this situation? Try something else, do it in a different method, or plan it more with your friends. But do not rage out and act immature just because you lost a situation.

• Your approach to someone who did something wrong in the roleplay situation is a major factor in making the community succeed or fail. As we said before, you may find people who don't know about roleplay, who understood roleplay wrong, or who knows a few about roleplay. Your approach to this kind of situation shouldn't be immature comments, flaming the other player, trolling, or being toxic to the situation. The best approach is to guide him friendly, give him advice on what is better to do. Pointing fingers on each other, blaming each other, or flaming each other will never help nor solve the situation. The administration team will not tolerate any toxic attitude towards any player of the server.
  

Common Roleplay Terms

In-Character and Out-Of-Character

In-Character (IC)

In-Character means the character that you are playing with in-game. It's the character that you chose to roleplay in the server. You can have more than one character. However, each character should roleplay its feelings, concerns, personality, acquired knowledge, and traits. This character is NOT you- the guy behind the screen and keyboard. In-character chats are all chats that are used for roleplay such as /me, /em, /l, /w, and /s. Those chats should be used for In-character roleplay ONLY. Those chats are not meant to be used to tell stories about your real-life or anything about you - the person behind the screen.

Out-Of-Character (OOC)

This is you, the person playing behind the screen with the keyboard and mouse. You are here called a player. You should never use any OOC means to have an advantage for yourself in In-character means. You should never mix In-character situations with Out-of-Character. For example; if a person roleplayed hate towards you, you should NOT take it personnel to out-of-character. All players in Argonath RPG Community should stay always friendly to each other. They are free to roleplay whatever they want, but once the roleplay is over, you are a friendly player with others.

Metagaming and Powergaming

Metagaming

Metagaming has a lot of side flows to cover, in the simplest possible definition we can say is using Out of Character methods to provide In-character information to your friends. For example; calling for backup to XXX location through PM, discord, or group chats. Not only this, but few examples of the Out Of Character methods that might be used for In-Character advantage are:

• Using the nametags to identify a person who you never met nor interacted with.

• Using main chat, discord, Private Messages, or any other out-of-character chats to do something In-Character or to be influenced by something in-character.

• Predicting that someone will do something just because he did it in a different character before. For example; a police cop shots a suspect who is holding a weapon just because he thought he will kill another player the same as what he did with a different character.

• Exchanging information between two characters you play with. For example; you are a judge and a criminal at the same time. You are playing with two characters, you can NOT leak information to the crime side, just because you have access to records as Judge Character.

Powergaming

Powergaming is covering two main points. Unrealistic Roleplay and forcing roleplay on other players.

• Unrealistic roleplay is doing unrealistic and illogical actions to gain your own advantage. However, in some cases (Like Fictional Science Roleplay) can be fun and enjoyable if both sides agree to this roleplay or an admin who agreed to run this roleplay.

• Forcing roleplay on other players like giving them no chances to resist, fight back, reply, or react to your actions. Imagining something on other players that they didn't mention nor wanted. For example; a cop arrests someone for drug possession, while the person didn't roleplay having any drugs on him. Here the cop forced something upon the other player for his own advantage. Same as killing other players by doing (/me kills player B). You have given him no chance to react, how did you know that you didn't miss the shot? How did you know that he is not going to use something that dodges your fight?

• Metagaming and Powergaming are not recommended at all. Doing one of them intentionally will just decrease the quality of your roleplay and make the players unpleasant by roleplaying with you.

Fail-Roleplay

Fail-roleplay means doing actions that are considered completely unrealistic - We do not mean fictional Science related actions - that can ruin the whole roleplay experience in this situation. Few examples of fail-roleplay actions;

• Mountain-Escaping; using your super vehicles or whatever kind of vehicle you are in to escape or chase in mountains which is completely unrealistic and non-roleplay.

• Resisting a taser after being hit multiple times.

• Tasing other suspects millions of times in few seconds to disable them. (It does not even give them chance to react which can be considered as power gaming.)

• Changing the vehicle color or changing the skin after committing a crime just to avoid the police.

• Not roleplaying Fear Factor. Fear factor means having the fear for the life of your character. You shouldn't take it easy to just think of running from a group of armed people who have gunpoint on your head, just because you know the synchronization will not let them one-shot you. Always think twice and thrice before doing something, would I do this in real life?

Deathmatching and Crime-Free Zones

Deathmatching is killing another player without having two main points. A roleplay reason to kill, and an actual roleplay. Killing another character means that there is a serious, and a proper roleplay reason to kill him.

• Terrorist Attacks: Most of the time such attacks can be interpreted as deathmatching by the other side. We always recommend that such attacks that will involve huge shootouts should be organized by both sides or with an admin present. However, a terrorist attack then you should have a reason to be able to justify yourself for this attack. Just doing a terrorist attack just because you are bored and you just want to kill the cops isn't even a roleplay reason. Make sure you have a proper roleplay reason before you organize something like this. For example; attacking a place to steal some valuable items and weapons that were transported (by an actual RP) before. Attacking a PD to release a suspect who was arrested and transported there before (We recommend that those are actual suspects and not made-up names.)

• Crime-Free Zones: Police departments, City Hall, government buildings, Fort Zancudo, and everything that realistically have protection and guards in it are considered Crime-Free Zones. Those zones' crimes shouldn't be committed. However, it can happen if both sides agree and/or an admin is present.

Special roleplay scenarios

• Fictional Science Roleplay
  • Fictional science movies, superheroes, and such are all imagination and not-realistic. However, it can be fun if we from time to time organize something like this? The game itself does support animals, superheroes, and aliens skins. We do enjoy such roleplay scenarios from time to time. Mostly, make sure that both sides agree and/or an admin is present who agreed to this type of roleplay.

• Religion and sexual Roleplay
  • Such topics are case-sensitive. You have to ask for the consent of the other side before roleplaying something like this. However, in the Argonath RPG community, we do not recommend going far with any of those that can make sensitive arguments between players.

• Terrorism
  • It's recommended to organize this kind of roleplay situation on both sides before going with. Most of the terrorism situations end up in a massive deathmatch without a proper roleplay. Feel free to ask an administrator to assist in organizing and supervising to avoid any further troubles.

Multi-accounting

Server rules allow everyone to have multiple accounts. However, this feature is not there for cheating nor money farming. You can use this feature if you wish to roleplay multiple characters. Most of the time roleplaying multiple characters with one account might be confusing and a little bit of pain and money waste - as you have to change your name, skin, and vehicle. However, there are few notes to take in with you if you are going to use multiple accounts for multiple characters:

• Metagaming is not recommended. Mixing the knowledge between the two characters to gain an advantage on another character is not really fun nor recommended.
  • For example; a character who is a police department officer and another character that is a criminal. Do not use the information you gained as a police officer to leak it to the other character with the other account.
  • Another example; if you were killed in a situation in your first account, do not use the second account with the second character claiming that this character is the cousin of the first one to take revenge.

Random Aiding

Random aiding is a quite confusing term that most of the players don't understand. Being a member of a family does not mean that you can easily "aid" your family member in roleplay situations that you were never originally part of. For example; a roleplay situation that you were never aware of, nor part of, nor have any connections with other than your family members are connected to it. In such situations, you do not have the right to help them in police chases or whatever kind of help.

Note; this special term is enforced already by the server rules and not a recommended term to use.

Leading By example

Lead by example! The best and valuable thing that you can do in this community is to lead others by being a good example to them. As we mentioned very early in this guide that Argonath RPG is a community that allows everyone to join without a roleplay qualification test nor any application, which means you will find a lot of players who lack guidance and lack quality in the roleplay. You should always be friendly to them and help them to improve themselves. Here are a few examples of actions that aren't considered a lead by example;

• Doing an intended mistake in your roleplay or an intended rule break just because everyone around you is doing the same. That's not helpful and will just put yourself in trouble. Act mature, do whatever is right without hesitating, and do not do intended mistakes just because everyone does.

• Approaching someone who lacked some knowledge in roleplay with immature attitude and comments is not helpful nor needed in this community. Your approach to this mistaken person determines if he should learn or just ignore and be stubborn.

• It's always recommended to do the right things in front of the new players and even the veterans. Leading them by being a good example in front of them.

Disregarding this guide

Important to note:

This guide is there to help those who wish to improve their roleplay and be respected members of this community. This guide is NOT considered a set of rules that you should follow. However, we recommend everyone to follow this guide to improve the roleplay quality and the experience in the community.