Black Russia General Server Rules

The same rules apply on every server. They’re split into three sections: gameplay, chats, and accounts. The table lists every rule from 1.01 to 4.15, with penalties and filters by section. Some of the text is from the English version of the in-game help, so the key points are summarized below.

Understand the penalty ladder

Penalties in the rules get more severe as you go:

• Verbal warning—for minor offenses like making noise in voice chat or using a bad name.
• Mute—can’t chat for 30–300 minutes. Report Mute means you can’t write in /report.
• Kick—removed from the server, for example for going AFK (leaving your device) and disturbing other players.
• Jail—demorgan, or isolation, for 30–120 minutes.
• Warn—warning that removes you from your faction and blocks you from joining any faction for 10 days. Three Warns mean a 10-day Ban.
• Bans for a set number of days, or a permanent PermBan. Serious cases can also mean an account wipe (money, cars, property, and businesses are deleted, and your family is disbanded) and a place on the project blacklist.

There’s also a cumulative rule: 6 or more penalties in 7 days gets you a 7–15-day Ban (2.39). For details on each penalty, see what Warn, demorgan, and Ban mean.

Don’t shoot without a reason

New players most often get punished for dealing damage without an IC reason (a reason within the game):

• DM (DeathMatch), 2.19—killing or dealing damage without a reason; damaging a car counts too: Jail for 90 minutes.
• Mass DM, 2.20—three or more victims: Warn or a 3–7-day Ban.
• DB (DriveBy), 2.13—dealing damage or killing from a vehicle: Jail for 60 minutes, except during family container captures.
• TK (TeamKill), 2.15—killing your own teammates or allies: Jail for 60 minutes; two or more kills get you a Warn.
• SK (SpawnKill), 2.16—dealing damage at a spawn point, by interior entrances, or on a faction’s home turf: same penalty, Jail for 60 minutes or a Warn.
• Intentionally ramming truckers or cash-in-transit drivers, 2.04: 10-day Ban in the English version, 3-day Ban in the Russian version.

Defensive DM is allowed, but you’ll need video evidence if you’re punished. Ordinary in-game conflicts, criminal faction territories, agreed-upon duels, and high-crime zones don’t count as DM. In the last type of zone, you can shoot without a reason, but you can’t target uninvolved players or random passersby. See what DM means and what TK means for examples.

Play your role—don’t try to bypass it

• NonRP, 2.01—behavior that wouldn’t make sense in real life, such as driving over cars, running across casino tables, or disrupting interviews: Jail for 30 minutes.
• NonRP Drive, 2.03—driving in impossible conditions: Jail for 30 minutes.
• Evading RP, 2.02—going AFK during a police stop, leaving the game while being detained or to avoid dying, or running into a green zone in the middle of a shootout: Jail for 30 minutes or a Warn in the English version; a Warn and 3-day Ban for repeat offenses in the Russian version.
• Lying through /do, 2.10—Jail for 30 minutes or a Warn.
• MG (MetaGaming), 2.18—using information in-game that your character couldn’t know: Mute for 30 minutes. See what MG means for details.
• Using work or faction vehicles for personal errands, 2.11—Jail for 30 minutes. Driving a work vehicle across fields for no reason, 2.47—Jail for 60 minutes.

Stay away from cheats, bugs, and selling virts

• Third-party software, cheats, and macros, 2.22—Ban for 15–30 days or PermBan. You can change the font, size, and number of chat lines, and turn on an FPS counter, but you can’t modify other game files.
• Exploiting bugs, 2.21—Warn, Ban for 15–30 days, or PermBan. Hiding a bug from admins and telling other players about it, 2.23—Ban for 15–30 days or PermBan.
• Buying or selling in-game currency for real money, 2.28—PermBan, account wipe, and a place on the project blacklist.
• Trying to sell property or an account, 2.42, or transferring an account to another person, 4.03—PermBan.
• Having more than 3 accounts on one server, 4.04—PermBan for the extra accounts. Moving valuables between your own accounts, 4.05—Warn, 15-day Ban, or PermBan.
• Taking out a loan and not paying it back, 2.57—30-day Ban or PermBan.
• Selling or trading promo codes, 2.43—Mute for 120 minutes. Advertising promo codes in chat, 3.21—15-day Ban.

A common way players get caught: they buy virts (in-game money) on one account and transfer them to their main account through a car trunk. That’s several violations at once, and admins ban players for these schemes.

Watch what you say in chat

• Insults, racism, and discrimination in OOC chat, 3.03—Mute for 30 minutes.
• Insulting someone’s family or mentioning them in any chat, 3.04—Mute for 300 minutes or a 7-day Ban.
• Toxicity in IC chat that involves humiliation, including based on gender or physical or speech characteristics, 3.24—verbal warning or Mute for 30 minutes.
• Disrespecting or threatening admins, 2.54—Mute for 180 or 300 minutes. OOC threats against players, 2.37—Mute for 120 minutes or a 7–15-day Ban.
• Politics, religion, and arguments about nationality, 3.18—Mute for 180 minutes.
• Caps Lock, 3.02; spamming 3 or more identical messages, 3.05; and overusing punctuation, 3.06—Mute for 30 minutes each.
• Playing music in voice chat, 3.14, or using voice-changing software, 3.19—Mute for 60 minutes.
• Impersonating an admin, 3.10—7–15-day Ban and a place on the server blacklist. Misleading players with fake commands, 3.11—Ban for 15–30 days or PermBan.

Choose a name that follows the rules

Your name must:

• Use the FirstName_LastName format in English (4.06).
• Have no more than two capital letters (4.07).
• Be a real first and last name that make sense (4.08).
• Contain no profanity, insults, politics, or religion (4.09).
• Not resemble another player’s or admin’s name (4.10).

Breaking these rules gets you a verbal warning and a name change. Profanity or copying someone else’s name can get you a PermBan. Use the RP name generator to pick a name.

Follow the government faction rules

Government faction employees also have to follow a separate set of rules: the General Rules for Government Factions. Here are the main points:

• You can’t work another job while in uniform (1.07) or use a faction vehicle for personal errands (1.08)—Jail for 30 minutes.
• Law enforcement officers can’t deal damage without an IC reason on their faction’s territory (1.11)—Jail for 90 minutes; Mass DM gets a Warn.
• You can’t wear your uniform in the casino, at containers, during family activities, at the used-car market, or at the auction (1.13)—Jail for 30 minutes. Family activities can get you a Warn.
• Issuing wanted levels or fines without an IC reason (6.02, 7.02, 8.02)—Warn.
• Civilians can’t enter a government faction’s parking lot or restricted areas without an escort. Open areas are allowed, including the duty stations at the Traffic Police (ГИБДД) and Police Department (УМВД), the Government lobby, Media (СМИ), and the FSB.

Employee discipline is also covered by the federal regulation. Communication between factions is covered by the department radio rules.

Report a player who breaks the rules

If the violation is happening right now, contact admins in-game:

If some time has passed, file a complaint on the official forum: select your server → “Complaints” → “Player Complaints.” Title it “Nick_Name | Complaint summary.” The post has four fields: your name, the offender’s name, a description, and evidence. Follow these requirements:

• Submit it within 72 hours of the violation. Only someone involved in the situation can file a complaint.
• Evidence must be unedited, show the /time command on screen, and be hosted on a video or file-sharing site. You need video evidence for DM and scams.
• If the video is longer than 3 minutes, add timestamps for the violations.
• Reports are reviewed within 48 hours.

The complaints section may look empty: only admins and tech specialists can see submitted reports.