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Roleplay (RP) - Taking a role, and playing it. In Catalyst Gaming and Other Gmod Servers world the word "Roleplay" is defined as "Acting as In Real Life". Roleplay is the main reason why Roleplay servers are being created, as roleplay is always fun as long as it's realistic.

In Character (IC) - Information and things which involve only YOUR CHARACTER. Your character eating, drinking, chilling, dressing and so on.

Out of Character (OOC) - Information and things which involve YOU. Special channels are made for this, /b, /pm and /f to talk OOCly. You can talk about what are you doing, not your character. You can write anything in there, as long as it's not OOC insults, other than IC, where every sentence must be completely roleplayed. Your Out Of Character information/things shouldn't affect your In Character actions. (If it does, it is metagaming. See below )

Metagaming (MG) - Using OOC information IC. This is rulebreaking, which is not tolerated and forbidden. Basicly, you find out In Character information by Out Of Character actions.

Example: Person A meets Person B, while A doesn't know B's name. He looks above his head to a tag, reads it and says: "Hi, B". This is most common metagaming example. In Real Life there isn't any tags above your head which would describe your name.

A right way to get another person's name is asking them. "Hi, what's your name, I'm Billy!" Person B replies: "Hey Billy, I'm Gerrard, nice to meet you!" - Right way to get the name, without metagaming.

Powergaming (PG) - either forcing another player into a RP situation, which ends in the other player's disadvantage, or doing unrealistic things, which you couldn't make IRL.

First example: You want to kill Person B. Let's name him, Billy.
* Looliiz shoots Billy from his deagle and kills him - WRONG.
You have forced him into a RP situation, where he must commit suicide. You must let him to resist.
* Looliiz aims at Billy's head and shoots. /action Do the bullet hit him? - RIGHT.
He can resist now, by either jumping, crouching, or whatever he can do with realistic roleplay.

The second example: doing unrealistic things.
* Looliiz takes a can and throws it full power, and it falls to the moon. - WRONG.
No one could do that In Real Life. You must be realistic.

Sadly, people abuse the powergaming rule, since they are so smart and tough that they think they can resist everything.[/color]

DeathMatch (DM) - In Roleplay Concept, is killing a player for no reason. Just shooting them because he likes to shoot and kill, and it's forbidden.

Revenge Kill (RK) - attempt to physically harm a player who killed you before for the same reason - killing you. Some people think that Revenge Kill is only when you actually kill the person, but it is also a physical harm. This is simple - you are going to kill your killer, for revenge. You can't do that, because of a simple rule - when you "die" (critically injured, unless it's a Player Kill), you lose 30 minutes of memory. So you can't remember who killed you.
Associated with Metagaming (Above)

Kill on Sight (KOS) - either killing everybody you see (associates with DeathMatching, see above), or killing a certain person you hate as many times as you want. This is forbidden and not tolerated.

Logging to avoid - Exiting the game with either "quit" in console, or pressing esc, choosing "Exit Game" and then "Yes". There are 3 types of logging to avoid: Death, Arrest, and RP Situation. In Real Life you can't just disappear.

Exploiting - abusing bugs. Simple, it's just exploiting game/script bugs for your advantage. Not gonna say any examples, as people might abuse them. (lol)

Chicken Running - Running in zigzags to avoid being shot at (with this kind of sync, hard to hit.). It's running like a retard from side to side. If you don't want to get jailed for Chicken Running, run straight forward.


Gun from ass: Non-RPing taking a gun out of inventory aka scrolling to change/draw a weapon. Catalyst Gaming doesn't have an animation of drawing out a weapon (unlike Other gamemods like HL2RP or Perp 3), so you must RP taking it with /me.

Example: /me takes out a deagle from his inner shirt pocket.

Gun in ass: Vice Versa to Gun from Ass, must be roleplayed too.

Example: /me puts his deagle in his inner shirt pocket.

Tips

Don't decide it all
When typing an action or response during role-play, be sure to avoid writing in the other player's response.

Bad Example:

* Looliiz swings the bat at her head, smashing it in, and watches her fall unconscious.

The above example is powergaming, forcing someone to take your hit and their reaction.

Corrected Example:

* Looliiz swings the bat towards her head in hopes to knock her unconscious.

This new example is acceptable. Not only were you able to swing that bat towards her head and suggest that you wanted her unconscious, but you give the other player an opportunity to choose their own response to that action. They can either take the hit, duck and miss the hit, or whatever else they want to do.