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RULES

ECHO RP

THE RULES

Gang Handbook

Starting or running a gang? Read the official Echo Gang Handbook for gang-specific rules and guidance.

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The Rewrite

The rules were rewritten in August 2026 - 170 rules became 42. See what changed, what merged, and what was retired.

What changed?

Expectations

These rules are intended as a guideline for our players and cannot cover every possible situation. All players in the EchoRP community are expected to use common sense, prioritize high quality roleplay, and to treat others with respect in and out of character.

Our staff team has the final say in the interpretation of these rules. Attempting to exploit loopholes, argue technicalities, or weaponize the rules against other players or staff may result in more serious punishment.

If you’re ever unsure whether something is against the rules, it is safest to ask the staff team in a ticket before you proceed to do it. When in doubt, make the decision that best supports fair, immersive roleplay.

Before You Submit a Report

Please report in-character incidents as soon as possible. In-character reports should generally be submitted within 72 hours of the incident so that staff can review the situation while the details and evidence are still available.
Only players directly involved in an in-character roleplay situation may report rule violations that occur during it. Third-party reports based on hearsay, stream clips or situations that did not impact your roleplay will not be accepted.
Reports involving OOC harassment, cheating, exploiting, ban evasion, or other serious out-of-character misconduct may be submitted after 72 hours.
Serious OOC violations may be reported by anyone who witnesses or has evidence of them.
Not sure whether your situation qualifies? Open a report ticket anyway. Staff can determine whether the issue can be reviewed.

General

In short: Know the rules, keep it appropriate, speak clear English on a working mic.

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Stay up to date. Players are responsible for knowing and following the current server rules, official announcements, and staff directives. Players may not knowingly encourage, assist, or organize others to violate the rules.
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Realistic names. Character names, usernames, and nicknames must be realistic, appropriate, and free of offensive, hateful, or sexually explicit content.
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No ERP. Erotic roleplay (ERP) and sexually explicit content are prohibited.
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Sensitive subjects. Roleplay must not intentionally exploit, glorify, mock, or trivialize real-world hate, discrimination, terrorism, major tragedies, or similarly sensitive subjects.
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Mic & English. Players must have a working microphone and be able to communicate clearly in English during roleplay. Brief non-English phrases are permitted provided they do not exclude or disadvantage others.

Community Conduct

In short: Respect everyone, everywhere Echo exists. Cooperate with staff.

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Respect. Treat all EchoRP community members with respect. Harassment, discrimination, hate speech, targeted abuse, or behavior intended to make others feel unwelcome is prohibited on all EchoRP platforms.
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Cooperate with staff. All players must cooperate with staff during support/ticket investigations. Intentionally obstructing investigations or acting in bad faith may result in punishment.
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Community platforms. Any community Discord servers, or platforms created primarily for EchoRP players must follow EchoRP's community rules. Staff may request access when investigating reports involving EchoRP and may require reasonable cooperation.
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No spam. Do not spam voice, text chat, commands, emotes, or other server features in a way that disrupts gameplay or roleplay.
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No advertising. Advertising competing FiveM communities or malicious services on EchoRP platforms is prohibited.
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No copyrighted media. Do not play copyrighted or otherwise prohibited audio or video through voice chat or any server feature.
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Content creators. Content creators are responsible for reasonably moderating their communities and may be held accountable for knowingly allowing harassment, targeted attacks, or other serious misconduct towards EchoRP and its members.
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No stream sniping. While in the server, you are not permitted to appear in livestreams (e.g., Discord, Twitch, Kick, YouTube, etc) of other players who are also in the server.

Accounts and Characters

In short: Your account is yours alone. Keep characters separate and believable.

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Account responsibility. You are responsible for all activity that occurs on your account. Sharing accounts or allowing others to access them is done at your own risk.
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  Your Allowlist status is tied to your Discord account and cannot be transferred to another account. If you lose access to your account, you must reapply for Allowlist status.
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No real-money trading. Accounts, characters, and in-game assets may not be bought, sold, traded, or transferred outside of approved server systems.
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Character separation. Each of your characters is an individual independent of your other ones. Your characters must not share knowledge, relationships, assets, or affiliations unless developed naturally through roleplay.
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Believable concepts. Character concepts must be believable and appropriate for the server setting. Any unique, unusual, or supernatural character concepts must be grounded in realistic roleplay and have a reasonable in-character explanation so that they do not force immersion-breaking interactions on others.
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  This includes the roleplaying of animal characters - which must behave in a manner consistent with the animal they are portraying and may not participate in activities that would be unrealistic for that animal.
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No Danny faces. Characters must be fully customized before entering roleplay. Default ("Danny Face") characters are not permitted.
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No government corruption. Characters employed by a government entity (such as SASP, DOJ, EMS, COC, etc) are strictly prohibited from engaging in any form of serious corruption or abuse of their position for personal or criminal benefit. This includes providing, selling, or misusing department resources, equipment, information, or authority for personal gain or to benefit others.

Fair PlayCheating & Exploiting

In short: No cheats, no metagaming, report bugs instead of abusing them.

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No unfair advantages. Players must not use cheats, modified game files, third-party software, exploits, unintended game mechanics, predictable game mechanics, or any other method to gain an unfair advantage. Staff have final discretion in determining what constitutes an unfair advantage.
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No metagaming. Players may not use information their character would not reasonably know through roleplay, also known as metagaming. This includes information gained from livestreams, Discord, third-party voice applications, spectators, or any other out-of-character source.
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Report bugs. Server bugs and exploits must be reported as soon as reasonably possible. Knowingly abusing unreported bugs or unintended mechanics for personal gain is prohibited.
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Allowed mods. Visual modifications, accessibility tools, and keybinds are permitted only when they do not provide an unfair gameplay advantage.

Roleplay Standards

In short: Story over winning. Engage in good faith, stay believable, keep OOC out.

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Story over winning. Roleplay should create meaningful interactions for everyone involved. Players should prioritize collaborative storytelling over winning, making money, or ending scenarios as quickly as possible. Create opportunities to build memorable stories with others, even when doing so is not the most advantageous choice for your character.
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Play through bugs. Players should make a reasonable effort to continue roleplay through minor bugs or technical issues. Report the issue afterward through the appropriate channels.
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Engage in good faith. Players are expected to actively participate and engage in roleplay with other players in good faith. Avoid intentionally ignoring, refusing, or shutting down reasonable roleplay opportunities without a believable in-character reason. Players should look for reasons to continue roleplay, not reasons to end it.
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  That being said- players should not involve themselves in active scenarios without a believable in-character reason. Third-party involvement should add to the roleplay rather than disrupt it.
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Stay believable, value your life. Your character should behave in a believable manner, value their own life, and react appropriately to danger, injury, and the actions of others. Unrealistic behavior that significantly harms immersion is prohibited. Do not force roleplay outcomes through unrealistic actions, game mechanics, or roleplay that prevents others from reasonably responding. You must leave room for other players to participate in the scene.
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Low Quality Roleplay (LQRP). Staff may take action against Low Quality Roleplay (LQRP), defined as roleplay that is intentionally unrealistic, disruptive, or primarily focused on gaining an advantage at the expense of believable and enjoyable roleplay. It can also be intentionally disruptive or disrespectful behavior that harms the experience of others rather than create meaningful interactions.
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Keep OOC out. Out-of-character communication must not be used at all during active roleplay, you need to keep it separate. Do not discuss OOC information, use coded language to bypass this rule, or otherwise break immersion during active roleplay.

Combat

In short: Violence is an outcome, not a starting point. Fight fair, face consequences.

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Escalate believably. Combat must be supported by believable in-character roleplay and violence should be a natural outcome of the situation, not the starting point! Players should create opportunities for interaction before resorting to force, and the escalation from a scenario should be reasonable.
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Fight realistically. Fight realistically. Do not abuse vehicles, game mechanics, animations, camera systems, or other mechanics to gain an unfair advantage or bypass roleplay.
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No combat logging. Do not intentionally disconnect, respawn, or otherwise avoid the consequences of an active roleplay or combat situation. If you disconnect unexpectedly, make a reasonable effort to return.
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Use equipment realistically. Weapons, vehicles, explosives, and other combat equipment must be used realistically and may not be used primarily to grief or bypass roleplay.
New Life Rule (NLR)
30 MIN
New Life Rule (NLR) expectations: Characters treated at the hospital or who respawn after being incapacitated may not return to the same scene or rejoin the same conflict for 30 minutes. This includes returning to recover equipment, loot bodies, gather evidence, or continue the conflict.
60 MIN
Regardless of the scenario type, there is a 60 minute combat cooldown. If an independent party is on cooldown, it also applies to any individual or group retaliating on their behalf.
You may retain your memories, unless you choose not to via roleplay.

Criminal Roleplay Expectations

In short: Believable scenarios over quick profits. Max 5 participants, real hostages.

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Stories, not grinds. Criminal roleplay should prioritize believable, engaging scenarios over quick profits, unnecessary violence, or repetitive gameplay. Create opportunities for negotiation, investigation, escape, cooperation, betrayal, and long-term storylines, not just shootouts or quick financial gain.
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  A player may not force another player to give over ownership of their assets or force transfer their funds from a bank account.
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Plan major crimes. Major criminal activities should be planned and carried out in a believable manner. Any low-effort or repetitive scenarios may be treated as Low Quality Roleplay.
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Max 5 participants. Criminal scenarios are limited to five active participants, including anyone directly assisting the scene through lookout, communications, or other active involvement.
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  Prison transports are treated as separate scenarios from the original incident that led to the arrest. When attempting to attack a prison transport, you are allowed to assemble a new group of up to five individuals specifically for that purpose.
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Real hostages only. Hostages must be genuine victims of the roleplay scenario. Players may not use friends, gang members, associates, or other willing participants to pretend to be a hostage for a criminal activity.
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Don't interfere. Do not interfere with active criminal scenarios without a believable in-character reason. Scenarios involving an active law enforcement response may not be interrupted by unrelated third parties.
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Earn your colors. Gang identifying clothing, colors, patches, liveries and other identifying items must not be used unless obtained legitimately through roleplay.
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No stanced vehicles. Stanced vehicles are prohibited from being used in LinkUp related crimes.
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Restart windows. Players must not commit any form of crime (including selling drugs, robbing other players, and shooting weapons, etc) within the 30 minutes before and after a server restart.
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  In the event of an unscheduled server restart or server crash, you must wait for a period of 15 minutes before engaging in any criminal activities.

Last Updated

8/22/2026 @ 9:18 AM

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