🟣 5.3 Hostage Taking & Robbery Cooldowns While Having Hostages

Article I - You can not take a cop hostage unless there are at least 4 cops online + the one you are kidnapping. Meaning a total of 5 cops online to do this action.

Article II - Utilizing police as a hostage for robberies is permitted but frowned upon, and should be your LAST MEANS as this takes away from the RP of the robbery for the cops.

Article III - Taking a civilian hostage is only for quality roleplay (Robbing A Store, etc.) and must not keep a hostage for more than one robbery. When trading a hostage for demands you must not abuse his life and only have 1 demand per hostage.

Article IV - We have a lot of player owned businesses and they need their employees there to make it run. Please try everything in your power to get hostages from other sources besides a whitelisted business. Its frowned upon to do this as these businesses are what makes our world and community thrive.

Article V - Hostages are not exchanged for people, nor for cash. Do not take a hostage to MRPD or somewhere else, and demand your friend be let go or for 5K for a hostage from the police. This limits the cop RP as everyone and their dog would do this to get their friends out, and the police have no value. We want all sides to have fun. (Sometimes, see if they will transport your friend for extended RP instead of shortening the RP for the other side!)

Article VI - You are not permitted to sit and wait for the cooldown of any robbery with the hostage inside. If you bring a hostage and attempt to rob it while it has a cooldown still then please leave the scene and let the hostage go if there is 5 or more minutes to wait. You will be deported if this persists as it limits the RP the other character can do, because you want to wait 10 minutes for something.