What is Slash /RP

+What we built on top

• +A city you walk into

  Houses, stores, stations, bars, the casino. Walk up to the door and go in.

• +Walk up and press the key

  A key floats at the thing you can use: E for the main action, then G and H. Get close and it shows. No menu to dig through.

• +A tour to start

  A tutorial plays after you make your character. The driving school, City Hall, the hospital, the jobs, the gym, Ammu-Nation, the gangs.

• +A long road on every path

  Trucker, dealer, cop, gunsmith, lawyer. Every one has a ladder to climb, and none of them is a grind for the sake of grinding.

• +Risk everywhere

  Loads get hijacked. Points get taken. Pockets get emptied. Nothing you carry is safe.

• +One menu for everything

  F4 opens your stats, your level, your job, your company, your faction, your family and your properties.

• +Clerks, not crowds

  The only NPCs in the city stand behind a counter.

+What we built on top

• +AutoHotkey is a thing of the past

  The server has its own hotkey creator. Pre-write your lines and commands, put them on a key, fire them with one press. Nothing to install.

• +Hotkeys are allowed here

  Other servers don't allow hotkeying. We do, and we built the tool for it.

• +Your hotkeys follow you

  They're saved on the server for each character. New PC, fresh install, they're still there.

• +Any key you like

  A new hotkey lands on the number pad. Move it to any key, with Shift, Ctrl or Alt if you want. F1 opens the menu.

• +Your hotkeys are yours

  Nobody else can read them. Not even staff.

• +30 accents

  Pick one with /accent and it shows on everything you say.

• +Typing bubble

  People near you see when you're mid-line, so nobody walks off on you.

• +Words over your head

  What you say floats over your head for 7 seconds. Only the people close enough to hear it can read it.

• +Consent prompts

  /ado proposes an action on another player. They accept or deny it before it happens.

• +Read a stranger

  /examine shows the description they wrote for their character. That's how you recognise somebody, not the name over their head.

• +Leave a scene

  /createscene leaves a description standing in a spot for 30 minutes.

• +Let the server decide

  /try gives your roleplay action a random success or failure, with a 50% chance of each. Example: /try catches the falling keys. It only announces the result in nearby chat; it does not perform the action for you.

• +Y, on your phone

  The city posts on Y. It's an app on your phone, not a chat command.

• +One voice in the city

  A police megaphone. That's it.

How far you carry

The ones that matter most

Deathmatching

Violence needs a reason your character has.

New Life Rule

Wake up in the hospital and the last 30 minutes are gone.

Revenge killing

You don't remember who dropped you, so you don't go back for them.

Metagaming

What you know from Discord or a stream, your character doesn't.

Powergaming

No forcing an outcome. No impossible /me lines.

Fear RP

Your character wants to live. Act like it.

Combat logging

Logging out to dodge a death or an arrest is not an option.

Healing in a fight

No drugs, food or first aid in the middle of a shootout.

Thick skin

Our staff don't get offended

Nobody gets banned for their politics, their beliefs or their sense of humor.

Trolling gets punished

This is the internet. People troll. They get punished for the trolling, then they get another chance.

Second chances for everybody

Whoever you are. Whatever you did.

Two ways to be done for good

Hack, or abuse bugs.

The platform's line is our line

Anything the FiveM platform terms forbid is against our rules too.

+What we built on top

• +Rules the game enforces

  The robbery cap and new-player protection are built into the game. You can't break them by accident.

• +No-rob zones

  Drug houses can't be used to farm robberies. The game refuses it.

Six stats

The gym

Real equipment

Bench, pull-up bar, curl bar, leg press, speed bag, bikes, rowing machines.

It moves

The pedals turn. The handles pull. The bar comes up in your hands.

You do the reps

Press E for every rep: ten reps a set, three sets. X steps off the machine.

Muscle Beach

The equipment on the beach is a gym, with the same reps, limits and rewards as the others. The prison yard counts too.

Fighting styles

Each gym teaches a fighting style for free: Dojo in Davis, Boxing in Vinewood, MMA in Paleto.

Every day

Three workouts a day. Strength grows over weeks, not in one session.

Levels and respect

Play to earn

One experience point for every hour in the city.

Buy your level

In the F4 menu, once you have the experience. You pay for it with in-game cash, and the price scales the higher your level is.

Spend your respect

Each point adds one point of armour when you spawn, up to 100, or one point of health when you leave the hospital: 50 to start, up to 100. Insurance and VIP don't change it.

Start over

/resetupgrades gives every point back. It isn't cheap.

PayDay

Every hour, on the hour. Bigger with your level, taxed at the rate the President set, with bank interest on top.

+What we built on top

• +Shooting you train

  Recoil settles as your skill goes up. You feel the difference in a fight.

• +Your armour stays

  The armour you have left is saved with your character. Log out, come back, it's still on. Die and it's gone.

• +Going down

  You have 500 seconds. Press F to call EMS, or hold E to give up and wake up in a hospital bed.

• +Respawn costs your guns

  Respawn at the hospital and the staff take the weapons you carried. If a medic brings you in, you keep them.

• +Nothing fades by itself

  Your levels and stats stay yours. Only drugs wear your vitality down, a little each time.

How it works

The grid

24 slots in the bag. 6 on the belt for guns and the phone. 14 clothing slots for what you're wearing. Backpacks add room.

Swap clothes fast

Clothes are items. Drag a jacket off and another one on, right in the inventory. Or right-click one in your bag and it swaps with what you're wearing.

Uniform in one click

Faction lockers swap your whole outfit and hold your own clothes until you change back.

Loot fast

Hands up? Press TAB next to them and their bag and belt open. Take what you want.

Hand it over

Drag an item onto GIVE and it goes to the person next to you.

Drop it

It sits on the ground as the real object for 30 minutes. A dropped pistol looks like a pistol.

Storage

Civilian-owned vehicles have trunks, gloveboxes or motorcycle seat storage. Faction vehicles offer rear equipment instead. Safes at home and faction lockers keep their storage.

Ammo

One item is one round. No magic magazines.

First Aid

An on-duty FDSA medic uses a First Aid Kit on a conscious player next to him: 50 health back. It never revives, and nobody can use one on himself. Injuries no longer cause ongoing bleeding damage.

Materials

Loose materials are a number next to your cash. No slot, no weight.

One cart

Every walk-in store has a cart. Fill it, then pay for all of it at once, cash or card.

+What we built on top

• +Drops make noise, not names

  People nearby hear a clink or a thud. Nobody gets told what you ditched.

• +You, in the menu

  A live model of your character stands in the inventory, wearing what you're wearing.

• +Cash is not an item

  It can't be dropped by accident or stuffed in a trunk.

What official gets you

Your color

One color for your set. It fills your turf and the points you hold on the map.

A headquarters

Your own door, a safe only the Boss can open, and one locker the whole set shares.

Gang cars

Staff can set your gang up with 10 cars: 5 models, 2 of each, every car with a minimum rank. /gangfleet opens them.

Two treasuries

Clean money and dirty money never mix. The dirty side pays out as dirty cash.

Six ranks

Recruit to Boss, with your own names on every rank. Your leaders decide who moves up.

No roster cap

Bring everybody. One criminal group per character, so pick your side.

Getting in

Nobody applies to a set. Put in work in character until a ranked member invites you, then type /acceptgang.

The family tab

Your gang lives in F4 under Family: the roster, invites, ranks, the treasury and the message of the day.

Family chat

/f is an official family's out-of-character chat.

Flying your colors

Wear them

Your set's colors go on your character. The bandana, the shirt, the hat. That's how the street knows who you're with.

1990s gang wear

The clothing stores carry a 1990s Los Santos gang collection, for men and women: numbered jerseys, flannels, bandanas, tanks, shoes and high socks.

Kept for your family

Some clothing pieces and colors are kept for one official family. The store says so on the piece.

No colors, no entry

You have to be wearing your gang's colors to enter a control point. That's in the rules.

All day

In a gang? Wear your colors at all times. That's what we want to see on these streets.

+What we built on top

• +Graffiti

  Tag spots stand on walls around the city. Bring a spray can on your belt and draw your own tag in your family's color. One can, one tag.

• +Tag wars

  A rival set can paint over your tag. City workers scrub tags off and get paid for it.

• +Paint on your hands

  Tagging leaves residue. Police can check your hands for it.

What a control point pays

How it works

Turf

Your neighborhood, drawn on the real map in your color. It's yours for as long as your family stands. Nobody can capture it or contest it.

Control point tax

Anyone who isn't yours and sells inside your turf or your control point pays 25% to your treasury. Guns, drugs, cars, cash deals. All of it.

Material runs

Pay at the Material Pickup, make the drive, deliver. A run brings in 75 materials. Materials are what guns and tools get built from, and runs are the only way they come into the city.

+What we built on top

• +Zones follow the streets

  No more rectangles. Turf and points are drawn by hand around real blocks. You see them on the map, filled in the color of whoever holds them.

• +Clean and dirty

  The drug house cut lands in your family's dirty treasury. The fee from material runs lands in the clean one.

• +Tags on the walls

  Graffiti says whose block it is.

Where your gun came from

Store guns

Every model has its own jam rate. The budget pistol and the pump shotgun jam about once a clip.

Crafted guns

A crafted gun carries its maker's skill forever, even after it's resold. A rookie's guns jam more than anything in a store. A master gunsmith's guns never jam.

Armoury guns

Faction-issued weapons never jam.

Clearing a jam

Press R and work the action. A second and a half. Get interrupted and it's still jammed.

Wear

Every shot wears the gun down.

Buying and carrying

Ammu-Nation

A pistol, a pump shotgun and ammunition. Nothing else, and nothing at all before you have 2 hours in the city.

Gun stores

Player-run gun stores sell more. No licence needed to buy. You need 8 hours in the city before a gun store will sell to you.

Gun licence

Apply at a police kiosk. The background check decides on the spot: a felony record, a warrant or an open charge and you're denied.

Losing it

Get jailed on a felony and the licence is gone until a lawyer clears your record.

On record

Every gun a store sells is recorded against the buyer.

+What we built on top

• +Jamming

  Guns that fail at the worst possible moment. It changes every fight.

• +Built out of a trunk

  Back then a gunsmith could build anywhere. Here the work happens at the open trunk of a car or inside a house.

• +Gunsmith reputation

  Players learn whose guns run clean. A good gunsmith's name is worth money.

• +Know what you're aiming at

  Aim at a player in clear view within 20 meters and his health and armour bars show over his head. Stop aiming and they're gone.

Drug running

What it is

Moving packages. You're the supply line, not the salesman.

The pickup

Take a run at the drug house, get out to the pickup and buy the packages.

The delivery

Bring them back to the house. Every package pays you dirty cash and puts product on the house's shelf.

More name, more packages

Two packages a run when you start. Five at the top.

Drug dealing

What it is

Selling product to the player in front of you.

Getting in

Take the dealer job at the drug house. It's free and nobody has to approve you.

Your supply

Buy from the house's stock, grow your own or cook your own.

The sale

/selldrugs makes the offer. They /acceptdrugs or they walk.

More name, bigger deals

Your level caps how much you can move in one deal.

Growing weed

Anywhere

/plantweed in the open world. No job, no equipment. It grows, and it comes out weak.

In a pot

Put a pot in a house you own and water it. Now it comes out mid.

The full setup

Pot, water, grow light and fertilizer, all four. That's the only way to grow good.

What each piece does

The light makes it grow faster. The fertilizer makes it grow more.

Supplies

Pots, grow lights, fertilizer and watering cans come from Home Repot.

Guard your plants

Anyone who finds a ripe plant outdoors can take it. A plant in your own house is yours alone.

What your setup gets you

Opium, heroin and crack

Opium

/plantopium outdoors: two hours to grow, and it comes out weak. In a pot in a house you own, with water, it comes out mid. Add a grow light and fertilizer and it comes out good.

Heroin

Two rounds at a heroin bench: raw opium and Preparation Powder first, then Finishing Powder and water, 6 minutes each. Same heat, same danger. A batch gives 3 heroin with the grade of the opium. The pharmacy sells both powders and the water.

Your own bench

In a house you own, a room you rent, or the back of a van.

Crack

Comes through the crack house. Runners bring it in, dealers sell it out.

What they do

+What we built on top

• +Weak, mid and good

  Three grades. A better setup grows better weed, and better weed heals more.

• +Grow rooms

  Pots, grow lights, fertilizer and water, inside your own four walls.

• +A real meth lab

  A bench, an oven, a tray and a hammer. You cook it step by step.

• +Labs blow up

  Lose control of the heat and the lab explodes. Anybody within 8 meters with a clear line to it dies, and the fire spreads like any other fire until firefighters put it out.

• +Your own heroin bench

  Back then the whole city shared one lab. Now the bench can be yours.

• +Labs on wheels

  Put the bench in the back of a van and cook wherever you park.

• +One command for every product

  /selldrugs moves weed, crack, heroin and meth.

• +Your weakest first

  The use command takes the weakest grade you're carrying. Want the good one? Open your inventory and press Use on it.

• +It leaves a trace

  Using leaves signs on you that police can read.

Robberies

Players

Hands up. Both of you need 10 hours in the city first, so nobody farms new players.

Player-owned businesses

The register is the target. Stores the city runs can't be robbed. Businesses run by players can.

The till

Every cash sale puts money in the till. That's what you're taking. The owner's account is never touched.

While it's open

Staff on the clock or the owner on duty means it's open. Gun in your hand, a lockpick in your bag and at least 2 police on duty: crack the register and the till gives up everything in it. After any try, that register rests for 30 minutes.

Hand it over

The owner or a manager on duty can hand you the till. Nobody has to die over a register.

After closing

Nobody on duty means it's closed. Break the doors open with a crowbar, crack the register and take half the till.

Houses

Only while the owner is somewhere in the city. Lockpick or crowbar the door, then take what's inside with /robhouse. Five minutes on the clock once the door gives. Each piece comes out through a loading bar and an animation of its own; a bigger piece takes longer.

Breaking in

A plain lockpick needs a screwdriver with it. The crowbar takes 15 seconds. You need 10 hours in the city, two burglars at most, and a house that was hit is safe for 24 hours.

ATMs

One ATM in the city can be hit at a time, and it changes every 60 to 90 minutes. Buy a rope at the hardware store or Home Repot. Tie it from your car, pull the ATM off the wall and take $10,000 in dirty cash.

Truck loads

Hijack a loaded delivery truck and sell the load at a pawn shop. A long-haul rig can't be taken.

Dirty money

Two wallets

Clean cash and dirty cash are separate. Drug money, stolen goods, illegal cargo and vault cash all land dirty.

Cleaning it

Walk it up to a bank counter. At most $10,000 in any 24 hours.

Pawn shops

One purpose: selling stolen goods. Stolen phones, furniture from a house burglary and the load off a hijacked truck. They pay in dirty cash.

+What we built on top

• +Two tools, two eras

  A screwdriver for old cars, an OBD hacker for modern ones. Crafters build both.

• +Slim jims, not lockpicks

  A lockpick still opens houses, doors and registers. It no longer opens cars.

• +Mechanics undo it

  A punched ignition or a hacked computer stays that way until a mechanic fixes it.

• +Quiet work

  Picking a car or prying a door doesn't page the police. Somebody has to see you and call it in.

Who runs the city

How a faction runs

Joining

Walk into the station and apply at the marker once you have 30 hours played. A ranked member reviews it in F4, and the answer comes to your phone.

One side

Gang members can't join a faction, and faction members can't join a gang.

People run it

Leaders hire, promote, demote and remove members below their own rank. Your place in the organization is a relationship with other players, with responsibilities as you move up.

A career that pays

Faction wages are paid hourly by rank, on top of your PayDay. Your character can build a working life around the organization.

Ready for the shift

Faction lockers put you into uniform, keep your own clothes until you change back and provide personal storage. Equipment and vehicle access depend on the organization and your role.

Tools for the job

Police have issued equipment and an armoury. Fire and medical crews have their own emergency equipment. A reporter or government official has a different role; faction membership is not a universal weapons pass.

Stay organized

Ranks, rosters and faction radio keep the group connected. Leaders assign callsigns, the department line lets public services coordinate when a scene crosses their responsibilities, and /f is the faction's out-of-character chat.

A second job

Faction members can still work a civilian job. Hitman members are exempt from the usual faction restrictions on drug and arms-dealer jobs.

+What we built on top

• +911 routes itself

  /911 asks what you need and pages the nearest department that's on duty. No dispatcher required.

• +Budgets from taxes

  The treasury pays every faction's budget out of what the city collects.

• +Medics transport

  EMS doesn't revive you on the pavement. A medic puts you on a stretcher, and the ambulance is routed to the hospital your life insurance names. No insurance, the nearest one.

• +Three hospitals

  Pillbox Hill, Central Los Santos in Davis and the Bay Care Center in Paleto Bay. Each sells life insurance at its front desk.

• +Fires break out

  With 3 or more firefighters on duty, a fire breaks out every 90 to 120 minutes: buildings, warehouses, gas stations, dumpsters, brush and more.

• +Lab fires

  A lab that blows up starts a fire like any other. It keeps spreading while anybody is within 60 meters, until firefighters take the hose off the engine and put it out.

• +Different ways to belong

  Factions, street gangs and player-run companies each give you a group to build stories with, but use their own systems. Gangs have their own ranks and turf; companies have their own hiring, job titles and payroll.

On the street

Charges and stars

Every open charge puts a star on your HUD. Felony or misdemeanor, up to six.

Tickets

A ticket is an offer you accept. Pay it at a kiosk. Leave it a week and it's a warrant.

Searches

Hands up or cuffed, your pockets can be opened.

Taking cash

Whoever has your pockets open can take your cash and your dirty cash, by the amount he types. Clean cash keeps the robbery cap. Hands up, anybody can. In cuffs, only police.

Seized dirty money

An officer turns it in at a police station's evidence room. It lands in the city treasury as clean money.

Evidence

A casing drops when your bullet hits somebody.

Fingerprints

A casing carries the prints of whoever loaded the round with bare hands. The FIB compares them.

Gunshot residue

Firing a gun leaves residue on your hands until you wash them. Police can check a cuffed suspect's hands.

No hints

Nothing floats over evidence. Officers have to look for it.

Locked doors

Police carry a battering ram.

Station doors

The LSPD, the Sheriff's Department, the State Police and the FIB open and lock the doors past the lobby of Mission Row, Paleto Bay and the prison. Everybody else needs an officer to let them in.

Roadblocks

From the X wheel

Cones, barriers, tents and work lights. On duty, move and turn the preview, then set it down.

Spike strips

One hit and the strip is gone. Put down another.

Pick it back up

Only the officer who placed it can pick it up or destroy it.

Doing time

City jail

Short time for small crimes.

Prison

Serious crimes. A yard, cells, a uniform and a prison job. Finish a task and you might get a minute or two off your sentence.

You serve it

The clock only runs while you're in the city. Logging out doesn't count. /time shows what's left.

Your stuff

Taken at intake, handed back at release.

Ankle monitor

Released to your home

A lawyer can get you out early. You need a home or a rented room to be released to.

The tracker

On-duty police put a tracker on your ankle with /anklet, and take it off the same way.

They know where you are

An officer looks up where the anklet is with /ankletlocation.

Courts and lawyers

Trials

A judge hears it. Held on a warrant and no judge comes within the hour, you walk. Booked on a casefile, you wait in prison until a judge sentences you.

Sentences

Jail time, fines and probation, handed down from the bench.

Lawyers

Any player can take the job. Name your fee, get your client out.

The skill ladder

New lawyers need an officer to approve a release. Top lawyers sign it themselves.

Clean your record

A lawyer can expunge it. It costs.

Detectives

/track narrows down where a phone is. Better detectives get closer, faster. Police trace a phone only with a judge-signed warrant.

+What we built on top

• +One wanted system

  Charges and unpaid tickets both put stars on the same HUD.

• +Tickets you can fight

  Nothing comes out of your pocket until you accept it.

• +A prison with guards

  The Bowlingbroke Prison System runs the cells and the lockdowns. Get out quietly and the stars follow you.

Government

The treasury

Taxes and fines flow in. Faction budgets flow out, every hour. Only the government and staff ever see the balance.

The President

Elected. Sets the income tax and the business tax with /settax, and every faction's budget.

Voting

At the City Hall counter, when an election is open. One vote each. You need 32 hours in the city first.

Banks

Loans

Borrow from the bank. Miss three payments and you default.

Savings

Park your money and collect interest.

Insurance

Life insurance at the front desk of Pillbox Hill, Central Los Santos or the Bay Care Center in Paleto Bay. Car and home insurance at the Insurance Office inside City Hall.

ATMs pay out

An ATM hands you cash. Putting cash in happens at the bank counter.

Companies and businesses

Register a company

Apply at City Hall. Staff approve it and $1,500,000 comes out of your bank. Then make up to 24 job titles, set their pay and hire up to 60 people.

Open a business

Buy a business property on Dynasty 8 first, then apply at City Hall. The application costs $250,000 and the Government reviews it. The storefront gets its own stock and its own prices.

Its own menu

Every business and every company is run from its own menu. Staff, pay and the account in one place.

Cash or card

Cash goes in the till. Card goes straight to the business account, and the customer pays a convenience fee to the city for using it.

Emptying the till

Only the owner empties it, standing at the register.

The account at the bank

The business or company account sits next to your own at the bank counter and the ATM. The balance shows in F4.

The weekly tax

Every 7 days a business owes the President's rate on what it took in that week. The owner pays it from the business menu. No trip to the bank.

Miss a bill

It stays owed, and your next three bills come at a higher rate.

Companies too

A company gets the same account and the same weekly tax, shown and paid in its own company tab of F4.

Hourly pay

Pays by the hour while they're on duty.

Salary

Pays a set amount every PayDay, no matter how much work gets done.

Stock comes by truck

You order it. A driver hauls it. The driver gets a cut.

Workers get tipped

Whoever makes the sale keeps a cut in cash on the spot.

Classifieds

The ads+ app on your phone. A listing costs $100 and stays up for an hour. A priority ad goes out to the whole city in chat.

+What we built on top

• +Companies you build yourself

  Your name, your job titles, your payroll. Nothing is handed to you ready-made.

• +Pay your people your way

  Hourly or salary. The owner picks it for each employee.

• +Two kinds of money

  Clean and dirty. The dirty kind can't buy anything until it's cleaned.

Finding work

/findjob

Lists every job and sets a waypoint to where you sign up.

Sign up at the job

Every job has its own icon on the map. Truckers sign up at the Freight Cross-Dock on Elysian Island, taxi drivers at Downtown Cab Co. City Hall still works too.

Trucking

Start local

A free company Mule, local deliveries. Nothing to buy.

Level up

Five career levels. Every level pays more.

Go long-haul

At level 4 you can buy your own Phantom at the truck dealership by the cross-dock, trailer registration included, and take the big loads.

Supply the city

Businesses order crates. Every driver sees every order on the load board. You haul your share and get paid by the crate and the mile.

Off the books

Some cargo is illegal. It pays in dirty cash.

Get searched

Police can check your cargo sheet, open your doors and clear your truck.

Forklift Driver

At the docks

Anybody can take the job at the cross-dock warehouse. Go on duty and a forklift is yours.

Load the trucks

Trucks back into the dock doors. Take any pallet of any docked truck: $65 for every pallet you land.

Taxi

They call you

/requesttaxi, or the Taxi app on their phone.

You pick the fare

/accepttaxi takes the call. Set your own rate and run the meter.

Paid on arrival

The fare moves bank to bank when the ride ends. Whoever booked it pays.

Level up

Every finished ride counts. The higher your level, the more you can charge.

The laid back jobs

Bodyguard

/guard a player and name your price. They accept, you get paid, they get half a bar of armor.

Bodyguard levels

The higher your level, the more you can charge for it.

Bartender

/placebar sets your bar up inside a venue. /selldrink pours. Beer, vodka, whiskey.

Your price

You name the price on every drink you pour.

Stocking the bar

/orderbarstock orders the cases and kegs. A trucker brings them to the door. /barstock shows what's left.

Your cut

Stock you paid for: the whole sale is yours. Stock the venue paid for: you keep a tenth and the venue keeps the rest.

Closing up

Walk off, go off duty or log out and the bar packs itself away. The stock stays at the venue.

More ways to earn

The ladders

+What we built on top

• +A trucking career

  Two licence classes, your own rig and a pay curve that rewards staying with it.

• +A taxi meter that works

  Booked rides, a running meter and a fare that pays itself.

• +A buyer for stolen loads

  A hijacked load gets sold at the pawn shop, and the price is a roll of the dice.

• +A bar you can set up

  A real counter, real stock, real sales.

• +Bodyguards with a career

  Protection used to be one flat service. Now the job has levels.

Owning one

Your licence

New characters start without one. Pass the test at the Davis driving school for $100, then buy the licence at the same desk for $80. It's your ID card.

Dealerships by class

Coupes and SUVs, muscle, sports and off-road each have their own dealership.

Starter Vehicles

Seven cheap cars, from $500 to $1,000.

Boats and bikes

The Boat Dealer at the marina shows its boats on the water and delivers yours there. Bicycles sell at the two Cycles Dealers.

Buying

Full price, cash or card. Test drive it first, for up to 15 minutes.

Leasing

Lease it instead. 10% down, 6% interest, then a payment every PayDay for 24, 48 or 72 PayDays until the car is yours.

Registration

Register it at the counter or drive it off without. An unregistered car is harder to get back, and it gives police a reason to seize it.

Insurance

Insured cars come back for a small deductible instead of the full fee.

Fuel

It burns faster than you're used to. Nozzle in, press G and the tank fills. The price per gallon changes every day and climbs when the city is busy, up to $20.

Keys

L locks and unlocks. G starts the engine.

Find it

/trackcar puts your car on the map.

Shared plates, separate keys

Eligible faction, gang and company garages have ALL PLATE for a shared display label. Job vehicles show RENTAL. Each keeps its own keys and vehicle record. Police cannot flag these shared labels.

Equipment at the rear

Faction vehicles offer their assigned equipment at the rear. Police roadside props stay on the X wheel; ambulances offer First Aid Kits and fire engines offer extinguishers.

Storage

Only civilian-owned vehicles have trunk or glovebox storage. Bigger vehicles hold more. A supercar still has a glovebox and a very small trunk.

The auction house

On your phone

The auction is a phone app. Photo, make, model, color, current bid.

One car at a time

One car on the block. One hour of bidding. When it sells, the next car rolls up.

The line is hidden

Nobody sees what's waiting. You see a car when it's on the block, not before.

No bid, no sale

A car nobody bids on runs again.

Who can bid

Used car lots bid. Anybody can watch.

Bidding

One button raises the bid. The step gets bigger as the price climbs.

Your money is held

Your bid is locked while you're leading. Get outbid and it comes straight back.

Winning

When the hour runs out the top bidder owns the car. It's in your vehicle list, parked at the impound lot, ready when you are.

Run your own car lot

The opening

Every car somebody neglects is stock for somebody else. That somebody can be you.

Buy low

Auction cars come in every condition. Clean, beaten, barely running.

Fix it or flip it

Repair it and ask more, or sell it as it is.

The licence

Apply for your business at City Hall. When the application is accepted, the dealer licence comes with it.

The auction is yours

Used car lots do the bidding at the auction. The rest of the city buys from you.

Your stock

Cars on your lot don't take up your own vehicle slots.

Sell it yourself

Set your price. You or your manager make the sale, face to face. The money goes to the business.

A new plate at sale

Every car sale issues a new plate. Stored items stay with the car; police flags do not follow it.

+What we built on top

• +The auction house

  Neglected cars don't vanish. They go up for bids, live, on the phone.

• +Used car lots run by players

  A whole business built on the cars other people lost.

• +Leasing

  A way into a car without the full price in your pocket.

• +A car keeps its history

  The parts stay with it through impound, auction and resale.

• +Police impound

  A car police send to the depot takes the same road back. A full seizure is different: only police release it, and it never goes to auction.

• +Tow trucks and flatbeds

  On-duty LSPD and towing company members drive them. Tie the rope to a car and the winch pulls it in, or drive it onto the bed.

• +Wheel clamps

  A clamped car can't move until the fee is paid with /payclamp. Police can take the clamp off.

• +Towing company trucks

  Towing keeps a trucker's accepted delivery. Vehicles with matching display plates keep separate controls, keys and towing records.

Bid steps

Getting a place

Buy

Dynasty 8 lists what's for sale. Prices move with the neighborhood.

Rent

Rooms at Davis Apartments and the Pink Cage Motel, rented from the Dynasty 8 app on your phone. $75 a PayDay, out of your bank.

Miss rent twice

You're evicted. No fine, no debt.

Use it or lose it

A rented room goes back on the market if you stop showing up.

Keys

/givekey hands a key to somebody you trust.

Lock up

Press E at the front door of a house you own or a room you rent to lock or unlock it.

Tours

A realtor can walk you through a place before you buy.

Living in it

Safes

Your storage is a safe you buy and place yourself.

Apartments share

An apartment's storage is open to anyone standing in the room.

Wardrobe

Save outfits at home and change in one go.

Labs

A house or a rented room can hold a lab.

Home insurance

Covers the goods a burglar takes, up to $50,000 a claim, and the clean cash from your safe, up to $100,000. Never dirty money.

Security system

Buy it at the insurance office and it goes on your home by itself. It tells you the moment somebody breaks in.

+What we built on top

• +Furniture you place by hand

  Every piece goes exactly where you put it.

• +Nothing gets lost

  Sell the house with furniture still in the box and you get your money back for it.

• +Done with a piece?

  Destroy furniture you placed and it's gone for good. What was stored in it comes back to you, and what doesn't fit waits in a box nearby for 30 minutes.

• +Break-ins

  Only while you're somewhere in the city. A burglar has five minutes once your door gives, and can take what you bought. Decorations are never part of it.

• +Police raids

  Police bring a battering ram.

Phones

No phone to start

Buy one at any Digital Den and put it in a belt slot to open it. Your number carries the area code of the store you bought it at.

Buy the handset, buy the plan

From a burner that only makes calls to the top model with every app.

Your number is yours

Lose your phone, buy a new one, and the number moves over. The old phone goes dead.

Apps

Calls, texts, camera, gallery, contacts, Y, ads+, taxi, mechanic, the car auction, Dynasty 8 and the dark web.

The dark web

On your phone. That's where a hit gets ordered.

Notifications

Settings has a switch for every app. Mute the ones you don't want. Calls always ring.

Payphones

Every payphone has its own number, shown above it when you're close. Call one and it rings for whoever is standing there.

In character

Post on Y from your phone. /ad to advertise. All of it is your character talking.

Food

Hunger

Your hunger drains as you play. At zero you start losing health. Eat.

Meals fill you

Burger Shot, Taco Farmer, Chihuahua Hotdogs, Last Train Diner and Horny's each serve three meals of their own. Staff on shift offer them at the counter, /acceptfood pays, and you eat it anywhere.

Snacks hold you

Snacks and drinks from a store don't fill you. They stop your hunger falling for about five minutes.

The kitchen is theirs

Restaurant owners set the prices and open or close from F4.

The casino

Chips

Buy in at the till. Every game plays with chips.

The floor

Slots, blackjack, roulette, poker and Inside Track.

Private tables

Texas Hold'em or Pot 21 for cash at the Club 77 lounge, player against player. The house takes nothing. You need 5 hours played.

Around the city

Billboards

Rent one from your phone and put your own image on it.

Events

Paintball, last-man-standing, flag hunts and a festival, run by staff.

The lottery

$500 a ticket at any 24/7. A drawing every three hours. Winners collect at City Hall.

Sprunk machines

Drop in a few dollars, grab the can, get a little health back.

Dice

A pair of dice from any convenience store. /dice rolls 1 to 10 for everyone nearby to see.

Weddings

At the church. /getmarried shows the steps. Bring your partner and a witness. The wedding costs $5,000.

Sit down

Chairs, stools, benches. If it's a seat, you can sit on it.

+What we built on top

• +Blackjack and roulette

  New tables on the casino floor.

• +Y

  The city's feed left the chat box. It has its own phone app now, and it's called Y. It comes with both smartphones.

• +Payphones that ring

  People nearby hear it. Somebody picks up.

• +Billboards you control

  Ads, tags, propaganda. Whatever your character wants the city to see.

What it gets you

More room

More cars to your name and more of them out at once.

More work

Hold and work a second job, or a third.

More interest

A higher cap on what your bank balance pays every PayDay.

Counter discount

At the corner store, the liquor store, the hardware store and the pharmacy's everyday shelf.

VIP locker

First aid, a vest and weapons.

The VIP lounge

One place

Everything a VIP needs under one roof, so you're not driving across the city for it.

Clothes corner

Change your look without the store.

Job centre

Pick up a job without City Hall.

Number desk

/vipnum picks your own phone number. Short ones cost more.

Fast travel and gifts

A way across the map and a safe with something in it.

+What we built on top

• +One lounge for all of it

  The clothes corner and the job centre moved inside.