[Guide] Getting started.
Posted: June 3rd, 2013, 5:53 am
Italy Mafia Roleplay Newcomer's Guide
First of all, I'd like, on behalf of the whole community to welcome you to our unique role-play server. This is the original one and any other copy is to be reported to the server management as it's breaking the copyright terms and conditions. I have decided to create a guide to help the newcomers of the server get started within and learn the ropes.
Table of Contents
I. Forum Directory
II. Spawning
III. Jobs
IV. Transportation & Vehicles
V. Housing
|____________Additional Help___________|
VI. Factions / Organizations
VII. Contact
VIII. Being a Good Roleplayer
IX. Other / Notes
X. Credits
I. Forum Directory
II. Spawning
III. Jobs
IV. Transportation & Vehicles
V. Housing
|____________Additional Help___________|
VI. Factions / Organizations
VII. Contact
VIII. Being a Good Roleplayer
IX. Other / Notes
X. Credits
Description: This link is the first link you should read carefully before you begin playing. It is highly recommended that you read the rules in order to not get yourself punished for things you do not know are forbidden. If you find you did not understand a few of the rules, helpers will get back to you if you kindly ask them for support/explanations.
Community Announcements) viewforum.php?f=8
Description: For obvious reasons, official community announcements are important and a must-read. It is a way to stay up-to-dated to the newest development, management etcetera News within the community.
Server Documentation) viewforum.php?f=11
Description:As pronounced, this section contains information and commands about our unique server, along with the Server Changelog. The Changelog is a way to stay up-to-dated to the server revisions and script updates aswell.
Newbie Guides) viewforum.php?f=12
Description: Probably one of the most important sections for a newbie player, who is still not used to our server. This section recovers different guides in order to help you understand our game-mode faster, and easier. It also contains some important role-play guides that you should not miss reading if you want to become a decent role-player.
Once you login, you should spawn at the Unity Station, where it is most likely to role-play that you have just came from out of town and about to live & stay in Los Santos. At the location, there exists several green Premiers; those cars are made for you to explore the server and can be used by level 1-5 players only! Pick any of these cars and turn your engine on ('/engine'). A message should pop up saying that you need a driver license as soon as possible. Actually, you can drive the car even without a driver license, but you should expect cops to annoy you about that. Your next step is use '/helpme' where a list of locations will appear. Click on "Driver License" and head to the marker set on your radar. That's called the DMV. Enter the building through pressing 'F'/'Enter' or writing '/enter'. Head to the text saying /driverlic and do '/driverlic'. Bare in mind that it will cost you $7,500, you fail or not. Once doing so, you will be teleported outside the building in a white Stafford; those are the exam vehicles. You are required to drive slowly (below 115km/h) and have the vehicle's health at least 85%, failure to do so will get you automatically failed and teleported to the DMV. Once you have successfully passed your exam, your next step would be heading to the bank and loaning money. That maximum amount you can loan is $25.000, it'll do it though. There exists 4 banks located around the city (Temple, Rodeo, Mall, East Los Santos). It is better that you find them in-characterly though, so I will not show you where they are located exactly. Once you have loaned the money, your next step would be buying your basic stuff, also know as cellphone, phonebook, radio, laptop and probably iPod. These items can be found in a 24/7. Use '/buy' to locate the nearest 24/7 to you, once you arrived to the marker and the business is open, press F to enter it and use '/buy' again inside. A list of items should appear if the business in stock. Pick whatever you want to buy and press 'ESC' or click on cancel. In case the business is out of stock, you need to go look for another one.
Next step would be changing your skin, as the skin you spawn with is not so decent and might not fit for the character you are willing to role-play. Use '/clothes' to locate the nearest clothes shop, once arrived, enter the business and /clothes again. A list of skins should appear; pick the one you think is suitable for you. There are restricted skins, it means are available for "x" faction only.
"Oh yes! Now I got everything!" - Yes, you do. It's your time to start role-playing now. Simply head to a place where most of the players hang around (Mainbank for example) and start creating role-play. Being rammed or death-matched in worst cases is something you should expect in a medium and newbie friendly role-play server, so don't get pissed off and immediately quit, but tell the people who committed the rule-break that what they are doing is totally wrong and should be corrected.
Any questions or support may be asked through '/ask' or '/irc'. Please avoid contacting admins/helpers about admin/helper stuff through /pm.
Once you've picked a job, use '/jobhelp' to get information on what that job consists of, what commands are used in it, and '/jobstats' to get your job's statistics.
By browsing the Newbie Guides section, you should be able to find some guides to jobs.
Just like in real life, there exists Taxis and taxi drivers in the server, simply call a Taxi to your location by entering '/service taxi'. A driver should respond to you if he's on duty.
There exists levels of interiors for houses. For obvious reasons, owners are the only ones who are able to upgrade/downgrade their house's interior. In addition to the interior system, there are houses where you can use '/heal' at to get a half-armor (if not LEO) and full health, half-armor (if not LEO) only, and full health only. Depends on the house's up-gradation. More information about the housing system and commands are to be listed by using '/house help'.
As you are new, I doubt if you need to get in-depth information about businesses, so I'll just keep it brief and say use '/biz help' - You won't be able to use this command if you do not own a business though.
|___________Additional Help___________|
Faction system can be found by clicking here.
There, of course, exists legal and illegal factions. The illegal factions are Corleone, Stracci, Barzini, Tattaglia, Paterno, Kemirov, Leone and S.D.C., as for the Governmental and legal ones, we have Government (closed for some reasons), Police (LSPD, SASF, SAN and LS EMS.
Each faction has some requirements and conditions for joining, but you won't join one if you still are not able to role-play properly or speak English fluently sometimes.
We have also got a section made for questions & support: viewforum.php?f=13
You can get to meet our staff by visiting this section: viewforum.php?f=154 and know what it is consisting of through this link: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=21
Tyler McCormick wrote: As a new player, people will usually refer to you as a "noob", but don't worry, we all were one at one point, some players can get really mean about it but ignore them, they're usually the people who can't roleplay too well themselves. Follow this section's steps to find out how to be a good roleplayer.
The /me Command
It shocks me that so many new players don't know what this is. The /me command simply describes an action that your character is doing. For example:
/me places both of his hands into his pocket.
** Player_Name places both of his hands into his pocket. **
There you go, simple as that, you have just opened the door to endless opportunities of roleplaying.
The /do Command
The /do command is much like the /me command except it can be used to describe something your character is not doing himself but it describes the environment around them or it can be used to reply to a /me command. For example:
/do A large boom is heard and the airbag deploys, Player lays unconscious in the seat.
** A large boom is heard and the airbag deploys, Player lays unconscious in the seat. (( Player_Name )) **
Grammar / Punctuation
One of the most important thing to a lot of players in roleplay is proper grammar and punctuation while roleplaying because if you can't understand what the person is trying to say then it makes it a horrible roleplaying experience and usually leaves both parties unsatisfied.
Capital Letters - The first thing we'll start you off with is capital letters. These will make your sentences look more professional and make it look like a third grader didn't write it.
To-Do's
-Every sentence starts with a capital letter, every time you enter a period a capital letter will follow.
-Names and locations all start with capital letters.
Don't-Do's
-FULL CAPITAL LETTER SENTENCES ARE VERY ANNOYING, EVEN WHEN TRYING TO ADD EMPHASIS IT IS VERY ANNOYING, INSTEAD JUST CAPITALIZE WORDS YOU WANT TO PUT EMPHASIS.
-Capitalizing Every Word In a Sentence Can Also Be Annoying, Please Don't Do This As It Will Expand The Life Of Your Shift Button And It Will Save You Some Time While Typing.
- Try not to randomly place words that shouldn't be Capitalized in the middle of a sentence, it looks weird.
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Punctuation Punctuation is also important in roleplaying.
The Period You always add a period to the end of a sentence, periods are used to add a longer pause to your character's sentence.
The Comma Commas are used a couple of ways. The first way is to separate things when you're listing something, for example:
I went to the store earlier and bought some apples, oranges, bananas and pineapples.
Commas are also used to add a short pause to your speaking, for example:
I was walking down the street when the asian man approached me, I looked at him strangely and he moved closer, soon enough he was standing in front of me offering me drugs.
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Contractions I always see a lot of people get confused with contractions, contractions are simply ways to make it shorter to type and to combine two words. There are too many to list here so you can just head over to THIS SITE.
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There, Their, They're / Its and It's / Two, Too, and To.
They all sound the same but they all mean something different, I'll list the meanings below.
There
There is used to describe a location, for example:
Put those socks in the dresser over there.
Their
Their is used to describe the possession of a group of people, for example:
The people across the street got into their car and drove away.
They're
They're is a contraction for "THEY ARE", this is to describe an action of a group of people.
They're going to come over our house at 3:00 PM
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Its
Its does not follow the rule of the the possessive apostrophe s, but it is infact referring to something someone has. For example:
"The dog began to chew on its bone."
It's
It's is a contraction for "IT IS", you can use this to describe something.
"It's awfully hot outside today, isn't it?"
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Two
Two is used to describe the quantity or the amount of something, for example:
"There were two papers on the desk and one of them was ripped."
Too
Too is used two ways (See how confusing it can be?). The first way is to replace the word "also". For example:
"Amef wanted to play SA:MP and Damian wanted to play SA:MP too.
The other example is when you want to describe an excess quantity of something.
There were too many police patrolling to start a street race."
To
To is used in a couple of ways as well, the first way is to describe the way something if the other two don't fit.
"The Native Americans went to the river to bathe."
Quotation Marks
Quotation marks are used to wrap the speech someone did, if you're writing about something that someone said you would use quotation marks, for example:
The man came up to me and said "How much wood can a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"
After reading this you should be a decent roleplayer in no time, please do keep in mind the regular rules of the server and you'll be all set.
This guide will be regularly updated by me or any other moderator when it is required to. A changelog is posted below. If you find a grammar or any mistake, feel free to say so.
Please, it took me so much effort and 5 hours to make this guide, so keep your offensive comments for you.
Converted to an Italy Mafia and written by Aleya.
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Changelog
03.06.2013 - Fixed some grammar and conjugation mistakes. - Added X. Credits
More to be added...