ORGANIZATION RULES

1. Organization Progression

2. Recognition

2.1 Recognition Must Be Earned Through RP

• New groups must establish themselves in city before applying for whitelist status.
• Build a recognizable identity, lore, relationships, allies, rivals, business/criminal connections, and reputation through actual IC interaction.
• Create RP for other people. An organization should contribute stories to the city rather than exist only to farm crime mechanics or gunfights.
• Staff may observe activity, consistency, leadership, rule compliance, and how the group interacts with civilians, government departments, businesses, and other organizations.
• There is no automatic timer or checklist that guarantees recognition.
• Recognition is not based on wealth, kills, guns, cars, roster size, or OOC spending.

2.2 What Staff May Consider

• Consistent organization identity and lore.
• An active roster whose members actually RP as the organization.
• Meaningful IC connections and a reputation that other characters have learned through RP.
• Stories beyond robberies and shootouts.
• Leadership's ability to control its members and handle losses/conflict without OOC drama.
• Rule compliance and overall contribution to the city.
• Whether the organization has developed naturally enough that being 'recognized' makes sense IC.

2.3 Recognition Is Not Whitelist

Recognition only makes an organization eligible to apply. Staff may recognize a group and later deny or defer its whitelist application if the group is not ready for whitelist responsibilities.

3. Whitelist Eligibility & Benefits

• Only a Recognized Organization may submit a Whitelisted Organization application.
• Zentra may maintain a maximum of six whitelisted gangs/criminal organizations at one time.
• A minimum of five active members is required to apply and remain whitelisted.
• Leadership must provide an accurate roster and organization lore when requested.
• Whitelist review considers the organization as a whole, including its leadership, RP quality, conduct, consistency, and city contribution.
• Whitelist status may be reviewed for inactivity, repeated strikes, severe violations, or abandonment of the RP that earned recognition.

3.1 Whitelisted Organization Bundle

The organization bundle is a benefit unlocked after whitelist approval. It does not purchase or guarantee whitelist status.

• Only an approved Whitelisted Organization may purchase the official organization bundle/package.
• The bundle may include an organization MLO, vehicles, weapon benefits/access, custom clothing, a custom drug benefit, and other assets announced by Zentra.
• MLOs, organization vehicles, weapon benefits, custom drug benefits, and the full bundle are whitelist-only unless Zentra explicitly announces otherwise.
• Purchasing the bundle does not protect an organization from strikes, disbandment, inactivity review, or loss of whitelist status.

3.2 Pre-Whitelist Clothing

A Recognized Organization may request limited custom clothing before whitelist approval. This must be discussed with staff in a ticket before the group purchases, commissions, or expects the clothing to be added.

• Approval is case-by-case and is not guaranteed.
• Pre-whitelist clothing does not grant whitelist status or whitelist benefits.
• Staff may consider recognition status, activity, branding, technical feasibility, asset quality, and the group's conduct.

4. General Organization Rules

• All organizations must follow all Server Rules and criminal regulations.
• Attempting to run another gang out of the city through OOC harassment is prohibited. This includes conduct in and out of city.
• Taking IC gang beef OOC may result in individual punishment and organization strikes.
• Friends/non-members may not wear colors, use gang radio, or act as unofficial roster members to bypass limits.
• Posting IC imagery involving defeated rivals may be allowed when it follows platform/server rules, but OOC harassment is never allowed.
• Do not impersonate another organization.
• Organizations may not claim public civilian businesses or heavily trafficked public spaces as exclusive turf or use gang status to push normal businesses out without valid RP.
• All criminal interaction limits still apply unless a specific organization/war rule changes them.

5. Starting & Maintaining an Organization

5.1 Name & Colors

• Organizations must use a distinct name and may not intentionally create confusion with an existing organization.
• Organizations should establish their colors/branding through RP. Similar colors alone are not a valid reason for OOC conflict.
• Staff may mediate identity conflicts where two groups are intentionally creating confusion.

5.2 Roster

• Maximum roster: 25 members. No unofficial additionals may be used to bypass the cap.
• One Boss/Leader maximum and up to two Underbosses under the current structure.
• Whitelisted organizations must maintain at least five active members.
• Roster updates must be submitted through the designated gang Discord/ticket process when requested.
• Staff does not need to sit in a private gang Discord unless leadership voluntarily chooses that arrangement.

5.3 Lore

• Recognized/whitelisted organizations must maintain organization lore.
• Members should maintain character lore consistent with their membership.
• Groups are expected to generally follow the identity/lore they used to earn recognition. Lore does not excuse rule-breaking.

5.4 Turf / Gang Block

• Formal turf/block requests should identify the claimed area clearly, such as with a map image.
• Public businesses and major civilian spaces cannot simply be claimed as exclusive gang property.
• Recognition does not automatically grant turf. Whitelist does not automatically grant unlimited territory.
• Turf claims should create RP and remain subject to staff balancing.

6. Joining, Leaving & Disbanding

• All joins/leaves must be reflected on the official roster.
• Leaving members must notify organization leadership and complete the required staff/ticket process.
• The existing free-agent rule uses a five-day cooldown after the required ticket/process. During cooldown, the player may not rep another gang, use another gang's radio, or act as an unofficial member.
• The prior wording also referenced one week; this rewrite standardizes the cooldown at five days unless staff announces a new duration.
• An organization name may be placed on a one-week cooldown after disbandment.
• Members of a disbanded organization may be prevented from immediately creating a replacement group for two weeks under the current rule.
• Recognition and whitelist status do not transfer automatically to renamed, successor, splinter, or rebuilt organizations.

7. Gang vs. Gang Interactions

• Cooldown between the same two gangs is one hour unless approved war terms change it.
• Gang colors should be represented during organization conflict. Heists/robberies may reasonably involve concealment.
• Outside turf, both sides may have up to eight members in a gang interaction unless a lower server/heist rule applies.
• On a gang turf, the defending organization may use its present members under the existing rule, subject to server/staff limits.
• Social media may continue existing beef, but a gang war may not be created solely through Twitter/social-media trash talk.
• An organization may 'spin' an opposing group once under the existing rule; retaliation must still follow cooldown/war rules.
• Groups may not create endless retaliation loops to bypass cooldowns.
• Organizations may actively beef with no more than two other organizations at one time under the current rule.

8. Gang vs. Civilian Interactions

• Cooldown between an organization and the same civilian group is one hour.
• Criminal hot spots are not automatic kill zones.
• When pressing civilians at a controlled criminal spot, create RP and give meaningful choices where practical.
• Existing options may include fighting, paying a tax, leaving, or being robbed of location-related criminal items.
• A compliant civilian should not be killed without an additional story-based reason.
• Organizations may not repeatedly farm the same civilians or camp legal jobs.

9. War Terms

• War terms must be discussed in a ticket with both organization leaders included.
• Both leaders must agree before special terms take effect.
• Approved terms may modify interaction time, member counts outside turf, or attacker/defender numbers.
• RDM, VDM, OOC harassment, safe-zone rules, and other core server rules cannot be waived.
• If police become actively involved, normal city rules and lawful police RP take priority over private war terms.
• Organizations that use wars/shootouts as their primary form of RP may have recognition/whitelist status reviewed.

10. Hot Spots & Turf

• Hot spots may include drug processing points, drug ingredient collection points, weapon benches, and other staff-designated criminal locations.
• An organization may control one hot spot at a time unless staff announces otherwise.
• Two organizations may not simultaneously hold the same formally recognized hot spot.
• Control requires actual IC presence/monitoring. An unattended location becomes open for RP.
• Controlling a hot spot permits organization RP such as pressing, taxing, negotiating with, robbing, or fighting players when normal interaction rules are met.
• Hot-spot control never creates blanket KOS permission.
• Corner selling and possession of drugs may still create criminal RP outside formally controlled hot spots.

11. Gang vs. Police

• Organization members must follow the same police-interaction rules as other criminals unless a specific approved scene rule applies.
• Do not use gang numbers or turf as an excuse for cop baiting.
• Police arriving at gang conflict does not automatically end the IC story, but participants must respond to lawful police RP and the applicable city rules.
• Private war terms do not bind police unless a written server rule specifically says otherwise.
• Robbing, kidnapping, or attacking police still requires legitimate RP and cannot be done merely to obtain police equipment or start a shootout.

12. Discipline & Loss of Status

• Three active organization strikes may result in disbandment.
• Individual punishments may be issued alongside organization strikes when the conduct warrants both.
• Under the existing rule, one strike may fall off after two weeks of good behavior; severe conduct may be treated differently by staff.
• Recognition may be paused or revoked for repeated rule violations, inactivity, OOC gang drama, or abandoning the RP that earned recognition.
• Whitelist status may be suspended or revoked independently of full disbandment.
• Loss of whitelist status removes access to whitelist-only purchasing and benefits going forward. Handling of already-added assets follows Zentra's purchase terms and the specific staff action.
• A disbanded or de-whitelisted group cannot evade consequences by immediately renaming or recreating itself.