CHAOS INDIVISVM

• Sim Rules

Updated: 03/26/2023 - March 26th, 2023

Authors: Dread Hudson, Hadet Sonnenkern, & Sam Huntsman

The most up to date ruleset will always be available at : https://docs.chaos.church/docs/sim-rules/

Don’t be stupid, Don’t try abusing loopholes. If you’re acting like a little kid, You will be treated like a little kid. If your group declares its intentions to be obnoxious little assholes don’t expect any quarter to be given, You are responsible for who you associate with.

Table of contents

1. General Rules - TL;DR VERSION
2. Expanded Rules - LONG VERSION
   1. I. Don’t be an Asshole:
3. II. Equipment: (Any device deployed on the field of battle)
   1. ALL EQUIPMENT:
   2. Weaponry :
      1. GUNS:
      2. MELEES:
      3. REPAIR TOOLS:
   3. Movement Enhancers :
   4. Deployables:
      1. Interceptors:
      2. Artillery:
      3. Teleporters:
      4. Auto Turrets:
      5. Repair capable Deployables
   5. Munitions:
      1. Direct Munitions:
      2. Radial Munitions:
4. III. Armour
   1. Vehicle Balance:
5. IV. Notes
   1. Rule Violations & Bans:
   2. Administrative Staff:
   3. HOW TO LBA

General Rules - TL;DR VERSION

1. Don’t shoot through walls
2. Don’t wireframe
3. Don’t use Mono or Invisible bullets, if you’re shooting the round must be visible. This includes raycast, glowy lasers are cool and high visibility is a tradeoff.
4. Raycast your Explosions, Melees, and Interceptors. If they go through walls don’t use them here. No group safe or repair munitions, and no auto melees.
5. Explosives should be interceptable, counter interceptors with chaff.
6. Infantry repair tools only
7. Don’t beta test gear without asking the OIC
8. LBA armor systems only

Expanded Rules - LONG VERSION

I. Don’t be an Asshole:

Examples of this include:

1. Intentional Primshooting
2. Using any form of Clientside Assistance. Wireframe, ARC, Collision Skeletons, Hitboxes, etc. If you are discovered to be doing this you’re gonna get griefed for pretty much forever.
3. Using anything you specifically ban in your sim. If you think it’s bullshit enough to ban it, You shouldn’t ever be using it.
4. Not listening to what the OIC says; If you’re being told not to do something then don’t do it.
5. Renaming equipment to get around the banned equipment enforcer. If it’s on that, it’s on it for a good reason, and trying to evade it may get your entire raid party griefed.
   • This will likely get you a week ban right off the bat.
6. Engaging people in non combat areas. The VR room is off limits for combat, as is the armoury and AFK room. If people are in these areas, they are busy doing other shit. If you kill people in these areas, you will be removed for a week minimum.
7. No AOs that are not included in your gun, and absolutely no flippy ninja jump animations. This is SL military army mans, not Magical girl naruto RP. Go play Genshin Impact.

II. Equipment: (Any device deployed on the field of battle)

ALL EQUIPMENT:

1. You are to use the most up to date versions of your gear at all times.
   • If you are using an outdated piece of equipment in order to gain an advantage over someone, you will be shit on.
   • Don’t Alpha-Beta-Tantrum test gear in our sim without asking the OIC. Having a piece of gear wildly change how it works based on how frustrated you get during the fight isn’t cool.
2. The rule of cool applies - If you do something cool that bends one of these rules, but let us know what it does and how it bends a rule, we may allow it.

Weaponry :

GUNS:

1. Don’t use Mono bullets. We will revoke your ability to rez bullets if you do this shit.
   • We’ve shown ALL of you why Mono bullets are a bad idea, and it takes literally 10 seconds to swap a script from mono
2. ALL WEAPONRY MUST HAVE A VISIBLE PROJECTILE!
   • THIS MEANS - YOUR RAYCAST WEAPONRY MUST HAVE A VISUAL TRAIL, LIKE A LASER, FROM THE POINT OF EMISSION TO POINT OF CONTACT. DO NOT MIX YOUR TRAIL AND KILL PRIM.
   • ALL BULLETS MUST BE CLEARLY VISIBLE, NO INVISIBLE OR NEARLY INVISIBLE BLACK BULLETS!
   • EXCEPTIONS CAN BE MADE FOR SUPPRESSED GUNS FIRING AT UNDER 150 M/S
3. Shotgun and shotgun hitscan methods must be publicly available on github, this does not mean you must open source your entire gun, just that the damage methodology is publicly available and transparent. Acceptable methods for shotguns include but are not limited to :
   • Exclusively Raycast (https://github.com/Krutchen/rc-pellet-shotguns) *Our preferred method, an example is available in the attacker spawn
   • Sensor Shotguns with distance & edge falloff (Not a flat damage falloff only cone)
   • Traditional Prim (ideally you should use one of the above methods) Shotguns MUST either have strictly partial damage pellets, or use a damage falloff system like in the rc-pellet-shotguns repo.
   • Exclusively Raycast (https://github.com/Krutchen/rc-pellet-shotguns) *Our preferred method, an example is available in the attacker spawn
   • Sensor Shotguns with distance & edge falloff (Not a flat damage falloff only cone)
   • Traditional Prim (ideally you should use one of the above methods) Shotguns MUST either have strictly partial damage pellets, or use a damage falloff system like in the rc-pellet-shotguns repo.

MELEES:

1. All melee weapons must utilize raycast checks to avoid killing avatars through obstructions.
2. Melee weapons should not have a kill range that exceeds 6 Meters from the attacking avatar
3. Keep melee ranges reasonable, below 5 meters unless it’s a two handed melee.
4. Melee weapons should have a cooldown between swings. Unless it’s a chainsaw that does partial damage, you shouldn’t be swinging as fast as you can mash the button. Automatic firerate for melee is gay.
5. No auto triggering melees. Triggering melee requires user input. Do note, however, that a big robot physically stepping on someone is a roadkill and not a melee.

REPAIR TOOLS:

1. Repairs may only be used at a distance of 5m or less from the object being repaired.
2. Repair tools must replace either a main-hand or offhand weapon.
3. Repairs given may not exceed 12 hp/sec under any circumstances.

Movement Enhancers :

• No one should be Avatar Flying around the sim, and your avatar shouldn’t be able to jump and fly from one end of the sim to the other.
  1. Dodgerolls must be a standard 10 meters or less, and may not be triggered mid air.
  2. Grappling hooks may be used only IF they are of the reeling variety. Examples of this are the issued Chaos Indivisvm grappling hook and the DECO Hook. Bathooks are not allowed!
  3. Jetpacks & Jump packs - Depending on the day and OIC, these may be allowed, however Jump and Jet packs MAY NOT refuel mid air.
  • There will be a display in the spawn informing you if we are limiting jump packs, if we are the scripted system will take care of the details.

Deployables:

Interceptors:

1. If you are using an grenade interceptor that is intercepting munitions through objects we will grief it and you.
2. You must utilize checks to ensure your interceptor does not intercept vehicles, such as planes. Ask, and you shall receive the code snippet.
3. We prefer if Interceptors are Sensor based as opposed to using VolumeDetect, the reason being to cut down on Collision Events.

Artillery:

1. Artillery may not auto-target avatars or objects.
2. Artillery may not utilize seeking munitions.
3. Artillery must have an operator within 10 meters, a visible and built upon upgrade that allows it to fire and reload automatically, or the remote operator must sacrifice something significant from their loadout in order to use the system. For example, our artillery pack requires the sacrifice of both a pack slot and a 2nd layer offhand slot, and while it can fire remotely, it does not seek targets on its own, nor does it fire on its own. You can just act as your own spotter, so to speak. Chaos OIC has final say on what constitutes a significant sacrifice.

Teleporters:

1. All Teleporters must have a SOLID hitbox of AT LEAST 1m x 1m x 1m
2. Drop Pods are also considered teleporters, and must have a end beacon that adheres to the same size requirement as teleporters.

Auto Turrets:

1. Turrets must have a lockon time of GREATER THAN 1 second, PREFERABLY adjusted to be longer the farther away a target is.
2. Turrets must not actively target through objects. Raycast that shit.
3. Turrets need to use a power grid and should be specialized, ie anti-infantry, anti-tank, anti-air, not anti-everything

Repair capable Deployables

Repair deployables are not allowed. This includes drones and deployable repair auras, basically any deployable that repairs anything else, regardless if it’s armor, other deployables, or anything else you can think of. The only thing doing repairs should be a dedicated repair tool. These always snowball extremely hard and nobody ever makes them as fragile as they ‘ought to be. A deployable that repairs itself will NEVER be allowed in a Chaos Sim.

Munitions:

Direct Munitions:

• (Bullets, Rockets, etc, what makes contact and/or deploys radial munitions)

1. Standard damage enabled projectiles (Bullets) must die on collision with solid surfaces.
2. Projectile Rotations should be locked through llSetStatus(STATUS_ROTATE_X|STATUS_ROTATE_Y|STATUS_ROTATE_Z,0); on any non arcing munition, excluding seekers. Munitions that arc through the air, ie grenades, mortars, etc, should have X and Z locked regardless. This is to prevent projectiles from wildly ricocheting.
3. Explosive projectiles should be no smaller than 0.06 meters, height and widthwise, non-phantom, and should be able to be countered by all interception systems. The counter to interception systems is Chaff, not making your explosive projectiles the same size as regular bullets. Low yield explosive bullets are the only exception to this rule. (Example, 3m bolter explosions, 1m kill and partial damage to the 3m mark)
4. Projectile Density should be set to 1000 or lower, to prevent bullets from bouncing physical vehicles.
5. Munitions must be fired along a interceptable trajectory. Under no circumstances can something warp from position A to position B with something between it.
6. Seeking Munitions must adhere to the following:
   • Seeking Munitions must utilize physical movement, and must comply with the explosive munition hitbox regulation.
   • Seeking Munitions must utilize a raycast line-of-sight check for detected targets, and must not lock on if said raycast is obstructed.
   • Seeking Munitions may only proximity detonate on targeted aircraft and airborne avatars, and only within 5 meters of said locked on target.
   • Seeking Munitions may only deliver AT to the object they collide with.
   • Seeking Munition delivery systems may ONLY target ground-based vehicles OR airborn targets. Never both, under any circumstances. Use a raycast check for 15 meters FROM or ON a surface. Do-everything weapon systems are are lame.
7. Flak Munitions, defined as any proximity detonating non-seeking projectile, must adhere to the following:
   • Flak Munitions must utilize a raycast line-of-sight check for detected avatars, and must not detonate on if said raycast is obstructed.
   • Flak Munitions must utilize a raycast height check, and must not detonate if the target is under 15 meters from a surface
   • Flak Munitions may only proximity detonate within 10 meters of a detected entity.
   • Flak Munitions may do a maximum of 5 AT to a detected entity. Please scale according to the firing platform, At full auto, 5 AT is plenty for a vehicle, but unreasonable for infantry. You do not want to have a Hydra with 10 AT flak rounds swatting all your aircraft out of the sky.
   • Flak Munitions may not distinguish between friend or foe.
8. EXPLOSIVE OR AT BULLETS - Unless it’s coming from a really big vehicle mounted gun, pick one or the other. If it’s from Infantry, they should be fired at a low RPM.
   • Don’t do dweeby “I wanna win” shit with 2+ AT Miniguns that melt tanks, at least 1 LBA bullets can be countered by hulling down with LBA-D.

Radial Munitions:

• (Explosions, Gas, Smoke, Etc. Anything that isn’t a bullet)

1. All munitions, excluding the single instance (sec. 2) described below, must utilize raycast checks to avoid killing avatars through obstructions.
2. High yield explosives, such as those fired from an appropriate artillery platform, at a velocity of under 50 meters a second, and that are fully effected by gravity, may do partial damage (based on distance), through obstructions. That means a siege gun, not a MBT.
3. Under no circumstance may a munition be Group Safe. Scripted objects intended to render someone immune from a particular form of munition (such as gasmasks) count as that munition being group-safe (we cannot control nor trust you on its responsible use).
4. Repair munitions are not allowed.

III. Armour

(Anything that tracks HP)

1. Due to inconsistent scripting, people still having their armour and movement functions in the same script, and the fact that it is now a COMMUNITY STANDARD with nearly every ACTIVE group having adopted it, LBA Systems Sourced from the MASTER branch on the official LBA GitHub Repository are the only accepted armor systems in this Sim. If you are testing an update to one of these systems, please notify the OIC ahead of time.
   • Future forks of the LBA project are either still in development or not open-sourced well enough and are not allowed at this time. Unmerged Pull Requests are not officially supported.
   • Non-Directional LBA Systems must not reduce any damage put into it, except for when the anti-grief system, USING STOCK VALUES, is triggered.
   • Directional LBA must provide verbose hit reports. This means it has to regionsay to the attacker how damage is being modified. 2.LBA Light Systems must accept all collisions over 10 meters a second.
2. Vehicle sitbases must accurately track and maintain cohesion with your vehicle hitbox. Your sitbase and avatar must also be centered in a solid portion of your vehicle.
3. Vehicle Hitboxes must accurately represent the visual model.
4. No HP tracking object may be Volume Detect. If any portion of a deployable is utilizing volume detect, a seperate HP tracking SOLID hitbox must accompany it. This hitbox must be AT LEAST 1x1x1m in size.
5. AT Emitters, for damaging collision based systems, must be PHANTOM, and may not lock vehicles in place or bounce them around via high density AT prims.
6. Keep your Armour script & Movement scripts in your vehicles seperate, for the best possible responsiveness when taking damage. This is mandatory.
7. Armour may not self-repair under any circumstances. This includes passengers inside a vehicle repairing ANY vehicle with otherwise legal tools.
   • The only exception to this are riot shields, which may only be carried by infantry, and may heal ONE (1) point of damage per 2.5 seconds until they are either destroyed or not in use. Riot shields ‘Respawning’ after being broken may heal TWO (2) points of damage per 2.5 seconds. ‘Respawning’ riot shields must be inactive until FULLY recovered. Riot shields may repair to full (respawn) upon avatar death.

Vehicle Balance:

Because people are getting fucking retarded about it, Here’s a refresher course in “why is my gunship being thrown off sim?” or “why are all of my prims being returned?”.

1. Armour Values should reflect the size, speed, and firepower of the vehicle being used. If your tank has an excess of 500 HP and several powerful weapon systems, It should naturally be moving at a snails pace.
2. Exposed operator vehicles of any kind should never exceed 25 HP, This goes for motorcycles, hoverbikes, hoverboards, riding lawnmowers, and whatever else people come up with.
3. Gunships may never exceed 150 HP.
   • What is a Gunship? An armoured flying vehicle with the main function of engaging ground targets. These are generally operated by one or two people.
   • Dropships may have up to 250 HP.
   • What is a Dropship you may ask? A flying vehicle with the main function of transporting combatants to an area. They are generally lightly armed, or have crewed weapons, rather than being a one man killing machine.
4. Automatic interception systems on vehicles are ONLY allowed for fleetships. This is due to fleetships presenting an extremely large, obvious target, that utilize little to no cover, with limited mobility. They are naval vessels, not agile jet fighters. Triggered flares are allowed on non fleet aircraft.

IV. Notes

Rule Violations & Bans:

1. There is now a three strike policy in place regarding violating the rules.
   • On your first offense, you will get a warning, then you will get locked in placed and/or glassed to make you pay attention, and then administrative action will be taken.
   • Afterwards, No warning will be given.
   • Ban lengths - Offenses will be considered consecutive within the timespan of a week after expiration, If you’re being an obnoxious little jackass about it, it will be a month.
   • This means if you get banned for 72 hours, and then come back six days later to act like a shithead again, your next ban will be for a week.
   • The first offense will be met with a 24 hour ban.
   • The second offense will be 72.
   • The third offense will be for a week.
   • Any offenses after this will be considered third offense.
   • You will not be PERMANENTLY banned for anything other than Sim Crashing, Graphics Crashing, Abuse Reporting, Intentionally disrupting sim performance (ie turning off rezzing or physics).
   • If you were banned for any reason a thread will have been made to log the ban. If a ban report cannot be found, the ban will be lifted after a period of 24 hours, to allow for any banning admin to explain it and provide said thread. They will be made fun of for not having done this beforehand.
   • If you feel you have been unjustly banned, and aren’t just being a little smartass about it, Contact Hadet Sonnenkern, Dread Hudson, or Sam Huntsman. Punishment will be issued to the appropriate parties. This includes you.

Administrative Staff:

• OIC
• Command Staff

• Land Group Moderators.

• While we may not ban you if you’re doing something exceptionally stupid we may remove your ability to rez objects for some time and/or lock you in place until you have cooled down.

HOW TO LBA

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