[Guide] The Beginner's Ultimate Guide

[Viscaria]

This guide is to serve new players to help get them started on our wonderful server without overwhelming them of the many features and will provide them with everything they need to know in order to jump into roleplay.
 

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So you got wind of this heavy-roleplay text based server and you just can't wait to jump in and start playing, but before you do, you need to make a character, this section will cover all things related to just that.

While waiting for your whitelist to be approved by members of the Support Team, you don't simply have to wait around twiddling your fingers, you can already begin the process of making your character. Your character must have a backstory, and this is the perfect time to begin this, open up notepad or any other text program and start picking your mind and typing away at who your first character is going to be.
 

Below are some pointers to avoid;
- Your character must be the age of 16 or above unless you plan on joining them into a gang as per server rules, these characters cannot be younger than 12.
- Don't name your character after someone famous, it's against the rules, use a proper name and not something trollish or memey.
- Make your character have both strengths and weaknesses, they are not superman.
- Be consistent with your characters backstory.

Take your time when writing your characters backstory and really get yourself immersed in it while making it plausible and enjoyable for yourself.
 

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So you got accepted into the whitelist? congratulations! time to get in to the game and create your character.
Make sure that when you log in to the server that you use the proper upper and lowercase with your username from the UCP.

Try to make your character look the part of who they are

Is your character a 14 year old gangbanger? try to make them look young to reflect that. Is your character an old man with back problems? add some grey hair and wrinkles. Do what you can in the customization to reflect your character for who they are, doing this will give you respect from the community. Don't worry if you can't add that detail you're looking for in the customization such as having a big scar across your face and more, you can add these details into your attributes that other players can view, we'll go into that later. Don't make your character have a 6 inch nose, its both unrealistic and against the rules, an admin will most likely force you to change it and you may be punished, your characters appearance must stay within realism.

So now you're picking some clothes for your character, you don't need to worry too much about this as there are clothing stores in-game and you can change them at any point for a measly $100 which isn't a lot. Wondering why your arms or stomach are clipping through your clothing? try cycling through the torso options to find the right one that isn't clipping.

Controls

F3 - Toggles your cursor on and off.
F4 - Toggles the left hand side clothing interface on and off allowing you to view and type in chat.
Arrow Keys - Will allow you to cycle through the clothing options, alternatively you can use the mouse.

 

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Your character arrives to Los Santos, or has already been living here, all depending on your characters backstory. You will spawn in at the Los Santos International Airport (LSIA), since its your first time logging onto the server with a new character, you will be prompted to start the tutorial. It's highly advised to run through this as it will give you a few pointers as well as a free car and a phone to get you started. Once you've received your car from the car park across the road from your spawn point, you will get the option to register your car or not, if you don't, it means that your car will not have a license plate and if driven, will be illegal, registering your car comes with a free 30 days of insurance. Continue to follow the tutorial and read through what its telling you in the chat, it will lead you to the phone store where you'll buy your first phone. It will then lead you towards the licensing center where you can buy multiple licenses for your character, start with getting your driving license, unless you plan on driving illegally without one.

Once you've finished your driving test you'll now own a driving license and be legal on the roads!
If you, for what ever reason didn't register your car, you can /call 206 to register your car after receiving your phone, make sure you're seated in the car.

If you have to restart the tutorial at any point for whatever reason, you can use the command /setstep 0-25.

Tutorial Screenshots

 

Spoiler

Vehicle Controls / Commands

Y - Turns your engine on / off. (Use /engine if this bugs.)
W, A, S, D - Forward, reverse, left and right.
Spacebar - Handbrake.
F - Enter driver seat / exit vehicle.
G - Enter passenger seat.
H - Headlights. Press multiple times to toggle high beams and off.
E - Horn.
L - Locks / Unlocks your vehicle.
/vg - Opens the menu to spawn your vehicle.
/vp - Despawns your vehicle.
/fuel - Refuels your vehicle. (Must be at a Gas Station on the blue blip with your engine off, must remain in the car while the script finishes.)
/vd r, /vd l, /vd rr, vd rl - Opens / Closes each car door.
/vw, /vw r, /vw l, /vw rr, /vw rl - Opens / Closes each car window.
/hood - Opens / Closes the hood.
/trunk - Opens / Closes the trunk.
/cw [text] - Whispers inside the vehicle, visible only to the people inside the vehicle.
/cb [text] - Out of character chat visible only to the people inside the vehicle.

While in your vehicle with all windows up, only the people inside your vehicle will be able to see messages in /low.
 

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There's a few different type of jobs that you can do to get yourself started. You can work at a 24/7, farm grain, go fishing, trucking, garbage collector and more.
While the starting script jobs aren't all that bad, I highly recommend keeping your eyes open for advertisements from other players that are recruiting employee's for their businesses, you will find more enjoyment roleplaying with other people more often. You can find people listing job advertisements here on the forums.
 

Trucking - Deliver goods to player owned businesses so that their stock doesn't run out. Make sure that you don't race when doing this, admins will punish you for it.
Farming - A simple script that helps out on a local farm to harvest grain, which you then sell for a profit.
Taxi Driver - Become a taxi driver and drive real players around to their destinations.
Fishing - Make some extra bucks by going fishing and enjoy some peace.
Garbage Collector - Collect trash bags from the messy streets of Los Santos. Keep in mind to not rush and roleplay properly.
Other jobs, 24/7, Ammunation, Gas Station, Mask Shop and more - This list will offer you all kind of jobs that you can roleplay around with other players.

You will get $5,000 per hour online for your first 40 hours for a total of $200,000 to get you started on the server.
 

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Immerse yourself into the sandbox that is GTA World, there's a vast amount of things for you to discover and roleplay, you'll come to experience them over your time on the server.
Start by familiarizing yourself with the Personal Assistant by pressing (i), here you'll find a lot of useful things to access, specifically the list of open businesses where you can go to and roleplay with other people, these can vary from many different things, from nightclubs, mechanic garages, cafes, bars, gift stores, liquor stores, airsoft - the list is endless! Your character will start to meet others in-game and no doubt you'll start doing things together and before long you'll realize how hooked you are. Make sure you study the rules so that you avoid punishable offenses. You can also read up on other player guides to help you progress. There's a lot of features on this server that you may also want to check out. Make sure you join the Discord Server - Should you need help or have questions there are plenty of lovely people who are willing to help you, refer to the newbie-help, support-game and support-web channels.

Stay consistent with the character that you're roleplaying. If your character is 16 years old they're not gonna own a luxury sports car, nor will a 25 year old working at a 24/7. Take time to really consider if your character would realistically be able to do or own something before you waste your time roleplaying something unrealistic which people may frown upon. There's no such thing as having nothing to do on this server, you can always use your head to create roleplay no matter the situation, for example - Let's say your character is homeless with no cash and is also a drug addict, you could attempt to rob someone, or a 24/7 for food. There are tons of ways to create roleplay, you just need to pick at your head to formulate it.

Be mindful of your attitude - Never mix your Out of Character feelings In-Character, remember that no matter what happens, if you get shot, are Player Killed, Robbed, that it's all roleplay and development for your character, there is never a "loss" in my eyes because the only thing of true value in roleplay is the roleplay itself.

Common Roleplay Terminology

IC (In-Character) - This means that you're actively roleplaying your character or are requesting / referring to in-character events or situations.
OOC (Out of Character) - The opposite of IC, you're currently not roleplaying your character or are referring to something out of character.
Metagaming (MG) - Using out of character knowledge in-character, whether it is beneficial to your character or not. This is against the rules.
Powergaming (PG) - When your character roleplays taking action that they wouldn't be able to realistically do, or against another player without giving them a chance to respond and actively roleplay with your actions. This is against the rules.
Fade to Black (FTB) - This means that a section of roleplay will be played out passively with a few lines of text and not actively.
Voided - This means that a particular moment of roleplay essentially never happened and your character completely forgets about it, only admins can void a roleplay situation.
Deathmatching (DM) - When a player randomly kills another player without cause or reason. This is against the rules.
Vehicular Deathmatching (VDM) - When a player randomly kills other players by the means of running them over. This is against the rules.
Player Kill (PK) - When your character has been killed. You will be able to respawn but will drop most of your items on your corpse besides your phone and licenses (never return to a scene to loot your body this is against the rules). All events leading up to your death your character must totally forget about.
Character Kill (CK) - This means your character is killed permanently, gone from the server forever. CK's will show globally in the chat "John Doe has been killed." in red text. You can choose to CK yourself by doing a /report requesting it from an admin, but remember that you can only name change a character using real life money from the shop, donator packages will receive certain benefits per month, every package contains 1 name change per month. Admins can also choose to CK your character if you don't properly roleplay fear with your character. Players can also request for CK permissions from admins on the forums, but it must be a valid cause for doing so. If you feel your character was wrongly character killed, you can appeal it to admins here. You can also delete a character once every 2 weeks, this will not save your assets like a name change and will work like a fresh character slot.

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There are a ton of commands in GTA World, over time you will become more accustomed with them, but for now, here are some more common and useful ones to help you get started.

Roleplay Commands
T - Opens the text box allowing you to type.
/s [text] - Allows your character to shout, extending the reach of your text.
/low [text] - Allows your character to speak in a low tone, reducing the distance at which people can see you type. (/l for short.)
/w [name] - Whispers to another player. Only the other player will see this message and its used for in character purposes.
/b - This is the Out of Character text chat, should only be used if necessary.
/me [text] - Roleplays your character's feelings or actions. E.G - "/me walks to the bar, she smiles widely to the bartender as he approaches." - "/me begins to sweat heavy from the intense heat of the midsummer day."
/melow [text] - Same as the above only this will only be visible to a smaller reach of people surrounding you.
/melong [text] - Same as /me but with a bigger radius to surrounding people.
/ame - Same as /me but this only appears above your characters head, should be used for shorter emotes such as - "/ame answers her phone."
/do - Is used to describe something to the surrounding players, for example - "/do The people surrounding would notice blood dripping from my right arm."
/dolow - The same as /do but with a shorter radius.
/dolong - And the opposite of the above, as this increases the radius.
 

Phone Commands
/ph - Opens / Closes your phone.
/call - Calls a contact or a number.
/phonedirectory - Lists the phone directory.
/contacts - Lists all of your phone contacts. (Use /contacts 5 to only list your contacts that are online with their phones turned on.)
/h - Hangs up the current call.
/loudspeaker - Toggles the loudspeaker on and off. (Surrounding players will be able to hear the person on the other end.)
/taxi - Calls a taxi to your current location.

Misc Commands
/helpme - Puts in a ticket to the Support Team in-game, this could be anything from a question or when you need help that may not require an admin.
/report - Sends a ticket to the admins, this is most commonly used to report another player for breaking the rules. Do keep in mind that you may be waiting a while during peak hours, if you don't get a response in time you can always report a player on the forums, make sure you have as much evidence as possible, video, chat logs, screenshots.
/cancelreport - Cancels your report to the admins.
/attributes - Here you can set your characters age and attributes, this can be the weight and height of your character, the color of their eyes, if they have scars and where, general visible features of your character. You should not put anything else in here, for example "My character loves dancing." - Let people find that out about your character, people don't look at you and say "Oh that guy loves dancing".
/examine [name] - Allows you to examine the attributes of other characters.
/fixinvi - Entered a property and some of the walls or furniture didn't load? try type this command to refresh what's invisible.
/fixveh - If your vehicle is bugged, this command should teleport it to you. (Don't abuse this as you can be punished by admins.)
/fixloc - Entered a property and fell through the floor? use this command to teleport yourself back to the entrance.
/fixrevive - Did you die due to a bug? use this to revive yourself. (Don't abuse this as you can be punished by admins.)
/anim - Opens the animation window. Can add animations to the animation wheel (U) for quicker access, can also type animations such as "/anim sit".
/ad [text] - Will send an advertisement to the ads system. (Read the rules before doing this.)
/ads - Will open the advertisement interface displaying recent advertisements and upcoming events.
/pay [name] [amount] - Will pay another character the amount of money specified.
/inv - Displays everything on your character.
/weather - Shows the current weather.
/outfit - Opens the outfit menu allowing you to change saved clothes. (Must be in an interior or by an unlocked vehicle.)
/toggleidlecamera - When you don't move a certain amount of time, the idle camera kicks in and starts wandering around your surroundings, this command disables it.
/highlight [name] - Highlights a characters text allowing for them to be more easily seen.
/damages [name] - Shows current damages on a player.

I don't want to flood you with many more commands than this as there's a lot more, the list may increase over time though should more seem suitable for new players, however if you wish to see the majority of server commands, refer to the guide here.
 

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I made this guide as I feel we need a new, updated one, I'll continue to keep this thread up to date. If anyone wants to reply to help with this thread then I welcome it with open arms, I would love for the community to contribute to this guide so that we can maintain an up-to-date beginners guide together, whether its fixing my mistakes or suggesting something to be added to it.

 

Edited July 23, 2021 by Viscaria

[Tifa]

hell of a guide, will surely help the newcomers

[Viscaria]

Guide updated with tutorial screenshots and map legend screenshot added.

Edited July 20, 2021 by Viscaria

[Ethan_Lovelass]

Thank you for the guide.

[Petey]

2 hours ago, Viscaria said:

legend 

 

[user7193]

On 7/14/2021 at 6:59 PM, Tifa said:

hell of a guide, will surely help the newcomers

hi

am new

[Viscaria]

1 hour ago, user7193 said:

hi

am new

Welcome!

[lost in the sea]

Good job. 🙂 

[Viscaria]

Is there anything that someone would like to see added into this guide to further help the new players?

[Yassin]

Learnt a few things from here, thank you. I still have hundreds of questions but have managed well so far. For example, how do you get off Mount Chiliad? I spawned at the top yesterday and had to fall to my death because I couldn’t activate the blue circle to ride down.