These are the main points/questions discussed

**One thing that's super important - is how to enter a combat scene or in fact, a forced fantasy scene too. Remember, before trying to interfere a forced fantasy scene or an existing combat scene, always be courteous and IM players involved in the scene for permission. Sometimes just diving in there can make a mess of the scene if you don't do that. It's just common courtesy**

**When using a weapon make sure you have at least one post to show you're drawing it out, then in the next post you can attack with it.**

 

**You can do two major actions in any one post, such as shooting twice, dodging twice, shooting and running away, dodging and running away. Remember all actions are attempts only.**

 

**Keep posts short in a combat scene.  No-one cares how pretty your hair looks whilst you're trying to shoot them**

 

*Guns should be a last resort in RP, not the first.  Try using a knife, or a shovel, or a wooden spoon.  Ammo is expensive after all.**

 

*if a character is calling for back-up, on a radio or other device they realistically have, you MUST put that in your post and the backups must wait a reasonable amount of time before then showing up

**Following post order in combat RP is very important as well, because it can descend into chaos if no-one follows that**

**The combat HUD is just an aid to the rp if players want to use it. It gives the option to attack another player and decides whether the attacks hits or not. It can be a way to decide the outcome of a fight, should either player not work it out themselves. But it is ONLY a tool.**

**The HUD in combat can be used as a decision maker - however its acceptable just to use freeform RP if players are responsible, however if a decision can't be reached on the outcome of a fight the HUD should be used.**

**The HUD is a tool only - however things like your vitality, the money on the hud, and ammunition are all linked to it - so for example if you never used the HUD, your character can't use firearms/projectiles of any kind, and you'd have no IC money*

 

**You can have an NPC pet - however they can't be super-guards and like the NPC zombies and Raiders, if you have one, you must accept it's expendable and can be killed in combat, or for food, or because someone doesn't like said pet.  Also please keep this reasonable - if everyone has an NPC guard animal, or multiple NPC guards or whatever unless part of a sim story, we will ban the use of them.  It's reasonable to assume band hangouts will be guarded by NPC's.**

 

**It's your character, you set your limits.  That being said, bear in mind the sim setting when thinking about limits......this is a dirty, nasty apocalypse that's only going to get worse. bad things are going to happen...whether you have an npc dog, or you're pregnant, or even you are just someone trying to get by quietly.  Your life sucks, but so does everyone elses.**