# Bad Times

> Bad Times — #1 Serious Cinematic Roleplay. Guides, rules and store.

- [Welcome to Bad Times](https://badtimes.city/index.md): Serious, cinematic roleplay on a custom city. Start here.
- [Joining the City](https://badtimes.city/getting-started/joining.md): Whitelist, queue priority and connecting for the first time.
- [Your First Character](https://badtimes.city/getting-started/first-character.md): Creating a character, appearance, skills and your starting kit.
- [Controls & Keybinds](https://badtimes.city/getting-started/controls.md): Every default key on Bad Times. Most can be rebound in Settings → Key Bindings → FiveM.
- [Phone](https://badtimes.city/guides/phone.md): Calls, texts, apps and what they're for.
- [Money & Banking](https://badtimes.city/guides/money.md): Cash, bank, debit cards, Payslip and moving money around.
- [Vehicles](https://badtimes.city/guides/vehicles.md): Buying, garages, keys, fuel, mechanics and the impound.
- [Jobs](https://badtimes.city/guides/jobs.md): How the job menu works and what's available.
- [Getting Around](https://badtimes.city/guides/getting-around.md): The bus network, rentals and the map.
- [Health, Injuries & Stress](https://badtimes.city/guides/health.md): Hunger, thirst, injuries, dying, and the stress bar.
- [NYPD](https://badtimes.city/guides/nypd.md): What officers have, how the MDT works, and how cases get built.
- [FDNY EMS](https://badtimes.city/guides/fdny-ems.md): Responding to calls, treating injuries and the hospital.
- [Radio](https://badtimes.city/guides/radio.md): Channels, push-to-talk and the dispatch panel.
- [The Illegal Economy](https://badtimes.city/guides/illegal-overview.md): How crime works on Bad Times: the burner tablet, jobs, the market and where the money goes.
- [Drugs — Growing, Cooking, Selling](https://badtimes.city/guides/drugs.md): Fields, labs, recipes and how product reaches the street.
- [Smoking & Consumption](https://badtimes.city/guides/smoking-and-consumption.md): Weed, tobacco, vapes, hookah, edibles, lean, coke, meth, pills and heroin — how each one actually works.
- [The Plug](https://badtimes.city/guides/the-plug.md): Wholesale product, guns and ammo for people with a connection.
- [Guns](https://badtimes.city/guides/guns.md): Real firearms, recoil, attachments, building and disassembly.
- [FAQ](https://badtimes.city/guides/faq.md): Short answers to the questions we get every day.
- [Changelog](https://badtimes.city/changelog.md): Everything that shipped, from day one. Player-facing only.
- [Server Rules](https://badtimes.city/rules/index.md): Cinematic roleplay rules, standards and expectations for the Bad Times community.
- [Community Guidelines](https://badtimes.city/rules/guidelines.md): Know the standards that protect every player.
- [Interactions](https://badtimes.city/rules/interactions.md): Scenes, OOC, reports and administrator instructions.
- [0. Admin Discretion](https://badtimes.city/rules/ig/admin-discretion.md): Admins may act on conduct not covered below.
- [1. Common Courtesy](https://badtimes.city/rules/ig/common-courtesy.md): Respect, escalation, and the combat-log ban.
- [2. Metagaming](https://badtimes.city/rules/ig/metagaming.md): Using out-of-character information in character.
- [3. Powergaming](https://badtimes.city/rules/ig/powergaming.md): Forcing roleplay or doing the impossible.
- [4. Deathmatching](https://badtimes.city/rules/ig/deathmatching.md): Killing without roleplay reason, VDM and revenge killing.
- [5. Robbing and Scamming](https://badtimes.city/rules/ig/robbing-scamming.md): Limits, cooldowns and where you can and cannot rob.
- [6. New Life Rule (NLR)](https://badtimes.city/rules/ig/new-life-rule.md): What you remember after you die.
- [7. Abuse of Game Physics](https://badtimes.city/rules/ig/abuse-physics.md): Bunnyhopping, spam punching, combat rolling and friends.
- [8. Third Party Modifications](https://badtimes.city/rules/ig/third-party-mods.md): What client-side modding is and is not allowed.
- [9. Safezones](https://badtimes.city/rules/ig/safezones.md): Where crime is off-limits.
- [10. Not Valuing Life (NVL)](https://badtimes.city/rules/ig/not-valuing-life.md): Treat your character as you would yourself.
- [11. Illegal Activities](https://badtimes.city/rules/ig/illegal-activities.md): Group limits, dice, civilian attacks and cooldowns.
- [12. Multiple Characters](https://badtimes.city/rules/ig/multiple-characters.md): One story per player.
- [13. Corruption (IC)](https://badtimes.city/rules/ig/corruption.md): Government jobs, factions and weapons.
- [14. Refunds](https://badtimes.city/rules/ig/refunds.md): No-refund policy on donations.
- [Bad Times Store](https://badtimes.city/store/index.md): The official store for the Bad Times roleplay community.
- [Height Menu](https://badtimes.city/store/height-menu.md): Custom height adjustment menu for your character — $15.