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# Metagaming

This is when you **utilize Out-Of-Character information/knowledge for personal In-Character benefit or gain**. Even if it doesn't put you at an advantage, mixing OOC with IC will be considered Meta Gaming. Only use the information/knowledge you received IC.

This includes any information gained from external programs such as **Discord**, **Twitch Streams**, **OOC Chat**.

All radio channels are encrypted. Using police scanners by sitting in RTO, going to 911 calls, being "clocked in" in-game, which gives you access to police blips, menus, and 911 calls is metagaming, unless you are an authorized LEO playing on your real LEO character.

Example of **Meta Gaming**:

* `Subject A` goes to `Subject B's` twitch stream and uses it to find the location of `Subject B` to kill him.
* Fleeing from the police as soon as the priority-cooldown timer expires for no reason other than to cause a pursuit. In other words, fleeing for no legitimate reason. If your character is committing an offence which would potentially result in an arrest, it would be a justifiable reason to flee. The action needs to make sense in your character's roleplay; magically willing 500 pounds of cocaine into existence in your trunk through a /do or /me as an excuse to justify fleeing as opposed to it being a part of your roleplay (I.E. as a drug trafficker) is not permitted.