📣 In-game adverts (/ads)

What it is

Adverts are how people in the city find a mechanic, a job, a party or a room to rent. They are placed through the Weazel Ad Agency with /ads, they pop up as a small card above the street name for everyone in the city, and every running advert is listed on the agency's board.

This page is about adverts in game. Adverts on the Weazel News website are booked differently, on the site; see Weazel News.

Seeing adverts

A running advert appears as a card above the street name at the bottom of your screen. Cards never take your mouse and wait until you are free: not in a menu, the chat box, the inventory, a cutscene or down.

Each card shows who is advertising, a headline and up to four lines of text, and, if the advertiser added them, a number and a place. Businesses that advertise under their own name show a verified tick.

To act on the advert you saw last, you do not need its number:

Add an advert number to act on an older one, for example /adgps 221 or /adtext 221 Is the room still free?. The number is shown on the card and on the board as #221.

The board

/ads opens the Weazel Ad Agency on the board: every advert running right now, with search, categories (services, vehicles, events, hiring, venues, property and other) and sorting. Each advert has buttons to call, text, set GPS, show it on the map or report it.

Placing an advert

1. Type /ads and choose New advert. You can start from a template for your category.

2. Write a headline (4 to 60 characters) and the text (10 to 240 characters, up to four lines). Add a number to call or text and a place on the map if you want people to find you. The preview shows exactly how the card and the board entry will look.

3. Choose a package and how long it runs. You can start it later (up to 72 hours ahead) or repeat it daily for up to 7 days: 3 days or more is 5% off, 5 days or more is 10% off.

4. Pay by cash, bank or card.

Every package includes a number, a place and a map marker.

Limits

• Up to 3 running or scheduled adverts per character, and 5 per account.

• 30 minutes between new adverts (10 minutes with RPP+).

• Up to 12 new adverts a day per account.

Managing your adverts

My adverts in /ads lists everything you have placed, with stats for every hour it runs: how many people saw it and how many set GPS, called or texted. From there you can:

• edit the wording of a running advert for free

• pause and resume it

• extend it by some hours, or add more days

• put it in the spotlight for 100 PP, so it shows more often for an hour

• cancel it; the screen shows the exact refund before you confirm

Business adverts

A business can advertise under its own name with a verified tick. Owners and ranks allowed to post announcements manage the business's adverts from Our adverts in /ads. Ranks allowed to withdraw from the business account can pay from it. See Companies for ranks and permissions.

Fewer adverts, or none

Open /settings and go to the adverts section. You can:

• see fewer or more adverts

• set quiet hours when no cards appear

• choose how long a card stays on screen, and whether it plays a chime

• copy adverts into chat, or show map markers

• mute any category

/admute does the same from chat: /admute events mutes a category, /admute all mutes every advert and /admute on turns them back on.

What is not allowed

Adverts are in character. Links to outside websites and chat servers are not accepted; city websites such as the ones on roleplayproject.net are fine. Adverts with wording that looks out of character or illegal, or that copy someone else's, still run, but they are marked for staff, who can take them down. You can place the same text at most three times in a day.

If an advert breaks the rules, report it from the board or with /adreport 221 the reason. An advert that gets three reports within an hour is held until the agency looks at it.

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