The forum

The forum is where Vesper City talks at length: news from the staff, questions and answers, trades, gangs looking for members, and whatever else is on the city's mind. It is inside the game only, for signed-in players. Open it from Social → Forum.

The boards

• Announcements: news from the staff. Only staff post here; everyone reads.
• General: the game and the city.
• Help & Questions: ask how something works. The player who asked can mark the reply that solved it as the accepted answer.
• Suggestions: talk ideas over. To put an idea to a vote, post it in the Idea box.
• Bug Reports: say what you did, what happened and what you expected.
• Trading: buying, selling and swapping. Deals are made in the game's own markets, never outside it.
• Gang Recruitment: gangs looking for members, and players looking for a gang.
• Art competitions: competitions and showcases for the city's artists.
• Dating: for adults, like the whole game. Keep it friendly: nothing explicit, and never share contact details.
• Off-topic: everything that isn't about the game.
• Your gang's board: every gang has a private board. Only its members can read it; nobody else can, staff included. It appears at the bottom of the list while you are in the gang, and closes for you the moment you leave.

Who can read and post

• Everyone can read from level 1.
• You can start threads and reply from level 3, once your account is 24 hours old.
• Web addresses are allowed from level 10. Before that, a post with a link is refused.
• You can write up to 30 posts an hour and start up to 10 threads a day.
• Pictures can be added to posts from level 5 (see below). Emoji and the picture codes (like :fedora: or :tommygun:) work in every post.

Threads and posts

• Labels: some boards let you put a label on a new thread, such as Question, Guide or Selling.
• Quote: press Quote under a post to reply with a short piece of it above your words.
• @names: write @ and a player's game name. They get a notice with a link to your post.
• Follow: you follow the threads you start; press "Follow this thread" on any other. You get one notice when someone replies, then no more until you open the thread again.
• New: threads with posts you haven't read show a "New" tag. "Mark all as read" on the forum's front page clears them.
• Editing: you can edit your own post for 15 minutes. After that, ask a moderator.
• Search: looks through titles and posts on the boards you can read. Use at least 3 characters.

Pictures, reactions, polls and signatures

• Pictures: from level 5 you can add up to 4 pictures to a post (PNG, JPEG, WebP or GIF; a GIF keeps its first frame), and up to 20 a day. The game checks every picture and saves it again, which removes hidden data such as where a photo was taken. Your first 3 pictures wait for staff before other players see them; after that they show at once. A picture that staff refuse or a moderator hides disappears from the forum.
• Reactions: press React under a post to give it one of the 30 mob emojis; press the same emoji again to take it back. The count shows under the post, with who reacted when you point at it. You can't react to your own post.
• Mob emojis in posts: type a code such as :tommygun:, :omerta: or :toast:, or pick one from "Mob emojis" under the text box.
• Polls: when you start a thread you can add a poll with 2 to 8 answers. Each player votes once and the vote can't be changed; the results show once you have voted or the poll has closed. A poll closes on its date, or when its author or a moderator closes it.
• Signature: one short line of plain text (up to 120 characters) under each of your posts. Set it on the forum's front page. The same rules as for posts apply.

What isn't allowed

• No contact details, at any level: no emails, phone numbers, or messaging and social media names. A post with one is refused, never changed: you see what was found and why.
• Slurs and hate are refused everywhere and count towards warnings and mutes. Ordinary swearing is allowed (the game is for adults); switch on "Hide strong language" in your account to mask it.
• No scams, and no trading outside the game.

Reporting and blocking

Every post has a Report link. The report goes to the Safety queue with the post's words, and staff decide. If you block a player (from their profile, or by ticking "Block this player too" on a report), you no longer see each other's posts or threads in the forum, as everywhere else.

Moderation

• Staff and forum moderators (trusted players given the role, for one board or all) can pin, lock and move threads, hide and restore threads and posts, and edit a post with a reason shown under it.
• Nothing is deleted: a hidden post is kept for staff, and can be restored.
• A moderator can mute a player for 1 hour, 24 hours, 3 days or 7 days. A muted player can still read and play, but can't post in the forum, talk in chat or send mail. They get a message explaining the decision and how to complain.
• On a gang's board, the Don and the officers (the ranks that can remove members) pin, lock and hide. They can't mute anyone.