NAP stands for Non-Attacking Policy. It is a short list of faction tags that we have agreed not to attack, and that have agreed not to attack us. It is not friendship and it is not permanent — it is a deal, made by the R4s, that saves everyone a war nobody wanted. Reading it takes ten seconds, and those ten seconds are the whole obligation.
- The current list lives in the Faction Message, not in this book.
- Read it before you go hunting, not after.
- It is a list of names, not an area of the map.
- Hit one by mistake? Say so at once, in the faction chat.
The NAP is an agreement between R4s, and it ends
Somebody negotiated it. Two factions decided that trading hits was costing both of them more than it was worth, and they stopped. It holds while both sides keep it, and it is dropped when the situation changes — most commonly when a CvC opens and yesterday's neighbour is suddenly on the other scoreboard.
So do not read the list as a list of friends. Read it as a list of fights that are currently switched off.
The list is not printed in this book, on purpose
This handbook is written to stay true for months and it is translated into several languages. A NAP list is the opposite of that: it has a date on it, it can change in an afternoon, and a list that is one week stale is worse than no list at all, because you would trust it.
The current list is kept in the Faction Message, where the R4s can change it the minute the deal changes. That is the only place to read it. If you cannot see it there, ask an officer in the faction chat rather than guessing.
It covers names, not places
The NAP protects the tags on the list wherever they are. It does not turn any part of the map into a safe zone, and being far from home does not exempt anybody. The question is never "where is this player" — it is only ever "is this tag on the list".
The reverse is true too: a target that is not on the list is not protected by the NAP just for sitting in city 680. It may still be protected by the tile rules, which are a different thing and are in the next chapter.
If you hit one by accident, say it before they do
It happens. A target list refreshes, a tag looks like another tag, you were quick. The damage from the hit itself is small and repairable; the damage from an R4 hearing about it first from the other faction is not.
Post it in the faction chat as soon as you notice — who, when, and that it was a mistake. An officer will handle the other side. Reporting your own mistake fast is not the thing that gets charged here — hiding it is.
In a Governor War, the city NAP does not travel with you
A GW puts you on a war map with its own zones and its own agreements, and what counts as a legal target there changes from zone to zone and from war to war. The list on this page belongs to city 680 in normal times.
During a war, the rules that apply are the ones handed out for that war — see the GW section. Do not carry either list into the other place.
Read the faction message