Your phone, and how to talk to people.

Buy a phone at Byte Tech for $200. You also need a monthly contract from one of three carriers (LS Mobile, Maze Mobile, iFruit Mobile). Billing runs every 24 server hours; if your bank can't cover it, your service is suspended and calls fail until you top up.

Plan	Monthly	Data
Basic	$30	2 GB
Standard	$50	10 GB
Premium	$80	Unlimited

Press M to open / close the phone. While the phone is open, you're frozen; combat or vehicle exit snaps it shut. You can only have one phone UI open at a time (computer takes precedence).

Open phone, tap Contacts or Keypad, dial, hit Call. Or just /call 555-0123 from anywhere. Recipient sees who's calling and accepts or rejects. Hang up with H or /h. Calls are free between players.

Voice carries through their speaker as if you're in the same room. Toggle loudspeaker mode to broadcast to nearby players too. Group calls aren't supported, just 1-to-1.

Don't-answer-window is ~30 seconds, then call routes to voicemail. Voicemail is a text up to 500 characters that lands in their messages as "[Voicemail]".

Either open Messages in the phone UI, or use /sms target message. Target can be a contact name (/sms John Where are you?) or a number (/sms 555-0123 Hey). SMS is free. Messages persist if the recipient is offline; they'll see them next login.

/call 911 or dial it on the keypad. The system asks for your location and the nature of the emergency. Once you answer both, your report goes to every on-duty cop and EMT. You get an SMS back with the responder's name once they accept.

App	What it does
Messages	SMS, voicemails
Phone / Keypad	Make calls, call logs
Contacts	Saved phonebook with custom names
Bleeter	In-game social media (see below)
Banking	Balance check, transfers, bill pay
Stocks	25-stock market, buy/sell/portfolio
Email	Job offers, system notifications, payslips
Camera + Gallery	Take photos, view, delete
Notes	Plain notepad for IC reminders
Clock / Alarms	Set alarms, world clock
Ryde	Request rides or drive (see Vehicles)
Medical	Health status, prescriptions, refills
News	Weazel News feed (read-only)
Settings	WiFi, PIN, Do Not Disturb, theme

Open the Bleeter app. First time, set up a public handle. From there you can post short "bleeets", follow players, like and rebleet posts, reply to threads, and DM. Bleeter also lives at bleeter.roleplayproject.net if you want to read it from outside the game.

Buy at Byte Tech. No monthly fee. Calls / texts from a burner show its random number, not your main one. You can carry multiple burners and toggle between them with M.

Used for off-books communication: criminal deals, gang business, anonymous tips. No backup: if you lose a burner or die, those messages and contacts are gone.

Coverage:

• Downtown / Vinewood: full
• Suburbs and beaches: good
• Sandy Shores / Grapeseed: decent
• Paleto Bay: limited
• Remote wilderness: dead zones, calls fail, SMS queues

The phone shows signal bars. Zero bars = no service. SMS sent in a dead zone queues server-side and delivers when you get signal.

If you own a property, buy a WiFi router ($150 hardware + $40/month service) and set it up. Anyone connected to your network has full service inside roughly a 2-block radius, even in a dead zone.

Command	Range	What it does
Just type (no slash)	20m	Normal speech, "CharName says: ..."
/low message	5m	Whisper. Light gray text. Easy to overhear if someone's close.
/shout message	40m	Yell. Auto-adds an exclamation if you forget.

Command	Range	Example output
/me lights a cigarette	20m	* CharName lights a cigarette
/amy hands shake	20m	* CharName's hands shake
/melow leans in	5m	Close-range version of /me
/melong throws hands up	30m	Long-range version of /me
/do door is ajar	20m	* The door is ajar ((CharName))

/me shows the action above your head for 8 seconds plus in chat. /do describes the scene from the narrator's view: use it for environmental details that need to be established (the door is unlocked, the air smells of gasoline, etc.).

Command	What it does
/b message	Local OOC at 20m, "(( CharName: ... ))". Blocked in event zones.
/pm playerId message	Private OOC message to another online player. Different from SMS; doesn't go through phones.
/avoid playerId reason	Add someone to your block list. They won't appear in your proximity chat.
/scenelimit text	Broadcast an OOC boundary for the scene (e.g., "no romance, only violence"). Max 240 chars.
/panic reason	Emergency admin alert. Freezes you in place. 2x confirmation required.
/safeword	Urgent stop. Shorter cooldown than /panic.

Read the server rules for when OOC chatter is allowed and when it isn't.