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Documents & ID Checks

Two different questions, and it is worth keeping them apart: what are they showing me, and what does the system have on them. A document is what somebody hands you. A record is what the state holds. They do not always agree, and the gap between them is usually the interesting part.

Being shown papers

A civilian presents a document with /showid (or /papers): they pick a card and pick you, and it appears on your screen.

• The card takes no mouse input. You cannot click it away by accident and it cannot trap you — dismiss it with ESC when you have read it.
• /idconfig sets where the card appears on your screen and how big it is. Worth doing once; a card over the middle of the road is a card you dismiss before reading.

You can present documents the same way — your own badge or ID.

What a document does not prove

Anyone can carry a forged document, and the CAD renders it to look like the real thing. There is no badge on it that says fake — that is the entire point of the feature.

There is also the out-of-state ID: a card built on the spot for a character with no file in this community. Nothing behind it is stored, so it cannot be verified at all.

A card also says nothing about whether its holder is alive. An ID belonging to a deceased character renders exactly like any other, status chip and all. That is deliberate: a card that quietly flagged itself would warn whoever is carrying it long before you looked at it. Someone using a dead person's ID is a thing you catch in the record, not on the paper.

So an ID is a claim, not a verification. If it matters, run the name in the database and compare. A card whose details do not match the record — or which produces no record at all — is the finding, and the record is also where Deceased shows up.

What the record holds

Open a person from the database or from an incident and their panel carries:

• Identity — name, date of birth, address, photo, State ID.
• Record status — clean, warrant, or deceased, worked out live rather than typed by anyone.
• Licences, with their state status: valid, suspended or revoked, and whether they have expired.
• Vehicles registered to them.
• Reports filed against them — the published ones.
• Medical ID, if you need it at a scene.

Their State ID is the identifier to use in paperwork and over the radio. Names are free-typed and repeat; the State ID does not.

Printing your own paperwork

A published report can be rendered as an official document — an arrest report or a citation on paper, carrying the report number, the charges and the signature block — and handed over the same way. See Reports & Charges.