Participating in these events requires understanding specific behavioral codes. Entering a friendly server and treating it like a standard deathmatch is the fastest route to being removed by server moderators or angry votelogs.
The universal signal of peace is the crouch-walk. Players crouch, face upward toward the sky, and switch to non-lethal weapons like the Frying Pan, the Conscientious Objector, or food items like the Sandvich. If you are playing Soldier, pulling out the Beggar's Bazooka or Rocket Jumper is acceptable, but firing live ordnance into a clustered circle is considered poor form.
If an outsider enters the match and begins killing participants, a practice colloquially known as "tryharding" on friendly servers, do not retaliate with gunfire. The community convention is to freeze, stare at the aggressor without attacking, and initiate a vote-kick. The preservation of the atmosphere relies entirely on mutual social pressure rather than in-game defensive scoreboards.
